Problems
August 11, 2022
Pacific atlantic water flow
We will check the top row and left coulmn for pacific ocean and right column and bottom row for atlantic ocean. Then from each position of the grid, we will check whether we can reach pacific or...
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Maximum product subarray
We will keep track of minimum and maximum products of each item and keep the current maximum is our result. When the whole traversal is done, we will return the maximum result. Time Complexity:...
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Word break
We can solve the problem using BFS. We can model the problem as graph, every index can be considered as vertex and every edge is a completed word. Then the problem just boiled down if the path...
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Partition labels
We will first count the last position of all chacracter in a hashmap. Then we will iterate through the string, check if the last index of the chacracter is equal to the current index, if yes, then we...
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Decode ways
We could decode a string with 1 character with just 1 way, but if we have a 2 digit string, then we can decode it 2 ways. For example, 12 can be decoded 1->A, b->2 or...
August 10, 2022
Convert sorted array to binary search tree
If there is no element in the sorted list, then we return null. This logic we will use as our base case. Then we will select the middle of the sorted list as our root node. Then from there, all the...
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Binary trees with factors
We will convert the array to array set, so that we can do the lookup in constant time. Then we will check, if a candidate can divide the root without any remainder and root//candidate is available in...
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Hand of straights
We will first check if the number of card is divisible by the group size, if not, we immediately return false. Then we count the number of cards, and create a min heap with all the distinct cards....
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Valid parenthesis string
We will keep track of number of left parenthesis and number of right parenthesis in the string. For *, we could count it as left parenthesis or right parenthesis or we could ignore it....
August 9, 2022
Merge triplets to form target triplet
We will iterate through all the triplets and if we found any of the items are greater than the value of target triplet, we ignore it from the consideration. Then we check if we found a value which is...
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