Amazon interview question

Design a stack with min(stack) operation in constant time

Interview Answers

Anonymous

25 May 2012

The idea is to have a "current minimum" variable that you update on push. The trick is to save this current minimum with the node on push, so that once you pop you get the old "current minimum".

Anonymous

25 July 2012

Using temporary variable is OKAY. But if pop operation is performed on curr minimum,it would be O(n) to update the new minimum