Dynamic programming is an algorithmic technique for efficiently solving problems with a recursive structure containing many overlapping subproblems.

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Optimizing a dynamic programming solution for “Oil Well”

I'm trying to solve the Oil Well problem on Hackerrank using dynamic programming and it works. However, it times out for some of the test cases. I wanted to know how this program can be improved so ...
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Coin problem through brute force

I have some code that will brute force solve the following problem: Given a set of x coins and a target sum to reach, what is the fewest number of coins required to reach that target? The code ...
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Project Euler #14 — longest Collatz sequence

I was reading this question and realized that I didn't know Python well enough to critique the algorithm. So I wrote a Java solution instead, which is inappropriate for that question. Since there's ...
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Find Minimum Number of coins [duplicate]

Can anyone please check the solution below to find the minimum no. of coins to make up the given sum from the list of the denomination of coins. I used the greedy approach with recursion. Actually I ...
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Calculate possible balances in piggy-bank by weight

I have solved Piggy-Bank problem on SPOJ using dynamic programming. The question asks you to get the minimum value that is possible with given weight (\$w\$) and one or more coins (\$n\$) with given ...
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Word break problem with dynamic programming

This is the original question. I have implemented it in both ways. If I enter the word "icecream", should I output "ice" "cream" and also "icecream", or just "ice" and "cream"? Is this a good ...
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Memoization for calculating minimal traversal distance within a positive matrix

The code below is for calculating the minimal traversing distance from the top left point of the matrix to the bottom right point of the matrix. GitHub Here is the core functionality. Please note ...
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Google CodeJam Round D APAC Test

Problem A: Vincenzo decides to make cube IV but only has the budget to make a square maze. Its a perfect maze, every room is in the form of a square and there are 4 doors (1 on each side of the ...
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Dynamic Programming for printing additive numbers up to digits n

Edit: I am hoping to get some review / make sure I am understanding dynamic programming correctly. I am trying to print out all additive numbers up to digits n using dynamic programming. Additive ...
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Longest Common Subsequence and Longest Subsequence Palindrome

The following code computes: The longest common subsequence between two strings, where a subsequence of a sequence does not have to consist of contiguous elements of the sequence. The longest ...
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Handling shared state among a lot of elements in Angular

I am working on a project in Angular where I have a number of similar data objects. When you click on anyone of them it's state and amount of data shown will change. All of the objects start in the ...
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Project Euler 81 (minimum path sum through a matrix)

Problem Statement: In the 5 by 5 matrix below, 131 673 234 103 18 201 96 342 965 150 630 803 746 422 111 537 699 497 121 956 805 732 524 37 331 ...
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Substitution cipher algorithm performance boost

This algorithm is meant to read a string of numbers on an input, a naive substitution cipher code (A = 1, B = 2, ..., Z = 26) and output the number of ways the code could be interpreted (e.g. 25114 ...
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Making operations more dynamic

I am trying to build something that will allow us to configure "custom" validation for each customer. So if a customer wants to see a value contain a specific char, be specific length, or equal ...
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Determining maximum profit to be made from selling shares

Question Your algorithms have become so good at predicting the market that you now know what the share price of Wooden Orange Toothpicks Inc. (WOT) will be for the next \$N\$ days. ...
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Calculating the number of prime numbers to solve the puzzle

How can the following program execution time improved? I have used dynamic programming in both "recursive" as well as "prime" function, but I'm not getting the efficient execution time. There is ...
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Dynamic programming with Fibonacci

I have written the following code using a dynamic programming technique. Can I use ArrayList here? Please let me know if I can improve this code. ...
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Loading Data Warehouse with Dynamic SQL

For a data warehousing project I ran into the following: Custom fields that users can create, modify and delete, that should be loaded into the data warehouse as they are when the ETL happens. On ...
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Determine if subset in int array adds up to a given input integer

Given a set of non-negative integers, and a value sum, determine if there is a subset of the given set with sum equal to given sum. On similar lines, Partition problem is to determine whether a given ...
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The Three-machine proportionate flow shop problem with unequal machine

As part of an Academic project I wrote the following code, according to the algorithm (verbal). When I checked the rest of the article I notice that the efficiency should be \$O(n^2)\$ and I wrote ...
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Dynamic programming with Project Euler #18

I just wanted to get an opinion on my dynamic-programming Haskell implementation of the solution to Project Euler problem 18. The Problem: By starting at the top of the triangle below and moving ...
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Optimizing O(m n) solution for longest common subsequence challenge

Given two strings string X of length x1 and string Y of length ...
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Three-machine proportionate flow shop problem with unequal machine

As part of an academic project I wrote a code about dynamic programming that solves the "Three-machine proportionate flow shop problem with unequal machine". In flow shop scheduling it is usually ...
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Optimizing “Herd Sums” problem using dynamic programming

I'm trying to solve a practice problem and all is well except for the last 2 inputs my solution is too slow. Just one loop is slowing it down I think. Herd Sums Execution Time Limit: 2 ...
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How to optimize this loop by using dynamic programming [duplicate]

I'm trying to solve a practice problem and all is well except for the last 2 inputs my solution is too slow. Just one loop is slowing it down I think. Problem: Full Solution: ...
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Finding alternating sequence in a list of numbers

Please be brutal and treat this as me coding this up for an interview. A sequence of numbers is called a zig-zag sequence if the differences between successive numbers strictly alternate between ...
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Assembly line scheduling

This is solution to the assembly line problem. Here is complete description, which is too big and verbose to re-describe. I apologize for the inconvenience of the hyperlink. Note: I do understand ...
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Knapsack 01 solution

Solution to bounded knapsack 01 problem. Once again comprehensive description is difficult in this space, refer here. Looking for code review. optimizations and best practices. ...
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Returning all the LIS of given array of int

I have this assignment where I'm supposed to code an algorithm for finding the quantity of Longest Increasing Subsequences from an array of (different) integers and print them all. I developed one ...
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MaxSum sub matrix within a matrix

Code review for best practices, optimizations, code cleanup etc. Also requesting verification of the complexity: O(row*row*col). ...
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Box-stacking problem in C++

I have tried to write code of Box stacking problem (mentioned here) in C++ . Kindly give me some views on what mistakes I might have made and how I can improve. It is running for the two inputs I have ...
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Project Euler #82 - path sum: three ways

Project Euler problem 82 asks: Here's my solution: ...
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Jump game in Java

Looking for code review, suggestions for improvement, best practices etc. The problem definiton is Jump Game Given an array start from the first element and reach the last by jumping. The ...