Changing int array to char array - c++

Hello all I'm having difficulty running some code under various circumstances. I have code that finds how many prime numbers there are, of all the numbers in an array, times how long it takes, and prints how many prime numbers there are. This all works fine, but then I need to run the same code, but with a char array. That is where the problems come in. Here is the code, with an array of ints:
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
static const int N = 1000;
int main()
{
int i, a[N];
clock_t start = clock();
for (i = 2; i < N; i++) a[i] = i;
for (i = 2; i < N; i++)
if (a[i])
for (int j = i; j*i < N; j++) a[i*j] = 0;
start = clock() - start;
int primes = 0;
for (i = 2; i < N; i++) {
if (a[i]) {
primes++;
cout << " " << i;
if (primes % 10 == 0)
cout << "\n";
}
}
printf("\nIt took %d clicks (%f seconds) to find all prime numbers.\n", start, ((float)start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
cout << "The number of primes out of " << N << " integers is " << primes << endl;
return 0;
}
When I simply replace 'int' with "char" for the array, and set 'N' to something like 10, or 100 it works just fine, save for how the prime numbers look. Anything higher and nothing prints off. I know its not as simple as just changing where it says 'int' to 'char' but I am hopelessly lost on the subject. Doesnt help that I need to do this again, but changing the array to type bool (which doesnt make much sense to me either.)
Any kind of insight or simple solution would be wonderful. I will keep searching for something in the meantime. Thanks!

The problem is that you're storing i into a[i]. When a is a char array, the maximum value of an element is 127 (if char defaults to signed) or 255 (if it's unsigned), assuming a typical system with 8-bit bytes. If it's signed, overflow results in implementation-defined behavior; if it's unsigned, overflow wraps around modulo 256.
The only thing you care about is whether the value of the element is zero or non-zero, so there's no need to put different values in them. Just initialize them all to 1.
for (i = 2; i < N; i++) a[i] = 1;
This will also work when you change it to boolean.

Related

Value of a variable is not updating, it is either 1 or 0

Hey there! In the following code, I am trying to count frequency of each non zero number
My intention of the code is to update freq after testing each case using nested loop but value of freq is not updating. freq value remains to be either 0 or 1. I tried to debug but still ending up with the same bug.
Code:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int size;
cin>>size;
int freq=0;
int d[size];
for(int i=0;i<size;i++){ //To create array and store values in it
cin>>d[i];
}
for(int i=0;i<size;i++){
if(d[i]==0 )continue;
for(int j=0;j<size;j++){
if(d[i]==d[j]){
freq=freq+1;
d[j]=0;
}
}
cout<<"Frequency of number "<<d[i]<<" is "<<freq<<endl;
d[i]=0;
freq=0;
}
}
Input:
5
1 1 2 2 5
Expected output:
Frequency of number 1 is 2
Frequency of number 2 is 2
Frequency of number 5 is 1
Actual output:
Frequency of number 0 is 1
Frequency of number 0 is 1
Frequency of number 0 is 1
Frequency of number 0 is 1
Frequency of number 0 is 1
Some one please debug the code and fix it. Open for suggestions.
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
This is not standard C++. Don't use this. Include individual standard headers as you need them.
using namespace std;
This is a bad habit. Don't use this. Either use individual using declarations for identifiers you need, such as using std::cout;, or just prefix everything standard in your code with std:: (this is what most people prefer).
int d[size];
This is not standard C++. Don't use this. Use std::vector instead.
for(int j=0;j<size;j++){
if(d[i]==d[j]){
Assume i == 0. The condition if(d[i]==d[j]) is true when i == j, that is, when j == 0. So the next thing that happens is you zero out d[0].
Now assume i == 1. The condition if(d[i]==d[j]) is true when i == j, that is, when j == 1. So the next thing that happens is you zero out d[1].
Now assume i == 2. The condition if(d[i]==d[j]) is true when i == j, that is, when j == 2. So the next thing that happens is you zero out d[2].
Now assume i == 3 ...
So you zero out every element of the array the first time you see it, and if(d[i]==d[j]) never becomes true when i != j.
This can be fixed by changing the inner loop to
for (int j = i + 1; j < size; j++) {
This will output freq which is off by one, because this loop doesn't count the first element. Change freq = 0 to freq = 1 to fix that. I recommend having one place where you have freq = 1. A good place to place this assignment is just before the inner loop.
Note, I'm using spaces around operators and you should too. Cramped code is hard to read.
Here is a live demo of your program with all the aforementioned problems fixed. No other changes are made.
To build an histogram, you actually need to collect history.
Example:
int main() {
int size;
cin >> size;
int d[size];
int hist[size + 1]{}; // all zeroes - this is for the histogram
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { // To create array and store values in it
cin >> d[i];
}
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
++hist[d[i]];
}
for(int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
cout << "Frequency of number " << i << " is " << hist[i] << endl;
}
}
Note: VLAs (Variable Length Arrays) are not a standard C++ feature. Use std::vector instead.
A slightly different approach would be to not be limited by the size parameter when taking the input values. std::map the value to a count instead:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
int main() {
int size;
if(not (std::cin >> size) or size < 1) return 1;
std::map<int, unsigned long long> hist; // number to count map
for(int value; size-- > 0 && std::cin >> value;) {
++hist[value];
}
for(auto[value, count] : hist) {
std::cout << "Frequency of number " << value << " is " << count << '\n';
}
}

