Re: [algogeeks] Derivation

2010-06-11 Thread Debajyoti Sarma
Its not a tough question.Basic arithmetics/algebra question. ACB Suppose speed of train from A =x Suppose speed of train from B =y They meet at C 1st train take a sec to reach C from B CB=ax 2nd train take b sec to reach C from A CA=bx Time taken for

[algogeeks] Re: infix

2010-06-11 Thread kirubakaran
Use stack to push '( initially. if ')' is found remove its pair '('.finally if the stack is empty then the expression is correct! On Jun 10, 9:45 pm, jalaj jaiswal jalaj.jaiswa...@gmail.com wrote: give an algo which reads an  paranthesised infix expression and check well-formdness of

Re: [algogeeks] c output

2010-06-11 Thread mohit ranjan
@Divya o/p c prints b 1 - prints a 6, 2 --- printf returns no of characters printed. 6=5 (length of a) + 1 (for \n) 2=1 (length of b) + 1 (for \n) Hope it's

Re: [algogeeks] Re: binary nos

2010-06-11 Thread Debajyoti Sarma
clarification to all n=1 0,1 no of sequence =2 n=2 00,01,10 no of sequence =3 n=3 000,100,010,001,101 no of sequence =5 n=4 ,1000,0100,0010,0001,1010,0101,1001 no of sequence =8 n=5

Re: [algogeeks] c output

2010-06-11 Thread Anurag Sharma
printf returns number of successfully printed characters. so printf(1\n) will return 6 and printf(c\n) will return 2 due to the extra '\n' character which is also being printed I hope the output is now clear Anurag Sharma On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:26 AM, divya sweetdivya@gmail.com

[algogeeks] Re: c output

2010-06-11 Thread Ashish
Explanation: The prototype for printf as per ANSI C is: int printf( const char *format,…) the return value is integer and returns the number of characters successfully read by printf. Also,in case of printf(),the evaluation of expressions passed on as arguments is done from right to left

Re: [algogeeks] level order traversal

2010-06-11 Thread Jitendra Kushwaha
@sharad : In which order you will make the tree into doubly linklist ?? another algorithm: 1. keep root value as 0 2. when moving left decrement this value and assign to node 3. when moving right increment the value and assign to node 4. now sort the nodes on this number basis and if this number

Re: [algogeeks] c output

2010-06-11 Thread chetan thorat
The return value of printf is the number of characters it prints successfully. So the rightmost printf is going to return 2 (one for char c and one for new line), similarly second one returning 6. Regards, Chetan. On 11 June 2010 00:56, divya sweetdivya@gmail.com wrote: #include stdio.h

Re: [algogeeks] Re: identify the recurring part for a given decimal no

2010-06-11 Thread Ravi Thati
One solution that is very simple is: while doing division keep storing the dividend. if any one dividend is repeated stop there and extract the part between first occurrence digit before new occurrence. Example: 7/9 7) 9 (1.*285714*28 7 -- 20 14 ---

[algogeeks] Re: c output

2010-06-11 Thread kirubakaran
Output will be 1,1 bcoz printf returns number of characters or integers printed On Jun 11, 12:26 am, divya sweetdivya@gmail.com wrote: #include stdio.h main() {  int a = 1;  char b='c';  int i,j;  printf(%d,%d,printf(%d\n,a),printf(%c\n,b)); wat shd b the o/p of this..plzz

Re: [algogeeks] Re: infix

2010-06-11 Thread Nitin Mathur
BALARUKESH, In Rohit's algorithm there was one more condition that sum should never be negative. I think you missed that point. The algorithm seems to be fine at least for correct ordering of paranthesis. didn't check for correctness of expression. :P -- You received this message because you are

Re: [algogeeks] Re: identify the recurring part for a given decimal no

2010-06-11 Thread Anurag Sharma
Please note that the fractional repeating part is recurring. and so that 4th temporary variable assignment will be this way- temp=x*1 - x= 233456.34563456... - 23.34563456 = 233433.0 ( mark the fractional part is 0 now since the infinitely repeating 3456... will get cancelled) In this

