{"id":107,"date":"2019-06-02T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.369usa.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2019-06-02T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:23:33","slug":"tech-interview-exam-question-given-a-linked-list-determine-if-it-has-a-cycle-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.369usa.com\/blog\/tech-interview-exam-question-given-a-linked-list-determine-if-it-has-a-cycle-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Interview Exam Question: Given a linked list, determine if it has a cycle in it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given a linked list, determine if it has a cycle in it.<\/p>\n<p>To represent a cycle in the given linked list, we use an integer pos which represents the position (0-indexed) in the linked list where tail connects to. 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