Calculating sum of elements in a 3D array of huge size

I have created a 3D array with size a[100][100][100]. In the beginning, i was getting some error while compiling the code because of this huge array. As such after a little digging, I declared this array as global and static in my C++ program. Now my requirement is that I have to calculate the sum of all the element of that array. While doing so, I tried looping through the array, and after some time i get a segment fragment error at runtime.
Can anyone advice as to how i should go about it? Is there a better approach for calculating the sum?
Thanks
My code is given here
for(int m=0;m<dimension;m++){
for(int j=0;j<dimension;j++){
for(int k=0;k<dimension;k++){
a[m][j][k]=0;
}
}
}
And this is how i am calculating the sum
int sum=0;
for(int i=x1;i<=x2;i++){
for(int j=y1;j<=y2;j++){
for(int k=z1;k<=z2;k++){
sum=sum+a[i][j][k];
}
}
}
where x1,x2, y1, y2, z1, z2 are taken as user input.
I dont get any error in the first part but in the second part of the code where segmentation fault error is thrown.
In your second code fragment, you use user input as your array dimensions without bounds checking. Always, always, always bounds-check your array accesses.
A fast-and-dirty way of doing so in this case is:
assert(x1 >= 0); // Unless x1 is unsigned.
assert(y1 >= 0); // Unless y1 is unsigned.
assert(z1 >= 0); // Unless z1 is unsigned.
assert(x2 < dimension);
assert(y2 < dimension);
assert(z2 < dimension);
Also check the initialization of a. If it’s dynamically-allocated, check the return code.
Or replace with code to recover from the error. The runtime cost is negligible, as you are doing this outside your loop. Also, if your dimension is declared as constexpr size_t dimension = 100; and a is declared as static int a[dimension][dimension][dimension]; (or a reference to an array with known bounds), you can replace the first loop with,
memset( &a, 0, sizeof(a) );
Otherwise, for a dynamic array, you can use:
memset( &a, 0, sizeof(int)*dimension*dimension*dimension );
However, a statically-allocated global array will be initialized to zeroes already, when the program starts.
If you use std::array, it will do the bounds-checking for you with no extra memory overhead.
It's generally not a great idea to use 3D-arrays
You could try to sum with only one for loop, as follows, though, to avoid nesting:
int D = dimension;
int sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < D*D*D; ++i)
sum += A[i / (D * D)][(i / D) % D][i % D];
Although probably not the answer you we're hoping for. I would switch to boost multi_array. With declaring a standard array of size 1000 or even 100 I can reproduce your problem. With the boost multi-array I do not have that problem. See below the code:
//Boost:ublas
#include <boost/numeric/ublas/matrix.hpp>
#include "boost/multi_array.hpp"
#include <boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp>
#include <cassert>
//Using declarations
using namespace boost::numeric::ublas;
int main() {
cout << "Start Time: " << time(0) << endl;
time_t t0 = time(0);
//Example taken and adjusted from: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/libs/multi_array/doc/user.html
// Create a 3D array that is 3 x 4 x 2
typedef boost::multi_array<int, 3> array_type;
typedef array_type::index index;
int const size =1000;
array_type A(boost::extents[size][size][size]);
// Assign values to the elements
for (index i = 0; i != size; ++i)
for (index j = 0; j != size; ++j)
for (index k = 0; k != size; ++k)
A[i][j][k] = 1;
// Verify values
int sum = 0;
for (index i = 0; i != size; ++i)
for (index j = 0; j != size; ++j)
for (index k = 0; k != size; ++k)
sum += A[i][j][k];
std::cout << "Sum: " << sum << endl;
cout << "End Time: " << time(0) << endl;
time_t t1 = time(0);
return 0;
}
Hope this can solve your problem.
As mentioned earlier in my comment, I think your problem is that you are claiming more memory than your operating systems allows without special considerations, but I can't confirm this readily.
Just in case you don't know boost, the Boost libraries are a great toolbox with lots of functionality and have contributed a lot to the C++ standard over the years. So I would recommend using it.

