Bloomberg LP Interview Question for Financial Software Developers






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The ideal is to have two stack. One which will store elements and the other which will store min elements till now

eg: Add 10

	10  10
	
Add 20

	20  10
	10  10
	
Add 30

	30 10
	20 10
	10 10
	
Add 5

	 5  5
	30 10
	20 10
	10 10

Add 3

	 3  3
	 5  5
	30 10
	20 10
	10 10

Minimum Till now is top of 2nd Stack ie 3

Remove 3

	 5  5
	30 10
	20 10
	10 10

- Snehal January 10, 2015 | Flag Reply
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O(n) shouldn't be a problem. can we get any better?

- Anonymous June 19, 2010 | Flag Reply
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T min(stack <T> s)
{


}

- Anonymous June 19, 2010 | Flag Reply
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T min(stack <T> s)
{
T t = T.Max();
stack <T> s1;
while(!s1.empty())
{
if (s1.top() < t)
t = s1.top();
s1.push(s1.top());
s.pop();
}
while(!s1.empty())
{
s.push(s1.top());
s1.pop();
}
return t;


}

- Anonymous June 19, 2010 | Flag Reply
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we can have each element in the stack to maintain a min Element below the stack.
Whenever a new element is added we check if the element is lesser than the Min below the Top of stack and if so we make the min Element below the new element being added as the element itself(As it is for the first element itself).

- Anonymous June 19, 2010 | Flag Reply
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Tricky part,
What If Min() is called twice?

- Anonymous July 10, 2010 | Flag
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pop all elements out and save them into an array.

- Anonymous June 20, 2010 | Flag Reply
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keep track of the min value within the current in stack in its topmost element.

- Anonymous September 09, 2010 | Flag Reply
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What if I did pop() and then min ??

Our algo will produce erroneous output . Am I right ?

- Subrahmanyam February 21, 2013 | Flag
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Stack;


public class C {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Stack<Integer> st = new Stack<Integer>();
ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();

st.push(12);
st.push(15);
st.push(6);
st.push(2);
st.push(23);
st.push(18);

while(!(st.isEmpty())){

int top = st.pop();

list.add(top);
}

System.out.println(list);

Collections.sort(list);

System.out.println(list.get(0));
}

}

- Anonymous August 19, 2013 | Flag Reply
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Taking cue from the solution about maintaining a separate stack, below is an implementation:

class StackX{
private int stackSize;
private long[] stackArray;
private int top;

private long min;
private long[] orderedStackArray;

public StackX(int stackSize){
this.stackSize = stackSize;
stackArray = new long[stackSize];
top = -1;
orderedStackArray = new long[stackSize];
}

public void push(long item){
stackArray[++top] = item;

if(min == 0.0)
min = item;

if(item < min){
orderedStackArray[top] = item;
min = item;
} else {
orderedStackArray[top] = min;
}
}

public long pop(){
return stackArray[top--];
}

public long peek(){
return stackArray[top];
}

public long peekOrderedStack(){
return orderedStackArray[top];
}

public boolean isEmpty(){
return (top == -1);
}

public boolean isFull(){
return (top == stackSize-1);
}

public long min(){
return orderedStackArray[top];
}

}

class StackApp{

public static void main(String[] args){
StackX stackX = new StackX(10);
stackX.push(40);
stackX.push(20);
stackX.push(5);
stackX.push(60);

System.out.println(stackX.min());

}
}

- aragorn August 14, 2019 | Flag Reply


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