my solution will not provide the largest eg 2,4,6,5 should have largest as 2,6,5 not 2,4..
Best Regards Ashish Goel "Think positive and find fuel in failure" +919985813081 +919966006652 On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ashish Goel <ashg...@gmail.com> wrote: > O(n) is straight forward > > bool increase = true; > int j = 0; > result[j++]=a[0]; > for (int i=1;i<n;i++) > { > if ((increase) > { > if (result[j-1]<a[i])) > { > result[j++] = a[i]; > increase = false; > } > } > else { > if (result[j-1] >a[i])) > { > result[j++] = a[i]; > increase = true; > } > } > } > > What i was thinking is to find the number of peaks and valleys through > binary search thereby using log(n) solution not able to conceptualize it > this way (:. > Best Regards > Ashish Goel > "Think positive and find fuel in failure" > +919985813081 > +919966006652 > > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Ratan <success.rata...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Given a list of integers n, we have to find the length of largest >> zigazg subsequence in the list.... i.e,zigzag subsequence is defined >> as "if the first number is increasing then the 2nd one should be >> decreasing or vice versa...... " >> >> for eg : if list[n]={1,10,5,9,8,12,20} then, >> >> largest zigzag subsequence will be : {1,10,5,9,8,12} or >> {1,10,5,9,8,20} and length will be=6; >> >> >> -- >> -- >> >> -- >> 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.