Re: [algogeeks] number of BST's

2010-07-29 Thread Pramod Negi
Follow up on Catalon Nubmer... On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Amit Jaspal wrote: > n is clearly a number lets say 3 then BST's with 1,2,3 values as key are to > be calculated > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Apoorve Mohan wrote: > >> @AMIT: what does "n" represents? >> >> >> On Fri, Jul

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread Amit Agarwal
A simple queue implementation will do. -Regards Amit Agarwal blog.amitagrwal.com On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Priyanka Chatterjee wrote: > > > On 30 July 2010 02:59, Priyanka Chatterjee wrote: > >> Algo: 1. find height of tree >> 2. do level order traversal >> i> at e

Re: [algogeeks] number of BST's

2010-07-29 Thread Amit Jaspal
n is clearly a number lets say 3 then BST's with 1,2,3 values as key are to be calculated On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Apoorve Mohan wrote: > @AMIT: what does "n" represents? > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:46 AM, sharad kumar wrote: > >> @amit is it BST or binary tree??cos BST is unique rite

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread Nikhil Agarwal
There few errors in your code rest is fine.I have updated in line On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Priyanka Chatterjee wrote: > > > On 30 July 2010 02:59, Priyanka Chatterjee wrote: > >> Algo: 1. find height of tree >> 2. do level order traversal >> i> at each level store th

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread Priyanka Chatterjee
On 30 July 2010 02:59, Priyanka Chatterjee wrote: > Algo: 1. find height of tree > 2. do level order traversal > i> at each level store the address of each tree node in the > data part of a linked node and form linked list of the nodes > ii> store the header of

Re: [algogeeks] number of BST's

2010-07-29 Thread Apoorve Mohan
@AMIT: what does "n" represents? On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:46 AM, sharad kumar wrote: > @amit is it BST or binary tree??cos BST is unique rite???binary tree meas > use catalan numbers 2nCn/(n+1)! > > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 PM, amit wrote: > >> Given the numbers from 1 to n, write an al

Re: [algogeeks] Generate a number

2010-07-29 Thread Shiv ...
If space is not a restriction- Build a B-tree. 1. Have a dummy root. 2. At level one- Numbers divisible by 1. ie. (1-9). 3. At level 2- numbers made after adding a digit to numbers at level 1. e.g. number 7 at level will have children- (70,72,74,76,78). and so on.. 4. Do the same at each level. Le

Re: [algogeeks] Re: a google question

2010-07-29 Thread Shiv ...
I have formulated a solution, not strictly of O(n), but I guess it's close. === 1. for(int k=0;k wrote: > I guess your solution would also be proved incorrect with the following, > > Numbers in bold are the two arrays. > > 125122 120 110 104 103 102 101 > 100

Re: [algogeeks] number of BST's

2010-07-29 Thread sharad kumar
@amit is it BST or binary tree??cos BST is unique rite???binary tree meas use catalan numbers 2nCn/(n+1)! On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 PM, amit wrote: > Given the numbers from 1 to n, write an algorithm to find how many > distinct binary search trees can be formed.. eg n=4, no of distinct > bs

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread jalaj jaiswal
@ srikant , trhe structure of binary tree have to be modified for this solution right..as nodes may have 3 links On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:03 AM, ashish agarwal < ashish.cooldude...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think use bfs ... > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, irfan naseef wrote: > >> >> >> On Th

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread Minotauraus
Yeah use BFS, push the nodes on a stack and make them point to each other. How they point depends on the question, which needs clarification. Should they ALL be connected to each other as in A to B and A to C and B to C or just A to B and B to C. Either way, the above approach should work fine. -

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread Priyanka Chatterjee
Algo: 1. find height of tree 2. do level order traversal i> at each level store the address of each tree node in the data part of a linked node and form linked list of the nodes ii> store the header of a linked list at a certain level in an array 3. retur

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread Asit Baran Das
Use a recursive functionthis below function will add up all nodes at the same level. void Traverse(Node n,int level, LinkedList list){ if(n==null) return; if(n>list.size()) list.add(n.value); else list.set(list.get(level)+n.value); Traverse(n.left,level+1,list);

[algogeeks] Generate a number

2010-07-29 Thread amit
An algorithm to print all the 10-digit nos such that first 1 digit is divisible by 1, first 2 digits by 2, first 3 digits by 3 and so on...first 9 digits by 9. I think the tenth digit can be anything from 0 to 9. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algor

