What will I learn?
In this puzzle, you learn new ways and reasons to store data in optimized structures such as tries and get a better understanding of graph/tree theory.
Learning Opportunities
This puzzle can be solved using the following concepts. Practice using these concepts and improve your skills.
Statement
The goal of this puzzle is to store multiple phone numbers in a compact way, using a tree data structure, then count all the nodes there are in this tree. Be careful that you may need several tree roots.
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Story
Dang, all those telephone numbers are impossible to remember! What if we were to invent a new way to store phone numbers so that they take the least memory space? It is your task today to achieve that hard work. Then call me, maybe ?