Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-04-30 Thread Gary Drocella
Counting sort does not run in O(1) space though. Optimally it will run in O(K) space, where A is an array of integer numbers and K = max(A) - min(A) On Saturday, February 9, 2013 9:52:01 PM UTC-5, Mohanabalan wrote: can use counting sort On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:37 PM, santosh thota

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-04-30 Thread Gary Drocella
A bit vector is basically just a sequence of bits such as a word or even an array of words. Here is an example... int x = 5; // 32 bit word size on Intel IA-32 Architecture In C programming language. A variable in C will be either located in a register in memory or in Main Memory. You

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-04-29 Thread Gary Drocella
This will only work if each element in the array are relatively prime to one another, that is for any two elements x, y in array A the gcd(x,y) = 1, which is also just another way of saying no number divides another number in the array. Once this rule is broken, then the algorithm will no

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-04-29 Thread Parag Khanna
use XOR On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Drocella gdroc...@gmail.com wrote: This will only work if each element in the array are relatively prime to one another, that is for any two elements x, y in array A the gcd(x,y) = 1, which is also just another way of saying no number divides

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-14 Thread BackBencher
:O the final required sum would be 4C0 * a5 - 4C1 * a4 + 4C2 * a3 - 4C3 * a2 + a1 how ? , did i missed something id yes can you paste the link or explain ? Thanks Shashank On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 5:09:41 AM UTC+5:30, Shachindra A C wrote: Consider n = 5. Naming the array elements as

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-13 Thread pankaj joshi
in this Problem if the array is A[n] = {a0,a1,a(n-1),a(n)} after the second iteration, the value will be {a0 -2*a2+a3, a2 -2*a3 + a4, a3-2*a4+a5,, a(n-2)-2a(n-1)+a(n)} if we add all these terms then all the middle elements will be canceled out so the remaining will be. {a0-a2 -

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-13 Thread Shashwat Anand
On 4/13/13 10:05 PM, pankaj joshi wrote: in this Problem if the array is A[n] = {a0,a1,a(n-1),a(n)} after the second iteration, the value will be {a0 -2*a2+a3, a2 -2*a3 + a4, a3-2*a4+a5,, a(n-2)-2a(n-1)+a(n)} if we add all these terms then all the middle elements will be canceled

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-09 Thread Don
It is O(N^2) because the inner loop takes N steps to execute and that loop will be executed N times. However, I would suggest not using recursion. There is no reason to not do it iteratively. Your recursive solution has no base case so it will recurse until your computer runs out of stack space,

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-09 Thread rahul sharma
i forgot to add base case..can add wen 2 elemnts are there then there sum is stored and we reurn from there...i m in hurry,,,sry for that,, On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Don dondod...@gmail.com wrote: It is O(N^2) because the inner loop takes N steps to execute and that loop will be

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-09 Thread rahul sharma
If you have any other solution ..please post that...i thnik recursion is ok with base case...we need to scan again after first iteration...?? On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:12 AM, rahul sharma rahul23111...@gmail.comwrote: i forgot to add base case..can add wen 2 elemnts are there then there sum

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-09 Thread Don
int getsum(int *a, int n) { while(--n) { for(int i = 0; i n; ++i) a[i] = a[i+1] - a[i]; } return a[0]; } I'm not really clear about how it is intended to work. It seems that if you start with an array of N values, each iteration reduces the number of values by 1, so

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-09 Thread Shashwat Kumar
Recursion and iteration don't differ in this algorithm. But avoid using recursion if same can be done using iteration. In practical cases, system does not allow very large depth in recursion. So for large values of n, there can occur segmentation fault. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:43 AM, rahul

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-09 Thread Shachindra A C
Consider n = 5. Naming the array elements as a1,a2,a3,a4,a5 , the final required sum would be 4C0 * a5 - 4C1 * a4 + 4C2 * a3 - 4C3 * a2 + a1. That is nothing but the pattern of a binomial expansion. Using this method, the complexity can be reduced to O(n). Correct me if I'm wrong! On Tue, Apr

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview question

2013-04-09 Thread Shashwat Anand
On 4/10/13 12:13 AM, rahul sharma wrote: If you have any other solution ..please post that...i thnik recursion is ok with base case...we need to scan again after first iteration...?? First of all, the array size and number of iteration both won't be N or else the answer will always be 0. I take

