@ Ankit Sambyal,
please explain me why is it O(n^2) taking into account what the number of
times solve is called (in my example above.)

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:36 AM, aanchal goyal <goyal.aanch...@gmail.com>wrote:

> let sum=45
> int arr[]={1,2,3,4,5}; /*43545 times the function solve is called*/
>                             /*2611 ways of achieving the sum (2611 ways
> will be printed)*/
>
> if,
> int arr[]={1,3,10,30,75}; /*2931 times the function solve is called*/
>                                 /*53 ways of achieving the sum*/
>
>
> So, ho here n=5, but see how many times the solve function is called! if it
> was n^2, then it would have been called just 25 times
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:55 AM, ankit sambyal <ankitsamb...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> @Ravinder : Its not a DP problem..  If it was, where are the sub problems
>> reused or in other words, where is memoization ??
>>
>> @Anchal : Its complexity is O(n^2). Look at the following segment in ur
>> code :
>>
>>  for(int i=index[n];i<sz;i++)
>>  {
>>   index[n+1]=i;
>>   solve(index,arr,target,cursum+arr[i],n+1,sz);
>>  }
>>
>> Here sz is the number of elements in the array i.e. n for complexity.
>> There is a recursive call to solve ......
>> I hope its clear now .
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