EPALIN - Extend to Palindrome

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Your task is, given an integer N, to make a palindrome (word that reads the same when you reverse it) of length at least N (1 <= N <= 100,000). Any palindrome will do.

Easy, isn't it? That's what you thought before you passed it on to your inexperienced team-mate. When the contest is almost over, you find out that that problem still isn't solved. The problem with the code is that the strings generated are often not palindromic. There's not enough time to start again from scratch or to debug his messy code.

Seeing that the situation is desperate, you decide to simply write some additional code that takes the output and adds just enough extra characters to it to make it a palindrome and hope for the best. Your solution should take as its input a string and produce the smallest palindrome that can be formed by adding zero or more characters at its end. The input string will consist of only upper and lower case letters.

Example

Input:
aaaa
abba
amanaplanacanal
xyz

Output:
aaaa
abba
amanaplanacanalpanama
xyzyx
Note:
1. All palindromes are considered case-sensitive (i.e. 'Aa' is not a palindrome).
2. Large I/O. Be careful in certain languages.

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slothsphereoj: 2024-02-22 03:30:00

Excellent problem on kmp or z-algo indeed.

cjn2007: 2021-09-27 14:28:38

Got Accepted int the second chance because of a small mistake.....
It can be solved with Manacher's Algorithm.

maheshwari7778: 2021-04-17 08:29:41

lodu h accepted in in one go>>>>>>

s_tank00_: 2020-12-29 08:13:09

accepted in 1 go .....

samartha_5611: 2020-08-19 12:00:53

It can be very easily solved with Z-algo.....
try with it only
AC in 1 go:-)

hackerbhaiya: 2020-06-18 23:29:33

@ babur yes it can be solved using Z algo ….. i + z[i] should be equal to some value (Hint)

amansahu112: 2020-04-20 11:43:36

simple code but great concept of KMP

prudhvi_495: 2019-06-04 16:21:17

EXCELLENT APPLICATION OF KMP Algo

elmer_fudd: 2018-10-28 08:35:25

anyone give me z - algorithm solution please

nmouad21: 2018-01-23 21:59:22

Cool problem

Last edit: 2018-01-23 21:59:45

Added by:Muntasir Azam Khan
Date:2009-03-22
Time limit:1s
Source limit:50000B
Memory limit:1536MB
Cluster: Cube (Intel G860)
Languages:All except: ERL JS-RHINO
Resource:Own problem, used in Next Generation Contest 5