Showing posts with label Algo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Algo. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2015

Minimum No. of Jumps

Given an array of non-negative integers, you are initially positioned at the first index of the array.
Each element in the array represents your maximum jump length at that position.
Your goal is to reach the last index in the minimum number of jumps.
Example :
Given array A = [2,3,1,1,4]
The minimum number of jumps to reach the last index is 2. (Jump 1 step from index 0 to 1, then 3 steps to the last index.)
If it is not possible to reach the end index, return -1.

 Follow this link to read a O(n^2) solution GeeksforGeeks: Minimum number of jumps

Read my O(n) solution below

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Maximum Product Subarray

One of the standard dp problems, the approach given below is similar to kadane algorithm for maximum subarray sum problem. The code given below fails when negative output is the max possible. For example the input

Input : -4


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