You are given a string s of even length consisting of digits from 0 to 9, and two integers a and b.

You can apply either of the following two operations any number of times and in any order on s:

• Add a to all odd indices of s (0-indexed). Digits post 9 are cycled back to 0. For example, if s = "3456" and a = 5s becomes "3951".
• Rotate s to the right by b positions. For example, if s = "3456" and b = 1s becomes "6345".

Return the lexicographically smallest string you can obtain by applying the above operations any number of times on s.

A string a is lexicographically smaller than a string b (of the same length) if in the first position where a and b differ, string a has a letter that appears earlier in the alphabet than the corresponding letter in b. For example, "0158" is lexicographically smaller than "0190" because the first position they differ is at the third letter, and '5' comes before '9'.

Example 1:

Input: s = "5525", a = 9, b = 2
Output: "2050"
Explanation: We can apply the following operations:
Start:  "5525"
Rotate: "2555"
Rotate: "5323"
​​​​​​​Rotate: "2151"
There is no way to obtain a string that is lexicographically smaller then "2050".


Example 2:

Input: s = "74", a = 5, b = 1
Output: "24"
Explanation: We can apply the following operations:
Start:  "74"
Rotate: "47"
​​​​​​​Rotate: "24"​​​​​​​​​​​​
There is no way to obtain a string that is lexicographically smaller then "24".


Example 3:

Input: s = "0011", a = 4, b = 2
Output: "0011"
Explanation: There are no sequence of operations that will give us a lexicographically smaller string than "0011".


Example 4:

Input: s = "43987654", a = 7, b = 3
Output: "00553311"


Constraints:

• 2 <= s.length <= 100
• s.length is even.
• s consists of digits from 0 to 9 only.
• 1 <= a <= 9
• 1 <= b <= s.length - 1

## C++

Given a string s, return the length of the longest substring between two equal characters, excluding the two characters. If there is no such substring return -1.

substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "aa"
Output: 0
Explanation: The optimal substring here is an empty substring between the two 'a's.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abca"
Output: 2
Explanation: The optimal substring here is "bc".


Example 3:

Input: s = "cbzxy"
Output: -1
Explanation: There are no characters that appear twice in s.


Example 4:

Input: s = "cabbac"
Output: 4
Explanation: The optimal substring here is "abba". Other non-optimal substrings include "bb" and "".


Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 300
• s contains only lowercase English letters.

## Solution: Hashtable

Remember the first position each letter occurs.

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

## C++

Given n points on a 1-D plane, where the ith point (from 0 to n-1) is at x = i, find the number of ways we can draw exactly k non-overlapping line segments such that each segment covers two or more points. The endpoints of each segment must have integral coordinates. The k line segments do not have to cover all n points, and they are allowed to share endpoints.

Return the number of ways we can draw k non-overlapping line segments. Since this number can be huge, return it modulo 109 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: n = 4, k = 2
Output: 5
Explanation:
The two line segments are shown in red and blue.
The image above shows the 5 different ways {(0,2),(2,3)}, {(0,1),(1,3)}, {(0,1),(2,3)}, {(1,2),(2,3)}, {(0,1),(1,2)}.

Example 2:

Input: n = 3, k = 1
Output: 3
Explanation: The 3 ways are {(0,1)}, {(0,2)}, {(1,2)}.


Example 3:

Input: n = 30, k = 7
Output: 796297179
Explanation: The total number of possible ways to draw 7 line segments is 3796297200. Taking this number modulo 109 + 7 gives us 796297179.


Example 4:

Input: n = 5, k = 3
Output: 7


Example 5:

Input: n = 3, k = 2
Output: 1

Constraints:

• 2 <= n <= 1000
• 1 <= k <= n-1

## Solution 1: Naive DP (TLE)

dp[n][k] := ans of problem(n, k)
dp[n][1] = n * (n – 1) / 2 # C(n,2)
dp[n][k] = 1 if k == n – 1
dp[n][k] = 0 if k >= n
dp[n][k] = sum((i – 1) * dp(n – i + 1, k – 1) 2 <= i < n

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

## Solution 2: DP w/ Prefix Sum

Time complexity: O(nk)
Space complexity: O(nk)

## Solution 3: DP / 3D State

Time complexity: O(nk)
Space complexity: O(nk)

## Solution 4: DP / Mathematical induction

Time complexity: O(nk)
Space complexity: O(nk)

## Solution 5: DP / Reduction

This problem can be reduced to: given n + k – 1 points, pick k segments (2*k points).
if two consecutive points were selected by two segments e.g. i for A and i+1 for B, then they share a point in the original space.
Answer C(n + k – 1, 2*k)

Time complexity: O((n+k)*2) Pascal’s triangle
Space complexity: O((n+k)*2)

## C++

You are given an array of network towers towers and an integer radius, where towers[i] = [xi, yi, qi] denotes the ith network tower with location (xi, yi) and quality factor qi. All the coordinates are integral coordinates on the X-Y plane, and the distance between two coordinates is the Euclidean distance.

