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2011-09-29 Thread aditya kumar
u can use any lang . perl python etc . On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:57 AM, prasanth n nprasnt...@gmail.com wrote: c++ and java ll be given more preference On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:59 PM, abhishek abhishek.ma...@gmail.comwrote: c,c++ ,java On Sep 26, 4:15 pm, Akash Mukherjee

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2011-09-26 Thread abhishek
a file is given containing lots of records seprated by new line (records can be repeat) and a substring given for egabc now check for the record which contains the substring and print top 10 record according to their frequency derive algo with complexity o(n) On Sep 26, 10:58 am, htross

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2011-09-26 Thread Akash Mukherjee
any language pref?? are bash solns acceptable?? On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM, abhishek abhishek.ma...@gmail.com wrote: a file is given containing lots of records seprated by new line (records can be repeat) and a substring given for egabc now check for the record which contains the

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2011-09-26 Thread abhishek
c,c++ ,java On Sep 26, 4:15 pm, Akash Mukherjee akash...@gmail.com wrote: any language pref?? are bash solns acceptable?? On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM, abhishek abhishek.ma...@gmail.com wrote: a file is given containing lots of records seprated by new line (records can be

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2011-09-26 Thread abhishek
here is the process of paypal/ebay india written test ---40 ques in 60 min (no negative marking) interview 1 interview 2 HR interview written was a mix of technical and aptitude question interview 1 first asked me about my hobby and discussed about 5 to 10 min on it discussed on project asked

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2011-09-25 Thread abhishek
process was written test technical interview 1 tech interview 2 coading round disscussion /improvement in coading On Sep 26, 9:08 am, aditya kumar aditya.kumar130...@gmail.com wrote: I cleared the written round, the next round was coding round. We were asked to select any one problem out of

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2011-09-25 Thread htross
can u explain more on the coding question u solved? On Sep 26, 9:08 am, aditya kumar aditya.kumar130...@gmail.com wrote: I cleared the written round, the next round was coding round. We were asked to select any one problem out of three in 2 hrs. Q1) Given n number of xml files find a

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2011-09-21 Thread abhishek
DCE i am also want to know recruitment process as it is coming on 23rd. On Sep 21, 7:52 pm, Simran Singh sammy.4...@gmail.com wrote: Hey.. Which college you from..?? And please do tell more about their process.. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:31 PM, abhishek abhishek.ma...@gmail.com wrote:

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2011-09-21 Thread Simran Singh
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4573744/modify-a-given-number-to-find-the-required-sum/4573881#4573881 for solution.. And please do share all the info you gather about the process.. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM, abhishek abhishek.ma...@gmail.com wrote: DCE i am also want to know

[algogeeks] Re: yahoo campus placements

2011-09-16 Thread siva viknesh
http://in.careers.yahoo.com/students/content/186 check this .. it has visited many colleges including trichy NIT .. contact them...kindly share ur experience after attending ... On Sep 15, 8:09 am, Akash Mukherjee akash...@gmail.com wrote: k...bt its a gud 2 weeks lefti guess der wud be sm

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2011-09-16 Thread Rahul Verma
Check the link: http://www.careercup.com/page?pid=yahoo-interview-questions -- 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/-/2N_Nig__1foJ. To post to this

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2011-09-16 Thread payal gupta
do share u experiences..n questions if possible 4 sure!!! thnx..in advance... Regards, PAYAL GUPTA, CSE-3rd yr NIT-B On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM, siva viknesh sivavikne...@gmail.comwrote: http://in.careers.yahoo.com/students/content/186 check this .. it has visited many colleges

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2011-09-14 Thread htross
please share the questions asked after the company visits ur campus On Sep 14, 8:53 pm, Akash Mukherjee akash...@gmail.com wrote: bit mesra, cg 7...dunno nething else :( On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM, rahul sharma rahul23111...@gmail.comwrote: in which col it is cumingn wats is

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2011-09-14 Thread Akash Mukherjee
k...bt its a gud 2 weeks lefti guess der wud be sm other clg visits b4 dat On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:22 PM, htross htb...@gmail.com wrote: please share the questions asked after the company visits ur campus On Sep 14, 8:53 pm, Akash Mukherjee akash...@gmail.com wrote: bit mesra, cg

