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Leetcode: Largest Number
I was trying out leetcode's Largest Number.
As per the challenge's description:
Given a list of non-negative integers nums, arrange them such that
they form the largest number and return it. Since ...
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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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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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Determine top t values with few calls to order(), a given procedure to order k values, Java take 2
My 2nd take of the problem in Determine top t values with few calls to order(), a given procedure to order k values:
Given an array and a procedure to order \$k\$ ...
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Determine top t values with few calls to order(), a given procedure to order k values
I tried to write a decent answer to Most efficient way to get the largest 3 elements of an array using no comparisons but a procedure for ordering 5 elements descendantly.
I could not come up with ...
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HackerRank "Digit sum" challenge
Here's the question:
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Recursive palindrome check
I'm trying to solve this which basically calls for a recursive palindrome check with some minor extra steps (Special characters and whitespace can be ignored). The test inputs' length can be 100000 ...
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An evolutionary algorithm written in Java to crack an XOR cipher
Alright. So TryHackme is a website that tries to teach hacking with hands on labs. They have a room called JVM Reverse Engineering where the user gets to reverse engineer Java apps, and in particular ...
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Coin Change in Java
Inspired by a leetcode exercise, I wrote my own coin changer:
You are given an integer array coins representing coins of different denominations and an integer amount representing a total amount of ...
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Partition List in 2 parts
I came up with the following code while trying to solve the Leetcode partition list problem
Though my solution is accepted, I am not happy with a few of the additional variables which I am creating. ...
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Split word based on terms from an array
I was faced with a coding challenge and I'm looking for a more elegant way to achieve the goal.
The challenge
Take the word baseball from the first item in the string
array and split it into two ...
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Codewars - How many pages in a book?
Problem Statement
Every book has n pages with 1 to n pages. The summary is made by adding ...
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Highly divisible triangular number
Highly divisible triangular number, my solution
My solution of challenge from Project Euler takes too much time to execute. Although on lower numbers it works fine. Anyone could look up to my code and ...
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Coding exercise to implement IsApproximatelyEqual in Java
this assignment was given to me within the job application process (well, really not much infos given):
for our applikation we have to compare very often floating point numbers (double, float). Can ...
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Finding the minimum element of a stack of numbers
As part of an online programming challenge, I wrote a program that implements a stack of integers, supporting adding and removing elements, finding the last inserted element, and the minimum element. ...