Questions tagged [palindrome]
Any sequence of units (typically letters or numbers) that are read the same way forward or backward.
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Longest Palindromic Substr [on hold]
I am looking for review on the algo, and want to know the runtime complexity. Variable naming is garbage, I know. This is a Python function to find the longest palindromic substring using a ...
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How do I optimize memoization in order to find longest palindromic substring?
I want to find the longest palindromic substring using dynamic programming in Python3. The strings can be as large as this string.
I have seen other questions on this problem that successfully solve ...
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longest palindrome code in C# takes time out on LeetCode
I like to request a review of the code below, which is my attempt at answering the question at here on LeetCode site. The code passes 43 tests, but it times out on the next one. I copied and ran the ...
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Basic Palindrome check comparing chars
I've seen variations of this assignment where you reverse a string to match it to the original to find out if it is a palindrome, but this version I made only iterates through half of the string ...
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CTCI Chapter 1 : Palindrome Permutation
Below is my code for the problem 1.4 in CTCI. I would like a review of my code and if my approach to the problem is correct.
Problem Statement:
Palindrome Permutation: Given a string, write a ...
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Project Euler - Problem No.4 - Largest palindrome product
according to the problem:
A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 × 99.
Find the largest palindrome made ...
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Palindrome test
This is some code that determines if a string of characters is a palindrome or not. My professor says that there is a performance issue with the program, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Can ...
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Calculate the largest palindromic number from the product of two 6-digit numbers (100000 to 999999)
Are there any efficient ways to solve this problem,
for example using bitwise operator?
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Palindromic partitions solution
Task
Find the smallest number of cuts required to break a string into a set of valid palindromes.
For example:
ababbbabbababa becomes a|babbbab|b|ababa (cuts = 3)
partytrapb becomes partytrap|b (...
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Palindrome Pairs
The task
is taken from leetcode
Given a list of unique words, find all pairs of distinct indices (i,
j) in the given list, so that the concatenation of the two words, i.e.
words[i] + words[j] ...
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Longest Palindrome Substring: Where is the dynamic programming? [closed]
In this LeetCode problem, Longest Palindromic Substring, it is listed under Dynamic Programming for Google interview preparation. My understanding of dynamic programming is roughly "recursion + ...
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Largest Palindrome Product - Project Euler #4
This is my code for Project Euler Problem #4
The question:
A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 × 99.
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Split string into as few substrings as possible such that each substring is a palindrome
The task
Given a string, split it into as few strings as possible such that
each string is a palindrome.
For example, given the input string racecarannakayak, return
["racecar", "anna", "...
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Why does my function think that “uiouioiu”is a plaindrome? [closed]
I was reading Introduction to Computation and Programming using Python and there in an exercise, we had to write a function which would tell us if a given word is a palindrome or not, recursively.
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Determine whether an integer is a palindrome
The task
Determine whether an integer is a palindrome. An integer is a
palindrome when it reads the same backward as forward.
Example 1:
Input: 121 Output: true
Example 2:
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Return whether a string is a palindrome if you can delete at most k elements
The task:
Given a string which we can delete at most k, return whether you can
make a palindrome.
For example, given 'waterrfetawx' and a k of 2, you could delete f and
x to get '...
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Easy to read palindrome checker
I made a palindrome checker that's supposed to be designed to be simple and easy to read. Please let me know what you think. I believe the time complexity is \$\mathcal{O}(n)\$ but I'm not too sure ...
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Longest Palindromic Substring better approach
I have encountered to this question and applied a brute force algorithm off top of my head and couldn't find a better optimized solution.
I was hoping I could get some insight to implement a better ...
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Check if given integer is a palindrome
This code checks if the given integer is a palindrome. If it is, prints given integer is a palindrome else, not a palindrome:
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Read a palindrome of unknown length
I have a task to write the function:
int read_palindrome(); // input comes from stdin
which will read one line from standard input and returns 1 if the line is a ...
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Find palindromes in circular rotated string
I'm trying to tackle a programming challenge to determine how many palindromes exist in a given string that is being rotated character by character. My solution works, but it's too slow, and I'm ...
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Determining if a string can be permuted to a palindrome
I am going through Elements of Programming Interview by Aziz, Lee and Prakash one of the questions is how to determine if a string can be permuted to a palindrome. For example ...
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Longest Palindromic Substring challenge
My code is a mix-up between dynamic programming with the HashMap and brute force with the way I reach out the results and substring. I don't know how to optimize my ...
