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Thanks for the question. We can solve it as the following:
Assume the following matrix:
1, 1, D, D, D, D
1, 1, D, D, D, D
1, 1, 1, D, D, D
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, D
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, D
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

If you look at this matrix, you will see the tric here, for each row, we just need to check from the end position of '1' in the previous row.
Here in this example,
the end position of each row is 1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5.
the end position is a non-decreasing sequence. So we end up checking from 1 - n. Then the runtime is O(n).

- ravio September 21, 2014 | Flag Reply
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Thank you. Can you write the pseudocode if possible.

- inevitablekris September 22, 2014 | Flag
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in the example you have taken number of 1's in row i is less than the number in row i+1, while the question says otherwise.
just pointing this out..it will not have much have on the answer though ( just reversing the loop condition)

- prateek September 23, 2014 | Flag
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what if the matrix is like this?
1 1 1 1 0 0
1 1 1 0 0 0
...

- lric January 14, 2021 | Flag
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count_ones(A, n):
	b = 0
	for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
		if (A[n - 1][i] != '1') break
		++b

	c = b
	for (j = n - 2; j >= 0; --j)
		c += b
		for (i = b; i < n; ++i)
			if (A[j][i] != '1') break
			++b
			++c
	return c

- Anonymous September 22, 2014 | Flag Reply
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This will give O(n^2) i want it in O(n)

- inevitablekris September 22, 2014 | Flag
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This is O(n). The top for-loop will run n times to count the number of 1's in the n-1 row. The bottom for-loops will run from rows n-2 to 0 counting the 1's in those rows. However, the inner-loop will only count from b to n, where b is the number of 1's in the row below it. The worst case is when the number of 1's from n-1 to 0 increase by just one per row, forcing two comparisons per row (one for the new '1', and another for the 'D' next to it). The number of comparisons made can be represented by the relation, T(n) = T(n -1) + 2. The 2 is from two comparison.
T(n) = T(n - 1) + 2
T(n - 1) = T(n - 2) + 2
T(n - 2) = T(n - 3) + 2
-------------------------------
T(n - 1) = [T(n - 3) + 2] + 2 = T(n - 3) + 4
T(n) = [T(n - 3) + 4] + 2 = T(n - 3) + 6
T(n) = T(n - i) + 2i
T(1) = 1, since one element will only require one comparison
for i = n - 1,
T(n) = T(n - (n - 1)) + 2(n - 1) = T(1) + 2n - 2 = 1 + 2n -2 = 2n - 1 = O(n)
So, O(n) + O(n) = O(n)

- Anonymous September 22, 2014 | Flag
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You should observe that the number of comparisons (in the stated worst case) will be two (the new '1' in the current row plus the following 'D') per row. That is O(2 * n), where n is the number of rows.

- Andrew H September 22, 2014 | Flag
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what will happened in this situation ?

1, 1, D, D, D, D
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, D
1, 1, 1, D, D, D
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, D
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, D
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

- Guest September 22, 2014 | Flag Reply
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That can't happen due to "number of 1's in row i is at least the number in row i+ 1"

- Anonymous September 22, 2014 | Flag
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Thanks for clearing my doubt...

- Guest September 22, 2014 | Flag
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Or, more succinctly:

count_ones(A, n):
	b = 0
	c = 0
	for (j = n - 1; j >= 0; --j)
		c += b
		for (i = b; i < n; ++i)
			if (A[j][i] != '1') break
			++b
			++c
	return c

- Andrew H September 22, 2014 | Flag Reply
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int countones(int arr[][], int n) {
    int prev = 0;
    int count = 0;
    for (int i = n-1; i > =0 ; i++) {
        num+=prev;
        for (int j = prev - 1; j < n; j++) {
            if (arr[i][j]) {
                num++;
                prev++;
            } else break;
       }
   }

- iwanna September 22, 2014 | Flag Reply
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This will give O(n^2) i want it in O(n)

- inevitablekris September 22, 2014 | Flag
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{int count_ones(A, n)
{
	int num = 0, j=0;
	for(i=n-1;i>=0;i++)
	{
		while(A[i][j] != 'D')
			j++;
		j--;
		num += j;
	}
	return num;

}

- prateek September 23, 2014 | Flag Reply
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int count = 0;
int column = 0;

for (int row = arr.length - 1; row > 0; row--) {
while (column <= arr.length - 1 && arr[row][column] == 1) {
count = count + row + 1;
column = column + 1;
}
}

- inevitablekris September 23, 2014 | Flag Reply
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This is o(n).

- inevitablekris September 23, 2014 | Flag
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public int count1s(char[][] arr){
  int tot = 0;
  int pos = 0;
  for(char[] row : arr){
    while(pos < row.length && row[pos] == '1'){
      pos++;
    }
    tot += pos;
  }
  return tot;
}

- zortlord October 03, 2014 | Flag Reply
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public int countingOnes(int[][] ones){
int size = ones.length();
int counter = 0;
for(int i=0;i<size;i++){
	//check for the last row because that will have max number of ones.
	if(ones[size-1][i]!='1') break;
	
	counter++;
}
	int t = counter;
	int j=n-2;
	while(j>=0){
	if(ones[j][b]!='1') break;
	b++;
	j++;
}
	}

}

- miniangel October 04, 2014 | Flag Reply
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Sorry there are 2 typos:
1. There is an extra } at the end. 2. it should be j--. It works perfectly then, giving O(n)

- miniangel October 04, 2014 | Flag
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what is b in there?

- big3 December 01, 2020 | Flag
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clarification needed about b

- big3 December 01, 2020 | Flag
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GIVEN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAY WITH VALUES SHOWN
40 1 3 270 21
6 73 44 10 5
72 127 99 82 72
WRITE A PROGRAM THAT OUTPUTS THE SMALLEST NUMBER IN EACH ROW

- Anonymous March 22, 2015 | Flag Reply
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count_ones(A) { |MAX Times|
[row,col] = size(A); | 1 time | // Get rows and columns of Array A
result = 0; | 1 time |
i = 1 ; j = 1; | 1 time | // First element A(1,1)
for(i=1; i<=row; i++){ | N times |
while( A(i,j) != 0) |col times|
j++; |col times|
result += j; | N times |
j = 0; | N times |
}
return result; | 1 time |
}

- Lasithiotakis March 25, 2017 | Flag Reply
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count_ones(A){			   |MAX Times|
    [row,col] = size(A);             	   | 1 time  |       // Get rows and columns of Array A
    result = 0;			   | 1 time  |
    i = 1 ; j = 1;		         	   | 1 time  |	  // First element A(1,1)
    for(i=1; i<=row; i++){	       	   | N times |
	while( A(i,j) != 0)      	   |col times|
	    j++;                   	   |col times|
	result += j;		   | N times |
	j = 0;			   | N times |
    }
    return result;		             | 1 time  |
}

- Anonymous March 25, 2017 | Flag Reply


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