SIMDISH - Editorial

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DIFFICULTY

cakewalk

PREREQUISITES

general programming skills

PROBLEM

There are two arrays a and b each consisting of four strings. No two strings in each of the arrays are same. You have to tell whether the number of common strings in the arrays are more than or equal two or not.

This was an implementation problem. You iterate over the strings of one of the arrays (either a or b, let us say a), and search whether the string is present in the other array (i.e. b) or not. Checking whether a string is a present in the array can be done by iterating over the elements of the array and comparing whether the element is equal to it or not. The below given pseudo code describes this.

common = 0;
for i = 1 to 4:
    found = false;
    // found denotes whether the string a[i] is present in the array b or not.
    for j = 1 to 4:
        if (a[i] == b[j]):
            found = true;
    if (found)
        common += 1;

There were total 200 test cases. Number of operations taken in solving a test case will be around 4 * 4 * (time taken in comparing two strings). As the length of the strings could be at max 10. So total time in each test case will be 4 * 4 * 10 = 160 operations. Overall time considering the test cases will be 160 * 200 = 3 * 10^5 which will comfortably run in a second. You can assume that usually you can make around 10^8 operations in a second. Please check following blog of Triveni for such details which would be quite useful for beginners.

Some Implementation Related Details

In Java, there is an implementation related detail that you should take care. If you have two objects s, t of String class, then you shouldn’t check their equality by s == t or not. This would be comparing the objects rather than comparing their content. You should use .equals() method, i.e. use s.equals(t). You can check this stack overflow link for more details about it.

SETTER’S SOLUTION

Setter

TESTER’S SOLUTION

Tester2
Tester3

2

C++ STL Solution:

We can use set of strings. Just insert all the 8 strings of both of the array and check it’s size. if size <= 6, dishes are similar else they are dissimilar.

My Accepted Solution: https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/13216452

3

I solved this problem using set in C++.
link

4

Why didn’t my solution work for Similar Dishes ?
Without \n at the end of the input the program seemed to be running continuously.

My solution : String contains method

Can anyone explain what went wrong?

5

This question is very easy .
I solved this question by using set because set doesn’t contains repeated values…
my solution:
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/13216350

6

@dineshshabde use set for it . then , search for more operations you can do with set and unordered_set , find operations etc. … they will help in future.

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7

My method does not seem to be accepted what is the most idiotic problem i have done in mine?
Its almost similar to the setter’s solution
Source code in here

N=int(input())
flag=0
for i in range(N):
    fdish=list(set(input().split()))
    map(str,fdish)
    sdish=list(set(input().split()))
    map(str,sdish)
    for i in range(len(fdish)):
        for j in range(len(sdish)):
            if fdish[i] in sdish:
                flag+=1
                break
    if flag>=2:
        print("Similar")
    else:
        print("Dissimilar")
8

t=int(input())
for i in range(0,t):
s=0
a=list(input().split())
b=list(input().split())
for i in range(0,4):
for j in range(0,4):
if a[i]==b[j]: s+=1
if s>=2:
print(“similar”)
else: print(“dissimilar”)

9

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main()
{
int t,i,j,count;
scanf("%d",&t);
char s1[4][11],s2[4][11];
while(t–)
{
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
scanf("%s",s1[i]);
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
scanf("%s",s2[i]);
count=0;
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
{
for(j=0;j<4;j++)
{
if(strcmp(s2[j],s1[i])==0)
{
count++;
}
}
}
if(count>=2)
printf(“similar\n”);
else
printf(“dissimilar\n”);
}
return 0;
}

10

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main()
{
int t,i,j,count;
scanf("%d",&t);
char s1[4][11],s2[4][11];
while(t–)
{
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
scanf("%s",s1[i]);
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
scanf("%s",s2[i]);
count=0;
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
{
for(j=0;j<4;j++)
{
if(strcmp(s2[j],s1[i])==0)
{
count++;
}
}
}
if(count>=2)
printf(“similar\n”);
else
printf(“dissimilar\n”);
}
return 0;
}

11

why do we have 2d array in this problem???