Questions tagged [fastest-algorithm]
Fastest-algorithm competitions are won by the answer with the smallest asymptotic time complexity. For challenges based on actual runtime, use [fastest-code] instead.
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Compute my Sacred Geometry [closed]
In the tabletop RPG named Pathfinder, there is a feat that characters can take called Sacred Geometry, which allows a character who has it to buff their spells in exchange for doing some math: to use ...
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Total time to deteriorate all shielded cells [closed]
Problem: We have a two dimensional matrix of positive integer cells. On each turn any non-zero cell with a neighbor (top/bottom/left/right) of zero decreases by 1. We want count to the number of non-...
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Is this number a palindrome? [closed]
Input
A single integer in your language's preferred format. This format is non-negotiable (no input as strings, arrays of digits, etc.), but standard I/O formats do apply if otherwise it would be ...
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Upside-Down Pyramid Addition…REVERSED!
Upside-Down Pyramid Addition is the process of taking a list of numbers and consecutively adding them together until you reach one number.
When given the numbers ...
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Minimum cost of solving the Eni-Puzzle
You're tasked with writing an algorithm to efficiently estimate cost of solving an Eni-Puzzle from a scrambled state as follows:
You're given m lists of containing n elements each(representing the ...
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Buy the most appropriate items
A store is having a big sale.
If your price reaches $199 or more, you can reduce it by $100.
You can buy each product only once.
Here's an example list of products: (in order to simplify, the names of ...
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determine if the circle is boxed in [closed]
Pretty simple challenge here. Who can make the fastest algorithm (lowest time complexity) to determine whether or not the circle is "boxed in" given the following setup?
Input: Your program receives ...
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Meeting splitter
Introduction
Large meetings waste working time. Our aim is to split a large meeting into a number of smaller meetings, so the average number topics that a person discusses is minimized but every ...
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Fastest way to perform the equivalent of an if-statement in x86 assembly
The task is simple: Create an if-statement from scratch in x86 assembly that runs in as few clock-cycles as possible.
Must be x86 assembly.
Can't use any of the conditional jump/branch instructions (...
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Two Dimensional Waterflow problem [closed]
The one dimensional twitter waterflow problem is this:
You are given an array that represents a hill in the sense that the ith entry is the height of the ith location of the hill. When it rains, ...
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3-inverter with two NOT gates [closed]
Introduction
I recently came across an oral exam where the candidates were asked to find a logical circuit than can negate 3 inputs A,B,C using only two NOT gates.
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Find elements in an array computing a given function value
Problem Description
Given:
a function \$f(a, b, c, d, e) = \frac{a \times b}c + \frac de\$
an array \$x = [x_1, x_2, x_3, x_4, ..., x_n]\$ of non-distinct integers
a target value \$k\$
What is the ...
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Which number is bigger?
Define f(a,b) := a if b=1; a^f(a,b-1) if b>1 (Tetration, where ^ means power) for positive integers ...
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Find the longest uninterrupted arc in N dimensions
See similar question for 2D case: Find the longest uninterrupted arc
The challenge here is to find the longest uninterruped great circle arc around a unit hypersphere in N dimensions, with a random ...
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Find the longest uninterrupted arc
The challenge here is to find the longest uninterruped arc around a unit circle with a random amount of points distributed in random positions around it.
Here is a diagram to assist my explanation:
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Fastest to find the joint
The input is an array (or space-separated string, as you wish), zero-indexed, consisting of one strictly increasing array and one strictly decreasing array (in this order, not other vice versa), each ...
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Remove entries from array to sort it and maximize sum of elements
This challenge is from an admission test to a closed number cyber security course. Anyway it doesn't have to do with cyber security, it's just to test the students logical and coding skills.
Task
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Approximate floating point number with n-digit precision
We have a floating point number r between 0 and 1, and an integer p.
Find the fraction of integers with the smallest ...
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remove duplicates from array [closed]
You have given an array from which we need to remove duplicates.
Rules:
First or immediate duplicates gets removed first.
Array contains natural numbers ...
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Find the rectangle [closed]
Overview
Given a 2 dimensional array of values with a filled in rectangle, find the position and size of the rectangle. Do it in the fewest array accesses as possible.
Requirements
The ...
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Total Derangement (Difficulty Level: Hard)
The problem: Write a function which, given a cycle length n and a number of cycles m, where 'm' is within ...
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Solve a Single Player Tron Game [closed]
Solve a Tron Game
Tron is a great game, and if you haven't played it the internet has MANY online versions available.
A fun challenge is to try to write an AI that plays Tron, which is normally much ...
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Sequence avoiding near collision [closed]
Task
Find a sequence of all numbers between min and max where every number differs from every other number in the sequence by at least "d" digits.
Example of sub-sequence
For min = 0, max = 1000 ...
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Quotient in base 31 numeral system [closed]
You're given two numbers a and b in base 31 numeral system and number k with no more than 10000 decimal digits. It is known that b is divisor of a. The task is to find last k 31-based-digits of ...
