Randomized Queue with Reservoir Sampling

This blog explains an apllication of randomized queue algorithms. Permutation client memory challenge A client program Permutation.java that takes an integer k as a command-line argument; reads in a sequence of strings from standard input using StdIn.readString(); and prints exactly k of them, uniformly at random. Print each item from the sequence at most once. More detail could be found at programming assignment specification and checklist, codes available in algs4/queues/src/....

2018-07-21 · 4 min · Cong Chan