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Given a binary tree where node values are digits from 1 to 9. A path in the binary tree is said to be pseudo-palindromic if at least one permutation of the node values in the path is a palindrome.

Return the number of pseudo-palindromic paths going from the root node to leaf nodes.

Example 1:

Input: root = [2,3,1,3,1,null,1]
Output: 2
Explanation: The figure above represents the given binary tree. There are three paths going from the root node to leaf nodes: the red path [2,3,3], the green path [2,1,1], and the path [2,3,1]. Among these paths only red path and green path are pseudo-palindromic paths since the red path [2,3,3] can be rearranged in [3,2,3] (palindrome) and the green path [2,1,1] can be rearranged in [1,2,1] (palindrome).


Example 2:

Input: root = [2,1,1,1,3,null,null,null,null,null,1]
Output: 1
Explanation: The figure above represents the given binary tree. There are three paths going from the root node to leaf nodes: the green path [2,1,1], the path [2,1,3,1], and the path [2,1]. Among these paths only the green path is pseudo-palindromic since [2,1,1] can be rearranged in [1,2,1] (palindrome).


Example 3:

Input: root = [9]
Output: 1


Constraints:

• The given binary tree will have between 1 and 10^5 nodes.
• Node values are digits from 1 to 9.

## Solution: Counting

At most one number can occur odd times.

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n) / stack size

## C++

Use a binary string to represent occurrences of each number (even: 0 / odd: 1), we can use xor to flip the bit.

## C++

Given an undirected tree consisting of n vertices numbered from 0 to n-1, which has some apples in their vertices. You spend 1 second to walk over one edge of the tree. Return the minimum time in seconds you have to spend in order to collect all apples in the tree starting at vertex 0 and coming back to this vertex.

The edges of the undirected tree are given in the array edges, where edges[i] = [fromi, toi] means that exists an edge connecting the vertices fromi and toi. Additionally, there is a boolean array hasApple, where hasApple[i] = true means that vertex i has an apple, otherwise, it does not have any apple.

Example 1:

Input: n = 7, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[1,4],[1,5],[2,3],[2,6]], hasApple = [false,false,true,false,true,true,false]
Output: 8
Explanation: The figure above represents the given tree where red vertices have an apple. One optimal path to collect all apples is shown by the green arrows.


Example 2:

Input: n = 7, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[1,4],[1,5],[2,3],[2,6]], hasApple = [false,false,true,false,false,true,false]
Output: 6
Explanation: The figure above represents the given tree where red vertices have an apple. One optimal path to collect all apples is shown by the green arrows.


Example 3:

Input: n = 7, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[1,4],[1,5],[2,3],[2,6]], hasApple = [false,false,false,false,false,false,false]
Output: 0


Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 10^5
• edges.length == n-1
• edges[i].length == 2
• 0 <= fromi, toi <= n-1
• fromi < toi
• hasApple.length == n

## Solution: DFS

Build the graph (tree) and DFS.

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

## C++

Given an integer number n, return the difference between the product of its digits and the sum of its digits.

Example 1:

Example 2:

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 10^5

## Solution: Simulation

Time complexity: O(logn)
Space complexity: O(1)

## C++

Given a positive integer n, generate a square matrix filled with elements from 1 to n2 in spiral order.

Example:

Input: 3
Output:
[
[ 1, 2, 3 ],
[ 8, 9, 4 ],
[ 7, 6, 5 ]
]

## Solution: Simulation

Time complexity: O(n^2)
Space complexity: O(n^2)

## C++

Invert a binary tree.

Example:

Input:

     4
/   \
2     7
/ \   / \
1   3 6   9

Output:

     4
/   \
7     2
/ \   / \
9   6 3   1

Trivia:
This problem was inspired by this original tweet by Max Howell:

Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f*** off.

## Solution: Recursion

Recursive invert the left and right subtrees and swap them.

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

## Python3

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