SDE - 1

Ninja has been asked to organize a dance competition. Ninja decided that he will take individual entries and then will divide them into pairs. As part of the entry, he asked the participants to choose any number.

Ninja then thought of a creative method to divide them into pairs. He decided that he would select a number ‘K’, and then select numbers from the list that have a difference equal to ‘K’.

You need to help Ninja in finding the number of distinct pairs from the numbers with differences equal to ‘K’.

Example:

Let us suppose the numbers are chosen by participants: [2, 6, 5, 2, 3] and K = 3, then the distinct pairs having differences equal to K are: [2, 5] and [3, 6] so print 2. 

Note:

The list of numbers can contain duplicate numbers, you need to print only the distinct pairs.

For example [2, 2, 3, 4] and K = 1, so you need to print 2 as the two distinct pairs are: (2, 3) and (3, 4).

Given an array ‘A’ of ‘N’ integers, you need to find the maximum length of the sub-array such that the absolute difference between the adjacent elements of the sub-array should be either 0 or 1.

A sub-array is a contiguous section of original elements of the array.

For Example

Let us say  A = [2,4,6,7,6,9], then adjacent elements of sub array [6,7,6] have absolute difference of either 0 or 1 and this is the maximum length sub-array. So the required answer will be 3.

Design and implement a data structure for Least Recently Used (LRU) cache to support the following operations:

1. get(key) - Return the value of the key if the key exists in the cache, otherwise return -1.

2. put(key, value), Insert the value in the cache if the key is not already present or update the value of the given key if the key is already present. When the cache reaches its capacity, it should invalidate the least recently used item before inserting the new item.

You will be given ‘Q’ queries. Each query will belong to one of these two types:

Type 0: for get(key) operation.
Type 1: for put(key, value) operation.

Note :

1. The cache is initialized with a capacity (the maximum number of unique keys it can hold at a time).

2. Access to an item or key is defined as a get or a put operation on the key. The least recently used key is the one with the oldest access time.

You have been given a string 'S' containing only three types of characters, i.e. '(', ')' and '*'.

A Valid String is defined as follows:

1. Any left parenthesis '(' must have a corresponding right parenthesis ')'.
2. Any right parenthesis ')' must have a corresponding left parenthesis '('.
3. Left parenthesis '(' must go before the corresponding right parenthesis ')'.
4. '*' could be treated as a single right parenthesis ')' or a single left parenthesis '(' or an empty string.
5. An empty string is also valid.

Your task is to find out whether the given string is a Valid String or not.

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