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-04-03 Thread ashekhar007
hi sourab please explain what bit vector1 and bit vector 2 really are can you give an example please? On Saturday, February 16, 2013 11:20:59 PM UTC+5:30, sourabh wrote: you can solve this problem using bitvector/bitset. first scan : scan the array set the bit on odd occurrence and unset on

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-03-20 Thread sourabh jain
@sandeep he is talking about constant space. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:31 PM, sandeep kumar sandeepkumar1...@gmail.comwrote: Hey what if while scanning through the array we create a BST n check simultaneously that : current node == current node's parent current node == current node's left

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-03-19 Thread sandeep kumar
Hey what if while scanning through the array we create a BST n check simultaneously that : current node == current node's parent current node == current node's left or right child -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-02-16 Thread prakhar singh
Yes, thats a valid point Don. Thats what i meant when i wrote //is that correct? in the comments on the array line in code. int a[] = {2,2,3,3,3,1,1,4,4}; // is this correct? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Don dondod...@gmail.com wrote: The xor approach only works if there are no values

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-02-16 Thread sourabh jain
you can solve this problem using bitvector/bitset. first scan : scan the array set the bit on odd occurrence and unset on even or 0 occurrence. second scan : shift all the odd occurring elements in beginning of array and even towards end. third scan : till end of odd occurring elements. take

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-02-13 Thread BUBUN SHEKHAR
Sachin Chitale, Dude the xoring operation will give us xor of numbers with freq 1 and 3 respectively. How do you filter out the number with the frequency 3?? On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:44:08 PM UTC+5:30, Sachin Chitale wrote: use ex-or operation for all array elements.. a^a=0 a^a^a=a

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-02-13 Thread sourabh jain
Search for BitSet/BitVector in java . On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Sachin Chitale sachinchital...@gmail.comwrote: use ex-or operation for all array elements.. a^a=0 a^a^a=a On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Mohanabalan D B mohanabala...@gmail.comwrote: can use counting sort On

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-02-13 Thread arun singh chauhan
@Sachin Chitale : Very good approach dude . thumbs up +1 -- Arun Singh Chauhan Engineer (RnD 2), Samsung Electronics Software Engineering Lab, Noida On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:44:08 PM UTC+5:30, Sachin Chitale wrote: use ex-or operation for all array elements.. a^a=0 a^a^a=a On

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-02-13 Thread Don
The xor approach only works if there are no values which occur only once. But the problem statement indicates that some numbers occur once, some occur twice, and one occurs three times. So you will end up with prod equal to the xor of all of the values which occur once or three times. Put that in

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2013-02-12 Thread Mohanabalan D B
can use counting sort On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:37 PM, santosh thota santoshthot...@gmail.comwrote: If we can retrieve ith prime efficiently, we can do the following... 1.maintain a prod=1, start from 1st element, say a[0]=n find n th prime 2.check if (prod% (ith_prime * ith_prime )==0) then

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-27 Thread Ritesh Mishra
@anurag : there is no need to SORT. as it will increase complexity O(n) to O(n log n). here is the correct code.. please look over it and notify me if i'm wrong . T.C. = O( n ) // ex: 1 4 3 2 0 i'm explaining on behalf of it. bool permute (int *arr , int N ) { if ( N=1 ) return false;

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-27 Thread Hariraman R
Can anyone give me some idea if the given no is small like 12 then the next one is 17 On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 7:56 PM, marti amritsa...@gmail.com wrote: I REPEAT, THERE is no need to SORT; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation#Lexicographical%5Forder%5Fgeneration On Friday,

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-27 Thread Anurag Gupta
Hi Ritesh Yeah, you are right. we do not need to sort. my bad Thank you for explaining clearly On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Ritesh Mishra rforr...@gmail.com wrote: @anurag : there is no need to SORT. as it will increase complexity O(n) to O(n log n). here is the correct code.. please

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-24 Thread marti
I REPEAT, THERE is no need to SORT; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation#Lexicographical%5Forder%5Fgeneration On Friday, December 14, 2012 11:56:16 AM UTC+5:30, tapan rathi wrote: For a given number, find the next greatest number which is just greater than previous one and made up of

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-21 Thread Anurag Gupta
@marti your answer is completely wrong (check for 234987156221 ans is 2349871*61225 * whereas your answer would be 2349871*65225*) and we do need to sort On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:10 AM, marti amritsa...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah thanks Sandeep, theres an error in example...it should be

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-16 Thread marti
Here is what you do EG: 5436782 ans is 5436872 how did we arrive? FInd least index i, such that a[i-1] = a[i] starting from rigthmost 5436782 (8) Now , Find least index j such that a[j-1] = a[i-1]: 5436782 (7) swap them = 5436872 Now swap all values between i and j.

