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花花酱 LeetCode 1545. Find Kth Bit in Nth Binary String

Given two positive integers n and k, the binary string  Sn is formed as follows:

  • S1 = "0"
  • Si = Si-1 + "1" + reverse(invert(Si-1)) for i > 1

Where + denotes the concatenation operation, reverse(x) returns the reversed string x, and invert(x) inverts all the bits in x (0 changes to 1 and 1 changes to 0).

For example, the first 4 strings in the above sequence are:

  • S= "0"
  • S= "011"
  • S= "0111001"
  • S4 = "011100110110001"

Return the kth bit in Sn. It is guaranteed that k is valid for the given n.

Example 1:

Input: n = 3, k = 1
Output: "0"
Explanation: S3 is "0111001". The first bit is "0".

Example 2:

Input: n = 4, k = 11
Output: "1"
Explanation: S4 is "011100110110001". The 11th bit is "1".

Example 3:

Input: n = 1, k = 1
Output: "0"

Example 4:

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

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 20
  • 1 <= k <= 2n - 1

Solution 1: Brute Force / Simulation

Generate the string till Sn or length >= k.

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

C++

Solution 2: Recursion

All the strings have odd length of L = (1 << n) – 1,
Let say the center m = (L + 1) / 2
if n == 1, k should be 1 and ans is “0”.
Otherwise
if k == m, we know it’s “1”.
if k < m, the answer is the same as find(n-1, K)
if k > m, we are finding a flipped and mirror char in S(n-1), thus the answer is flip(find(n-1, L – k + 1)).

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

C++

Java

Python3

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