[algogeeks] Re: programming problem

2008-05-20 Thread Chonku
You could do this too... 1. Sort the words based on length. Max Time: O(nlogn) 2. Now, Create a tree similar to a state transition diagram. For each word in the tree, store their start and end pointers. 3. If a word comprises of another word, then the main word would only store start and end point

[algogeeks] Re: Is it base 2 or base 10

2008-05-20 Thread Albert Sanchez
when talking assimpotically it doesn't really matter what base is, as log_a(x) = log_b(x) * 1/log_b(a) and 1/log_b(a) is constant On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:52 PM, amitabh chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually base do not matters base 2 and base 10 are constant multiple of > each other so

[algogeeks] Re: programming problem

2008-05-20 Thread Deepak Manohar
You can solve this problem by the following technique: Proc 1: Take any word W in the file Find all strings S(k) which are formed by concatenating k words in the file and is a prefix of W. [A word can repeat multiple times in different places] As you can see, number of words in S(k) will certainly

[algogeeks] Re: programming problem

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[algogeeks] Re: programming problem

2008-05-20 Thread Dave
Well, he does say "other" words. "hippopotamuses" is not made up of other words in the list. It looks like a recursive procedure would do the trick. It might help to sort the word list into order by length. Then beginning with the longest word, find other words that match the beginning of the wor

[algogeeks] Re: programming problem

2008-05-20 Thread anshu
This question aint clear So, for example in above list hippopotamuses is also in the list of word in the file. So this word includes itself and is 14 characters. where is a condition that concatenation is a must? On May 20, 3:39 am, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Write a program that reads