Questions tagged [time-limit-exceeded]
When the code scales so poorly in the face of large inputs that it cannot complete in a reasonable amount of time, use this instead of the [performance] tag.
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Reversing vowels in a string
Given a string s, reverse only all the vowels in the string and return it.
The vowels are 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', and 'u', and they can appear in both lower and upper ...
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Count how many numbers in a range have exactly three divisors
The challenge
Given array a of n numbers, I need to count how many positive numbers less than each aᵢ have exactly 3 divisors.
Constraints
1 <= aᵢ <= 2.5 * 10¹³
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the minimum ...
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Hackerrank "New Year chaos" solution - permute sequence by swapping adjacent terms
I was doing the Hackerrank "New Year chaos" problem. Here is the description:
It is New Year's Day and people are in line for the Wonderland
rollercoaster ride. Each person wears a sticker ...
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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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Performance Tuning to enable answer for Project Euler #566 "Cake Icing Puzzle"
Related to this question I am still looking for a solution to Project Euler Problem 566 (see link for a nice simulation also):
Adam plays the following game with his birthday cake.
He cuts a piece ...
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Project Euler #566 "Cake Icing Puzzle" Performance Tuning
I am rather new to python and wanted to use Project Euler to learn more about it. The task can be seen here, so I will skip any description of my own:
Project Euler Problem 566 (see Link for a nice ...
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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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Maximum Sum BST in a Binary Tree
I was trying to find the Maximum sum BST of a binary tree on LeetCode. While the Java code I have come up with, mostly seems right and is able to pass 55 out of the given 59 test cases too, the error ...
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Sort array of numbers using tree sort - Leetcode 912
Problem statement:
Sort integer array nums in O(N log N) time,
without relying on any library sort routine.
I am trying to use a tree sort method (using the ...
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Delete a node in binary tree
Problem Statement
Given a root node reference of a BST and a key, delete the node with the given key in the BST. Return the root node reference (possibly updated) of the BST.
Basically, the deletion ...
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Find median value of two Sorted Arrays
To improve my coding knowledge can you please give me suggested changes on my code?
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SEDE query to count questions, views and unanswered for a set of tags
This query selects the number of SO questions, the number of views and the number of unanswered questions for each tag (the list of the tags is the user input). It works fine when it works, but it ...
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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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Trailing Digits
https://www.acmicpc.net/problem/23204
I've solved a programming challenge where you need to count the occurrences of a specific digit at the end of the product of multiples of a given number within a ...
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HackerRank Project Euler 12 (Python) | Highly Divisible Triangular Numbers
I again share my Python code which didn't pass time limit test cases in the HackerRank contest of ProjectEuler.
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calculate the number of ways to pick two different indices
I'm working on a codesignal practice problem
You are given an array of integers a and an integer k. Your task is to calculate the number of ways to pick two different indices i < j, such that a[i] ...
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Codeforces: Dasha & Nightmares
so I got started with competitive programming about a day ago and I got stuck on the first random question I tried on codeforces. It's called Dasha and Nightmares.
Problem Description:
The problem ...
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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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One or more planets to line up with the earth a certain amount of times
I have attempted the below question, however my solution is too slow (i.e. It does not fit the 2 second time constrain for java). How can the solution be optimised?
While at IOI 2020 in Singapore, ...
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Find all combinations of two companies grouped by the projects they are tendering for
I am working on the task to get all possible combinations (pairs) of ID's (companies) which participated in one bid and create a new data frame with ID_1, ID_2, matching parameter (tender ID).
I have ...
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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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Find largest sum not involving consecutive values
There is a question to basically find the largest sum in an array, such that no two elements are chosen adjacent to each other. The concept is to recursively calculate the sum, while considering and ...
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Positive Segments
I'm trying to solve the following question:
You have an array A of size n, containing −1 or 1 only, and s segments (not necessarily different). Each segment is defined by 2 integers li and ri (1 ≤ li ...
