最近有幸作为面试观察员(面试shadow),参与了一场谷歌的软件工程师面试。面试中,候选人遇到了一道非常有趣的编程题目,难度相当高,涉及到了图论和数学知识。这题同时也是LeetCode 2867 题。
There is an undirected tree with n
nodes labeled from 1
to n
. You are given the integer n
and a 2D integer array edges
of length n - 1
, where edges[i] = [ui, vi]
indicates that there is an edge between nodes ui
and vi
in the tree.
Return the number of valid paths in the tree.
A path (a, b)
is valid if there exists exactly one prime number among the node labels in the path from a
to b
.
Note that:
- The path
(a, b)
is a sequence of distinct nodes starting with nodea
and ending with nodeb
such that every two adjacent nodes in the sequence share an edge in the tree. - Path
(a, b)
and path(b, a)
are considered the same and counted only once.
Input: n = 5, edges = [[1,2],[1,3],[2,4],[2,5]]
Output: 4
Explanation: The pairs with exactly one prime number on the path between them are:
(1, 2) since the path from 1 to 2 contains prime number 2.
(1, 3) since the path from 1 to 3 contains prime number 3.
(1, 4) since the path from 1 to 4 contains prime number 2.
(2, 4) since the path from 2 to 4 contains prime number 2.
It can be shown that there are only 4 valid paths.
Input: n = 6, edges = [[1,2],[1,3],[2,4],[3,5],[3,6]]
Output: 6
Explanation: The pairs with exactly one prime number on the path between them are:
(1, 2) since the path from 1 to 2 contains prime number 2.
(1, 3) since the path from 1 to 3 contains prime number 3.
(1, 4) since the path from 1 to 4 contains prime number 2.
(1, 6) since the path from 1 to 6 contains prime number 3.
(2, 4) since the path from 2 to 4 contains prime number 2.
(3, 6) since the path from 3 to 6 contains prime number 3.
It can be shown that there are only 6 valid paths.
Constraints:
1 <= n <= 105
edges.length == n - 1
edges[i].length == 2
1 <= ui, vi <= n
- The input is generated such that
edges
represent a valid tree.
这道题目考查的是候选人对树的遍历算法、质数判断以及图论中路径问题的理解和应用能力。我注意到,面试官在提出问题后,特别强调了对算法效率的考量,希望候选人能提出时间复杂度和空间复杂度都较优的解决方案。
候选人首先花了一些时间理解题目,确认了几个关键点后,开始思考解题思路。他首先分析了如何在树中找到所有可能的路径,接着探讨了如何高效判断一个数是否为质数。在确认解题思路后,候选人开始编写代码,过程中与面试官进行了几次交流,讨论了算法的有效性和可能的优化方案。
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