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Leetcode: Number of Islands - BFS (Queue vs Recursion)
I was playing around with leetcode's Number of Islands.
As per the challenge's description:
Given an m x n 2D binary grid grid which represents a map of '1's
(land) and '0's (water), return the ...
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Leetcode: Largest Number
I was trying out leetcode's Largest Number.
As per the challenge's description:
Given a list of non-negative integers nums, arrange them such that
they form the largest number and return it. Since ...
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Leetcode: Steps to Make Array Non-decreasing
I was trying out leetcode's Steps to Make Array Non-decreasing
As per the challenge's description:
You are given a 0-indexed integer array nums. In one step, remove all
elements nums[i] where nums[i ...
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Leetcode : First Missing Positive
I was trying out leetcode's first missing positive.
As per the challenge's description:
Given an unsorted integer array nums, return the smallest missing
positive integer.
You must implement an ...
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A parallel MSD radix sort in Java for integer keys
I have this repository: https://github.com/coderodde/ParallelRadixSort.java/tree/main
It contains a parallel MSD radix sort presented below:
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Merge a list of deeply nested HashMaps
Suppose I have a list of hashmaps (<String, Object>). Values can be either scalar types or a nested HashMap with the same type.
I need to merge a list of this ...
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Making Robert Tarjan's offline LCA algorithm run (much) faster (Java)
I have produced this GitHub repository that compares the performance of:
Robert Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm,
An improvement of the above algorithm.
Typical demo program ...
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Traverse a list of tree nodes
I am wondering if there is a better way to traverse a list of trees.
Here is my current algorithm:
Collect the parent IDs in a Map
Traverse all the groups and find ones where their ID is not in the ...
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Fastest function to find cumulative largest perfect squares of a single number?
I'm attempting to write an algorithm that will find the largest perfect squares of a given integer, subtracting their values from the total each time, as fast as possible. It's somewhat hard to ...
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Calculate square of (sum of even-indexed) - (sum of odd-indexed) subarrays from an array
Find all subarrays from a given array in the least possible time complexity.
Requirement:
calculate the square of (sum of even-indexed elements) - (the sum of odd-indexed elements) of al the subarrays....
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Leetcode kth largest element without using heaps
I was working on kth largest element problem on leetcode
Question
Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return the kth largest element in the array.
Note that it is the kth largest element in ...
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return the number of times is state of bulb changed?
Today in an exam I faced a problem which is Toggled Switches(Hacker Earth) as it is an exam question So, I am unable to send the question or its link (exactly).
Problem: we have to print a number ...
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Distribute items based on the time duration
I just finished a small assignment and I would like to get some feedback about the implementation here. Basically, it was all about distributing items ("talks" in this case) throughout the ...
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LeetCode 146: LRU Cache III
I'm posting my Java code for LeetCode's LRU Cache. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Design and implement a data structure for Least Recently Used (LRU) ...
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LeetCode 218: The Skyline Problem II
Here I'm posting my Java code for the skyline problem. If you have time and would like to review, please do so, I'd appreciate that.
Problem
A city's skyline is the outer contour of the silhouette ...
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LeetCode 767: Reorganize String
Here I'm posting my code for the Reorganize String problem on LeetCode. If you have time and would like to review, please do so, I'd appreciate that.
On LeetCode, we are only allowed to change the ...
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LeetCode 76: Minimum Window Substring - Java
I'm posting my Java code for the Minimum Window Substring. If you have time and would like to review, please do so, I appreciate that.
Problem
Given a string string...
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How to optimize Karatsuba algorithm (using arraylist and java)
I was using Karatsuba algorithm to multiply two polynomials and return the coefficients and I am using java, we are asked to use arraylists here, however, my code is too complicated and it takes much ...
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How to efficiently find if numbers in a given range contains either 1 or 3, but not both?
I am having a trouble speeding up my implementation. The question is, given a range of numbers from long a to long b, find how many lucky numbers are between a and b inclusive. A number is a lucky ...
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Performance Enhancement of A Star Path Finder algorithm with 1024 multidimentional array
I have the below code for a A* pathfinder, however it is taking upwards of 10 minutes to find a solution using a simple 1024 x 1024 array.
I had to comment out ...
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Java Palindrome - Time & Space Complexity
Which of these three methods is the most efficient?
Also, what is the time & space complexity of each?
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Filtering product ids
As regarding the following question I have completed the code as below.
But I am curious about other effective solutions. I am also curious about if there is any solution that could be applicable by ...
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"Edit Distance" algorithm
I have a piece of code that calculates the edit distance between words and works, but it's apparently not fast enough.
ClosestWords.java:
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Counting number of `1` digits in the value of \$11^n\$
I am trying to improve the efficiency of my code,
The Question is:
Given a value n, where n is in the range ...
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Brute-force ID reversal search
EDIT
The random number generator in this code is a blackbox for a similar algorithm that isn't publishable for privacy concern. The algorithm works in similar way, in that it takes in a seed value ...
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Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm in Java Finding substrings in a matrix
Problem
Given two matrices: a pattern p and a text t. Write a program that
counts the number of occurrences of ...
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Remove elements compared with other elements in a Set based on a condition
Simplified the actual problem to focus on comparing/removing performance.
Given a set S with n elements , find the most optimal way to compare each element to all others until a condition is met that ...
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Adding a number to an array of digits
I'm a student in my first semester and in my free time and holidays, I do some java training to keep my mind from rusting...so I downloaded this amazing Digital Algorithms practice app
and came across ...
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Algorithm X implementation for Minimum Dominating Set
As as final project for a MOOC I wanted to write a program that finds the exact cover set/minimum dominating set from the given social network data. So I did end up with writing this. I kinda followed ...
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Arranging numbers in a circle such that the sums of neighbors and sums of diametric opposites are prime
I need to create a circle with numbers from 1 to n , however it is necessary to respect some rules:
All numbers from 1 to n are used in the circle only once.
The sum of two consecutive numbers ...
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