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LeetCode 3891 - Minimum Increase to Maximize Special Indices

LeetCode Problem 3891 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to modify an integer array to create as many special indices as possible, where a special index i is one where nums[i] > nums[i-1] and nums[i] > nums[i+1] . We can only increase values in the array, one unit at a time, and our goal is to maximize the number...

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LeetCode 3753 - Total Waviness of Numbers in Range II

LeetCode Problem 3753 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute a cumulative score over all integers in an inclusive range [num1, num2] , where each individual number has a score called waviness . The waviness of a number is defined as the number of positions in its digit sequence that qualify as either a peak or a valley. A digit is...

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LeetCode 3575 - Maximum Good Subtree Score

LeetCode Problem 3575 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Depth-First Search, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 3575 - Maximum Good Subtree Score Problem Understanding We are given a rooted tree with n nodes. Node 0 is the root, and the tree structure is described by the parent array par , where par[i] is the parent of node i . Each node contains an integer value vals[i] . For...

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LeetCode 3473 - Sum of K Subarrays With Length at Least M

LeetCode Problem 3473 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an integer array nums , together with two integers k and m . We must choose exactly k non-overlapping subarrays, and every chosen subarray must have length at least m . Among all valid choices, we want the maximum possible total sum. A subarray is a contiguous segment of the array. Non-overlapping...

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LeetCode 3410 - Maximize Subarray Sum After Removing All Occurrences of One Element

LeetCode Problem 3410 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Segment Tree Solution Solution Algorithm S performs digit-by-digit subtraction in radix $b$ without requiring knowledge of whether $(u_{n-1}\ldots u_0) b \ge (v {n-1}\ldots v_0) b$. It produces digits $w_0, w_1, \ldots, w {n-1}$ and a final borrow $k \in {0,-1}$, where $k=-1$ occurs if and only if $u < v$. Assume Algorithm S is executed without prior ordering of the...

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LeetCode 3915 - Maximum Sum of Alternating Subsequence With Distance at Least K

LeetCode Problem 3915 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Segment Tree Solution Correctness The solution does address the correct exercise and correctly identifies that the task is to generalize Algorithm S by handling the case when subtraction is performed without knowing which operand is larger. It correctly uses the standard TAOCP idea: if a final borrow remains, then the computed digit string represents a complement representation, and an additional...

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LeetCode 3906 - Count Good Integers on a Grid Path

LeetCode Problem 3906 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Correctness The solution does address the correct exercise and correctly identifies that the task is to generalize Algorithm S by handling the case when subtraction is performed without knowing which operand is larger. It correctly uses the standard TAOCP idea: if a final borrow remains, then the computed digit string represents a complement representation, and an additional correction step is...

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LeetCode 3892 - Minimum Operations to Achieve At Least K Peaks

LeetCode Problem 3892 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3892 - Minimum Operations to Achieve At Least K Peaks Problem Understanding We are given a circular array nums . An index is considered a peak if its value is strictly greater than both of its neighbors. Because the array is circular, the first and last elements are adjacent. For example, the neighbors of index 0 are nums[n...

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LeetCode 3797 - Count Routes to Climb a Rectangular Grid

LeetCode Problem 3797 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix, Prefix Sum Solution LeetCode 3797 - Count Routes to Climb a Rectangular Grid Problem Understanding We are given an n × m grid where each cell is either available ( '.' ) or blocked ( '#' ). A route starts from any available cell in the bottom row and must eventually end in the top row. During the route,...

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LeetCode 3747 - Count Distinct Integers After Removing Zeros

LeetCode Problem 3747 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to consider all integers from 1 up to a given number n . For each integer, we are required to write down a transformed version of that number in which all zeros are removed . For example, 102 would become 12 , and 500 would become 5 . After performing this transformation for...

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LeetCode 3670 - Maximum Product of Two Integers With No Common Bits

LeetCode Problem 3670 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the maximum product of two distinct elements in an array of integers, under the constraint that their binary representations do not share any set bits. In other words, for any two numbers nums[i] and nums[j] that we consider, the bitwise AND of the two numbers must be zero (...

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LeetCode 3628 - Maximum Number of Subsequences After One Inserting

LeetCode Problem 3628 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Prefix Sum Solution Correctness The solution partially addresses the exercise, but it does not fully satisfy what was asked. The exercise is not asking for modern algorithms that resemble the work of Sun Tsï, al-Khwārizmī, al-Uqlidisī, Fibonacci, and Recorde. It asks the reader to study the historical writings and translate their methods as faithfully as possible into precise algorithmic...

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LeetCode 3603 - Minimum Cost Path with Alternating Directions II

LeetCode Problem 3603 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Correctness No. The proposed solution does not answer Exercise 4.3.1.1 at all. Exercise 4.3.1.1 asks the reader to study the early history of classical arithmetic algorithms by consulting historical sources (e.g., Sun Tzu, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Abu al-Hasan al-Uqlidisi, Fibonacci, and Robert Recorde) and to translate their arithmetic methods into precise algorithmic notation. The proposed solution discusses...

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LeetCode 3562 - Maximum Profit from Trading Stocks with Discounts

LeetCode Problem 3562 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize profit from buying and selling stocks under a hierarchical discount structure. Each employee can buy a stock today at a present price and sell it tomorrow at a future price. The company hierarchy forms a tree, where employee 1 is the CEO and the direct or indirect boss...

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LeetCode 3539 - Find Sum of Array Product of Magical Sequences

LeetCode Problem 3539 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Combinatorics, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The expression in the statement should be interpreted as: $$2^{seq[0]} + 2^{seq[1]} + \cdots + 2^{seq[m-1]}$$ A sequence seq of length m is magical when the binary representation of this sum contains exactly k set bits. Each element of the sequence is an index into nums . The contribution of an index...

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LeetCode 3466 - Maximum Coin Collection

LeetCode Problem 3466 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes Mario driving along a two-lane freeway with coins (or tolls) on each mile. The arrays lane1 and lane2 represent the coin values at each mile for each lane. Positive numbers mean Mario collects coins, negative numbers mean Mario loses coins. Mario always starts in lane 1 but can switch lanes up to two times...

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LeetCode 3434 - Maximum Frequency After Subarray Operation

LeetCode Problem 3434 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Enumeration, Prefix Sum Solution LeetCode 3434 - Maximum Frequency After Subarray Operation Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and a target value k . We must perform exactly one operation: Choose a contiguous subarray nums[i..j] . Choose an integer x . Add x to every element inside that subarray. After performing this operation, some elements...

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LeetCode 1787 - Make the XOR of All Segments Equal to Zero

LeetCode Problem 1787 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Counting Solution LeetCode 1787. Make the XOR of All Segments Equal to Zero Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and an integer k . Every contiguous segment of length k must have XOR equal to 0 after we perform some modifications to the array. Our goal is to change as few elements as possible....

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13.21 Dynamic Programming on Graphs

13.21 Dynamic Programming on Graphs Dynamic programming is easiest when subproblems form a simple order: left to right, bottom to top, short interval to long interval, child before parent. Graphs complicate this picture. A graph may contain many paths into the same state, and cycles may destroy any obvious computation order. Dynamic programming on graphs works when the graph structure still allows dependencies to be evaluated safely. The most common...

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13.8 Longest Common Subsequence

13.8 Longest Common Subsequence The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem is one of the most influential dynamic programming problems ever studied. It appears in version control systems, file comparison tools, DNA sequence analysis, natural language processing, plagiarism detection, and data synchronization systems. Unlike knapsack, which focuses on resource allocation, LCS focuses on structural similarity. Given two sequences, the goal is to identify the longest sequence of elements that appears in...

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13.11 Interval Dynamic Programming

13.11 Interval Dynamic Programming Most dynamic programming problems decompose a problem into prefixes, suffixes, positions, or capacities. Interval dynamic programming takes a different approach. Instead of asking questions about a single position or prefix, it asks questions about contiguous ranges. The central idea is simple: A large interval can often be solved by combining solutions from smaller intervals. This pattern appears in matrix chain multiplication, optimal binary search trees, palindrome...

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13.24 Testing Dynamic Programming Algorithms

13.24 Testing Dynamic Programming Algorithms Dynamic programming algorithms are especially prone to subtle bugs. A wrong base case, an off-by-one error, a bad iteration order, or an accidentally reused state can produce answers that look correct on small samples and fail later. Testing DP requires more than checking the examples in a problem statement. Good tests should exercise boundaries, unreachable states, tie cases, reconstruction behavior, and equivalence between slow and...

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13.16 Optimization Dynamic Programming

13.16 Optimization Dynamic Programming Optimization dynamic programming is the form most programmers first associate with DP. The goal is not to count solutions or compute probabilities, but to find the best possible value among many choices. The word "best" depends on the problem. It may mean minimum cost, maximum profit, shortest time, largest score, fewest edits, lowest risk, or greatest utility. The structure, however, is the same: each state records...

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13.19 Knuth Optimization

13.19 Knuth Optimization Knuth optimization is a specialized dynamic programming optimization for interval-like recurrences. It reduces certain cubic-time dynamic programs to quadratic time by narrowing the range of split points that must be checked. It is narrower than divide-and-conquer DP optimization, but when its conditions hold, it is extremely effective. The technique appears in optimal binary search trees, optimal merge patterns, file merging variants, parsing-like interval problems, and several cost-minimizing...

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13.22 State Compression and Memory Optimization

13.22 State Compression and Memory Optimization One of the most common mistakes in dynamic programming is focusing exclusively on time complexity while ignoring memory consumption. A solution may be theoretically correct and fast enough, yet fail in practice because the DP table is too large. Fortunately, many dynamic programming algorithms store far more information than they actually need. States are often retained long after they cease to influence future computations....

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13.25 Case Studies

13.25 Case Studies This chapter has treated dynamic programming as a toolkit: state design, recurrence construction, memoization, tabulation, counting, optimization, graph DP, interval DP, tree DP, bitmask DP, and transition optimizations. The final step is integration. Real problems rarely announce which pattern they require. You have to identify the structure, choose a state, prove the recurrence, and then decide whether the straightforward implementation is sufficient. This section walks through several...

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13.18 Divide-and-Conquer Dynamic Programming

13.18 Divide-and-Conquer Dynamic Programming Many dynamic programming recurrences have the correct state design but suffer from an expensive transition step. A typical example computes: $$ dp[i] = \min_{j<i} ( dp[j] + cost(j,i) ) $$ The recurrence is correct, yet evaluating every possible transition leads to quadratic or cubic running time. Divide-and-conquer dynamic programming is a powerful optimization technique that reduces the cost of certain DP transitions. Unlike convex hull trick,...

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13.2 Recurrence Relations

13.2 Recurrence Relations After defining a state, the next step is to determine how one state depends on other states. This dependency is called a recurrence relation. The recurrence is the mathematical heart of a dynamic programming solution. It describes how larger subproblems can be constructed from smaller subproblems that have already been solved. A correctly designed state without a recurrence is useless. A recurrence without a correct state is...

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13.20 Dynamic Programming Design Patterns and Problem-Solving Framework

13.20 Dynamic Programming Design Patterns and Problem-Solving Framework Throughout this chapter, we have studied many different forms of dynamic programming: one-dimensional DP two-dimensional DP knapsack DP longest common subsequence longest increasing subsequence edit distance interval DP tree DP bitmask DP probability DP counting DP optimization DP convex hull trick divide-and-conquer optimization Knuth optimization At first glance, these techniques may appear unrelated. In practice, experienced programmers approach them using the same...

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13.3 Memoization

13.3 Memoization Once a state and recurrence have been defined, the most direct way to implement a dynamic programming solution is memoization. Memoization starts from the original recursive formulation of a problem and adds a cache that remembers previously computed results. Whenever the same subproblem appears again, the stored answer is returned immediately instead of recomputing it. Memoization is often the easiest way to convert an exponential recursive algorithm into...

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13.23 Correctness Proofs for Dynamic Programming

13.23 Correctness Proofs for Dynamic Programming A dynamic programming solution is easy to mistrust. The code may be short. The recurrence may look plausible. The table may produce correct answers on sample inputs. Yet a small mistake in the state meaning, transition, or base case can produce a solution that fails only on obscure cases. Correctness proofs are the antidote. They force the algorithm to account for every valid solution,...

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13.7 Knapsack

13.7 Knapsack The knapsack problem occupies a special place in dynamic programming. It is one of the earliest problems many programmers encounter, yet it contains nearly every important dynamic programming concept: state design, recurrence construction, resource constraints, optimization objectives, space reduction, and problem variations. More importantly, knapsack serves as a modeling framework. A surprising number of practical optimization problems can be transformed into knapsack variants. Budget allocation, project selection, cargo...

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Chapter 13. Dynamic Programming

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13.15 Counting Dynamic Programming

13.15 Counting Dynamic Programming Many dynamic programming problems ask for the best solution: minimum cost maximum value shortest path Counting dynamic programming asks a different question: How many valid solutions exist? Instead of searching for an optimum, we count every valid configuration while avoiding duplicate work. The resulting techniques appear throughout combinatorics, graph theory, string algorithms, probability, scheduling, cryptography, and competitive programming. Counting problems are often deceptively difficult. Enumerating all...

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13.1 DP State Design

13.1 DP State Design State design is the most important step in dynamic programming. Once the state is correct, the recurrence relation often becomes obvious. When the state is poorly designed, every subsequent step becomes difficult: transitions become complicated, memory usage grows unnecessarily, correctness proofs become fragile, and optimization opportunities disappear. Many beginners focus immediately on finding recurrence relations. Experienced algorithm designers spend most of their effort defining the state...

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13.12 Tree Dynamic Programming

13.12 Tree Dynamic Programming Many dynamic programming problems are defined on linear structures such as arrays, strings, and intervals. Tree dynamic programming extends these ideas to hierarchical structures. Instead of moving left to right through a sequence, computation flows through parent-child relationships. Tree dynamic programming is one of the most important techniques in competitive programming, graph algorithms, compiler construction, network optimization, and computational biology. Problems that appear difficult on general...

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13.10 Edit Distance

13.10 Edit Distance The edit distance problem asks a deceptively simple question: How different are two strings? At first glance, comparing strings appears straightforward. We can count mismatched characters or compare lengths. Unfortunately, such approaches fail as soon as insertions and deletions are introduced. A single inserted character shifts every subsequent position, making naive comparisons meaningless. Edit distance solves this problem by measuring the minimum number of operations required to...

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13.13 Bitmask Dynamic Programming

13.13 Bitmask Dynamic Programming Most dynamic programming problems use states based on positions, intervals, capacities, or tree nodes. Bitmask dynamic programming introduces a different idea: representing subsets as states. This technique is particularly useful when the problem involves selecting, visiting, assigning, or arranging elements from a relatively small set. Instead of tracking individual decisions separately, an entire subset can be encoded as a single integer whose binary representation records which...

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13.6 Two-Dimensional Dynamic Programming

13.6 Two-Dimensional Dynamic Programming One-dimensional dynamic programming models progress along a single axis. Many problems, however, involve two independent dimensions. A string can be compared against another string. A path can move across rows and columns of a grid. A resource allocation problem may track both items processed and capacity remaining. In such situations, a single state variable is insufficient. The solution requires a state that captures progress in two...

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13.4 Tabulation

13.4 Tabulation Memoization evaluates states on demand through recursion. Tabulation takes the opposite approach. Instead of starting from the final answer and recursively exploring smaller subproblems, tabulation starts from the smallest subproblems and systematically builds larger solutions until the final answer is reached. Tabulation is often called bottom-up dynamic programming. Most production-quality dynamic programming implementations eventually use tabulation because it eliminates recursion overhead, provides predictable memory access patterns, and makes...

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13.14 Probability Dynamic Programming

13.14 Probability Dynamic Programming Probability dynamic programming appears when each transition has uncertainty. Instead of computing the best value, the number of ways, or the feasibility of a state, we compute a probability, an expected value, or a distribution over outcomes. The structure is still dynamic programming. We define states, derive transitions, initialize base cases, and compute answers in dependency order. The difference is the algebra used to combine transitions....

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13.9 Longest Increasing Subsequence

13.9 Longest Increasing Subsequence The Longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS) problem is one of the most important sequence optimization problems in algorithm design. At first glance, the problem appears deceptively simple: find the longest subsequence whose elements appear in strictly increasing order. Yet beneath this simplicity lies a rich collection of dynamic programming techniques, optimization strategies, and algorithmic insights. LIS is particularly valuable because it demonstrates how dynamic programming can be...

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13.17 Convex Hull Trick

13.17 Convex Hull Trick Many dynamic programming solutions are correct but too slow. The recurrence is easy to write, the state is well defined, and the base cases are clean, yet each state scans too many previous states. Convex hull trick is one of the standard techniques for reducing such transition costs. The technique applies when a recurrence can be rewritten as a minimum or maximum over a set of...

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13.5 One-Dimensional Dynamic Programming

13.5 One-Dimensional Dynamic Programming One-dimensional dynamic programming is the simplest and most common form of dynamic programming. The state is represented by a single index, and each state typically depends on a small number of earlier states. Many classical problems, including Fibonacci numbers, staircase counting, coin change, rod cutting, and longest increasing subsequence, begin with a one-dimensional formulation. Mastering one-dimensional dynamic programming develops the core skills needed for all later...

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LeetCode 3004 - Maximum Subtree of the Same Color

LeetCode Problem 3004 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding We are given a rooted tree with n nodes, where node 0 is the root. The input edges describes the tree structure. Each entry edges[i] = [u, v] indicates that there is an undirected edge between nodes u and v . Since the problem guarantees that the graph is a tree rooted at node...

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LeetCode 3660 - Jump Game IX

LeetCode Problem 3660 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine, for each position in an array nums , the maximum value that can be reached by making a series of jumps under strict rules. From any index i , we can jump forward to an index j > i only if nums[j] < nums[i] , or jump backward to an index...

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LeetCode 3738 - Longest Non-Decreasing Subarray After Replacing at Most One Element

LeetCode Problem 3738 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding == 5 # already non-decreasing edge cases assert Solution().

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LeetCode 3621 - Number of Integers With Popcount-Depth Equal to K I

LeetCode Problem 3621 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count integers x in the range [1, n] such that the popcount-depth of x is exactly k . The popcount-depth is defined via a sequence p0, p1, ... where p0 = x and pi+1 = popcount(pi) for all i ≥ 0 . The popcount of a number is the...

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LeetCode 3615 - Longest Palindromic Path in Graph

LeetCode Problem 3615 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Graph Theory, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding We are given an undirected graph with n ≤ 14 vertices. Each vertex has a character label. We may choose any simple path in the graph, meaning a sequence of adjacent vertices in which no vertex is visited more than once. If the labels encountered along that path form a palindrome, the...

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LeetCode 3610 - Minimum Number of Primes to Sum to Target

LeetCode Problem 3610 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Number Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires us to determine the minimum number of prime numbers from the first m primes whose sum equals n . A multiset is allowed, meaning each prime may be chosen multiple times. The input integers n and m specify the target sum and the number of primes available, respectively. The output is...

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LeetCode 3791 - Number of Balanced Integers in a Range

LeetCode Problem 3791 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Here is the full, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 3791 - Number of Balanced Integers in a Range, following your requested structure. Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all integers between low and high inclusive that are balanced . An integer is defined as balanced if it meets two conditions. First, it must have at least two...

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LeetCode 3882 - Minimum XOR Path in a Grid

LeetCode Problem 3882 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Matrix Solution LeetCode 3882 - Minimum XOR Path in a Grid Problem Understanding We are given an m × n grid of integers. Starting from the top-left cell (0, 0) , we must reach the bottom-right cell (m - 1, n - 1) by moving only right or down. For every path, we compute its cost as the...

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LeetCode 3883 - Count Non Decreasing Arrays With Given Digit Sums

LeetCode Problem 3883 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the number of non-decreasing arrays of integers where each integer satisfies a specific digit sum constraint. Specifically, we are given an array digitSum of length n , where digitSum[i] represents the required sum of digits for the i -th element in the array. We must construct arrays arr of...

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LeetCode 3877 - Minimum Removals to Achieve Target XOR

LeetCode Problem 3877 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution LeetCode 3877 - Minimum Removals to Achieve Target XOR Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and a target value target . We may remove any subset of elements from the array, including removing none of them or even removing all of them. After performing the removals, the remaining elements form a new array. The bitwise...

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LeetCode 3869 - Count Fancy Numbers in a Range

LeetCode Problem 3869 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3869 - Count Fancy Numbers in a Range Problem Understanding We are given two integers l and r , and we must count how many integers in the inclusive range [l, r] are fancy . The definition of a fancy number is based on the concept of a good number. A number is good if its digits form...

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LeetCode 3772 - Maximum Subgraph Score in a Tree

LeetCode Problem 3772 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute, for each node in a tree, the maximum score of a connected subgraph that includes that node. The tree is represented as an undirected graph with n nodes and n - 1 edges. Each node has a value indicating whether it is good ( 1 ) or bad...

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LeetCode 3857 - Minimum Cost to Split into Ones

LeetCode Problem 3857 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3857 - Minimum Cost to Split into Ones Problem Understanding We are given a single integer n . Starting with this integer, we repeatedly perform split operations until every resulting piece is equal to 1 . A split operation takes some integer x and divides it into two positive integers a and b such that: $$a + b...

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LeetCode 3850 - Count Sequences to K

LeetCode Problem 3850 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Memoization, Number Theory Solution LeetCode 3850 - Count Sequences to K Problem Understanding We start with a value val = 1 and process the array from left to right. For every element nums[i] , we must choose exactly one of three actions: Multiply the current value by nums[i] Divide the current value by nums[i] Do nothing Division is exact...

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LeetCode 3757 - Number of Effective Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 3757 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Combinatorics Solution Here’s a complete, detailed technical guide for LeetCode 3757 - Number of Effective Subsequences , following your formatting instructions exactly. Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array of integers, nums , and asks us to determine the number of effective subsequences . The strength of the array is defined as the bitwise OR of...

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LeetCode 3844 - Longest Almost-Palindromic Substring

LeetCode Problem 3844 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3844 - Longest Almost-Palindromic Substring Problem Understanding We are given a string s consisting of lowercase English letters. We must find the length of the longest substring that is almost-palindromic . A substring is almost-palindromic if we can remove exactly one character from that substring and the remaining characters form a palindrome. The key detail is...

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LeetCode 3840 - House Robber V

LeetCode Problem 3840 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is a variation of the classic House Robber problem, but with an additional constraint: each house has a color, and you cannot rob two adjacent houses if they share the same color. We are given two arrays nums and colors of length n . The array nums represents the amount of money at each house,...

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LeetCode 3836 - Maximum Score Using Exactly K Pairs

LeetCode Problem 3836 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3836 - Maximum Score Using Exactly K Pairs Problem Understanding We are given two arrays, nums1 of length n and nums2 of length m , along with an integer k . Our goal is to choose exactly k pairs of indices: $$(i_1, j_1), (i_2, j_2), \dots, (i_k, j_k)$$ such that: $$i_1 < i_2 < \dots < i_k$$ and...

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LeetCode 3830 - Longest Alternating Subarray After Removing At Most One Element

LeetCode Problem 3830 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the longest alternating subarray in a given integer array nums , where a subarray is defined as consecutive elements. A subarray is considered alternating if the sequence of comparisons between adjacent elements strictly alternates between less-than and greater-than. Formally, for a subarray nums[l..r] , it must satisfy either: nums[l] <...

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LeetCode 3826 - Minimum Partition Score

LeetCode Problem 3826 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Divide and Conquer, Dynamic Programming, Queue, Prefix Sum, Monotonic Queue Solution LeetCode 3826 - Minimum Partition Score Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and must divide it into exactly k contiguous subarrays. For every subarray, we first compute its sum: $$\text{sumArr} = \sum \text{elements in the subarray}$$ Its value is then defined as: $$\text{value} = \frac{\text{sumArr} \cdot (\text{sumArr}+1)}{2}$$ The score...

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LeetCode 3725 - Count Ways to Choose Coprime Integers from Rows

LeetCode Problem 3725 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Matrix, Combinatorics, Number Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine how many ways we can choose exactly one number from each row of a given m x n matrix such that the greatest common divisor (GCD) of all chosen numbers is 1. In other words, we need to count all valid combinations of one element per...

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LeetCode 3717 - Minimum Operations to Make the Array Beautiful

LeetCode Problem 3717 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Here is the complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 3717 - Minimum Operations to Make the Array Beautiful following your exact formatting rules. Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform an integer array nums into a beautiful array . An array is considered beautiful if every element (except the first) is divisible by its previous element. Formally,...

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LeetCode 3811 - Number of Alternating XOR Partitions

LeetCode Problem 3811 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution LeetCode 3811 - Number of Alternating XOR Partitions Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and two distinct target XOR values, target1 and target2 . A partition divides the array into contiguous, non-empty blocks. Every element must belong to exactly one block, and the blocks must cover the entire array. The partition is considered...

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LeetCode 3704 - Count No-Zero Pairs That Sum to N

LeetCode Problem 3704 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all pairs of positive integers (a, b) such that their sum equals a given integer n and neither a nor b contains the digit 0 in their decimal representation. These integers are called no-zero integers . The input n is guaranteed to be at least 2 and can be as large...

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LeetCode 3700 - Number of ZigZag Arrays II

LeetCode Problem 3700 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of arrays of length n where each element is in the range [l, r] , no two consecutive elements are equal, and no three consecutive elements are strictly increasing or strictly decreasing. These arrays are termed ZigZag arrays . In other words, for an array A of length n...

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LeetCode 3699 - Number of ZigZag Arrays I

LeetCode Problem 3699 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Here is the complete technical solution guide for LeetCode 3699 - Number of ZigZag Arrays I , formatted exactly according to your specifications. Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count arrays of length n where each element is within the range [l, r] and satisfies the ZigZag constraints. A ZigZag array has two main rules: no two...

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LeetCode 3801 - Minimum Cost to Merge Sorted Lists

LeetCode Problem 3801 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding We are given between 2 and 12 sorted lists. At any moment we may choose any two existing lists and merge them. If the two lists are $a$ and $b$, the merge cost is $$\operatorname{len}(a)+\operatorname{len}(b)+ \left|\operatorname{median}(a)-\operatorname{median}(b)\right|.$$ After the merge, the two lists disappear and are replaced by their sorted union. The...

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LeetCode 3685 - Subsequence Sum After Capping Elements

LeetCode Problem 3685 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Here is a complete, rigorous study companion-style solution guide for LeetCode 3685 - Subsequence Sum After Capping Elements , following your requested format and voice. Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums of size n and a positive integer k . For any integer x from 1 to n , we define the capped...

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LeetCode 3742 - Maximum Path Score in a Grid

LeetCode Problem 3742 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem presents a grid of size m x n where each cell contains a value of 0, 1, or 2. Each cell contributes both a score and a cost: a cell with value 0 adds 0 to both score and cost, a cell with value 1 adds 1 to score and 1 to cost, and...

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LeetCode 3661 - Maximum Walls Destroyed by Robots

LeetCode Problem 3661 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution LeetCode 3661 - Maximum Walls Destroyed by Robots Problem Understanding This problem takes place on a one dimensional number line. We are given positions of robots and positions of walls. Every robot owns exactly one bullet, and that bullet can be fired either to the left or to the right. A robot located at position robots[i]...

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LeetCode 3654 - Minimum Sum After Divisible Sum Deletions

LeetCode Problem 3654 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution LeetCode 3654 - Minimum Sum After Divisible Sum Deletions Problem Understanding This problem gives us an array nums containing positive integers and an integer k . We may repeatedly remove any contiguous subarray whose sum is divisible by k . After each removal, the remaining elements close the gap, meaning the array becomes shorter and...

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LeetCode 3593 - Minimum Increments to Equalize Leaf Paths

LeetCode Problem 3593 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution LeetCode 3593 - Minimum Increments to Equalize Leaf Paths Problem Understanding We are given a rooted tree with root node 0 . Every node has a cost, and the score of a root-to-leaf path is the sum of the costs of all nodes along that path. We are allowed to increase the cost of any nodes...

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LeetCode 3557 - Find Maximum Number of Non Intersecting Substrings

LeetCode Problem 3557 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to identify the maximum number of non-intersecting substrings from a given string word such that each substring is at least four characters long and starts and ends with the same character . In other words, we are scanning the string for patterns where the first and last character match and...

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LeetCode 3534 - Path Existence Queries in a Graph II

LeetCode Problem 3534 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, Graph Theory, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute the shortest path between nodes in an implicit undirected graph defined by a nums array and a maxDiff . Each node i corresponds to nums[i] . There is an edge between nodes i and j if the absolute difference of their...

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LeetCode 3519 - Count Numbers with Non-Decreasing Digits

LeetCode Problem 3519 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3519 - Count Numbers with Non-Decreasing Digits Problem Understanding We are given two very large integers l and r as decimal strings and a base b where 2 ≤ b ≤ 10 . For every integer x in the inclusive range [l, r] , we consider its representation in base b . We want to count how...

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LeetCode 3505 - Minimum Operations to Make Elements Within K Subarrays Equal

LeetCode Problem 3505 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Math, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding You are given an integer array nums , and you want to create at least k non-overlapping subarrays. Every chosen subarray must have length exactly x , and after performing some modifications, every element inside each chosen subarray must become equal. The only allowed operation is increasing or decreasing...

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LeetCode 3504 - Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation II

LeetCode Problem 3504 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3504, Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation II Problem Understanding We are given two strings, s and t . We may choose any substring from s and any substring from t . Either substring is allowed to be empty. After selecting them, we concatenate them in this exact order: substring_from_s + substring_from_t The resulting string must be...

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LeetCode 3414 - Maximum Score of Non-overlapping Intervals

LeetCode Problem 3414 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem combines weighted interval scheduling with an additional constraint: we may select at most 4 intervals, and if multiple selections achieve the same maximum total weight, we must return the lexicographically smallest list of original indices. Each interval is represented as: [left, right, weight] where: left is the starting position right is the...

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LeetCode 3751 - Total Waviness of Numbers in Range I

LeetCode Problem 3751 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Enumeration Solution LeetCode 3751 - Total Waviness of Numbers in Range I Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute the total waviness of every integer in an inclusive range [num1, num2] . For a single number, waviness is defined as the number of digits that are either peaks or valleys. A digit is a peak if it is strictly...

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LeetCode 3743 - Maximize Cyclic Partition Score

LeetCode Problem 3743 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding We are given a cyclic array nums , which means the array is considered to wrap around from the last element back to the first element. We want to partition the entire cycle into at most k contiguous subarrays. Since the array is cyclic, one of the subarrays is allowed to cross the boundary between the last...

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LeetCode 3693 - Climbing Stairs II

LeetCode Problem 3693 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem is an extension of the classic "climbing stairs" dynamic programming problem but with more complex jump costs. You are given a staircase with n + 1 steps, numbered from 0 to n . Each intermediate step i (1-indexed) has an associated cost costs[i] . You start at step 0 with zero cost. From any step...

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LeetCode 3686 - Number of Stable Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 3686 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many subsequences of a given integer array are stable , where stability is defined by a constraint on parity patterns inside the subsequence itself. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more elements without changing the relative order of the remaining elements. A subsequence is considered unstable if, when...

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LeetCode 3665 - Twisted Mirror Path Count

LeetCode Problem 3665 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count all unique paths from the top-left corner (0, 0) to the bottom-right corner (m - 1, n - 1) of a binary grid where certain cells contain mirrors. The robot can move only right or down , but mirrors change its trajectory in a very specific way: moving right into...

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LeetCode 3651 - Minimum Cost Path with Teleportations

LeetCode Problem 3651 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the minimum cost to travel from the top-left corner (0, 0) of a 2D grid to the bottom-right corner (m - 1, n - 1) . Each cell contains a non-negative integer representing its cost. There are two ways to move: Normal move : move either right or down, paying...

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LeetCode 3647 - Maximum Weight in Two Bags

LeetCode Problem 3647 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to distribute a set of items, each with a given weight, into two separate bags with fixed capacity limits, in order to maximize the total weight placed across both bags. Each item in the input array weights can be used at most once, and for each item we must decide one of three...

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LeetCode 3640 - Trionic Array II

LeetCode Problem 3640 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums , and we must find the maximum possible sum of a contiguous subarray that follows a very specific shape: It first increases strictly. Then decreases strictly. Then increases strictly again. More formally, for a subarray nums[l...r] , there must exist indices: l < p < q < r such that:...

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LeetCode 3638 - Maximum Balanced Shipments

LeetCode Problem 3638 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array weight representing parcels arranged in a line. We must partition some prefix-suffix segments of this array into a collection of non-overlapping contiguous subarrays called shipments. Each parcel can belong to at most one shipment, and it is also allowed to leave some parcels unused. A shipment is considered...

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LeetCode 3620 - Network Recovery Pathways

LeetCode Problem 3620 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Heap (Priority Queue), Shortest Path Solution LeetCode 3620 - Network Recovery Pathways Problem Understanding We are given a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with n nodes numbered from 0 to n - 1 . Each directed edge is represented as: u -> v with cost c and stored in: edges[i] = [u, v, c] We...

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LeetCode 3599 - Partition Array to Minimize XOR

LeetCode Problem 3599 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to partition an array of integers, nums , into exactly k non-empty contiguous subarrays, and then compute the bitwise XOR of each subarray. The goal is to minimize the maximum XOR among these subarrays. Essentially, we are trying to distribute the elements into k groups such that the "largest...

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LeetCode 3592 - Inverse Coin Change

LeetCode Problem 3592 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a 1-indexed array numWays , where numWays[i] indicates the number of ways to form a total amount i using an infinite supply of some unknown coin denominations . The goal is to recover the original set of coin denominations. The array effectively represents the output of a classical coin change problem, but in...

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LeetCode 3585 - Find Weighted Median Node in Tree

LeetCode Problem 3585 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding We are given a weighted tree with n nodes. A tree is an undirected connected graph with exactly n - 1 edges, which guarantees that there is exactly one simple path between any two nodes. Each edge has a positive weight. For every query [u, v] , we look at...

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LeetCode 3579 - Minimum Steps to Convert String with Operations

LeetCode Problem 3579 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform one string, word1 , into another string, word2 , using the minimum number of operations. Both strings have equal length and consist only of lowercase English letters. The allowed operations are applied on contiguous substrings of word1 and include replacing a character, swapping two characters, or reversing the entire substring. Each...

