Tuesday 7 June 2011

A Boolean Array Puzzle

Input: A array arr[] of two elements having value 0 and 1

Output: Make both elements 0.

Specifications: Following are the specifications to follow.
1) It is guaranteed that one element is 0 but we do not know its position.
2) We can’t say about another element it can be 0 or 1.
3) We can only complement array elements, no other operation like and, or, multi, division, …. etc.
4) We can’t use if, else and loop constructs.
5) Obviously, we can’t directly assign 0 to array elements.




void changeToZero(int a[2])
{
a[ a[1] ] = a[ !a[1] ];
}

int main()
{
int a[] = {1, 0};
changeToZero(a);

printf("arr[0] = %d \n", a[0]);
printf("arr[1] = %d ", a[1]);
getchar();
return 0;
}