@Dumanshu:
min dist: you will terminate the algo when atleast 2 of the lists have their
indices reached the end of their respective lists in the process.
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Dumanshu <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Harshal: your terminating condition would be -
> lets say we have set the pointers to index 0 of each to get the min
> distance.
> for index 0 set the min_dist overall to the max distance among the 3
> pairs. Now increase the pointer with the minimum value and check the
> max distance between pairs. If distance now is more than min_dist we
> terminate and we have the answer
> else continue incrementing the pointer with the minimum value until we
> get a distance value greater than the previously computed min_dist
> value.
> correct me if i have misinterpreted ur algo.
>
> On Jun 17, 10:08 pm, Harshal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think this will work,
> > have 3 pointers p,q,r pointing last elements of the 3 lists.
> > compute the difference between each pair.
> > decrement the index of the list having the min element.
> > (at each stage, save the current indices and current max distance).
> >
> > Same logic for the min distance part, just start from index 0.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Ashish Goel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > merge two and if required third  array keeping array tag with the
> elements
> > > walk over the merged list and see adjacent distance which is minimum
> with
> > > the condition that the tage of the adjacent elements are different
> >
> > > Best Regards
> > > Ashish Goel
> > > "Think positive and find fuel in failure"
> > > +919985813081
> > > +919966006652
> >
> > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Dumanshu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >> U have got 3 sorted arrays A1 A2 and A3 having m n and p elements
> > >> respectively. A gap of 3 arrays is defined to be max distance between
> > >> 3 nos if they are put on a no line say u pick three 2 12 and 7 then
> > >> the gap is 10. Now u have to find an efficient way of chosing 3 nos
> > >> from these 3 seperate arrays (A1, A2, A3) such that their gap is
> > >> minimum. Of course if a num say 2 occurs in all 3 then gap is 0!!!
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