Vasya has a string s of length n consisting only of digits 0 and 1. Also he has an array a of length n.
Vasya performs the following operation until the string becomes empty: choose some consecutive substring of equal characters, erase it from the string and glue together the remaining parts (any of them can be empty). For example, if he erases substring 111 from string 111110 he will get the string 110. Vasya gets ax points for erasing substring of length x.
Vasya wants to maximize his total points, so help him with this!
https://codeforces.com/problemset/problem/1107/E
i was trying to get my head around the editorial,but couldn't understand it... can anyone tell an easy way to do it?
input:
7
1101001
3 4 9 100 1 2 3
output:
109
Explanation
the optimal sequence of erasings is: 1101001 → 111001 → 11101 → 1111 → ∅.
Here, we consider removing prefixes instead of substrings. Why?
We try to remove a consecutive prefix of a particular state which is actually a substring in the main string. So, our DP states will be start index, end index, prefix length.
Let's consider an example str = "1010110". Here, initially start=0, end=7, and prefix=1(the first '1' will be the only prefix now). we iterate over all the indices in the current state except the starting index and check if str[i]==str[start]. Here, for example, str[4]==str[0]. Now we divide the string into "010" with prefix=1(010) && "110" with prefix=2(1010110). These two are now two individual subproblems. So, when there remains a string with length 1, we return aprefix.
Here is my code.
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This is my first post here so please be patient with me.
I am stuck on a problem and don't know what to do. I am given a
non-overlapping substring of length 'm' that appears twice in a string of length 'n'. What is the probability of finding the substring of length 'm' in both that string and another string of length '2n'?
For argument's sake let's say that m = 4 and n = 33. I have tried to use Independent Event probability as well as Markov Chain Models, but my answer never seems to be correct.
What would be the chance that the same 2 non-overlapping substrings of length 4 that are found in the string of length 33 will be found in a string of length 66?
If I have strings that I know have no more than 2 distinct characters,
example set:
aab
abbbbabb
bbbaa
aaaaaaa
aaaa
abab
a
aa
aaaaa
aaabba
aabbbab
What's the most efficient way to put them into alphabetical order?
the resulting sorted set:
a
aa
aaaa
aaaaa
aaaaaaa
aaabba
aab
aabbbab
abab
abbbbabb
bbbaa
edit:
I know I could just use a normal sorting algorithm (quick sort, merge sort), but the question is: Does the fact that there are not more than 2 distinct characters make something else more efficient?
If the maximum length of the string matters, I would like to know the answer for 2 different scenarios:
maximum length of the string is the same as the number of strings (n strings being sorted, n maximum length of the string)
maximum length of the string is log n, with n as the number of strings being sorted
I can also assume that all of the strings are distinct.
The String compareTo or compareToIgnoresCase method will return a negative integer, 0, or a polsitive integer depending on the alphabetical ordering of the two Strings being compared. Try that.
General sorting algorithm based on comparisons only asymptotically can't achieve results better than O(nlogn). In your case there is an additional information (2 distinct chars) which has a potential of improving this result. A simple approach that will yield a O(n) result:
Check the first character (let's mark it x).
Scan the string till the end
whenever x is encountered increase a counter.
when encountered the non-x character (let's mark it y) for the first time store it in a dedicated variable
Compare x and y.
if x < y fill the string from the beginning with x's according to the counter and the rest with y
if x > y fill the string from the beginning with y's string length-num of x's slots and the rest with x's.
Deterministic automata to find number of subsequences in string ?
How can I construct a DFA to find number of occurence string as a subsequence in another string?
eg. In "ssstttrrriiinnngggg" we have 3 subsequences which form string "string" ?
also both string to be found and to be searched only contain characters from specific character Set .
I have some idea about storing characters in stack poping them accordingly till we match , if dont match push again .
Please tell DFA solution ?
OVERLAPPING MATCHES
If you wish to count the number of overlapping sequences then you simply construct a DFA that matches the string, e.g.
1 -(if see s)-> 2 -(if see t)-> 3 -(if see r)-> 4 -(if see i)-> 5 -(if see n)-> 6 -(if see g)-> 7
and then compute the number of ways of being in each state after seeing each character using dynamic programming. See the answers to this question for more details.
DP[a][b] = number of ways of being in state b after seeing the first a characters
= DP[a-1][b] + DP[a-1][b-1] if character at position a is the one needed to take state b-1 to b
= DP[a-1][b] otherwise
Start with DP[0][b]=0 for b>1 and DP[0][1]=1.