Re: [algogeeks] Re: hashing

2010-06-11 Thread Rishi Agrawal
Hi All, For if max is 1 then we do not need to read the bits after 14th place. 1(dec) = 1001110001 (bin) that is 14 bits. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:08 AM, kirubakaran kirubakaran1...@gmail.comwrote: When it is a stream of data,counting is a best way to go ! On Jun 10, 7:54

Re: [algogeeks] Re: infix

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
As you encounter the opening parentheses (,[,{ push them onto the stack. When you encounter closing parentheses pop the top element if it is not a matching parentheses then the expr is not valid. Finally after the input string is scanned, the stack has to be empty else expr is invalid. On Fri,

Re: [algogeeks] Re: os

2010-06-11 Thread Rishi Agrawal
So can we say that a mutex is a binary semaphore. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:26 PM, souravsain souravs...@gmail.com wrote: Originally semaphore is a concept given by Dijkstra who says it is something that can have two operations P and V both atomic. In an OS (for example Unix) we have kernal

Re: [algogeeks] level order traversal

2010-06-11 Thread Anurag Sharma
If a doubly Linked List is made out of this, then there should be kept some mechanism to keep the parent pointer in it and update it while creating and then we can proceed in similar approach as my array solution above. Anurag Sharma On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:09 PM, sharad kumar

Re: [algogeeks] Re: infix

2010-06-11 Thread Vivek Sundararajan
@Rohit Consider : (a+)b The above is not well formed! :) On 11 June 2010 11:58, Rohit Saraf rohit.kumar.sa...@gmail.com wrote: @BALARUKESH : What are you saying !! and Why would this not work As you start you get sum -1 at start itself. Hence you quit. The sum should be 0 always and 0 at

Re: [algogeeks] c output

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
It will be c 1 6 2 6 and 2 because of newline On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Rohit Saraf rohit.kumar.sa...@gmail.comwrote: c 1 6,2 u might be expecting 5,1 if u are forgetting the newline character :) -- Rohit Saraf Second Year

[algogeeks] Print large Fibonacci numbers

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
How to print very large Fibonacci numbers eg fib(1000). My approach: When any one of fib(i-1) or fib(i-2) has more than 12 or 13 digits, partition them into groups of 4 digits and put them in a linked list. fib(i-1) is put in list1, fib(i-2) in list2. Perform the addition of these long numbers and

Re: [algogeeks] isomorphic trees

2010-06-11 Thread saurabh gupta
@Harish, it does. @Divya, r we not on the same page. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Harish U harishs...@gmail.com wrote: @Saurabh I believe for Isomorphic trees only the structure counts not the value at each nodes. So i think there is no need to compare the value at the corresponding

Re: [algogeeks] Re: sleep

2010-06-11 Thread sharad kumar
@souravsain means that process has slept and asked kernel to wake it only if its resource which it need,it got so at that time can any process interrupt it or not -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send

[algogeeks] sum to x

2010-06-11 Thread sharad
Given a large file, having N (N is very large) positive integers, how will you find a pair of numbers that add up to x (eg. 100). What data structure will you use and give appropriate Algo/code. It should be efficient in time and space. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [algogeeks] Re: identify the recurring part for a given decimal no

2010-06-11 Thread nisha goyal
it will work as the number after the decimal digit is recurring as in this case 3456 is recurring that is the the number is not just 23.34563456, its 23.3456345634563456.. so after subtraction it will give zero as the decimal part. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Veer Sharma

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Puzzle:

2010-06-11 Thread Terence
No need to enumerate all possible states. In the final state (2,8,5), each jug is neither full nor empty, while every valid operation has to fill or empty one jug. So it is not possible to get this state from any other state by one valid operation. (As others said, the state before the final

Re: [algogeeks] c output

2010-06-11 Thread Ashish kumar Jain
Explanation: The prototype for printf as per ANSI C is: *int printf( const char *format,…)* the return value is integer and returns the number of characters successfully read by printf. Also,in case of printf(),the evaluation of expressions passed on as arguments is done from right to

[algogeeks] stack

2010-06-11 Thread jalaj jaiswal
Give an algorithm to implement n stacks in an array... take care of the empty space too i.e no overflow shld occur if there is eny empty space left . -- With Regards, Jalaj Jaiswal +919026283397 B.TECH IT IIIT ALLAHABAD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [algogeeks] Re: binary nos