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LeetCode 3578 - Count Partitions With Max-Min Difference at Most K

LeetCode Problem 3578 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Queue, Sliding Window, Prefix Sum, Monotonic Queue Solution LeetCode 3578 - Count Partitions With Max-Min Difference at Most K Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and an integer k . We want to split the array into one or more contiguous, non-empty segments. Every element must belong to exactly one segment, and the segments must preserve the original...

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LeetCode 3573 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock V

LeetCode Problem 3573 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3573 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock V Problem Understanding This problem extends the classic stock trading dynamic programming family by allowing two different kinds of transactions. A normal transaction consists of buying first and selling later. If the stock price rises, the profit is: $$\text{sell price} - \text{buy price}$$ A short selling transaction reverses the...

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LeetCode 3563 - Lexicographically Smallest String After Adjacent Removals

LeetCode Problem 3563 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the lexicographically smallest string that can be formed by repeatedly removing adjacent pairs of characters in a string s that are consecutive in the alphabet. Consecutive letters can be in either order (e.g., 'a' followed by 'b' or 'b' followed by 'a' ) and the alphabet is considered circular, meaning 'a'...

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LeetCode 3559 - Number of Ways to Assign Edge Weights II

LeetCode Problem 3559 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding We are given an undirected tree with n nodes, rooted at node 1 . Every edge will eventually receive a weight of either 1 or 2 . For each query [u, v] , we only care about the unique path connecting u and v . All edges outside that path are...

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LeetCode 3553 - Minimum Weighted Subgraph With the Required Paths II

LeetCode Problem 3553 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding We are given a weighted, undirected tree with n nodes. Because the graph is a tree, there is exactly one simple path between any two nodes. For each query [src1, src2, dest] , we must find the minimum total weight of a connected subtree such that both src1 and src2 can reach...

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LeetCode 3544 - Subtree Inversion Sum

LeetCode Problem 3544 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to select a subset of nodes in a rooted tree such that each selected node triggers a subtree inversion, and inversions interact through ancestor-descendant relationships with a distance constraint. Each inversion multiplies all values in the corresponding subtree by −1, and multiple inversions stack multiplicatively, meaning each node’s final sign...

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LeetCode 3543 - Maximum Weighted K-Edge Path

LeetCode Problem 3543 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory Solution LeetCode 3543 - Maximum Weighted K-Edge Path Problem Understanding We are given a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with n nodes and weighted directed edges. Each edge is represented as [u, v, w] , meaning there is a directed edge from node u to node v with weight w . The goal is to find a path...

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LeetCode 3538 - Merge Operations for Minimum Travel Time

LeetCode Problem 3538 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding This problem presents a road of length l kilometers, segmented by n signs at strictly increasing positions, where the first sign is at the start of the road ( position[0] = 0 ) and the last sign is at the end of the road ( position[n-1] = l ). Each segment between consecutive signs has...

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LeetCode 3533 - Concatenated Divisibility

LeetCode Problem 3533 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 3533 - Concatenated Divisibility Problem Understanding We are given an array nums containing up to 13 positive integers and an integer k . We may reorder the numbers in any permutation. After choosing an ordering, we concatenate the decimal representations of the numbers to form a single large integer. The task is to find a...

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LeetCode 3530 - Maximum Profit from Valid Topological Order in DAG

LeetCode Problem 3530 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires computing the maximum possible profit achievable by processing nodes of a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) in a valid topological order . Each node has a score, and the profit contribution of a node is its score multiplied by its position in the processing order (1-based). The goal...

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LeetCode 3524 - Find X Value of Array I

LeetCode Problem 3524 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3524 - Find X Value of Array I Problem Understanding The operation described in the problem may initially look unusual, but it is actually equivalent to choosing a non-empty contiguous subarray. When we remove a prefix and a suffix that do not overlap, the elements left behind form a contiguous segment of the original array. Conversely, every...

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LeetCode 3509 - Maximum Product of Subsequences With an Alternating Sum Equal to K

LeetCode Problem 3509 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find a subsequence of a given integer array nums such that the alternating sum of the subsequence equals a target integer k , while maximizing the product of the numbers in that subsequence without exceeding a given limit . The alternating sum is defined as the sum of elements at...

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LeetCode 3503 - Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation I

LeetCode Problem 3503 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Enumeration Solution LeetCode 3503 - Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation I Problem Understanding We are given two strings, s and t , and we are allowed to choose: Any substring of s , including the empty string. Any substring of t , including the empty string. The chosen substring from s must come first, and the chosen substring...

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LeetCode 3500 - Minimum Cost to Divide Array Into Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 3500 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to partition an array nums into contiguous subarrays, where each subarray contributes a weighted cost to the total. The cost for a subarray nums[l..r] depends on two components: the sum of the elements in the subarray, adjusted by a factor k multiplied by the order of the subarray, and the sum...

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LeetCode 3490 - Count Beautiful Numbers

LeetCode Problem 3490 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count the number of positive integers between l and r (inclusive) that are beautiful . A number is defined as beautiful if the product of its digits is divisible by the sum of its digits. In simpler terms, for a number n , if sum_digits(n) divides product_digits(n) evenly, then n is beautiful. The...

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LeetCode 3489 - Zero Array Transformation IV

LeetCode Problem 3489 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of sequential queries needed to transform an integer array nums into a Zero Array, where every element is zero. Each query specifies a subarray [li, ri] and a value vali , and the query allows us to decrement any subset of indices in that subarray by exactly vali...

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LeetCode 3472 - Longest Palindromic Subsequence After at Most K Operations

LeetCode Problem 3472 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Here’s a complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 3472 following your formatting rules. Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest palindromic subsequence in a string s after performing at most k operations . Each operation allows us to increment or decrement a character by one in the alphabet, with wraparound from 'a'...

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LeetCode 3469 - Find Minimum Cost to Remove Array Elements

LeetCode Problem 3469 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking for the minimum total cost required to remove all elements from an integer array nums under a very specific set of operations. At each step, we can either remove any two elements from the first three elements of the array, and the cost for that operation is the maximum of the two elements...

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LeetCode 3459 - Length of Longest V-Shaped Diagonal Segment

LeetCode Problem 3459 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Memoization, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding We are given an n x m matrix whose entries are only 0 , 1 , or 2 . A valid V-shaped diagonal segment must satisfy two independent requirements: First, the values along the path must follow a very specific sequence. The first cell must contain 1 . Every subsequent cell must alternate between 2...

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LeetCode 3458 - Select K Disjoint Special Substrings

LeetCode Problem 3458 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine whether we can select k disjoint special substrings from a given string s . A special substring is defined as a substring where every character in it does not appear anywhere else in the string. Additionally, the substring cannot be the entire string itself. The input consists...

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LeetCode 3448 - Count Substrings Divisible By Last Digit

LeetCode Problem 3448 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3448 - Count Substrings Divisible By Last Digit Problem Understanding We are given a string s consisting only of decimal digits. Every substring of s represents a non-negative integer, and leading zeros are allowed. For each substring, we look at its last digit. If the last digit is non-zero, we check whether the numeric value of the substring...

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LeetCode 3444 - Minimum Increments for Target Multiples in an Array

LeetCode Problem 3444 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Number Theory, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 3444 - Minimum Increments for Target Multiples in an Array Problem Understanding We are given two arrays: nums , the array whose elements we are allowed to increase. target , a small array containing values that must each be represented by at least one multiple somewhere in the final version of nums...

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LeetCode 3441 - Minimum Cost Good Caption

LeetCode Problem 3441 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding We are given a lowercase string caption . We may repeatedly change any character one step forward or backward in the alphabet. Because we can apply this operation multiple times, converting a character x into a character y costs exactly: $$|x - y|$$ where the difference is measured by alphabet position. The goal is to transform the...

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LeetCode 3428 - Maximum and Minimum Sums of at Most Size K Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 3428 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Sorting, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and an integer k . For every subsequence whose size is at most k , we look at two values: The minimum element in that subsequence. The maximum element in that subsequence. We add minimum + maximum for every valid subsequence, then return the total modulo 10^9 +...

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LeetCode 3429 - Paint House IV

LeetCode Problem 3429 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem is asking us to paint n houses arranged in a line with three available colors for each house, minimizing the total painting cost while satisfying two constraints. The first constraint is the standard one from the classic "Paint House" problem: no two adjacent houses can have the same color. The second constraint is new and...

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LeetCode 3418 - Maximum Amount of Money Robot Can Earn

LeetCode Problem 3418 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding We are given an m x n grid where each cell contains either a positive value, zero, or a negative value. The robot starts at the top-left cell (0, 0) and must reach the bottom-right cell (m - 1, n - 1) . At every step it may only move either right or down, so every...

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LeetCode 3409 - Longest Subsequence With Decreasing Adjacent Difference

LeetCode Problem 3409 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3409 - Longest Subsequence With Decreasing Adjacent Difference Problem Understanding We are given an array nums , and we want to choose a subsequence from it. A subsequence preserves the original order of elements but may skip arbitrary positions. For a chosen subsequence $$seq_0, seq_1, seq_2, \dots, seq_m$$ we look at the absolute differences between consecutive elements: $$|seq_1-seq_0|,...

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LeetCode 3376 - Minimum Time to Break Locks I

LeetCode Problem 3376 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Breadth-First Search, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 3376 - Minimum Time to Break Locks I Problem Understanding The problem describes a sequence of locks that must all be broken. Each lock requires a certain amount of energy, given by strength[i] . Bob's sword starts with: Energy = 0 Growth factor x = 1 Every minute, the sword gains x...

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LeetCode 3183 - The Number of Ways to Make the Sum

LeetCode Problem 3183 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the number of distinct ways to sum up to an integer n using a limited set of coins. Specifically, we have coins of value 1, 2, and 6 available in infinite quantities, and coins of value 4 with a strict limit of two. The key points are that the order of...

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LeetCode 3335 - Total Characters in String After Transformations I

LeetCode Problem 3335 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Counting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s and an integer t . We repeatedly apply a transformation exactly t times. During one transformation: Every character from 'a' to 'y' becomes the next character in the alphabet. The character 'z' becomes the string "ab" . After all transformations are complete, we must return the...

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LeetCode 3333 - Find the Original Typed String II

LeetCode Problem 3333 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the number of possible original strings that Alice could have intended to type, given a string word that represents the final output and an integer k representing the minimum length of the original string. Because Alice may press keys too long, each character in the output may correspond to...

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LeetCode 3260 - Find the Largest Palindrome Divisible by K

LeetCode Problem 3260 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Number Theory Solution LeetCode 3260 - Find the Largest Palindrome Divisible by K Problem Understanding The problem asks us to construct the largest possible palindrome with exactly n digits such that the resulting number is divisible by k . A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward and backward. For example, 595 , 1221 , and...

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LeetCode 3176 - Find the Maximum Length of a Good Subsequence I

LeetCode Problem 3176 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums and a non-negative integer k . We need to find the maximum possible length of a subsequence such that the number of adjacent unequal pairs is at most k . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more elements from the array without changing the order of...

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LeetCode 3135 - Equalize Strings by Adding or Removing Characters at Ends

LeetCode Problem 3135 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window, Hash Function Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two strings, initial and target . We want to transform initial into target using the minimum number of operations. In a single operation, we may either: Add one character to the beginning of the string Add one character to the end of the string Remove one character...

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LeetCode 2999 - Count the Number of Powerful Integers

LeetCode Problem 2999 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all integers within a given range [start, finish] that satisfy two conditions. First, the integer must end with a specific string s , meaning s is a suffix of the number. Second, each digit in the integer cannot exceed a given limit . For example, if limit is 4 ,...

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LeetCode 2472 - Maximum Number of Non-overlapping Palindrome Substrings

LeetCode Problem 2472 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the maximum number of non-overlapping palindrome substrings in a given string s such that each substring has a length of at least k . In other words, we are looking to segment the string into valid palindromic blocks, where no two selected blocks overlap and each block is...

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LeetCode 3352 - Count K-Reducible Numbers Less Than N

LeetCode Problem 3352 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of positive integers less than n (where n is given in binary as a string s ) that are k-reducible . An integer x is k-reducible if applying the operation "replace x with the count of set bits in its binary representation" at most k times eventually...

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LeetCode 1871 - Jump Game VII

LeetCode Problem 1871 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a binary string s , where each character is either '0' or '1' . We start at index 0 , and the problem guarantees that s[0] == '0' , meaning the starting position is always valid. From any index i , we are allowed to jump to another index...

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LeetCode 2998 - Minimum Number of Operations to Make X and Y Equal

LeetCode Problem 2998 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Breadth-First Search, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform an integer x into another integer y using the minimum number of operations. At every step, we are allowed to perform exactly one of four actions: Divide x by 11 if it is divisible by 11 . Divide x by 5 if it is divisible by 5 . Decrease...

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LeetCode 2209 - Minimum White Tiles After Covering With Carpets

LeetCode Problem 2209 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a binary string floor representing a row of tiles, where '0' corresponds to a black tile and '1' corresponds to a white tile. The goal is to cover some of these tiles using a limited number of black carpets of a fixed length, such that the number of white tiles still visible...

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LeetCode 3351 - Sum of Good Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 3351 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute the sum of all good subsequences in a given integer array nums . A subsequence is any sequence derived from nums by deleting zero or more elements without changing the order of the remaining elements. A subsequence is considered good if the absolute difference between any two consecutive elements...

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LeetCode 2321 - Maximum Score Of Spliced Array

LeetCode Problem 2321 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 , of equal length n . You are allowed to select a contiguous subarray from both arrays and swap them exactly once , or choose not to swap at all. After this optional swap, the score is calculated as the maximum of the sums of the two arrays....

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LeetCode 3082 - Find the Sum of the Power of All Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 3082 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding You are given an array nums and an integer k . For every subsequence of nums , we define its power as the number of subsequences inside it whose sum equals k . The task is to compute the total power across all subsequences of the original array. The wording is initially confusing because we are dealing...

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LeetCode 2054 - Two Best Non-Overlapping Events

LeetCode Problem 2054 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a list of events, where each event is represented as: [startTime, endTime, value] Each event occupies an inclusive time interval from startTime to endTime . If we attend that event, we earn value points. We are allowed to attend at most two events, but the chosen events...

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LeetCode 3032 - Count Numbers With Unique Digits II

LeetCode Problem 3032 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Hash Table, Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many integers in the inclusive range [a, b] contain only unique digits . A number has unique digits if no digit appears more than once within that number. For example, the number 123 has unique digits because 1 , 2 , and 3 each appear exactly once. However,...

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LeetCode 2915 - Length of the Longest Subsequence That Sums to Target

LeetCode Problem 2915 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 2915 - Length of the Longest Subsequence That Sums to Target Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array nums and an integer target . We must find a subsequence whose elements add up exactly to target , while maximizing the number of elements included in that subsequence. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more elements...

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LeetCode 3302 - Find the Lexicographically Smallest Valid Sequence

LeetCode Problem 3302 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find a sequence of indices from word1 such that the characters at those indices, when concatenated in order, form a string that is almost equal to word2 . "Almost equal" means we are allowed to change at most one character in the resulting string to make it identical to...

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LeetCode 3205 - Maximum Array Hopping Score I

LeetCode Problem 3205 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to calculate the maximum score achievable by hopping through an array from the first element to the last. You start at index 0 , and at each step, you can jump to any subsequent index j > i . When you jump, you accumulate a score of (j -...

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LeetCode 2617 - Minimum Number of Visited Cells in a Grid

LeetCode Problem 2617 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Breadth-First Search, Union-Find, Heap (Priority Queue), Matrix, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of cells we need to visit in order to reach the bottom-right corner of a given m x n grid. Each cell (i, j) contains a number grid[i][j] representing the maximum number of steps we can move right...

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LeetCode 3077 - Maximum Strength of K Disjoint Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 3077 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to select exactly k disjoint subarrays from a given array nums such that the last element of each subarray comes before the first element of the next subarray. The goal is to maximize a weighted sum called strength , where the weight decreases by 1 for each subsequent subarray and...

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LeetCode 2916 - Subarrays Distinct Element Sum of Squares II

LeetCode Problem 2916 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Binary Indexed Tree, Segment Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to consider every possible non-empty subarray of the input array nums . For each subarray, we compute how many distinct values appear inside it. We then square that distinct count, and finally sum the squared values across all subarrays. Formally, if a subarray contains k distinct elements, then...

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LeetCode 3192 - Minimum Operations to Make Binary Array Elements Equal to One II

LeetCode Problem 3192 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to take a binary array nums , which contains only 0s and 1s, and transform it so that all elements become 1 using the minimum number of allowed operations. The operation is defined as choosing any index i and flipping all elements from that index to the end of the array. Flipping...

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LeetCode 2944 - Minimum Number of Coins for Fruits

LeetCode Problem 2944 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Queue, Heap (Priority Queue), Monotonic Queue Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the minimum number of coins required to acquire all fruits in a market where buying a fruit grants a special reward. You are given a 0-indexed array prices , where prices[i] represents the cost of purchasing the (i + 1) th fruit. The important twist...

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LeetCode 2876 - Count Visited Nodes in a Directed Graph

LeetCode Problem 2876 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a directed graph with n nodes, where each node has exactly one outgoing edge defined by the array edges . Specifically, edges[i] indicates that there is a directed edge from node i to node edges[i] . The task is to simulate a traversal starting from each node: you...

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LeetCode 2272 - Substring With Largest Variance

LeetCode Problem 2272 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the maximum possible variance among all substrings of a given string. The string contains only lowercase English letters, and the variance of a substring is defined as the largest difference between the counts of any two characters that both appear in that substring. The important detail is that...

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LeetCode 2304 - Minimum Path Cost in a Grid

LeetCode Problem 2304 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a matrix called grid with m rows and n columns. Every cell contains a unique integer from 0 to m * n - 1 . We may start from any cell in the first row and move downward one row at a time until we reach the last row. The movement rule...

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LeetCode 3317 - Find the Number of Possible Ways for an Event

LeetCode Problem 3317 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution LeetCode 3317 - Find the Number of Possible Ways for an Event Problem Understanding The problem describes an event with n performers and x available stages. Each performer must be assigned to exactly one stage. Multiple performers may share the same stage, which means they form a band together. Some stages may remain unused. After the performers are...

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LeetCode 2826 - Sorting Three Groups

LeetCode Problem 2826 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 2826 - Sorting Three Groups Problem Understanding We are given an array nums where every element is either 1 , 2 , or 3 . In one operation, we may remove any element from the array. Our goal is to make the remaining array non-decreasing while performing the minimum possible number of removals. A non-decreasing array...

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LeetCode 2376 - Count Special Integers

LeetCode Problem 2376 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 2376 - Count Special Integers Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many integers in the range [1, n] contain only distinct digits. A number is considered special if no digit appears more than once in its decimal representation. For example, the number 135 is special because the digits 1 , 3 , and 5 are...

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LeetCode 3363 - Find the Maximum Number of Fruits Collected

LeetCode Problem 3363 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the total number of fruits collected by three children traversing a square grid of rooms, each with a certain number of fruits. The grid has dimensions n x n , and the fruits are given in a 2D array fruits[i][j] . The three children start at fixed corners: (0,0) ,...

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LeetCode 2403 - Minimum Time to Kill All Monsters

LeetCode Problem 2403 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to compute the minimum number of days required to defeat all monsters in an array power , where power[i] represents the strength of the i-th monster. You start with zero mana and gain mana daily, with the initial daily gain of 1 . After defeating a monster, your mana...

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LeetCode 2741 - Special Permutations

LeetCode Problem 2741 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of special permutations of a given array of distinct positive integers nums . A permutation is special if, for every adjacent pair of elements nums[i] and nums[i+1] , one element divides the other evenly, that is, either nums[i] % nums[i+1] == 0 or nums[i+1] % nums[i]...

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LeetCode 3040 - Maximum Number of Operations With the Same Score II

LeetCode Problem 3040 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the maximum number of operations that can be performed on an array of integers, where every operation removes two elements from specific positions (either the first two elements, the last two elements, or the first and last elements), and every operation must produce the same score , defined as the...

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LeetCode 2361 - Minimum Costs Using the Train Line

LeetCode Problem 2361 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem models a scenario where you are traversing a train line with two parallel routes: a regular route and an express route. Each route has a series of consecutive stops, and the cost to move from one stop to the next is provided in the arrays regular and express . You always start at stop 0...

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LeetCode 2147 - Number of Ways to Divide a Long Corridor

LeetCode Problem 2147 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a long corridor represented as a string, where 'S' denotes a seat and 'P' denotes a plant. The goal is to partition this corridor into sections , such that each section contains exactly two seats and any number of plants. There are already two dividers in place: one before the first character and...

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LeetCode 3196 - Maximize Total Cost of Alternating Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 3196 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3196 - Maximize Total Cost of Alternating Subarrays Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums , and we must divide the array into one or more contiguous subarrays. Every element must belong to exactly one subarray. For each subarray, we compute an alternating sum: $$\text{cost}(l, r) = nums[l] - nums[l+1] + nums[l+2] - nums[l+3] +...

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LeetCode 3068 - Find the Maximum Sum of Node Values

LeetCode Problem 3068 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding You are given a tree with n nodes. Every node has a value stored in the array nums , and every edge connects two nodes in an undirected manner. You may repeatedly perform the following operation on any edge [u, v] : Replace nums[u] with nums[u] XOR k Replace nums[v] with nums[v]...

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LeetCode 3229 - Minimum Operations to Make Array Equal to Target

LeetCode Problem 3229 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two arrays, nums and target , both of the same length. We are allowed to perform operations on nums until it becomes exactly equal to target . In one operation, we choose any contiguous subarray and either: Increment every element in that subarray by 1 Decrement every element in...

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LeetCode 3251 - Find the Count of Monotonic Pairs II

LeetCode Problem 3251 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of ways we can split an array of positive integers, nums , into two arrays, arr1 and arr2 , such that they satisfy a set of monotonic conditions. Specifically, arr1 must be non-decreasing, arr2 must be non-increasing, and for each index i , their sum...

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LeetCode 3259 - Maximum Energy Boost From Two Drinks

LeetCode Problem 3259 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem is asking you to plan the consumption of two energy drinks over n hours to maximize the total energy boost. Each drink has a known energy contribution per hour, given by two arrays, energyDrinkA and energyDrinkB . You can drink only one energy drink per hour. However, if you switch from one drink to another,...

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LeetCode 1928 - Minimum Cost to Reach Destination in Time

LeetCode Problem 1928 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the minimum cost to travel from city 0 to city n-1 within a given time limit, maxTime , where the cost is defined by passing fees associated with each city visited. The country has n cities connected by bi-directional roads with varying travel times. Multiple roads may exist between...

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LeetCode 1981 - Minimize the Difference Between Target and Chosen Elements

LeetCode Problem 1981 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to select exactly one element from each row of a given m x n integer matrix mat such that the sum of the selected elements is as close as possible to a given integer target . The goal is to minimize the absolute difference between the sum of chosen elements and the...

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LeetCode 2867 - Count Valid Paths in a Tree

LeetCode Problem 2867 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Number Theory Solution That is a long, structured reference document with multiple required sections, detailed prose, two full implementations, worked examples, test cases, and edge-case analysis. To keep quality high and avoid truncation, I will provide it in a complete guide format. Before I start, do you want the full guide in a single response , or...

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LeetCode 3320 - Count The Number of Winning Sequences

LeetCode Problem 3320 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding We are given a string s representing Alice’s moves across n rounds of a game. Each character corresponds to one creature: 'F' = Fire Dragon 'W' = Water Serpent 'E' = Earth Golem In every round, Alice and Bob each choose one creature simultaneously. Depending on the matchup, exactly one player may gain a point: Fire beats...

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LeetCode 2547 - Minimum Cost to Split an Array

LeetCode Problem 2547 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Counting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to split the array nums into one or more contiguous non-empty subarrays such that the total cost is minimized. For every subarray, we define a special quantity called its importance value. To compute it, we first construct the trimmed version of the subarray by removing every element that appears exactly...

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LeetCode 2673 - Make Costs of Paths Equal in a Binary Tree

LeetCode Problem 2673 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Tree, Binary Tree Solution Edit LeetCode 2673 - Make Costs of Paths Equal in a Binary Tree Problem Understanding This problem gives us a perfect binary tree with n nodes, where each node has an associated cost. The tree follows a strict indexing rule: node i has a left child at 2 * i and a right child at...

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LeetCode 3388 - Count Beautiful Splits in an Array

LeetCode Problem 3388 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums , and we want to count how many ways we can split it into exactly three non-empty contiguous subarrays: nums1 nums2 nums3 such that: nums = nums1 + nums2 + nums3 where + means concatenation. A split is considered beautiful if at least one of these conditions holds: nums1 is...

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LeetCode 1959 - Minimum Total Space Wasted With K Resizing Operations

LeetCode Problem 1959 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Let's go through a full, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 1959 following your formatting and style rules. Problem Understanding This problem asks us to minimize the total wasted space when resizing a dynamic array multiple times. We are given a 0-indexed array nums where nums[i] represents the number of elements that need to fit in the...

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LeetCode 2900 - Longest Unequal Adjacent Groups Subsequence I

LeetCode Problem 2900 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution LeetCode 2900 - Longest Unequal Adjacent Groups Subsequence I Problem Understanding We are given two arrays of the same length: words[i] is a string. groups[i] is either 0 or 1 . We want to select a subsequence of words . A subsequence preserves the original order of elements, but we may skip any number of elements. The...

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LeetCode 3269 - Constructing Two Increasing Arrays

LeetCode Problem 3269 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding We are given two binary arrays, nums1 and nums2 . Each element is either 0 or 1 . We must replace every value with a positive integer according to its parity: Every 0 must become an even positive integer. Every 1 must become an odd positive integer. After replacement, both resulting arrays must satisfy two conditions: Each...

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LeetCode 2767 - Partition String Into Minimum Beautiful Substrings

LeetCode Problem 2767 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to partition a given binary string s into the minimum number of substrings such that each substring is beautiful . A substring is beautiful if it represents a power of 5 in decimal and does not have leading zeros. The string s contains only '0' and '1' characters, and its...

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LeetCode 3148 - Maximum Difference Score in a Grid

LeetCode Problem 3148 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an m x n matrix called grid , where every cell contains a positive integer. From any cell (r1, c1) , we are allowed to move to another cell (r2, c2) as long as the destination is either strictly below or strictly to the right. In other words: r2 > r1 ,...

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LeetCode 2305 - Fair Distribution of Cookies

LeetCode Problem 2305 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to distribute a set of cookie bags among k children such that the unfairness of the distribution is minimized. Here, unfairness is defined as the maximum total number of cookies any single child receives . The input consists of an array cookies where cookies[i] represents the number of cookies...

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LeetCode 3201 - Find the Maximum Length of Valid Subsequence I

LeetCode Problem 3201 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the longest subsequence in an integer array nums where each adjacent pair of elements in the subsequence has the same parity sum, modulo 2. In other words, if we sum consecutive elements in the subsequence and take each sum modulo 2, all these results must be equal. The input is an...

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LeetCode 2052 - Minimum Cost to Separate Sentence Into Rows

LeetCode Problem 2052 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to format a sentence into multiple rows such that each row has length at most k . The sentence consists of words separated by spaces, and words cannot be split across rows. We may only insert line breaks between words. The goal is not simply to minimize the number of rows. Instead, every...

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LeetCode 2501 - Longest Square Streak in an Array

LeetCode Problem 2501 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to identify the longest square streak in an array of integers nums . A square streak is a subsequence of at least length 2 where, after sorting, every element is the square of the previous element. In other words, if the sorted subsequence is [x1, x2, ..., xk]...

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LeetCode 2262 - Total Appeal of A String

LeetCode Problem 2262 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to calculate the total appeal of all substrings of a given string s . The appeal of a string is defined as the number of distinct characters it contains. In other words, for every possible substring of s , we need to count how many unique letters it has and sum...

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LeetCode 2556 - Disconnect Path in a Binary Matrix by at Most One Flip

LeetCode Problem 2556 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking whether it is possible to disconnect a path from the top-left corner (0, 0) to the bottom-right corner (m - 1, n - 1) in a binary matrix by flipping at most one cell from 1 to 0 or 0 to 1 . A path only allows moves...

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LeetCode 2925 - Maximum Score After Applying Operations on a Tree

LeetCode Problem 2925 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an undirected tree with n nodes rooted at node 0 . Every node has an associated positive value. We may repeatedly perform an operation where we choose a node, add its current value to our score, and then permanently set that node's value to 0 . However, after all operations are...

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LeetCode 3165 - Maximum Sum of Subsequence With Non-adjacent Elements

LeetCode Problem 3165 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Divide and Conquer, Dynamic Programming, Segment Tree Solution LeetCode 3165 - Maximum Sum of Subsequence With Non-adjacent Elements Problem Understanding This problem asks us to process a sequence of update queries on an array. After each update, we must compute the maximum possible sum of a subsequence where no two selected elements are adjacent in the array. The key detail is that...

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LeetCode 2100 - Find Good Days to Rob the Bank

LeetCode Problem 2100 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find all days that are "good" for robbing a bank based on the number of guards on duty over a period of days. You are given an array security where each element represents the number of guards on a specific day, and an integer time that defines a window before...

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LeetCode 3393 - Count Paths With the Given XOR Value

LeetCode Problem 3393 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an m x n grid where each cell contains a small integer value. We start at the top left corner (0, 0) and must reach the bottom right corner (m - 1, n - 1) by moving only right or down. Along every path, we compute the XOR of all...

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LeetCode 2719 - Count of Integers

LeetCode Problem 2719 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many integers lie between two given numeric strings num1 and num2 (inclusive) such that the sum of their digits is between min_sum and max_sum . In other words, we are looking for all integers $x$ where num1 <= x <= num2 and the sum of digits of $x$ falls...

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LeetCode 2809 - Minimum Time to Make Array Sum At Most x

LeetCode Problem 2809 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem provides two integer arrays nums1 and nums2 of equal length, along with a target integer x . Each second, every element in nums1 increases by the corresponding element in nums2 . After the increment, you can choose one index and set its value in nums1 to zero. The task is to determine the minimum...

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LeetCode 3130 - Find All Possible Stable Binary Arrays II

LeetCode Problem 3130 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution LeetCode 3130 - Find All Possible Stable Binary Arrays II Problem Understanding The problem gives us three integers: zero , the exact number of 0 s that must appear in the array one , the exact number of 1 s that must appear in the array limit , the maximum allowed length of any consecutive block of identical...

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LeetCode 3339 - Find the Number of K-Even Arrays

LeetCode Problem 3339 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3339 - Find the Number of K-Even Arrays Problem Understanding We are given three integers: n , the length of the array. m , the maximum value allowed in the array. k , the exact number of special adjacent positions we want. Every element of the array must be chosen from the range [1, m] . For every adjacent...

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LeetCode 2110 - Number of Smooth Descent Periods of a Stock

LeetCode Problem 2110 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding This problem is asking us to count all "smooth descent periods" in a stock price array. A smooth descent period is defined as a contiguous sequence of days where the stock price decreases by exactly 1 each day , except the first day which is always counted as a valid period of...

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LeetCode 2708 - Maximum Strength of a Group

LeetCode Problem 2708 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, Sorting, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to select a non-empty subset of integers from a given array nums such that the product of the numbers in the subset is maximized. Each number represents a student’s exam score, and the subset represents a group of students. The "strength" of a group is the product...

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LeetCode 2573 - Find the String with LCP

LeetCode Problem 2573 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Union-Find, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an n x n matrix called lcp , where: lcp[i][j] represents the length of the longest common prefix between: the suffix starting at index i the suffix starting at index j If the unknown string is word , then: suffix i is word[i:] suffix j is word[j:] The task...

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LeetCode 3218 - Minimum Cost for Cutting Cake I

LeetCode Problem 3218 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an m x n rectangular cake and asks us to cut it into individual 1 x 1 pieces. We are allowed to cut along predefined horizontal and vertical lines. Each line has a fixed cost associated with it. The important detail is that the same cut may need to...

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LeetCode 1994 - The Number of Good Subsets

LeetCode Problem 1994 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Counting, Number Theory, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 1994 - The Number of Good Subsets Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many subsets of the input array have a product that can be written as a multiplication of distinct prime numbers. The phrase "distinct prime numbers" is the key restriction. A product is valid...

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LeetCode 2050 - Parallel Courses III

LeetCode Problem 2050 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Topological Sort Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of months required to complete all courses given prerequisite relationships and the time each course takes. Each course is labeled from 1 to n , and relations describes which courses must be completed before others. The time array provides the duration of each course,...

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LeetCode 3225 - Maximum Score From Grid Operations

LeetCode Problem 3225 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding This problem presents a 2D square matrix grid of size n x n where each cell contains a non-negative integer. Initially, all cells are white. An operation consists of selecting a cell (i, j) and coloring black all cells in column j from the top (row 0) down to row i . After performing...

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LeetCode 2742 - Painting the Walls

LeetCode Problem 2742 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to determine the minimum total cost to paint n walls using two painters with different constraints. We are given two arrays: cost and time , both of size n . The cost[i] represents the monetary cost of hiring the paid painter to paint the i th wall, and time[i] represents how long...

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LeetCode 3290 - Maximum Multiplication Score

LeetCode Problem 3290 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3290 - Maximum Multiplication Score Problem Understanding This problem gives us two integer arrays: a , which always has exactly 4 elements. b , which has length at least 4 and can be as large as 100,000 . We must select exactly four indices from b : $$i_0 < i_1 < i_2 < i_3$$ The score obtained from...

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LeetCode 3122 - Minimum Number of Operations to Satisfy Conditions

LeetCode Problem 3122 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a two-dimensional matrix grid of size m x n with integer values in the range 0 to 9. The task is to transform this matrix using the minimum number of operations, where each operation allows you to change the value of any cell to any non-negative integer. After all operations, the matrix must...

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LeetCode 2919 - Minimum Increment Operations to Make Array Beautiful

LeetCode Problem 2919 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform an input integer array nums into a beautiful array by performing a minimum number of increment operations. An increment operation increases a single element of nums by 1. The array is considered beautiful if every contiguous subarray of length 3 or more has a maximum element greater than or equal to...

