Microsoft Interview Question for Developer Program Engineers


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Interview Type: Phone Interview




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String sortedNumbers = "123456789 9876543210";
        for (int i = 31; i <= 3000; i++) {
            String temp = "" + i;
            if (!sortedNumbers.contains(temp)) {
                System.out.println(temp);
            }
        }

- AnanthaNag KUNDANALA September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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A very good and optimize logic...

- NullVoid September 25, 2013 | Flag
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very neat

- ambu.sreedharan September 25, 2013 | Flag
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U r a good coder..Every1 ll appreciate u.. THANK U ""AnanthaNag KUNDANALA""

CODE:

import java.io.*;
public class Moka
{
public static void main(String args[]){

String sortedNumbers = "123456789 9876543210";
for (int i = 31; i <= 300; i++) {
String temp = "" + i;
if (!sortedNumbers.contains(temp)) {
System.out.println(temp);
}
}}}

OUTPUT:
31
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- Subbu2637VelhighTech September 25, 2013 | Flag
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wat bro?
Long output..with 4 lines prog???

kinda funnyyyyyyyy

- Anonymous September 25, 2013 | Flag
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genius!

- chuang24@buffalo.edu September 27, 2013 | Flag
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What's the complexity? And can we beat it sans library function usage?

- Sri September 30, 2013 | Flag
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Thank you all ...

- AnanthaNag KUNDANALA October 02, 2013 | Flag
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Awesome. Really want to know how you come up with such a fancy idea.

- maillist.danielyin October 05, 2013 | Flag
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Anant!!! Hats off...
What a solution... Just superb!!!

- sanky10987 October 18, 2013 | Flag
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468 sorted string does not contain it. But it is increasing order.

- Anonymous October 25, 2013 | Flag
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isnt anantha's solution more complex .... i mean to check if temp is present in string we could use kmp <at best > ( having O(n)) with some preprocessing that would raise the complexity to above O(n).......
wouldnt it be easy if use the following pseudocode with complexity O(n) :

for(int i=31 to 3000)
if(abs(i-reverse(i))==(9 or  198 or 3087 )
do not print 
else
print "i"

- healer0994 June 01, 2014 | Flag
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this loser who uses ## ##
and "let's see who can code best / best logic ... dare you"

is posting a bunch of homework problems under different company names

my son rohit will pwn him

- rohit's mom September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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package in.neeraj.app.main;

public class PrintNumber {

	public static void main(String args[]) {
		int j, k, m, x, a, b;
		for (int i = 30; i <= 3000; i++) {
			if (i < 99) {
				j = i / 10;
				k = i % 10;
				if (j == (k + 1) || j == (k - 1))
					i++;
			}

			else	if (i > 99 && i < 1000) {
				j = i / 100;
				k = i % 100;
				m = k / 10;
				x = k % 10;
				if ((m == (j + 1) && x == (m + 1))
						|| (m == (x + 1) && j == (m + 1)))
					i++;

			}else
			 {
				j = i / 1000;
				k = i % 1000;
				m = k / 100;
				x = k % 100;
				a = x / 10;
				b = x % 10;
				if (m == (j + 1) && a == (m + 1) && b == (a + 1))
					i++;
			}
			System.out.println(" " + i);
		}

	}

}

- Neeraj September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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Good .u r the one used a simple logic..Tank uuu..

- subbu2637VelhighTech September 25, 2013 | Flag
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TROLL ^^^^

- Sri September 30, 2013 | Flag
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public int PrintAll(int s,int e){
		int count=0;
		for(int i=s;i<=e;i++){
			if(i<99){
				int j=i/10;
				int k=i%10;
				if(j==(k+1)||j==(k-1)){
					i++;
				}
			}
			else if(i>99&&i<1000){
				int j=i/100;//3 or 1
				int k=i%100;
				int l=k/10;//2 or 2
				int m=k%10;//1 or 3
				if((j==(l+1)&&l==(m+1))||(m==(l+1)&&l==(j+1))){
					i++;
				}
			}
			else if(i>999 && i<=e){
				int j=i/1000;//1 or 4
				int k=i%1000;
				int l=k/100;//2 0r 3
				int m=k%100;
				int n=m/10;//3 or 2
				int o=m%10;//4 or 1
				if((j==(l+1)&&l==(n+1)&&n==(o+1))||(j==(l-1)&&l==(n-1)&&n==(o-1))){
					i++;
				}
			}
				System.out.println(" "+i);
				count++;
		}
		return count;
	}