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Solve Project Euler #4 in PHP
A palindromic number reads the same both ways.
The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 × 99.
Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit ...
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Find longest Palindrome substring
I am preparing for technical interview and I found this question on geeksforgeeks, but I did not understand their solution. So, I have written my own solution. I want to optimize this code.
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Find the first palindrome larger than the given number
Question
Input number of test cases.
Input each test case and output its next palindrome number.
Link: https://www.spoj.com/problems/PALIN/
Language Used: C++14 (gcc 6.3)
My code
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A program that checks for Palindromness
Yes, I made it up.
This program checks if an entered string is a palindrome or not by assigning a char variable the characters ...
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Find a palindromic string in C
This program tests whether a string is a palindrome or not.
Can there be any improvements or shortcuts that can be used in the program. You can give any type of string as input. The program finds does ...
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The Next Palindromic number
I have incremented an integer in the function nextpalin() and converted it into a std::string for finding whether it's a ...
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Find largest palindrome from the product of two 3-digit numbers
I think this is a good solution to finding the largest numeric palindrome that can be formed from the product of two 3-digit numbers... But it seems like there are some improvements that we could make ...
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Check if a given linked list is palindrome
I am solving interview questions from here.
Problem :Given a singly linked list, determine if its a palindrome. Return 1 or 0 denoting if its a palindrome or not, respectively.
Notes:Expected ...
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Next palindromic number
I wrote a function that takes a number and finds the next palindromic number. Time complexity is currently O(n2), which is really bad. How could one make this function more efficient?
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Palindrome checking function
I recently did a little task for fun that required me to create a class to determine if a word is a palindrome or not. I know this is quite simple, but I'd be interested to know if a real developer (I'...
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Finding time complexity of my solution to the 'longest palindrome' problem in Python
Here is a short version!
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Count palindrome substrings
Given a string S, count and return the number of substrings of S that
are palindromes. Single length substrings are also palindromes. We
just have to count the substring that are palindrome.
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Palindrome algorithm
This code could be better?
This is the algorithm:
Compare the 1st character to the last character
Compare the 2nd character to the second last character and so on
Stop when the middle of the ...
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Largest palindrome made from the product of 3-digit numbers
I am given a task to write a program to find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers. How can I improve this code?
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Finding palindromic strings of even length
Given a string of digits. Find the length of longest substring of even length i.e. 0,2,... which is a palindrome or which can be rearranged to form a palindrome (see example below).
Here is my code: ...
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Counting the number of continuous palindromic substrings
Given a string of lowercase ASCII characters, find all distinct continuous palindromic sub-strings of it.
Here is my code:
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C++ check if Palindrome
Just did this simple application to check whether a string is a palindrome or not
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Python palindrome function; is it possible to write it without using string conversion?
I hope this question is okay to ask on Code Review; this is a little function I wrote in Python 2.7.12 that checks if a number is a palindrome. It works fine but I'd like to know if there is a purely ...
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Performing the Lychrel algorithm in Rust
A Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers.
In the code below I'm trying to ...
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Find a substring which could be rearranged into a palindrome
Problem statement:
To find maximum length substring in an input string which could be
arranged into a palindrome, only even length palindromes are expected.
Input is one line String which ...
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Tests for palindromes in C and C++
A question I've been asked on interactive phone screens is to code a test to determine whether a string is
a palindrome or not. I am providing two examples here: one in C and one in C++. They both ...
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C# Project Euler #4: Program that finds Largest palindrome product
So I made a code to improve my programming skills and it works just fine, but it looks chaotic for me. Is there is a better and more efficient way to do it? If you have any ideas/tips I would love to ...
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Find palindromic substrings as efficiently as possible
I've written a function to calculate all the distinct substrings of a given string, that are palindromes. The string is passed as the argument to the function. For example, the string abba is a ...
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Valid Alphanumeric Palindrome
Valid Alphanumeric Palindrome
Problem (from Leetcode)
Given a string, determine if it is a palindrome, considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring cases. For example, ...
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Palindrome implementations - iterative and recursive
I got asked this palindrome question when the interviewer wants to make sure that my palindrome can check if "Taco! Cat!" is a palindrome. In this example, my palindromes implementation needs to ...
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My third post about Python 3 palindromes
I'm new to python3, and I tried to test if my palindrome codes work and pass most of the edge cases. so I created the following 2 python files below. When I ran the ...
