unknown Interview Question for Applications Developers


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This solution is similar to the first example. If you advance a fast pointer twice as often as you advance a slow pointer, you'll find the middle element when the pointer reaches the end. The way I wrote this code assumes that when the length of the list happens to be even, we return length / 2 - 1.

private static Node getMiddleElement(Node head) {
	Node slowCurrent = head;
	Node fastCurrent = head;

	while (fastCurrent != null && fastCurrent.next != null && fastCurrent.next.next != null) {
		fastCurrent = fastCurrent.next.next;
		slowCurrent = slowCurrent.next;
	}

	return slowCurrent;
}

- Chris December 10, 2015 | Flag Reply
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What's the reason of condition inside while loop ? Can't it be done only with this condition
while(fastCurrent.next!=null){
}

- anil.jaguri009 January 19, 2016 | Flag
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initialize two pointers to the head, iterate "slow" pointer by 1 and "fast" pointer by 2. When the fast pointer reaches the end, the "slow" pointer is at mid.

- anderskev December 10, 2015 | Flag Reply
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Node* first=root;
Node* second=root;
Node* prev=null;
while(second.link!=null){
prev=first;
first=first.link;
second=second.link;
if(second.link!=null)
second=second.link;
else{
printf(prev);//printing middle two nodes for even number of nodes present
printf(first);

}

}
printf(first);// printing middle node for odd number of nodes in list

- anudeepreddy December 10, 2015 | Flag Reply
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private static Node getMiddleElement(Node head) {
	Node slowCurrent = head;
	Node fastCurrent = head;

	while (fastCurrent != null && fastCurrent.next != null && fastCurrent.next.next != null) {
		fastCurrent = fastCurrent.next.next;
		slowCurrent = slowCurrent.next;
	}

	return slowCurrent;
}

- Chris December 10, 2015 | Flag Reply
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private static Node getMiddleElement(Node head) {
	Node slowCurrent = head;
	Node fastCurrent = head;

	while (fastCurrent != null && fastCurrent.next != null && fastCurrent.next.next != null) {
		fastCurrent = fastCurrent.next.next;
		slowCurrent = slowCurrent.next;
	}

	return slowCurrent;
}

- Chris Murphy December 10, 2015 | Flag Reply
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Really sorry about the duplicate posts. The page wasn't reloading...

- Chris December 10, 2015 | Flag Reply
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just delete the duplicate answers, careercup allows to do that.

- zr.roman December 10, 2015 | Flag
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Node* findMiddleNode(Node* start)
{
if(start)
{

Node* ptr1 = start;
Node* ptr2 = start;
while( ptr2->next != NULL)
{
ptr1 = ptr1->next;
ptr2 = ptr2->next->next;
}
return ptr1;
}
else
{
return NULL;
}
}

- Rajarathinam Antony December 10, 2015 | Flag Reply
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void middlenode(struct node *root)
{
struct node *p,*ptr;
int count1,count2;
count1=0;
count2=0;

root=root->next;
for(ptr=root;ptr;ptr=ptr->next)
{
p=ptr;
count1++;
count2=0;
while(p->next)
{
p=p->next;
count2++;
}

if(count2==count1)
{
printf("MIDDLE NODE IS %d",ptr->info);
break;
}

if(count1>count2)
{
printf("NO MIDDLE NODE IS EXISTING");
break;
}

}

}

- mithleshtechno December 15, 2015 | Flag Reply
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public V getMiddleElement(){
		Node<V> fast= firstNode;
		Node<V> slow = firstNode;
		
		while(fast!=null && fast.next != null){
			fast= fast.next.next;
			slow = slow.next;
		}
		return slow.value;
	}

- Rambrij Chauhan May 01, 2016 | Flag Reply


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