Dsa
Hashing
Medium
The Code Clone Detector
You are analyzing a program's abstract syntax tree. Each node in the tree has a string value and zero or more children. Two subtrees are considered 'clones' if they have the exact same structure and the same values at every corresponding node. Given a tree, count how many nodes are the root of a subtree that has at least one other identical clone elsewhere in the tree.
Input Format:
- Line 1: N, the number of nodes (labeled 0 to N-1).
- Next N lines: Each line describes a node: `node_id value child_count [child_id1 child_id2 ...]`
Output Format:
- An integer representing the count of nodes whose subtrees are not unique.
Example:
Input:
3
0 Root 2 1 2
1 Leaf 0
2 Leaf 0
Output:
2
(Explanation: Node 1 and Node 2 both root the same subtree 'Leaf', so both are counted.)
Key concepts
hashingtreesrecursion
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