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When the code scales so poorly in the face of large inputs that it cannot complete in a reasonable amount of time, use this instead of the [performance] tag.

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MaxCounters solution

I am doing this Codility problem You are given N counters, initially set to 0, and you have two possible operations on them: increase(X) − counter X is increased by 1, max counter − all …
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4 votes
1 answer
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High execution time to count overlapping substrings

I was doing this HackerRank problem which basically boils down to counting overlapping substrings in a string. I used this solution from StackOverflow to build this program - def overlapping_occurre …
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5 votes
2 answers
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High execution time of LCS length program in Python2

I was trying to solve the Longest Common Subsequence problem on a HackerRank exercise. It's quite simple and straightforward, just print out the length of the LCS. I submitted this code: s1 = raw_in …
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2 votes
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Counting pairs of integers which have a predefined difference

I'm doing this HackerRank problem: Given \$N\$ integers, count the number of pairs of integers whose difference is \$K\$. So far, I've ended up with this code: def countPairs(ar, n, k): ar. …
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Counting pairs of integers which have a predefined difference

Okay, so I solved the problem. It seemed like the while loop DID have O(n^2) complexity. I changed the function countPairs() to this: def countPairs(ar, n, k): ar.sort() i = 1 j = 0 c …
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3 votes
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Time limit exceeded on finding out the GCD and LCM of a Python list

I'm doing this HackerRank problem: Consider two sets of positive integers, \$A=\{a_0, a_1, \ldots, a_{n-1}\}\$ and \$B=\{b_0, b_1, \ldots, b_{m-1}\}\$. We say that a positive integer, \$x\$, is be …
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Time limit exceeded on finding out the GCD and LCM of a Python list

It turns out my count function was inefficient. Going through the discussion forms on the site, I found this which passed all the test cases - def count(l, g): count = 0 for i in xrange(l, g …
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2 votes
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High execution time on number partitioning program in Python 2.7

I am writing a program to count only the partitions of a number with distinct parts. I am using a bottom-up approach to dynamic programming to generate partition lists from previously obtained partiti …
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5 votes
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Count words with given prefix using Trie

I have been trying to solve this HackerRank problem: We're going to make our own Contacts application! The application must perform two types of operations: add name, where is a string denoting a c …
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