- NullVoid September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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public class test {

int start = 30;
int end = 3000;

private boolean isAllowed(int i)
{
if (isAsnding(i) || isDecending(i))
{
return false;
}
return true;
}
private boolean isAsnding(int i)
{
int prev = -1 ;
int cur = -1;
boolean result = true;
boolean cond = true;
do{
if (i > 10000)
{
cur = (i/10000);
i = (i%10000);
}
else if (i >1000)
{
cur = (i/1000);
i = (i%1000);
}
else if (i > 100)
{
cur = (i/100);
i = (i%100);
}
else if (i >10)
{
cur = (i/10);
i = (i%10);
}
else if (i <10)
{
cur = i;
cond = false;
}
if (prev != -1 && prev != cur+1 )
result = false;
else
{
prev = cur;
}

}while (cond == true && result == true);

//System.out.println(" asc result: " + result);
return result;
}
private boolean isDecending(int i)
{
int prev = -1 ;
int cur = -1;
boolean result = true;
boolean cond = true;
do{
if (i > 10000)
{
cur = (i/10000);
i = (i%10000);
}
else if (i >1000)
{
cur = (i/1000);
i = (i%1000);
}
else if (i > 100)
{
cur = (i/100);
i = (i%100);
}
else if (i >10)
{
cur = (i/10);
i = (i%10);
}
else if (i <10)
{
cur = i;
cond = false;
}
if (prev != -1 && prev != cur-1 )
result = false;
else
{
prev = cur;
}

}while (cond == true && result == true);

return result;
}
private void printRange()
{
for (int i = start ; i <= end ; i++)
{
if (isAllowed(i))
{
System.out.println(i + " ");
}
}
}
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
{
test t = new test();
t.printRange();
}

}

- Anonymous September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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bool valid(int n){
bool increase=false,decreas=false;
int last=n%10,cur=0;
n/=10;
while(n>0){
cur=n%10;
if(cur>last)
decrease=true;
else if (cur<last)
increase=true;
last=cur;
n/=10;
}
return increase^decrease;
}

void nonIncreasingDecreasingNum(int start,int end){

for(int i=min(100,start);i<=end;i++){
if(valid(i))
cou<<i;
}
}

- Anonymous September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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It looks like Subbu is getting his homework done or something.

- Anonymous September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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No dude..

- Subbu2637VelhighTech September 25, 2013 | Flag
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Similar problems asked by different companies? Did you really get asked these?

What

- Anonymous September 25, 2013 | Flag
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#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
 
int Fns(int Table[])
{ int flag=0,flag2=0;
    int n;
for(int i=30;i<=300;i++)
{ flag=0;flag2=0;
    n=i;
    while(n)
    {
        Table[n%10]+=1;
     if(Table[n%10]>1)
     { flag=2;
        break;
     } 
    n/=10;
    }
   if(flag==0)
    for(int j=0;j<10;j++)
    {
        if(Table[j])
        {
            if(flag2==1)
            {flag=2;
             break;
            }
        flag=1;
        }
        else
        {  if(flag==1)
            flag2=1;
 
        }
    }
    if(flag==2)
    cout<<i<<" ";
   for(int j=0;j<10;j++)
   Table[j]=0;
 
}
 
}
int main()
{
    int Table[10]={0};
    Fns(Table);
    return 0;
}

- Atiq September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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int mult=10;
	int I,i,prev,r,flag=0;
	for(I=30;I<200;I++)
	{
		i=I;
		prev=INT_MIN;
		if(i/mult>=mult)
			mult*=10;
		while(i>0)
		{
			r=i%mult;
			i=i/mult;
			if((r==prev-1) || (r==prev+1) || (r==prev))
			{
				flag=1;
				break;
			}
			prev=r;
		}
		if(flag==0)
			printf("%d\t",I);
		else
			flag=0;
	}

- Anonymous September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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Another way is to keep a prefix trie of invalid numbers while going from 30 to 30000. So 32 and 34 would go in the trie. Then 321 and 324 can be matched by searching for prefix 32.

- Noobie September 25, 2013 | Flag Reply
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package test;


public class TestClass {

public static void main(String[] args) {


for (int input = 300; input < 3000; input++) {

int mul = 10,currDigit = 0;
boolean flag = true,increasing = false, decreasing = false;

int lastDigit = (input) % 10;

while((input/mul) > 0 && flag)
{
currDigit = (input/mul) % 10;
if(currDigit == lastDigit + 1 && !increasing)
{
decreasing = true;
}
else
decreasing = false;
if(currDigit == lastDigit -1 && !decreasing)
{
increasing = true;
}
else
increasing = false;
if(!increasing && ! decreasing)
flag = false;
mul*=10;
lastDigit = currDigit;
}
if(!flag)
System.out.println(input);