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2011-09-09 Thread htross
its offering 9.55was there a coding round also On Sep 9, 4:19 pm, Dheeraj Sharma dheerajsharma1...@gmail.com wrote: whch collg wat package? last time when it came to our collg..it has 4 questions on probablity..2-3 on c..and rest 15 20 on unix.. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:40

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2011-09-09 Thread Dheeraj Sharma
yeah..after that their was..one coding..round..and then interviews... i didnt gave the coding round..bt i know..that there was..coding round.. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:15 PM, htross htb...@gmail.com wrote: its offering 9.55was there a coding round also On Sep 9, 4:19 pm, Dheeraj

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2011-09-09 Thread htross
please someone post wat question was asked in coding round. On Sep 9, 6:55 pm, Dheeraj Sharma dheerajsharma1...@gmail.com wrote: yeah..after that their was..one coding..round..and then interviews... i didnt gave the coding round..bt i know..that there was..coding round..

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Yahoo Question

2011-07-12 Thread Abhi
Can anyone give an insight into the way XOR operations are used for swapping two variables? -- 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/-/ZJ_fiB6VmlQJ. To

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2011-07-12 Thread atul purohit
@abhi For XOR a=a^b; b=a^b; a=a^b; On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Abhi abhi123khat...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone give an insight into the way XOR operations are used for swapping two variables? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm

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2011-07-11 Thread sachin sharma
@vaibhav Overflow problem in case of big number in option b. the best and simple one is option a. Best Wishes Sachin Sharma | Software Trainee | Information Mosaic New York | Dublin | London | Luxembourg | New Delhi | Singapore | Melbourne | e-mail: sachinku...@informationmosaic.com

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2011-07-11 Thread Sandeep Jain
Option A: Works on all data types Option B: Works on numerical data, (best on integral data) but leads to overflow problem Option C: XOR would solve the problem of overflow, but afaik bitwise operators work on integral data Regards, Sandeep Jain On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:03 PM, sachin sharma

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2011-07-11 Thread aditya pratap
only first is conditionally independent and other options are used with some conditions thats why always first one is preferable. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:03 PM, sachin sharma sachin.bles...@gmail.comwrote: @vaibhav Overflow problem in case of big number in option b. the best and simple

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2011-07-11 Thread aditya pratap
thanks sandeep sir On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, aditya pratap contacttoadity...@gmail.com wrote: only first is conditionally independent and other options are used with some conditions thats why always first one is preferable. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:03 PM, sachin sharma

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2011-07-11 Thread raj singh
1.using temporary variable method is the best as it is applicable to all datatype. 2.using airthmatic expresion:- problem arise if we r swap the value using pointer and both pointer point to same location let int *x and int *y both point to a=20; now we write a method swap void swap(int

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2011-07-10 Thread Dave
@Vaibhav: Your method b doesn't work for floating point numbers because they have finite precision. E.g.,as an extreme example, try it on a = 1 and b = 1d-25. When you form a+b, the result is 1, not 1 + 1d-25. Then 1 - 1d-25 gives 1 (which is correct), and 1 - 1 = 0. The latter should be 1d-25, so

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2011-07-10 Thread Piyush Sinha
using a temp variable is considered to be the best option.. On 7/11/11, Dave dave_and_da...@juno.com wrote: @Vaibhav: Your method b doesn't work for floating point numbers because they have finite precision. E.g.,as an extreme example, try it on a = 1 and b = 1d-25. When you form a+b, the

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2011-06-30 Thread pacific :-)
Oh I got it. If ( interview at google) { Map reduce } else if(interview at yahoo) { Hadoop } else { Your personal preference. } On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:02 AM, bittu shashank7andr...@gmail.com wrote: 1.Use Haddop Map Reduce Framework .Obviously We Need Distributed Algo we will make

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2011-06-29 Thread bittu
1.Use Haddop Map Reduce Framework .Obviously We Need Distributed Algo we will make one computer as master assign the job to all slave computer to do the crawling the web depending upon the geographic area ( m thinking real time problem).to crawled the maximum pages in least time we need

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2011-06-28 Thread Priyanshu
lol... unfortunately i gave the same answer, and they told me to try my luck at google.. Regards, Priyanshu Gupta On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:42 AM, pacific :-) pacific4...@gmail.com wrote: Brin and Larry would be the best people to answer this question. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:10 AM,

