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Tagged with time-limit-exceeded python-2.x
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Google FooBar "Prepare The Bunnies Escape"
I'm currently working through the google FooBar challenge, and I'm on the third level, in which I have to find the distance between the top left and bottom right points on a grid. The grid is filled ...
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Minimize array and output the remainder with respect to 1 second time limit
This is my code:
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Split a given number so that their sum adds to another given number
Task
You are given a string S containing only decimal digits ('0' through
'9') and a number N. Your task is to insert an arbitrary number
(including zero) of plus signs '+' into S in order to ...
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Finding an increasing sequence from a given array in a time-efficient manner in Python
Problem Statement:
Given a sequence of integers as an array, we have to determine whether
it is possible to obtain a strictly increasing sequence by removing no
more than one element from the ...
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Compare two files and save the result into a pickle file
My code should compare two vectors saved as dictionary (two pickle files) and save the result into a pickle file too. This works but very slowly. For one compare result I'm waiting about 7:20 min. ...
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AIO programming challenge - Friendlist - Who has the most friends?
I attempted this sample question from the Australia Infomatics Competition. TL;DR - Each line of input contains two numbers, representing a mutual friendship relationship. The output needs to be the ...
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Codechef: Prime Number Generator
Peter wants to generate some prime numbers for his cryptosystem. Help
him! Your task is to generate all prime numbers between two given
numbers!
Input
The input begins with the number t of test cases ...
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High execution time to count overlapping substrings
I was doing this HackerRank problem which basically boils down to counting overlapping substrings in a string. I used this solution from StackOverflow to build this program -
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Reading a file representing word frequencies in Wikipedia, for clustering analysis
I am writing a system that will run Kmeans to determine the most used words in Wikipedia. I do this by building a core set with streaming data. Wikipedia is 50TB but after a year of processing I was ...
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Cropping faces from images in a directory
I am using the below code for cropping faces from images in a directory
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Estimating Pi with random darts on dartboard - high complexity issues
I've been trying to write nice snippet of code to simulate pi estimation by randomly throwing darts on a dartboard. While running the following code on high but reasonable numbers my mac doesn't plot. ...
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Google FooBar XOR Checksum Challenge
Google FooBar came up a few days ago and I took it as a challenge to learn python quickly while having fun. However, I ran into one challenge today that has left me stumped, I've come up with a ...
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Counting numbers in an array that are divisible by any 2 numbers
While solving one question I got stuck with a time limit error. The main objective in question is to count numbers in an array \$A\$ that are either divisible by \$P\$, \$Q\$ or both.
Input format:
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Google FooBar Level 3 - Shortest path to 1
I recently found the Google Foobar challenges and am having a problem with level 3. The goal of the task is the find the minimum number of operations needed to transform a group of pellets down into 1,...
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Determining a value given the coordinates for numbers arranged in a triangular fashion
Numbers are being stacked in the following manner:
7
4 8
2 5 9
1 3 6 10
The x-axis is horizontal and the y-axis is vertical. With that in mind, here are a few ...