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread Gautham Muthuravichandran
BFS On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:56 PM, irfan naseef wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:35 PM, ashish agarwal < > ashish.cooldude...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> please explain q ..i didnt understand >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM, irfan wrote: >> >>> I attended Amazon placement test tod

[algogeeks] number of BST's

2010-07-29 Thread amit
Given the numbers from 1 to n, write an algorithm to find how many distinct binary search trees can be formed.. eg n=4, no of distinct bst's are 14. ?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algog

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread harit agarwal
are the nodes having an extra pointer for sibling?? -- 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...@googlegr

[algogeeks] Re: Oracle-Java Developer interview question

2010-07-29 Thread Minotauraus
Yeah, you can do it either way. You can even add a dummy element instead of checking for empty and popping each time. But basically yeah, that's how I'd do it. Manjunath put it in a nice concise way. On Jul 29, 3:42 am, Sathaiah Dontula wrote: > @Minotauraus > > I feel Queue gives more picture.

Re: [algogeeks] Re: finding repeated substrings

2010-07-29 Thread Soumya_Prasad_Ukil
Use suffix trie. On 30 July 2010 00:50, Sony Jose wrote: > hi Minotauruas, > > > "For each node in the tree query the hash table. If there is a > collision (value exists) get point to that node from the table > and traverse the subtree, until you reach leaf nodes or find that the > subtrees are

Re: [algogeeks] Re: finding repeated substrings

2010-07-29 Thread Sony Jose
hi Minotauruas, "For each node in the tree query the hash table. If there is a collision (value exists) get point to that node from the table and traverse the subtree, until you reach leaf nodes or find that the subtrees are not the same." can you explain this above statement in an bit more clear

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread ashish agarwal
I think use bfs ... On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, irfan naseef wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:35 PM, ashish agarwal < > ashish.cooldude...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> please explain q ..i didnt understand >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM, irfan wrote: >> >>> I attended Amazon pl

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread srikanth sg
solution is straight forward identifying nodes at different levels and making connection between them using a FLAG node On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, irfan naseef wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:35 PM, ashish agarwal < > ashish.cooldude...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> please explain q ..i d

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread irfan naseef
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:35 PM, ashish agarwal < ashish.cooldude...@gmail.com> wrote: > please explain q ..i didnt understand > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM, irfan wrote: > >> I attended Amazon placement test today . There was a question where i >> got confused.It is as follows. >> >> G

Re: [algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread ashish agarwal
please explain q ..i didnt understand On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM, irfan wrote: > I attended Amazon placement test today . There was a question where i > got confused.It is as follows. > > Give an algorithm to connect all nodes in one level of a binary tree . > > 5 > 5 >

[algogeeks] Amazon Placement Question

2010-07-29 Thread irfan
I attended Amazon placement test today . There was a question where i got confused.It is as follows. Give an algorithm to connect all nodes in one level of a binary tree . 5 5 / \ / \ 8 2 ---

Re: [algogeeks] recursive

2010-07-29 Thread padmanaban sahadevan
void levelordertraversal(struct node* root,height) { int i=0; for(i=1;i<=height(root);i++ printlevel(root,i); } void printlevel(struct node *root, level) { if(root == null) return; else if(level==1) printf("%d",root->data); else if(level>1)

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Oracle-Java Developer interview question

2010-07-29 Thread Manjunath Manohar
do the level order traversal of the binary tree and keep the count of the stack...thats the width of the tree.. -- 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 fr

Re: [algogeeks] ALGORITHM

2010-07-29 Thread Manjunath Manohar
we can find the sum of all elements i.e, n(n+1)/2. and then compute the sum of all squares of elements..i.e (n(n+1)(2n+1))/6 now u have two equations..u can now compute both the missing element and the duplicate.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algo

[algogeeks] Re: ALGORITHM

2010-07-29 Thread anugrah
Can use a map to read the array and do map[arr[i]]=1. If there's a 1 already present print arr[i]. This method solves the problem in O(n) time and O(n) space complexity. On Jul 29, 2:56 am, Minotauraus wrote: > If numbers are consecutive you can do better. Calculate (n-1)(n-2)/2 - > sum of all el

Re: [algogeeks] Re: ALGORITHM

2010-07-29 Thread Apoorve Mohan
@above: but this may lead to overflow of the integer as you don't know what is "n". if the value of n is large then you can;t do this On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Minotauraus wrote: > If numbers are consecutive you can do better. Calculate (n-1)(n-2)/2 - > sum of all ele

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Oracle-Java Developer interview question