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2011-06-28 Thread vamsi achyuth
:)) On 28 June 2011 23:27, Priyanshu priyanshuro...@gmail.com wrote: lol... unfortunately i gave the same answer, and they told me to try my luck at google.. Regards, Priyanshu Gupta On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:42 AM, pacific :-) pacific4...@gmail.comwrote: Brin and Larry would be

[algogeeks] Re: Yahoo Question

2011-06-27 Thread priyanshu
anyone!!! On Jun 23, 3:28 pm, Priyanshu priyanshuro...@gmail.com wrote: You have 100 computers, connected with each other. Give the most efficient way to design a web crawler, which will crawl most pages in least amount of time. Thanks, Priyanshu. -- You received this message because you

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Yahoo coding round question

2010-10-29 Thread mo...@ismu
@ravindara yeah this works perfect -- 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

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Yahoo coding round question

2010-10-27 Thread ravindra patel
Here is a simple implementation. Complexity O(n). Please let me know if you find any issues with this. Assumptions as stated in original problem - 1- Required sub array is contiguous 2- Given array has only integers (+ve and -) // Params are array arr, length of array n, given sum and product

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Yahoo coding round question

2010-10-24 Thread ravindra patel
@ Kishen So lets say you have 100 parallel processors and you are given an array of 100 elements, then the loop will execute in 1 clock. Now lets say on the same machine you are given a problem array of 1 million elements. So how many clocks are you gonna consume, assuming all your 100 processors

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Yahoo coding round question

2010-10-24 Thread ravindra patel
It has nothing to do with time complexity. My bad. Wrong choice of words. So in the PRAM model you can say the time complexity is O(1), a pure theoretical concept. But the cost still remains O(n), isn't it. I guess now onwards we'll have to specifically ask interviewers whether they are asking

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Yahoo coding round question

2010-10-24 Thread Saurabh Koar
@Mohit: What I understand that in your solution the sum and product array contains the sum and products of contiguous sub-array starting from 0 to i (index of array A). What happens when the expected sub array starts form an index other than 0? -- You received this message because you are

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2010-10-24 Thread ligerdave
@ravindra agree! On Oct 24, 2:20 pm, ravindra patel ravindra.it...@gmail.com wrote: @ Kishen So lets say you have 100 parallel processors and you are given an array of 100 elements, then the loop will execute in 1 clock. Now lets say on the same machine you are given a problem array of 1

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2010-10-24 Thread Kishen Das
@Ravindra, Ligerdave You guys are all right. But with GPUs, you can literally have thousands of threads running in parallel. Again, my aim was not to prove that my O(n ^ 2) algorithm is O ( n) on a single processor system. It was more towards making the members of this group to think on the lines

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2010-10-24 Thread MOHIT ....
@saurabh koar : no it will give that sub array .. but kishan das solution is good... btw my code explanation is A: 2 4 356 PRODUCT:2 8 24 120 720 SUM 2 6 9 14 20 suppose i want sum 8 and product 15 make hash table for product array (in hashtable

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Yahoo coding round question

2010-10-22 Thread Kishen Das
Ok, if you look at the inner loop, it is - for ( j = i to j = 0 ) { sum[j] += A[ i] product[j] *= A [ i] } This is as good as executing - sum[i] = sum [ i ] + A[ i ] --- ( 1 ) sum[i-1]= sum[i-1]+ A[i] ( 2 ) -- --- --- sum[0] = sum[ 0]+A[i] -- ( i )

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2010-10-21 Thread ligerdave
@Kishen I don't have much knowledge on parallel computation in OpenCL or CUDA. Do you mean parallelised=not have to do the computation at all? did you mean without knowing the boundary of the inner loop which is depended on the outer loop, the inner loop would be smart enough to figure out the i

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2010-10-20 Thread ligerdave
i wanna get a clear picture of this before start. when you say min length of contiguous sub of an array let's say array A=[3,1,2,3,4,5], N=6 are below both good solutions? A[0] to A[m] where m=N A[i] to A[m] where i=m m=N On Oct 19, 3:58 am, Abhishek Kumar Singh iiita2007...@gmail.com wrote:

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2010-10-20 Thread ligerdave
@Kishen as long as you have one for loop in another, you wont have O(n). it will most likely run O(n^2) On Oct 19, 7:41 pm, Kishen Das kishen@gmail.com wrote: In the below code the jth and kth inner for loops can be run in parallel making them O(1) and the entire thing O(n). for ( i=0 to

