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Clique Connect: minimum spanning tree
Problem Statement
You are given a weighted undirected graph G with N vertices, numbered 1 to N. Initially, G has no edges.
You will perform M operations to add edges to G. The i-th operation (1≤i≤M) ...
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Codeforces: D2. Counting Is Fun (Hard Version)
The code works okay for the following problem.
Problem
An array 𝑏 of 𝑚 non-negative integers is said to be good if all the elements of 𝑏 can be made equal to 0 using the following operation some (...
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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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Find min sum for indices to match equation
I want to reduce time complexity of my code:
I have an array of integers arr say [1, 2, 3, 6, 67]
I have an equation :
a*x+b*y=z, I can use the array values in this ...
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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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HackerRank Algorithm Problem: Climbing the Leaderboard (Python)
Here is the Hackerrank problem which is related to dense ranking and below is my solution which didn't pass the time limit cases. Any better way to optimize this?
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Traveling Salesman Problem for visiting cities
Implement TSP problem using best first algorithm (so it will be
backtracking, branch-and-bound, and best-first). Since you are looking
for a cycle, the start/finish city is not important. Therefore we
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Find character at given index in a sorted sub strings [closed]
For a given string say dbac the possible substrings are [d,db,dba,dbac,b,ba,bac,a,ac,c]. Sort them and concatenate to a string: ...
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O(nlogn) Lexicographically minimal rotation code but tle on this particular case
Based on a small suggestion here , this code tries to find lexicographically minimal rotation (question) by successively comparing two adjacent substrings in the very left , that can potentially give ...
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Repeatedly remove a substring quickly
I'm trying to solve the USACO problem Censoring (Bronze), which was the first problem for the 2015 February contest. My solution works for some test cases, but then times out for test cases 7-15. I ...
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For two sequences N and M, display counts of elements n from N below each m from M up to the first n above m
A school's task:
There are two sequences n_tab and m_tab.
For every element m in m_tab ...
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Find all combinations of length 3 whose sum is divisible by a given number
I came up with a suitable solution to a HackerRank problem that failed because the execution took longer than 10 seconds on lists that were of very large size.
The problem: Given a list ...
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Find a secret word given an array of triplets? (codewars problem)
The rules for the puzzle are:
Each triplet has the rules of how the letters are ordered in the secret word (each letter is followed by the next letter inside the triplet array).
all the letters of ...
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USACO Training - Section 1.5 - Arithmetic Progressions [closed]
I am working on the USACO problem Arithmetic Progression. Here is their problem statement:
An arithmetic progression is a sequence of the form a, a+b, a+2b, ..., a+...
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Subarrays with length
You are given an array A of length N (where N is as large as 2×105). All elements of the array are positive integers less than or equal to N. Determine the count of subarrays (contiguous subsequences) ...
