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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
# see http://timeless.judofyr.net/tailin-ruby for what the define_singleton_method's are about | |
define_singleton_method(:find_nth_largest_tco) do |a, b, n, low, high| | |
if (high < low) | |
return nil | |
end | |
mid = low + (high - low) / 2 | |
k = mid + binary_search(b, a[mid]) + 1 | |
if k < n | |
low = mid + 1 | |
redo | |
elsif k > n | |
high = mid - 1 | |
redo | |
else | |
return a[mid] | |
end | |
end | |
def find_nth_largest a, b, n | |
if a.length + b.length < n | |
return nil | |
end | |
in_a = find_nth_largest_tco(a, b, n, 0, [n, a.length - 1].min) | |
if in_a | |
return in_a | |
end | |
p | |
in_b = find_nth_largest_tco(b, a, n, 0, [n, b.length - 1].min) | |
if in_b | |
return in_b | |
end | |
end | |
def binary_search list, value | |
binary_search_tco(list, value, 0, list.length - 1) | |
end | |
# algorithm is based off the tail recursive example on wikipedia | |
define_singleton_method(:binary_search_tco) do |list, value, low, high| | |
if (high < low) | |
return low | |
end | |
mid = low + (high - low) / 2 | |
if list[mid] > value | |
high = mid - 1 | |
redo | |
elsif list[mid] < value | |
low = mid + 1 | |
redo | |
else | |
return mid | |
end | |
end | |
if $0 == __FILE__ | |
# snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2368 | |
class Numeric | |
def ordinal | |
to_s + ([[nil, 'st', 'nd','rd'],[]][self / 10 == 1 && 1 || 0][self % 10] || 'th') | |
end | |
end | |
(50..55).each do |i| | |
list = [] | |
current = 0 | |
i.times { list << (current += (rand(5) + 1)) } | |
list.shuffle! | |
a = [] | |
b = [] | |
list.each_index { |num| (num % 2 == 0) ? a << list[num] : b << list[num] } | |
a.sort! | |
b.sort! | |
n = rand(i) + 1 | |
puts "Using a: #{a}" | |
puts " b: #{b}" | |
puts "the #{n.ordinal} largest number is #{find_nth_largest(a, b, n)}" | |
puts | |
end | |
end |
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
require_relative './nth_largest' | |
if $0 == __FILE__ | |
times = [] | |
[1e4, 1e5, 1e6, 1e7, 1e8].map {|a| [1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8, 2.2, 2.7, 3.3, 3.9, 4.7, 5.6, 6.8, 8.2].map { |b| (a * b).to_i }}.flatten.each do |i| | |
p i | |
list = [] | |
current = 0 | |
i.times { list << (current += (rand(5) + 1)) } | |
list.shuffle! | |
a = [] | |
b = [] | |
list.each_index { |num| (num % 2 == 0) ? a << list[num] : b << list[num] } | |
a.sort! | |
b.sort! | |
n = rand(i) + 1 | |
start = Time.now | |
find_nth_largest(a, b, n) | |
end_time = Time.now | |
times << { :i => i, :time => end_time - start } | |
end | |
File.open('output', 'w') do |file| | |
file << ['i', 'time'].join("\t") << "\n" | |
times.each do |time| | |
file << [time[:i], time[:time]].join("\t") << "\n" | |
end | |
end | |
end |
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