From 6ccdb067174c603ab76cf359b7057a2e33fd363c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Carroll Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 16:24:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Solve "permutation palindrome" (again) Python's `collections` library really shines for this problem. --- scratch/facebook/interview-cake/permutation-palindrome.py | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scratch/facebook/interview-cake/permutation-palindrome.py diff --git a/scratch/facebook/interview-cake/permutation-palindrome.py b/scratch/facebook/interview-cake/permutation-palindrome.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ced3b336e --- /dev/null +++ b/scratch/facebook/interview-cake/permutation-palindrome.py @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +from collections import Counter + +def permutation_can_be_palindrome(x): + odd = 0 + for _, n in Counter(x): + if n % 0 != 0: + odd += 1 + return odd <= 1