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Tag: Fast and Slow Pointers

  • Tortoise and Hare Pointers

    So… this algorithm seems (at face value) rather pointless outside the context of a coding interview question. However, if you give it “a chance”, you’ll see that the Tortoise and Hare Pointer/Fast and Slow Pointer Pattern reveals the basic mechanic of identifying an Infinite Loop. While the example below does not account for what you…

  • Tortoise and Hare Pointers with The Movie Groundhog Day

    Tortoise and Hare Pointers (the Fast and Slow Pointers). They make sense well enough, the analogy of the fast runner lapping a slow runner on a quarter mile track comes to mind, or perhaps a NASCAR loop where the slowest racer is eclipsed by the fastest… and yet, while I found myself able to appreciate…