No way u can do it in O(1) space and O(n) time.....sols above are not
gonna work......yeah, it is possible in O(n) space and O(n) time.

On May 20, 12:29 am, HARSHIT PAHUJA <hpahuja.mn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> given 2 unsorted integer arrays a and b of equal size. Determine if b is a
> permutation of a. Can this be done in O(n) time and O(1) space ?
>
> please help me with my solution
>
> suppose a --  3 5 4
>              b --  4 3 5
>
> now we replace a[i] with a[i]..th prime number  and b with b[i] .. th prime
> number
>
>   now array  a becomes  5 11 7
>          array  b becomes  7 5 11
>
> now we take product of elements of array a and do the same with array  b
> elements
> if product is equal  then b is a permutation of a

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