2010-06-11 Thread Debajyoti Sarma
@Rohit Saraf i understood the question. Superb solution by u. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Rohit Saraf rohit.kumar.sa...@gmail.comwrote: write an efficient algo to compute no. of sequences of n binary digits that do not contain 2 1's in a row. eg 111 is invalid whereas 1001001 is

Re: [algogeeks] Re: infix

2010-06-11 Thread Terence
On 2010-6-11 13:39, BALARUKESH wrote: The increment and decrement method wont work correctly for all cases Ex:- ))a+b(( It works. In this example, the first ')' lead to -1 which indicate the expression is not well formed. This is not a well formed parenthesis... But satisfies the

[algogeeks] Common elements in 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
Given a circular linked list, what is the most efficient way of constructing a new list which contains the common elements between the 2 given lists. Is it sorting and then comparing ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post

[algogeeks] concatenation of 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
Hi, I came across this statement that using circular lists, concatenation can be done without traversing either list. The same case with freeing the entire list. Can someone elaborate on this ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group.

Re: [algogeeks] Re: infix

2010-06-11 Thread jalaj jaiswal
@balarukesh thanks On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Rohit Saraf rohit.kumar.sa...@gmail.comwrote: @BALARUKESH : What are you saying !! and Why would this not work As you start you get sum -1 at start itself. Hence you quit. The sum should be 0 always and 0 at last

Re: [algogeeks] Re: ds

2010-06-11 Thread sharad kumar
excellent soln!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options,

[algogeeks] max sum

2010-06-11 Thread divya
Given an array all of whose elements are positive numbers, find the maximum sum of a subsequence with the constraint that no 2 numbers in the sequence should be adjacent in the array. Eg. i) 3 2 7 10 should return 13 (sum of 3 and 10) ii) 3 2 5 10 7 should return 15 (sum of 3, 5 and 7) -- You

Re: [algogeeks] level order traversal

2010-06-11 Thread sharad kumar
from inorder traversal i ll make doubly link list then print it.is it correct approach -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: [algogeeks] level order traversal

2010-06-11 Thread sharad kumar
@jitendra ur approach is good but o(nlogn) where as o(n) is possible -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [algogeeks] Derivation

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
Yeah got it !! I know, its simple. Dunno what I didn't get it when I posted :-) On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Anurag Sharma anuragvic...@gmail.comwrote: well the solution is pretty straight forward. let the distance between stations be 'd' and speed of trains starting at A and B (lets call

[algogeeks] sum to 0

2010-06-11 Thread sharad
Given three lists: A, B and C of length n each. Write a function which returns true if any 3 three numbers (1 from each list), sum up to zero. Else return false, if there is no such combination. both o(n2)+o(n)space and o(n2logn)+o(1)space are trivial but can we optimise more -- You received

Re: [algogeeks] Common elements in 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread Anurag Sharma
Ya that will do.. Anurag Sharma On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Raj N rajn...@gmail.com wrote: Given a circular linked list, what is the most efficient way of constructing a new list which contains the common elements between the 2 given lists. Is it sorting and then comparing ? --

Re: [algogeeks] Re: c output

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
@kirubakaran: How can it be 1,1 ? No of characters read in a is 5+ 1 for '\n' so its 6 and for the next one 1+1=2 On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:09 AM, kirubakaran kirubakaran1...@gmail.comwrote: Output will be 1,1 bcoz printf returns number of characters or integers printed On Jun 11, 12:26

Re: [algogeeks] stack

2010-06-11 Thread Anurag Sharma
Is it without having the need to shift elements at all? Anurag Sharma On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:41 PM, jalaj jaiswal jalaj.jaiswa...@gmail.comwrote: Give an algorithm to implement n stacks in an array... take care of the empty space too i.e no overflow shld occur if there is eny empty space

Re: [algogeeks] stack

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
@jalaj: This question has already been discussed for n=2,3 On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:11 PM, jalaj jaiswal jalaj.jaiswa...@gmail.comwrote: Give an algorithm to implement n stacks in an array... take care of the empty space too i.e no overflow shld occur if there is eny empty space left .

