void search(int k) {
if (k == n) {
// process subset
} else {
search(k+1);
subset.push_back(k);
search(k+1);
subset.pop_back();
}
}
I am having a really hard time understand this code. I especially don't understand how 'k' turns to 2 after 'k' reaches 3. I don't understand because there's no such code that does search(k-1) but it backtracks automatically. I think It's related to the thing backtracking. Someone plz help!!!
It's building subset from $$$1$$$ to $$$n$$$. For each element, you can decide: to include it or not? Its like a DFS.
I am very noob to this CP so I don't know what DFS is.
Should I just memorize that k backtracks to the previous condition or try to understand?
bro doesn't understand the idea of simple recursion you're referencing that to dfs?
it's like you try to teach thesigma function using integrals to a 7th grader
This code generating all unique ({1,2,3} and {3,2,1} are same) subsets from 1 to n. There are two options, to add element or left it and transit with k+1, which generate all subset with size 1 till n.
About why k become 2 from 3, just because it go with first possible way. If this is too difficult to you, I recomment you to read this and watch here Good luck!
But I don't understand how the 'k' turns to 2 after reaching 3. There is no such a line that minuses k but I don't understand how this backtracks automatically.
At first you shall learn dfs with graph theory, and watch in youtube how works recursiohn,after this it will be understandable, hope i helped you!
Thanks! Is there a video that you recommend?
Oh i changed my first comment, there links
and also this
Thank you so much!
it doesn't return to, it's another stack of recursions
this code works as follows:
either an element comes or doesn't, in the else part, it handles when we haven't visited every element, the first 2 lines of the else part are when it comes, and the second 2 lines are when it doesn't.
bcuz of the way recursion(in total stack memory) works, it starts drawing it from above, not equally everywhere, so it first finishes writing 123, then goes to the last time it got branched and solves there etc
it's just understanding recursions
imagine you say to your friend, hey go put this box there, then come back, the other box here, he goes to put that box there, but when he does he sees another friend who tells him the same thing, and he goes and puts the box in the place the other friend tells him, and since there isn't anyone telling him to go do another thing, he returns to the second friend and moves the other box, then he returns to you and moves the other box, why? cause you told it to, not now but before, it's the same
the function get's called on
k = 2here, he goes and does the job but another friend calls him onk = 3now and he goes and does his job and another friend onk = 4, each friend is giving him 2 tasks, when he does the first task of thek = 4, no one tells him to go do something, so he returns and does the second tasks ofk = 4and then he goes to do the second task ofk = 3and goes to do the second task ofk = 2, he remembers each task, and does them in a last in first out order, which causes this going back to actionSo the 'k' will reach 4 but it returns nothing so nothing happens when k reaches 4. Am I right?
when k reaches for and it does the job, and there is no task(no other element in the initial array to use for the subset) it ends this single process, and goes to the last process he remembers
Yeah but I don't understand why it backtracks automatically even though I didn't write a single line of code to minus k. This recursion is so different than the recursion problems such as fibonacci numbers. Sorry for the slow understanding.
it's not the same
kman, they are different copies of each other,I call 2 persons, I tell them do this job with k = 4, I tell the other one: do this job with k = 1, but wait for the other one to finishes, when the first guy finished, the second dude starts with a different k, the other k didn't backtrack to 1, it's another one
So there are multiple k's?
yes
How? the parameter is only one integer.
it's the way memory works in c++