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LeetCode 3250 - Find the Count of Monotonic Pairs I

LeetCode Problem 3250 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of valid pairs of arrays (arr1, arr2) derived from a given array nums . Both arr1 and arr2 have the same length as nums . The constraints on these arrays are: arr1 is non-decreasing . arr2 is non-increasing . At each index i , the...

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LeetCode 1955 - Count Number of Special Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 1955 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count the number of special subsequences in an array nums that consists only of integers 0 , 1 , and 2 . A subsequence is special if it follows the pattern of one or more 0 s, followed by one or more 1 s, followed by one or more 2 s ....

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LeetCode 2552 - Count Increasing Quadruplets

LeetCode Problem 2552 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Binary Indexed Tree, Enumeration, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of increasing quadruplets (i, j, k, l) in a 0-indexed array nums of size n , where nums is a permutation of the integers from 1 to n . A quadruplet is considered increasing if it satisfies both the index order 0 <=...

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LeetCode 2478 - Number of Beautiful Partitions

LeetCode Problem 2478 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of ways to split a given string s of digits into exactly k non-overlapping substrings, where each substring satisfies specific rules: it must start with a prime digit ( 2 , 3 , 5 , 7 ), end with a non-prime digit ( 1 , 4 ,...

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LeetCode 2616 - Minimize the Maximum Difference of Pairs

LeetCode Problem 2616 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to select exactly p disjoint pairs from the array nums such that the largest difference among all chosen pairs is as small as possible. For every pair (i, j) , the pair difference is defined as: $$|nums[i] - nums[j]|$$ The goal is not to minimize the sum of differences,...

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LeetCode 1937 - Maximum Number of Points with Cost

LeetCode Problem 1937 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an m x n matrix called points . We must choose exactly one cell from every row. The value of the chosen cell is added to our score. However, there is a movement penalty between consecutive rows. If we choose column c1 in row r and column c2 in row r +...

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LeetCode 1916 - Count Ways to Build Rooms in an Ant Colony

LeetCode Problem 1916 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of valid ways to sequentially build all rooms in an ant colony, given a dependency tree that dictates which rooms must be built before others. Each room i has a predecessor prevRoom[i] that must be built before i . Room...

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LeetCode 2681 - Power of Heroes

LeetCode Problem 2681 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Sorting, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the total "power" across every possible non-empty subset of heroes. For any selected group of heroes, its power is defined as: $$(\text{maximum strength in the group})^2 \times (\text{minimum strength in the group})$$ We are given an array nums , where each value represents the strength of one...

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LeetCode 3247 - Number of Subsequences with Odd Sum

LeetCode Problem 3247 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many subsequences of the given array have an odd sum. A subsequence is formed by choosing any subset of elements while preserving their original order. Unlike subarrays, subsequences do not need to be contiguous. For an array of length n , there are 2^n total subsequences, including the...

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LeetCode 2836 - Maximize Value of Function in a Ball Passing Game

LeetCode Problem 2836 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding This problem presents a ball-passing game among n players, represented by an array receiver of length n . Each element receiver[i] indicates which player receives the ball when player i passes it. The game starts by selecting a player i as the first to hold the ball. The ball is then passed k times according...

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LeetCode 2846 - Minimum Edge Weight Equilibrium Queries in a Tree

LeetCode Problem 2846 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding You are given an undirected weighted tree with n nodes. Since the graph is a tree, there is exactly one simple path between any two nodes. Each edge has a weight between 1 and 26 . For every query [a, b] , we look at the unique path from node a to...

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LeetCode 2538 - Difference Between Maximum and Minimum Price Sum

LeetCode Problem 2538 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding We are given an undirected tree with n nodes. Every node has a price value. Since the graph is a tree, there is exactly one simple path between any two nodes. The problem allows us to choose any node as the root of the tree. After choosing a root, we consider all paths that...

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LeetCode 3277 - Maximum XOR Score Subarray Queries

LeetCode Problem 3277 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and several range queries. For each query [li, ri] , we must examine every possible subarray fully contained inside nums[li..ri] and return the maximum XOR score among them. The unusual part of the problem is the definition of the XOR score. Instead of simply XORing all elements directly, the...

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LeetCode 3366 - Minimum Array Sum

LeetCode Problem 3366 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and two different operations that can reduce the values of elements in the array. The first operation divides a number by 2 and rounds the result upward. This operation can only be used at most op1 times globally, and each array index can receive this operation at most once. The second...

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LeetCode 2289 - Steps to Make Array Non-decreasing

LeetCode Problem 2289 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Linked List, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Monotonic Stack, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine how many steps it takes to make a given array nums non-decreasing by repeatedly removing elements that break the non-decreasing property. Specifically, for each step, any element nums[i] where nums[i - 1] > nums[i] is removed. This process continues until the array is entirely non-decreasing....

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LeetCode 2851 - String Transformation

LeetCode Problem 2851 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming, String Matching Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform a string s into a target string t using a very specific operation: choosing a non-empty suffix of s (not the whole string) and moving it to the front. The operation can be repeated exactly k times, and we are asked to count the number of distinct sequences...

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LeetCode 3276 - Select Cells in Grid With Maximum Score

LeetCode Problem 3276 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Matrix, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires us to select cells from a 2D matrix grid such that no two selected cells are in the same row, and all selected values are unique. Our goal is to maximize the sum of these selected values. In other words, for each row, we can choose at most one value,...

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LeetCode 2312 - Selling Pieces of Wood

LeetCode Problem 2312 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a rectangular piece of wood of size m x n and a list of specific prices for certain subrectangles. Each entry in the prices array, [hi, wi, pricei] , indicates that a piece of wood of height hi and width wi can be sold for pricei dollars. You may make any number of...

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LeetCode 3291 - Minimum Number of Valid Strings to Form Target I

LeetCode Problem 3291 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, String, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Trie, Segment Tree, Rolling Hash, String Matching, Hash Function Solution Problem Understanding We are given a list of strings called words and another string called target . The task is to construct target by concatenating several smaller strings, where each smaller string must be a prefix of at least one word in words . A prefix...

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LeetCode 2420 - Find All Good Indices

LeetCode Problem 2420 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to identify all good indices in an array nums based on a window size k . A good index i satisfies two conditions: the k elements immediately before it form a non-increasing sequence, and the k elements immediately after it form a non-decreasing sequence. The input is a 0-indexed array of...

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LeetCode 2533 - Number of Good Binary Strings

LeetCode Problem 2533 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many binary strings satisfy a very specific structural rule. We are given four integers: minLength , the minimum allowed length of a valid string maxLength , the maximum allowed length of a valid string oneGroup , the required divisibility condition for every consecutive block of 1 s zeroGroup , the required...

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LeetCode 3018 - Maximum Number of Removal Queries That Can Be Processed I

LeetCode Problem 3018 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to process a sequence of removal queries on an array nums , with an optional initial operation where we can replace nums with any subsequence of itself to optimize query processing. Each query specifies a threshold value. At each query, if either the first or last element of nums is greater than or...

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LeetCode 2436 - Minimum Split Into Subarrays With GCD Greater Than One

LeetCode Problem 2436 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Number Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires splitting a given array of positive integers into contiguous subarrays such that the greatest common divisor (GCD) of each subarray is strictly greater than 1. The goal is to minimize the number of subarrays after splitting. In simpler terms, we need to partition the array into the fewest contiguous segments...

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LeetCode 2920 - Maximum Points After Collecting Coins From All Nodes

LeetCode Problem 2920 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Depth-First Search, Memoization Solution LeetCode 2920 - Maximum Points After Collecting Coins From All Nodes Problem Understanding We are given a tree with n nodes rooted at node 0 . Each node contains a certain number of coins. We must collect coins from every node while respecting the tree hierarchy, meaning a node can only be processed...

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LeetCode 2901 - Longest Unequal Adjacent Groups Subsequence II

LeetCode Problem 2901 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to select the longest subsequence of words from a given array such that adjacent words in the subsequence satisfy two conditions: first, their corresponding groups values are different , and second, the words are of the same length and differ by exactly one character (hamming distance = 1). In other words, we...

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LeetCode 2787 - Ways to Express an Integer as Sum of Powers

LeetCode Problem 2787 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many different ways we can represent a given integer n as the sum of distinct positive integers raised to the power x . More formally, we want to find the number of unique sets: $$[n_1, n_2, ..., n_k]$$ such that: $$n = n_1^x + n_2^x + \dots + n_k^x$$ The important...

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LeetCode 3202 - Find the Maximum Length of Valid Subsequence II

LeetCode Problem 3202 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the length of the longest subsequence in an array nums such that for every consecutive pair of elements in the subsequence, the sum of the pair modulo k is the same. In other words, if we denote a valid subsequence as sub = [a1, a2, ..., ax] , it must satisfy...

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LeetCode 2746 - Decremental String Concatenation

LeetCode Problem 2746 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 2746 - Decremental String Concatenation Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array of strings words . We start with words[0] and then process the remaining strings one by one. For each new word words[i] , we have exactly two choices: Append it to the right side of the current string. Append it to the left side...

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LeetCode 2969 - Minimum Number of Coins for Fruits II

LeetCode Problem 2969 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Queue, Heap (Priority Queue), Monotonic Queue Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of coins required to purchase all fruits in a market, given a special offer. You are provided with a 1-indexed array prices , where prices[i] denotes the number of coins needed to buy the ith fruit. The market has a special offer:...

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LeetCode 3213 - Construct String with Minimum Cost

LeetCode Problem 3213 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Suffix Array Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to construct a target string target by repeatedly appending strings from a given array words , where each word has an associated cost in costs . The goal is to determine the minimum total cost to construct target exactly. If it is impossible to form target from the given words,...

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LeetCode 1987 - Number of Unique Good Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 1987 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many distinct subsequences of a binary string are considered “good.” A subsequence is any sequence formed by deleting zero or more characters without changing the relative order of remaining characters. However, not every subsequence is valid for this problem. A subsequence is defined as good if it is not empty...

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LeetCode 2088 - Count Fertile Pyramids in a Land

LeetCode Problem 2088 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a binary matrix where each cell represents a piece of land. A value of 1 means the land is fertile, while 0 means barren. We need to count every valid pyramidal plot and inverse pyramidal plot formed entirely from fertile cells. A normal pyramid points downward. Its apex is the top cell,...

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LeetCode 2297 - Jump Game VIII

LeetCode Problem 2297 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Graph Theory, Monotonic Stack, Shortest Path Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute the minimum total cost required to move from index 0 to index n - 1 in an array. The movement rules are unusual because whether a jump is valid depends not only on the values at the start and destination indices, but also on...

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LeetCode 2338 - Count the Number of Ideal Arrays

LeetCode Problem 2338 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics, Number Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many arrays of length n satisfy a divisibility condition while keeping every value within the range [1, maxValue] . An array arr is considered ideal if: Every element is between 1 and maxValue . For every adjacent pair, the later element is divisible by the earlier one....

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LeetCode 2355 - Maximum Number of Books You Can Take

LeetCode Problem 2355 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Monotonic Stack Solution That is a long, multi-section technical reference document. I can provide the full guide, but it will be quite extensive. Before I start, do you want the complete solution guide for LeetCode 2355 - Maximum Number of Books You Can Take in one single response , including all required sections (Problem Understanding, Approaches, Algorithm Walkthrough, Python...

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LeetCode 2266 - Count Number of Texts

LeetCode Problem 2266 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, Math, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires determining how many possible text messages Alice could have sent given a sequence of digit key presses received by Bob. Each digit from '2' to '9' maps to a set of letters on a phone keypad. Pressing a key multiple times selects a different letter on that key. For example, pressing...

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LeetCode 1986 - Minimum Number of Work Sessions to Finish the Tasks

LeetCode Problem 1986 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to schedule a collection of tasks into the minimum number of work sessions. Each task has a fixed duration, and every work session has a maximum allowed length, sessionTime . A task cannot be split across multiple sessions. Once a task starts inside a session, it must fully complete...

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LeetCode 1997 - First Day Where You Have Been in All the Rooms

LeetCode Problem 1997 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a scenario where you visit a sequence of n rooms, starting from room 0 on day 0 . The order of subsequent visits is determined by a rule that depends on how many times you have visited the current room. Specifically, if your visit count for a room is odd , you move to...

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LeetCode 1879 - Minimum XOR Sum of Two Arrays

LeetCode Problem 1879 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to take two integer arrays of equal length, nums1 and nums2 , and rearrange the elements of nums2 to minimize the XOR sum . The XOR sum is computed as (nums1[0] XOR nums2[0]) + (nums1[1] XOR nums2[1]) + ... + (nums1[n - 1] XOR nums2[n - 1]) . The task...

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LeetCode 2560 - House Robber IV

LeetCode Problem 2560 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a scenario where a robber wants to steal from houses lined along a street, but with the constraint that adjacent houses cannot both be robbed . Each house has a certain amount of money, represented as an array nums , and the robber wants to steal from at least k houses...

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LeetCode 2484 - Count Palindromic Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 2484 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all palindromic subsequences of length 5 within a given string of digits s . A palindromic subsequence is a sequence that reads the same forward and backward, and a subsequence can be formed by deleting zero or more characters without changing the order of the remaining characters. For example, given "103301"...

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LeetCode 2063 - Vowels of All Substrings

LeetCode Problem 2063 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the total number of vowels that appear across every possible substring of a given string. A substring is any contiguous sequence of characters. For a string of length n , there are n * (n + 1) / 2 total substrings. For each substring, we count how many vowels...

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LeetCode 2218 - Maximum Value of K Coins From Piles

LeetCode Problem 2218 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the total value of coins collected from multiple piles while following a strict removal rule. Each pile is ordered from top to bottom, meaning we cannot arbitrarily pick any coin in a pile. We may only remove coins from the top, one at a time. If we want a...

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LeetCode 2189 - Number of Ways to Build House of Cards

LeetCode Problem 2189 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to count the number of distinct ways to build a house of cards using exactly n cards. Each house consists of one or more rows of triangles formed by leaning two cards together, with horizontal cards placed between adjacent triangles. The rules enforce that higher rows of triangles must rest on horizontal...

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LeetCode 3292 - Minimum Number of Valid Strings to Form Target II

LeetCode Problem 3292 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, String, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Segment Tree, Rolling Hash, String Matching, Hash Function Solution LeetCode 3292 - Minimum Number of Valid Strings to Form Target II Problem Understanding We are given a collection of strings words and a target string target . A string is considered valid if it is a prefix of at least one word in words . This...

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LeetCode 1872 - Stone Game VIII

LeetCode Problem 1872 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a two-player turn-based game between Alice and Bob with a row of stones, each having an integer value. The key rules are that on a turn, a player removes more than one stone from the left , sums their values to their score, and then places a new stone...

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LeetCode 2320 - Count Number of Ways to Place Houses

LeetCode Problem 2320 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a street with n plots on each side, for a total of 2 * n plots. The goal is to count the number of ways to place houses on these plots such that no two houses are adjacent on the same side of the street . Placing houses on opposite sides of the street at...

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LeetCode 1908 - Game of Nim

LeetCode Problem 1908 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Brainteaser, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding This problem is the classic mathematical game known as Nim. We are given an array piles , where each element represents the number of stones in a pile. Two players, Alice and Bob, take turns removing stones. On each turn, a player may choose any non-empty pile and remove any positive...

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LeetCode 2019 - The Score of Students Solving Math Expression

LeetCode Problem 2019 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Memoization Solution LeetCode 2019, The Score of Students Solving Math Expression Problem Understanding The problem gives us a mathematical expression string s containing only: Single digit numbers 0-9 Addition operators + Multiplication operators * The expression is guaranteed to be valid. For example: 3+5*2 7+3*1*2 Students were supposed to evaluate the expression using the correct...

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LeetCode 2318 - Number of Distinct Roll Sequences

LeetCode Problem 2318 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to compute the total number of distinct sequences of dice rolls of length n that satisfy two constraints: the greatest common divisor (GCD) of any two consecutive rolls must be 1 , and any repeated value in the sequence must be separated by at least two rolls. In other words, if a...

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LeetCode 2750 - Ways to Split Array Into Good Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 2750 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of ways we can split a given binary array nums into contiguous subarrays such that each subarray contains exactly one 1 . The input is a binary array, meaning it only contains 0 s and 1 s. The output is a single integer representing the number of valid...

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LeetCode 2850 - Minimum Moves to Spread Stones Over Grid

LeetCode Problem 2850 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Matrix, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to take a 3x3 grid of integers representing stones in each cell and redistribute them so that every cell contains exactly one stone. Each move consists of moving a stone from one cell to a directly adjacent cell (sharing a side, not a diagonal). The goal is to...

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LeetCode 2896 - Apply Operations to Make Two Strings Equal

LeetCode Problem 2896 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 2896 - Apply Operations to Make Two Strings Equal Problem Understanding We are given two binary strings, s1 and s2 , of the same length n , along with a positive integer x . Our goal is to transform s1 into s2 using the minimum possible cost. We are allowed to perform two kinds of operations: Choose any...

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LeetCode 3316 - Find Maximum Removals From Source String

LeetCode Problem 3316 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3316 - Find Maximum Removals From Source String Problem Understanding We are given three inputs: source , the original string of length n pattern , a string that is guaranteed to already be a subsequence of source targetIndices , a sorted list of indices in source that are eligible for removal An operation...

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LeetCode 2597 - The Number of Beautiful Subsets

LeetCode Problem 2597 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Math, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Sorting, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many non-empty subsets of the array nums are considered "beautiful". A subset is beautiful if there are no two numbers inside the subset whose absolute difference equals k . For example, if k = 2 , then the subset cannot contain both 2 and...

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LeetCode 2086 - Minimum Number of Food Buckets to Feed the Hamsters

LeetCode Problem 2086 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to place the minimum number of food buckets on empty spaces in a linear arrangement of cells so that all hamsters are fed. Each cell in the string hamsters represents either a hamster ( 'H' ) or an empty spot ( '.' ). A hamster can eat if there is at...

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LeetCode 2172 - Maximum AND Sum of Array

LeetCode Problem 2172 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 2172 - Maximum AND Sum of Array Problem Understanding This problem asks us to distribute a set of integers into numbered slots in a way that maximizes a scoring function based on bitwise AND operations. We are given: An integer array nums A number of slots, numSlots Each slot is numbered from 1 to numSlots...

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LeetCode 3336 - Find the Number of Subsequences With Equal GCD

LeetCode Problem 3336 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Number Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of pairs of non-empty disjoint subsequences from a given array nums such that the GCD of the elements in each subsequence of the pair is equal. A subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from the array by deleting zero or more elements without changing...

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LeetCode 3337 - Total Characters in String After Transformations II

LeetCode Problem 3337 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Hash Table, Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Counting Solution Problem Understanding The problem defines a repeated string transformation process over lowercase English letters. Every character does not simply become one new character, instead it expands into multiple characters depending on the value stored in nums . For a character c , let its alphabet index be: 'a' -> 0 'b' -> 1 ... 'z'...

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LeetCode 3186 - Maximum Total Damage With Spell Casting

LeetCode Problem 3186 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting, Counting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array power , where each element represents the damage value of a spell. Every spell can be used at most once, and multiple spells may share the same damage value. The restriction is the important part of the problem. If we decide to cast...

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LeetCode 1900 - The Earliest and Latest Rounds Where Players Compete

LeetCode Problem 1900 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The tournament is organized as a sequence of elimination rounds. In every round, players are paired symmetrically from the two ends of the current lineup. The first player faces the last player, the second player faces the second-to-last player, and so on. If the number of players is odd, the middle player advances automatically without playing. The...

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LeetCode 3129 - Find All Possible Stable Binary Arrays I

LeetCode Problem 3129 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we need to count how many binary arrays can be formed using exactly zero copies of 0 and exactly one copies of 1 , while satisfying an additional stability condition. A binary array is considered stable if every subarray whose length is greater than limit contains both 0 and 1 . Another way...

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LeetCode 2801 - Count Stepping Numbers in Range

LeetCode Problem 2801 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many integers in the inclusive range [low, high] are stepping numbers. A stepping number is defined as a number where every pair of adjacent digits differs by exactly 1 . For example: 123454321 is a stepping number because every adjacent pair differs by 1 10 is a stepping number because...

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LeetCode 2167 - Minimum Time to Remove All Cars Containing Illegal Goods

LeetCode Problem 2167 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a binary string s representing a sequence of train cars. Each character '0' or '1' denotes whether a train car contains illegal goods ( '1' ) or not ( '0' ). The goal is to remove all cars containing illegal goods using a combination of three possible operations: removing from the left end, removing...

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LeetCode 1888 - Minimum Number of Flips to Make the Binary String Alternating

LeetCode Problem 1888 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform a binary string s into an alternating string using the minimum number of flip operations (Type-2), while optionally performing any number of rotations (Type-1). An alternating string is one where no two consecutive characters are the same, so valid alternating strings follow the patterns "010101..." or "101010..." . The...

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LeetCode 2393 - Count Strictly Increasing Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 2393 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all strictly increasing subarrays in a given array nums of positive integers. A strictly increasing subarray is a contiguous sequence of numbers where each element is strictly larger than the previous one. The output should be a single integer representing the total number of such subarrays. The input nums is...

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LeetCode 2152 - Minimum Number of Lines to Cover Points

LeetCode Problem 2152 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Math, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Geometry, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the minimum number of straight lines needed to cover a given set of points on an X-Y plane. Each point is defined by its (x, y) coordinates, and a straight line can pass through any number of points as long as they are...

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LeetCode 2313 - Minimum Flips in Binary Tree to Get Result

LeetCode Problem 2313 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a binary tree where leaf nodes represent boolean values 0 (false) or 1 (true), and internal nodes represent boolean operations OR , AND , XOR , and NOT , encoded as integers 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 . You are also given a target boolean result. The...

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LeetCode 3007 - Maximum Number That Sum of the Prices Is Less Than or Equal to K

LeetCode Problem 3007 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the largest integer num such that the accumulated price of all numbers from 1 to num does not exceed a given threshold k . The price of a single number is determined by the number of set bits (1s) at specific positions in its binary representation, specifically...

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LeetCode 2430 - Maximum Deletions on a String

LeetCode Problem 2430 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Rolling Hash, String Matching, Hash Function Solution Maximum Deletions on a String Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s consisting only of lowercase English letters. We want to completely delete the string using the maximum possible number of operations. In a single operation, we have two possible actions: Delete the entire remaining string immediately. Delete only the first...

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LeetCode 2407 - Longest Increasing Subsequence II

LeetCode Problem 2407 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Divide and Conquer, Dynamic Programming, Binary Indexed Tree, Segment Tree, Queue, Monotonic Queue Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest subsequence in an integer array nums such that the subsequence is strictly increasing and the difference between consecutive elements does not exceed a given integer k . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or...

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LeetCode 2912 - Number of Ways to Reach Destination in the Grid

LeetCode Problem 2912 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution LeetCode 2912 - Number of Ways to Reach Destination in the Grid Problem Understanding We are given an n × m grid and two cells: source = [sx, sy] dest = [dx, dy] A move consists of jumping from one cell to another cell that shares either the same row or the same column. The destination cell must...

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LeetCode 3181 - Maximum Total Reward Using Operations II

LeetCode Problem 3181 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array rewardValues , where each element represents a reward we may choose exactly once. We begin with a total reward x = 0 , and we are allowed to repeatedly pick an unmarked element only if its value is strictly greater than the current total reward. Once we choose a...

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LeetCode 2184 - Number of Ways to Build Sturdy Brick Wall

LeetCode Problem 2184 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the number of ways to build a wall of given height and width using bricks of specified widths, such that the wall is sturdy . A wall is sturdy if no two adjacent rows have bricks that meet at the same position horizontally, except at the ends of...

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LeetCode 2645 - Minimum Additions to Make Valid String

LeetCode Problem 2645 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the minimum number of insertions needed to transform a given string word into a valid string . A valid string is defined as one that can be formed by concatenating the sequence "abc" one or more times. In other words, every valid string follows the repeating pattern: abcabcabc... We...

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LeetCode 3389 - Minimum Operations to Make Character Frequencies Equal

LeetCode Problem 3389 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Counting, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires transforming a given string s into a good string , where a good string is defined as one in which every character appears the same number of times. The operations allowed include deleting a character, inserting a character, or incrementing a character to the next letter in the alphabet (with...

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LeetCode 2518 - Number of Great Partitions

LeetCode Problem 2518 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires us to partition an array of positive integers nums into two ordered groups such that the sum of elements in each group is at least k . A partition is considered great if this condition is satisfied. We are asked to return the number of distinct great partitions , modulo $10^9 + 7$. In...

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LeetCode 2606 - Find the Substring With Maximum Cost

LeetCode Problem 2606 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the substring of a given string s that maximizes a custom cost function. Each character in the string has a value: if it exists in the string chars , its value is taken from the corresponding index in the array vals ; if it does not exist in...

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LeetCode 2892 - Minimizing Array After Replacing Pairs With Their Product

LeetCode Problem 2892 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and a value k . We are allowed to repeatedly merge adjacent elements under one condition: If two adjacent values x and y satisfy x * y <= k , then we may replace them with a single value equal to x * y . Each operation reduces...

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LeetCode 2638 - Count the Number of K-Free Subsets

LeetCode Problem 2638 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Sorting, Combinatorics Solution That is a detailed, long-form solution guide request. Before I generate it, I need one missing detail: do you want the solution centered on the optimal DP + graph/component approach (grouping numbers by modulo k and solving independent chains with house-robber style DP), or should I also include an alternative bitmask/backtracking approach for educational comparison? I...

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LeetCode 2431 - Maximize Total Tastiness of Purchased Fruits

LeetCode Problem 2431 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the total tastiness of fruits we purchase while staying within a fixed budget. Each fruit has two attributes: a price and a tastiness value. We may either skip a fruit or buy it, but each fruit can only be purchased once. There is an additional twist: we are allowed to use...

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LeetCode 3193 - Count the Number of Inversions

LeetCode Problem 3193 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3193 - Count the Number of Inversions Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many permutations of the numbers [0, 1, 2, ..., n - 1] satisfy a collection of inversion constraints on prefixes. An inversion in an array is a pair of indices (i, j) such that: i < j nums[i] > nums[j] For example,...

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LeetCode 2770 - Maximum Number of Jumps to Reach the Last Index

LeetCode Problem 2770 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the maximum number of jumps one can make from the first element of an array nums to the last element, subject to a jumping constraint. Each jump from index i to index j must satisfy two conditions: i < j and the difference between the values at these indices, nums[j] -...

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LeetCode 2712 - Minimum Cost to Make All Characters Equal

LeetCode Problem 2712 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a binary string s consisting only of characters '0' and '1' . Our goal is to make every character in the string equal, meaning the final string must become either all '0' characters or all '1' characters. We are allowed to perform two types of operations: Choose an index i and flip...

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LeetCode 3154 - Find Number of Ways to Reach the K-th Stair

LeetCode Problem 3154 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Memoization, Combinatorics Solution Let's dive into a comprehensive solution guide for LeetCode 3154 - Find Number of Ways to Reach the K-th Stair . Problem Understanding This problem involves Alice navigating a staircase starting at stair 1, aiming to reach stair k . The staircase is theoretically infinite, starting at stair 0, and Alice has two operations available:...

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LeetCode 2585 - Number of Ways to Earn Points

LeetCode Problem 2585 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem is essentially asking how many distinct ways we can select questions from multiple types to reach exactly a target score. Each type of question has a fixed number of questions ( counti ) and a fixed number of points per question ( marksi ). Questions of the same type are indistinguishable, which means selecting any...

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LeetCode 2400 - Number of Ways to Reach a Position After Exactly k Steps

LeetCode Problem 2400 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count the number of distinct ways to move from startPos to endPos on an infinite number line using exactly k steps . At each step, we may move either one position to the left ( -1 ) or one position to the right ( +1 ). The important detail is that...

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LeetCode 3241 - Time Taken to Mark All Nodes

LeetCode Problem 3241 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Graph Theory Solution Problem Understanding We are given an undirected tree with n nodes. A tree is a connected graph with exactly n - 1 edges and no cycles. Each node has a special propagation delay determined entirely by its parity: Odd-numbered nodes become marked 1 time unit after one of their neighbors is marked. Even-numbered nodes become...

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LeetCode 3257 - Maximum Value Sum by Placing Three Rooks II

LeetCode Problem 3257 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding We are given an m x n matrix called board , where each cell contains an integer value. We must place exactly three rooks on the board. A rook attacks every cell in the same row and the same column. Therefore, for three rooks to be valid, no two rooks can share either a row...

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LeetCode 3147 - Taking Maximum Energy From the Mystic Dungeon

LeetCode Problem 3147 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to maximize the total energy gained from a sequence of magicians arranged in a line, where each magician provides a certain energy value, which can be negative or positive. The catch is that after taking energy from a magician at index i , you are instantly teleported to magician (i +...

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LeetCode 3299 - Sum of Consecutive Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 3299 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3299 - Sum of Consecutive Subsequences Problem Understanding We are given an array nums , and we must consider all non-empty subsequences of that array. A subsequence preserves the original order of elements, but elements do not need to be contiguous. A subsequence is considered consecutive if every adjacent pair differs by exactly +1 or exactly...

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LeetCode 2902 - Count of Sub-Multisets With Bounded Sum

LeetCode Problem 2902 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all possible sub-multisets of an array nums such that the sum of elements in each sub-multiset is within a given inclusive range [l, r] . A sub-multiset is like a subset, but it accounts for repeated elements in the original array. That is, each element can appear...

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LeetCode 2222 - Number of Ways to Select Buildings

LeetCode Problem 2222 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of ways to select exactly 3 buildings from a street represented as a binary string s , such that no two consecutive buildings among the selected ones have the same type. Here, 0 represents an office, and 1 represents a restaurant. Essentially, for the three selected buildings...

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LeetCode 2380 - Time Needed to Rearrange a Binary String

LeetCode Problem 2380 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to repeatedly transform a binary string according to a very specific rule. During each second, every occurrence of the substring "01" is replaced simultaneously with "10" . The important detail is that all replacements happen at the same time. This means we do not process one occurrence at a time from left...

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LeetCode 2684 - Maximum Number of Moves in a Grid

LeetCode Problem 2684 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution LeetCode 2684 - Maximum Number of Moves in a Grid Problem Understanding The problem gives us an m x n matrix called grid , where every cell contains a positive integer. We may begin from any row in the first column, meaning any cell (row, 0) is a valid starting point. From a current position (row, col) ,...

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LeetCode 1857 - Largest Color Value in a Directed Graph

LeetCode Problem 1857 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Memoization, Counting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the largest color value along any path in a directed graph of n nodes, where each node has a color represented by a lowercase English letter. The graph may contain cycles, in which case the function should return -1 . The input consists...

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LeetCode 2263 - Make Array Non-decreasing or Non-increasing

LeetCode Problem 2263 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform a given integer array nums into either a non-decreasing or a non-increasing array with the minimum number of operations. Each operation allows increasing or decreasing an element by exactly 1. A non-decreasing array is one in which every element is greater than or equal to the previous...

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LeetCode 2646 - Minimize the Total Price of the Trips

LeetCode Problem 2646 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Graph Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an undirected tree with n nodes. Every node has a price associated with it, and we are also given several trips between pairs of nodes. Since the graph is a tree, there is exactly one simple path between any two nodes. For every trip, we travel along the...

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LeetCode 2572 - Count the Number of Square-Free Subsets

LeetCode Problem 2572 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Number Theory, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all non-empty subsets of a given array nums such that the product of the elements in each subset is square-free . A square-free integer is an integer not divisible by the square of any prime greater than 1. In other words, in its prime factorization,...

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LeetCode 2370 - Longest Ideal Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 2370 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given a string s containing only lowercase English letters and an integer k . We need to find the length of the longest subsequence such that the difference between every pair of adjacent characters in that subsequence is at most k . A subsequence does not require characters to be...

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LeetCode 1866 - Number of Ways to Rearrange Sticks With K Sticks Visible

LeetCode Problem 1866 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us n sticks with unique lengths from 1 to n . We must arrange these sticks in some order so that exactly k sticks are visible when looking from the left side. A stick is visible if every stick before it is shorter. In other words, a stick is visible if it creates...

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LeetCode 2127 - Maximum Employees to Be Invited to a Meeting

LeetCode Problem 2127 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Graph Theory, Topological Sort Solution Problem Understanding This problem describes a group of employees sitting around a circular table. Every employee has exactly one favorite coworker, represented by the array favorite , where favorite[i] is the person employee i wants to sit next to. An employee will attend the meeting only if they can sit directly adjacent to...

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LeetCode 3287 - Find the Maximum Sequence Value of Array

LeetCode Problem 3287 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution LeetCode 3287 - Find the Maximum Sequence Value of Array Problem Understanding We are given an array nums and an integer k . We must choose a subsequence of exactly 2 * k elements while preserving the original order of the array. After selecting the subsequence, we split it into two equal halves: The first k selected...

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LeetCode 1884 - Egg Drop With 2 Eggs and N Floors

LeetCode Problem 1884 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 1884 - Egg Drop With 2 Eggs and N Floors Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the minimum number of moves required to identify a critical floor f in a building with n floors, using exactly two eggs. The critical floor f has the following meaning: Any egg dropped from a floor higher than f will...

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LeetCode 3332 - Maximum Points Tourist Can Earn

LeetCode Problem 3332 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to maximize the points a tourist can earn over a fixed number of days, k , while visiting n cities. Each day, the tourist has a choice: either stay in the current city and earn points according to stayScore for that day and city, or travel to another city and earn points...

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LeetCode 3343 - Count Number of Balanced Permutations

LeetCode Problem 3343 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding We are given a string num consisting only of digits. We may rearrange the digits in any possible way, but we only count distinct permutations. A permutation is considered balanced if the sum of the digits placed at even indices equals the sum of the digits placed at odd indices. The indices are zero based....

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LeetCode 2977 - Minimum Cost to Convert String II

LeetCode Problem 2977 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Trie, Shortest Path Solution That is a very large, comprehensive request for a Hard problem, with full sections, worked examples, Python and Go implementations, detailed prose, test cases, and edge case analysis. A complete high quality guide for LeetCode 2977 will be long and likely exceed a single clean response. I can provide the complete guide in...

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LeetCode 2827 - Number of Beautiful Integers in the Range

LeetCode Problem 2827 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many integers within the inclusive range [low, high] satisfy two independent conditions. The first condition is based on the digits of the number. A number is considered beautiful only if it contains an equal number of even digits and odd digits. For example, 12 is valid because it has one...

