Question

What is a time complexity for finding frequently occurring of a substring of minimum length in a string?

(a) Ɵ (n)

(b) Ɵ (n!)

(c) O (n^2+ n1)

(d) O (log n!)

This interesting question is from Suffix tree in division Trie of Data Structures & Algorithms I

I got this question during an internship interview.

Answer 1

Right choice is (a) Ɵ (n)

The best explanation: Suffix Tree allows fast string operation. To check if a substring is present in a string of a length of n, the time complexity for such operation is found to be O (n). The time complexity for finding frequently occurring of a substring of minimum length in a string is Ɵ (n).