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花花酱 LeetCode 289. Game of Life

By zxi on June 27, 2018

Problem

According to the Wikipedia’s article: “The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.”

Given a board with m by n cells, each cell has an initial state live (1) or dead (0). Each cell interacts with its eight neighbors (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) using the following four rules (taken from the above Wikipedia article):

  1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies, as if caused by under-population.
  2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation.
  3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies, as if by over-population..
  4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

Write a function to compute the next state (after one update) of the board given its current state. The next state is created by applying the above rules simultaneously to every cell in the current state, where births and deaths occur simultaneously.

Example:

Input: 
[
  [0,1,0],
  [0,0,1],
  [1,1,1],
  [0,0,0]
]
Output: 
[
  [0,0,0],
  [1,0,1],
  [0,1,1],
  [0,1,0]
]

Follow up:

  1. Could you solve it in-place? Remember that the board needs to be updated at the same time: You cannot update some cells first and then use their updated values to update other cells.
  2. In this question, we represent the board using a 2D array. In principle, the board is infinite, which would cause problems when the active area encroaches the border of the array. How would you address these problems?

Solution: Simulation

Time complexity: O(mn)

Space complexity: O(1)

 

花花酱 LeetCode 844. Backspace String Compare

By zxi on June 3, 2018

Problem

题目大意：给你2个字符串表示打字顺序，判断它们的结果是否相同，’#’表示退格键。

https://leetcode.com/problems/backspace-string-compare/description/

Given two strings S and T, return if they are equal when both are typed into empty text editors. # means a backspace character.

Example 1:

Input: S = "ab#c", T = "ad#c"
Output: true
Explanation: Both S and T become "ac".

Example 2:

Input: S = "ab##", T = "c#d#"
Output: true
Explanation: Both S and T become "".

Example 3:

Input: S = "a##c", T = "#a#c"
Output: true
Explanation: Both S and T become "c".

Example 4:

Input: S = "a#c", T = "b"
Output: false
Explanation: S becomes "c" while T becomes "b".

Note:

  1. 1 <= S.length <= 200
  2. 1 <= T.length <= 200
  3. S and T only contain lowercase letters and '#' characters.

 

Solution: Simulation

Time complexity: O(|S| + |T|)

Space complexity: O(|S| + |T|)

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花花酱 LeetCode 803. Bricks Falling When Hit

By zxi on March 18, 2018

Problem

题目大意：给你一堵砖墙，求每次击碎一块后掉落的砖头数量。

We have a grid of 1s and 0s; the 1s in a cell represent bricks.  A brick will not drop if and only if it is directly connected to the top of the grid, or at least one of its (4-way) adjacent bricks will not drop.

We will do some erasures sequentially. Each time we want to do the erasure at the location (i, j), the brick (if it exists) on that location will disappear, and then some other bricks may drop because of that erasure.

Return an array representing the number of bricks that will drop after each erasure in sequence.

Example 1:
Input: 
grid = [[1,0,0,0],[1,1,1,0]]
hits = [[1,0]]
Output: [2]
Explanation: 
If we erase the brick at (1, 0), the brick at (1, 1) and (1, 2) will drop. So we should return 2.
Example 2:
Input: 
grid = [[1,0,0,0],[1,1,0,0]]
hits = [[1,1],[1,0]]
Output: [0,0]
Explanation: 
When we erase the brick at (1, 0), the brick at (1, 1) has already disappeared due to the last move. So each erasure will cause no bricks dropping.  Note that the erased brick (1, 0) will not be counted as a dropped brick.

Idea

  1. For each day, hit and clear the specified brick.
  2. Find all connected components (CCs) using DFS.
  3. For each CC, if there is no brick that is on the first row that the entire cc will drop. Clear those CCs.

Solution: DFS

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花花酱 LeetCode 799. Champagne Tower

By zxi on March 11, 2018

题目大意：往一个香槟塔（i层有i个杯子）倒入n个杯子容量的香槟之后，求指定位置杯子中酒的容量。

Problem:

https://leetcode.com/problems/champagne-tower/description/

We stack glasses in a pyramid, where the first row has 1 glass, the second row has 2 glasses, and so on until the 100th row.  Each glass holds one cup (250ml) of champagne.

Then, some champagne is poured in the first glass at the top.  When the top most glass is full, any excess liquid poured will fall equally to the glass immediately to the left and right of it.  When those glasses become full, any excess champagne will fall equally to the left and right of those glasses, and so on.  (A glass at the bottom row has it’s excess champagne fall on the floor.)

For example, after one cup of champagne is poured, the top most glass is full.  After two cups of champagne are poured, the two glasses on the second row are half full.  After three cups of champagne are poured, those two cups become full – there are 3 full glasses total now.  After four cups of champagne are poured, the third row has the middle glass half full, and the two outside glasses are a quarter full, as pictured below.

Now after pouring some non-negative integer cups of champagne, return how full the j-th glass in the i-th row is (both i and j are 0 indexed.)

 

 

Note:

  • poured will be in the range of [0, 10 ^ 9].
  • query_glass and query_row will be in the range of [0, 99].

Idea: DP + simulation

define dp[i][j] as the volume of champagne will be poured into the j -th glass in the i-th row, dp[i][j] can be greater than 1.

Init dp[0][0] = poured.

Transition: if dp[i][j] > 1, it will overflow, the overflow part will be evenly distributed to dp[i+1][j], dp[i+1][j+1]

if dp[i][j] > 1:
dp[i+1][j] += (dp[i][j] – 1) / 2.0
dp[i+1][j + 1] += (dp[i][j] – 1) / 2.0

Answer: min(1.0, dp[query_row][query_index])

Solution 1:

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Time complexity: O(100*100)

Space complexity: O(100*100)

Pull

 

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Time complexity: O(rows * 100)

Space complexity: O(100)

Push

Pull

 

花花酱 LeetCode 495. Teemo Attacking

By zxi on March 8, 2018

题目大意：给你攻击的时间序列以及中毒的时长，求总共的中毒时间。

Problem:

https://leetcode.com/problems/teemo-attacking/description/

In LOL world, there is a hero called Teemo and his attacking can make his enemy Ashe be in poisoned condition. Now, given the Teemo’s attacking ascending time series towards Ashe and the poisoning time duration per Teemo’s attacking, you need to output the total time that Ashe is in poisoned condition.

You may assume that Teemo attacks at the very beginning of a specific time point, and makes Ashe be in poisoned condition immediately.

Example 1:

Input: [1,4], 2
Output: 4
Explanation: At time point 1, Teemo starts attacking Ashe and makes Ashe be poisoned immediately. 
This poisoned status will last 2 seconds until the end of time point 2. 
And at time point 4, Teemo attacks Ashe again, and causes Ashe to be in poisoned status for another 2 seconds. 
So you finally need to output 4.

Example 2:

Input: [1,2], 2
Output: 3
Explanation: At time point 1, Teemo starts attacking Ashe and makes Ashe be poisoned. 
This poisoned status will last 2 seconds until the end of time point 2. 
However, at the beginning of time point 2, Teemo attacks Ashe again who is already in poisoned status. 
Since the poisoned status won't add up together, though the second poisoning attack will still work at time point 2, it will stop at the end of time point 3. 
So you finally need to output 3.

Note:

  1. You may assume the length of given time series array won’t exceed 10000.
  2. You may assume the numbers in the Teemo’s attacking time series and his poisoning time duration per attacking are non-negative integers, which won’t exceed 10,000,000.

Idea: Running Process

Compare the current attack time with the last one, if span is more than duration, add duration to total, otherwise add (curr – last).

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