Frage im Vorstellungsgespräch bei Palantir Technologies

Write a minPeak function for a stack (function that returns the minimum element in the stack).

Antworten zu Vorstellungsgespräch

Anonym

26. Jan. 2015

Push on the previous lowest and update your own lowest. So insert a 4, now we have on the stack (4:nothing) and lowest is 4. Now insert a 7 - (4:Nothing), (7:4). Now insert a 3 -> (4:Nothing), (7:4), (3:4) and lowest is 3. Now insert a 9 -> (4:Nothing), (7:4), (3:4), (9:3). Now pop -> lowest is still 3 and stack is (4:Nothing), (7:4), (3:4) etc. When you push, you push on the previous lowest at the same spot, and when you pop, you update your lowest to the top of the stack's low.

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Anonym

19. März 2013

Push one by one onto another stack while recording the min and then push it back onto the old stack.

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Anonym

6. Jan. 2015

If you push onto a queue instead of a stack, you will preserve the ordering of the elements within the stack.