Why is the digit size of the random number generator limited?

I have written a random number generator using srand(), which creates an array of random numbers of given size. I would like my random numbers taking values up to 1000.000 and to get this, I've defined each entry of the array as rand()%1000000 in the code below. The weird thing is that, the random values are all up to around 30.000 and the bigger random numbers such as 987.623 are not created i.e. the digit count of the random numbers are not more than 5.
Does anyone have any idea of why is this happening? Is there another way (function) that you can offer to get random numbers bigger than these ones?
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <cmath>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
int * rng(int size) {
int* a = NULL;
a = new int[size];
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
a[i] = rand() % 1000000;
if (a[i] == 0) {
a[i] += 1;
}
}
for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) {
cout << a[j] << " ";
}
delete[] a;
a = NULL;
return a;
}
int main() {
srand(time(NULL));
int size;
int* x;
ifstream myfile("size.txt");
ofstream outfile("input.txt");
while (myfile>>size) {
x=rng(size);
if (outfile.is_open()) {
for(int count = 0; count < size; count ++) {
outfile<< x[count] << " " ;
}
myfile.close();
}
}
return 0;
delete [] x;
x = NULL;
}
RAND_MAX on your machine is obviously close to or at the minimum permitted by the standard: 32767.
There are plenty of alternatives available which offer better periodicity. Mersenne Twister is one such good alternative and forms part of the C++11 standard.
Also note that the statements after your return statement are unreachable. Consider a
std::vector<int>
as the return type.
According to the documentation, the rand() function returns a number between 0 and RAND_MAX, which, again according to the documentation, is implementation-defined. "Implementation defined" means "whatever your compiler vendor wants it to be". In this case, your compiler vendor decided that it should be about 30000, in all likelihood 32767, in all likelihood in order to avoid breaking compatibility with some old, 16-bit version of their compiler.
You could choose another compiler, or you could do some trick, like the following:
int my_random_number = rand() ^ (rand() << 15);
The above assumes that your rand() function has a 15-bit range (that's numbers from 0 to 32767) so it concatenates 15 bits from one invocation with another 15 bits from another invocation, yielding a total of 30 bits, which has a range far greater than the 0 to 1.000.000 that you need. This concatenation is achieved by shifting the result of the second invocation to the left by 15 bits, and then XORing together the two results.

