SKP's Algorithms and Data Structures #6: Java Problem: Active Traders
This Article Series Focuses on Algorithms, Data Structures, or Applying them to Problem Solving. In this Article, We Discuss the Solution to [Active Traders] Problem from Hacker Rank.
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n = 23
"customers = {"Bigcorp", "Bigcorp", "Acme", "Bigcorp", "Zork", "Zork", "Abe", "Bigcorp", "Acme", "Bigcorp", "Bigcorp", "Zork", "Bigcorp", "Zork", "Zork", "Bigcorp", "Acme", "Bigcorp", "Acme", "Bigcorp", "Acme", "Littlecorp", "Nadircorp"}."
"Bigcorp had 10 Trades out of 23, which is 43.48% of the Total Trades."
"Both Acme and Zork had 5 trades, which is 21.74% of the Total Trades."
"The Littlecorp, Nadircorp, and Abe had 1 Trade Each, which is 4.35%..."
"So the Answer is ["Acme","Bigcorp","Zork"] (In Alphabetical Order) Because only These Three Companies Placed at least 5% of the Trades.
Function Description
Complete the Function mostActive in the Editor Below.
mostActive has the following parameter:
String customers[n]: An Array Customer Names
(Actual Question Says String Array, But Signature is List of Strings)
Returns String[]: An Alphabetically Ascending Array
Constraints
• 1 < n < 10^5
• 1 < Length of customers[] < 20
• The First Character of customers[i] is a Capital English letter.
• All Characters of customers[i] except for the First One are Lowercase.
• Guaranteed that At least One Customer makes at least 5% of Trades.
Input Format
"The First Line contains an integer, n, The Number of Elements in customers."
"Each Line i of the n Subsequent Lines (where 0 s i< n) contains a string, customers[i]."
Sample Case 0 Input For Custom Testing
20
Omega Alpha Omega Alpha Omega Alpha Omega Alpha Omega Alpha Omega Alpha Omega Alpha Omega Alpha Omega Alpha Omega Beta
Function mostActive
customers[] size n = 20
customers[] = [As Provided Above]
Sample Output
Alpha
Beta
Omega
Explanation
"Alpha made 10 Trades out of 20 (50% of the Total), Omega made 9 Trades (45% of the Total). and Beta made 1 Trade (5% of the Total). All of them have met the 5% Threshold, so all the Strings are Returned in an Alphabetically Ordered Array."
[Explanation of the Solution]
This is Good Practice for the Brain for Problem Solving — Involves Simple Arithmetic and Mathematical Application. Ideally, A Programmer would want to Optimize the Solution in Space and Time (Which I Did Not :-)
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.joining;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;
/*
* HackerRank Problem Solving - Ain't a Horse that Can't be Rode
* Sumith Kumar Puri (c) 2021 - ~ Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ~
*
*/
class ActiveTradersLogic {
public static List<String> mostActive(List<String> customers) {
// How About Arrays or Custom LinkedList for a 'Very Fast' Traversal?
Map<String, Integer> customerMap = new TreeMap<String, Integer>();
List<String> solutionStr = new ArrayList<String>();
int customerMapSize = customers.size();
for (int i = 0; i < customerMapSize; i++) {
String customerKey = customers.get(i);
if (customerMap.containsKey(customerKey)) {
Integer customerCount = customerMap.get(customerKey);
customerMap.put(customerKey, ++customerCount);
} else {
customerMap.put(customerKey, 1);
}
}
Set<String> customerMapKeys = customerMap.keySet();
for (String customerKey : customerMapKeys) {
Integer customerCount = customerMap.get(customerKey);
double currentCustomerPercent = (double) (customerCount) / (double) customerMapSize;
if (currentCustomerPercent * 100 >= 5.0) {
solutionStr.add(customerKey);
}
}
return solutionStr;
}
}
public class ActiveTraders {
public static final String OUTPUT_PATH = "PROVIDE_ABSOLUTE_INPUT_FILE_NAME";
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(System.getenv(OUTPUT_PATH)));
int customersCount = Integer.parseInt(bufferedReader.readLine().trim());
List<String> customers = IntStream.range(0, customersCount).mapToObj(i -> {
try {
return bufferedReader.readLine();
} catch (IOException ex) {
throw new RuntimeException(ex);
}
}).collect(toList());
List<String> result = ActiveTradersLogic.mostActive(customers);
bufferedWriter.write(result.stream().collect(joining("\n")) + "\n");
bufferedReader.close();
bufferedWriter.close();
}
}
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