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-16 Thread Shubham Sandeep
hello all... anwer to previous example would be 5436827 instead of 5436872please correct it :) On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:48 PM, marti amritsa...@gmail.com wrote: Here is what you do EG: 5436782 ans is 5436872 how did we arrive? FInd least index i, such that a[i-1] = a[i] starting from

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-16 Thread ramchandra sankhala
Let the number is stored in an array a[n] with MSB at index 0... 1. i = n-1; reduce i till a[i]=a[i-1] i 0. If here i =0 means give number is largest possible number made out of digits otherwise i is pointing to a digit such that a[i]a[i+1] 2. find smallest digit from a[i+1 to n-1] just

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question

2012-12-16 Thread marti
Yeah thanks Sandeep, theres an error in example...it should be 5436827.However there is no need to sort. On Friday, December 14, 2012 11:56:16 AM UTC+5:30, tapan rathi wrote: For a given number, find the next greatest number which is just greater than previous one and made up of same digits.

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-15 Thread santosh thota
For the series like 2,4,3,9,4,16,5,25 ur algo runs in o(n*n/2) =o(n^2) On Friday, 13 July 2012 13:16:50 UTC+5:30, jatin wrote: 1)Find product of the array and store it in say prod o(n) and o(1) 2)now traverse the array and check if static int i; tag: while(in) if( prod

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-15 Thread santosh thota
If we can retrieve ith prime efficiently, we can do the following... 1.maintain a prod=1, start from 1st element, say a[0]=n find n th prime 2.check if (prod% (ith_prime * ith_prime )==0) then return i; else prod=prod*ith_prime; 3.repeat it till end On Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:55:02

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-14 Thread jatin
. Plus this will exceed O(n) in the worst case, as we may keep visiting the goto again and again. Not sure of its exact time complexity. -- From: vindhya chhabra Sent: 13-07-2012 17:46 To: algogeeks@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread @jatin
Or we can make a BST from array list in o(n) then traverse it inorder-o(logn) but this solution requires o(logn) space though. On Friday, 13 July 2012 13:16:50 UTC+5:30, jatin sethi wrote: 1)Find product of the array and store it in say prod o(n) and o(1) 2)now traverse the

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread adarsh kumar
@jatin: Your first method may be proved wrong. Here is a counter test case: Suppose the array is: 27 729 19683 2 3 3 27 3 81 729 Here, 81 occurs once, 19683 occurs once, 2 occurs once,729 occurs twice, 27 occurs twice, and 3 occurs thrice. You are supposed to return 3 But as per your method,

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread vindhya chhabra
@adarsh But i think jatin has asked to check for the number( we achieved in step 1) occuring thrice or not..and in this check 27 will rule out.but i doubt the algo given by Jatin runs in O(n) time. please comment. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:17 PM, adarsh kumar algog...@gmail.com wrote: @jatin:

RE: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread adarsh kumar
To: algogeeks@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question @adarsh But i think jatin has asked to check for the number( we achieved in step 1) occuring thrice or not..and in this check 27 will rule out.but i doubt the algo given by Jatin runs in O(n) time. please comment. On Fri

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread jatin
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question @adarsh But i think jatin has asked to check for the number( we achieved in step 1) occuring thrice or not..and in this check 27 will rule out.but i doubt the algo given by Jatin runs in O(n) time. please comment. On Fri

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread Dave
exact time complexity. -- From: vindhya chhabra Sent: 13-07-2012 17:46 To: algogeeks@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question @adarsh But i think jatin has asked to check for the number( we achieved in step 1) occuring thrice

