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花花酱 LeetCode 1447. Simplified Fractions

Given an integer n, return a list of all simplified fractions between 0 and 1 (exclusive) such that the denominator is less-than-or-equal-to n. The fractions can be in any order.

Example 1:

Input: n = 2
Output: ["1/2"]
Explanation: "1/2" is the only unique fraction with a denominator less-than-or-equal-to 2.

Example 2:

Input: n = 3
Output: ["1/2","1/3","2/3"]

Example 3:

Input: n = 4
Output: ["1/2","1/3","1/4","2/3","3/4"]
Explanation: "2/4" is not a simplified fraction because it can be simplified to "1/2".

Example 4:

Input: n = 1
Output: []

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 100

Solution: GCD

if gcd(a, b) == 1 then a/b is a simplified frication.

std::gcd is available since c++17.

Time complexity: O(n^2logn)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 1451. Rearrange Words in a Sentence

Given a sentence text (A sentence is a string of space-separated words) in the following format:

  • First letter is in upper case.
  • Each word in text are separated by a single space.

Your task is to rearrange the words in text such that all words are rearranged in an increasing order of their lengths. If two words have the same length, arrange them in their original order.

Return the new text following the format shown above.

Example 1:

Input: text = "Leetcode is cool"
Output: "Is cool leetcode"
Explanation: There are 3 words, "Leetcode" of length 8, "is" of length 2 and "cool" of length 4.
Output is ordered by length and the new first word starts with capital letter.

Example 2:

Input: text = "Keep calm and code on"
Output: "On and keep calm code"
Explanation: Output is ordered as follows:
"On" 2 letters.
"and" 3 letters.
"keep" 4 letters in case of tie order by position in original text.
"calm" 4 letters.
"code" 4 letters.

Example 3:

Input: text = "To be or not to be"
Output: "To be or to be not"

Constraints:

  • text begins with a capital letter and then contains lowercase letters and single space between words.
  • 1 <= text.length <= 10^5

Solution: Stable sort

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

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 1442. Count Triplets That Can Form Two Arrays of Equal XOR

Given an array of integers arr.

We want to select three indices ij and k where (0 <= i < j <= k < arr.length).

Let’s define a and b as follows:

  • a = arr[i] ^ arr[i + 1] ^ ... ^ arr[j - 1]
  • b = arr[j] ^ arr[j + 1] ^ ... ^ arr[k]

Note that ^ denotes the bitwise-xor operation.

Return the number of triplets (ij and k) Where a == b.

Example 1:

Input: arr = [2,3,1,6,7]
Output: 4
Explanation: The triplets are (0,1,2), (0,2,2), (2,3,4) and (2,4,4)

Example 2:

Input: arr = [1,1,1,1,1]
Output: 10

Example 3:

Input: arr = [2,3]
Output: 0

Example 4:

Input: arr = [1,3,5,7,9]
Output: 3

Example 5:

Input: arr = [7,11,12,9,5,2,7,17,22]
Output: 8

Constraints:

  • 1 <= arr.length <= 300
  • 1 <= arr[i] <= 10^8

Solution 1: Brute Force (TLE)

Time complexity: O(n^4)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

Solution 2: Prefix XORs

Let xors[i] = arr[0] ^ arr[1] ^ … ^ arr[i-1]
arr[i] ^ arr[i + 1] ^ … ^ arr[j – 1] = (arr[0] ^ … ^ arr[j – 1]) ^ (arr[0] ^ … ^ arr[i-1]) = xors[j] ^ xors[i]

We then can compute a and b in O(1) time.

Time complexity: O(n^3)
Space complexity: O(n)

C++

Solution 3: Prefix XORs II

a = arr[i] ^ arr[i + 1] ^ … ^ arr[j – 1]
b = arr[j] ^ arr[j + 1] ^ … ^ arr[k]
a == b => a ^ b == 0
XORs(i ~ k) == 0
XORS(0 ~ k) ^ XORs(0 ~ i – 1) = 0

Problem => find all pairs of (i – 1, k) such that xors[k+1] == xors[i]
For each pair (i – 1, k), there are k – i positions we can insert j.

Time complexity: O(n^2)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

Solution 3: HashTable

Similar to target sum, use a hashtable to store the frequency of each prefix xors.

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

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 1438. Longest Continuous Subarray With Absolute Diff Less Than or Equal to Limit

Given an array of integers nums and an integer limit, return the size of the longest continuous subarray such that the absolute difference between any two elements is less than or equal to limit.

In case there is no subarray satisfying the given condition return 0.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [8,2,4,7], limit = 4
Output: 2 
Explanation: All subarrays are: 
[8] with maximum absolute diff |8-8| = 0 <= 4.
[8,2] with maximum absolute diff |8-2| = 6 > 4. 
[8,2,4] with maximum absolute diff |8-2| = 6 > 4.
[8,2,4,7] with maximum absolute diff |8-2| = 6 > 4.
[2] with maximum absolute diff |2-2| = 0 <= 4.
[2,4] with maximum absolute diff |2-4| = 2 <= 4.
[2,4,7] with maximum absolute diff |2-7| = 5 > 4.
[4] with maximum absolute diff |4-4| = 0 <= 4.
[4,7] with maximum absolute diff |4-7| = 3 <= 4.
[7] with maximum absolute diff |7-7| = 0 <= 4. 
Therefore, the size of the longest subarray is 2.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [10,1,2,4,7,2], limit = 5
Output: 4 
Explanation: The subarray [2,4,7,2] is the longest since the maximum absolute diff is |2-7| = 5 <= 5.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [4,2,2,2,4,4,2,2], limit = 0
Output: 3

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
  • 1 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
  • 0 <= limit <= 10^9

Solution 1: Sliding Window + TreeSet

Use a treeset to maintain a range of [l, r] such that max(nums[l~r]) – min(nums[l~r]) <= limit.
Every time, we add nums[r] into the tree, and move l towards r to keep the max diff under limit.

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

C++

Solution 2: Dual Monotonic Queue

Similar to https://zxi.mytechroad.com/blog/dynamic-programming/leetcode-1425-constrained-subset-sum/

We want to maintain a range [l, r] that max(nums[l~r]) – min(nums[l~r]) <= limit, to track the max/min of a range efficiently we could use monotonic queue. One for max and one for min.

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

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 1437. Check If All 1’s Are at Least Length K Places Away

Given an array nums of 0s and 1s and an integer k, return True if all 1’s are at least k places away from each other, otherwise return False.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,0,0,0,1,0,0,1], k = 2
Output: true
Explanation: Each of the 1s are at least 2 places away from each other.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,0,0,1,0,1], k = 2
Output: false
Explanation: The second 1 and third 1 are only one apart from each other.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1,1,1,1,1], k = 0
Output: true

Example 4:

Input: nums = [0,1,0,1], k = 1
Output: true

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
  • 0 <= k <= nums.length
  • nums[i] is 0 or 1

Solution: Scan the array

Only need to check adjacent ones. This problem should be easy instead of medium.

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

C++