My two cents:

You use bsearch in the first array for each element of second array!!


Wladimir Araujo Tavares
*Federal University of CearĂ¡

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, siva viknesh <[email protected]>wrote:

> if we sort the first array along with the indexes ...in the next pass
> we can directly print the indexes as result no
> ....why should we do binary search in the next pass considering that
> 2nd array is also sorted???
>
> On Dec 29, 11:38 am, Abioy Sun <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > 2010/12/29 Anand <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > if I already have a structure indicating the position of the element in
> the
> > > array. Then why do we need to sort. Question is to provide index of
> element
> > > in O(nlogn).
> >
> > You do not have a structure before  preprocessing the data, whose
> > complexity  is O(nlogn) via qsort. Once you zip the zip the two array,
> > and sort the new array as @Wladimir and @juver++ mention, you can
> > provide each certain element's index in O(logn) via bsearch.
>
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