Problem 551. Have you seen any Spindromes recently?
- Never been to the dwarf planet makemake yet?
- Assume a new unexplored planet has several moons spinning around it,
- all on a flat circular orbit and equally spaced,
- and represented by a sequence of letters such as 'm a k e m a k e'
- or simply 'makemake'.
- Another example of a sequence of spinning moons could be '0 3 4 6 4 9'
- or simply '034649'.
- Notice that some moons may have same names.
- Assuming that such a sequence could also be called a spindrome if the spinning moons of same names can be distinguishable from each other by the neighbors.
- Otherwise that sequence is not a spindrome.
- The sequence 'makemake' is not a spindrome.
- The sequence '034649' is a spindrome.
- Please detect if the given sequence is a spindrome.
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@Amitava: I think test cases 4 and 6 are incorrect. Could you please verify the same?
@Amitava: please ignore my previous comment. Cheers.
Cheers
Neighbors are more than adjacents. The first and last elements are considered adjacent. Thus [ABAABA] is not a spindrome as it becomes ...AABAABAA...
However [ABA] is a spindrome even though it also becomes ...AABAABAA...
can u be more clear about test suite 4 & 6?
The definition of spindromes is not really clear. But basically it seems that we must look if there is a repeating pattern, if we found one, then the sequence is not a spindrome. On the other hand, AAAXXXAAA should not be a spindrome imho, since it is a repeating pattern AAAXXXAAAAAAXXXAAAAAAXXXAAAAAAXXXAAA ... so we have to limit the test to half of the list size which means AAAXX | XAAA is apparently a spindrome. However BBBXXXBBBXXX is not a spindrome, since we would have BBBXXX | BBBXXX.
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