The integer radius denotes the maximum distance in which the tower is reachable. The tower is reachable if the distance is less than or equal to radius. Outside that distance, the signal becomes garbled, and the tower is not reachable.

The signal quality of the ith tower at a coordinate (x, y) is calculated with the formula ⌊qi / (1 + d)⌋, where d is the distance between the tower and the coordinate. The network quality at a coordinate is the sum of the signal qualities from all the reachable towers.

Return the integral coordinate where the network quality is maximum. If there are multiple coordinates with the same network quality, return the lexicographically minimum coordinate.

Note:

• A coordinate (x1, y1) is lexicographically smaller than (x2, y2) if either x1 < x2 or x1 == x2 and y1 < y2.
• ⌊val⌋ is the greatest integer less than or equal to val (the floor function).

Example 1:

Input: towers = [[1,2,5],[2,1,7],[3,1,9]], radius = 2
Output: [2,1]
Explanation:
At coordinate (2, 1) the total quality is 13
- Quality of 7 from (2, 1) results in ⌊7 / (1 + sqrt(0)⌋ = ⌊7⌋ = 7
- Quality of 5 from (1, 2) results in ⌊5 / (1 + sqrt(2)⌋ = ⌊2.07⌋ = 2
- Quality of 9 from (3, 1) results in ⌊9 / (1 + sqrt(1)⌋ = ⌊4.5⌋ = 4
No other coordinate has higher quality.

Example 2:

Input: towers = [[23,11,21]], radius = 9
Output: [23,11]


Example 3:

Input: towers = [[1,2,13],[2,1,7],[0,1,9]], radius = 2
Output: [1,2]


Example 4:

Input: towers = [[2,1,9],[0,1,9]], radius = 2
Output: [0,1]
Explanation: Both (0, 1) and (2, 1) are optimal in terms of quality but (0, 1) is lexicograpically minimal.


Constraints:

• 1 <= towers.length <= 50
• towers[i].length == 3
• 0 <= xi, yi, qi <= 50
• 1 <= radius <= 50

## Solution: Brute Force

Try all possible coordinates from (0, 0) to (50, 50).

Time complexity: O(|X|*|Y|*t)
Space complexity: O(1)

## C++

Given an integer array arr, return the mean of the remaining integers after removing the smallest 5% and the largest 5% of the elements.

Answers within 10-5 of the actual answer will be considered accepted.

Example 1:

Input: arr = [1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3]
Output: 2.00000
Explanation: After erasing the minimum and the maximum values of this array, all elements are equal to 2, so the mean is 2.


Example 2:

Input: arr = [6,2,7,5,1,2,0,3,10,2,5,0,5,5,0,8,7,6,8,0]
Output: 4.00000


Example 3:

Input: arr = [6,0,7,0,7,5,7,8,3,4,0,7,8,1,6,8,1,1,2,4,8,1,9,5,4,3,8,5,10,8,6,6,1,0,6,10,8,2,3,4]
Output: 4.77778


Example 4:

Input: arr = [9,7,8,7,7,8,4,4,6,8,8,7,6,8,8,9,2,6,0,0,1,10,8,6,3,3,5,1,10,9,0,7,10,0,10,4,1,10,6,9,3,6,0,0,2,7,0,6,7,2,9,7,7,3,0,1,6,1,10,3]
Output: 5.27778


Example 5:

Input: arr = [4,8,4,10,0,7,1,3,7,8,8,3,4,1,6,2,1,1,8,0,9,8,0,3,9,10,3,10,1,10,7,3,2,1,4,9,10,7,6,4,0,8,5,1,2,1,6,2,5,0,7,10,9,10,3,7,10,5,8,5,7,6,7,6,10,9,5,10,5,5,7,2,10,7,7,8,2,0,1,1]
Output: 5.29167


Constraints:

• 20 <= arr.length <= 1000
• arr.lengthis a multiple of 20.
• 0 <= arr[i] <= 105

## Solution: Sorting

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

## C++

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