finding even numbers in the array issue (C++)

My code is to extract odd number and even number in an 1D array.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int a[6] = {1,6,3,8,5,10};
int odd[]={};
int even[]={};
for (int i=0; i < 6; i++) {
cin >> a[i];
}
for (int i=0; i < 6; i++) {
if (a[i] % 2 == 1) {
odd[i] = a[i];
cout << odd[i] << endl;
}
}
cout << " " << endl;
for (int i=0; i < 6; i++) {
if (a[i] % 2 == 0) {
even[i] = a[i];
cout << even[i] << endl;
}
}
return 0;
}
the output is:
1
3
5
2
1
6
It shows that it successfully extract odd numbers but the same method applied to the even number. It comes with an issue while the even number is 4.
Could anyone help me find the cause here? Thanks.
You've got an Undefined Behavior, so result may be any, even random, even formatted hard drive.
int odd[] = {} is the same as int odd[/*count of elements inside {}*/] = {/*nothing*/}, so it's int odd[0];
Result is not defined when you're accessing elements besides the end of array.
You probably have to think about correct odd/even arrays size, or use another auto-sizeable data structure.
First, although not causing a problem, you initialize an array with data and then overwrite it. The code
int a[6] = {1,6,3,8,5,10};
can be replaced with
int a[6];
Also, as stated in the comments,
int odd[]={};
isn't valid. You should either allocate a buffer as big as the main buffer (6 ints) or use a vector (although I personally prefer c-style arrays for small sizes, because they avoid heap allocations and extra complexity). With the full-size buffer technique, you need a value like -1 (assuming you intend to only input positive numbers) to store after the list of values in the arrays to tell your output code to stop reading, or store the sizes somewhere. This is to prevent reading values that haven't been set.
I don't understand your problem when 4 is in the input. Your code looks fine except for your arrays.
You can use std::vector< int > odd; and then call only odd.push_back(elem) whem elem is odd.