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread algo bard
chhabra Sent: 13-07-2012 17:46 To: algogeeks@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question @adarsh But i think jatin has asked to check for the number( we achieved in step 1) occuring thrice or not..and in this check 27 will rule out.but i doubt the algo given by Jatin

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread Shruti Gupta
: 13-07-2012 17:46 To: algogeeks@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question @adarsh But i think jatin has asked to check for the number( we achieved in step 1) occuring thrice or not..and in this check 27 will rule out.but i doubt the algo given by Jatin runs in O

RE: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-13 Thread adarsh kumar
+1. -- From: Shruti Gupta Sent: 14-07-2012 08:08 To: algogeeks@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question @jatin: even i think it will b more than O(n).. infact it will be O(n-square) in the worst case as if each hit is spurious(until

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-12 Thread Dave
@Algo bard: No. You can do an O(n) time, O(n) space solution with a radix sort, or you can do an O(n log n) time, O(1) space solution with a variety of sorts. Dave On Thursday, July 12, 2012 12:25:02 AM UTC-5, algo bard wrote: Given an array of integers where some numbers repeat once, some

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-07-12 Thread deepikaanand
If the assumption is that there is only one element which occurs once , some elements repeat twice and only one element which repeats thrice then following is the code according to the assumption made http://ideone.com/yseYy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-06-16 Thread algogeek
could u explain how would you use a trie for this?? On Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:01:00 PM UTC+5:30, Mohit Rathi wrote: Hi, *There are two arrays of length 100 each. Each of these has initially n (n=100) elements. First array contains names and the second array contains numbers such that

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-06-16 Thread enchantress
Store each of the words in array in a trie and mark the end of the word by its corresponding entry in the second array. Now if u are searching for a word it'll take O(length of word) if there is a mismatch at any point you know the word is not present in array1 and add it to the trie or else

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-06-15 Thread enchantress
You can use a trie with end of word marked by its corresponding entry in array. On Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:01:00 UTC+5:30, Mohit Rathi wrote: Hi, *There are two arrays of length 100 each. Each of these has initially n (n=100) elements. First array contains names and the second array

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-06-15 Thread Amol Sharma
+1 for trie.. -- Amol Sharma Third Year Student Computer Science and Engineering MNNIT Allahabad http://gplus.to/amolsharma99 http://twitter.com/amolsharma99http://in.linkedin.com/pub/amol-sharma/21/79b/507http://www.simplyamol.blogspot.com/ On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:21 PM, enchantress

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2012-05-21 Thread Navin.nitjsr
I think adjacency list can be implemented by vector of vector. vector vectorint Nodes; The size of vector Nodes is total no of nodes. Every element of the vector will store all its adjacent edges. Nodes[i] is a vector containing all the edges adjacent to node i. So, we can copy the graph easily.

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2011-09-24 Thread Asit Dhal
Here, can we use function for comparison ?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/algogeeks/-/ZgGYGAZwvcoJ. To post to this group, send email to

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-09-08 Thread Brijesh
Please reply with your alog...! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/algogeeks/-/OGVCUV_hutUJ. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2011-06-29 Thread Wladimir Tavares
Hi Guys, The @pacific solution is the best? Wladimir Araujo Tavares *Federal University of Ceará * On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:26 AM, sunny agrawal sunny816.i...@gmail.comwrote: you can initialize it to (Max-Min+1) where Max = max of all elements Min = min of all elements Or simple

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2011-06-28 Thread vikas
what will be the oldDiff initially. can u plz explain with a egsample -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/algogeeks/-/NXQqyUTbdlkJ. To post to this group,

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2011-06-28 Thread sunny agrawal
you can initialize it to (Max-Min+1) where Max = max of all elements Min = min of all elements Or simple initialise it to a large integer like 0x7fff for 32 bit numbers. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:32 PM, vikas mehta...@gmail.com wrote: what will be the oldDiff initially. can u plz explain

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2011-05-11 Thread anshu mishra
@pacific you are perfectly right but the order is not o(kn) its is O(k*n*log(n)) because to get the least number u have to use priority queue nd at every iteration (from 1 to k*n) u have to push and pop one single element. -- Anshuman Mishra IIIT Allahabad -