Then the total number of overlapping strings is DP[len(string)][7]
NON-OVERLAPPING MATCHES
If you are counting the number of non-overlapping sequences, then if we assume that the characters in the pattern to be matched are distinct, we can use a slight modification:
DP[a][b] = number of strings being in state b after seeing the first a characters
= DP[a-1][b] + 1 if character at position a is the one needed to take state b-1 to b and DP[a-1][b-1]>0
= DP[a-1][b] - 1 if character at position a is the one needed to take state b to b+1 and DP[a-1][b]>0
= DP[a-1][b] otherwise
Start with DP[0][b]=0 for b>1 and DP[0][1]=infinity.
Then the total number of non-overlapping strings is DP[len(string)][7]
This approach will not necessarily give the correct answer if the pattern to be matched contains repeated characters (e.g. 'strings').
I've been reading the Wikipedia article about the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm and I'm confused about how the values are found in the jump/partial match table.
i | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
W[i] | A B C D A B D
T[i] | -1 0 0 0 0 1 2
If someone can more clearly explain the shortcut rule because the sentence
"let us say that we discovered a proper suffix which is a proper prefix and ending at W[2] with length 2 (the maximum possible)"
is confusing. If the proper suffix ends at W[2] wouldn't it be size of 3?
Also I'm wondering why T[4] isn't 1 when there is a prefix and suffix of size 1: The A.
Thanks for any help that can be offered.
Notice that the failure function T[i] does not use i as an index, but rather as a length. Therefore, T[2] represents the length of the longest proper border (a string that is both a prefix and suffix) of the string formed from the first two characters of W, rather than the longest proper border formed by the string ending at character 2. This is why the maximum possible value of T[2] is 2 rather than 3 - the substring formed from the first two characters of W can't have length any greater than 2.
Using this interpretation, it's also easier to see why T[4] is 0 rather than 1. The substring of W formed from the first four characters of W is ABCD, which has no proper prefix that is also a proper suffix.
Hope this helps!
"let us say that we discovered a proper suffix which is a proper prefix and ending at W[2] with length 2 (the maximum possible)"
Okay, the length can be maximum 2, it's correct, here is why...
One fact: "proper" prefix can't be the whole string , same goes for "proper" suffix(like proper subset)
Lets, W[0]=A W[1]=A W[2]=A , i.e the pattern is "AAA", so, the (max length)proper prefix can be "AA" (left to right) and, the (max length) proper suffix can be "AA" (right to left)
//yes, the prefix and suffix have overlaps (the middle "A")
So, the value would be 2 rather than 3, it would have been 3 only if the prefix was not proper.
Given string s, find the shortest string t, such that, t^m=s.
Examples:
s="aabbb" => t="aabbb"
s="abab" => t = "ab"
How fast can it be done?
Of course naively, for every m divides |s|, I can try if substring(s,0,|s|/m)^m = s.
One can figure out the solution in O(d(|s|)n) time, where d(x) is the number of divisors of s. Can it be done more efficiently?
This is the problem of computing the period of a string. Knuth, Morris and Pratt's sequential string matching algorithm is a good place to get started. This is in a paper entitled "Fast Pattern Matching in Strings" from 1977.
If you want to get fancy with it, then check out the paper "Finding All Periods and Initial Palindromes of a String in Parallel" by Breslauer and Galil in 1991. From their abstract:
An optimal O(log log n) time CRCW-PRAM algorithm for computing all
periods of a string is presented. Previous parallel algorithms compute
the period only if it is shorter than half of the length of the
string. This algorithm can be used to find all initial palindromes of
a string in the same time and processor bounds. Both algorithms are
the fastest possible over a general alphabet. We derive a lower bound
for finding palindromes by a modification of a previously known lower
bound for finding the period of a string [3]. When p processors are
available the bounds become \Theta(d n p e + log log d1+p=ne 2p).
I really like this thing called the z-algorithm: http://www.utdallas.edu/~besp/demo/John2010/z-algorithm.htm
For every position it calculates the longest substring starting from there, that is also a prefix of the whole string. (in linear time of course).
a a b c a a b x a a a z
1 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 2 1 0
Given this "z-table" it is easy to find all strings that can be exponentiated to the whole thing. Just check for all positions if pos+z[pos] = n.
In our case:
a b a b
0 2 0
Here pos = 2 gives you 2+z[2] = 4 = n hence the shortest string you can use is the one of length 2.
This will even allow you to find cases where only a prefix of the exponentiated string matches, like:
a b c a
0 0 1
Here (abc)^2 can be cut down to your original string. But of course, if you don't want matches like this, just go over the divisors only.
Yes you can do it in O(|s|) time.
You can search for a "target" string of length n in a "source" string of length m in O(n+m) time. Build a solution based on that.
Let both source and target be s. An additional constraint is that 1 and any positions in the source that do not divide |s| are not valid starting positions for the match. Of course the search per se will always fail. But if there's a partial match and you have reached the end of the sourse string, then you have a solution to the original problem.
a modification to Boyer-Moore could possibly handle this in O(n) where n is length of s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string_search_algorithm