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The problem asks us to repeatedly remove groups of exactly k adjacent identical characters from a string until no more such groups exist. A removal operation works as follows: - Find k consecutive characters that are all the same. - Remove those characters from the string.

The problem asks us to find the largest connected component in a graph derived from an array of unique positive integers nums.

This problem asks us to find the length of the longest contiguous subarray that can contain only 1s after flipping at most k zeroes into ones.

The problem presents an interactive scenario where ships are placed at integer coordinates on a Cartesian plane. You do

We need to build an undirected graph on n cities such that no triangle exists. A triangle means three distinct cities where every pair is directly connected.

We are given several sets of integers, each with an associated cost. We may choose any collection of these sets, including the empty collection. Let the number of chosen sets be $k$, and let the union of all chosen sets contain $u$ distinct integers.

This problem gives us a single database table named Employee. Each row represents one employee and contains four pieces of information: Column Meaning --- --- id Unique identifier for the employee name Employee name salary Employee salary managerId The id of that employee's…

This problem asks us to find the lowest common ancestor, usually abbreviated as LCA, of two nodes in a binary tree. Unli

We are given a string of lowercase letters that contains no spaces. The task is to split this string into exactly k consecutive pieces. Every piece must have length between a and b, inclusive. The order of characters cannot change. We are only deciding where to cut the string.

The problem asks us to take a string s and an integer array indices of the same length, and produce a new string where e

The problem asks us to group together all strings that are anagrams of each other. Two strings are considered anagrams if they contain exactly the same characters with the same frequencies, but possibly in a different order.

This problem gives us a list of points on a 2D plane, where each point is represented as [x, y]. We need to find the widest vertical area that contains no points strictly inside it. A vertical area is defined by two vertical lines.

The problem asks us to count how many palindromic substrings exist inside a given string s. A substring is any contiguous segment of the string. This means we cannot rearrange characters or skip positions.

The problem asks us to identify active users from a database containing two tables: Accounts and Logins. The Accounts ta

The problem presents an m x n matrix called grid where each element is a character representing either a wall 'W', an enemy 'E', or an empty cell '0'. The task is to determine the maximum number of enemies that can be eliminated by placing a single bomb in an empty cell.

The problem gives us a database table named RequestAccepted, where each row represents a successfully accepted friend request between two users. Every record contains a requesterid, an accepterid, and the date the request was accepted.

The task is to compute a kind of "distance" between a user-entered address and a list of potential addresses, according to a specific error function. The user enters a string s of length k. Then there are n potential addresses, each a string of arbitrary length.

The problem gives us a sorted integer array in non-decreasing order. We are guaranteed that exactly one element appears

The problem gives us k sorted integer lists, and we must find the smallest inclusive range [a, b] such that the range contains at least one element from every list. Each list is already sorted in non-decreasing order, which is a very important property.

We have several accumulators, each storing some amount of energy. We are allowed to move energy between them, but every transfer wastes a fixed percentage. If we send x units from one accumulator, the sender loses all x, while the receiver only gains x (100 - k) / 100.

This problem asks us to compute the total area covered by a set of axis-aligned rectangles on a 2D plane. Each rectangle is defined by its bottom-left and top-right coordinates [xi1, yi1, xi2, yi2].

The problem gives us a string containing digits and the '' character. This string encodes lowercase English letters usin

The problem defines a special kind of binary tree called a Fibonacci tree. The structure is recursive: - order(0) is an empty tree. - order(1) is a single node. - order(n) has: - a root node, - a left subtree equal to order(n - 2), - a right subtree equal to order(n - 1).

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This problem asks us to determine the maximum number of vowels that appear in any substring of a given length k within a

The problem asks us to calculate the average daily percentage of posts that were removed after being reported as spam. We are given two tables: Actions and Removals.

The problem asks us to determine whether two strings are exactly one edit apart. An edit can be one of three operations: 1. Insert a single character 2. Delete a single character 3. Replace one character with a different character The key detail is the word exactly.