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LeetCode 2707 - Extra Characters in a String

LeetCode Problem 2707 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Trie Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to break a string s into non-overlapping substrings such that each substring exists in a given dictionary . Characters in s that cannot be matched with any dictionary word are considered extra characters . The goal is to find the minimum number of extra characters when splitting s optimally....

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LeetCode 3256 - Maximum Value Sum by Placing Three Rooks I

LeetCode Problem 3256 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding We are given an m x n matrix called board , where each cell contains an integer value. We must place exactly three rooks on the board. A rook attacks every square in the same row and the same column. Therefore, for three rooks to be valid: No two rooks can share the same row...

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LeetCode 2858 - Minimum Edge Reversals So Every Node Is Reachable

LeetCode Problem 2858 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Graph Theory Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us a directed graph with n nodes and exactly n - 1 edges. The important guarantee is that if we ignore the direction of every edge, the graph becomes a tree. That means the underlying structure is connected and acyclic. Each edge is currently directed one way. For every...

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LeetCode 3144 - Minimum Substring Partition of Equal Character Frequency

LeetCode Problem 3144 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Counting Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given a lowercase English string s , and we must split it into one or more contiguous substrings such that every substring is balanced . A substring is considered balanced when every distinct character inside it appears the same number of times. The actual frequency does not matter, only...

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LeetCode 2992 - Number of Self-Divisible Permutations

LeetCode Problem 2992 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Number Theory, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many permutations of the numbers 1 through n satisfy a special condition called self-divisible. We start with the array: [1, 2, 3, ..., n] We must rearrange these numbers into every possible permutation, then determine whether the permutation is valid. A permutation a...

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LeetCode 3041 - Maximize Consecutive Elements in an Array After Modification

LeetCode Problem 3041 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to maximize the number of consecutive integers we can select from an array after we are allowed to increase any element by at most 1 . The input array nums contains positive integers and can have up to 10^5 elements, with each element ranging from 1 to 10^6 . The output...

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LeetCode 2495 - Number of Subarrays Having Even Product

LeetCode Problem 2495 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 2495 - Number of Subarrays Having Even Product Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and asks us to count how many contiguous subarrays have an even product. A subarray is a continuous segment of the array. For each possible subarray, we compute the product of all its elements. If that product is even,...

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LeetCode 2811 - Check if it is Possible to Split Array

LeetCode Problem 2811 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks whether it is possible to split an input array nums into exactly n arrays of size one using a series of valid splits. Each split must take an existing array of length at least two and divide it into two good arrays . An array is considered good if it is either of...

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LeetCode 2830 - Maximize the Profit as the Salesman

LeetCode Problem 2830 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution LeetCode 2830 - Maximize the Profit as the Salesman Problem Understanding This problem gives us n houses arranged on a number line and a collection of purchase offers. Each offer is represented as [start, end, gold] , meaning a buyer wants to purchase every house in the inclusive range [start, end] and is willing...

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LeetCode 2464 - Minimum Subarrays in a Valid Split

LeetCode Problem 2464 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Number Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to split an array of integers nums into contiguous subarrays such that each subarray satisfies a validity condition : the greatest common divisor (GCD) of the first and last elements of the subarray must be strictly greater than 1. Each element in nums must belong to exactly one subarray. Our...

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LeetCode 2957 - Remove Adjacent Almost-Equal Characters

LeetCode Problem 2957 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution LeetCode 2957 - Remove Adjacent Almost-Equal Characters Problem Understanding We are given a string word consisting of lowercase English letters. Two adjacent characters are considered almost-equal if either: They are exactly the same, such as 'a' and 'a' Their positions in the alphabet differ by exactly one, such as 'a' and 'b' , 'c' and 'b' , 'x'...

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LeetCode 2060 - Check if an Original String Exists Given Two Encoded Strings

LeetCode Problem 2060 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to determine whether there exists a single original string that could have been encoded into two different given strings, s1 and s2 . Each encoded string may contain letters and digits. The digits in an encoded string represent the length of some substring(s) in the original string, while letters represent literal characters...

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LeetCode 2771 - Longest Non-decreasing Subarray From Two Arrays

LeetCode Problem 2771 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to construct an array nums3 of length n from two given arrays nums1 and nums2 of the same length. For each index i , we can choose either nums1[i] or nums2[i] as the value for nums3[i] . Once nums3 is constructed, we want to find the length of its longest contiguous non-decreasing...

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LeetCode 2463 - Minimum Total Distance Traveled

LeetCode Problem 2463 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Here is a comprehensive, reference-quality solution guide for LeetCode 2463 - Minimum Total Distance Traveled following your formatting requirements. Problem Understanding The problem gives us a set of robots on an X-axis, each at a unique position, and a set of factories, each at a unique position with a maximum capacity of robots it can repair. Robots are...

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LeetCode 2979 - Most Expensive Item That Can Not Be Bought

LeetCode Problem 2979 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Number Theory Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the largest price that cannot be formed using an unlimited number of coins of two given prime denominations. We are given two distinct prime numbers, primeOne and primeTwo . Alice has an infinite supply of coins with those exact denominations, and the market contains items of every positive integer...

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LeetCode 1977 - Number of Ways to Separate Numbers

LeetCode Problem 1977 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Suffix Array Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the number of ways a string of digits, num , can be split into a sequence of positive integers that are non-decreasing and have no leading zeros . Essentially, each valid partition represents a sequence of numbers that could have been originally written down before the commas were removed....

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LeetCode 2926 - Maximum Balanced Subsequence Sum

LeetCode Problem 2926 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Binary Indexed Tree, Segment Tree Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the maximum sum of a balanced subsequence from a given integer array nums . A subsequence is a selection of elements from the array in their original order, possibly skipping elements. A subsequence is balanced if, for every pair of consecutive indices i and...

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LeetCode 3367 - Maximize Sum of Weights after Edge Removals

LeetCode Problem 3367 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding We are given an undirected weighted tree with n nodes and n - 1 edges. Since the graph is a tree, there is exactly one simple path between any pair of nodes, and there are no cycles. Each edge has a weight, and we may remove any number of edges. After removals, every node...

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LeetCode 2369 - Check if There is a Valid Partition For The Array

LeetCode Problem 2369 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 2369 - Check if There is a Valid Partition Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums , and we must determine whether it is possible to split the array into contiguous groups such that every group satisfies one of three valid patterns. A valid group can be: Exactly two equal numbers, such as [5,5] Exactly...

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LeetCode 2911 - Minimum Changes to Make K Semi-palindromes

LeetCode Problem 2911 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to partition a given string s into k contiguous substrings and modify the characters minimally so that each substring becomes a semi-palindrome . A semi-palindrome is a string that can be divided into groups based on a repeating pattern length d (a divisor of the string length), where each group forms...

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LeetCode 2310 - Sum of Numbers With Units Digit K

LeetCode Problem 2310 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to construct a set of positive integers such that: Every number in the set has a units digit equal to k . The sum of all numbers equals num . We want the smallest possible number of integers in the set. If it is impossible to create such a set, we...

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LeetCode 3098 - Find the Sum of Subsequence Powers

LeetCode Problem 3098 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the sum of powers of all subsequences of length k from an array nums . A subsequence is any subset of elements taken in order from the array without reordering. The power of a subsequence is defined as the minimum absolute difference between any two elements in that subsequence. We...

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LeetCode 1911 - Maximum Alternating Subsequence Sum

LeetCode Problem 1911 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the maximum possible alternating sum of any subsequence of the given array. An alternating sum is calculated after the chosen subsequence is reindexed starting from index 0 . Elements at even positions in the subsequence are added, while elements at odd positions are subtracted. For example, if we choose the subsequence...

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LeetCode 2378 - Choose Edges to Maximize Score in a Tree

LeetCode Problem 2378 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution This will be very large if done comprehensively and correctly under your formatting rules, likely exceeding a practical single-message limit and risking truncation or reduced quality. To preserve completeness and detail, I will split it into two contiguous parts while still covering every required section in full: Part 1 Problem Understanding Approaches Algorithm Walkthrough Python Solution Go...

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LeetCode 2247 - Maximum Cost of Trip With K Highways

LeetCode Problem 2247 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Graph Theory, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an undirected weighted graph with n cities and a list of highways. Each highway connects two cities and has an associated toll cost. We must find the maximum possible total toll for a trip that uses exactly k highways. There are two important restrictions: We may start from any...

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LeetCode 1896 - Minimum Cost to Change the Final Value of Expression

LeetCode Problem 1896 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Stack Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us a boolean expression containing only: '0' and '1' binary operators '&' and '|' parentheses The expression is guaranteed to be valid, which means every operator has valid operands and every parenthesis is properly matched. The important detail is that the expression is not evaluated using normal operator precedence. Instead: Parentheses are...

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LeetCode 2008 - Maximum Earnings From Taxi

LeetCode Problem 2008 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a taxi traveling along a one directional road from point 1 to point n . Along the way, passengers request rides. Each ride is represented as [start, end, tip] , meaning the passenger wants to travel from start to end and will additionally pay a tip. If we accept...

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LeetCode 3149 - Find the Minimum Cost Array Permutation

LeetCode Problem 3149 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents an array nums of length n that is a permutation of integers from 0 to n - 1 . We are asked to find a permutation perm of the same range [0, 1, 2, ..., n-1] that minimizes a special cost function defined as: $$\text{score}(perm) = |perm[0] - nums[perm[1]]| + |perm[1]...

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LeetCode 2510 - Check if There is a Path With Equal Number of 0's And 1's

LeetCode Problem 2510 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine if there exists a path in a binary matrix from the top-left corner (0, 0) to the bottom-right corner (m - 1, n - 1) such that the number of 0 s visited along the path is equal to the number of 1 s. The matrix is binary , so...

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LeetCode 2140 - Solving Questions With Brainpower

LeetCode Problem 2140 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array called questions , where each element contains two integers: questions[i][0] represents the number of points earned if we solve question i questions[i][1] represents how many subsequent questions must be skipped after solving question i We must process the questions from left to right in order. At every position, we have exactly...

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LeetCode 3177 - Find the Maximum Length of a Good Subsequence II

LeetCode Problem 3177 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3177 - Find the Maximum Length of a Good Subsequence II Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums and a non-negative integer k . We must find the maximum possible length of a subsequence such that the number of adjacent unequal pairs is at most k . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero...

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LeetCode 1976 - Number of Ways to Arrive at Destination

LeetCode Problem 1976 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Shortest Path Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us a weighted, undirected graph. Each intersection is a node, and each road is an edge with a travel time. We start at intersection 0 and want to reach intersection n - 1 . The important detail is that we are not simply looking for the shortest distance. We...

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LeetCode 2745 - Construct the Longest New String

LeetCode Problem 2745 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Brainteaser Solution LeetCode 2745 - Construct the Longest New String Problem Understanding The problem gives us three types of fixed two-character strings: "AA" appears x times "BB" appears y times "AB" appears z times We may choose any subset of these strings and concatenate them in any order. The goal is to build the longest possible resulting string while...

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LeetCode 3003 - Maximize the Number of Partitions After Operations

LeetCode Problem 3003 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to take a string s and an integer k and compute the maximum number of partitions we can create from s under a specific set of operations. First, we are allowed to change at most one character in the string to any other lowercase English letter. After that, we repeatedly...

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LeetCode 2327 - Number of People Aware of a Secret

LeetCode Problem 2327 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Queue, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes how a secret spreads over time. On day 1 , exactly one person knows the secret. Every person who learns the secret behaves according to two rules: They must wait delay days before they can begin sharing the secret. They forget the secret after forget days, and once they forget it, they can...

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LeetCode 2571 - Minimum Operations to Reduce an Integer to 0

LeetCode Problem 2571 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the minimum number of operations required to reduce a given positive integer n to 0 , where each operation consists of adding or subtracting a power of two from the current value of n . A power of two is defined as any number of the form $2^i$ where...

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LeetCode 2188 - Minimum Time to Finish the Race

LeetCode Problem 2188 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the minimum total time to complete a race of numLaps laps using a collection of tires, where each tire has two parameters: a base lap time fi and a multiplier ri . The time it takes a tire to complete successive laps grows geometrically according to the formula fi * ri^(x-1)...

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LeetCode 3117 - Minimum Sum of Values by Dividing Array

LeetCode Problem 3117 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Segment Tree, Queue Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to partition an array nums into exactly m contiguous subarrays such that the bitwise AND of elements in the i-th subarray equals andValues[i] . Once partitioned, we sum the last elements of each subarray to compute a total value, and the goal is to minimize this...

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LeetCode 2439 - Minimize Maximum of Array

LeetCode Problem 2439 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives a 0-indexed array nums of non-negative integers and allows a specific operation: choose an index i (where 1 <= i < n ) such that nums[i] > 0 , then decrease nums[i] by 1 and increase nums[i - 1] by 1. The task is to perform this operation any...

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LeetCode 1947 - Maximum Compatibility Score Sum

LeetCode Problem 1947 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to optimally pair students with mentors such that the sum of their compatibility scores is maximized. Each student and each mentor has answered n yes/no questions represented by 0 s and 1 s. A student-mentor pair's compatibility score is the count of matching answers. For instance, if a...

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LeetCode 1931 - Painting a Grid With Three Different Colors

LeetCode Problem 1931 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to count the number of ways to paint an m x n grid using three colors: red, green, and blue, with the constraint that no two adjacent cells can have the same color . Adjacent cells include both vertically and horizontally neighboring cells. The inputs m and n define the number of rows...

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LeetCode 3180 - Maximum Total Reward Using Operations I

LeetCode Problem 3180 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to maximize a running total reward by selecting elements from an integer array rewardValues . Each element in the array represents a reward at that index. Initially, the total reward x is 0, and no indices are marked. The allowed operation is to select an unmarked index i and add its value rewardValues[i]...

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LeetCode 2466 - Count Ways To Build Good Strings

LeetCode Problem 2466 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of "good" strings that can be constructed by repeatedly appending either '0' exactly zero times or '1' exactly one times, starting from an empty string. A string is good if its length lies between low and high inclusive. The output must be returned modulo 10^9 + 7 because the number...

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LeetCode 2522 - Partition String Into Substrings With Values at Most K

LeetCode Problem 2522 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution LeetCode 2522 - Partition String Into Substrings With Values at Most K Problem Understanding The problem gives us a numeric string s , where every character is a digit between '1' and '9' , and an integer k . We must split the string into contiguous substrings such that every substring, when interpreted as an integer, has a...

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LeetCode 2311 - Longest Binary Subsequence Less Than or Equal to K

LeetCode Problem 2311 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest subsequence of a given binary string s such that the resulting binary number is less than or equal to a given integer k . A subsequence is any selection of characters from s in their original order, possibly skipping some. Importantly, leading zeros are...

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LeetCode 2713 - Maximum Strictly Increasing Cells in a Matrix

LeetCode Problem 2713 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Memoization, Sorting, Matrix, Ordered Set Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an m x n matrix where each cell contains an integer value. We may start from any cell, and from the current cell we are allowed to move only within the same row or the same column. However, there is an important restriction: we...

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LeetCode 2930 - Number of Strings Which Can Be Rearranged to Contain Substring

LeetCode Problem 2930 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many strings of length n made of lowercase English letters can be rearranged to contain the substring "leet" . In other words, a string is "good" if, after any permutation of its characters, "leet" appears as a contiguous sequence. The input is a single integer n (1 ≤ n...

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LeetCode 2435 - Paths in Matrix Whose Sum Is Divisible by K

LeetCode Problem 2435 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count the number of paths in a 2D integer matrix from the top-left corner (0, 0) to the bottom-right corner (m - 1, n - 1) such that the sum of the values along the path is divisible by a given integer k . Movement is restricted to only down or...

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LeetCode 2945 - Find Maximum Non-decreasing Array Length

LeetCode Problem 2945 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Queue, Monotonic Stack, Monotonic Queue Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the maximum length of a non-decreasing array that can be obtained from a given integer array nums by performing a sequence of subarray sum operations . In each operation, we can choose any contiguous subarray, replace it with a single element equal to...

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LeetCode 2267 - Check if There Is a Valid Parentheses String Path

LeetCode Problem 2267 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem is asking us to determine whether there exists a path from the top-left corner (0, 0) to the bottom-right corner (m-1, n-1) of a 2D grid containing only '(' and ')' characters, such that the sequence of characters along the path forms a valid parentheses string . The path is constrained to only move...

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LeetCode 2581 - Count Number of Possible Root Nodes

LeetCode Problem 2581 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us an undirected tree with n nodes and a list of directed parent-child guesses. Each guess claims that one node is the parent of another node when the tree is rooted in some way. The important detail is that the tree itself is undirected. Parent-child relationships only become defined...

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LeetCode 2973 - Find Number of Coins to Place in Tree Nodes

LeetCode Problem 2973 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a tree with n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1 . The tree is undirected and rooted at node 0 . The tree structure is described by the edges array, where each edge [a, b] connects nodes a and b . Each node also has...

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LeetCode 2328 - Number of Increasing Paths in a Grid

LeetCode Problem 2328 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Memoization, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given a two dimensional matrix called grid . Each cell contains a positive integer. From any cell, we may move in four directions: up, down, left, or right. Diagonal movement is not allowed. The goal is to count how many strictly increasing...

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LeetCode 2291 - Maximum Profit From Trading Stocks

LeetCode Problem 2291 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two arrays, present and future , where each index represents a stock. The value present[i] is the price of buying the i-th stock today, while future[i] is the price at which the same stock can be sold one year later. We are also given a limited budget , which represents how much money...

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LeetCode 2786 - Visit Array Positions to Maximize Score

LeetCode Problem 2786 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a 0-indexed array nums of integers and a positive integer x . You start at the first element, nums[0] , and can move to any subsequent position j where j > i . For each element you visit, you accumulate its value as part of your score. However, if the number at your current...

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LeetCode 2163 - Minimum Difference in Sums After Removal of Elements

LeetCode Problem 2163 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding The array contains exactly 3 * n elements. We must remove exactly n elements, leaving 2 * n elements behind. The remaining elements keep their original relative order because we are removing a subsequence, not rearranging the array. After removal, the remaining 2 * n elements are split into two consecutive groups: The first...

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LeetCode 3284 - Sum of Consecutive Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 3284 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the sum of all consecutive subarrays in a given integer array nums . A consecutive subarray is defined as one where each element differs from the previous by exactly 1 or -1. This means the sequence can strictly increase or strictly decrease by 1 at each step. Subarrays of...

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LeetCode 329 - Longest Increasing Path in a Matrix

LeetCode Problem 329 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Memoization, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a two-dimensional grid of integers called matrix . Each position in the grid contains a value, and we are asked to find the length of the longest strictly increasing path. A path starts from any cell and moves one step at a time...

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LeetCode 1012 - Numbers With Repeated Digits

LeetCode Problem 1012 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many integers in the range [1, n] contain at least one repeated digit. A repeated digit means that some digit appears more than once in the number. For example, 11 has a repeated 1 , 100 has repeated 0 , and 121 has repeated 1 . On the other hand,...

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LeetCode 464 - Can I Win

LeetCode Problem 464 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Memoization, Game Theory, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 464 - Can I Win Problem Understanding This problem describes a two-player turn-based game. Players take turns choosing a number from a shared pool of integers ranging from 1 to maxChoosableInteger . Once a number is chosen, it cannot be used again for the rest of the game. Each chosen number is...

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LeetCode 838 - Push Dominoes

LeetCode Problem 838 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding 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. 'R' means the domino has been pushed to the...

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LeetCode 1049 - Last Stone Weight II

LeetCode Problem 1049 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is essentially about simulating the process of repeatedly smashing stones together until at most one stone remains. Each stone has a positive integer weight. When two stones are chosen, if their weights are equal, both are destroyed; if they are unequal, the smaller stone is destroyed, and the larger stone's weight is reduced by the...

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LeetCode 1334 - Find the City With the Smallest Number of Neighbors at a Threshold Distance

LeetCode Problem 1334 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Shortest Path Solution Edit LeetCode 1334 - Find the City With the Smallest Number of Neighbors at a Threshold Distance Problem Understanding This problem gives us a weighted, undirected graph where each node represents a city and each edge represents a bidirectional road between two cities with a travel cost. We are also given a distanceThreshold , which acts...

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LeetCode 1387 - Sort Integers by The Power Value

LeetCode Problem 1387 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Memoization, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to rank integers according to a special metric called the "power value". The power value of a number is determined by repeatedly applying the Collatz transformation rules until the number becomes 1 . The rules are: If the number is even, divide it by 2 If the number is odd, replace it...

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LeetCode 673 - Number of Longest Increasing Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 673 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Binary Indexed Tree, Segment Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine how many longest strictly increasing subsequences exist in a given integer array. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more elements without changing the relative order of the remaining elements. For example, from [1,3,5,4,7] , the subsequence [1,3,4,7] is valid because the order is preserved....

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LeetCode 1477 - Find Two Non-overlapping Sub-arrays Each With Target Sum

LeetCode Problem 1477 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find two different subarrays inside the given array such that: Each subarray has a sum exactly equal to target The two subarrays do not overlap The total length of the two chosen subarrays is as small as possible A subarray is a contiguous portion of the...

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LeetCode 871 - Minimum Number of Refueling Stops

LeetCode Problem 871 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a car traveling from position 0 to a destination located target miles away. The car starts with startFuel liters of fuel, and every mile driven consumes exactly one liter of fuel. Along the route, there are gas stations positioned at increasing distances from the start. Each gas station is represented...

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LeetCode 1182 - Shortest Distance to Target Color

LeetCode Problem 1182 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array called colors , where each position contains one of three possible values: 1 , 2 , or 3 . Each value represents a color assigned to that index. We are also given a list of queries. Every query contains two integers: i , the starting index c , the...

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LeetCode 403 - Frog Jump

LeetCode Problem 403 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 403 - Frog Jump Problem Understanding The problem describes a frog trying to cross a river by jumping across stones placed at specific positions. The input array stones contains the positions of all stones in sorted ascending order. The frog starts on the first stone, which is always at position 0 . The frog does not move arbitrarily....

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LeetCode 413 - Arithmetic Slices

LeetCode Problem 413 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many contiguous subarrays of length at least three form an arithmetic sequence. An arithmetic sequence is one where the difference between every pair of adjacent elements is identical. For example: [1, 3, 5, 7] has a constant difference of 2 [7, 7, 7, 7] has a constant difference...

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LeetCode 1548 - The Most Similar Path in a Graph

LeetCode Problem 1548 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory Solution LeetCode 1548, The Most Similar Path in a Graph Problem Understanding The problem gives us an undirected connected graph where each node represents a city, and each city has a three letter name. We are also given a target sequence of names called targetPath . Our goal is to construct a valid path through the graph such that:...

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LeetCode 312 - Burst Balloons

LeetCode Problem 312 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 312, Burst Balloons Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array nums , where each element represents a balloon containing a number. When we burst a balloon at index i , we gain coins equal to: $\text{coins} = nums[i-1] \times nums[i] \times nums[i+1]$ The important detail is that the neighbors of a balloon change dynamically as balloons are...

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LeetCode 139 - Word Break

LeetCode Problem 139 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Trie, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine whether a given string s can be broken into a sequence of valid words from a given dictionary wordDict . Essentially, we need to check if we can insert spaces into s such that every substring separated by these spaces exists in the dictionary. The input...

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LeetCode 97 - Interleaving String

LeetCode Problem 97 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether a string s3 can be formed by interleaving two other strings, s1 and s2 . An interleaving means we combine characters from s1 and s2 while preserving the relative order of characters within each original string . We are allowed to alternate between the two strings in any pattern, but...

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LeetCode 651 - 4 Keys Keyboard

LeetCode Problem 651 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a keyboard with four operations: Press A , which inserts one character 'A' Press Ctrl-A , which selects everything currently on the screen Press Ctrl-C , which copies the selected text into a clipboard buffer Press Ctrl-V , which pastes the clipboard contents onto the screen We are given an integer n ,...

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LeetCode 918 - Maximum Sum Circular Subarray

LeetCode Problem 918 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Divide and Conquer, Dynamic Programming, Queue, Monotonic Queue Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks for the maximum sum of a subarray in a circular array . In simpler terms, we are given a list of integers nums where the end of the list wraps around to the start. We need to find a contiguous section of this list that has the highest...

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LeetCode 1653 - Minimum Deletions to Make String Balanced

LeetCode Problem 1653 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to make a string containing only characters 'a' and 'b' balanced by deleting the minimum number of characters. A string is considered balanced if there are no occurrences where a 'b' comes before an 'a' in the string. In other words, all 'a' characters must appear before any 'b' characters, or equivalently,...

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LeetCode 634 - Find the Derangement of An Array

LeetCode Problem 634 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many permutations of the numbers 1 through n are valid derangements. A derangement is a permutation where no element remains in its original position. For example, when n = 3 , the original array is [1, 2, 3] . A permutation like [2, 3, 1] is valid because: 1...

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LeetCode 788 - Rotated Digits

LeetCode Problem 788 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of good integers within a given range [1, n] . An integer is considered good if each of its digits, when rotated 180 degrees, forms another valid digit and the resulting number is different from the original. The digits 0 , 1 , and 8 remain the same when...

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LeetCode 123 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III

LeetCode Problem 123 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the maximum profit we can earn from at most two stock transactions given the daily prices of a stock in an array prices . A transaction is defined as buying once and selling once . The key restriction is that you cannot hold more than one stock at a time, so...

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LeetCode 1770 - Maximum Score from Performing Multiplication Operations

LeetCode Problem 1770 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize a score obtained by performing a sequence of exactly m operations on an array nums of length n using multipliers from another array multipliers of length m . In each operation, we can pick an element either from the start or end of nums , multiply it by the current multiplier,...

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LeetCode 913 - Cat and Mouse

LeetCode Problem 913 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Memoization, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given an undirected graph where two players, Mouse and Cat, move alternately across the graph according to specific rules. The graph is represented as an adjacency list, where graph[a] contains all nodes directly connected to node a . The Mouse always starts at node 1...

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LeetCode 152 - Maximum Product Subarray

LeetCode Problem 152 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the contiguous subarray within an integer array nums that produces the largest possible product. Unlike the classic maximum subarray sum problem, multiplication introduces additional complexity because negative numbers can completely change the result. A subarray must consist of contiguous elements. We cannot skip elements or rearrange them. The goal is to...

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LeetCode 552 - Student Attendance Record II

LeetCode Problem 552 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding 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. 'L' means the student was late. A record is considered valid only if: The total number...

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LeetCode 1611 - Minimum One Bit Operations to Make Integers Zero

LeetCode Problem 1611 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Recursion, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to transform a given integer n into 0 using a specialized set of bit-flipping operations. Each operation allows you to flip either the rightmost bit of the binary representation of n , or the i-th bit if the (i-1)-th bit is set to 1 and all lower bits (i-2...

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LeetCode 396 - Rotate Function

LeetCode Problem 396 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem defines a special value called the rotation function for an array. Given an integer array nums of length n , we rotate the array clockwise by k positions to create a new array arrk . For every possible rotation from 0 to n - 1 , we compute: $$F(k) = 0 \cdot arr_k[0] +...

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LeetCode 873 - Length of Longest Fibonacci Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 873 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest subsequence in a strictly increasing array that forms a Fibonacci-like sequence. A Fibonacci-like sequence follows the rule: $x_i + x_{i+1} = x_{i+2}$ for every valid index in the sequence, and the sequence must contain at least three numbers. Unlike the classic Fibonacci sequence, the...

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LeetCode 801 - Minimum Swaps To Make Sequences Increasing

LeetCode Problem 801 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two arrays, nums1 and nums2 , both of the same length. At every index i , we are allowed to either keep the values as they are, or swap nums1[i] with nums2[i] . Our goal is to make both arrays strictly increasing while performing the minimum number of swaps. A strictly increasing array...

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LeetCode 1641 - Count Sorted Vowel Strings

LeetCode Problem 1641 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of strings of length n composed only of vowels a , e , i , o , u such that each string is lexicographically sorted . Lexicographically sorted means that the characters in the string do not decrease as you move from left to right. For example, ae...

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LeetCode 115 - Distinct Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 115 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many distinct subsequences of a string s are equal to another string t . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters from a string without changing the relative order of the remaining characters . For example, "rabbit" is a subsequence of "rabbbit" because we can remove one...

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LeetCode 1569 - Number of Ways to Reorder Array to Get Same BST

LeetCode Problem 1569 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Divide and Conquer, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Union-Find, Binary Search Tree, Memoization, Combinatorics, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a permutation of integers from 1 to n , and we insert the numbers into an initially empty Binary Search Tree (BST) in the exact order they appear in the array. A BST has the following property: Values smaller than...

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LeetCode 265 - Paint House II

LeetCode Problem 265 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a matrix called costs , where costs[i][j] represents the cost of painting house i with color j . We must paint every house such that no two adjacent houses use the same color, and we want the minimum total painting cost. If there are n houses and k colors, then the matrix has...

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LeetCode 473 - Matchsticks to Square

LeetCode Problem 473 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 473 - Matchsticks to Square Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array called matchsticks , where each element represents the length of a matchstick. The goal is to determine whether all of the matchsticks can be arranged to form exactly one square. A square has four equal sides, so the total length of...

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LeetCode 964 - Least Operators to Express Number

LeetCode Problem 964 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to construct a mathematical expression using only the number x repeatedly, combined with the operators + , - , * , and / , such that the final expression evaluates exactly to target . The challenge is not simply reaching the target value, but doing so with the minimum number of operators....

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LeetCode 2005 - Subtree Removal Game with Fibonacci Tree

LeetCode Problem 2005 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Binary Tree, Game Theory Solution LeetCode 2005 - Subtree Removal Game with Fibonacci Tree Problem Understanding 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...

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LeetCode 1359 - Count All Valid Pickup and Delivery Options

LeetCode Problem 1359 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count the number of valid sequences for performing pickups and deliveries for n orders. Each order consists of a pickup Pi and a delivery Di , and the key constraint is that the delivery for any order must happen after its corresponding pickup. The input is a single integer n representing...

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LeetCode 1478 - Allocate Mailboxes

LeetCode Problem 1478 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Here’s a complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 1478 following your requested format and requirements. Problem Understanding The problem provides a list houses , where each element represents the position of a house along a street. You are asked to allocate exactly k mailboxes to minimize the total distance from each house to its nearest mailbox....

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LeetCode 486 - Predict the Winner

LeetCode Problem 486 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Recursion, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a two-player game played on an integer array. Players alternate turns, and during each turn a player may only take a number from one of the two ends of the array. The chosen value is added to that player's score, and the element is removed from the array. The game...

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LeetCode 42 - Trapping Rain Water

LeetCode Problem 42 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an array called height , where each element represents the height of a vertical bar in an elevation map. Every bar has width 1 . After rainfall, water may become trapped between taller bars. The task is to compute the total amount of water that can be trapped. For...

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LeetCode 808 - Soup Servings

LeetCode Problem 808 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Probability and Statistics Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two soups, A and B, each starting with exactly n milliliters. At every turn, one of four serving operations is chosen uniformly at random. Each operation removes different amounts from A and B simultaneously. The four possible operations are: Remove 100 mL from A and 0 mL from B Remove...

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LeetCode 1594 - Maximum Non Negative Product in a Matrix

LeetCode Problem 1594 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to navigate a m x n integer matrix grid from the top-left corner (0, 0) to the bottom-right corner (m - 1, n - 1) , moving only right or down at each step. Along the path, we multiply all the integers we pass through, and our goal is to maximize the...

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LeetCode 1147 - Longest Chunked Palindrome Decomposition

LeetCode Problem 1147 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Rolling Hash, Hash Function Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to decompose a given string text into the largest possible number of contiguous substrings such that the sequence of substrings forms a palindromic pattern. Specifically, the first substring must equal the last substring, the second substring must equal the second-to-last substring, and so on. The goal...

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LeetCode 44 - Wildcard Matching

LeetCode Problem 44 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Recursion Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether an entire input string s matches a wildcard pattern p . The pattern supports two special wildcard characters: '?' matches exactly one character. '*' matches any sequence of characters, including an empty sequence. The important detail is that the match must cover the entire string. Partial matches are...

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LeetCode 494 - Target Sum

LeetCode Problem 494 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many different ways we can assign either a '+' or '-' sign to every number in the array nums such that the resulting arithmetic expression evaluates to target . Each number must be used exactly once, and for every position we have only two choices: Add the number Subtract...

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LeetCode 1434 - Number of Ways to Wear Different Hats to Each Other

LeetCode Problem 1434 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 1434 - Number of Ways to Wear Different Hats to Each Other Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many valid ways exist to assign hats to people under two constraints: Every person must receive exactly one hat they like. No two people may wear the same hat. The input is a 2D...

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LeetCode 656 - Coin Path

LeetCode Problem 656 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the cheapest valid path through an array while respecting jump constraints and blocked positions. The array coins is 1-indexed in the problem statement, although programming languages will use 0-indexed arrays internally. Each position contains either: A non-negative integer representing the cost of landing on that index -1 , meaning the position...

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LeetCode 121 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

LeetCode Problem 121 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the maximum profit that can be made from a single stock transaction . A transaction consists of buying one stock on one day and selling it on a later day. The key restriction is that the selling day must come after the buying day. The input is an integer array prices...

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LeetCode 1139 - Largest 1-Bordered Square

LeetCode Problem 1139 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution That is a long, detailed reference document with multiple required sections, complete implementations, worked traces, and test coverage. I can provide the full guide in a single response. Before I start, one quick clarification: do you want the optimal solution based on dynamic programming with directional prefix counts (right/down or left/up consecutive ones) , which is the standard...

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LeetCode 678 - Valid Parenthesis String

LeetCode Problem 678 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding This problem is asking whether a string containing the characters '(' , ')' , and '*' can be considered a valid parenthesis string. In essence, '(' must be matched by a ')' in the correct order, and '*' can act as a flexible placeholder that behaves as '(' , ')' , or an empty string....

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LeetCode 2035 - Partition Array Into Two Arrays to Minimize Sum Difference

LeetCode Problem 2035 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Sorting, Ordered Set, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an array nums containing exactly 2 * n integers. We must divide these integers into two separate groups, each containing exactly n elements. After forming the two groups, we compute the sum of each group and measure the absolute difference between those sums. Our...

