Inspired by Raymond Chen's post, say you have a 4x4 two dimensional array, write a function that rotates it 90 degrees. Raymond links to a solution in pseudo code, but I'd like to see some real world stuff.
[1][2][3][4]
[5][6][7][8]
[9][0][1][2]
[3][4][5][6]
Becomes:
[3][9][5][1]
[4][0][6][2]
[5][1][7][3]
[6][2][8][4]
Update: Nick's answer is the most straightforward, but is there a way to do it better than n^2? What if the matrix was 10000x10000?
O(n^2) time and O(1) space algorithm ( without any workarounds and hanky-panky stuff! )
Rotate by +90:
Rotate by -90:
Method 1 :
Method 2 :
Rotate by +180:
Method 1: Rotate by +90 twice
Method 2: Reverse each row and then reverse each column (Transpose)
Rotate by -180:
Method 1: Rotate by -90 twice
Method 2: Reverse each column and then reverse each row
Method 3: Rotate by +180 as they are same