The problem asks us to convert every uppercase English letter in a string into its lowercase equivalent. Any character that is already lowercase, or is not an alphabetic character at all, should remain unchanged. The input is a string s containing printable ASCII characters.

We have houses numbered from 1 to n. Every house must receive a color. For each color, if we add together all house indices painted with that color, the result must be a prime number.

This problem asks us to compute a cumulative salary summary for each employee based on their monthly salaries over the year 2020. The input is a table Employee where each row contains an employee id, the month (1 through 12), and the salary for that month.

We are given a sequence of four-digit years. Each year may contain mistakes, but we are allowed to repair it by changing at most one digit. After all repairs, the sequence must become non-decreasing, and every resulting year must stay between 1000 and 2011 inclusive.

This problem asks us to maximize profit from stock trading over a sequence of days. We are given an array prices, where prices[i] represents the stock price on the ith day.

We are given a directed graph where nodes represent crossroads and edges represent one-way tramlines. The engine house is at node 1. Every node has at least one outgoing edge, so the tram is never trapped.

This problem asks us to determine the minimum number of character replacements needed to transform string t into an anagram of string s. Two strings are anagrams if they contain exactly the same characters with the same frequencies, regardless of order.

The problem gives us a sequence of points on a 2D plane. These points are connected in order, and the final point connects back to the first point, forming a polygon. Our task is to determine whether that polygon is convex.

The problem asks us to add two non-negative integers where each integer is given as a string instead of a numeric type. The goal is to return the resulting sum as another string. For example, if the inputs are "11" and "123", we should return "134".

We are given a database table called Traffic that records different user activities on different dates. Each row contains a userid, an activity type, and an activitydate.

We are given a tree with n cities. Originally, city r1 is considered the capital, and for every other city we know its parent in the rooted tree. The value p[i] means that if we walk from the old capital toward city i, the last city before reaching i is p[i].

The problem provides an array of pairs, where each pair [xi, yi] indicates that xi is either an ancestor of yi or yi is an ancestor of xi in a rooted tree. The key challenge is to determine how many different rooted trees satisfy all given pairs.

We are given two integers, _a_ and _b_, written in some unknown base _p_. Vasya wants to compute the sum _a + b_ in all valid bases and determine which base gives the sum with the largest number of digits.

We are asked to simulate a tiny GUI layout system. There are three kinds of widgets. A plain Widget has a fixed width and height. HBox and VBox are container widgets that can store other widgets. An HBox places children horizontally, while a VBox places them vertically.

The problem gives an integer array nums and allows only one type of operation, decreasing any element by 1. We may perform this operation as many times as needed on any elements. Our goal is to transform the array into a zigzag array with the minimum number of moves.

This problem gives us an undirected tree with n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1. The input edges describes the connections between nodes, and because the graph is guaranteed to be a tree, several important properties immediately hold true.

The problem gives us the root node of a binary tree and asks whether the tree is "uni-valued". A binary tree is considered uni-valued if every node in the tree contains exactly the same integer value.

The problem asks us to find the Lowest Common Ancestor, commonly abbreviated as LCA, of two nodes in a Binary Search Tree (BST). A lowest common ancestor of two nodes p and q is the deepest node in the tree that has both p and q as descendants.

The problem gives us a collection of tokens, where each token has a numeric value. We also start with an initial amount of power and an initial score of 0. Every token can be used at most once, and each token can be played in exactly one of two ways.

This problem asks us to compute the minimum number of moves required to gather all balls in a string of boxes into each individual box. Each box can either be empty ('0') or contain one ball ('1'). A single operation consists of moving a ball from one box to an adjacent box.

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The problem asks us to process a string s consisting of lowercase and uppercase English letters, removing pairs of adjac

The problem asks us to determine the minimum depth of a binary tree. In other words, given the root of a binary tree, we want to find the shortest path from the root node down to the nearest leaf node.