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Digital River (Shortest And Fastest Solution)
This is my first question, so I hope it goes well.
Background:
It's not the rivers that you might be thinking about. The question revolves around the concept of digital rivers. A digital river is a ...
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Find the digit occurring the most in a range of prime numbers
Find the digit which occurs the most in a range of prime numbers.
Input:
Two numbers, p and q, specifying the range; the range ...
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Num of pyramids possible with given number of bricks [closed]
I encountered this question in an interview and could not figure it out. I believe it has a dynamic programming solution but it eludes me.
Given a number of bricks, output the total number of 2d ...
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Hard Puzzle Game Solver [closed]
There is an app called Hard Puzzle which is a game where there is a red circle, and you have to fill all of the surface area with five smaller white circles
it may seen easy, but it's harder than it ...
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Heaviest increasing subsequence
A subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from another sequence by deleting some elements without changing the order of the remaining elements. A strictly increasing subsequence is a subsequence ...
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Add or subtract numbers to find the smallest non-negative integer [closed]
Given a positive integer, n, along with n non-negative integers, write a program or function that prints or returns the smallest ...
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Number of unique outputs by substituting variables
Given a set of formulas like this:
bacb
bcab
cbba
abbc
Give an algorithm that finds the number of unique results you can get when each variable is substituted ...
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Determine sets of associatively equivalent permutations of commutative operations
There are many types of binary operations, which can be categorized by their associative properties and their commutative properties.
A binary operation () is ...
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Fastest way to compute order of magnitude in x86 assembly
The task is simple: write assembly that computes the order of magnitude of an integer using as few clock cycles as possible.
Order of magnitude is defined as log10,...
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Find the longest recurring substring [duplicate]
Given a string of no more than 255 characters, find a function that returns the longest recurring substring.
An example would be:
aabbacadeauaaabba
where the longest recurring sub-string is aabba.
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Find Anagrams in the Dictionary [closed]
This a code challenge. The winner will be the person to provide the most efficient implementation of the solution in terms of algorithmic complexity.
Using the dictionary found in '/usr/share/dict' (...
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A fastest algorithm optimization challenge
This is my first experiment with an asymptotic complexity challenge although I am happy with answers entirely in code as long as they come with an explanation of their time complexity.
I have the ...
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Determine the move in which a LOGO turtle crosses a point that it has already visited [closed]
Situation:
A turtle starts at (0, 0) on a cartesian graph.
We have a non-empty zero-indexed "moves" list that contains numbers.
Each number represents the distance moved.
The first number is the ...
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Same word when missing letters [closed]
Idea
From a given word dictionary (containing only plain letters, i.e: no accent or other special chars), with a given fixed word length, find every same when a given number letters are missing.
For ...
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Mr. Moneybag's Money Piles
Mr. Moneybags is a very rich man. He has an assistant Mr. Perfect, who one day, got very mad, and shredded some of Mr. Moneybag’s $100 bills! Mr. Moneybags decided to punish Mr. Perfect.
Mr. ...
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Racketeer Taxi Driver
The Scenario
You are a taxi driver in your city. You picked up a passenger from the airport and he told you the place he'd like to go.
To earn more money, you need to drive as much as you can. ...
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Autoscale complex function
Context: We are working on a complex image drawing program to produce mugs, t-shirts, and so on. Here is an example of such function
However, we are facing the following problem: Random generated ...
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Count the Zeros
For a given n, count the total number of zeros in the decimal representation of the positive integers less than or equal to n. For instance, there are 11 zeros in the decimal representations of the ...
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Array Merge without Duplicates
I recently saw this Javascript code on StackOverflow for merging two arrays, and removing duplicates:
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Count the number of cyclic words in an input
Cyclic Words
Problem Statement
We can think of a cyclic word as a word written in a circle. To
represent a cyclic word, we choose an arbitrary starting position and
read the characters in ...
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Tricky Median Question
Given n points, choose a point in the given list such that the sum of distances to this point is minimum ,compared to all others.
Distance is measured in the following manner.
For a point (x,y) all ...
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Code-Challenge:The Nearest Prime
Challenge
In this task you would be given an
integer N you have to output the
nearest prime to the integer.
If the number is prime itself output the number.
The input N is given in a single ...
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Fastest algorithm for decomposing a perfect power
A perfect power is a positive integer that's equal to one positive integer, to the power of another positive integer (e.g. ab is a perfect power). Note that trivial solutions (e.g. b=1) are excluded; ...
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Count number of hefty decimals between 2 numbers
Let's say we have a non-negative integer that is "hefty" (that is, "heavy") if its average digit value is greater than 7.
The number 6959 is "hefty" because:
(6 + 9 + 5 + 9) / 4 = 7.5
The number ...
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Free a Binary Tree
So before you read some basic computer science concepts.
A binary tree is a dynamically allocated structure (usually used for ordered storage).
Because of its nature traversal of binary trees is ...
