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MY02 - Play with Strings |
All you have to do is implement the following algorithm, which is a very popular compression technique.
- You are given an input string A. (For example ababc)
- Find all the rotations of A (In this case, they are ababc, babca, abcab, bcaba, cabab)
- Now sort them (After sorting, we have ababc, abcab, babca, bcaba, cabab)
- Then arrange them as follows:
- ababc
- abcab
- babca
- bcaba
- cabab
- Now pick out the last column. It is ‘cbaab’. This is the result of this algorithm.
- Also observe that the 1st row has the original string. (Use 1 indexing)
Now, for this problem, you are given the output and the row number that has the original string. For the above example, it is ‘cbaab’ and 1.
Given these 2 parameters, you just need to decode it. (i.e. find the original string.)
Input:
Each test case has 2 lines.
1st line – An integer R that represents the row that contains the original string.
2nd line - A string that represents the output of the above algorithm. (Length of string <=2000) (All characters are lower case).
The input is terminated with R=-1.
Output:
The original string.
Sample
Input 1 cbaab 3 mnoag -1 Output ababc mango
Added by: | n.7n |
Date: | 2013-10-11 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 |
Resource: | Wikipedia |
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2019-05-09 20:21:11 cegprakash
How many test cases? n^2 log n times out Last edit: 2019-05-09 20:59:47 |
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2016-02-06 14:47:01 topke
@n.7n: Is R always <= 2000 and the is that also correct for string? Im getting bunch of SIGSEGV and i don't whats wrong, can you take a look? Yea nothing seems to be working out more SIGSEGV idk why Last edit: 2016-02-06 14:58:49 |
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2014-02-22 15:16:36 Krishna Nakkeeran
My 75th in spoj..... |
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2014-02-22 15:16:36 n.7n
Re :D Agreed . And thanks for your observation :) Last edit: 2013-11-13 15:29:11 |
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2014-02-22 15:16:36 :D
Re: abdou 00 I think you can assume test data describes valid encodings. Re: narayanan I'm with Alex on this one. I don't really care what wiki says. It's exactly 0% compression ratio every time. It's encoding (very weak) not compression. Problems itself is very good though. |
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2014-02-22 15:16:36 abdou_93
@~ .. this is valid case 1 abcd ? |
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2014-02-22 15:16:36 n.7n
@Alex Anderson: U shall refer the wiki link. Last edit: 2013-10-22 20:57:22 |
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2014-02-22 15:16:36 Alex Anderson
Hmm, well, I wouldn't call this compression. Last edit: 2013-10-22 20:56:29 |