2010-07-29 Thread Sathaiah Dontula
@Minotauraus I feel Queue gives more picture. Thanks, Sathaiah Dontula On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Minotauraus wrote: > Width of a Tree = maximum number of nodes at the same level. > Example: >a > bc > d e

Re: [algogeeks] Re: ALGORITHM

2010-07-29 Thread Shafi Ahmad
#include int main() { int a[] = { 10,5,6,8,1,10,8,7,9,9}; /* Assuming a[i] is in {i=1,N} */ int N = 10,index,j; int i; for (i = 0; i < N; i++) { index = a[i] % N; if (a[index] > N) { printf("Duplicate number is %d\n",a[i]%N);

Re: [algogeeks] Re: ALGORITHM

2010-07-29 Thread Shiv ...
I think we can assume a perfect hashing to exist. [Please correct me if I am wrong] Implementing one, is a different issue. :)) Other than hashing, we can use BST or Heap. ~ O(klog(n)) On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:07 PM, sourav wrote: > @Shiv > > Collision is itself a wel known issue in hashing

Re: [algogeeks] confusion

2010-07-29 Thread Shafi Ahmad
> printf("%d\n",printf("%d\n",printf("%d",i))); return 0; 12--3 remove the new line '\n' character from 2nd printf it will print 111 because printf function returns number of character displayed. New line is considered as one chracter. In original questions 2nd

Re: [algogeeks] confusion

2010-07-29 Thread harit agarwal
printf returns the number of character it prints so output is ok it is 111 see this o/p you will understand #includeint main(){int i=1;printf("%d\n",printf("%d\n",printf("%d",i))); return 0;} http://codepad.org/gLGMDdoU -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

Re: [algogeeks] confusion

2010-07-29 Thread Prashant Kulkarni
every printf statement wll return how many number of parameter/variable print r printed so 2nd nested wll print number 1 n remaing two printf statement wll print number of parameters are printed so total three 1's .:) -- Prashant Kulkarni || Lokaha Samastaha Sukhino Bhavanthu || || Sarve Jana

[algogeeks] Re: ALGORITHM

2010-07-29 Thread sourav
@Shiv Collision is itself a wel known issue in hashing and much need to be done to avoid collision. When you say your appraoch is hash the numbers, how do u make sure without knowing the nature of the numbers that you can hash them without bringing ing collision of inequal items of the array? On

[algogeeks] Re: ALGORITHM

2010-07-29 Thread Minotauraus
If numbers are consecutive you can do better. Calculate (n-1)(n-2)/2 - sum of all elements in the array. That'll require one less loop compared to XORing twice. -Minotauraus. On Jul 28, 8:51 am, Apoorve Mohan wrote: > Solution : > > 1. Find Xor of numbers from 1 to n-1. > > 2. Find Xor of the n

Re: [algogeeks] confusion

2010-07-29 Thread umesh kewat
Hi tarak, output is right, because every printf print 1 so there is 3 printf call...so 111 is right On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:16 PM, tarak mehta wrote: > #include > int main() > { > int i=1; > printf("%d\n",printf("%d",printf("%d",i))); return 0; > } > > > output is 111..i was expecting it to be

[algogeeks] Re: finding repeated substrings

2010-07-29 Thread Minotauraus
I'd say use a hash table to store node/pointer for quick lookup instead. For each node in the tree query the hash table. If there is a collision (value exists) get point to that node from the table and traverse the subtree, until you reach leaf nodes or find that the subtrees are not the same. For

[algogeeks] Re: Oracle-Java Developer interview question

2010-07-29 Thread Minotauraus
Width of a Tree = maximum number of nodes at the same level. Example: a bc d e f g h i j Here, the max. width is 4 at level 3->d, e, f, g Algo to find width: 1. Push node on stack1

Re: [algogeeks] ALGORITHM

2010-07-29 Thread Ashish kumar Jain
Good approach Shiv.I think thats the best way to do so.The question does not strictly say we have consecutive n-1 distinct numbers.So,its not worth considering that particular case. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Shiv ... wrote: > What if the number are not consecutive? > > My approach- > Put

Re: [algogeeks] confusion

2010-07-29 Thread Shafi Ahmad
printf("%d\n",printf("%d",printf("%d",i))); <- 1 --> This will print 1 and printf returns 1 < 2 --> This will print the return value of printf <1> and it will return 1. <--- 3

[algogeeks] confusion

2010-07-29 Thread tarak mehta
#include int main() { int i=1; printf("%d\n",printf("%d",printf("%d",i))); return 0; } output is 111..i was expecting it to be 11..plz explain?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@