Bloomberg LP Interview Question for Financial Software Developers






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@loop in linked list
------------------
take 2 pointers p,q
p=q=head;
do
p=p->next->next;
q=q->next;
while p!=q or p!=null
if p==q
loop exists
else
no loop

the faster pointer p meets q if there is a loop

- Ishwar4frendz August 24, 2008 | Flag Reply
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Another way of doing it would be to use a hashmap.
Iterate through every node in the linked list:
Check if the address of node already exists in the hashmap?
If it does, then there is a loop.
Else
If it does not exist, put the address of the nodein the hashmap.

- spol September 26, 2008 | Flag Reply
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Data Structures I remember
- Primitive DS
- Array
- Stack
- Queue
- Heap
- Binary Tree
- Multiway tree
- Hash Table
- Map
- Multiset
- Bitmap
- Suffix tree
- Adjacency List
- Adjacency matrix
- Skip list
- Deque

- Ankush Bindlish October 24, 2008 | Flag Reply
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Any good pointers to suffix trees ?
thanks,

- acoader November 03, 2008 | Flag
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http://allisons.org/ll/AlgDS/Tree/Suffix/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_tree

- redroof November 05, 2008 | Flag
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thanks!

- acoader November 12, 2008 | Flag
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Great solution to the loop detection, Ishwar4frendz. Thanks!

- TimeVision December 01, 2008 | Flag Reply


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