Making An Anagram in Frequency Based Approach

Akshay Ravindran
4 min readJun 25, 2018

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Making Anagrams

We consider two strings to be anagrams of each other if the first string’s letters can be rearranged to form the second string. In other words, both strings must contain the same exact letters in the same exact frequency. For example, bacdc and dcbacare anagrams, but bacdc and dcbad are not.

Alice is taking a cryptography class and finding anagrams to be very useful. She decides on an encryption scheme involving two large strings where encryption is dependent on the minimum number of character deletions required to make the two strings anagrams. Can you help her…

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Akshay Ravindran
Akshay Ravindran

Written by Akshay Ravindran

Code -> Understand-> Repeat is my motto. I am a Data Engineer who writes about everything related to Data Science and Interview Preparation for SDE.