}
}


}

- vicky September 26, 2013 | Flag Reply
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#include "stdafx.h"
#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	for (int i = 31; i < 3000; i++)
	{
		int st[4] = {};
		st[3] = i % 10;
		st[2] = (i % 100) / 10;
		st[1] = (i % 1000) / 100;
		st[0] = i / 1000;
		int p = 0;
		for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
		{
			if (st[j] != 0)
			{
				p = p + abs(st[j + 1] - st[j]);
			}
		}
		int db = log(i) / log(10);
		if (p != db)
		{
			cout << i << endl;
		}
		system("pause");
	}
	return 0;
}

- Anonymous October 02, 2013 | Flag Reply
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Yes, the code is very elegant, but is it more efficient than a more straightforward one? As I know, the KMP String Matcher takes O(m+n) time, where m is the number's length, and n is the length of "123456789 9876543210". While for the straightforward one, we could just scan the number's length and determine whether it is a valid number, which will takes only O(m).
Here is my code in C++ for the two version:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <vector>

void compute_prefix_func( const std::string& pattern, std::vector<int>& prefix_func )
{
	int m = pattern.size();
	prefix_func.resize(m+1,0);
	if( m <= 0 ) return;

	int k = 0;
	for( int i = 1; i < m; ++i )
	{
		while( k > 0 && pattern[i] != pattern[k] ) k = prefix_func[k];
		if( pattern[i] == pattern[k] ) ++k;
		prefix_func[i+1] = k;
	}
}

bool kmp_matcher( const std::string& pattern, const std::string& target )
{
	int m = pattern.size(), n = target.size();
	if( m > n || m == 0 || n == 0 ) return false;

	std::vector<int> prefix_func;
	compute_prefix_func( pattern, prefix_func );

	int k = 0;
	for( int i = 0; i < n; ++i )
	{
		while( k > 0 && pattern[k] != target[i] ) k = prefix_func[k];
		if( pattern[k] == target[i] ) ++k;
		if( k == m ) return true;
	}

	return false;
}

//KMP one
int valid_number()
{
	std::stringstream os;
	int count = 0;
	for( int i = 30; i <= 3000; ++i )
	{
		os.str(""), os.clear();
		os << i;
		if( !kmp_matcher( os.str(), "123456789 9876543210" ) ) std::cout << i << std::endl, ++count;
	}
	return count;
}

//straightforward one
int valid_number2()
{
	std::stringstream os;
	std::string str;
	int count = 0;
	bool increasing, decreasing;
	for( int i = 30; i <= 3000; ++i )
	{
		increasing = decreasing = true;
		os.str(""), os.clear();
		os << i;
		str = os.str();

		for( int j = 0; j < str.size() - 1 && ( increasing || decreasing ); ++j )
		{
			if( str[j] - str[j+1] != -1 ) decreasing = false;
			if( str[j] - str[j+1] !=  1 ) increasing = false;
		}

		if( (!increasing) && (!decreasing) ) std::cout << i << std::endl, ++count;
	}

	return count;
}

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
	std::cout << valid_number2() << std::endl;
	
	return 0;
}

- weijjcg October 09, 2013 | Flag Reply
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#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#define N1 30
#define N2 300
int main()
{
    int i, j=0, A[N2],a=0,b=0,flag=0,temp;
    for(i=N1;i<N2;i++)
    {
        temp=i;              
        while(temp>0)
        {
            a=temp%10;            
            if(a-b == 1 || a-b == -1)
             flag=1;
            else
             flag=0 ;
           b=a;
           temp=temp/10;       
        } 
        if(flag==0)
          A[j++]=i;                 
    }
    for(i=0;i<j;i++)
    {
      printf("%d ", A[i]);              
    }
    
    getch();
    return 0;
    
}

- Priyanka October 13, 2013 | Flag Reply
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For an invalid number the abs diff of the first and the last digit is equal to its length minus 1. If the length is odd the mid digit is equal to the (first + last)/2

Examples:
56 1
5678 3
7654 3
3456789 6, and 6 = (3 + 9)/2

This would help to recursively check for the (in)validity of the number.

- H October 14, 2013 | Flag Reply
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578, isnt this in an increasing order?????

- godricly.li October 16, 2013 | Flag Reply
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def isinc(x):
	l=list(str(x))
	return l==sorted(l)

def isdec(x):
	l=list(str(x))
	b=sorted(l)
	b.reverse()
	return l==b

r=[]

for i in range(30,3001):
	if isinc(i) or isdec(i):
		continue
	r.append(i)

- anon123 November 21, 2013 | Flag Reply


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