@Sachin: What if the milestones were, A1-A3-A2-A0 in this order?
Regards, Sandeep Jain On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:00 PM, sachin sharma <sachin.bles...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > What about this: > > First you have the list of distances between two milestones. Let’s form a > table > > Start milestone > > End Milestone > > Distances > > A1 > > A0 > > 7 > > A0 > > A3 > > 10 > > A1 > > A2 > > 5 > > A2 > > A3 > > 2 > > A0 > > A2 > > 8 > > A0 > > A1 > > 3 > > > > I have taken above variable A0, A1, A2, A3 for a, b, c, d respectively. Now > we sort the first column. If we find two entries same then sort also on > based on second column. > > After processing you will get the following table > > Start milestone > > End Milestone > > Distances > > A0 > > A1 > > 3 > > A0 > > A2 > > 8 > > A0 > > A3 > > 10 > > A1 > > A0 > > 7 > > A1 > > A2 > > 5 > > A2 > > A3 > > 2 > > > > When you get this table: > > 1) Start with A0 and search for next milestone which is A1. Add this > to your milestone list or just print. > > 2) Move to A1 in the first column and add the first entry which does > not contains previously visited milestone. That is A2 whose distance is 5. > You cannot add A1-A0 since it is already visited. > > 3) Repeat the above process till the end of list in table. Now > following this step you come to A2 and you add A3 in the milestone list > whose distance is 2. > > 4) Now you get the list of milestone…and distances. Output you get > is 3-5-2 or 2-5-3. > > I hope this will work. > > > > Best Wishes > Sachin Sharma | Software Trainee | Information Mosaic > New York | Dublin | London | Luxembourg | New Delhi | Singapore | Melbourne > | > e-mail: sachinku...@informationmosaic.com > Web:www.informationmosaic.com<http://www.informationmosaic.com/> | t: > www.twitter.com/infomosaic > Winner 2009 Banking Technology Readers' Choice Award for Best Corporate > Actions Automation Solution > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