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LeetCode 1751 - Maximum Number of Events That Can Be Attended II

LeetCode Problem 1751 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding You are given a list of events, where each event is represented as: startDay endDay value If you attend an event, you must attend the entire interval from startDay to endDay , inclusive. Because the interval is inclusive, two events conflict if one starts on the same day another ends. You may attend at...

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LeetCode 264 - Ugly Number II

LeetCode Problem 264 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, Math, Dynamic Programming, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to generate the sequence of ugly numbers and return the n th value in that sequence. An ugly number is defined as a positive integer whose only prime factors are 2 , 3 , and 5 . This means every ugly number can be formed by multiplying previous...

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LeetCode 10 - Regular Expression Matching

LeetCode Problem 10 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Recursion Solution Problem Understanding LeetCode 10, Regular Expression Matching, asks us to determine whether an entire input string s matches a pattern p . The pattern supports two special regular expression characters: . matches any single character * matches zero or more occurrences of the character immediately before it The important detail is that the match must cover the entire...

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LeetCode 1416 - Restore The Array

LeetCode Problem 1416 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s that represents several positive integers concatenated together without spaces. Originally, the array contained integers in the range [1, k] , and none of the integers had leading zeros. Our task is to determine how many different valid arrays could have produced the string s . For example, if: s =...

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LeetCode 1771 - Maximize Palindrome Length From Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 1771 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two strings, word1 and word2 . We must choose a non-empty subsequence from each string, concatenate them together, and form a palindrome. Our goal is to maximize the length of that palindrome. A subsequence does not require characters to be contiguous. We are allowed to skip characters as long as the remaining characters...

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LeetCode 1735 - Count Ways to Make Array With Product

LeetCode Problem 1735 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics, Number Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of ways to fill an array of size ni with positive integers such that the product of all elements equals ki . Each query in the input array queries is independent, meaning we compute the answer for each (ni, ki) pair separately. The output is...

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LeetCode 926 - Flip String to Monotone Increasing

LeetCode Problem 926 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform a binary string into a monotone increasing string using the minimum number of character flips. A binary string is considered monotone increasing if all 0 s appear before all 1 s. In other words, once a 1 appears, no 0 can appear after it. Valid examples include: "000111" "111" "000" ""...

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LeetCode 140 - Word Break II

LeetCode Problem 140 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Trie, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to segment a given string s into all possible sentences where each word in the sentence exists in a given dictionary wordDict . Essentially, we need to find all ways to insert spaces into the string such that every resulting substring is a valid dictionary word. The...

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LeetCode 727 - Minimum Window Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 727 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the smallest contiguous substring of s1 such that s2 appears inside that substring as a subsequence. A subsequence does not require characters to be adjacent, but they must appear in the same relative order. For example, "bde" is a subsequence of "bcde" because we can pick 'b' , then...

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LeetCode 1125 - Smallest Sufficient Team

LeetCode Problem 1125 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to build the smallest possible team that collectively covers every required skill. We are given two inputs: req_skills , a list of unique required skills people , where people[i] contains the skills possessed by person i A team is considered sufficient if every skill in req_skills appears in at least...

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LeetCode 764 - Largest Plus Sign

LeetCode Problem 764 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the largest axis-aligned plus sign made entirely of 1 s in an n x n binary grid. Initially, every cell in the grid contains 1 . However, some positions are marked as mines, meaning those cells contain 0 . The input mines provides the coordinates of all such blocked cells. A...

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LeetCode 337 - House Robber III

LeetCode Problem 337 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding This problem is a variation of the classic House Robber dynamic programming problem, but instead of houses being arranged in a straight line, the houses form a binary tree. Each node in the binary tree represents a house, and the value stored in the node represents the amount of money available in that...

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LeetCode 1682 - Longest Palindromic Subsequence II

LeetCode Problem 1682 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to find the length of the longest good palindromic subsequence in a given string s . A good palindromic subsequence is a string that meets several conditions: it must be a subsequence of s , it must read the same forwards and backwards, it must have an even length , and it...

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LeetCode 879 - Profitable Schemes

LeetCode Problem 879 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many subsets of crimes satisfy two constraints simultaneously: The total number of members used is at most n The total profit earned is at least minProfit Each crime has two properties: group[i] , the number of members required profit[i] , the profit generated A member cannot participate in multiple crimes,...

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LeetCode 221 - Maximal Square

LeetCode Problem 221 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a two dimensional binary matrix where each cell contains either '0' or '1' . Our task is to find the largest square submatrix that contains only '1' values, then return the area of that square. The important detail is that we are looking specifically for a square, not just any rectangle. That...

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LeetCode 718 - Maximum Length of Repeated Subarray

LeetCode Problem 718 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window, Rolling Hash, Hash Function Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the longest contiguous subarray that appears in both input arrays. A subarray is different from a subsequence because the elements must remain adjacent. This distinction is extremely important because many similar problems allow gaps, but this one does not. We are given two...

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LeetCode 1255 - Maximum Score Words Formed by Letters

LeetCode Problem 1255 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Counting, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to select a subset of words that can be constructed using a limited supply of letters, such that the total score of all chosen words is maximized. We are given three inputs: words , an array of strings letters , a multiset of available characters...

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LeetCode 1289 - Minimum Falling Path Sum II

LeetCode Problem 1289 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the minimum sum of a falling path with non-zero shifts in a square n x n matrix. A falling path is formed by selecting exactly one element from each row, with the constraint that no two consecutive elements are from the same column. Essentially, as you move down the rows,...

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LeetCode 376 - Wiggle Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 376 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest subsequence in an array such that the differences between consecutive elements alternate between positive and negative. A wiggle sequence follows a strict alternating pattern: Positive difference, then negative difference, then positive again Or negative difference, then positive difference, then negative again The actual values do...

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LeetCode 1312 - Minimum Insertion Steps to Make a String Palindrome

LeetCode Problem 1312 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Edit LeetCode 1312 - Minimum Insertion Steps to Make a String Palindrome Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s and asks for the minimum number of insertion operations required to transform the string into a palindrome. In a single operation, we may insert any lowercase English character at any position in the string. The inserted character does...

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LeetCode 847 - Shortest Path Visiting All Nodes

LeetCode Problem 847 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Breadth-First Search, Graph Theory, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an undirected and connected graph with n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1 . The graph is represented as an adjacency list, where graph[i] contains all nodes directly connected to node i . We must compute the length of the shortest path that visits every...

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LeetCode 664 - Strange Printer

LeetCode Problem 664 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a "strange printer" that can print sequences of the same character in one turn. The printer can overwrite any existing characters in the string. Given an input string s , the goal is to determine the minimum number of printing operations required to print the entire string. In other words, we want to find...

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LeetCode 834 - Sum of Distances in Tree

LeetCode Problem 834 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Graph Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an undirected tree with n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1 . A tree is a connected graph with exactly n - 1 edges and no cycles. Each edge connects two nodes bidirectionally. For every node i , we must compute the total distance from i to...

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LeetCode 1681 - Minimum Incompatibility

LeetCode Problem 1681 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to partition an integer array nums into exactly k subsets of equal size, such that no subset contains duplicate elements. The incompatibility of a subset is defined as the difference between its maximum and minimum values. Our goal is to find the minimum possible sum of these...

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LeetCode 322 - Coin Change

LeetCode Problem 322 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Breadth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding 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 allowed to use each coin denomination...

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LeetCode 1301 - Number of Paths with Max Score

LeetCode Problem 1301 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given an n x n board where each cell contains one of four possible values: 'E' , the ending position located at the top-left corner 'S' , the starting position located at the bottom-right corner A digit character '1' through '9' , representing points that can be collected 'X' , representing...

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LeetCode 418 - Sentence Screen Fitting

LeetCode Problem 418 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a screen with a fixed number of rows and cols , along with a sentence represented as an array of words. We need to determine how many complete times the sentence can be written on the screen while following strict formatting rules. The sentence must be written left to right and top...

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LeetCode 907 - Sum of Subarray Minimums

LeetCode Problem 907 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the sum of the minimum value of every possible contiguous subarray of a given array. For an array arr , every contiguous slice of the array is considered a subarray. For each subarray, we determine its minimum element. The final answer is the sum of all of those...

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LeetCode 120 - Triangle

LeetCode Problem 120 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a triangular array of integers and asks us to compute the minimum path sum from the top row to the bottom row . The input is a two-dimensional array called triangle , where: The first row contains exactly one number. Each subsequent row contains one more element than the previous row. From any...

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LeetCode 689 - Maximum Sum of 3 Non-Overlapping Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 689 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to select exactly three non-overlapping subarrays from the input array nums , where each subarray has length k . Among all valid choices, we must maximize the total sum of all elements contained in those three subarrays. The output is not the subarrays themselves, but the starting indices of...

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LeetCode 241 - Different Ways to Add Parentheses

LeetCode Problem 241 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, String, Dynamic Programming, Recursion, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a mathematical expression as a string containing integers and arithmetic operators ( + , - , * ). We are asked to compute all possible results that can be obtained by inserting parentheses in every valid way. The key detail is that we are not evaluating the expression using normal...

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LeetCode 2003 - Smallest Missing Genetic Value in Each Subtree

LeetCode Problem 2003 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Union-Find Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute, for every node in a rooted tree, the smallest positive integer that does not appear in the subtree rooted at that node. We are given two arrays: parents describes the tree structure, and nums contains distinct genetic values assigned to each node. Node 0 is the root,...

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LeetCode 309 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock with Cooldown

LeetCode Problem 309 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize profit from stock trading under a special restriction called a cooldown period. We are given an integer array prices , where prices[i] represents the stock price on day i . On any day, we may choose to buy one share, sell one share, or do nothing. We are allowed to perform...

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LeetCode 354 - Russian Doll Envelopes

LeetCode Problem 354 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution LeetCode 354, Russian Doll Envelopes Problem Understanding The problem gives a list of envelopes, where each envelope is represented as a pair [w, h] . The value w is the width and h is the height. An envelope can fit inside another envelope only if both dimensions are strictly smaller. That means envelope A can go...

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LeetCode 256 - Paint House

LeetCode Problem 256 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a row of houses, where each house must be painted using exactly one of three colors: red, blue, or green. The input is provided as a two-dimensional array named costs , where costs[i][j] represents the cost of painting the i-th house with the j-th color. The goal is to paint every house while...

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LeetCode 1259 - Handshakes That Don't Cross

LeetCode Problem 1259 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given an even number of people standing around a circle. Every person must participate in exactly one handshake, meaning the people are partitioned into pairs. The challenge is to count how many different ways these pairings can be formed such that no two handshakes cross when drawn as straight lines inside the...

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LeetCode 960 - Delete Columns to Make Sorted III

LeetCode Problem 960 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the minimum number of columns to delete from a set of equal-length strings so that each individual string becomes lexicographically sorted. In other words, we are allowed to remove some positions (columns) across all strings, and the goal is to ensure that each string, independently, is in non-decreasing alphabetical order...

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LeetCode 940 - Distinct Subsequences II

LeetCode Problem 940 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many distinct non-empty subsequences can be formed from a given string s . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters while keeping the remaining characters in their original order. For example, from "abc" we can form subsequences like "a" , "ac" , and "bc" , but not...

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LeetCode 1269 - Number of Ways to Stay in the Same Place After Some Steps

LeetCode Problem 1269 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many different ways a pointer can end up back at index 0 after taking exactly steps moves inside an array of length arrLen . We start with a pointer positioned at index 0 . For every step, we have exactly three possible actions: Move one position to the left. Move one...

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LeetCode 1755 - Closest Subsequence Sum

LeetCode Problem 1755 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Sorting, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find a subsequence of a given integer array nums such that the sum of that subsequence is as close as possible to a given integer goal . A subsequence can include any subset of elements in their original order, including the possibility of selecting none (which...

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LeetCode 1883 - Minimum Skips to Arrive at Meeting On Time

LeetCode Problem 1883 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding You are given a sequence of roads that must be traveled in order. Each road has a distance, and you travel at a fixed speed. Because speed is constant, the travel time for road i is: $$\frac{dist[i]}{speed}$$ The tricky part of the problem is the mandatory resting rule. After finishing every road except the last one, you...

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LeetCode 85 - Maximal Rectangle

LeetCode Problem 85 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Matrix, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the area of the largest rectangle containing only 1 s in a binary matrix. The matrix consists of characters '0' and '1' , where '1' represents a valid cell that may belong to a rectangle and '0' represents a blocked cell that cannot be included. The key...

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LeetCode 1714 - Sum Of Special Evenly-Spaced Elements In Array

LeetCode Problem 1714 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires calculating sums of specific subsets of an integer array nums based on queries. Each query [xi, yi] specifies a starting index xi and a step yi . The sum for this query includes all elements nums[j] such that j starts at xi and increases in steps of yi (i.e., j = xi, xi +...

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LeetCode 1746 - Maximum Subarray Sum After One Operation

LeetCode Problem 1746 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums , and we must perform exactly one operation on the array. The operation allows us to choose a single index i and replace the value nums[i] with its square, nums[i] * nums[i] . After performing this one required operation, we must compute the maximum possible sum of any non-empty...

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LeetCode 1155 - Number of Dice Rolls With Target Sum

LeetCode Problem 1155 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us n identical dice, where each die has faces numbered from 1 to k . We roll all n dice and want to count how many different sequences of rolls produce a total sum equal to target . The important detail is that order matters. For example, when rolling two six-sided dice and targeting a...

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LeetCode 1335 - Minimum Difficulty of a Job Schedule

LeetCode Problem 1335 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array jobDifficulty , where each element represents the difficulty of a job. The jobs must be completed in order, meaning you cannot rearrange them. If you want to work on job i , then every job before it must already be completed. We must divide all jobs into exactly d consecutive groups,...

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LeetCode 1140 - Stone Game II

LeetCode Problem 1140 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem is a two-player turn-based game played on a row of stone piles. Each pile has a positive number of stones, and players take turns taking stones from the start of the remaining piles. On each turn, a player can take up to 2 * M piles, where M starts at...

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LeetCode 792 - Number of Matching Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 792 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Trie, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many words in a given list are subsequences of a string s . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters from the string without changing the order of the remaining characters. For instance, "ace" is a subsequence of "abcde" because...

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LeetCode 118 - Pascal's Triangle

LeetCode Problem 118 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to generate the first numRows of Pascal's triangle , which is a triangular arrangement of numbers where each number is the sum of the two numbers directly above it. The first row is always [1] , the second row [1, 1] , and subsequent rows are built by summing pairs of adjacent...

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LeetCode 983 - Minimum Cost For Tickets

LeetCode Problem 983 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given a list of travel days during a single year and the costs of three different train passes. Each pass covers a consecutive range of days: A 1-day pass covers exactly one day. A 7-day pass covers seven consecutive days. A 30-day pass covers thirty consecutive days. The goal is to determine...

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LeetCode 975 - Odd Even Jump

LeetCode Problem 975 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Sorting, Monotonic Stack, Ordered Set Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine how many starting indices in an array allow reaching the last element by performing a series of jumps defined as either odd-numbered or even-numbered. The distinction between odd and even jumps is crucial: odd-numbered jumps must move to the smallest value greater than or equal...

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LeetCode 2036 - Maximum Alternating Subarray Sum

LeetCode Problem 2036 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the maximum alternating subarray sum for a given integer array. A subarray is any contiguous sequence of elements from the array. The alternating sum of a subarray is calculated by alternately adding and subtracting elements: starting with a plus for the first element, then minus for the next, plus for the...

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LeetCode 1687 - Delivering Boxes from Storage to Ports

LeetCode Problem 1687 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Segment Tree, Queue, Heap (Priority Queue), Prefix Sum, Monotonic Queue Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to minimize the total number of ship trips required to deliver boxes from storage to ports, while respecting two constraints: The ship can carry at most maxBoxes boxes at once. The total weight of the loaded boxes cannot exceed maxWeight . The boxes...

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LeetCode 1395 - Count Number of Teams

LeetCode Problem 1395 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Binary Indexed Tree, Segment Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of valid teams of three soldiers from a line of n soldiers, where each soldier has a unique rating. A valid team consists of three indices (i, j, k) such that the ratings are strictly increasing ( rating[i] < rating[j] < rating[k] ) or...

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LeetCode 95 - Unique Binary Search Trees II

LeetCode Problem 95 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Tree, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to generate all structurally unique binary search trees (BSTs) that contain exactly n nodes labeled from 1 to n . A BST is a binary tree where for every node, all values in the left subtree are smaller than the node, and all values in the right...

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LeetCode 368 - Largest Divisible Subset

LeetCode Problem 368 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array of distinct positive integers and asks us to find the largest subset where every pair of numbers satisfies a divisibility relationship. For any two elements a and b in the subset, either a % b == 0 or b % a == 0 must hold. In other words, every...

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LeetCode 392 - Is Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 392 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks whether string s can be formed from string t by deleting some characters from t without changing the order of the remaining characters. A subsequence does not require characters to be adjacent. The only requirement is that the relative ordering stays the same. For example, "abc" is a subsequence of "ahbgdc" because...

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LeetCode 1218 - Longest Arithmetic Subsequence of Given Difference

LeetCode Problem 1218 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks for the length of the longest arithmetic subsequence in a given array arr such that the difference between consecutive elements equals a specified integer difference . A subsequence can skip elements but must preserve the original order. In other words, for each element arr[i] in the array, we want to know how...

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LeetCode 294 - Flip Game II

LeetCode Problem 294 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Memoization, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding This problem describes a two-player impartial game played on a string consisting only of '+' and '-' characters. A valid move consists of selecting any pair of consecutive "++" characters and flipping them into "--" . The players alternate turns. If a player cannot make a valid move on their turn, they lose...

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LeetCode 1659 - Maximize Grid Happiness

LeetCode Problem 1659 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Memoization, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to place introverts and extroverts inside an m x n grid in a way that maximizes the total happiness score. Every grid cell can either remain empty, contain one introvert, or contain one extrovert. We are allowed to leave some people unused, so we do not necessarily have to place...

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LeetCode 1326 - Minimum Number of Taps to Open to Water a Garden

LeetCode Problem 1326 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a one-dimensional garden that stretches from position 0 to position n . At every integer position i , there is a tap that may water some interval around it. Specifically, if tap i is opened, it covers the interval: $$[i - ranges[i],\ i + ranges[i]]$$ The goal is to determine the minimum number...

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LeetCode 1493 - Longest Subarray of 1's After Deleting One Element

LeetCode Problem 1493 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the longest contiguous subarray of 1 s in a binary array nums after deleting exactly one element . In other words, we can remove a single element (which could be 0 or 1 ) and then consider the longest block of consecutive 1 s that remains. The array is...

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LeetCode 546 - Remove Boxes

LeetCode Problem 546 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution LeetCode 546, Remove Boxes Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array called boxes , where each integer represents the color of a box. We may repeatedly remove groups of adjacent boxes that share the same color. If we remove a group containing k boxes, we earn k * k points. The important detail is that removing boxes...

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LeetCode 1567 - Maximum Length of Subarray With Positive Product

LeetCode Problem 1567 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest contiguous subarray whose product of elements is strictly positive. We are given an integer array nums , which may contain positive numbers, negative numbers, and zeros. A subarray must consist of consecutive elements from the original array. Among all possible subarrays, we need to determine...

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LeetCode 1467 - Probability of a Two Boxes Having The Same Number of Distinct Balls

LeetCode Problem 1467 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Combinatorics, Probability and Statistics Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us several colors of balls, where balls[i] represents how many balls exist for color i . The total number of balls is always even, say 2n . We randomly shuffle all balls and place the first n balls into box 1 and the remaining n balls into box...

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LeetCode 1749 - Maximum Absolute Sum of Any Subarray

LeetCode Problem 1749 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to calculate the maximum absolute sum of any contiguous subarray in a given integer array nums . A subarray is a sequence of consecutive elements, and its absolute sum is defined as the absolute value of the sum of all elements in that subarray. In other words, for a subarray [nums[l], nums[l+1], ...,...

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LeetCode 828 - Count Unique Characters of All Substrings of a Given String

LeetCode Problem 828 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the total number of unique characters across every possible substring of a given string. A character is considered unique inside a substring if it appears exactly once within that substring. For example, in the substring "ABA" , only "B" is unique because "A" appears twice. We are given a...

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LeetCode 1031 - Maximum Sum of Two Non-Overlapping Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 1031 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and two fixed subarray lengths, firstLen and secondLen . We must select exactly two contiguous subarrays such that: One subarray has length firstLen The other subarray has length secondLen The two subarrays do not overlap The total sum of all elements inside both subarrays is as large...

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LeetCode 32 - Longest Valid Parentheses

LeetCode Problem 32 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest contiguous substring that forms a valid parentheses sequence. A valid parentheses sequence is one where every opening parenthesis '(' has a corresponding closing parenthesis ')' , and the pairs are correctly nested. For example, the string "()()" is valid because each opening parenthesis is matched...

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LeetCode 698 - Partition to K Equal Sum Subsets

LeetCode Problem 698 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Memoization, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking whether an array of integers nums can be divided into exactly k subsets such that each subset has the same sum. The input consists of the integer array nums and the integer k . The expected output is a boolean value: true if such a partitioning is possible,...

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LeetCode 1504 - Count Submatrices With All Ones

LeetCode Problem 1504 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Matrix, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an m x n binary matrix where each cell contains either 0 or 1 . We must count how many rectangular submatrices consist entirely of ones. A submatrix is any contiguous rectangular region inside the matrix. For every possible rectangle, we need to determine whether every element inside it...

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LeetCode 1626 - Best Team With No Conflicts

LeetCode Problem 1626 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to build a basketball team with the maximum possible total score, while ensuring that the team does not contain any conflicts. Each player has two attributes: scores[i] , the player's skill score ages[i] , the player's age A conflict occurs when: a younger player has a strictly higher score than an older...

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LeetCode 1458 - Max Dot Product of Two Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 1458 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking to find the maximum dot product of two non-empty subsequences of arrays nums1 and nums2 such that the subsequences have the same length. A dot product of two sequences of equal length is calculated by multiplying corresponding elements and summing the results. For example, the dot product of [a, b] and [c, d]...

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LeetCode 647 - Palindromic Substrings

LeetCode Problem 647 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding 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. For example, in "abc" , "ab" is a substring, but "ac" is not because the characters are not adjacent. A...

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LeetCode 1062 - Longest Repeating Substring

LeetCode Problem 1062 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Rolling Hash, Suffix Array, Hash Function Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest substring that appears at least twice in a given string s . A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters inside a string. The repeated substrings may overlap with each other, which is an important detail. For example,...

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LeetCode 1014 - Best Sightseeing Pair

LeetCode Problem 1014 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents an array of integers values , where each element represents the attractiveness or value of a sightseeing spot. The task is to find a pair of spots (i, j) with i < j such that the score values[i] + values[j] + i - j is maximized. In other words, the score is the sum...

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LeetCode 474 - Ones and Zeroes

LeetCode Problem 474 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to select the largest possible subset of binary strings while staying within two resource constraints. Each string consumes a certain number of 0 characters and a certain number of 1 characters. We are given two limits: m , the maximum number of zeros we can use n , the maximum number of...

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LeetCode 583 - Delete Operation for Two Strings

LeetCode Problem 583 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of deletion steps required to make two strings identical. We are given two input strings, word1 and word2 , and in each step, we can delete exactly one character from either string. The goal is to transform both strings so that their final forms are identical using as...

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LeetCode 397 - Integer Replacement

LeetCode Problem 397 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, Memoization Solution LeetCode 397 - Integer Replacement Problem Understanding The problem gives us a positive integer n and asks for the minimum number of operations required to transform it into 1 . At every step, we are allowed to apply one of two rules: If the number is even, we must divide it by 2 If the number...

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LeetCode 518 - Coin Change II

LeetCode Problem 518 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute the number of distinct combinations of coins that can sum to a target amount. We are given an array coins , where each value represents a coin denomination, and an integer amount , which represents the target sum we want to form. The important detail is that we are counting combinations...

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LeetCode 968 - Binary Tree Cameras

LeetCode Problem 968 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the minimum number of cameras required to monitor all nodes in a binary tree. Each camera placed on a node can monitor its parent, itself, and its immediate children. The input is the root of a binary tree, where each node has a value 0 and may...

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LeetCode 1262 - Greatest Sum Divisible by Three

LeetCode Problem 1262 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the maximum sum of elements from an integer array nums such that the sum is divisible by three. In other words, we are allowed to pick any subset of numbers from the array, and our goal is to maximize the sum of that subset under the condition that the...

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LeetCode 1067 - Digit Count in Range

LeetCode Problem 1067 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many times a given digit d appears in every integer within a range [low, high] . For instance, if d = 1 and the range is [1, 13] , we count all occurrences of the digit 1 in the numbers 1 through 13. Numbers like 11 contribute two occurrences, while...

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LeetCode 375 - Guess Number Higher or Lower II

LeetCode Problem 375 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding This problem is a variant of the classic number guessing game with a twist: incorrect guesses cost money equal to the value guessed, and the goal is to minimize the maximum cost required to guarantee a win . In other words, we want a strategy that ensures we will always find the correct number while...

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LeetCode 1444 - Number of Ways of Cutting a Pizza

LeetCode Problem 1444 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Memoization, Matrix, Prefix Sum Solution Edit LeetCode 1444 - Number of Ways of Cutting a Pizza Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count the number of valid ways to divide a rectangular pizza into exactly k pieces such that every piece contains at least one apple. The pizza is represented as a grid of characters where 'A' indicates an...

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LeetCode 1575 - Count All Possible Routes

LeetCode Problem 1575 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution LeetCode 1575 - Count All Possible Routes Problem Understanding This problem gives us a set of cities positioned on a number line. The array locations stores the coordinate of each city, where locations[i] represents the position of city i . We are also given: start , the index of the city where we begin finish , the index...

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LeetCode 472 - Concatenated Words

LeetCode Problem 472 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Trie, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to identify all words in a given list that can be formed by concatenating at least two other words from the same list. In other words, each concatenated word must be fully composed of smaller words that exist in the input array. The input is a list of...

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LeetCode 70 - Climbing Stairs

LeetCode Problem 70 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution LeetCode 70 - Climbing Stairs Problem Understanding The problem describes a staircase with n total steps. You start at the bottom and want to reach the top. At every move, you are allowed to climb either 1 step or 2 steps. The goal is to determine how many distinct sequences of moves can take you from the bottom...

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LeetCode 55 - Jump Game

LeetCode Problem 55 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution LeetCode 55 - Jump Game Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums , where each value represents the maximum distance we are allowed to jump forward from that position. You always start at index 0 . From index i , you may jump any distance between 1 and nums[i] , as long as you stay...

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LeetCode 740 - Delete and Earn

LeetCode Problem 740 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums , and we want to maximize the total number of points earned by repeatedly deleting elements. When we delete a number x , we gain x points. However, deleting x also forces the removal of every occurrence of x - 1 and x + 1 . This...

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LeetCode 1595 - Minimum Cost to Connect Two Groups of Points

LeetCode Problem 1595 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Matrix, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to find the minimum cost to connect two groups of points, where the first group has size1 points and the second group has size2 points. We are given a cost matrix cost of size size1 x size2 where cost[i][j] represents the cost of connecting the i -th point...

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LeetCode 361 - Bomb Enemy

LeetCode Problem 361 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding 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...

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LeetCode 313 - Super Ugly Number

LeetCode Problem 313 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 313 - Super Ugly Number Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the nth number in a special sequence called "super ugly numbers". A super ugly number is a positive integer whose prime factors come only from the given array primes . That means every factorization of the number can use only primes from this list....

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LeetCode 712 - Minimum ASCII Delete Sum for Two Strings

LeetCode Problem 712 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two strings, s1 and s2 , and asks us to make them equal by deleting characters from either string. Every deleted character contributes its ASCII value to the total cost. Our goal is to minimize this total deletion cost. For example, if we delete the character 's' , we add 115 to the...

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LeetCode 1066 - Campus Bikes II

LeetCode Problem 1066 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution That is a long-form technical guide with multiple required sections and detailed worked examples. I can provide the complete reference document, but it will be quite lengthy. I will include all requested sections: Problem Understanding Brute Force and Optimal Approaches Comparison Table Step-by-step Algorithm Walkthrough with proof sketch Complete Python Solution Complete Go Solution Fully...

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LeetCode 1671 - Minimum Number of Removals to Make Mountain Array

LeetCode Problem 1671 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to remove the minimum number of elements from an array so that the remaining elements form a valid mountain array. A mountain array has two strict phases: A strictly increasing sequence Followed by a strictly decreasing sequence There must be a valid peak somewhere in the middle, meaning the peak...

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LeetCode 1137 - N-th Tribonacci Number

LeetCode Problem 1137 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution LeetCode 1137, N-th Tribonacci Number Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the n -th number in the Tribonacci sequence. The Tribonacci sequence is very similar to the Fibonacci sequence, except that instead of summing the previous two numbers, each value is formed by summing the previous three numbers. The sequence is defined as: T0 = 0...

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LeetCode 233 - Number of Digit One

LeetCode Problem 233 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Recursion Solution LeetCode 233 - Number of Digit One Problem Statement Given a non-negative integer n , we must count how many times the digit 1 appears in every number from 0 through n , inclusive. The important detail is that we are not counting how many numbers contain the digit 1 . Instead, we are counting the total number...

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LeetCode 1402 - Reducing Dishes

LeetCode Problem 1402 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given an integer array called satisfaction , where each element represents the satisfaction level of a dish prepared by a chef. The chef can cook dishes in any order, and each dish takes exactly one unit of time to prepare. The important detail is how the score is calculated. If...

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LeetCode 894 - All Possible Full Binary Trees

LeetCode Problem 894 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Recursion, Memoization, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to generate every possible full binary tree that contains exactly n nodes. A full binary tree is a special kind of binary tree where every node has either exactly two children or no children at all. In other words, a node can never have only one child. The input...

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LeetCode 514 - Freedom Trail

LeetCode Problem 514 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search Solution LeetCode 514 - Freedom Trail Problem Understanding The problem models a circular dial, represented by the string ring , where each character is engraved at a position around the circle. Another string, key , represents the sequence of characters we must spell. At the beginning, the character at index 0 of ring is aligned at...

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LeetCode 1473 - Paint House III

LeetCode Problem 1473 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 1473 - Paint House III Problem Understanding This problem asks us to paint a row of houses while satisfying two constraints simultaneously: Every house must end up painted with one of the available colors. The final arrangement must contain exactly target neighborhoods. A neighborhood is defined as a maximal contiguous group of houses painted the same color. For...

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LeetCode 1406 - Stone Game III

LeetCode Problem 1406 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding In this game, two players, Alice and Bob, take turns removing stones from the beginning of a row. Each stone has an integer value, which may be positive, zero, or negative. On each turn, a player may take exactly 1, 2, or 3 stones from the front of the remaining row. The score of...

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LeetCode 1728 - Cat and Mouse II

LeetCode Problem 1728 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Memoization, Matrix, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding This problem describes a two-player perfect-information game played on a small grid. One player controls the mouse and the other controls the cat. Both players move optimally and alternate turns, with the mouse always moving first. The grid contains several kinds of cells: 'M' represents the mouse's starting...

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LeetCode 1563 - Stone Game V

LeetCode Problem 1563 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding In this game, we are given an array stoneValue where each element represents the value of a stone. The stones are arranged in a row, and Alice repeatedly splits the current row into two non-empty contiguous parts. After Alice chooses a split point, Bob compares the sums of the left and right parts: If...

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LeetCode 1320 - Minimum Distance to Type a Word Using Two Fingers

LeetCode Problem 1320 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The keyboard is arranged in a fixed grid layout containing the 26 uppercase English letters. Each letter has a coordinate in the grid: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z The coordinates are assigned row by row. For...

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LeetCode 213 - House Robber II

LeetCode Problem 213 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem is a variation of the classic House Robber dynamic programming problem, with one important twist: the houses are arranged in a circle rather than a straight line. We are given an integer array nums , where each element represents the amount of money available in a house. The goal is to determine the maximum amount...

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LeetCode 1372 - Longest ZigZag Path in a Binary Tree

LeetCode Problem 1372 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given the root node of a binary tree, and we need to find the length of the longest ZigZag path that exists anywhere inside the tree. A ZigZag path alternates directions at every step. If we move left from one node, then the next move must go right....

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LeetCode 1537 - Get the Maximum Score

LeetCode Problem 1537 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Here’s a complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 1537 - Get the Maximum Score following your requested format. Problem Understanding The problem gives us two strictly increasing arrays of integers, nums1 and nums2 , and asks us to compute the maximum sum obtainable along a valid path . A valid path starts from either array...

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LeetCode 1105 - Filling Bookcase Shelves

LeetCode Problem 1105 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to arrange a sequence of books on a bookshelf with multiple shelves while minimizing the total height of the bookshelf. Each book is described by its thickness and height, and the books must be placed in the given order. Each shelf has a fixed width limit, and the sum of the thicknesses of...

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LeetCode 1621 - Number of Sets of K Non-Overlapping Line Segments

LeetCode Problem 1621 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics, Prefix Sum Solution This guide is quite large and highly detailed under your required structure, especially with full worked examples, both Python and Go implementations, brute force plus optimal approaches, proof sketch, extensive test cases, and edge case analysis. To keep quality high and avoid truncation, I will provide it in a structured, comprehensive format. I will use the...

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LeetCode 63 - Unique Paths II

LeetCode Problem 63 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many different valid paths exist for a robot moving through a grid while avoiding obstacles. The robot starts in the top-left corner of the grid at position (0, 0) and wants to reach the bottom-right corner at position (m - 1, n - 1) . The robot can only...

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LeetCode 300 - Longest Increasing Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 300 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest strictly increasing subsequence in an array of integers. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more elements from the array without changing the order of the remaining elements. This is different from a subarray, which must remain contiguous. Because of this distinction, we...

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LeetCode 509 - Fibonacci Number

LeetCode Problem 509 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Recursion, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute the n th Fibonacci number. The Fibonacci sequence is defined recursively. The first two numbers are fixed: F(0) = 0 F(1) = 1 Every value after that is calculated as the sum of the previous two values: F(n) = F(n - 1) + F(n - 2) Given an integer...

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LeetCode 96 - Unique Binary Search Trees

LeetCode Problem 96 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Tree, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree Solution LeetCode 96 - Unique Binary Search Trees Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine how many structurally different Binary Search Trees, or BSTs, can be formed using the integers from 1 to n . A Binary Search Tree has an important property: Every value in the left subtree is smaller than the...