Count number of ways for choosing two numbers in efficient algorithm

I solved this problem but I got TLE Time Limit Exceed on online judge
the output of program is right but i think the way can be improved to be more efficient!
the problem :
Given n integer numbers, count the number of ways in which we can choose two elements such
that their absolute difference is less than 32.
In a more formal way, count the number of pairs (i, j) (1 ≤ i < j ≤ n) such that
|V[i] - V[j]| < 32. |X|
is the absolute value of X.
Input
The first line of input contains one integer T, the number of test cases (1 ≤ T ≤ 128).
Each test case begins with an integer n (1 ≤ n ≤ 10,000).
The next line contains n integers (1 ≤ V[i] ≤ 10,000).
Output
For each test case, print the number of pairs on a single line.
my code in c++ :
int main() {
int T,n,i,j,k,count;
int a[10000];
cin>>T;
for(k=0;k<T;k++)
{ count=0;
cin>>n;
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
cin>>a[i];
}
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
for(j=i;j<n;j++)
{
if(i!=j)
{
if(abs(a[i]-a[j])<32)
count++;
}
}
}
cout<<count<<endl;
}
return 0;
}
I need help how can I solve it in more efficient algorithm ?
Despite my previous (silly) answer, there is no need to sort the data at all. Instead you should count the frequencies of the numbers.
Then all you need to do is keep track of the number of viable numbers to pair with, while iterating over the possible values. Sorry no c++ but java should be readable as well:
int solve (int[] numbers) {
int[] frequencies = new int[10001];
for (int i : numbers) frequencies[i]++;
int solution = 0;
int inRange = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < frequencies.length; i++) {
if (i > 32) inRange -= frequencies[i - 32];
solution += frequencies[i] * inRange;
solution += frequencies[i] * (frequencies[i] - 1) / 2;
inRange += frequencies[i];
}
return solution;
}
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int a[10010];
int N;
int search (int x){
int low = 0;
int high = N;
while (low < high)
{
int mid = (low+high)/2;
if (a[mid] >= x) high = mid;
else low = mid+1;
}
return low;
}
int main() {
cin >> N;
for (int i=0 ; i<N ; i++) cin >> a[i];
sort(a,a+N);
long long ans = 0;
for (int i=0 ; i<N ; i++)
{
int t = search(a[i]+32);
ans += (t -i - 1);
}
cout << ans << endl;
return 0;
}
You can sort the numbers, and then use a sliding window. Starting with the smallest number, populate a std::deque with the numbers so long as they are no larger than the smallest number + 31. Then in an outer loop for each number, update the sliding window and add the new size of the sliding window to the counter. Update of the sliding window can be performed in an inner loop, by first pop_front every number that is smaller than the current number of the outer loop, then push_back every number that is not larger than the current number of the outer loop + 31.
One faster solution would be to first sort the array, then iterate through the sorted array and for each element only visit the elements to the right of it until the difference exceeds 31.
Sorting can probably be done via count sort (since you have 1 ≤ V[i] ≤ 10,000). So you get linear time for the sorting part. It might not be necessary though (maybe quicksort suffices in order to get all the points).
Also, you can do a trick for the inner loop (the "going to the right of the current element" part). Keep in mind that if S[i+k]-S[i]<32, then S[i+k]-S[i+1]<32, where S is the sorted version of V. With this trick the whole algorithm turns linear.
This can be done constant number of passes over the data, and actually can be done without being affected by the value of the "interval" (in your case, 32).
This is done by populating an array where a[i] = a[i-1] + number_of_times_i_appears_in_the_data - informally, a[i] holds the total number of elements that are smaller/equals to i.
Code (for a single test case):
static int UPPER_LIMIT = 10001;
static int K = 32;
int frequencies[UPPER_LIMIT] = {0}; // O(U)
int n;
std::cin >> n;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { // O(n)
int x;
std::cin >> x;
frequencies[x] += 1;
}
for (int i = 1; i < UPPER_LIMIT; i++) { // O(U)
frequencies[i] += frequencies[i-1];
}
int count = 0;
for (int i = 1; i < UPPER_LIMIT; i++) { // O(U)
int low_idx = std::max(i-32, 0);
int number_of_elements_with_value_i = frequencies[i] - frequencies[i-1];
if (number_of_elements_with_value_i == 0) continue;
int number_of_elements_with_value_K_close_to_i =
(frequencies[i-1] - frequencies[low_idx]);
std::cout << "i: " << i << " number_of_elements_with_value_i: " << number_of_elements_with_value_i << " number_of_elements_with_value_K_close_to_i: " << number_of_elements_with_value_K_close_to_i << std::endl;
count += number_of_elements_with_value_i * number_of_elements_with_value_K_close_to_i;
// Finally, add "duplicates" of i, this is basically sum of arithmetic
// progression with d=1, a0=0, n=number_of_elements_with_value_i