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Market Portfolio Binary Search Tree [closed]
I'm trying to solve the following problem here:
First line of input contains the number of days D. The next d lines contains a character c and a number x. If c is B, then buy stock . If c is S, then ...
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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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k-dice Ways to get a target value
I'm trying to solve the following problem:
You have a k-dice.
A k-dice is a dice which have k-faces and each face have value written from 1 to k.
Eg. A 6-dice is the normal dice we use while playing ...
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Knock down tall buildings
I'm trying to solve the following problem:
As you know Bob likes to destroy the buildings.
There are N buildings in a city, ith building has ai floors.
Bob can do the following operation.
Choose a ...
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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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USACO Arithmetic Progression
The problem statement:
An arithmetic progression is a sequence of the form a, a+b, a+2b, ..., a+nb where n=0, 1, 2, 3, ... . For this problem, a is a non-negative integer and b is a positive integer.
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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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Cross-classification of imagery from several regions in GEE
For a project I want to do the following:
Use imagery from 17 different regions in Europe to train 17 RF classifiers
Use those 17 classifiers to classify each of the regions
It will be a multi-...
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Reviews a daily fantasy slate to check for duplicate lineups
My code below is used as a back testing tool to review a past Daily Fantasy Sports slate. This code works perfectly but when the contest size (total entrants) gets up to the 30,000 range it takes ...
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USACO Silver "Wormhole Sort" solver
I'm struggling a bit with a USACO silver question using python, http://usaco.org/index.php?page=viewproblem2&cpid=992.
The question provides an unsorted list of numbers (cows) and a number of ...
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Wildcard Matching: LeetCode 44
Follow up post
Link to question:
Given an input string (s) and a pattern (p), implement wildcard pattern matching with support for '?' and '*' where:
'?' Matches any single character.
'*' Matches ...
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Dijkstra's Algorithm + an additional cost to start at each node
I am trying to solve the 2009 Canadian Computing Competition Senior #4. The question gives you a map (graph) of different cities, and the cost of transporting something between each city. There are ...
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sum of intervals kata in codewars
instructions for the kata:
Write a function called sumIntervals/sum_intervals() that accepts an array of intervals, and returns the sum of all the interval lengths. Overlapping intervals should only ...
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Find numbers whose product equals the sum of the rest of the range
Instructions for the 'is my friend cheating' kata in codewars are:
A friend of mine takes the sequence of all numbers from 1 to n (where n > 0).
Within that sequence, he chooses two numbers, a and ...
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Effective encoding-decoding chain determination (time optimization)
Could you please help with speeding-up this code?
Input: UTF-8 text (encoded 1-3 times from known pool of encodings). Every time was encoded and decoded by random encoding from pool. Original was koi8-...
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Code compares Columns "A" of two workbooks and copies different information to destination workbook with entire selected row. LastRow count slows code
Code explanation:
I have a code, which performs two tasks -
To open two workbooks, one being extract info and one destination and it compares the column A with Column A of these workbooks and all ...
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Find numbers whose factors, when squared, sum to a perfect square
I need help optimizing my Python code for CodeWars Integers: Recreation One Kata.
We are given a range of numbers and we have to return the number and the sum of the divisors squared that is a square ...
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LeetCode Daily Problem: Remove adjacent duplicated elements
I was doing an exercise from LeetCode in which consisted in repeatedly deleting any adjacent pairs of duplicate elements from a string, until there are only unique characters adjacent to each other.
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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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Print the count of input numbers less than each of mutiple values "q"
I was solving a question in a competition I joined that asked for a program that calculates how many numbers are less than \$q\$. I solved the question but didn't get the full mark because the code ...
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Making my DP algorithm faster - longest palindromic substring
The following code is my solution to a LeetCode question - find the longest palindromic substring. My code is 100% correct, it passed once but it took too long, and in most of the reruns I hit a "...
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HackerEarth challenge: Lunch boxes
I was solving the lunch boxes problem on HackerEarth but as I submitted my solution most of the test cases were passed and the rest showed 'Time Limit Exceeded'. I would be very grateful if you could ...