The problem can be restated as simulating bullets flying along the positive _Z_ axis at given coordinates on a 2D shooting plane (_XOY_). Each bullet may hit one of multiple rectangular targets floating at distinct heights along the _Z_ axis.

We are given two uppercase strings, s and t. We may transform s using three operations: 1. Insert a character at any position. 2. Delete a character from any position. 3. Replace one character with another. Every operation costs exactly one move.

We have a garden represented as a one-dimensional array of sections, each with a fixed height. Petya can create artificial rain above exactly one section, and water will flow to neighboring sections as long as their height is less than or equal to the section the water comes…

This problem asks us to design a simplified file system that supports two operations: 1. Creating a new path with an associated integer value. 2. Retrieving the value stored at a path. A path behaves similarly to a directory structure in a real operating system.

This problem asks us to convert an Excel-style column title into its corresponding numerical index. In Excel spreadsheets, columns are labeled alphabetically: The labeling system works similarly to a positional number system, except instead of digits 0-9, it uses letters A-Z…

This problem asks us to collect the maximum possible number of cherries while making two trips across a square grid. The first trip starts at the top left corner (0, 0) and moves to the bottom right corner (n - 1, n - 1) using only right or down moves.

The problem gives us a table named Transactions where each row represents a financial transaction. Every transaction has a unique transactionid, a timestamp stored in the day column, and an integer amount.

The problem asks us to reverse a string. Given a sequence of characters, the output should be the same sequence but in the opposite order, so that the first character becomes the last, the second becomes the second-to-last, and so on.

The problem asks whether two strings, word1 and word2, are "close" according to two allowed operations. Operation 1 allows swapping any two existing characters in the string, which means the relative order of characters is flexible.

We need to build a permutation of numbers from 1 to n. Position j contains volume p(j). A positive integer i is called a divisor of the disposition if there exists some position j such that both j and p(j) are divisible by i.

The problem gives us an array that was originally sorted in ascending order, but may have been rotated at some pivot point. A rotation means that some prefix of the sorted array was moved to the end while preserving the relative order of elements.

The problem gives us two strings, str1 and str2, which are guaranteed to have the same length. We want to determine whether it is possible to transform str1 into str2 using a sequence of character conversion operations.

This problem asks us to reconstruct a target string by repeatedly applying a smaller string called stamp. We begin with a string s that has the same length as target, but every character is initially '?'.

The problem asks us to coordinate four separate threads so they collectively print the correct Fizz Buzz sequence in order from 1 to n. Unlike the classic single threaded Fizz Buzz problem, this version introduces concurrency.

We have an n × n grid of non-negative integers. Starting from the top-left corner, we may move only right or down until we reach the bottom-right corner. Along a chosen path, we multiply every visited value together.

The problem presents an array arr of length n where each element is defined by the formula arr[i] = 2 i + 1. This genera

This problem asks us to maximize the profit from stock trading under a strict constraint: we can perform at most k transactions, where each transaction consists of buying and then later selling one share of the stock.

The problem requires calculating the sum of a subrange of all possible contiguous subarray sums of a given array nums.

The language in this problem has only two real base types, void and errtype. Every other type is defined through typedef, and every query asks us to evaluate a type expression with typeof. A type expression is built from a base name plus some number of and & operators.

The problem is asking us to find the maximum difference between two elements in an array, with the condition that the smaller element appears before the larger element.

The problem describes a single-row keyboard where each key is positioned at a unique index from 0 to 25. You are given a string keyboard of length 26 that specifies the layout of all lowercase English letters.

We are given exactly four line segments on the 2D plane. Every segment is axis-aligned, or may even degenerate into a single point.

This problem asks us to find the shortest path from a robot's unknown starting position to a hidden target inside a grid. The major challenge is that the grid itself is not directly accessible.

We are given two positive integers, and then many range queries. For each query [low, high], we must find the largest integer inside that interval that divides both numbers. The first observation is that we are not really working with a and b independently.

