# Posts tagged as “greedy”

Given the following details of a matrix with n columns and 2 rows :

• The matrix is a binary matrix, which means each element in the matrix can be 0 or 1.
• The sum of elements of the 0-th(upper) row is given as upper.
• The sum of elements of the 1-st(lower) row is given as lower.
• The sum of elements in the i-th column(0-indexed) is colsum[i], where colsum is given as an integer array with length n.

Your task is to reconstruct the matrix with upperlower and colsum.

Return it as a 2-D integer array.

If there are more than one valid solution, any of them will be accepted.

If no valid solution exists, return an empty 2-D array.

Example 1:

Input: upper = 2, lower = 1, colsum = [1,1,1]
Output: [[1,1,0],[0,0,1]]
Explanation: [[1,0,1],[0,1,0]], and [[0,1,1],[1,0,0]] are also correct answers.


Example 2:

Input: upper = 2, lower = 3, colsum = [2,2,1,1]
Output: []


Example 3:

Input: upper = 5, lower = 5, colsum = [2,1,2,0,1,0,1,2,0,1]
Output: [[1,1,1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0],[1,0,1,0,0,0,1,1,0,1]]


Constraints:

• 1 <= colsum.length <= 10^5
• 0 <= upper, lower <= colsum.length
• 0 <= colsum[i] <= 2

## Solution: Greedy?

Two passes:
first pass, only process sum = 2, upper = 1, lower = 1
second pass, only process sum = 1, whoever has more leftover, assign 1 to that row.

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

## C++

Balanced strings are those who have equal quantity of ‘L’ and ‘R’ characters.

Given a balanced string s split it in the maximum amount of balanced strings.

Return the maximum amount of splitted balanced strings.

Example 1:

Input: s = "RLRRLLRLRL"
Output: 4
Explanation: s can be split into "RL", "RRLL", "RL", "RL", each substring contains same number of 'L' and 'R'.


Example 2:

Input: s = "RLLLLRRRLR"
Output: 3
Explanation: s can be split into "RL", "LLLRRR", "LR", each substring contains same number of 'L' and 'R'.


Example 3:

Input: s = "LLLLRRRR"
Output: 1
Explanation: s can be split into "LLLLRRRR".


Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 1000
• s[i] = 'L' or 'R'

## Solution: Greedy

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

## C++

Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i.

Design an algorithm to find the maximum profit. You may complete as many transactions as you like (i.e., buy one and sell one share of the stock multiple times).

Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions at the same time (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Example 1:

Input: [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 7
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 3 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
Then buy on day 4 (price = 3) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-3 = 3.


Example 2:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: 4
Explanation: Buy on day 1 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
Note that you cannot buy on day 1, buy on day 2 and sell them later, as you are
engaging multiple transactions at the same time. You must sell before buying again.


Example 3:

Input: [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.

## Solution: Greedy

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

## C++

Return the largest possible k such that there exists a_1, a_2, ..., a_k such that:

• Each a_i is a non-empty string;
• Their concatenation a_1 + a_2 + ... + a_k is equal to text;
• For all 1 <= i <= k,  a_i = a_{k+1 - i}.

Example 1:

Input: text = "ghiabcdefhelloadamhelloabcdefghi"
Output: 7
Explanation: We can split the string on "(ghi)(abcdef)(hello)(adam)(hello)(abcdef)(ghi)".


Example 2:

Input: text = "merchant"
Output: 1
Explanation: We can split the string on "(merchant)".


Example 3:

Input: text = "antaprezatepzapreanta"
Output: 11
Explanation: We can split the string on "(a)(nt)(a)(pre)(za)(tpe)(za)(pre)(a)(nt)(a)".


Example 4:

Input: text = "aaa"
Output: 3
Explanation: We can split the string on "(a)(a)(a)".

## Solution: Greedy

Break the string when the shortest palindrome is found.
prefer to use string_view

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

## C++

Two players play a turn based game on a binary tree.  We are given the root of this binary tree, and the number of nodes n in the tree.  n is odd, and each node has a distinct value from 1 to n.

Initially, the first player names a value x with 1 <= x <= n, and the second player names a value y with 1 <= y <= n and y != x.  The first player colors the node with value x red, and the second player colors the node with value yblue.

Then, the players take turns starting with the first player.  In each turn, that player chooses a node of their color (red if player 1, blue if player 2) and colors an uncolored neighbor of the chosen node (either the left child, right child, or parent of the chosen node.)

If (and only if) a player cannot choose such a node in this way, they must pass their turn.  If both players pass their turn, the game ends, and the winner is the player that colored more nodes.

You are the second player.  If it is possible to choose such a y to ensure you win the game, return true.  If it is not possible, return false.

Example 1:

Input: root = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11], n = 11, x = 3
Output: true
Explanation: The second player can choose the node with value 2.

Constraints:

• root is the root of a binary tree with n nodes and distinct node values from 1 to n.
• n is odd.
• 1 <= x <= n <= 100

Solution: Count size of red’s subtrees

There are two situations that blue can win.
1. one of the red’s subtree has more than n>>1 nodes. Blue colorize the root of the larger subtree.
2. red and its children has size less or equal to n>>1. Blue colorize red’s parent.

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

## C++

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