Jul 7, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min · 11 segments
Adam, Rich and Conor chat about the problem Sum of Frequencies from PWC 380. **Host:** Conor Hoekstra **Panel:** Adám Brudzewsky, Richard Park **Show Notes** ArrayCast - July 6th, 2026…
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Again, they're not so well specced, or at least not the way you described it.
two different letters? It doesn't matter, because you're only caring about the count, not the value.
Yeah, if the equal number is of A's and E's, then do you need to count both of them or it's just how many there are of one of them? No, like think about
it as creating a frequency count of A, E, I, O, U, and then you just do a max across those.
So I guess actually that comes from my, let's see, I went to week 380, and the problem, the exact problem description is you're given a string consisting of English letters, write a script to find the vowel and consonant with maximum frequency, return the sum of two frequencies, I'm sure it should say, of those two frequencies.
Yeah, let's just assume A, E, I, O, U are the vowels, and also it's not actually...
Yeah, it doesn't state it in the problem, but all the examples are lowercase, so I assumed lowercase.
And it's an uninteresting complication to the problem anyways, even if it were upper and lower.
Again, they're not so well specced, or at least not the way you described it.
two different letters? It doesn't matter, because you're only caring about the count, not the value.
Yeah, if the equal number is of A's and E's, then do you need to count both of them or it's just how many there are of one of them? No, like think about
it as creating a frequency count of A, E, I, O, U, and then you just do a max across those.
So I guess actually that comes from my, let's see, I went to week 380, and the problem, the exact problem description is you're given a string consisting of English letters, write a script to find the vowel and consonant with maximum frequency, return the sum of two frequencies, I'm sure it should say, of those two frequencies.
Yeah, let's just assume A, E, I, O, U are the vowels, and also it's not actually...
Yeah, it doesn't state it in the problem, but all the examples are lowercase, so I assumed lowercase.
And it's an uninteresting complication to the problem anyways, even if it were upper and lower.
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