Emily Rosemary Collins

💡 Problem Formulation: The challenge is to determine whether there exists any permutation of a given string that forms a palindrome. A palindrome is a word that reads the same backward as forward, such as “radar” or “level”. In this context, an anagram is a rearrangement of the letters in the string. For example, given … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: Divisibility checks are a common necessity in algorithm designs and number theory problems. Specifically, we often need to determine if a larger integer is divisible by a smaller one without a remainder. For instance, checking if the number “12345678901234567890” is divisible by 17 is such a case. The output should be a … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: This article aims to tackle the challenge of determining whether a given array can be split into two subarrays where the absolute difference in their sums is a specific value, referred to as ‘K’. For example, given an input array [3, 1, 4, 2, 2] and an absolute difference ‘K’ of 1, … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: In various computational problems, it’s necessary to determine whether a string contains a sequence of consecutive similar elements. Specifically, we want to check if a string has ‘m’ consecutive ‘1’s or ‘0’s. For instance, given the string “001100111” and m=3, our script should indicate that the string contains a sequence of at … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: We often encounter the need to verify whether a binary representation of a number is composed of all 1s. This might be to ensure a certain mask is fully implemented, or to satisfy another bitwise precondition. An example input could be the number 7, which in binary is 0b111, and we would … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: This article explores various methods to check whether a triangle with a positive area can be formed given three angles as input. We are assuming that the angles are in degrees, and the sum of the angles must be exactly 180 degrees for a valid triangle. The desired output is a boolean … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: You have a list of words and you need to figure out if it’s possible to create a two-character string from these words. For instance, given the string “hi” and a word list [“hello”, “world”, “hi”, “there”], your function should return True because the two-character string can be formed from one of … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: A colindrome is a string that can be split into two parts where the second part is a mirror image of the first one. For example, ‘aabbaa’ is a colindrome because the second half ‘baa’ is a mirror of the first half ‘aab’. This article explains how to check whether a given … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: Ensuring each element of an array is unique is a common task in programming. In Python, we often face situations where we need to determine whether a list (arrays are referred to as lists in Python) contains distinct elements. For example, if we have an input list [1, 2, 3, 4], the … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: We aim to identify if a given string is an isogram in Python. An isogram is a word in which no letter occurs more than once. For instance, the input ‘dermatoglyphics’ should return true as it is an isogram, whereas ‘programming’ should return false. Method 1: Using a Set for Comparison One … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: In Python programming, checking if one string is the suffix of another means determining whether the second string ends with the sequence of characters that forms the first string. For instance, if ‘world’ is our suffix string and ‘hello world’ is the other string, we want our check to return True because … Read more

💡 Problem Formulation: Given an integer, how do we determine if every non-zero digit within the number divides the number itself? For example, considering the number 128, the digits 1, 2, and 8 all divide 128 evenly, thereby making it true for this problem. The desired output in this case would be a boolean value, … Read more