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花花酱 LeetCode 70. Climbing Stairs

Problem

You are climbing a stair case. It takes n steps to reach to the top.

Each time you can either climb 1 or 2 steps. In how many distinct ways can you climb to the top?

Note: Given n will be a positive integer.

Example 1:

Input: 2
Output: 2
Explanation: There are two ways to climb to the top.
1. 1 step + 1 step
2. 2 steps

Example 2:

Input: 3
Output: 3
Explanation: There are three ways to climb to the top.
1. 1 step + 1 step + 1 step
2. 1 step + 2 steps
3. 2 steps + 1 step

 

 

Solution: DP

Time complexity: O(n)

Space complexity: O(n)

C++ O(n)

C++ O(1)

花花酱 LeetCode 120. Triangle

Problem

Given a triangle, find the minimum path sum from top to bottom. Each step you may move to adjacent numbers on the row below.

For example, given the following triangle

[
     [2],
    [3,4],
   [6,5,7],
  [4,1,8,3]
]

The minimum path sum from top to bottom is 11 (i.e., 2 + 3 + 5 + 1 = 11).

Note:

Bonus point if you are able to do this using only O(n) extra space, where n is the total number of rows in the triangle.

 

Solution: DP

Time complexity: O(n^2)

Space complexity: O(1)

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 894. All Possible Full Binary Trees

Problem

full binary tree is a binary tree where each node has exactly 0 or 2 children.

Return a list of all possible full binary trees with N nodes.  Each element of the answer is the root node of one possible tree.

Each node of each tree in the answer must have node.val = 0.

You may return the final list of trees in any order.

Example 1:

Input: 7
Output: [[0,0,0,null,null,0,0,null,null,0,0],[0,0,0,null,null,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,null,null,null,null,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,null,null,0,0]]
Explanation:

 

Note:

  • 1 <= N <= 20

 

Solution: Recursion

Key observations:

  1. n must be odd, If n is even, no possible trees
  2. ans is the cartesian product of trees(i) and trees(n-i-1). Ans = {Tree(0, l, r) for l, r in trees(i) X trees(N – i – 1)}.

w/o cache

C++

Java

Python

w/cache

C++

Python

using itertools.product w/ cache

DP

C++

Benchmark

No-cache vs cached

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 303. Range Sum Query – Immutable

Problem

Given an integer array nums, find the sum of the elements between indices i and j (i ≤ j), inclusive.

Example:

Given nums = [-2, 0, 3, -5, 2, -1]

sumRange(0, 2) -> 1
sumRange(2, 5) -> -1
sumRange(0, 5) -> -3

Note:

  1. You may assume that the array does not change.
  2. There are many calls to sumRange function.

Solution: Prefix sum

sums[i] = nums[0] + nums[1] + … + nums[i]

sumRange(i, j) = sums[j] – sums[i – 1]

Time complexity: pre-compute: O(n), query: O(1)

Space complexity: O(n)

 

 

花花酱 LeetCode 174. Dungeon Game

Problem

The demons had captured the princess (P) and imprisoned her in the bottom-right corner of a dungeon. The dungeon consists of M x N rooms laid out in a 2D grid. Our valiant knight (K) was initially positioned in the top-left room and must fight his way through the dungeon to rescue the princess.

The knight has an initial health point represented by a positive integer. If at any point his health point drops to 0 or below, he dies immediately.

Some of the rooms are guarded by demons, so the knight loses health (negative integers) upon entering these rooms; other rooms are either empty (0’s) or contain magic orbs that increase the knight’s health (positive integers).

In order to reach the princess as quickly as possible, the knight decides to move only rightward or downward in each step.

Write a function to determine the knight’s minimum initial health so that he is able to rescue the princess.

For example, given the dungeon below, the initial health of the knight must be at least 7 if he follows the optimal path RIGHT-> RIGHT -> DOWN -> DOWN.

-2 (K) -3 3
-5 -10 1
10 30 -5 (P)

Note:

  • The knight’s health has no upper bound.
  • Any room can contain threats or power-ups, even the first room the knight enters and the bottom-right room where the princess is imprisoned.

Solution: DP

Time complexity: O(mn)

Space complexity: O(mn) -> O(n)

C++

O(n) space