When you are asked to design the data structures for social network, normally the answer is graph. In the graph, We can use DFS or BFS to find the connections between people. Alternatively, we can also use Union find to group the people by their connections. Here we provide solutions …
When we have number of sets, and need to group them into joint and disjoint-sets, union–find is the algorithm to go. This question is one step further, we need to find least common set with union find. What is union find? Union-find is to stores data in non-overlapping sets (ie …
Google provides a powerful spell correct for validating the keywords we type into the input text box. It checks against a dictionary. If it doesn’t find the keyword in the dictionary, it suggests a most likely replacement. To do this it associates with every word in the dictionary a frequency, …
Depth first search (DFS) is an algorithm to traverse each element in the data structure. It starts from the source node, which can be root of the tree, or the start of the string, or a cell in matrix. We visit its adjacent node (or children) down the path before …
Monarchy succession order is also known as The line of succession to the British throne. The succession to the British throne is determined by descent, sex, legitimacy, and religion. Under common law, the Crown is inherited by a sovereign’s children or by a childless sovereign’s nearest collateral line. The basis …
A graph is a data structure that consists of a set of vertices (aka nodes) connected by edges. A graph is cyclic if the graph comprises a path that starts from a vertex and ends at the same vertex. A tree is a simple graph with no cycle. In theory, …
Build hierarchy tree reads employee data and build a corporation hierarchy tree from the list. HashMap plays important role to store the data when reading the input. The trick of this question is to find the root. You can get the root by finding the employee without the manager. Starting …
What is Dijkstra’s algorithm? Dijkstra’s algorithm is an algorithm to find the shortest paths between vertices in a graph. It uses greedy technique by picking the un-visited vertex with the lowest distance. When all vertices have been evaluated, the result is the shortest path. Find 2nd shortest path is a …
Autocomplete is a feature that search box returns the suggestions based on what you have typed. Autocomplete with trie provides an implementation of auto-complete by using data structure trie. What is trie? A trie is a tree-like data structure in which every node stores a character. After building the trie, …
What is word break? Word break is to divide a string into sub-strings that defined in dictionary. The problem is usually solved with recursion. The time complexity is exponential. Here we introduce word break using memoization. Memoization is one of Dynamic programming(DP) technique. DP is able to solve a complex …