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We are asked to place a space rescue station in three-dimensional space such that the maximum distance from it to any of the given planets is minimized. Each planet is represented by its coordinates $(x, y, z)$.

In this game, two players, Alice and Bob, take turns removing stones from the beginning of a row. Each stone has an inte

The problem gives an integer array nums where every value appears exactly twice except for one value that appears only once. The task is to find and return that unique value.

We are given three original strings. A student's answer is considered correct if it can be formed by concatenating these three strings in any order, after ignoring two kinds of differences. The first difference is letter casing.

We are given a string and we consider every palindromic substring inside it. Each occurrence matters separately, even if two substrings have the same text. For example, in "aaa" there are three different occurrences of "a".

The office floor is represented as an n × m grid. Each cell is either free, written as 0, or blocked by furniture, written as 1. We want to place one rectangular table whose sides stay aligned with the grid. Every cell covered by the rectangle must be free.

We start with an undirected graph that may be disconnected and may contain cycles. We are allowed to repeatedly merge two vertices into one. Merging decreases the number of vertices by one, while the number of edges stays unchanged.

The problem asks us to identify all large groups in a given string and return their positions as intervals. A group is a sequence of consecutive identical characters.

We are given three points on the plane with integer coordinates. These three points already form a valid triangle, meaning they are not collinear.

The problem gives us an array called coins, where each element represents a coin denomination, and an integer called amount, which represents the target sum we want to construct. Our goal is to determine the minimum number of coins needed to make exactly amount.

We are given the final text printed by INTERCAL's strange "Turing Tape" output procedure. Each printed character was produced from one integer of an unknown array. The encoding process depends on the previous printed character, so every step is linked to the one before it.

This problem asks us to find the Lowest Common Ancestor, or LCA, of multiple nodes in a binary tree. Unlike the classic

The problem asks us to count how many attendance records of length n satisfy two award eligibility rules. Each attendance record is a string made up of three possible characters: - 'P' means the student was present. - 'A' means the student was absent.

This problem models a chain reaction of falling dominoes. We are given a string where each character represents the initial state of a domino in a row. A domino can be in one of three states: - 'L' means the domino has been pushed to the left.

We have a single row of hooks, numbered from 1 to n, which initially are all empty. Employees arrive and leave at specified times, and each arrival or departure is encoded by an employee ID: the first occurrence is an arrival, the second is the departure, and so on.

This problem asks us to generate all possible synonymous variations of a given sentence based on a list of equivalent wo

The problem asks us to generate a list of strings for all integers from 1 to n. For each number, we apply a set of divisibility rules: - If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, we append "FizzBuzz". - If the number is divisible only by 3, we append "Fizz".

We are given a line of mushrooms, each with a weight, initially sorted in non-decreasing order. Every minute, new mushrooms grow between every pair of neighboring mushrooms, and the weight of each new mushroom equals the sum of the two neighboring mushrooms.

The problem asks us to find the minimum size of a set of integers, nums, such that each given interval [starti, endi] contains at least two integers from nums.

This problem asks us to find a contiguous subarray that contains only unique elements, meaning no value appears more than once inside that subarray. Among all such valid subarrays, we must return the maximum possible sum of its elements.

This problem asks us to generate a monthly financial summary for each country using information from two database tables: Transactions and Chargebacks. The Transactions table stores incoming transactions.

We are given a string consisting of letters and digits, and we are asked to compute a special measure for every prefix called the _palindrome degree_.

Valera has a list of subjects he knows how to solve. Every subject takes a fixed amount of working time. Students come with requests: each request has a subject, an exam deadline, and a reward. If Valera finishes the solution strictly before the exam starts, he gets paid.

We are asked to solve a quadratic equation of the form , where , , and are integers in the range . The goal is to find all real roots of the equation, count them, and print them in ascending order with high precision.

This problem asks us to generate the shortest possible string that guarantees a safe will unlock at some point while typing it. The safe password has exactly n digits, and each digit can be any value from 0 to k - 1. The safe does not validate the entire entered sequence at once.