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R Data Structures and Algorithms

You're reading from   R Data Structures and Algorithms Increase speed and performance of your applications with effi cient data structures and algorithms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465153
Length 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Achyutuni Sri Krishna Rao Achyutuni Sri Krishna Rao
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Exercises

  1. One of the classic problems is the Tower of Hanoi, inspired by Hindu temples, where priests are provided with three poles of 64 gold disks, and each disk is a little smaller than the one beneath it, as shown in the following figure:

    Exercises

    • The task is to transfer all 64 disks from one pole to another with two constraints, that is, only one disk can be moved at a time, and that they cannot place a larger disk on smaller one. Write a dynamic programming-based approach to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.
  2. Implement a function that gets the edit distance of two input strings, where the edit distance is defined as insertion, deletion, and substitution. The function should determine the minimal number of edit distance required to modify one distance to another.
  3. Given a rope of length n, write a function to determine how to cut the rope into m parts with length l[0], l[1], and so on until l[m] so that the product of each part is maximum. The rope needs to be cut as an integer with a minimum...
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