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Cracking the coding interview--Q19.10

题目原文： Write a method to generate a random number between 1 and 7, given a method that generates a random number between 1 and 5 (i.e., implement rand7() using rand5()). 译文：给你一个能生成1到5随机数的函数，...

Hawstein | February 23, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q19.8

题目原文： Design a method to find the frequency of occurrences of any given word in a book. 译文：设计一个函数，找到给定单词在一本书中的出现次数。解答这道题目和19.2是一个思路。如果只需要查询一次，那就直接做；如果要多次查询，而且要查询各种不同的单词，那就先预处理一遍，接下来就只需...

Hawstein | February 22, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q19.7

题目原文： You are given an array of integers (both positive and negative). Find the continuous sequence with the largest sum. Return the sum. EXAMPLE Input: {2, -8, 3, -2, 4, -10} Output: 5 (i.e...

Hawstein | February 22, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q19.5

题目原文： The Game of Master Mind is played as follows: The computer has four slots containing balls that are red (R ), yellow (Y), green (G) or blue (B). For example, the computer might have RGG...

Hawstein | February 21, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q19.4

题目原文： Write a method which finds the maximum of two numbers. You should not use if-else or any other comparison operator. EXAMPLE Input: 5, 10 Output: 10 译文：写一个函数返回两个数中的较大者，你不能使用if-else及任...

Hawstein | February 21, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q19.3

题目原文： Write an algorithm which computes the number of trailing zeros in n factorial. 译文：写一个算法计算n的阶乘末尾0的个数。解答首先，算出n的阶乘的结果再去计算末尾有多少个0这种方法是不可取的，因为n的阶乘是一个非常大的数，分分种就会溢出。我们应当去分析，是什么使n的阶乘结果末尾...

Hawstein | February 20, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q19.2

题目原文： Design an algorithm to figure out if someone has won in a game of tic-tac-toe. 译文：设计算法检查某人是否赢得了井字游戏。解答假设这个检查某人是否赢得了井字游戏的函数为HasWon，那么我们第一步要向面试官确认，这个函数是只调用一次，还是要多次频繁调用。如果是多次调用，我们可以...

Hawstein | February 20, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q19.1

题目原文： Write a function to swap a number in place without temporary variables. 译文：写一个函数交换两个数，不能使用临时变量。解答交换函数swap是经常用到的函数，小巧简单，以下两种实现方式都不需要使用临时变量： 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 // 实现1 void sw...

Hawstein | February 20, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q18.5

题目原文： Suppose we have the following code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 class Foo{ public: A(.....); /*If A is called, a new thread will be created and the corresponding function will be execute...

Hawstein | February 19, 2013

Cracking the coding interview--Q18.3

题目原文： Implement a singleton design pattern as a template such that, for any given class Foo, you can call Singleton::instance() and get a pointer to an instance of a singleton of type Foo. Ass...

Hawstein | February 19, 2013