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LeetCode 1786 - Number of Restricted Paths From First to Last Node

LeetCode Problem 1786 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Heap (Priority Queue), Shortest Path Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us an undirected weighted graph with n nodes labeled from 1 to n . Every edge connects two nodes and has a positive weight. The graph is guaranteed to be connected, meaning there is always at least one path between any pair of nodes. The goal...

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LeetCode 343 - Integer Break

LeetCode Problem 343 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to split a positive integer n into the sum of at least two positive integers, then maximize the product of those integers. In other words, we are not allowed to keep the number as-is. We must break it into multiple parts, and among all possible valid splits, we want the one whose multiplication...

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LeetCode 920 - Number of Music Playlists

LeetCode Problem 920 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us n unique songs and asks us to build playlists of length goal . Songs may repeat, but two important constraints must always hold. First, every one of the n songs must appear at least once in the playlist. Second, once a song has been played, it cannot be played again until at...

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LeetCode 629 - K Inverse Pairs Array

LeetCode Problem 629 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Here’s a full technical solution guide following your formatting rules for LeetCode 629: Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the number of arrays of length n containing numbers from 1 to n such that there are exactly k inverse pairs. An inverse pair [i, j] occurs when i < j and nums[i] > nums[j] . In other words,...

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LeetCode 1373 - Maximum Sum BST in Binary Tree

LeetCode Problem 1373 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to examine every possible subtree inside a binary tree and determine whether that subtree forms a valid Binary Search Tree, abbreviated as BST. Among all valid BST subtrees, we must return the maximum possible sum of node values. A subtree consists of a node together with...

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LeetCode 1553 - Minimum Number of Days to Eat N Oranges

LeetCode Problem 1553 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Memoization Solution LeetCode 1553 - Minimum Number of Days to Eat N Oranges Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute the minimum number of days required to eat exactly n oranges, given three possible actions that can be performed each day. On any single day, we may choose one of the following operations: Eat exactly one orange. If the current...

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LeetCode 45 - Jump Game II

LeetCode Problem 45 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an array nums where each value represents the maximum distance you can jump forward from that position. You start at index 0 , and your goal is to reach the final index using the minimum number of jumps possible. For example, if nums[i] = 3 , then from index i you may jump:...

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LeetCode 1024 - Video Stitching

LeetCode Problem 1024 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to cover a sporting event that lasts time seconds using a set of video clips. Each clip is defined by its start and end times, [starti, endi] , and clips can overlap or extend beyond each other. We can cut clips into smaller segments freely, meaning that if a clip covers [0,7]...

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LeetCode 131 - Palindrome Partitioning

LeetCode Problem 131 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking Solution LeetCode 131, Palindrome Partitioning Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s and asks us to divide it into substrings such that every substring is a palindrome. A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward. We must return all possible valid ways to partition the string. A partition means splitting the string into...

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LeetCode 279 - Perfect Squares

LeetCode Problem 279 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Breadth-First Search Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks for the minimum number of perfect square numbers whose sum equals a given integer n . A perfect square is a number that can be written as x * x for some integer x . Examples include 1 , 4 , 9 , 16 , and 25 . The task is not...

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LeetCode 1745 - Palindrome Partitioning IV

LeetCode Problem 1745 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine whether a given string s can be split into exactly three non-empty substrings , each of which is a palindrome. A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward. For example, the string "aba" is a palindrome, whereas "abc" is not. The input s is guaranteed to have...

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LeetCode 1411 - Number of Ways to Paint N × 3 Grid

LeetCode Problem 1411 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the number of ways to paint a grid of size n × 3 using exactly three colors-Red, Yellow, and Green-such that no two adjacent cells share the same color. Adjacent means horizontally or vertically connected, so both neighbors in the same row and neighbors in the column above or below must differ....

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LeetCode 351 - Android Unlock Patterns

LeetCode Problem 351 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem models the Android lock screen as a 3 x 3 grid containing digits 1 through 9 . A valid unlock pattern is a sequence of distinct dots that follows a special movement rule. The first rule is straightforward: each dot can only be used once in a pattern. This means every pattern...

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LeetCode 1025 - Divisor Game

LeetCode Problem 1025 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Brainteaser, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a two-player turn-based game between Alice and Bob. The game starts with a single integer n written on a chalkboard. Alice always takes the first turn. On each turn, the current player must choose a positive integer x such that: 0 < x < n x divides n evenly, meaning n...

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LeetCode 174 - Dungeon Game

LeetCode Problem 174 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the minimum initial health a knight needs in order to safely travel through a dungeon and rescue a princess. The dungeon is represented as a 2D grid where each cell contains an integer value: A negative value means the knight loses health because of demons. A positive value means the...

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LeetCode 818 - Race Car

LeetCode Problem 818 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 818 - Race Car Problem Understanding This problem asks us to control a car moving on an infinite one dimensional number line. The car starts at position 0 with speed +1 . We are allowed to issue two kinds of instructions: "A" for accelerate "R" for reverse The "A" instruction moves the car forward according to its current speed,...

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LeetCode 1186 - Maximum Subarray Sum with One Deletion

LeetCode Problem 1186 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to find the maximum sum of a contiguous subarray in a given integer array, with the additional twist that we are allowed to delete at most one element from that subarray. The subarray must remain non-empty, so we cannot delete the only element in a single-element subarray. The input is an array...

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LeetCode 1526 - Minimum Number of Increments on Subarrays to Form a Target Array

LeetCode Problem 1526 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a target array and asks us to build it starting from an array of all zeros. The only operation allowed is selecting any contiguous subarray and incrementing every element in that subarray by exactly one. The goal is to determine the minimum number of such operations required to transform...

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LeetCode 650 - 2 Keys Keyboard

LeetCode Problem 650 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking for the minimum number of operations required to generate exactly n characters 'A' on a notepad starting with a single 'A' . We are allowed only two operations: "Copy All," which copies all characters currently on the screen, and "Paste," which pastes the previously copied characters. Each operation counts as one step. The...

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LeetCode 465 - Optimal Account Balancing

LeetCode Problem 465 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives a list of money transfers between people. Each transaction is represented as [from, to, amount] , meaning one person paid a certain amount to another person. After all transactions are completed, some people may owe money overall, while others are owed money overall. The goal is not to recreate the...

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LeetCode 741 - Cherry Pickup

LeetCode Problem 741 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Cherry Pickup - LeetCode 741 Problem Understanding 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. After...

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LeetCode 357 - Count Numbers with Unique Digits

LeetCode Problem 357 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many integers in the range 0 <= x < 10^n contain no repeated digits. For example, when n = 2 , the valid range is: 0 <= x < 100 This means we consider every number from 0 to 99 . Among these numbers, we only count those whose...

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LeetCode 1223 - Dice Roll Simulation

LeetCode Problem 1223 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to calculate the total number of valid sequences generated by rolling a six-sided die n times, with the added constraint that each face i cannot appear more than rollMax[i] consecutive times. Here, rollMax is a 6-element array corresponding to the maximum allowed consecutive appearances for each die face from 1 to 6. The...

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LeetCode 446 - Arithmetic Slices II - Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 446 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many arithmetic subsequences exist inside a given integer array nums . An arithmetic sequence is a sequence where the difference between consecutive elements is constant. The sequence must contain at least three elements. Unlike subarrays, subsequences do not need to be contiguous. We are allowed to skip elements as long...

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LeetCode 87 - Scramble String

LeetCode Problem 87 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 87 - Scramble String Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether one string can be transformed into another using a specific recursive scrambling process. We are given two strings, s1 and s2 , and they are guaranteed to have the same length. The scrambling process works recursively. At every step, we may split a string into...

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LeetCode 638 - Shopping Offers

LeetCode Problem 638 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Memoization, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the minimum cost to buy a set of items given individual prices and optional special offers. We are given three main inputs: an array price that specifies the unit price for each item, an array needs that specifies the exact number of each item we want...

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LeetCode 22 - Generate Parentheses

LeetCode Problem 22 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to generate every possible valid combination of n pairs of parentheses. A valid parentheses string is one where every opening parenthesis ( has a matching closing parenthesis ) , and the parentheses are properly nested. For example, "(()())" is valid because every opening bracket is closed in the correct order. However, strings...

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LeetCode 1799 - Maximize Score After N Operations

LeetCode Problem 1799 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Number Theory, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to maximize the total score obtained by performing n operations on an array nums of size 2 * n . In each operation, you select two elements from the array, calculate the greatest common divisor (GCD) of the two elements, multiply it by the operation index...

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LeetCode 1143 - Longest Common Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 1143 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest subsequence that appears in both input strings. A subsequence is formed by deleting some characters from a string while keeping the remaining characters in the same relative order. The characters do not need to be contiguous. For example, in the string "abcde" : "ace" is a...

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LeetCode 1494 - Parallel Courses II

LeetCode Problem 1494 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Graph Theory, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of semesters required to complete n courses when there are prerequisite constraints between some courses and a limit k on the number of courses that can be taken in a single semester. The input consists of an integer n , a list of prerequisite...

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LeetCode 1690 - Stone Game VII

LeetCode Problem 1690 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding This problem describes a two player game played on an array of stones. Each stone has a positive integer value, and the stones are arranged in a row. Alice moves first, and on every turn the current player removes either the leftmost stone or the rightmost stone. The scoring rule is the key detail...

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LeetCode 646 - Maximum Length of Pair Chain

LeetCode Problem 646 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array of integer pairs, where each pair represents an interval-like relationship of the form [left, right] . Every pair satisfies the condition left < right . We want to build the longest possible chain of pairs. A pair [c, d] can follow another pair [a, b] only if: b <...

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LeetCode 996 - Number of Squareful Arrays

LeetCode Problem 996 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Math, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all permutations of a given integer array nums such that the array is squareful , meaning that the sum of every pair of adjacent elements is a perfect square . In other words, for a permutation [a1, a2, a3, ..., an] , each a[i]...

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LeetCode 1531 - String Compression II

LeetCode Problem 1531 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to minimize the length of a run-length encoded string after deleting at most k characters from the original string. Run-length encoding compresses consecutive repeated characters by writing the character followed by its count, but only when the count is greater than 1 . For example: "a" becomes "a" with length 1 "aa" becomes...

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LeetCode 1363 - Largest Multiple of Three

LeetCode Problem 1363 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution I can do that, but the guide will be very long and may get truncated in a single message because of the required depth and sections. To preserve quality and include everything comprehensively, I recommend splitting it into 2 parts : Part 1 Problem Understanding Approaches Algorithm Walkthrough Python Solution Go Solution Part 2 Worked Examples...

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LeetCode 1696 - Jump Game VI

LeetCode Problem 1696 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Queue, Heap (Priority Queue), Monotonic Queue Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and a maximum jump distance k . We start at index 0 , and from any position i , we may jump forward to any index between i + 1 and i + k , as long as the destination remains inside the...

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LeetCode 773 - Sliding Puzzle

LeetCode Problem 773 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Breadth-First Search, Memoization, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The Sliding Puzzle problem presents a 2 x 3 board containing five numbered tiles from 1 to 5 and a blank space represented as 0 . The goal is to transform the board into a solved configuration [[1,2,3],[4,5,0]] using the fewest number of moves, where a move consists of swapping 0 with...

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LeetCode 416 - Partition Equal Subset Sum

LeetCode Problem 416 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks whether an array of positive integers can be divided into two subsets such that both subsets have exactly the same sum. Suppose the total sum of all numbers in the array is S . If we want to split the array into two equal subsets, then each subset must sum to S / 2...

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LeetCode 338 - Counting Bits

LeetCode Problem 338 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the number of set bits, also called population count or popcount, for every integer from 0 through n . A set bit is a bit with value 1 in the binary representation of a number. For example: 5 in binary is 101 , which contains two 1 bits 7 in...

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LeetCode 132 - Palindrome Partitioning II

LeetCode Problem 132 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to split a string into substrings such that every substring is a palindrome. Among all valid palindrome partitions, we must return the minimum number of cuts required. A cut divides the string into two parts. For example, if the string is "aab" , we can partition it as: "a" | "a" | "b"...

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LeetCode 1639 - Number of Ways to Form a Target String Given a Dictionary

LeetCode Problem 1639 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a list of strings called words , where every string has the same length, and another string called target . We need to count how many different ways we can build target by selecting characters from the columns of words . The important restriction is that we build target from left to...

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LeetCode 943 - Find the Shortest Superstring

LeetCode Problem 943 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the shortest superstring that contains all the given strings in the array words as substrings. In other words, we need a single string that includes every string in words at least once, concatenated in some order, but we want this superstring to have minimal length. The problem...

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LeetCode 2002 - Maximum Product of the Length of Two Palindromic Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 2002 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to find two disjoint palindromic subsequences from a given string s such that the product of their lengths is maximized. A subsequence is derived by deleting zero or more characters from the original string while keeping the relative order intact. A palindrome reads the same forward and backward,...

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LeetCode 276 - Paint Fence

LeetCode Problem 276 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a fence with n posts and k available colors. Every fence post must be painted using exactly one of those colors. The important restriction is that we are not allowed to have three or more consecutive posts painted with the same color. We are asked to compute the total number of valid painting combinations....

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LeetCode 898 - Bitwise ORs of Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 898 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute every possible bitwise OR value that can be formed from all non-empty contiguous subarrays of the given array arr , then return how many distinct values exist. A subarray is any contiguous slice of the array. For example, if arr = [1,2,4] , the valid subarrays are: [1] [2]...

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LeetCode 53 - Maximum Subarray

LeetCode Problem 53 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Divide and Conquer, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 53, Maximum Subarray Problem Understanding The problem gives an integer array nums and asks us to find a contiguous subarray that has the largest possible sum. A subarray means the elements must appear next to each other in the original array. We are not allowed to rearrange elements or skip positions arbitrarily. The output is...

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LeetCode 1824 - Minimum Sideway Jumps

LeetCode Problem 1824 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding This problem describes a frog navigating a 3-lane road of length n . The frog starts at point 0 in lane 2 and wants to reach point n . Each point along the road may have at most one obstacle in one of the three lanes, represented by the obstacles array. The frog can move forward...

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LeetCode 691 - Stickers to Spell Word

LeetCode Problem 691 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Memoization, Bitmask Solution Let's dive deep into a detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 691, following your formatting rules exactly. Problem Understanding The problem asks us to construct a target string using letters cut from an unlimited supply of given stickers, where each sticker is a lowercase word. You can reuse stickers multiple times...

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LeetCode 790 - Domino and Tromino Tiling

LeetCode Problem 790 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the number of ways to completely tile a 2 x n board using two types of tiles: a domino ( 2 x 1 ) and a tromino shape. A domino covers exactly two adjacent cells either vertically or horizontally, while a tromino covers three connected cells in an L-shape. The tiles may...

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LeetCode 333 - Largest BST Subtree

LeetCode Problem 333 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us the root of an arbitrary binary tree and asks us to find the size of the largest subtree that is also a valid Binary Search Tree, abbreviated as BST. A subtree is any node together with all of its descendants. This means we cannot selectively ignore...

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LeetCode 2143 - Choose Numbers From Two Arrays in Range

LeetCode Problem 2143 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given two arrays, nums1 and nums2 , both of length n . For every index i , we must choose exactly one value, either nums1[i] or nums2[i] , when considering a subarray range [l, r] . The goal is to count how many distinct ways exist to choose values inside a contiguous...

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LeetCode 1162 - As Far from Land as Possible

LeetCode Problem 1162 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Breadth-First Search, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires finding the water cell in a given n x n grid that is farthest from any land cell, using Manhattan distance. The grid consists only of 0 s and 1 s, where 0 represents water and 1 represents land. The Manhattan distance between two cells (x0, y0) and (x1, y1) is...

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LeetCode 1463 - Cherry Pickup II

LeetCode Problem 1463 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Here is a complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 1463 - Cherry Pickup II following your formatting requirements. Problem Understanding The problem gives us a rows x cols grid representing a field of cherries. Each cell contains a non-negative integer indicating the number of cherries at that location. Two robots start at the top-left (0, 0) and...

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LeetCode 1220 - Count Vowels Permutation

LeetCode Problem 1220 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many valid strings of length n can be formed using only the five lowercase vowels: 'a' 'e' 'i' 'o' 'u' However, the strings are not arbitrary. Each vowel has strict rules about which vowels may appear immediately after it. The transition rules are: 'a' can only be followed by 'e' 'e'...

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LeetCode 568 - Maximum Vacation Days

LeetCode Problem 568 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the total number of vacation days over k weeks while traveling between n cities under specific flight constraints. We start in city 0 on the Monday morning of week 0 . Every Monday morning, we may either stay in the current city or take exactly one flight to another city...

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LeetCode 1227 - Airplane Seat Assignment Probability

LeetCode Problem 1227 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Brainteaser, Probability and Statistics Solution Problem Understanding This problem involves a scenario with n passengers and n seats on an airplane. Each passenger has a designated seat, but the first passenger has lost their ticket and picks a seat randomly. Every subsequent passenger will either take their own seat if it is unoccupied or select a random available seat if...

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LeetCode 1723 - Find Minimum Time to Finish All Jobs

LeetCode Problem 1723 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem is asking us to assign a set of jobs, each with a specific time requirement, to k workers such that every job is assigned to exactly one worker, and we minimize the maximum total working time among all workers. The input jobs is an integer array where jobs[i] represents the time...

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LeetCode 435 - Non-overlapping Intervals

LeetCode Problem 435 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an array of intervals where each interval is represented as [start, end] . Each interval describes a continuous range on a number line. The task is to remove the minimum number of intervals so that the remaining intervals no longer overlap. Two intervals overlap if one starts before the other finishes. However,...

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LeetCode 471 - Encode String with Shortest Length

LeetCode Problem 471 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Here’s a fully detailed technical solution guide following your requested format for LeetCode 471 - Encode String with Shortest Length . Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compress a string s into its shortest possible encoded form using the rule k[encoded_string] , where encoded_string is repeated exactly k times. The encoded form should only be used if it...

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LeetCode 526 - Beautiful Arrangement

LeetCode Problem 526 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many permutations of the integers from 1 to n satisfy a special divisibility condition. A permutation is an arrangement of all numbers from 1 to n where every number appears exactly once. For example, when n = 3 , the possible permutations include [1,2,3] , [2,1,3]...

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LeetCode 1092 - Shortest Common Supersequence

LeetCode Problem 1092 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Shortest Common Supersequence Problem Understanding The problem asks us to construct the shortest possible string that contains both str1 and str2 as subsequences. A subsequence does not require characters to appear contiguously. Instead, the characters only need to appear in the same relative order. For example, "abc" is a subsequence of "axbxc" because we can delete the extra characters....

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LeetCode 931 - Minimum Falling Path Sum

LeetCode Problem 931 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks for the minimum sum of any falling path through an n x n integer matrix. A falling path is defined as a sequence of elements starting from any element in the first row and moving row by row to the last row. At each step, the path may move straight down, diagonally left,...

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LeetCode 1349 - Maximum Students Taking Exam

LeetCode Problem 1349 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Matrix, Bitmask Solution LeetCode 1349 is long and detailed enough that a complete high quality guide with all required sections, full prose explanations, worked examples, corrected Python and Go implementations, exhaustive test cases, and edge case analysis will exceed a single response limit if done properly. I can provide the full reference-quality guide in consecutive parts , while...

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LeetCode 1525 - Number of Good Ways to Split a String

LeetCode Problem 1525 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many ways we can split a string into two non-empty parts such that both parts contain the same number of distinct characters. A split occurs between two adjacent characters. For a string of length n , there are exactly n - 1 possible split positions because...

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LeetCode 903 - Valid Permutations for DI Sequence

LeetCode Problem 903 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s of length n , where each character describes the relationship between two adjacent elements in a permutation. The permutation must contain every integer from 0 to n exactly once, so the permutation length is always n + 1 . Each character in the string imposes a constraint: 'I'...

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LeetCode 813 - Largest Sum of Averages

LeetCode Problem 813 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and an integer k . We are allowed to split the array into at most k contiguous, non-empty subarrays. For each subarray, we compute its average, then sum all of those averages together. Our goal is to maximize that total score. The important detail is that the...

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LeetCode 688 - Knight Probability in Chessboard

LeetCode Problem 688 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the probability that a chess knight remains on an n x n board after making exactly k moves. A knight starts at position (row, column) . At every move, it randomly chooses one of its eight possible knight moves with equal probability, which is 1/8 for each move. Importantly, the knight does...

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LeetCode 576 - Out of Boundary Paths

LeetCode Problem 576 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many different ways a ball can leave the boundaries of a grid within a limited number of moves. We are given a grid of size m x n , where: m is the number of rows n is the number of columns The ball starts at position (startRow, startColumn) In one...

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LeetCode 467 - Unique Substrings in Wraparound String

LeetCode Problem 467 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem defines an infinite cyclic string built from the lowercase English alphabet: "...zabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd..." This means the sequence continues forever, and after 'z' comes 'a' again. Any substring that follows this cyclic ordering exists somewhere in the infinite wraparound string. We are given a string s , and we must determine how many distinct non-empty substrings of...

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LeetCode 1035 - Uncrossed Lines

LeetCode Problem 1035 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 . We are allowed to draw lines between matching values in the two arrays, but with an important restriction: the lines cannot cross each other. A line can only connect nums1[i] with nums2[j] when the values are equal. Once a number is used in a connection, it...

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LeetCode 639 - Decode Ways II

LeetCode Problem 639 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the number of ways an encoded string can be decoded into letters, where 'A' maps to "1" , 'B' maps to "2" , up to 'Z' mapping to "26" . The input string s contains digits '0'-'9' and potentially the wildcard character '*' , which represents any digit from '1' to...

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LeetCode 1130 - Minimum Cost Tree From Leaf Values

LeetCode Problem 1130 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to construct a binary tree from an input array arr of positive integers, where each integer represents a leaf node in an in-order traversal. Every non-leaf node has exactly two children, and its value is calculated as the product of the largest leaf values in its left and right...

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LeetCode 805 - Split Array With Same Average

LeetCode Problem 805 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks whether we can divide the given array nums into two non-empty groups such that both groups have the same average. Suppose the array is split into subsets A and B . Let: sum(A) be the sum of elements in A len(A) be the number of elements in A...

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LeetCode 124 - Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum

LeetCode Problem 124 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to find the maximum path sum in a binary tree. A path is defined as any sequence of nodes connected by edges, where each node is included at most once . The path does not need to start at the root or end at a leaf. The sum...

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LeetCode 1388 - Pizza With 3n Slices

LeetCode Problem 1388 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given a circular pizza divided into 3n slices. Each slice has a size represented by the array slices , where the values are listed in clockwise order. You repeatedly perform the following process: You choose any remaining slice. Alice immediately takes the slice directly anti-clockwise from your chosen...

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LeetCode 516 - Longest Palindromic Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 516 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the length of the longest palindromic subsequence within a given string s . A palindromic subsequence is a sequence of characters that reads the same forwards and backwards and can be obtained by deleting zero or more characters from the original string without changing the order of the remaining characters. For...

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LeetCode 1039 - Minimum Score Triangulation of Polygon

LeetCode Problem 1039 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to triangulate a convex polygon in such a way that the total triangulation score is minimized. We are given an array values , where each element represents the value assigned to a vertex of the polygon. The polygon is convex, and the vertices are listed in clockwise order. A triangulation divides the polygon...

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LeetCode 1340 - Jump Game V

LeetCode Problem 1340 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Here is a comprehensive solution guide for LeetCode 1340 following your requested format. Problem Understanding The problem presents an array arr of integers and a maximum jump distance d . You can jump from an index i to another index j within d steps to the left or right, but only if the height at the destination arr[j]...

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LeetCode 1191 - K-Concatenation Maximum Sum

LeetCode Problem 1191 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 1186 - Maximum Subarray Sum with One Deletion Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the maximum possible sum of a contiguous subarray when we are allowed to delete at most one element from that chosen subarray. The important detail is that the resulting subarray must still contain at least one element after deletion. That means we...

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LeetCode 845 - Longest Mountain in Array

LeetCode Problem 845 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest contiguous subarray that forms a valid mountain. A mountain is a sequence that strictly increases up to a peak, then strictly decreases afterward. The peak cannot be the first or last element of the subarray because the mountain must contain both an uphill...

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LeetCode 1246 - Palindrome Removal

LeetCode Problem 1246 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires us to remove all elements from an integer array arr in the minimum number of moves , where a move consists of removing a contiguous palindromic subarray . A palindromic subarray reads the same forwards and backwards. After removing a subarray, the elements to the left and right shift to fill the gap. The...

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LeetCode 600 - Non-negative Integers without Consecutive Ones

LeetCode Problem 600 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution That is a long-form technical guide request with multiple required sections and complete code. Before I write it, I want to confirm one formatting detail because your template is very specific: Do you want the solution to focus on the standard Digit DP + Fibonacci-style DP on binary bits approach (the optimal O(log n) method typically used for LeetCode 600),...

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LeetCode 887 - Super Egg Drop

LeetCode Problem 887 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of moves required to identify a critical floor in a building using a limited number of eggs. We are given two integers: k , the number of identical eggs n , the number of floors in the building There exists some unknown floor f such that:...

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LeetCode 562 - Longest Line of Consecutive One in Matrix

LeetCode Problem 562 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a binary matrix mat of size m x n , where every cell contains either 0 or 1 . We need to find the length of the longest consecutive sequence of 1 s that appears in any of four directions: Horizontal, from left to right Vertical, from top to bottom Diagonal, from...

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LeetCode 1524 - Number of Sub-arrays With Odd Sum

LeetCode Problem 1524 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of subarrays within a given integer array arr whose sums are odd. A subarray is defined as a contiguous segment of the original array. The input is a list of integers, and we need to return the count of subarrays whose total sum is odd. The...

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LeetCode 1425 - Constrained Subsequence Sum

LeetCode Problem 1425 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Queue, Sliding Window, Heap (Priority Queue), Monotonic Queue Solution That is a long, structured reference document. To make sure I target the exact problem correctly, please confirm the LeetCode problem number and title one more time. You mentioned LeetCode 1425 - Constrained Subsequence Sum , but the required output format is extensive, and I want to avoid generating a full...

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LeetCode 466 - Count The Repetitions

LeetCode Problem 466 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the maximum number of times a string str2 can be obtained from another string str1 when both are repeated multiple times. Specifically, str1 is the string s1 repeated n1 times, and str2 is the string s2 repeated n2 times. To "obtain" str2 from str1 means that we can remove...

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LeetCode 1278 - Palindrome Partitioning III

LeetCode Problem 1278 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 1278 - Palindrome Partitioning III Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s and an integer k . We are allowed to modify characters in the string, and our goal is to partition the string into exactly k non-empty substrings such that every substring becomes a palindrome after the modifications. A palindrome is a string that reads...

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LeetCode 1774 - Closest Dessert Cost

LeetCode Problem 1774 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to create a dessert using one ice cream base and zero or more toppings, with the additional restriction that each topping type can be used at most twice. Each base and topping has a cost, and our goal is to make a dessert whose total cost is as close as possible to...

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LeetCode 1230 - Toss Strange Coins

LeetCode Problem 1230 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Probability and Statistics Solution Problem Understanding This problem is asking us to calculate the probability that, when tossing a set of coins, exactly a specific number of them come up heads. Each coin has its own individual probability of landing heads, which is given in the input array prob . The integer target represents the exact number of heads...

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LeetCode 902 - Numbers At Most N Given Digit Set

LeetCode Problem 902 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, String, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a set of allowed digits, stored as strings, and an integer n . We may construct any positive integer by repeatedly using digits from the given set. Each digit can be reused any number of times. The goal is to count how many positive integers can be formed such...

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LeetCode 1692 - Count Ways to Distribute Candies

LeetCode Problem 1692 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the number of ways to distribute n distinct candies into k bags such that every bag has at least one candy. The candies are unique and labeled from 1 to n , and the order of the candies within a bag or the order of the bags themselves does not matter. Two...

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LeetCode 488 - Zuma Game

LeetCode Problem 488 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Breadth-First Search, Memoization Solution Problem Understanding The problem models a recursive elimination game played on a row of colored balls. The board is represented as a string where each character corresponds to a colored ball. The available colors are 'R' , 'Y' , 'B' , 'G' , and 'W' . You are also given another string called hand ,...

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LeetCode 1235 - Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling

LeetCode Problem 1235 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us three arrays of equal length: startTime[i] represents when the i-th job starts endTime[i] represents when the i-th job finishes profit[i] represents the money earned if we complete that job Our goal is to select a subset of jobs that do not overlap in time while maximizing the total profit. Two...

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LeetCode 1277 - Count Square Submatrices with All Ones

LeetCode Problem 1277 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a binary matrix of size m x n , where every cell contains either 0 or 1 . We must count how many square submatrices contain only ones. A square submatrix is any contiguous square region inside the matrix. The square can have side length 1 , 2 , 3 , and...

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LeetCode 1483 - Kth Ancestor of a Tree Node

LeetCode Problem 1483 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Design Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a rooted tree with n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1 . Instead of providing the tree as adjacency lists or edges, the input is represented using a parent array. For every node i , parent[i] tells us which node is its...

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LeetCode 877 - Stone Game

LeetCode Problem 877 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a two-player game played on an array of stone piles. Each pile contains a positive number of stones, and the piles are arranged in a row. Alice and Bob alternate turns, with Alice always moving first. On each turn, the current player may only take the pile from the left end...

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LeetCode 1397 - Find All Good Strings

LeetCode Problem 1397 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, String Matching Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many strings of length n satisfy three conditions simultaneously: The string must be lexicographically greater than or equal to s1 The string must be lexicographically less than or equal to s2 The string must not contain evil as a substring anywhere The result can become extremely large, so...

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LeetCode 119 - Pascal's Triangle II

LeetCode Problem 119 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 119, Pascal's Triangle II Problem Understanding This problem asks us to return a specific row from Pascal's Triangle. The input, rowIndex , represents the zero-based index of the row we want to generate. Pascal's Triangle is a triangular arrangement of numbers where: The first and last number in every row is always 1 Every interior number is the...

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LeetCode 956 - Tallest Billboard

LeetCode Problem 956 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 956, Tallest Billboard Problem Understanding This problem asks us to split a collection of steel rods into two groups such that both groups have exactly the same total height. Among all possible equal-height pairs, we want the maximum achievable height. Each rod can be used in one of three ways: Put it in the left support Put it...

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LeetCode 1420 - Build Array Where You Can Find The Maximum Exactly K Comparisons

LeetCode Problem 1420 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count the number of arrays of length n where each element is between 1 and m inclusive, and the "search cost" for finding the maximum element is exactly k . The search cost is defined as the number of times a new maximum is found when iterating through the array from...

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LeetCode 64 - Minimum Path Sum

LeetCode Problem 64 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a two dimensional grid of size m x n , where each cell contains a non-negative integer. We begin at the top-left corner of the grid, specifically at position (0, 0) , and want to reach the bottom-right corner at position (m - 1, n - 1) . The objective is to...

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LeetCode 72 - Edit Distance

LeetCode Problem 72 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the minimum number of edit operations needed to transform one string into another. The allowed operations are insertion, deletion, and replacement of a single character. Each operation has a cost of exactly one. We are given two input strings, word1 and word2 . The goal is to determine the smallest possible...

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LeetCode 1668 - Maximum Repeating Substring

LeetCode Problem 1668 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: String, Dynamic Programming, String Matching Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine how many times a given string word can be repeated consecutively while still appearing as a substring inside another string called sequence . More formally, a string is considered k-repeating if word concatenated k times appears somewhere inside sequence as a contiguous substring. Our goal is to find the...

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LeetCode 1691 - Maximum Height by Stacking Cuboids

LeetCode Problem 1691 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution LeetCode 1691 - Maximum Height by Stacking Cuboids Problem Understanding This problem gives us a collection of 3D cuboids, where each cuboid is represented by three dimensions: width, length, and height. We may choose any subset of these cuboids and stack them vertically to maximize the total height. A cuboid can be placed on top of another cuboid...

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LeetCode 91 - Decode Ways

LeetCode Problem 91 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine how many different valid ways a numeric string can be decoded into letters using the mapping: "1" → 'A' "2" → 'B' ... "26" → 'Z' The input is a string s containing only digits. Each digit or pair of digits may represent a letter if it forms a valid number...

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LeetCode 837 - New 21 Game

LeetCode Problem 837 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window, Probability and Statistics Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, Alice repeatedly draws random numbers until her score reaches at least k . Every draw independently produces an integer between 1 and maxPts , inclusive, and each value is equally likely. We are asked to compute the probability that Alice's final score is less than or equal to n...

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LeetCode 1510 - Stone Game IV

LeetCode Problem 1510 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding This problem is a two-player combinatorial game problem where Alice and Bob alternately remove stones from a single pile. On each turn, a player may remove any positive number of stones that is a perfect square (1, 4, 9, 16, etc.) as long as that number does not exceed the current pile size. The game...

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LeetCode 799 - Champagne Tower

LeetCode Problem 799 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to simulate a process of pouring champagne into a pyramid of glasses. Each glass can hold exactly one cup of champagne, and any excess from a glass flows evenly to the two glasses immediately below it. We are given a non-negative integer poured representing the total cups poured into the top glass, and we...

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LeetCode 410 - Split Array Largest Sum

LeetCode Problem 410 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an integer array nums and an integer k . We must divide the array into exactly k non-empty contiguous subarrays. Among those subarrays, each one has its own sum, and the goal is to minimize the largest subarray sum. In other words, we are trying to split the array...

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LeetCode 62 - Unique Paths

LeetCode Problem 62 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Unique Paths Problem Understanding The problem describes a robot moving on a rectangular m x n grid. The robot starts at the top left corner of the grid and wants to reach the bottom right corner. At every step, the robot is only allowed to move either one cell to the right or one cell downward. The input...

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LeetCode 458 - Poor Pigs

LeetCode Problem 458 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a set of buckets where exactly one bucket contains poison. We need to determine which bucket is poisonous using the fewest number of pigs possible, under a strict time limit. Each pig can participate in multiple rounds of testing. A pig dies exactly minutesToDie minutes after drinking poison. The total testing window...

