SDE - Intern

You are given two strings S and X containing random characters. Your task is to find the smallest substring in S which contains all the characters present in X.

Example:

Let S = “abdd” and X = “bd”.

The windows in S which contain all the characters in X are: 'abdd', 'abd', 'bdd', 'bd'. 
Out of these, the smallest substring in S which contains all the characters present in X is 'bd'. 
All the other substring have a length larger than 'bd'.

You have been given an integer ‘X’ and a non-decreasing sorted doubly linked list with distinct nodes.

Your task is to return the number of triplets in the list that sum up to the value ‘X’.

You are given a set of ‘n’ types of rectangular 3-D boxes. The height, width, and length of each type of box are given by arrays, ‘height’, ‘width’, and ‘length’ respectively, each consisting of ‘n’ positive integers. The height, width, length of the i^th type box is given by ‘height[i]’, ‘width[i]’ and ‘length[i]’ respectively.

You need to create a stack of boxes that is as tall as possible using the given set of boxes.

Below are a few allowances:

You can only stack a box on top of another box if the dimensions of the 2-D base of the lower box ( both length and width ) are strictly larger than those of the 2-D base of the higher box. 

You can rotate a box so that any side functions as its base. It is also allowed to use multiple instances of the same type of box. This means, a single type of box when rotated, will generate multiple boxes with different dimensions, which may also be included in stack building.

Return the height of the highest possible stack so formed.

Note:

The height, Width, Length of the type of box will interchange after rotation.

No two boxes will have all three dimensions the same.

Don’t print anything, just return the height of the highest possible stack that can be formed.

You are given a linked list containing 'n' nodes, where every node in the linked list contains two pointers:

(1) ‘next’ which points to the next node in the list

(2) ‘random’ which points to a random node in the list or 'null'.

Your task is to create a 'deep copy' of the given linked list and return its head.

Note:

A 'deep copy' of a linked list means we do not copy the references of the nodes of the original linked list, rather for each node in the original linked list, a new node is created.

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