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Count Snow Units Captured between the Hills asked in GS [Coding Challenge]

Aniruddha Chaudhari/612/0
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Note: This coding challenge was asked in Goldman Sach coding round and in many other technical job interviews.

Given an array of non-negative integers representing the elevations from the vertical cross-section of a range of hills, determine how many units of snow could be captured between the hills.

Example: 

See the example array and elevation map below.

Output: In this example, 13 units of snow (*) could be captured.

This problem is similar to the “maximum level of water it can trap after the rain”.

Explanation with algorithm:

  • Create array left and save all the local current maxima while traversing from left to right.
  • Create an array right and save all the local current maxima while traversing from right to left.
  • find min(left[i], right[i]) - arr[i] for each element.
  • Cacualte the sum form resultant array.

Python Solution

We are implementing above algorithm using Python programming.

Prerequisite:

  • Python list
def computeSnowpack(arr):
    # Todo: Implement computeSnowpack

    len_arr = len(arr)
    left = [arr[0]]*len_arr
    left_max = arr[0]
    for i in range(1, len_arr):
        left_max = left_max if left_max>arr[i] else arr[i]
        left[i] = left_max
    
    right = [arr[-1]]*len_arr
    right_max = arr[-1]
    for i in range(len_arr-2, -1, -1):
        right_max = right_max if right_max>arr[i] else arr[i]
        right[i] = right_max

    sum = 0
    for i in range(len_arr) :
        sum += min(left[i], right[i]) - arr[i]

    return sum

def doTestsPass():
    """ Returns True if all tests pass. Otherwise returns False. """
    tests = [ 
      [[2, 1, 3, ], 1], 
      [[0,1,3,0,1,2,0,4,2,0,3,0], 13], 
      [[2,1,3,0,1,2,0,4,2,0,3,0], 14],
    ]

    for test in tests:
        if not (computeSnowpack(test[0]) == test[1]):
            return False
    return True

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if( doTestsPass() ):
        print( "All tests pass" )
    else:
        print( "Not all tests pass")

Complexity:

  • The time complexity of this algorithm is O(n).
  • The space complexity of this algorithm is O(n).

Similar coding challenges asked in Goldman Sachs

  • Special Elements in Matrix
  • Secure My Conversation by Encryption and Decryption

If you have any other solution or if you have any question, let’s discuss in the comment.

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Aniruddha Chaudhari
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