Re: [algogeeks] concatenation of 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread Mayur
Concatenation of two lists without traversing even one of the lists completely requires a pointer to the last element of the first list (first, as in the one that is to be attached in front of the other list). This is only possible if either, there's a *last *pointer for the lists, or the list is

Re: [algogeeks] sum to x

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
@sharad: Does it have to return the first pair or all possible pairs ? On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:56 PM, sharad sharad20073...@gmail.com wrote: Given a large file, having N (N is very large) positive integers, how will you find a pair of numbers that add up to x (eg. 100). What data structure

Re: [algogeeks] Re: binary nos

2010-06-11 Thread Mayur
A more theoretical answer to the question can be the following: Let's try to construct a tree for all such possible sequences. Level 0 = 0 or 1 Level 1 = 01 0 Level 2 =0 1 0 01 Level 3 = 0 1 0 0 1 0 10

Re: [algogeeks] Re: binary nos

2010-06-11 Thread Mayur
Oh! Forgot to mention that the count of the leaves of the tree, gives the number of possible sequences (as required to be determined by the question) On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Mayur mayurhem...@gmail.com wrote: A more theoretical answer to the question can be the following: Let's try

Re: [algogeeks] Re: infix

2010-06-11 Thread Rohit Saraf
@vivek: read again: ) = -1 ( = +1 Keep a sum of all these as u iterate. That should never be negative Plus check for these types (if you need correct arithmetic expressions as well *some operator followed by )* * or / after a ( () --

Re: [algogeeks] Print large Fibonacci numbers

2010-06-11 Thread Rohit Saraf
Fibonacci numbers can be calculated very efficiently using matrix multiplications. I hope you can think it/google it now.. that is better than me writing so much again :) -- Rohit Saraf Second Year Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science and

[algogeeks] Re: concatenation of 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread Dave
Break the link between the first and second items in each list. Link the first item in the first list to the second item in the second list, and link the first item in the second list to the first item in the first list. The traversal is from the first item of the first list, through the second

Re: [algogeeks] Re: infix

2010-06-11 Thread BALARUKESH SIVARAMAN
I missed out the condition that it should never be negative... Sorry for the comment... Thanks for correcting... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe

[algogeeks] Re: max sum

2010-06-11 Thread BALARUKESH
I hope using a backtracking solution suits the problem well... maxsum( int arr[] , int n,int i,int sum, int last) { if(in) { int s1= 0,s2= 0,s3; if(last ==i-1) { s1=maxsum(arr,n,i+2,sum,last); } else { s2= maxsum(arr,n,i+1,sum+arr[i],i);

[algogeeks] Re: Common elements in 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread BALARUKESH
I hope u can do better... try this.. use a hash table and try inserting all elements of 1st list and then insert the elements of second list. if u find an element already existing when u insert from second list then add it to a new list. the new list has the common elements... -- You received

[algogeeks] Re: max sum

2010-06-11 Thread souravsain
int FindMaxSum(int array[],int i) { if(iSize) //Size is array size, considered as global variable in my solution return 0; int Sum1 = FindMaxSum(array,i+2);//cannot chose i+1 as that will make it adjacent int Sum2 = FindMaxSum(array,i+3);//at any place I cannot chose i +1, so I

Re: [algogeeks] level order traversal

2010-06-11 Thread Jitendra Kushwaha
@Anurag: Check your approach for non balanced tree alsoeg take 8 nodes and try. -- Regards Jitendra Kushwaha MNNIT, Allahabad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [algogeeks] sum to x

2010-06-11 Thread Jitendra Kushwaha
trivial solution will be exponential where we check for each selection nC1+nC2...nCn = 2^n we can optimise time by taking some memory. It can be solved by subset sum where we will require extra memory of maximum sum possible. refer this link for subset sum problem:

Re: [algogeeks] stack

2010-06-11 Thread jalaj jaiswal
@raj n for 2 stacks its fine can you please tell for 3 stacks ...i'll generalize it On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Anurag Sharma anuragvic...@gmail.comwrote: Is it without having the need to shift elements at all? Anurag Sharma On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:41 PM, jalaj jaiswal