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LeetCode 1187 - Make Array Strictly Increasing

LeetCode Problem 1187 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to transform the array arr1 into a strictly increasing array using the minimum number of operations. Each operation allows replacing an element of arr1 with an element from arr2 . The final array must satisfy the strictly increasing condition, meaning each element is strictly greater than the previous one....

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LeetCode 1578 - Minimum Time to Make Rope Colorful

LeetCode Problem 1578 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires transforming a rope of balloons into a "colorful" rope, which means no two consecutive balloons share the same color. The input provides a string colors representing the colors of the balloons in order and an array neededTime representing the time in seconds it takes to remove each corresponding balloon. The task is...

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LeetCode 122 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II

LeetCode Problem 122 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding 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 i th day. We are allowed to perform as many buy and sell transactions as we want, with one important restriction: at any moment, we can...

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LeetCode 553 - Optimal Division

LeetCode Problem 553 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array of positive integers, and the array elements are combined using division operations in order from left to right. For example, if the input is: [2, 3, 4] the default expression becomes: 2/3/4 which evaluates as: (2/3)/4 because division is left associative. The key part of the problem is that we...

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LeetCode 188 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock IV

LeetCode Problem 188 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding 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. We are given an array prices where prices[i] represents the price of the stock on the i-th day. The goal...

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LeetCode 1655 - Distribute Repeating Integers

LeetCode Problem 1655 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Counting, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks whether we can satisfy a set of customer requests using repeated integers from the array nums . Each customer wants a certain quantity of numbers, given by quantity[i] . The important restriction is that every number given to a single customer must be identical. A customer asking...

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LeetCode 542 - 01 Matrix

LeetCode Problem 542 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Breadth-First Search, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us an m x n binary matrix where every cell contains either 0 or 1 . For every cell in the matrix, we must compute the distance to the nearest cell containing 0 . Distance is measured using Manhattan movement with four directions only: up, down, left, and right. Moving from...

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LeetCode 787 - Cheapest Flights Within K Stops

LeetCode Problem 787 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Graph Theory, Heap (Priority Queue), Shortest Path Solution Here’s a complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 787, following your formatting instructions exactly. Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the cheapest flight cost from a source city src to a destination city dst while taking at most k stops along the way. We are given...

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LeetCode 1617 - Count Subtrees With Max Distance Between Cities

LeetCode Problem 1617 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Enumeration, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The input describes an undirected tree with n cities. Since the graph is a tree, there are exactly n - 1 edges and there is a unique simple path between every pair of cities. The problem asks us to examine every possible connected subset of cities. A subset is considered a valid subtree...

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LeetCode 1000 - Minimum Cost to Merge Stones

LeetCode Problem 1000 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to merge n piles of stones into a single pile under a very specific merging rule. Each pile is represented as an integer in the array stones , where stones[i] is the number of stones in the i-th pile. We are allowed to merge exactly k consecutive piles at a time,...

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LeetCode 487 - Max Consecutive Ones II

LeetCode Problem 487 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a binary array nums , where every element is either 0 or 1 . We want to find the longest contiguous subarray containing only 1 s after we are allowed to flip at most one 0 into a 1 . In other words, we can choose zero or one position containing...

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LeetCode 1643 - Kth Smallest Instructions

LeetCode Problem 1643 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to generate a specific path for Bob from the top-left corner (0, 0) to a destination (row, column) on a grid. Bob can only move right ( 'H' ) or down ( 'V' ). Any sequence of moves that respects these directions and reaches the destination is a valid instruction. The...

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LeetCode 935 - Knight Dialer

LeetCode Problem 935 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many distinct phone numbers of length n can be generated by moving a chess knight across a numeric keypad. The keypad layout looks like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 A knight moves in an L-shape. From any current digit, it can jump only to specific...

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LeetCode 1048 - Longest String Chain

LeetCode Problem 1048 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution That is a long, structured technical guide that will exceed a practical single-message limit if done comprehensively with all requested sections, detailed walkthroughs, Python and Go solutions, worked examples, full test suite, and edge case analysis. I can provide it in full, following your exact formatting rules. I will include: Problem Understanding Brute...

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LeetCode 1449 - Form Largest Integer With Digits That Add up to Target

LeetCode Problem 1449 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 1449 - Form Largest Integer With Digits That Add up to Target Problem Understanding This problem asks us to construct the numerically largest possible integer such that the total painting cost of its digits is exactly equal to a given target . We are given an array cost of length 9. Each index corresponds to a digit from...

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LeetCode 1216 - Valid Palindrome III

LeetCode Problem 1216 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine whether a given string s can become a palindrome after removing at most k characters. A palindrome is a string that reads the same forwards and backwards, and a k -palindrome is one that can be turned into a palindrome with at most k deletions. The input consists of a string...

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LeetCode 823 - Binary Trees With Factors

LeetCode Problem 823 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the number of distinct binary trees that can be constructed from a given array of unique integers, where each integer is strictly greater than 1. The key constraint is that for every non-leaf node in the tree, its value must equal the product of its two children. Leaf...

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LeetCode 377 - Combination Sum IV

LeetCode Problem 377 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array of distinct positive integers called nums and a target integer called target . We must determine how many different ordered sequences of numbers from nums sum exactly to target . The key detail is that order matters. This makes the problem very different from the classic Combination Sum problems where combinations...

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LeetCode 1027 - Longest Arithmetic Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 1027 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming Solution Your requested guide is very long and detailed, especially with all required sections, full prose explanations, worked traces, Python and Go implementations, complexity proofs, and extensive test coverage. To maintain quality and avoid truncation, I will provide the complete guide in a structured single response across consecutive parts, preserving all formatting requirements exactly. I’ll begin...

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LeetCode 1547 - Minimum Cost to Cut a Stick

LeetCode Problem 1547 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum total cost of cutting a wooden stick into pieces at specified positions. The stick has a length n , and we are given an array cuts representing the positions where cuts should be made. Importantly, the order of cuts is not fixed, and the cost of each cut...

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LeetCode 978 - Longest Turbulent Subarray

LeetCode Problem 978 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest turbulent subarray inside a given integer array arr . A subarray is considered turbulent if the relationship between every adjacent pair of numbers alternates between greater than ( > ) and less than ( < ). In other words, the comparison sign must continuously...

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LeetCode 1815 - Maximum Number of Groups Getting Fresh Donuts

LeetCode Problem 1815 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Memoization, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the number of “happy” customer groups by choosing the best possible ordering of the groups. The donut shop produces donuts in batches of exactly batchSize . A fresh batch starts only when the previous batch has been completely consumed. A group is considered happy if the very...

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LeetCode 714 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock with Transaction Fee

LeetCode Problem 714 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution LeetCode 714, Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock with Transaction Fee Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize profit from stock trading over a sequence of days, where each transaction incurs a fixed fee. The input array prices represents the stock price on each day, and fee represents the transaction fee charged for every completed buy-sell...

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LeetCode 1638 - Count Substrings That Differ by One Character

LeetCode Problem 1638 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, String, Dynamic Programming, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many pairs of substrings, one taken from s and one taken from t , differ by exactly one character. A substring is contiguous, so for a string like "abcde" , valid substrings include "a" , "bc" , "abcd" , and "cde" . We are not allowed to...

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LeetCode 746 - Min Cost Climbing Stairs

LeetCode Problem 746 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 746 - Min Cost Climbing Stairs Problem Understanding This problem gives us an array named cost , where each element represents the cost of stepping onto a particular stair. If cost[i] equals 10 , that means stepping on stair i requires paying 10 . From any stair, we are allowed to move either one step or two steps...

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LeetCode 750 - Number Of Corner Rectangles

LeetCode Problem 750 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Dynamic Programming, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of corner rectangles in a binary m x n matrix grid . A corner rectangle is defined as a set of four 1 s in the grid that form the corners of an axis-aligned rectangle. Importantly, only the corners need to be 1 ; the interior cells...

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LeetCode 730 - Count Different Palindromic Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 730 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count how many distinct non-empty palindromic subsequences exist in a string. A subsequence is formed by deleting characters while preserving the relative order of the remaining characters. Unlike substrings, subsequences do not need to be contiguous. A palindrome reads the same forward and backward. The important detail is that we are counting...

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LeetCode 1043 - Partition Array for Maximum Sum

LeetCode Problem 1043 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array arr and an integer k . We are allowed to partition the array into contiguous subarrays where each subarray has length at most k . After choosing the partitions, every element inside a partition is replaced with the maximum value from that partition. The final score is the sum of...

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LeetCode 198 - House Robber

LeetCode Problem 198 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a row of houses, where each house contains some amount of money. You are acting as a robber who wants to maximize the total amount stolen, but there is one important restriction, you cannot rob two adjacent houses. If you rob neighboring houses on the same night, the alarm system will notify the police....

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LeetCode 5 - Longest Palindromic Substring

LeetCode Problem 5 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Longest Palindromic Substring The problem asks us to find the longest substring of a given string that is also a palindrome. A palindrome is a sequence that reads the same forward and backward. The substring must be contiguous, which means the characters must appear next to each other in the original string. For example, in the string...

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LeetCode 1014: Best Sightseeing Pair

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array values of length n . The score of a pair (i, j) where i < j is: values[i] + values[j] + i - j We need to return the maximum score over all valid pairs. The official constraints state that 2 <= values.length <= 5 * 10^4 and 1 <= values[i] <= 1000 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Array values...

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LeetCode 1039: Minimum Score Triangulation of Polygon

Problem Restatement We have a convex polygon with n vertices labeled 0 to n - 1 . Each vertex has a value given in values[i] . We triangulate the polygon into n - 2 triangles. For each triangle with vertices i , j , k , the score is values[i] * values[j] * values[k] . We need to return the minimum total score over all possible triangulations. The official constraints...

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LeetCode 1067: Digit Count in Range

Problem Restatement We are given a digit d (0-9) and a range [low, high] . Return the number of times digit d appears in all integers in [low, high] . The official constraints state that 0 <= d <= 9 and 1 <= low <= high <= 2 * 10^8 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Digit d , range [low, high] Output Total occurrences of d in all...

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LeetCode 1092: Shortest Common Supersequence

Problem Restatement We are given two strings str1 and str2 . We need to return the shortest string such that both str1 and str2 are subsequences of it. If there are multiple answers, return any. The official constraints state that 1 <= str1.length, str2.length <= 1000 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Strings str1 and str2 Output Shortest common supersequence Function shape: def shortestCommonSupersequence(str1: str, str2: str) -> str:...

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LeetCode 1027: Longest Arithmetic Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to return the length of the longest arithmetic subsequence in nums . A subsequence is arithmetic if the difference between consecutive elements is constant. The official constraints state that 2 <= nums.length <= 1000 and 0 <= nums[i] <= 500 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Array nums Output Length of the longest arithmetic subsequence Subsequence Not...

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LeetCode 1062: Longest Repeating Substring

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . Return the length of the longest repeating substring (a substring that appears at least twice). If no repeating substring exists, return 0 . The official constraints state that 1 <= s.length <= 2000 and s consists only of lowercase English letters. Input and Output Item Meaning Input String s Output Length of the longest repeating substring Function shape: def longestRepeatingSubstring(s: str)...

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LeetCode 1012: Numbers With Repeated Digits

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . We need to return the count of positive integers up to n (inclusive) that have at least one repeated digit. The official constraints state that 1 <= n <= 10^9 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Integer n Output Count of integers in [1, n] with at least one repeated digit Function shape: def numDupDigitsAtMostN(n: int) -> int: ... Examples...

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LeetCode 1031: Maximum Sum of Two Non-Overlapping Subarrays

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and two integers firstLen and secondLen . We need to return the maximum sum of elements in two non-overlapping subarrays of lengths firstLen and secondLen respectively. The two subarrays must not overlap. The official constraints state that 1 <= firstLen, secondLen <= 1000 , 2 <= nums.length <= 1000 , and -1000 <= nums[i] <= 1000 . Input and Output Item...

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LeetCode 1024: Video Stitching

Problem Restatement We are given an array clips where clips[i] = [start_i, end_i] represents a video clip covering the time interval [start_i, end_i] . We want to cover the interval [0, time] by choosing some of these clips. We need to return the minimum number of clips needed, or -1 if it is impossible. Clips can be cut, so using only a portion of a clip is allowed. The official...

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LeetCode 1048: Longest String Chain

Problem Restatement We are given an array of words. A word wordA is a predecessor of wordB if we can insert exactly one letter anywhere in wordA to make it equal to wordB . A word chain is a sequence of words [word_1, word_2, ..., word_k] where each word_i is a predecessor of word_{i+1} . Return the length of the longest word chain. The official constraints state that 1 <=...

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LeetCode 1035: Uncrossed Lines

Problem Restatement We are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2 . We draw lines connecting equal values: nums1[i] to nums2[j] when nums1[i] == nums2[j] . Two lines cannot cross. We need to return the maximum number of connecting lines we can draw without any crossing. The official constraints state that 1 <= nums1.length, nums2.length <= 500 and 1 <= nums1[i], nums2[j] <= 2000 . Input and Output Item Meaning...

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LeetCode 1074: Number of Submatrices That Sum to Target

Problem Restatement We are given an m x n matrix and an integer target . Return the number of non-empty submatrices that sum to target . The official constraints state that 1 <= m, n <= 100 and -1000 <= matrix[i][j] <= 1000 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Matrix and integer target Output Number of submatrices summing to target Function shape: def numSubmatrixSumTarget(matrix: list[list[int]], target: int) -> int:...

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LeetCode 1025: Divisor Game

Problem Restatement Alice and Bob play a game. They start with the number n . On each turn, the current player chooses a number x such that: 0 < x < n n % x == 0 Then n is replaced by n - x . The player who cannot make a move loses. Alice always goes first. Both players play optimally. Return true if Alice wins, false if Bob...

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LeetCode 1049: Last Stone Weight II

Problem Restatement We have a collection of stones with integer weights. In each step, we take two stones and smash them together. If their weights are x and y with x <= y , we get a stone of weight y - x . We need to return the smallest possible weight of the remaining stone (or 0 if none remain). The official constraints state that 1 <= stones.length <=...

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LeetCode 1043: Partition Array for Maximum Sum

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array arr and an integer k . We can partition arr into contiguous subarrays of length at most k . After partitioning, each element in a subarray is replaced by the maximum value of that subarray. We need to return the maximum sum of the resulting array. The official constraints state that 1 <= k <= arr.length <= 500 and 0 <= arr[i]...

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LeetCode 1066: Campus Bikes II

Problem Restatement We have n workers and m bikes on a campus. We need to assign each worker exactly one bike, minimizing the total Manhattan distance between each worker and their assigned bike. Return the minimum total Manhattan distance. The official constraints state that n <= m <= 10 (small, bitmask DP is feasible). Input and Output Item Meaning Input Worker positions and bike positions Output Minimum total assignment distance...

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LeetCode 975: Odd Even Jump

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array arr . From any starting index, we make jumps to the right. The jumps are numbered by jump count: Jump number Type 1st , 3rd , 5th , ... Odd jump 2nd , 4th , 6th , ... Even jump For an odd jump from index i , we must jump to an index j such that: i < j arr[i] <=...

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LeetCode 847: Shortest Path Visiting All Nodes

Problem Restatement We are given an undirected connected graph with n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1 . The graph is given as an adjacency list: graph[i] contains all nodes directly connected to node i . We need to return the length of the shortest path that visits every node at least once. Important details: Rule Meaning Start We may start at any node End We may stop...

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LeetCode 1000: Minimum Cost to Merge Stones

Problem Restatement We are given an array stones . The i th value tells us how many stones are in pile i . We are also given an integer k . In one move, we must merge exactly k consecutive piles into one pile. The cost of that move is the total number of stones in those k piles. We need to return the minimum total cost to merge all...

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LeetCode 898: Bitwise ORs of Subarrays

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array arr . For every non-empty contiguous subarray, compute the bitwise OR of all elements in that subarray. Return the number of distinct OR results. A subarray must be contiguous. The official constraints allow arr.length <= 5 * 10^4 and arr[i] <= 10^9 . ( leetcode.com ) Input and Output Item Meaning Input arr , an integer array Output Number of distinct bitwise...

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LeetCode 920: Number of Music Playlists

Problem Restatement We have n different songs. We need to create a playlist of length goal . The playlist must satisfy two rules: Rule Meaning Use every song Each of the n songs must appear at least once Replay restriction A song can be replayed only after at least k other songs have been played Return the number of valid playlists modulo: 10**9 + 7 The official problem asks for...

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LeetCode 873: Length of Longest Fibonacci Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given a strictly increasing array arr of positive integers. We need to return the length of the longest Fibonacci-like subsequence. A sequence is Fibonacci-like if: Its length is at least 3 . For every valid position: x[i] + x[i + 1] == x[i + 2] A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more elements without changing the order of the remaining elements. If no Fibonacci-like...

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LeetCode 823: Binary Trees With Factors

Problem Restatement We are given an array arr of unique integers. Every value is greater than 1 . We need to count how many binary trees can be built using values from arr . Each value may be used any number of times. For every non-leaf node: node.val == node.left.val * node.right.val Return the number of possible binary trees modulo: 10**9 + 7 The left and right child order matters,...

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LeetCode 918: Maximum Sum Circular Subarray

Problem Restatement We are given a circular integer array nums . A circular array means the element after the last element is the first element again. We need to find the maximum possible sum of a non-empty subarray. A subarray may: Stay completely inside the array Or wrap around the end back to the beginning Each element can only be used once. The official problem statement defines circular subarrays this...

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LeetCode 964: Least Operators to Express Number

Problem Restatement We are given two integers: x target We may build expressions using only the number x and the operators: + - * / Division is real division, and standard operator precedence applies. We cannot use unary negation. So: -x is not allowed directly. We want to express target using the minimum number of operators. Return that minimum number. The official constraints are: Constraint Value 2 <= x <=...

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LeetCode 894: All Possible Full Binary Trees

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . Return a list of all possible full binary trees with exactly n nodes. A full binary tree is a binary tree where every node has either: Children count Meaning 0 Leaf node 2 Internal node No node may have exactly one child. Each node has value 0 . We only care about the tree shapes. LeetCode asks for all possible full...

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LeetCode 799: Champagne Tower

Problem Restatement We stack glasses in a pyramid. The first row has 1 glass, the second row has 2 glasses, the third row has 3 glasses, and so on. Each glass can hold exactly 1 cup of champagne. We pour poured cups into the top glass. If a glass receives more than 1 cup, it keeps 1 cup and splits the extra champagne equally between the two glasses below it....

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LeetCode 818: Race Car

Problem Restatement We have a race car on an infinite number line. The car starts at: position = 0 speed = 1 There are two possible instructions. Instruction Effect "A" position += speed , then speed *= 2 "R" If speed is positive, set speed to -1 ; otherwise set speed to 1 The "R" instruction changes only the direction and resets speed magnitude to 1 . It does not...

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LeetCode 943: Find the Shortest Superstring

Problem Restatement We are given an array of strings: words We need to return the shortest string that contains every string in words as a substring. If several shortest answers exist, we may return any of them. The problem also says that no string in words is a substring of another string in words . This lets us focus on ordering and overlapping the strings, instead of removing already-contained strings....

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LeetCode 940: Distinct Subsequences II

Problem Restatement We are given a string: s We need to count how many distinct non-empty subsequences exist. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters without changing the order of the remaining characters. For example, from: "abc" the subsequences include: "a" "b" "c" "ab" "ac" "bc" "abc" The empty subsequence does not count. Since the answer can become large, return it modulo: 10**9 + 7 The official...

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LeetCode 746: Min Cost Climbing Stairs

Problem Restatement We are given an array cost . cost[i] is the price of stepping on stair i . After paying the cost for a stair, we may climb either: 1 step 2 steps We can start from stair 0 or stair 1 . We need to return the minimum cost needed to reach the top of the floor. The top is one position after the last stair. Input and...

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LeetCode 718: Maximum Length of Repeated Subarray

Problem Restatement We are given two integer arrays: nums1 nums2 We need to return the maximum length of a subarray that appears in both arrays. A subarray is contiguous. That means we cannot skip elements. For example: [3, 2, 1] is a subarray of: [1, 2, 3, 2, 1] only if those values appear next to each other in that exact order. The official statement asks for the maximum length...

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LeetCode 45: Jump Game II

Problem Restatement We are given a 0-indexed integer array nums . We start at index 0 . Each value nums[i] tells us the maximum jump length from index i . From index i , we may jump to any index from i + 1 up to i + nums[i] , as long as the index is inside the array. We need to return the minimum number of jumps needed to...

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LeetCode 44: Wildcard Matching

Problem Restatement We are given an input string s and a pattern p . The pattern may contain two special wildcard characters: Character Meaning ? Matches any single character * Matches any sequence of characters, including the empty sequence The match must cover the entire input string, not just part of it. The official problem states these wildcard rules directly. For example: s = "aa" p = "a" This returns:...

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LeetCode 42: Trapping Rain Water

Problem Restatement We are given an array height . Each value represents the height of a vertical bar. Every bar has width 1 . After rain falls, water can be trapped between taller bars. We need to compute the total amount of trapped water. The official statement says: given n non-negative integers representing an elevation map where the width of each bar is 1 , compute how much water it...

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LeetCode 790: Domino and Tromino Tiling

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . We need to count how many ways there are to tile a 2 x n board using two tile types: Tile Shape Domino Covers 2 squares in a straight line Tromino Covers 3 squares in an L shape Both tile types may be rotated. Return the number of tilings modulo: 10**9 + 7 Every square must be covered exactly once. Two...

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LeetCode 741: Cherry Pickup

Problem Restatement We are given an n x n grid. Each cell contains one of three values: Value Meaning 1 A cell with one cherry 0 An empty cell -1 A thorn cell that cannot be passed We start at the top-left cell: (0, 0) We need to travel to the bottom-right cell: (n - 1, n - 1) using only: right down Then we return from the bottom-right cell...

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LeetCode 714: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock with Transaction Fee

Problem Restatement We are given an array prices . prices[i] is the price of a stock on day i . We are also given an integer fee . We may complete as many transactions as we want, but we cannot hold more than one share at the same time. That means we must sell the current stock before buying again. Each completed transaction pays the transaction fee once. Return the...

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LeetCode 838: Push Dominoes

Problem Restatement We are given a string dominoes . Each character describes the initial state of one domino: Character Meaning "L" Domino is pushed to the left "R" Domino is pushed to the right "." Domino is standing upright After each second, a falling domino pushes the adjacent upright domino in the same direction. If a standing domino receives equal force from both sides at the same time, it stays...

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LeetCode 740: Delete and Earn

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We may repeatedly choose a number x . When we choose x : We earn x points. Every occurrence of x - 1 is deleted. Every occurrence of x + 1 is deleted. We can continue until no numbers remain. We need to return the maximum total points we can earn. The official problem states that after taking a value...

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LeetCode 764: Largest Plus Sign

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . There is an n x n grid where every cell is initially 1 . Some cells are mines. Each mine is given as: [x, y] That means: grid[x][y] = 0 We need to find the largest axis-aligned plus sign made only of 1 s. A plus sign of order k has: one center cell an upward arm of length k -...

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LeetCode 837: New 21 Game

Problem Restatement Alice starts with 0 points. While her score is less than k , she keeps drawing a random number from 1 to maxPts . Each draw is independent, and every number from 1 to maxPts has the same probability. Alice stops drawing as soon as her score is at least k . Return the probability that Alice ends with n or fewer points. Answers within 10^-5 of the...

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LeetCode 813: Largest Sum of Averages

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer k . We may partition nums into at most k non-empty adjacent subarrays. Every element must be used exactly once. The score of a partition is the sum of the averages of its subarrays. Return the maximum score possible. Answers within 10^-6 of the actual answer are accepted. The official problem states that the partition must use every...

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LeetCode 712: Minimum ASCII Delete Sum for Two Strings

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: s1 s2 We may delete characters from either string. Deleting a character costs its ASCII value. We need to make the two strings equal with the minimum total deletion cost. Return that minimum cost. For example, deleting "s" costs: ord("s") = 115 The strings contain lowercase English letters, and their lengths are between 1 and 1000 . The official problem asks for the...

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LeetCode 960: Delete Columns to Make Sorted III

Problem Restatement We are given an array strs of equal-length strings. We may delete any set of column indices. When we delete a column, that position is removed from every string. After deletions, every remaining row must be lexicographically sorted by itself: strs[row][0] <= strs[row][1] <= strs[row][2] <= ... Return the minimum number of deleted columns. Important: the array of strings does not need to be sorted. Each individual row...

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LeetCode 887: Super Egg Drop

Problem Restatement We are given k identical eggs and a building with n floors. There is some unknown floor f such that: Drop floor Result Floor <= f Egg does not break Floor > f Egg breaks We need to determine the exact value of f . Each move lets us drop one unbroken egg from any floor. If the egg breaks, it cannot be used again. If it does...

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LeetCode 787: Cheapest Flights Within K Stops

Problem Restatement We are given n cities labeled from 0 to n - 1 . We are also given a list of directed flights. Each flight is represented as: [from_city, to_city, price] We need to find the cheapest price to travel from src to dst using at most k stops. A stop means an intermediate city between src and dst . So at most k stops means at most k...

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LeetCode 650: 2 Keys Keyboard

Problem Restatement We start with one character: "A" We can perform two operations: Operation Meaning Copy All Copy the entire current text Paste Paste the copied text We need to produce exactly n characters "A" using the minimum number of operations. Return that minimum number. The initial "A" already exists and does not count as an operation. Input and Output Item Meaning Input Integer n Output Minimum operations needed to...

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LeetCode 698: Partition to K Equal Sum Subsets

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer k . We need to return true if it is possible to divide nums into k non-empty subsets such that every subset has the same sum. Otherwise, return false . Each number must be used exactly once. The official constraints include 1 <= k <= nums.length <= 16 and positive integers in nums . ( leetcode.com ) Input...

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LeetCode 646: Maximum Length of Pair Chain

Problem Restatement We are given a list of integer pairs. Each pair looks like: [left, right] A pair: [a, b] can be followed by: [c, d] if: b < c We need to build the longest possible chain of pairs. Return the maximum chain length. The constraints guarantee: left < right for every pair. Input and Output Item Meaning Input List of integer pairs Output Maximum valid chain length Chain...

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LeetCode 935: Knight Dialer

Problem Restatement We place a chess knight on a phone keypad. The keypad is arranged like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 The knight moves in the same L-shape as in chess. We may start on any digit from 0 to 9 . Each time the knight lands on a digit, that digit is pressed. Given an integer n , return how many distinct phone...

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LeetCode 834: Sum of Distances in Tree

Problem Restatement We are given an undirected connected tree with n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1 . The array edges has n - 1 edges, where each edge connects two nodes. We need to return an array answer of length n , where: answer[i] is the sum of distances from node i to every other node in the tree. Input and Output Item Meaning Input n and...

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LeetCode 674: Longest Continuous Increasing Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given an unsorted integer array nums . We need to return the length of the longest continuous increasing subsequence. Here, continuous means the elements must be adjacent in the original array. So this is really asking for the longest strictly increasing subarray. The official statement defines it as a continuous subarray where each next element is strictly greater than the previous one. Input and Output Item...

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LeetCode 673: Number of Longest Increasing Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to return the number of longest increasing subsequences. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more elements without changing the order of the remaining elements. The subsequence must be strictly increasing. Equal adjacent values do not count as increasing. The official problem statement asks for the number of longest increasing subsequences and notes that the sequence must...

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LeetCode 691: Stickers to Spell Word

Problem Restatement We are given a list of sticker words and a target string. Each sticker contains lowercase English letters. We may cut letters from stickers and rearrange them to form the target. We have infinite copies of every sticker, so the same sticker type can be used more than once. Return the minimum number of stickers needed to form target . If it is impossible, return -1 . The...

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LeetCode 983: Minimum Cost For Tickets

Problem Restatement We are given two arrays: days costs days contains the days of the year when we need to travel. costs contains the prices of three ticket types: Ticket Cost 1-day pass costs[0] 7-day pass costs[1] 30-day pass costs[2] A pass covers consecutive calendar days. For example, if we buy a 7-day pass on day 3 , it covers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 We need to...

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LeetCode 956: Tallest Billboard

Problem Restatement We are given an array rods . Each rod has a positive length. We want to build two steel supports of equal height. Each rod can be used in one of three ways: Put it on the left support. Put it on the right support. Do not use it. Return the largest possible equal height of the two supports. If no positive equal-height supports can be built, return...

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LeetCode 689: Maximum Sum of 3 Non-Overlapping Subarrays

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer k . We need to choose three non-overlapping subarrays, each with length k , so that their total sum is as large as possible. Return the starting indices of those three subarrays. If there are multiple answers with the same total sum, return the lexicographically smallest list of indices. The official statement asks for three non-overlapping length- k...

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LeetCode 688: Knight Probability in Chessboard

Problem Restatement We are given an n x n chessboard. A knight starts at cell: (row, column) The knight makes exactly k moves. On each move, it chooses one of the 8 possible knight moves uniformly at random. It may choose a move that goes off the board. If it moves off the board, it cannot return. We need to return the probability that the knight remains on the board...

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LeetCode 639: Decode Ways II

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . The string contains digits and the wildcard character * . The normal decoding rule is: Code Letter "1" A "2" B ... ... "26" Z The wildcard * can represent any digit from "1" to "9" . It cannot represent "0" . We need to count how many valid ways the string can be decoded. Because the answer can be large,...

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LeetCode 808: Soup Servings

Problem Restatement We have two soups, A and B . Both start with n milliliters. On each turn, one of four operations is chosen with equal probability 0.25 : Operation Soup A served Soup B served 1 100 ml 0 ml 2 75 ml 25 ml 3 50 ml 50 ml 4 25 ml 75 ml If an operation asks for more soup than remains, we serve all that remains....

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LeetCode 638: Shopping Offers

Problem Restatement We are given item prices, special bundle offers, and the exact number of each item we need to buy. Each item i has an individual price: price[i] Each special offer contains quantities of items plus a final bundle price: special[j] = [count_item_0, count_item_1, ..., offer_price] We can use each special offer any number of times. The goal is to pay the minimum total cost while buying exactly the...

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LeetCode 931: Minimum Falling Path Sum

Problem Restatement We are given an n x n integer matrix. A falling path starts at any cell in the first row. From a cell (row, col) , the next cell must be in the next row and one of these columns: col - 1 col col + 1 So from (row, col) , we may move to: (row + 1, col - 1) (row + 1, col) (row +...

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LeetCode 634: Find the Derangement of An Array

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . We need to count how many permutations of the numbers: [1, 2, 3, ..., n] have no fixed positions. A fixed position means: perm[i] == i for some index. A permutation with no fixed positions is called a derangement. Because the answer can be very large, return it modulo: 10**9 + 7 Input and Output Item Meaning Input Integer n Output...

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LeetCode 664: Strange Printer

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . There is a strange printer with two rules: Rule Meaning Same character only In one turn, the printer can print only one repeated character Overwrite allowed A later turn can cover characters printed earlier The printer can choose any continuous segment of the string in one turn. Return the minimum number of turns needed to print the whole string. For example,...

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LeetCode 805: Split Array With Same Average

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to split every element into one of two arrays, A and B , such that: A is non-empty B is non-empty average(A) == average(B) Return True if such a split is possible. Otherwise, return False . The array length is at most 30 , and each value is between 0 and 10000 . The official examples include nums...

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LeetCode 730: Count Different Palindromic Subsequences

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to count how many different non-empty palindromic subsequences appear in s . A subsequence is made by deleting zero or more characters without changing the order of the remaining characters. A palindrome reads the same forward and backward. The answer can be large, so we return it modulo: 10**9 + 7 The string contains only the characters 'a' ,...

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LeetCode 879: Profitable Schemes

Problem Restatement We are given n gang members and several crimes. Each crime i has: Array Meaning group[i] Number of members needed for crime i profit[i] Profit gained from crime i Each member can participate in at most one crime. A scheme is profitable if: It uses at most n members. It earns at least minProfit profit. Return the number of profitable schemes modulo 10^9 + 7 . The official...

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LeetCode 600: Non-negative Integers without Consecutive Ones

Problem Restatement We are given a positive integer n . We need to count how many integers in the range [0, n] have binary representations that do not contain consecutive 1 bits. For example, 3 has binary representation: 11 so it is invalid. But 5 has binary representation: 101 so it is valid. Return the count of valid integers from 0 through n , inclusive. The official problem asks for...

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LeetCode 978: Longest Turbulent Subarray

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array arr . We need to return the length of the longest contiguous subarray where the comparison signs between adjacent elements alternate. That means the subarray must go up, down, up, down, or down, up, down, up. For example: [9, 4, 2, 10, 7] The comparisons are: 9 > 4 4 > 2 2 < 10 10 > 7 This is not fully...

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LeetCode 828: Count Unique Characters of All Substrings of a Given String

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . For any string t , define countUniqueChars(t) as the number of characters that appear exactly once in t . We need to return the sum of countUniqueChars(t) over every substring t of s . The answer is guaranteed to fit in a 32-bit integer. Input and Output Item Meaning Input A string s Output Sum of unique-character counts over all substrings...

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LeetCode 903: Valid Permutations for DI Sequence

Problem Restatement We are given a string s of length n . Each character is either: Character Meaning "I" Increasing "D" Decreasing We need to count how many permutations of the integers from 0 to n satisfy the pattern. A permutation has n + 1 numbers. For every index i : If s[i] == "I" , then perm[i] < perm[i + 1] . If s[i] == "D" , then perm[i]...

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LeetCode 549: Binary Tree Longest Consecutive Sequence II

Problem Restatement We are given the root of a binary tree. We need to find the length of the longest consecutive path. A path can move from parent to child or child to parent, as long as the path stays connected. The consecutive values may either: increase by 1 decrease by 1 The path may change direction once at a node. For example: 1 - 2 - 3 is valid...

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LeetCode 656: Coin Path

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array coins and an integer maxJump . The array represents positions from 1 to n . At position i , we must pay coins[i] coins when we visit that position. Some positions have value -1 . These positions are blocked and cannot be visited. We start at position 1 . We want to reach position n . From position i , we may...

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LeetCode 518: Coin Change II

Problem Restatement We are given an integer amount and an array coins . Each value in coins is a coin denomination. We have an infinite number of each coin type. We need to return the number of different combinations that can make up exactly amount . If the amount cannot be formed, return 0 . The order of coins does not matter. For example, [1, 2, 2] and [2, 1,...

