is this contest still going? if so, where ?  i have a solution that
does
(100, 1267650600228229401496703205376 )    (just one hundred 1's)
in 0.03 seconds in an older ruby on an older pc

I'd like to submit ;P


On Oct 21, 10:48 pm, sunny agrawal <sunny816.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yea i know 1st Approach is much better and is Only O(N^2) for
> precomputing all the values for nck and then O(k) for finding no of
> bits set in The Kth number and another loop of O(k) to find the
> required number
>
> i posted 2nd approach in the context to vandana's tree approach of
> sorting 2^N numbers, rather simply sort the numbers in the array...
> and this approach is O(N*2^N)
>
> On 10/21/11, sravanreddy001 <sravanreddy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > @Sunny.. why do we need an O(2^N) complexity?
>
> > for a value of N=40-50, the solution is not useful..
>
> > but, your 1st approach is lot better and i have got it too..
>
> > 1. O(N) complexity to search the k. (k bits in the numbers)  x- (sigma 1->k
> > (n C i))
> > 2. again, keep substracting (k-i) for i= 0->k-1  so.. O(k) here
> > and recursively performing step 2. (worst case complexity is O(T))
> > where T = nCk
>
> > O(N) + O(T) ==> O(T) as it dominates the given number. unless it doesn't
> > fall in the range.. or   equivalently -->  max( O(T), O(N) )
>
> > --
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> > "Algorithm Geeks" group.
> > To view this discussion on the web visit
> >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/algogeeks/-/NJR9l-UB7c8J.
> > 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.
>
> --
> Sunny Aggrawal
> B.Tech. V year,CSI
> Indian Institute Of Technology,Roorkee

-- 
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.

Reply via email to