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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Find run ascending lists faster
In this question I asked you to determine if a run ascending list could be made. It was code-golf so naturally most the answers are very slow. But what if we want it to be fast. In this challenge I ...
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NxM List Combination Closest to Target
Given a list of N lists, each containing M positive integers, and a separate list of M positive integers (target values), return a list of N scalars (integers with a value of 0 or more) that ...
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Counting overlapping objects
Consider a NxN pixel grid with up to M objects drawn on it, either squares or diamonds:
square
diamond
The objects may overlap, so recognition is hard. The task is to give the minimal possible ...
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Print all digits of an integer [duplicate]
Challenge
Given a positive integer, find the fastest way to iterate over its digits. Bytecode size doesn't matter as much as speed of execution.
Examples
For 6875, the program would output ...
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Edit distance where a substitution only costs the first time
This challenge is about the following variant of edit distance. Say we have a cost of 1 for inserts, deletes and substitutions as usual with one exception. A substitution for a given letter ...
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Leon's shooting range problem
Leon's story
Leon is a professional sling shooter and he comes to a shooting range everyday to practice. A casual target is not a challenge for him anymore so before shooting he first covers the ...
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How much weight can you lift?
With all the gyms closed down with the COVID-19 situation, we have to exercise with the weight we have lying around at home. The problem is, we have a small selection of plates at varying weights, and ...
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Minimum Hop Count in Directed Graph based on Conditional Statement [closed]
A directed graph G is given with Vertices V and Edges E, representing train stations and unidirectional train routes respectively.
Trains of different train numbers move in between pairs of Vertices ...
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Gossipping ladies
Problem description
Vertices \$V\$ of directed graph \$G=(V,E)\$ represent gossipping ladies; edge \$(u,v) \in E\$ signifies that lady \$u\$ knows of lady \$v\$ (which does not imply that lady \$v\$ ...
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How many ways can given subsequence occur in given sequence?
Let me know if this task has already been posed. I haven't found it when I looked.
Input
master sequence \$\ X = x_1\dots x_n\$: sequence of characters, eg. \$\rm international\$
subsequence \$\ Y = ...
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Gaussian integer division reminder [closed]
Gaussian integer is a complex number in the form \$x+yi\$, where \$x,y\$ are integer and \$i^2=-1\$.
The task is to perform such operation for Gaussian integers \$a,b\$, that
\$a=q \cdot b+r\$ and \$|...
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Highest cardinality grouping of contiguous integers with minimum-sum threshold
Challenge
Given an array of positive integers and a threshold, the algorithm should output a set of consecutive-element-groupings (subarrays) such that each group/subarray has a sum greater than the ...
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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, e.g int or an array of digits are all acceptable.
Output
A truthy or falsely value, depending on ...
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Upside-Down Pyramid Addition...REVERSED! [closed]
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.
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