# Posts published in “Geometry”

On an alphabet board, we start at position (0, 0), corresponding to character board[0][0].

Here, board = ["abcde", "fghij", "klmno", "pqrst", "uvwxy", "z"].

We may make the following moves:

• 'U' moves our position up one row, if the square exists;
• 'D' moves our position down one row, if the square exists;
• 'L' moves our position left one column, if the square exists;
• 'R' moves our position right one column, if the square exists;
• '!' adds the character board[r][c] at our current position (r, c) to the answer.

Return a sequence of moves that makes our answer equal to target in the minimum number of moves.  You may return any path that does so.

Example 1:

Input: target = "leet"
Output: "DDR!UURRR!!DDD!"


Example 2:

Input: target = "code"
Output: "RR!DDRR!UUL!R!"


Constraints:

• 1 <= target.length <= 100
• target consists only of English lowercase letters.

## Solution: Manhattan walk

Compute the coordinates of each char, walk from (x1, y1) to (x2, y2) in Manhattan way.
Be aware of the last row, we can only walk on ‘z’, so go left and up first if needed.

Time complexity: O(26*26 + n)
Space complexity: O(26*26)

## C++

Given N axis-aligned rectangles where N > 0, determine if they all together form an exact cover of a rectangular region.

Each rectangle is represented as a bottom-left point and a top-right point. For example, a unit square is represented as [1,1,2,2]. (coordinate of bottom-left point is (1, 1) and top-right point is (2, 2)).

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## C++

Given two lists of closed intervals, each list of intervals is pairwise disjoint and in sorted order.

Return the intersection of these two interval lists.

(Formally, a closed interval [a, b] (with a <= b) denotes the set of real numbers x with a <= x <= b.  The intersection of two closed intervals is a set of real numbers that is either empty, or can be represented as a closed interval.  For example, the intersection of [1, 3] and [2, 4] is [2, 3].)

Example 1:

Input: A = [[0,2],[5,10],[13,23],[24,25]], B = [[1,5],[8,12],[15,24],[25,26]]
Output: [[1,2],[5,5],[8,10],[15,23],[24,24],[25,25]]
Reminder: The inputs and the desired output are lists of Interval objects, and not arrays or lists.


Note:

1. 0 <= A.length < 1000
2. 0 <= B.length < 1000
3. 0 <= A[i].start, A[i].end, B[i].start, B[i].end < 10^9

## Solution: Two pointers

Time complexity: O(m + n)
Space complexity: O(1)

## Python3

We have a list of points on the plane.  Find the K closest points to the origin (0, 0).

(Here, the distance between two points on a plane is the Euclidean distance.)

You may return the answer in any order.  The answer is guaranteed to be unique (except for the order that it is in.)

Example 1:

Input: points = [[1,3],[-2,2]], K = 1 Output: [[-2,2]] Explanation:  The distance between (1, 3) and the origin is sqrt(10). The distance between (-2, 2) and the origin is sqrt(8). Since sqrt(8) < sqrt(10), (-2, 2) is closer to the origin. We only want the closest K = 1 points from the origin, so the answer is just [[-2,2]].

Example 2:

Input: points = [[3,3],[5,-1],[-2,4]], K = 2 Output: [[3,3],[-2,4]] (The answer [[-2,4],[3,3]] would also be accepted.)

Note:

1. 1 <= K <= points.length <= 10000
2. -10000 < points[i][0] < 10000
3. -10000 < points[i][1] < 10000

## Solution: Sort

Time complexity: O(nlogn)
Space complexity: O(n)

## Python3

Given a set of points in the xy-plane, determine the minimum area of any rectangle formed from these points, with sides not necessarily parallel to the x and y axes.

If there isn’t any rectangle, return 0.

Example 1:

Input: [[1,2],[2,1],[1,0],[0,1]]
Output: 2.00000
Explanation: The minimum area rectangle occurs at [1,2],[2,1],[1,0],[0,1], with an area of 2.


Example 2:

Input: [[0,1],[2,1],[1,1],[1,0],[2,0]]
Output: 1.00000
Explanation: The minimum area rectangle occurs at [1,0],[1,1],[2,1],[2,0], with an area of 1.


Example 3:

Input: [[0,3],[1,2],[3,1],[1,3],[2,1]]
Output: 0
Explanation: There is no possible rectangle to form from these points.


Example 4:

Input: [[3,1],[1,1],[0,1],[2,1],[3,3],[3,2],[0,2],[2,3]]
Output: 2.00000
Explanation: The minimum area rectangle occurs at [2,1],[2,3],[3,3],[3,1], with an area of 2.


Note:

1. 1 <= points.length <= 50
2. 0 <= points[i][0] <= 40000
3. 0 <= points[i][1] <= 40000
4. All points are distinct.
5. Answers within 10^-5 of the actual value will be accepted as correct.

# Solution: HashTable

Iterate all possible triangles and check the opposite points that creating a quadrilateral.

Time complexity: O(n^3)
Space complexity: O(n)

## C++

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