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2011-05-10 Thread pacific :-)
My approach : Have a pointer to the start (smallest of the array) of each of the N arrays. Until all pointers reach end of respective arrays : take the smallest value from all of the pointers and compute the difference between the smallest and the current pointers of each of the arrays

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2011-05-09 Thread bittu
see here let me know if anything wrong..?? http://shashank7s.blogspot.com/2011/05/wap-to-find-minimum-difference-between.html Thanks Regrads Shashank the Best Way to Escape From The problem is to Solve it Computer Science Engg. BIT Mesra -- You received this message because you are

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-03-04 Thread Harshith
For an O(n) in place : http://arxiv.org/pdf/0805.1598 There are links to other algo's for the same problem with varying degrees of difficulty. I think it would be a very high expectation indeed, if they expected this solution from the interviewee. On Feb 28, 9:27 pm, Vinay Pandey

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-03-01 Thread Vinay Pandey
I forgot to mention Time complexity: O(n), Space complexity: O(1) Assuming you accept my solution :-) On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Vinay Pandey babbupan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Here is my solution, let me know: /* a helper function */ void swap(int* arr, int index1, int index2) { /*

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-03-01 Thread gaurav gupta
Here is one recursive solution I propose : consider example a1,a2,a3,a4,b1,b2,b3,b4 1. if n is even swap second Half of first array with first half of second array so it would be a1,a2,b1,b2,a3,a4,b3,b4 and it can be solved recursively so rearrange({a1,a2,a3,a4,b1,b2,b3,b4}) =

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-03-01 Thread Vinay Pandey
Hi, Here is my solution, let me know: /* a helper function */ void swap(int* arr, int index1, int index2) { /* this is only to swap to integers */ arr[index1] = arr[index1]^arr[index2]; arr[index2] = arr[index1]^arr[index2]; arr[index1] = arr[index1]^arr[index2]; } /* Actual switching */ void

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-03-01 Thread Jammy
@gaurav. They way I see it it's O(nlogn)? you have n/4 for each level of the recursion tree and logn height. In total its O(nlogn) On Feb 28, 9:27 pm, Vinay Pandey babbupan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Here is my solution, let me know: /* a helper function */ void swap(int* arr, int index1,

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-02-28 Thread bittu
@jalaj U needs to clarify becoz what i can say that dat is overwritten in ur explanation so we loosing the original data where we are saving when we swapping the elements ur explanation seems to be right but little confusing @ujjwal i haven't tested ur code but i think its O(n^2) then why not

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-02-28 Thread Arpit Sood
Are there any constraints in the problem, because it seems straight forward. if number of elements are 2n indexed from 0 to 2n-1 for i=0 to n-1: new_array[i*2]=old_array[i]; new_array[i*2+1]=old_array[i+n]; On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:41 PM, bittu shashank7andr...@gmail.com wrote: @jalaj

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-02-28 Thread murthy.krishn...@gmail.com
how abt dis guys ?? #include stdio.h #include string.h #define MAX 100 int main() { int n; int i; int j; int it; char input[MAX]; char tmp; scanf(%s,input); n = strlen(input); i = j = n/2; for(it=1; itn-2; it++) { if(it%2 == 1) {

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-02-28 Thread bittu
@arpit otherwise it wont b amzon quest.. space dude..space is constants Thanks Shashank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-02-28 Thread Arpit Sood
well space complexity should be mentioned in the question then, anyway, start with the second element put it at its correct location(say x), then take x put it at its correct location, this was when you do this n-1 time, you will get the correct answer because it forms a cycle. On Mon, Feb 28,

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview question

2011-02-28 Thread Dave
@Arpit: The problem is that for certain values of n, you get more than one cycle, and the cycles are disjoint. You have to find all of the disjoint cycles and move the elements in each one. Dave On Feb 28, 12:25 pm, Arpit Sood soodfi...@gmail.com wrote: well space complexity should be mentioned

[algogeeks] Re: amazon interview question

2010-12-24 Thread MAC
updated :) Given a boolean matrix with all the true elements on left side in the row so that each row can be broken into two parts left part containing only true elements and right part containing only false elements. Find the row with max number of true elements in it. 00011 0 1

Re: [algogeeks] Re: amazon interview question

2010-12-24 Thread Soumya Prasad Ukil
O(m+n). Search from rightmost top corner. Count the no of zero from right and go to left, i.e. traverse through columns from right of the first row. When you find a column having 0, go down to lower row. Check the correspondent column is 1 or not. If it is, follow the above step or else go down to

