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Interview program – Matrix

Print squares of diagonal elements in O(n) time complexity

Input: 1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
Output: 1 25 81
9 25 49




public class SquareOfDiagonal {

	static void printDiagonalSquare(int[][] mat) {
		int n = mat.length;
		int principalDig[] = new int[n];
		int secondaryDig[] = new int[n];
		for (int i = 0; i < mat.length; i++) {
			principalDig[i] = mat[i][i] * mat[i][i];
			secondaryDig[i] = mat[i][n - i - 1] * mat[i][n - i - 1];

		}

		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			System.out.print(principalDig[i] + " ");
		}
		System.out.println();
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			System.out.print(secondaryDig[i] + " ");
		}

	}

	static public void main(String[] args) {
		int[][] a = { { 1, 2, 3 }, { 4, 5, 6 }, { 7, 8, 9 } };

		printDiagonalSquare(a);
	}

}

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Solution provided by Nilmani Prashanth

Bushan Sirgur

Hey guys, I am Bushan Sirgur from Banglore, India. Currently, I am working as an Associate project in an IT company.

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