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LeetCode 546: Remove Boxes

Problem Restatement We are given an array boxes . Each integer represents the color of one box. In one move, we can remove a continuous group of boxes with the same color. If the group has k boxes, we gain: k * k points. After removing boxes, the remaining boxes close the gap. We repeat this until no boxes remain. We need to return the maximum score possible. The official...

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LeetCode 516: Longest Palindromic Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to return the length of the longest subsequence of s that is also a palindrome. A subsequence is made by deleting zero or more characters without changing the order of the remaining characters. A palindrome reads the same forward and backward. The official problem asks for the length of the longest palindromic subsequence in s . The constraints are...

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LeetCode 568: Maximum Vacation Days

Problem Restatement We are given two matrices: Matrix Meaning flights Whether we can fly from one city to another days How many vacation days we can take in each city during each week There are n cities, indexed from 0 to n - 1 . We start in city 0 on Monday morning before week 0 . Each week, we may either: Stay in the current city. Fly to another...

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LeetCode 542: 01 Matrix

Problem Restatement We are given an m x n binary matrix mat . Each cell contains either 0 or 1 . For every cell, we need to return the distance to the nearest cell containing 0 . The distance between two cells sharing an edge is 1 . So movement is allowed only in four directions: up, down, left, right Diagonal movement is not allowed. The problem guarantees that the...

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LeetCode 514: Freedom Trail

Problem Restatement We are given a circular ring represented by a string ring . We are also given a string key . The ring starts with ring[0] aligned at the 12:00 position. To spell each character in key , we may: Operation Cost Rotate the ring one position clockwise 1 Rotate the ring one position counterclockwise 1 Press the center button to select the current character 1 For each character...

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LeetCode 509: Fibonacci Number

Problem Restatement The Fibonacci sequence is defined as: F(0) = 0 F(1) = 1 For all n > 1 : $$ F(n)=F(n-1)+F(n-2) $$ We are given an integer n . We need to return the value of F(n) . The official problem asks us to compute the n th Fibonacci number using the standard recurrence definition. Input and Output Item Meaning Input An integer n Output The n th Fibonacci...

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LeetCode 629: K Inverse Pairs Array

Problem Restatement We are given two integers n and k . We need to count how many different arrays can be formed using the numbers from 1 to n exactly once, such that the array has exactly k inverse pairs. An inverse pair is a pair of indices (i, j) where: i < j and nums[i] > nums[j] Because the answer can be very large, return it modulo: 10**9 +...

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LeetCode 562: Longest Line of Consecutive One in Matrix

Problem Restatement We are given a binary matrix mat . Each cell contains either 0 or 1 . We need to find the length of the longest line of consecutive 1 values. The line may go in one of four directions: Direction Meaning Horizontal Left to right Vertical Top to bottom Diagonal Top-left to bottom-right Anti-diagonal Top-right to bottom-left Return the maximum length among all such lines. The original problem...

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LeetCode 877: Stone Game

Problem Restatement Alice and Bob play a game with an even number of stone piles arranged in a row. Each pile has a positive number of stones. Alice moves first. On each turn, a player must take one entire pile from either the left end or the right end of the row. The game ends when all piles are taken. The player with more stones wins. The total number of...

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LeetCode 727: Minimum Window Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given two strings, s1 and s2 . We need to return the shortest contiguous substring of s1 such that s2 is a subsequence of that substring. A subsequence means the characters appear in the same order, but they do not need to be adjacent. If multiple shortest substrings exist, return the one with the left-most starting index. If no valid substring exists, return an empty string....

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LeetCode 926: Flip String to Monotone Increasing

Problem Restatement We are given a binary string s . Each character is either '0' or '1' . A binary string is monotone increasing when all 0 s come before all 1 s. It may contain only 0 s, only 1 s, or both. Valid examples: "000" "111" "000111" "001111" Invalid examples: "10" "101" "010" We may flip any character: 0 -> 1 1 -> 0 Return the minimum number...

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LeetCode 801: Minimum Swaps To Make Sequences Increasing

Problem Restatement We are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2 with the same length. At any index i , we may swap: nums1[i], nums2[i] = nums2[i], nums1[i] The goal is to make both arrays strictly increasing using the minimum number of swaps. Strictly increasing means: nums1[0] < nums1[1] < nums1[2] < ... nums2[0] < nums2[1] < nums2[2] < ... The problem guarantees that at least one valid answer exists....

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LeetCode 651: 4 Keys Keyboard

Problem Restatement We have a special keyboard with four operations: Key Operation A Print one A on the screen Ctrl-A Select all text on the screen Ctrl-C Copy the selected text into a buffer Ctrl-V Paste the buffer after the current text Given an integer n , we can press keys at most n times. Return the maximum number of A characters we can print on the screen. The problem...

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LeetCode 583: Delete Operation for Two Strings

Problem Restatement We are given two strings, word1 and word2 . In one step, we may delete exactly one character from either string. We need to return the minimum number of deletion steps required to make the two strings equal. The strings contain only lowercase English letters, and each length is between 1 and 500 . Input and Output Item Meaning word1 First lowercase English string word2 Second lowercase English...

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LeetCode 552: Student Attendance Record II

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . We need to count how many attendance records of length n are eligible for an award. Each record contains only three characters: Character Meaning "A" Absent "L" Late "P" Present A record is valid only if: It has strictly fewer than 2 absences. It never has 3 or more consecutive late days. Return the number of valid records modulo 10^9 +...

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LeetCode 576: Out of Boundary Paths

Problem Restatement We are given an m x n grid and a ball starting at position [startRow, startColumn] . On each move, the ball can move one cell in one of four directions: up, down, left, right The ball may also move outside the grid. We can use at most maxMove moves. Return the number of different paths that move the ball out of the grid boundary. Since the answer...

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LeetCode 526: Beautiful Arrangement

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . There are n integers labeled from 1 to n . We need to count how many permutations of these numbers are beautiful. A permutation perm is beautiful if, for every position i , at least one of these is true: perm[i] % i == 0 or: i % perm[i] == 0 The permutation is 1-indexed. That means positions start from 1...

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LeetCode 474: Ones and Zeroes

Problem Restatement We are given an array of binary strings: strs We are also given two integers: m n We can choose some strings from strs . The chosen strings must use at most: m zeros n ones Each string can be chosen at most once. We need to return the largest possible number of strings we can choose. The official problem asks for the size of the largest subset...

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LeetCode 472: Concatenated Words

Problem Restatement We are given an array of unique strings: words We need to return all words in the array that can be formed by concatenating at least two shorter words from the same array. The shorter words do not need to be distinct. The same word may be used more than once. The official statement defines a concatenated word as a word comprised entirely of at least two shorter...

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LeetCode 375: Guess Number Higher or Lower II

Problem Restatement We are playing a guessing game. A number is picked from: 1 to n Each time we guess a number x : Result Cost Guess is correct Pay 0 Guess is wrong Pay x dollars If the guess is wrong, we are told whether the hidden number is higher or lower, then we continue guessing in the remaining range. We need to return the minimum amount of money...

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LeetCode 471: Encode String with Shortest Length

Problem Restatement We are given a non-empty lowercase string s . We need to encode it so that the encoded string has the shortest possible length. The encoding rule is: k[encoded_string] where encoded_string is repeated exactly k times. If encoding does not make the string shorter, we should keep the original string. If there are multiple shortest answers, returning any one of them is allowed. The input length is at...

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LeetCode 396: Rotate Function

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums of length n . For each rotation k , define F(k) as: F(k) = 0 * arr[k][0] + 1 * arr[k][1] + ... + (n - 1) * arr[k][n - 1] where arr[k] is nums rotated clockwise by k positions. We need to return the maximum value among: F(0), F(1), ..., F(n - 1) The answer is guaranteed to fit in...

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LeetCode 322: Coin Change

Problem Restatement We are given: coins amount coins contains coin denominations. We may use each coin any number of times. Return the minimum number of coins needed to make exactly amount . If it is impossible, return: -1 The official constraints include: Constraint Value 1 <= coins.length <= 12 1 <= coins[i] <= 2^31 - 1 0 <= amount <= 10^4 Input and Output Item Meaning Input Coin denominations and...

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LeetCode 446: Arithmetic Slices II - Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to count how many arithmetic subsequences exist in the array. A sequence is arithmetic if: It has at least three elements. The difference between every two consecutive elements is the same. For example: [1, 3, 5, 7, 9] is arithmetic because every step increases by 2 . This is also arithmetic: [7, 7, 7, 7] because every step...

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LeetCode 418: Sentence Screen Fitting

Problem Restatement We are given: Value Meaning sentence A list of words rows Number of screen rows cols Number of columns per row We want to place the sentence repeatedly on the screen. Rules: Words must appear in the original order. A word cannot be split across lines. Consecutive words are separated by one space. The sentence repeats cyclically. Return how many complete times the sentence fits on the screen....

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LeetCode 300: Longest Increasing Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to return the length of the longest strictly increasing subsequence. A subsequence is formed by deleting some or no elements without changing the order of the remaining elements. Strictly increasing means: nums[i] < nums[j] for all i < j in the subsequence We do not need to return the subsequence itself, only its length. Input and Output Item...

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LeetCode 494: Target Sum

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer target . For every number in nums , we must choose one sign: Sign Meaning + Add this number - Subtract this number We need to count how many different sign assignments evaluate to target . For example: nums = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1] target = 3 There are five valid expressions: -1 + 1 + 1...

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LeetCode 467: Unique Substrings in Wraparound String

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . There is also an infinite wraparound base string: "...zabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd..." We need to count how many different non-empty substrings of s also appear in this infinite base string. The official problem asks for the number of unique non-empty substrings of s that are present in base . A substring appears in the base string if its characters are consecutive in alphabet order,...

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LeetCode 416: Partition Equal Subset Sum

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . Return True if we can split the array into two subsets such that both subsets have the same sum. Otherwise, return False . Each number can be used at most once, because every element belongs to exactly one of the two subsets. The source problem gives examples such as nums = [1,5,11,5] , which returns true , and nums =...

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LeetCode 466: Count The Repetitions

Problem Restatement We are given two strings and two repetition counts: s1, n1 s2, n2 The notation [s, n] means string s repeated n times. For example: ["abc", 3] = "abcabcabc" Define: str1 = [s1, n1] str2 = [s2, n2] We need to find the maximum integer m such that: [str2, m] can be obtained from str1 by deleting some characters. In other words, we need to count how many...

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LeetCode 368: Largest Divisible Subset

Problem Restatement We are given a set of distinct positive integers nums . Return the largest subset answer such that for every pair of numbers in answer , one number divides the other. For any pair: answer[i], answer[j] at least one of these must be true: answer[i] % answer[j] == 0 or: answer[j] % answer[i] == 0 If there are multiple valid largest subsets, return any one of them. The...

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LeetCode 392: Is Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: s t We need to return True if s is a subsequence of t . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters from a string without changing the order of the remaining characters. For example: s = "abc" t = "ahbgdc" The characters a , b , and c appear in t in the same order. So s is a...

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LeetCode 413: Arithmetic Slices

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . An arithmetic array is a subarray with at least 3 elements where the difference between consecutive elements is the same. We must return the total number of arithmetic subarrays inside nums . A subarray must be contiguous. The official examples include [1,2,3,4] -> 3 and [1] -> 0 . The constraints include 1 <= nums.length <= 5000 and -1000 <=...

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LeetCode 464: Can I Win

Problem Restatement We are given two integers: maxChoosableInteger desiredTotal There are numbers from 1 to maxChoosableInteger . Two players take turns choosing one unused number. Each chosen number is added to a running total. The player who makes the running total reach or exceed desiredTotal wins. Both players play optimally. We need to return whether the first player can force a win. The official problem asks whether the first player...

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LeetCode 221: Maximal Square

Problem Restatement We are given an m x n binary matrix. Each cell contains either: "0" "1" We need to find the largest square that contains only "1" cells. Return the area of that square. The official statement says: given an m x n binary matrix filled with 0 s and 1 s, find the largest square containing only 1 s and return its area. Input and Output Item Meaning...

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LeetCode 213: House Robber II

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . Each nums[i] represents the amount of money in house i . We want to rob houses without robbing two adjacent houses. The difference from the first House Robber problem is that the houses are arranged in a circle. That means the first house and the last house are also adjacent. Return the maximum amount of money we can rob without...

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LeetCode 124: Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum

Problem Restatement We are given the root of a binary tree. We need to find the maximum path sum of any non-empty path in the tree. A path is a sequence of connected nodes where each pair of adjacent nodes has an edge between them. A node may appear in the path at most once. The path does not need to pass through the root. The official problem asks for...

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LeetCode 123: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III

Problem Restatement We are given an array prices , where prices[i] is the stock price on day i . We may complete at most two transactions. One transaction means: buy once, then sell once We cannot hold more than one share at a time, so we must sell before buying again. We need to return the maximum possible profit. For example: prices = [3, 3, 5, 0, 0, 3, 1,...

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LeetCode 97: Interleaving String

Problem Restatement We are given three strings: s1: str s2: str s3: str We need to decide whether s3 can be formed by interleaving s1 and s2 . Interleaving means we take all characters from s1 and all characters from s2 , while preserving the original order inside each string. The characters may be mixed together. For example: s1 = "abc" s2 = "def" A valid interleaving is: "adbcef" because...

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LeetCode 122: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II

Problem Restatement We are given an array prices , where prices[i] is the stock price on day i . We may buy and sell the stock multiple times, but we can hold at most one share at a time. That means we must sell before buying again. We need to return the maximum profit possible. For example: prices = [7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4] The best strategy is: buy...

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LeetCode 96: Unique Binary Search Trees

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . We need to count how many structurally unique binary search trees can be built using exactly the values: 1, 2, 3, ..., n Each value must be used exactly once. The official problem asks for the number of structurally unique BSTs with exactly n nodes and unique values from 1 to n . The constraint is 1 <= n <= 19...

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LeetCode 121: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

Problem Restatement We are given an array prices , where prices[i] is the stock price on day i . We may choose one day to buy one stock and a later day to sell it. We need to return the maximum possible profit. If no profit is possible, return 0 . The official problem requires the selling day to be in the future after the buying day. For example: prices...

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LeetCode 174: Dungeon Game

Problem Restatement We are given a 2D grid: dungeon A knight starts at the top-left cell: (0, 0) and wants to rescue the princess at the bottom-right cell. The knight may move only: Direction Allowed Right Yes Down Yes Left No Up No Each cell changes the knight’s health: Cell value Effect Negative Lose health Positive Gain health Zero No change The knight dies immediately if health becomes: <= 0...

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LeetCode 120: Triangle

Problem Restatement We are given a triangle array. Each row has one more element than the previous row. Starting from the top, we may move only to one of the two adjacent numbers directly below: Same index Next index We must find the minimum path sum from top to bottom. The official problem defines adjacency exactly this way. For example: triangle = [ [2], [3, 4], [6, 5, 7], [4,...

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LeetCode 95: Unique Binary Search Trees II

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . We need to generate all structurally unique binary search trees that contain exactly the values: 1, 2, 3, ..., n Each value must be used exactly once. The answer may be returned in any order. A binary search tree has this rule: Node relation Required value rule Left subtree Values smaller than the root Right subtree Values greater than the root...

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LeetCode 72: Edit Distance

Problem Restatement We are given two strings, word1 and word2 . We need to return the minimum number of operations required to convert word1 into word2 . There are three allowed operations: Insert one character Delete one character Replace one character The official constraints are 0 <= word1.length, word2.length <= 500 , and both strings contain lowercase English letters. Input and Output Item Meaning Input Two strings word1 and word2...

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LeetCode 119: Pascal's Triangle II

Problem Restatement We are given an integer: rowIndex We need to return the row at index rowIndex from Pascal's Triangle. The rows are zero-indexed: Index Row 0 [1] 1 [1,1] 2 [1,2,1] 3 [1,3,3,1] The official problem asks for the row at the given index. For example: rowIndex = 3 The answer is: [1, 3, 3, 1] Input and Output Item Meaning Input Integer rowIndex Output Pascal's Triangle row at...

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LeetCode 118: Pascal's Triangle

Problem Restatement We are given an integer: numRows We need to generate the first numRows rows of Pascal's Triangle. In Pascal's Triangle: The first and last number of every row are 1 . Every interior value equals the sum of the two numbers directly above it. The official problem asks us to return the first numRows rows. For example: numRows = 5 The output is: [ [1], [1, 1], [1,...

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LeetCode 70: Climbing Stairs

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . There is a staircase with n steps. Each time, we may climb either: 1 step 2 steps We need to return how many distinct ways there are to reach the top. The official constraint is 1 <= n <= 45 . ( leetcode.com ) Input and Output Item Meaning Input An integer n Output Number of distinct ways to reach step...

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LeetCode 198: House Robber

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . Each element represents the amount of money inside one house. A robber wants to steal as much money as possible, but there is one restriction: Two adjacent houses cannot both be robbed. If two adjacent houses are robbed on the same night, the alarm system activates. We need to return the maximum amount of money that can be robbed without...

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LeetCode 91: Decode Ways

Problem Restatement We are given a string s containing only digits. The digits encode letters using this mapping: "A" -> "1" "B" -> "2" ... "Z" -> "26" We need to count how many different ways the string can be decoded. A digit group is valid only if it maps to a number from 1 to 26 . So: "12" can be decoded as: "1" "2" -> "AB" "12" ->...

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LeetCode 115: Distinct Subsequences

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: s t We need to count how many distinct subsequences of s equal t . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters without changing the order of the remaining characters. The official problem asks for the number of distinct subsequences of s equal to t . For example: s = "rabbbit" t = "rabbit" The answer is: 3 because there...

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LeetCode 140: Word Break II

Problem Restatement We are given: Name Meaning s A string without spaces wordDict A list of valid dictionary words We need to insert spaces into s so that every piece is a valid dictionary word. Return all possible valid sentences. The same dictionary word may be reused multiple times. The answer may be returned in any order. LeetCode gives constraints including 1 <= s.length <= 20 , 1 <= wordDict.length...

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LeetCode 139: Word Break

Problem Restatement We are given: Name Meaning s A string we want to split wordDict A list of valid dictionary words Return True if s can be segmented into a sequence of one or more dictionary words. The same dictionary word may be used multiple times. If no complete segmentation exists, return False . LeetCode states the task as checking whether s can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of...

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LeetCode 265: Paint House II

Problem Restatement We are given n houses and k colors. The painting cost is stored in: costs[i][j] which means: Cost to paint house i using color j . Adjacent houses cannot use the same color. We need to return the minimum total painting cost. Unlike LeetCode 256, the number of colors is not fixed to 3 . The constraints are: 1 <= n <= 100 1 <= k <= 20...

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LeetCode 87: Scramble String

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: s1: str s2: str Both strings have the same length. We need to return whether s2 can be produced by scrambling s1 . A scramble is formed recursively: If the string length is 1 , stop. Otherwise, split the string into two non-empty parts. Either keep the two parts in the same order or swap them. Apply the same process recursively to each...

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LeetCode 343: Integer Break

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . We must break n into the sum of at least two positive integers. Among all possible breaks, return the maximum product of those integers. For example: 10 = 3 + 3 + 4 The product is: 3 * 3 * 4 = 36 So for n = 10 , the answer is 36 . The constraints are: 2 <= n <=...

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LeetCode 64: Minimum Path Sum

Problem Restatement We are given an m x n grid filled with non-negative integers. We start at the top-left cell and want to reach the bottom-right cell. At each step, we may move only: Right Down A path sum is the sum of all numbers on the path, including the starting cell and the ending cell. We need to return the minimum possible path sum. The official constraints are 1...

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LeetCode 264: Ugly Number II

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . Return the n th ugly number. An ugly number is a positive integer whose prime factors are limited to: 2, 3, 5 The sequence starts with: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, ... 1 is treated as an ugly number. The constraint is: 1 <= n <= 1690 The official examples include n = 10 -> 12...

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LeetCode 313: Super Ugly Number

Problem Restatement A super ugly number is a positive integer whose prime factors all come from the array primes . We are given: n primes Return the n th super ugly number. The sequence starts with 1 . The number 1 is included even though it has no prime factors. The official statement says the n th super ugly number is guaranteed to fit in a 32-bit signed integer. The...

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LeetCode 63: Unique Paths II

Problem Restatement A robot starts at the top-left corner of a grid. The robot wants to reach the bottom-right corner. At each step, the robot may move only: Right Down Some cells contain obstacles. If a cell contains an obstacle, the robot cannot move onto that cell. The grid uses: 0 = empty cell 1 = obstacle We need to count how many unique valid paths exist. The official constraints...

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LeetCode 410: Split Array Largest Sum

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer k . We must split nums into exactly k non-empty subarrays. Each subarray must be contiguous. Among the k subarrays, each has a sum. We want to minimize the largest of those sums. Return that minimized largest sum. The official examples include nums = [7,2,5,10,8], k = 2 , whose answer is 18 , and nums = [1,2,3,4,5],...

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LeetCode 188: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock IV

Problem Restatement We are given an integer k and an array prices . prices[i] is the stock price on day i . We need to find the maximum profit possible with at most k transactions. One transaction means buying once and selling once. We cannot hold more than one stock at the same time, so we must sell before buying again. The official statement asks for the maximum profit with...

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LeetCode 312: Burst Balloons

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . Each value represents a balloon. When we burst balloon i , we gain coins equal to: nums[i - 1] * nums[i] * nums[i + 1] If the left or right neighbor is outside the array, treat that missing neighbor as 1 . After a balloon is burst, it disappears, so its left and right neighbors change. Return the maximum coins...

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LeetCode 62: Unique Paths

Problem Restatement A robot starts at the top-left corner of an m x n grid. The robot wants to reach the bottom-right corner. At each step, the robot may move only: Right Down We need to count how many different paths exist. The official constraints are 1 <= m, n <= 100 , and the answer is guaranteed to fit in a 32-bit integer. Input and Output Item Meaning Input...

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LeetCode 85: Maximal Rectangle

Problem Restatement We are given a binary matrix filled with characters: "0" "1" We need to find the largest rectangle that contains only "1" cells and return its area. The rectangle must be axis-aligned. That means its sides follow the matrix rows and columns. The official problem states: given a rows x cols binary matrix filled with 0 s and 1 s, find the largest rectangle containing only 1 s...

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LeetCode 486: Predict the Winner

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . Two players play a game with this array. Player 1 moves first. On each turn, the current player must take one number from either end of the array. That means the player may take either the leftmost number or the rightmost number. The chosen number is added to that player's score, and the number is removed from the array. Both...

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LeetCode 338: Counting Bits

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . Return an array ans of length n + 1 . For every integer i from 0 to n , ans[i] should be the number of 1 bits in the binary representation of i . The official problem asks for this array for all values 0 <= i <= n . For example: n = 5 The binary forms are: 0 ->...

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LeetCode 361: Bomb Enemy

Problem Restatement We are given an m x n grid. Each cell is one of three characters: Character Meaning "W" Wall "E" Enemy "0" Empty cell We may place exactly one bomb, but only on an empty cell. When the bomb explodes, it kills enemies in the same row and the same column. The explosion stops when it hits a wall. So a bomb can kill enemies: left until a...

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LeetCode 337: House Robber III

Problem Restatement We are given the root of a binary tree. Each node represents a house, and the value of the node is the amount of money in that house. A thief wants to rob houses, but there is one rule: If two directly connected houses are robbed, the police are alerted. In tree terms, we cannot rob both a parent node and its child node. Return the maximum amount...

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LeetCode 309: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock with Cooldown

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array prices . prices[i] is the price of a stock on day i . We may complete as many transactions as we want, but with two restrictions: We cannot hold more than one stock at the same time. After selling a stock, we cannot buy on the next day. That next day is a cooldown day. Return the maximum profit we can make....

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LeetCode 132: Palindrome Partitioning II

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to cut the string into substrings so that every substring is a palindrome. Return the minimum number of cuts needed. LeetCode states the problem as partitioning s so every substring is a palindrome, then returning the minimum cuts needed for such a palindrome partitioning. The constraints are 1 <= s.length <= 2000 , and s contains lowercase English letters...

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LeetCode 32: Longest Valid Parentheses

Problem Restatement We are given a string s containing only two characters: "(" ")" We need to return the length of the longest valid parentheses substring. A valid parentheses substring must be continuous, balanced, and well-formed. Examples of valid strings: "()" "(())" "()()" "(()())" Examples of invalid strings: "(" ")(" "(()" "())" If there is no valid parentheses substring, return 0 . The constraints allow an empty string, and the...

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LeetCode 357: Count Numbers with Unique Digits

Problem Restatement Given an integer n , count how many integers x satisfy: 0 <= x < 10**n and have no repeated digits. A number has unique digits if every digit appears at most once. Examples: 123 has unique digits 102 has unique digits 11 does not have unique digits 100 does not have unique digits The range includes 0 . The range does not include 10^n . The problem...

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LeetCode 279: Perfect Squares

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . We need to return the least number of perfect square numbers whose sum is exactly n . A perfect square is a number like: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 because: 1 = 1 * 1 4 = 2 * 2 9 = 3 * 3 16 = 4 * 4 25 = 5 * 5 For example, for n = 12...

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LeetCode 131: Palindrome Partitioning

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to split it into substrings so that every substring is a palindrome. Return all possible palindrome partitionings of s . A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward, such as: "a" "aa" "aba" "racecar" LeetCode states the task as: partition s so every substring of the partition is a palindrome, then return all possible palindrome...

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LeetCode 256: Paint House

Problem Restatement We are given n houses in a row. Each house can be painted one of three colors: Color Index Color 0 Red 1 Blue 2 Green The painting cost is given by an n x 3 matrix called costs . For example: costs[i][0] is the cost to paint house i red. We need to paint every house such that no two adjacent houses have the same color. Return...

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LeetCode 55: Jump Game

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We start at index 0 . Each value nums[i] tells us the maximum number of steps we can jump forward from index i . We need to return true if we can reach the last index. Otherwise, return false . The official constraints are 1 <= nums.length <= 10^4 and 0 <= nums[i] <= 10^5 . Input and Output Item...

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LeetCode 304: Range Sum Query 2D - Immutable

Problem Restatement We are given a 2D integer matrix. We need to implement a class called NumMatrix that supports rectangle sum queries. The class supports two operations: Operation Meaning NumMatrix(matrix) Initialize the object sumRegion(row1, col1, row2, col2) Return the sum of all elements inside the rectangle The rectangle is inclusive, so all cells from: (row1, col1) through: (row2, col2) must be included. The matrix never changes after construction. The official...

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LeetCode 354: Russian Doll Envelopes

Problem Restatement We are given a list of envelopes. Each envelope has: [width, height] One envelope can fit inside another only if both dimensions are strictly smaller. That means: w1 < w2 and h1 < h2 We want the maximum number of envelopes we can nest inside each other. This is called the Russian doll property. We may reorder the envelopes in any way. Input and Output Item Meaning Input...

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LeetCode 329: Longest Increasing Path in a Matrix

Problem Restatement We are given an m x n integer matrix. Return the length of the longest strictly increasing path in the matrix. From each cell, we may move in four directions: up, down, left, right We may not move diagonally, and we may not move outside the matrix boundary. The path must be strictly increasing, so every next cell must have a larger value than the current cell. Input...

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LeetCode 403: Frog Jump

Problem Restatement A frog wants to cross a river by jumping on stones. The stones are given as a sorted array: stones Each value in stones is a position on the river. The frog starts on the first stone, which is always position 0 . The first jump must be exactly 1 unit. After that, if the frog’s previous jump was k units, then the next jump must be one...

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LeetCode 377: Combination Sum IV

Problem Restatement We are given an array of distinct positive integers nums and an integer target . We need to count how many possible ordered combinations can add up to target . Each number in nums can be used multiple times. Order matters. That means these are counted as different combinations: [1, 2, 1] [2, 1, 1] [1, 1, 2] Even though they use the same numbers, their order is...

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LeetCode 152: Maximum Product Subarray

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to find a contiguous non-empty subarray whose product is as large as possible. Return the maximum product. A subarray must contain consecutive elements from the original array. For example: nums = [2, 3, -2, 4] The subarray: [2, 3] has product: 2 * 3 = 6 The full array product is: 2 * 3 * -2 * 4...

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LeetCode 53: Maximum Subarray

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to find the contiguous subarray with the largest possible sum and return that sum. A subarray means a continuous part of the array. We cannot skip elements. The official problem asks for the largest subarray sum, not the subarray itself. The constraints are 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5 and -10^4 <= nums[i] <= 10^4 . Input and Output...

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LeetCode 376: Wiggle Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . A wiggle sequence is a sequence where the differences between neighboring numbers strictly alternate between positive and negative. For example: [1, 7, 4, 9, 2, 5] The differences are: [6, -3, 5, -7, 3] The signs alternate: positive, negative, positive, negative, positive So this is a wiggle sequence. We need to return the length of the longest wiggle subsequence. A...

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LeetCode 276: Paint Fence

Problem Restatement We are given n fence posts and k colors. Each post must be painted with exactly one color. The rule is: At most two adjacent fence posts may have the same color. So this is allowed: red, red, blue But this is invalid: red, red, red We need to return the number of valid ways to paint all n posts. The source statement also notes that n and...

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LeetCode 10: Regular Expression Matching

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: s p s is the input string. p is the pattern. The pattern supports two special characters: Pattern symbol Meaning . Matches any single character * Matches zero or more of the preceding element The match must cover the entire input string, not only part of it. This is the key rule in the problem statement. For example: s = "aa" p =...

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1.15 Dynamic Programming

Dynamic programming solves problems by storing answers to subproblems and reusing them. It is useful when a naive recursive solution repeats the same work many times. Instead of recomputing a subproblem every time it appears, the algorithm computes it once and records the result. The method depends on two properties: Optimal substructure: The answer to a larger problem can be built from answers to smaller problems. Overlapping subproblems: The same...

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LeetCode 3891 - Minimum Increase to Maximize Special Indices

LeetCode 3753 - Total Waviness of Numbers in Range II

LeetCode 3575 - Maximum Good Subtree Score

LeetCode 3473 - Sum of K Subarrays With Length at Least M

LeetCode 3410 - Maximize Subarray Sum After Removing All Occurrences of One Element

LeetCode 3915 - Maximum Sum of Alternating Subsequence With Distance at Least K

LeetCode 3906 - Count Good Integers on a Grid Path

LeetCode 3892 - Minimum Operations to Achieve At Least K Peaks

LeetCode 3797 - Count Routes to Climb a Rectangular Grid

LeetCode 3747 - Count Distinct Integers After Removing Zeros

LeetCode 3670 - Maximum Product of Two Integers With No Common Bits

LeetCode 3628 - Maximum Number of Subsequences After One Inserting

LeetCode 3603 - Minimum Cost Path with Alternating Directions II

LeetCode 3562 - Maximum Profit from Trading Stocks with Discounts

LeetCode 3539 - Find Sum of Array Product of Magical Sequences

LeetCode 3466 - Maximum Coin Collection

LeetCode 3434 - Maximum Frequency After Subarray Operation

LeetCode 1787 - Make the XOR of All Segments Equal to Zero

13.21 Dynamic Programming on Graphs

13.8 Longest Common Subsequence

13.11 Interval Dynamic Programming

13.24 Testing Dynamic Programming Algorithms

13.16 Optimization Dynamic Programming

13.19 Knuth Optimization

13.22 State Compression and Memory Optimization

13.25 Case Studies

13.18 Divide-and-Conquer Dynamic Programming

13.2 Recurrence Relations

13.20 Dynamic Programming Design Patterns and Problem-Solving Framework

13.3 Memoization

13.23 Correctness Proofs for Dynamic Programming

13.7 Knapsack

Chapter 13. Dynamic Programming

13.15 Counting Dynamic Programming

13.1 DP State Design

13.12 Tree Dynamic Programming

13.10 Edit Distance

13.13 Bitmask Dynamic Programming

13.6 Two-Dimensional Dynamic Programming

13.4 Tabulation

13.14 Probability Dynamic Programming

13.9 Longest Increasing Subsequence

13.17 Convex Hull Trick

13.5 One-Dimensional Dynamic Programming

LeetCode 3004 - Maximum Subtree of the Same Color

LeetCode 3660 - Jump Game IX

LeetCode 3738 - Longest Non-Decreasing Subarray After Replacing at Most One Element

LeetCode 3621 - Number of Integers With Popcount-Depth Equal to K I

LeetCode 3615 - Longest Palindromic Path in Graph

LeetCode 3610 - Minimum Number of Primes to Sum to Target

LeetCode 3791 - Number of Balanced Integers in a Range

LeetCode 3882 - Minimum XOR Path in a Grid

LeetCode 3883 - Count Non Decreasing Arrays With Given Digit Sums

LeetCode 3877 - Minimum Removals to Achieve Target XOR

LeetCode 3869 - Count Fancy Numbers in a Range

LeetCode 3772 - Maximum Subgraph Score in a Tree

LeetCode 3857 - Minimum Cost to Split into Ones

LeetCode 3850 - Count Sequences to K

LeetCode 3757 - Number of Effective Subsequences

LeetCode 3844 - Longest Almost-Palindromic Substring

LeetCode 3840 - House Robber V

LeetCode 3836 - Maximum Score Using Exactly K Pairs

LeetCode 3830 - Longest Alternating Subarray After Removing At Most One Element

LeetCode 3826 - Minimum Partition Score

LeetCode 3725 - Count Ways to Choose Coprime Integers from Rows

LeetCode 3717 - Minimum Operations to Make the Array Beautiful

LeetCode 3811 - Number of Alternating XOR Partitions

LeetCode 3704 - Count No-Zero Pairs That Sum to N

LeetCode 3700 - Number of ZigZag Arrays II

LeetCode 3699 - Number of ZigZag Arrays I

LeetCode 3801 - Minimum Cost to Merge Sorted Lists

LeetCode 3685 - Subsequence Sum After Capping Elements

LeetCode 3742 - Maximum Path Score in a Grid

LeetCode 3661 - Maximum Walls Destroyed by Robots

LeetCode 3654 - Minimum Sum After Divisible Sum Deletions

LeetCode 3593 - Minimum Increments to Equalize Leaf Paths

LeetCode 3557 - Find Maximum Number of Non Intersecting Substrings

LeetCode 3534 - Path Existence Queries in a Graph II

LeetCode 3519 - Count Numbers with Non-Decreasing Digits