http://united-coders.com/taxonomy/term/94/0 en http://united-coders.com/nico-heid/java-challenge-dropping-balloons-in-java <!--paging_filter--><p>Recently I read about a nice article in one of my monthly magazines. I won't give you the author right now, otherwise googling for the solution would be too easy.<br /> He stated it as a possible interview question, but I really like it for the algorithm side of it. It reminded my strongly of some of the<br /> examples given in the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316778494?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=nicoheidcom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0316778494">How Would You Move Mount Fuji?</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nicoheidcom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0316919160" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> Which is excellent by the way.</p> <p>So your task is to write a Java function which computes the following:<span class="read-more"><a href="/nico-heid/java-challenge-dropping-balloons-in-java"><strong>Read more</strong></a></span></p> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://united-coders.com/nico-heid/java-challenge-dropping-balloons-in-java" dc:identifier="http://united-coders.com/nico-heid/java-challenge-dropping-balloons-in-java" dc:title="Java Challenge: Dropping Balloons in Java" trackback:ping="http://united-coders.com/trackback/40" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <div class='sexybookmarks-default-8033'></div> http://united-coders.com/nico-heid/java-challenge-dropping-balloons-in-java#comments algorithms challenge java puzzle Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:24:22 +0000 Nico Heid 40 at http://united-coders.com