Apache Design Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Country: India
Interview Type: In-Person




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have two pointers, each time go one step forward on the first pointer and two on the second pointer... when the second pointer reaches end of the list, first one is at the middle of the list

- Anonymous March 24, 2012 | Flag Reply
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This approach misses the case, where number of elements is even and the number of middle elements are two.

- Parth April 17, 2012 | Flag
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have two pointers, each time go one step forward on the first pointer and two on the second pointer... when the second pointer reaches end of the list, first one is at the middle of the list

- irraju March 24, 2012 | Flag Reply
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ListCount is the number of elements in the list. Divide ListCount by 2. Keep start pointer in head. set another startCount variable to 0. Increment startCount by one and reach the next node till start count == ListCount. O(n) is the time complexity.

- Sandy April 01, 2012 | Flag Reply
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ListCount is the number of elements in the list. Divide ListCount by 2. Keep start pointer in head. set another startCount variable to 0. Increment startCount by one and reach the next node till start count == ListCount. O(n) is the time complexity.

- Sandy April 01, 2012 | Flag Reply
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hair and tortoise algorithm

- Shivaprasad April 02, 2012 | Flag Reply
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a = ll.next ;
b = ll.next.next ;

while (b != null)
{ b=b.next.next;
a =a.next; }

return a;

PS :- there is nothing like middle node for ever number of node .. works only if number of nodes is more than 1.

- ABHI.AKS.SINGH June 18, 2015 | Flag Reply


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