Re: [algogeeks] Re: amazon interview question

2010-12-24 Thread Senthilnathan Maadasamy
@SoumyaNice Solution. -- 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] Re: Amazon Interview Question about Linked Lists

2010-12-23 Thread soundar
@shiva , U didn't check for the cycles.Since in question it is never mentioned about cycles u can add few steps to check cycles. (eg) 1 3 - 5 | | | | | | 4-3--3 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question about Linked Lists

2010-12-22 Thread siva viknesh
oh thank u :) On Dec 22, 11:20 am, bittu shashank7andr...@gmail.com wrote: Xcellent Shiva..keep goin on..\ Best Regards Shashank Mani Narayan BIT Mesra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question about Linked Lists

2010-12-21 Thread siva viknesh
ya through down pointer we can print..coz each time i m making fwd as NULL On Dec 20, 2:33 pm, Rishi Agrawal rishi.b.agra...@gmail.com wrote: See inline .. On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:09 PM, siva viknesh sivavikne...@gmail.comwrote:  Given a linked list structure where every node

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question about Linked Lists

2010-12-21 Thread bittu
Xcellent Shiva..keep goin on..\ Best Regards Shashank Mani Narayan BIT Mesra -- 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] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-18 Thread saravana kumar
It can be done easily by counting sort On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Soumya Prasad Ukil ukil.sou...@gmail.comwrote: Have a look : http://geeksforgeeks.org/?p=1488 On 15 December 2010 05:19, Saurabh Koar saurabhkoar...@gmail.com wrote: @ Bittu: Lets analyze your code with

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-15 Thread SVIX
use a dictionary (available in C#... basically a collection of generic key-value pairs where the key lookup is O(1) - hashed internally) since number that occurred first should be listed first when frequencies are the same, u need to record the first occurrence of each number as well. Hence, the

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-15 Thread bittu
@ankur,saurabh,soumya.. ya ankur i forget to remove range from dare also no need to find range for this..\ put size-1 intead of range so that malloc will alocate the memory to all elements in array ..no hope its fine... what i did is that i took counter array thta cvontains the no of

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-15 Thread Soumya Prasad Ukil
Have a look : http://geeksforgeeks.org/?p=1488 On 15 December 2010 05:19, Saurabh Koar saurabhkoar...@gmail.com wrote: @ Bittu: Lets analyze your code with iterations: the array contains 1 3 3 1 2 3 5 2 3 count contains 0 2 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 now 1st iteration: i=8,7,6 the inner loop

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-14 Thread sajj
you can use hash table for this dude. On Dec 14, 8:22 pm, Prims topcode...@gmail.com wrote: given some positive numbers output the numbers in decreasing order of frequency..in case of a tie print the number which occurred first for eg: 1,3,3,1,2,3,5,2,3 the output should be 11225 --

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-14 Thread Ankur Khurana
@sajj: if the range of number is not given then ? On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:41 PM, sajj sajjv...@gmail.com wrote: you can use hash table for this dude. On Dec 14, 8:22 pm, Prims topcode...@gmail.com wrote: given some positive numbers output the numbers in decreasing order of frequency..in

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-14 Thread Ankur Khurana
what you can do is create a vector pairint,int and sort it on the baisis of secondary key where it will be it's frequency. if tha range is not given. If the range is in permissible limits, then hash table is the answer. I suppose. On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Ankur Khurana

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-14 Thread bittu
#include stdlib.h #includestdio.h #includeconio.h int main() { int array[]={1,3,3,1,2,3,5,2,3}; int size=sizeof(array)/sizeof(int); int min,max; max=min=array[0]; int i=0; for(i = 1; i size; i++) { if (array[i] min) min = array[i]; else if (array[i] max)

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-14 Thread Soumya Prasad Ukil
bittu, in stead of writing your code, put your logic here. It is not the place to show how capable one is to write a program. On 14 December 2010 11:00, bittu shashank7andr...@gmail.com wrote: #include stdlib.h #includestdio.h #includeconio.h int main() { int