Re: [algogeeks] max sum

2010-06-11 Thread Jitendra Kushwaha
this can done by dyanamic programming At every point keep the maximum sum including the current element and excluding the current element At last the maimum will be max of both the maximum pseudo code : max1 = max2 = 0 for i in 1 to n temp = max2 max1 = MAX(max1, max2+array[i])

Re: [algogeeks] sum to x

2010-06-11 Thread Amit Jaspal
I think we can use a Linked List. Sort it and then find numbers adding upto x. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Raj N rajn...@gmail.com wrote: @sharad: Does it have to return the first pair or all possible pairs ? On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:56 PM, sharad sharad20073...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [algogeeks] sum to x

2010-06-11 Thread sharad kumar
all possible pairs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit

[algogeeks] Array Problem

2010-06-11 Thread amit
given an array A of n elements. for indexes j , i such that ji maximize( j - i ) such that A[j] - A [ i ] 0 . Any Algorithm less than O(n^2) would do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [algogeeks] Re: max sum

2010-06-11 Thread Amir hossein Shahriari
this can be done easily using dynamic programming: dp[i] = a[i] + max( dp[i+2], dp[i+3], dp[i+4] , ... ) for (i=n-1 ; i=0 ; i--) { max=0; for (j=i+2 ; jn ;j++) if (dp[j]max) max=dp[j]; dp[i]=a[i]+max; } On 6/11/10, BALARUKESH sbalarukesh1...@gmail.com wrote: I hope

Re: [algogeeks] max sum

2010-06-11 Thread Dheeraj Jain
See http://geeksforgeeks.org/?p=3133 for solution. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:41 AM, divya sweetdivya@gmail.com wrote: Given an array all of whose elements are positive numbers, find the maximum sum of a subsequence with the constraint that no 2 numbers in the sequence should be adjacent

[algogeeks] Re: concatenation of 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread Minotauraus
Agree with the above two. I don't think you can free the entire list without traversing it.You can free an element that you have a reference of. How can you free an entire list with reference to just one element? You'll need the other references. And if you get the other references that means you

[algogeeks] Array Increment Problem

2010-06-11 Thread amit
Array Increment Problem Given an array A consisting of 'n' elements. Do the following both operations in O(log n) time using a data structure. Increment (A,i,j,x) : This should increment elements from A to A[j] by value x . Report(A,j) : This should report A[j] Trivially in an array Increment

[algogeeks] Mirroring Binary Tree Pattern Problem

2010-06-11 Thread Vikas Jayaprakash
Good Evening to Algo_Geeks, I am a newbie regarding the Algo Analysis. I was asked this question recently in an interview. Please let me know if anyone of you know how to solve this. *Question:* Assume You have a binary Tree (not sorted and not BST) with a specific pattern on a Desktop1. How can

Re: [algogeeks] Re: concatenation of 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
@Dave: What do you say about freeing the circular list without traversing it. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Dave dave_and_da...@juno.com wrote: Break the link between the first and second items in each list. Link the first item in the first list to the second item in the second list, and

Re: [algogeeks] Common elements in 2 circular linked lists

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
@Anurag: Any other efficient way you can think of ? On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Anurag Sharma anuragvic...@gmail.comwrote: Ya that will do.. Anurag Sharma On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Raj N rajn...@gmail.com wrote: Given a circular linked list, what is the most efficient way

Re: [algogeeks] Print large Fibonacci numbers

2010-06-11 Thread Raj N
Ya thanks !! On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Rohit Saraf rohit.kumar.sa...@gmail.comwrote: Fibonacci numbers can be calculated very efficiently using matrix multiplications. I hope you can think it/google it now.. that is better than me writing so much again :)

Re: [algogeeks] level order traversal

2010-06-11 Thread sharad kumar
@antony can u do an inverted dfs with bactracking? On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Antony Vincent Pandian.S. sant...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Sharad On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:01 PM, sharad kumar sharad20073...@gmail.comwrote: 1

Re: [algogeeks] sum to x

2010-06-11 Thread Rohit Saraf
I guess it can be done in efficiently using a simple divide and conquer scheme almost imitating mergesort. Can you think of it now? :D -- Rohit Saraf Second Year Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Bombay