Re: [algogeeks] Suggest Algo for this Question

2011-12-13 Thread atul anand
@gaurav : you need to first build heap and then maintain heap property ever
time you remove element.so this would take O(n logn ).


On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Gaurav Kumar  wrote:

> Why can't we keep removing the minimum element each time and compare it
> with x? This should take O(k) time since in a Min heap, the minimum element
> can be removed in O(1) time? Am I missing something?
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:43 AM, atul anand wrote:
>
>> O(k) in the worst-case , then i guess it would better to use
>> median-of median algo to find element at rank k. and comparing with x.
>>
>> or
>> we can us hashtable to solve this.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ankur Garg  wrote:
>>
>>> Given an array-based heap on n elements and a real number x, efficiently
>>> determine whether the kth smallest element in the heap is greater than or
>>> equal to x. Your algorithm should be O(k) in the worst-case, independent of
>>> the size of the heap.
>>>
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Re: [algogeeks] Suggest Algo for this Question

2011-12-13 Thread Gaurav Kumar
Why can't we keep removing the minimum element each time and compare it
with x? This should take O(k) time since in a Min heap, the minimum element
can be removed in O(1) time? Am I missing something?

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:43 AM, atul anand  wrote:

> O(k) in the worst-case , then i guess it would better to use
> median-of median algo to find element at rank k. and comparing with x.
>
> or
> we can us hashtable to solve this.
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ankur Garg  wrote:
>
>> Given an array-based heap on n elements and a real number x, efficiently
>> determine whether the kth smallest element in the heap is greater than or
>> equal to x. Your algorithm should be O(k) in the worst-case, independent of
>> the size of the heap.
>>
>>
>> This question was also asked in Amazon
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Re: [algogeeks] Suggest Algo for this Question

2011-12-13 Thread atul anand
O(k) in the worst-case , then i guess it would better to use
median-of median algo to find element at rank k. and comparing with x.

or
we can us hashtable to solve this.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ankur Garg  wrote:

> Given an array-based heap on n elements and a real number x, efficiently
> determine whether the kth smallest element in the heap is greater than or
> equal to x. Your algorithm should be O(k) in the worst-case, independent of
> the size of the heap.
>
>
> This question was also asked in Amazon
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[algogeeks] Suggest Algo for this Question

2011-12-13 Thread Ankur Garg
Given an array-based heap on n elements and a real number x, efficiently
determine whether the kth smallest element in the heap is greater than or
equal to x. Your algorithm should be O(k) in the worst-case, independent of
the size of the heap.


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