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Articles by Narendra Kumar
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Maximum weight transformation of a given string in C++
Problem statementGiven a string consisting of only A’s and B’s. We can transform the given string to another string by toggling any character. Thus many transformations of the given string are possible. The task is to find the Weight of the maximum weight transformation.Weight of a sting is calculated using below formula −Weight of string = Weight of total pairs + weight of single characters - Total number of toggles.Two consecutive characters are considered a pair only if they are different.Weight of a single pair (both characters are different) = 4Weight of a single character = 1If the input string ...
Read MoreMaximum element in a very large array using pthreads in C++
Problem statementGiven a very large array of integers, find maximum within the array using multithreadingExampleIf input array is {10, 14, -10, 8, 25, 46, 85, 1673, 63, 65, 93, 101, 125, 50, 73, 548} thenmaximum element in this array is 1673AlgorithmLet us call array size as total_elementsCreate N threadsEach thread will process (total_elementes/N) array elements and will find maximum element from it.Finally compute the maximum from the maximum value reported by each thread.Example#include #include #include #include #define MAX 10 #define SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0])) typedef struct struct_max { int start; int end; int thread_num; } ...
Read MoreMaximum average sum partition of an array in C++
Problem statementGiven an array, we partition a row of numbers A into at most K adjacent (non-empty) groups, then the score is the sum of the average of each group. What is the maximum score that can be scored?ExampleIf input array is {9, 2, 5, 3, 10} then we can partition array as follows −{9} {2, 5, 3} and {10} then average sum of this is −9 + (2 + 5 + 3)/ 3 + 10 = 22.33AlgorithmWe can use memorization technique to solve this problem −Let memo[i][k] be the best score portioning A[i to n-1] into at most K ...
Read MoreMaximum and Minimum in a square matrix in C++
Problem statementGiven a square matrix of order n*n, find the maximum and minimum from the matrixExampleIf given matrix is −{{15, 17, 19}, {5, 1, 7}, {14, 5, 16}} then Minimum number is 1 and maximum number is 19AlgorithmSelect two elements from the matrix one from the start of a row of the matrix another from the end of the same row of the matrixCompare them and next compare smaller of them to the minimum of the matrix and larger of them to the maximum of the matrix.We can see that for two elements we need 3 compare so for traversing ...
Read MoreMinimum operations required to set all elements of binary matrix in C++
Problem statementGiven a binary matrix of N rows and M columns. The operation allowed on the matrix is to choose any index (x, y) and toggle all the elements between the rectangle having top-left as (0, 0) and bottom-right as (x-1, y-1). Toggling the element means changing 1 to 0 and 0 to 1. The task is to find minimum operations required to make set all the elements of the matrix i.e make all elements as 1.ExampleIf input matrix is {0, 0, 0, 1, 1} {0, 0, 0, 1, 1} {0, 0, 0, 1, 1} {1, 1, ...
Read MoreMinimum operations to make the MEX of the given set equal to x in C++
Problem statementGiven a set of n integers, perform minimum number of operations (you can insert/delete elements into/from the set) to make the MEX of the set equal to x (that is given).Note − The MEX of a set of integers is the minimum non-negative integer that doesn’t exist in it. For example, the MEX of the set {0, 2, 4} is 1 and the MEX of the set {1, 2, 3} is 0ExampleIf n = 5 and x = 3 and array is {0, 4, 5, 6, 7} then we require minimum 2 operationsAlgorithmThe approach is to see that in ...
Read MoreMinimum operations to make XOR of array zero in C++
Problem statementWe are given an array of n elements. The task is to make XOR of whole array 0. We can do following to achieve this.We can select any one of the element −After selecting element, we can either increment or decrement it by 1.We need to find the minimum number of increment/decrement operation required for the selected element to make the XOR sum of whole array zeroExampleIf arr[] = {2, 4, 7} then 1 operation is required −Select element 2Decrement it by 1Now array becomes {3, 4, 7} and its XOR is 0AlgorithmFind the XOR of whole arrayNow, suppose ...
Read MoreMinimum partitions of maximum size 2 and sum limited by given value in C++
Problem statementGiven an array arr[] of positive numbers, find minimum number of sets in array which satisfy following property, A set can contain maximum two elements in it. The two elements need not to be contiguous.Sum of elements of set should be less than or equal to given Key. It may be assumed that given key is greater than or equal to the largest array element.ExampleIf arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4} and k = 5 then following 2 pairs can be created −{1, 4} and {2, 3}AlgorithmSort the arrayBegin two pointers from two corners of the sorted array. If ...
Read MoreMinimum Players required to win the game in C++
Problem statementGiven N questions and K options for each question, where 1
Read MoreMinimum positive integer value possible of X for given A and B in X = P*A + Q*B in C++
Problem statementGiven values of A and B, find the minimum positive integer value of X that can be achieved in the equation X = P*A + Q*B, Here P and Q can be zero or any positive or negative integer.ExampleIf A = 2 and B = 4 then answer will be 2.AlgorithmWe need to find P and Q such that P*A > P*B and P*A – P*B is minimum positive integer.This problem can be easily solved by calculating GCD of both numbers)Example#include using namespace std; int getGcd(int a, int b) { if (a == 0) { ...
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