SDE - Intern

You are given the 'head' of a singly linked list. Your task is to group all the nodes with odd indices together followed by the nodes with even indices, and return the reordered list’s head.

The first node is considered odd, and the second node is even, and so on.

Note:

Keep in mind that reordering is to be done according to the indexes and not the node values.
Also, ensure that the relative order inside both the even and odd groups should remain as it was in the input.

Example:

Input: 'head' -> 1 -> 3 -> 5 -> 7

Output: 'head' -> 1 -> 5 -> 3 -> 7

Explanation:
The nodes with odd indices (1, 5) are grouped together, followed by the nodes with even indices (3, 7).

You are given a binary search tree of integers with N nodes. You are also given references to two nodes 'P' and 'Q' from this BST.

Your task is to find the lowest common ancestor(LCA) of these two given nodes.

The lowest common ancestor for two nodes P and Q is defined as the lowest node that has both P and Q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself)

A binary search tree (BST) is a binary tree data structure which has the following properties.

• The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with data less than the node’s data.
• The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with data greater than the node’s data.
• Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.

For example:

'P' = 1, 'Q' = 3
tree = 2 1 4 -1 -1 3 -1 -1 -1,

The BST corresponding will be- 

Here, we can clearly see that LCA of node 1 and node 3 is 2.

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 a column title as appears in an Excel sheet, return its corresponding column number.

For example:

A -> 1
B -> 2
C -> 3
...
Z -> 26
AA -> 27
AB -> 28 
...

You are given a string STR representing the column title in an Excel Sheet. You need to find its corresponding column number.

For example: A corresponds to 1, B to 2, C to 3, … , Z to 26, AA to 27, .. and so on.

Given 'N' number of intervals, where each interval contains two integers denoting the boundaries of the interval. The task is to merge all the overlapping intervals and return the list of merged intervals sorted in ascending order.

Two intervals will be considered to be overlapping if the starting integer of one interval is less than or equal to the finishing integer of another interval, and greater than or equal to the starting integer of that interval.

Example:

for the given 5 intervals - [1,4], [3,5], [6,8], [10,12], [8,9].
Since intervals [1,4] and [3,5] overlap with each other, we will merge them into a single interval as [1,5].

Similarly [6,8] and [8,9] overlaps, we merge them into [6,9].

Interval [10,12] does not overlap with any interval.

Final List after merging overlapping intervals: [1,5], [6,9], [10,12]