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花花酱 LeetCode 52. N-Queens II

The n-queens puzzle is the problem of placing n queens on an n×n chessboard such that no two queens attack each other.

Given an integer n, return the number of distinct solutions to the n-queens puzzle.

Example:

Input: 4
Output: 2
Explanation: There are two distinct solutions to the 4-queens puzzle as shown below.
[
 [".Q..",  // Solution 1
  "...Q",
  "Q...",
  "..Q."],

 ["..Q.",  // Solution 2
  "Q...",
  "...Q",
  ".Q.."]
]

Solution: DFS

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

C++

Related Problems

花花酱 LeetCode 1191. K-Concatenation Maximum Sum

Given an integer array arr and an integer k, modify the array by repeating it k times.

For example, if arr = [1, 2] and k = 3 then the modified array will be [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2].

Return the maximum sub-array sum in the modified array. Note that the length of the sub-array can be 0 and its sum in that case is 0.

As the answer can be very large, return the answer modulo 10^9 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: arr = [1,2], k = 3
Output: 9

Example 2:

Input: arr = [1,-2,1], k = 5
Output: 2

Example 3:

Input: arr = [-1,-2], k = 7
Output: 0

Constraints:

  • 1 <= arr.length <= 10^5
  • 1 <= k <= 10^5
  • -10^4 <= arr[i] <= 10^4

Solution: DP

This problem can be reduced to maxSubarray.
If k < 3: return maxSubarray(arr * k)
ans1 = maxSubarray(arr * 1)
ans2 = maxSubarray(arr * 2)
ans = max([ans1, ans2, ans2 + sum(arr) * (k – 2)])

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

C++