Sollicitatievraag bij Bloomberg

How do you write an algorithm to count all subsets of strings in a string.

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Anoniem

8 nov 2015

int count(string &s) { return pow(2,s.size()); }

Anoniem

9 mrt 2017

Both answers above are incorrect, as there can be repeats.

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Anoniem

14 jul 2017

So, what's the answer if all previous answers were wrong?

Anoniem

18 jul 2017

sort the character array for the string then employ the algorithm to find all subsets without duplicates (backtracking algorithm) but don't actually store the result strings just count the number of them.