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Flipkart Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Country: India
Interview Type: Phone Interview
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Perform Inorder traversal of binary tree and then Inversion Count on the formed array.
The inversion count will be the minimum number of swaps required to bring the array in ascending order which is inorder of BST.

- csemanoj May 19, 2014 | Flag Reply
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Assuming, swapping is restricted to adjacent node only.

- csemanoj May 19, 2014 | Flag
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@csemanoj: That wouldn't be the condition that would make this solution right. Adjacent nodes in a BST are not always in-order successors, and not all in-order successors are adjacent. To make inversion counting correct, you'd have to have a condition that says you can only swap in-order successors, but that seems very contrived.

- eugene.yarovoi May 20, 2014 | Flag
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Inorder traversal and Inversion count is the right
answer !!

But assuming to swap only adjacent nodes may not be a good.

Simply improvise the inversion count algorithm to do a divide and conquer approach with a midpoint for the inorder array and figure out all the swaps required not just adjacent.

- P.D May 19, 2014 | Flag Reply


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