[algogeeks] Custom Software Development

2007-09-24 Thread VB
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[algogeeks] Google Interview Question: find shortest summary containing all key words

2007-09-24 Thread Sticker
Declare: this question is originally from Google. The original form is: given a document, how to find a shortest summary containing all the key words. After translated, it will be: given a sequence, how to find a shortest substring that contains all the items required. Example: a sequence

[algogeeks] Re: undo/redo algo

2007-09-24 Thread Sticker
Can them be implemented using stacks? Two stacks, one is called ls and the other is rs. I agree. Two things are needed, 1st, for each trackable action, a reverse action should be recorded in order to perform the undo action. The action itself must be recoreded as well for redo action. 2nd, two

[algogeeks] Re: Google Interview Question: find shortest summary containing all key words

2007-09-24 Thread daizisheng
the problem is you need a hash table to maintain all the keywords,:) because they do not have to be a single characters, or you can store them in array, but then you need binary search,:) Vishal 写道: How about keeping two pointers - startp and endp. Keep a count of frequencies of keywords

[algogeeks] Re: Google Interview Question: find shortest summary containing all key words

2007-09-24 Thread Vishal
Hash table should give you O(1) insertion and search complexity; which is what we need, right? There is no constraint on space complexity, I believe. On 9/24/07, daizisheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem is you need a hash table to maintain all the keywords,:) because they do not have

[algogeeks] Re: Google Interview Question: find shortest summary containing all key words

2007-09-24 Thread daizisheng
Vishal 写道: Hash table should give you O(1) insertion and search complexity; which is what we need, right? There is no constraint on space complexity, I believe. On 9/24/07, * daizisheng* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem is you need a hash table to

[algogeeks] Re: Google Interview Question: find shortest summary containing all key words

2007-09-24 Thread Mayur
Another possibility is to first pre-process the keywords into automaton-like structure (Google for Aho Corasick string matcher), and then use it over the document. This would probably be helpful only if the number of keywords is much smaller than the document itself.. On 9/25/07, daizisheng

[algogeeks] Re: How to solve this problem efficiently?

2007-09-24 Thread Mohammad Naser Zandy
I am agree with Sticker, I comes to write exactly what Sticker wrote. ;) It's O(N^2 / 2) that is 1+2+3+4+5+...+N. On 9/25/07, Sticker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw your ideas. Some of them are correct some are not. Here is what I am thinking. From the question we know that 1 ≤ M ≤ 100