count += number_of_elements_with_value_i * (number_of_elements_with_value_i-1) /2;
}
std::cout << count;
Working full example on IDEone.
You can sort and then use break to end loop when ever the range goes out.
int main()
{
int t;
cin>>t;
while(t--){
int n,c=0;
cin>>n;
int ar[n];
for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
cin>>ar[i];
sort(ar,ar+n);
for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
for(int j=i+1;j<n;j++){
if(ar[j]-ar[i] < 32)
c++;
else
break;
}
}
cout<<c<<endl;
}
}
Or, you can use a hash array for the range and mark occurrence of each element and then loop around and check for each element i.e. if x = 32 - y is present or not.
A good approach here is to split the numbers into separate buckets:
constexpr int limit = 10000;
constexpr int diff = 32;
constexpr int bucket_num = (limit/diff)+1;
std::array<std::vector<int>,bucket_num> buckets;
cin>>n;
int number;
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
cin >> number;
buckets[number/diff].push_back(number%diff);
}
Obviously the numbers that are in the same bucket are close enough to each other to fit the requirement, so we can just count all the pairs:
int result = std::accumulate(buckets.begin(), buckets.end(), 0,
[](int s, vector<int>& v){ return s + (v.size()*(v.size()-1))/2; });
The numbers that are in non-adjacent buckets cannot form any acceptable pairs, so we can just ignore them.
This leaves the last corner case - adjacent buckets - which can be solved in many ways:
for(int i=0;i<bucket_num-1;i++)
if(buckets[i].size() && buckets[i+1].size())
result += adjacent_buckets(buckets[i], buckets[i+1]);
Personally I like the "occurrence frequency" approach on the one bucket scale, but there may be better options:
int adjacent_buckets(const vector<int>& bucket1, const vector<int>& bucket2)
{
std::array<int,diff> pairs{};
for(int number : bucket1)
{
for(int i=0;i<number;i++)
pairs[i]++;
}
return std::accumulate(bucket2.begin(), bucket2.end(), 0,
[&pairs](int s, int n){ return s + pairs[n]; });
}
This function first builds an array of "numbers from lower bucket that are close enough to i", and then sums the values from that array corresponding to the upper bucket numbers.
In general this approach has O(N) complexity, in the best case it will require pretty much only one pass, and overall should be fast enough.
Working Ideone example
This solution can be considered O(N) to process N input numbers and constant in time to process the input:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
void solve()
{
int a[10001] = {0}, N, n, X32 = 0, ret = 0;
cin >> N;
for (int i=0; i<N; ++i)
{
cin >> n;
a[n]++;
}
for (int i=0; i<10001; ++i)
{
if (i >= 32)
X32 -= a[i-32];
if (a[i])
{
ret += a[i] * X32;
ret += a[i] * (a[i]-1)/2;
X32 += a[i];
}
}
cout << ret << endl;
}
int main()
{
int T;
cin >> T;
for (int i=0 ; i<T ; i++)
solve();
}
run this code on ideone
Solution explanation: a[i] represents how many times i was in the input series.
Then you go over entire array and X32 keeps track of number of elements that's withing range from i. The only tricky part really is to calculate properly when some i is repeated multiple times: a[i] * (a[i]-1)/2. That's it.
You should start by sorting the input.
Then if your inner loop detects the distance grows above 32, you can break from it.
Thanks for everyone efforts and time to solve this problem.
I appreciated all Attempts to solve it.
After testing the answers on online judge I found the right and most efficient solution algorithm is Stef's Answer and AbdullahAhmedAbdelmonem's answer also pavel solution is right but it's exactly same as Stef solution in different language C++.
Stef's code got time execution 358 ms in codeforces online judge and accepted.
also AbdullahAhmedAbdelmonem's code got time execution 421 ms in codeforces online judge and accepted.
if they put detailed explanation to there algorithm the bounty will be to one of them.
you can try your solution and submit it to codeforces online judge at this link after choosing problem E. Time Limit Exceeded?
also I found a great algorithm solution and more understandable using frequency array and it's complexity O(n).
in this algorithm you only need to take specific range for each inserted element to the array which is:
begin = element - 32
end = element + 32
and then count number of pair in this range for each inserted element in the frequency array :
int main() {
int T,n,i,j,k,b,e,count;
int v[10000];
int freq[10001];
cin>>T;
for(k=0;k<T;k++)
{
count=0;
cin>>n;
for(i=1;i<=10000;i++)
{
freq[i]=0;
}
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
cin>>v[i];
}
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
count=count+freq[v[i]];
b=v[i]-31;
e=v[i]+31;
if(b<=0)
b=1;
if(e>10000)
e=10000;
for(j=b;j<=e;j++)
{
freq[j]++;
}
}
cout<<count<<endl;
}
return 0;
}
finally i think the best approach to solve this kind of problems to use frequency array and count number of pairs in specific range because it's time complexity is O(n).