Fastest-algorithm competitions are won by the answer with the smallest asymptotic time complexity. For challenges based on actual runtime, use [tag:fastest-code] instead.
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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 non-negative integer that can be obtained by additions and subtractions ...
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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 for either "0" or "1" in every ...
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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 associative if the order of operations ...
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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, not log2.
The range of valid ...
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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 ...
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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
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
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.
For ...
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Mr. Moneybag's Money Piles
Mr. Moneybags is a very rich man. He has an assistant Mr. Perfect, who one day, got very mad, and shredded some of Mr. Moneybag’s $100 bills! Mr. Moneybags decided to punish Mr. Perfect.
Mr. ...
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Racketeer Taxi Driver
The Scenario
You are a taxi driver in your city. You picked up a passenger from the airport and he told you the place he'd like to go.
To earn more money, you need to drive as much as you can. ...
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Autoscale complex function
Context: We are working on a complex image drawing program to produce mugs, t-shirts, and so on. Here is an example of such function
However, we are facing the following problem: Random generated ...
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Count the Zeros
For a given n, count the total number of zeros in the decimal representation of the positive integers less than or equal to n. For instance, there are 11 zeros in the decimal representations of the ...
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Count the number of cyclic words in an input
Cyclic Words
Problem Statement
We can think of a cyclic word as a word written in a circle. To
represent a cyclic word, we choose an arbitrary starting position and
read the characters in ...
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Tricky Median Question
Given n points, choose a point in the given list such that the sum of distances to this point is minimum ,compared to all others.
Distance is measured in the following manner.
For a point (x,y) all ...
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Code-Challenge:The Nearest Prime
Challenge
In this task you would be given an
integer N you have to output the
nearest prime to the integer.
If the number is prime itself output the number.
The input N is given in a single ...
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Code-Challenge: Farey sequence (II)
Challenge
In this task you would be given an integer N
(less than 10^6), output the number of terms in the Farey
sequence of order N.
The input N is given in a single line,the inputs are ...
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Free a Binary Tree
So before you read some basic computer science concepts.
A binary tree is a dynamically allocated structure (usually used for ordered storage).
Because of its nature traversal of binary trees is ...
