So ware Engineering Test

The problem
This problem is related to the Hungarian lo ery. In case you are not familiar with it: players pick 5
dis nct numbers from 1 to 90. There is a weekly lo ery picking event when the lo o organiza on
picks 5 dis nct numbers randomly between 1 and 90 – just like the players did. The player’s
reward then depends on how many of the player’s numbers match with the ones selected at the
lo o picking. A player wins if he/she has 2, 3, 4 or 5 matching numbers.

Now, the problem: at the lo ery event, right a er picking the numbers, a computer shall be able
to report quickly that how many winners are in each category, for example:

Numbers matching Winners

5 1

4 1221

3 81843
2 1226135

This report shall be generated as fast as possible a er picking the winner number. The player’s
numbers are known in advance which is expected to reach tens of millions.

Technical speci ca on
Write a console applica on in a freely chosen programming language that can be compiled on Linux.
Your applica on will be called like this:

./yourapp input.txt

where input.txt le exists in the same folder and is an ascii le, in which each line contains 5
space separated integers (in the range of 1-90) represen ng one player’s numbers.
You can download a sample le here.

When your applica on nished processing the player’s dataset from the le, it should write a line
to the standard output like this:
READY

Note that it should be newline terminated. A er that, the program may receive mul ple lines
(iden cal format required as the le’s lines) represen ng the lo ery’s picks and it should be able to
report 4 space separated numbers in the standard output as fast as possible (line should be newline
terminated). The four numbers shall mean the number of winners with 2, 3, 4 and 5 matches
respec vely.

Expecta ons
● Write an op mized code that can report the results. The faster the be er.
● Document the asympto c run me and space complexity of your solu on
● Use code comments (enough to make it easy to understand)
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● Document your ideas how you could further improve the calcula on speed, if any
● Submit your code by email or share it privately (do not share it in public space like
github), including instruc ons on how to build and run.
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