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2010-10-20 Thread Kishen Das
Well, looks like people are not understanding when I say run a loop in parallel !!! Please look at some of the examples on Nvidia website on how computations can be parallelised in OpenCL or CUDA. And also some of the high level programming languages like Scala which is also providing these

[algogeeks] Re: Yahoo Question

2010-09-18 Thread Krunal Modi
@umesh kewat : In worst case it will be O(nk) in case of your solution. check for this case: 01-06-11-16 02-07-12-17 03-08-13-18 04-09-14-19 05-10-15-20 -- Krunal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send

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2010-09-18 Thread Krunal Modi
@umesh kewat: In worst case it will be O(n*k), by your solution. 01-06-11-16 02-07-12-17 03-08-13-18 04-09-14-19 05-10-15-20 -- Krunal By umesh kewat: Create binary search tree using n nodes of K list den do in-order and make a single list -- You received

[algogeeks] Re: Yahoo Interview Question for Software Engineer/Developer about Algorithms

2010-09-18 Thread soundar
Even if u are connected to that person via some another friend it'll show the shortest chain by which you are connected to that person..So DFS will be optimum i guessWhy do you think it wouldn't be optimum.? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

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2010-09-18 Thread Shiv ...
i will choose BFS. As we just don't want to show a connection.. we want to show the shortest one. On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:12 PM, soundar soundha...@gmail.com wrote: Even if u are connected to that person via some another friend it'll show the shortest chain by which you are connected to that

[algogeeks] Re: Yahoo Interview Question for Software Engineer/Developer about Algorithms

2010-09-18 Thread Gene
You could construct two level graphs starting starting simultanously from your node and the other member's. Add layers one at a time to each. When, after adding a new level, you find one or more nodes in both level graphs, you can stop. Each shared node gives you a least-edge path between the

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2010-09-17 Thread vikas kumar
@Bittu I am confused about one point you need to process atleast n*k elements so how will you do it in nlogk time. It seems really tricky if possible.it's min time should be O(nk). correct me if I am wrong. On Sep 17, 6:34 am, tkcn tkcna...@gmail.com wrote: Use k-way merging +1. 1.

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2010-09-17 Thread umesh kewat
Create binary search tree using n nodes of K list den do in-order and make a single list On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:58 PM, vikas kumar vikas.kumar...@gmail.comwrote: @Bittu I am confused about one point you need to process atleast n*k elements so how will you do it in nlogk time.

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2010-09-17 Thread Nikhil Jindal
@vikas: Total number of elements are not n*k. Total number of elements are n, which are divided into k lists. @Rahul Singal: +1 for ur answer. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:58 PM, vikas kumar vikas.kumar...@gmail.comwrote: @Bittu I am confused about one point you need to process atleast n*k

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2010-09-16 Thread tkcn
Use k-way merging +1. 1. Before the merging start, sorting these lists according to the first element of each list. // O(k log k) 2. So the first element in the first list is the smallest element. Put the smallest into the result array. // O(1) 3. Then, using binary search to find the new

[algogeeks] Re: Yahoo Question:Greatest Sub-sequential sum

2010-09-13 Thread bittu
what is the complexity of this problem I think its O(n*n!) but confused or O(n!) or O(n^2) right me if i m wrong.its necessary to check the complexity REPLY is appreciated from every algogeek #include stdio.h  #includeconio.h #includeiostream.h #includestdlib.h int main() {

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2010-07-04 Thread karthik m
@peeyush: the ratio is based on probability, it will be 1:1. -- 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

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2010-07-04 Thread Jitendra Kushwaha
ya i mean half girl and half boys i.e. 1:1 ratio of boys to girl On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:25 PM, peeyush peeyush...@gmail.com wrote: It can not be determined. On Jul 4, 4:27 pm, Amit Jaspal amitjaspal...@gmail.com wrote: it will be 1:1 On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jitendra Kushwaha

[algogeeks] Re: Yahoo coding round question

2010-05-17 Thread W Karas
One (space-intensive) idea: Re-represent each string as a set of pairs (character, position of character). Then sort each set of pairs by character. Then find corresponding sequences in the sorted lists of pairs, where the character and the difference between position is the same from pair to