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-14 Thread Ankur Murarka
I think ankur khanna's solution is appropriate. couldn't get what bittu was trying to do completely.. could you just explain it once please! On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Soumya Prasad Ukil ukil.sou...@gmail.comwrote: bittu, in stead of writing your code, put your logic here. It is not the

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-08 Thread Nikhil Agarwal
@gene: can you do dry run a test case: a[0]-a[n-1] 0 1 2 31 34 135 and if u c On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Gene gene.ress...@gmail.com wrote: I should have mentioned that this problem only makes sense if the array values must be unique. On Dec 6, 8:20 pm, Gene gene.ress...@gmail.com

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-06 Thread Nikhil Agarwal
@Divesh I have updated my algo and Array A[1,2,3.n] is sorted with unique elements.CALL FIND_EQUAL(A,1,n) int FIND_EQUAL(A,start,end) 1.Go to the middle element 2. If A[mid]mid) 3. if(start==mid) 4 return mid-1; 5return FIND_EQUAL(A,1,mid-1); 6 if(A[mid]=mid) 7

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-06 Thread Gene
You guys are working too hard. Think about the sequence of numbers [ A[i] - i | i = 0,1,2,...n-1 ]. You are trying to probe this sequence to find the number of zeros. If you think about it for a while, you will see that this sequence is non-decreasing. It must be a segment of zero or more

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-06 Thread Gene
I should have mentioned that this problem only makes sense if the array values must be unique. On Dec 6, 8:20 pm, Gene gene.ress...@gmail.com wrote: You guys are working too hard.  Think about the sequence of numbers [ A[i] - i | i = 0,1,2,...n-1 ].  You are trying to probe this sequence to

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-05 Thread Nikhil Agarwal
If All the elements are unique and sorted in ascending order then we can design an algorithm for O(lgn) and all nos are positive. Run FIND_EQUAL(A,0,N-1) [A0,A1 and A2 are the array elements] FIND_EQUAL(A,start,end) 1.Go to the middle element 2.If A[mid]==mid) return mid+1; if(A[mid]mid)

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-05 Thread Ashim Kapoor
yaar I can use simple O(n) sweep to find out who all are equal, I think it can't be less than this On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Abioy Sun abioy@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/4 ankit sablok ankit4...@gmail.com: as all the elements are sorted in the array make a min heap of the array

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-05 Thread coolfrog$
@Nikhil run you algo .. on test case index - 1 2 3 4 5 value - 1 2 3 4 5 ouput is mid+1= 3+1=4 but it should be 5... correct me if i am wrong... and u have assumed all are positive, hence base index should be 1 On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Nikhil Agarwal nikhil.bhoja...@gmail.comwrote: If

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-05 Thread Nikhil Agarwal
@ashim please refer my post.I posted an o(lgn) algo.i.e. I am copying again below with an update If All the elements are unique and sorted in ascending order then we can design an algorithm for O(lgn) and all nos are positive. Run FIND_EQUAL(A,0,N-1) [A0,A1 and A2 are the array elements]

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon Interview Question

2010-12-04 Thread Abioy Sun
2010/12/5 juver++ avpostni...@gmail.com: Wrong. Counterexample: 1 2 2 2 2 6 suppose you mean 1 3 3 3 3 6? 1) divide-conquer 2) search binary, in each sub array [s, t], mid = (s+t)/2 if t array[mid]:   // no need to check the part after mid, all will fail else if s array[mid]: // no need

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question (Array yet again!)

2010-09-05 Thread soundar
Finding the longest increasing sub sequence and comparing with the original array ...will this method work? -- 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: Amazon interview Question (Array yet again!)

2010-09-05 Thread Discover
ya exactly..dp solution is working... On Sep 5, 7:28 am, Gene gene.ress...@gmail.com wrote: I just figured out you are running the first (incorrect) greedy algorithm I tried.  Please try the DP.  It works fine. On Sep 3, 2:18 pm, Discover maniksinghal.n...@gmail.com wrote: @gene: nice

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview Question (Array yet again!)

2010-09-04 Thread vikash jain
i think this prob cannot be solved by DP then... Because anytime a new value coming into the non decreasing sub-array obtained by the DP equation can be disrupted(like in the above example). I think a backtracking approach cud prove useful. (Recursion) anytime we get a new element we can do two

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