2025-11-09
2169. Count Operations to Obtain Zero

Topic: Math, Simulation
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
You are given two non-negative integers num1 and num2.

In one operation, if num1 >= num2, you must subtract num2 from num1, otherwise subtract num1 from num2.

• For example, if num1 = 5 and num2 = 4, subtract num2 from num1, thus obtaining num1 = 1 and num2 = 4. However, if num1 = 4 and num2 = 5, after one operation, num1 = 4 and num2 = 1.

Return the number of operations required to make either num1 = 0 or num2 = 0.

Example 1:

Input: num1 = 2, num2 = 3
Output: 3
Explanation: 
- Operation 1: num1 = 2, num2 = 3. Since num1 < num2, we subtract num1 from num2 and get num1 = 2, num2 = 3 - 2 = 1.
- Operation 2: num1 = 2, num2 = 1. Since num1 > num2, we subtract num2 from num1.
- Operation 3: num1 = 1, num2 = 1. Since num1 == num2, we subtract num2 from num1.
Now num1 = 0 and num2 = 1. Since num1 == 0, we do not need to perform any further operations.
So the total number of operations required is 3.

Example 2:

Input: num1 = 10, num2 = 10
Output: 1
Explanation: 
- Operation 1: num1 = 10, num2 = 10. Since num1 == num2, we subtract num2 from num1 and get num1 = 10 - 10 = 0.
Now num1 = 0 and num2 = 10. Since num1 == 0, we are done.
So the total number of operations required is 1.

Constraints:

• 0 <= num1, num2 <= 10^5

2025-11-10
3542. Minimum Operations to Convert All Elements to Zero

Topic: Array, Hash Table, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given an array nums of size n, consisting of non-negative integers. Your task is to apply some (possibly zero) operations on the array so that all elements become 0.

In one operation, you can select a subarray [i, j] (where 0 <= i <= j < n) and set all occurrences of the minimum non-negative integer in that subarray to 0.

Return the minimum number of operations required to make all elements in the array 0.

Example 1:

Input: nums = 0,2

Output: 1

Explanation:

• Select the subarray [1,1] (which is [2]), where the minimum non-negative integer is 2. Setting all occurrences of 2 to 0 results in [0,0].
• Thus, the minimum number of operations required is 1.

Example 2:

Input: nums = 3,1,2,1

Output: 3

Explanation:

• Select subarray [1,3] (which is [1,2,1]), where the minimum non-negative integer is 1. Setting all occurrences of 1 to 0 results in [3,0,2,0].
• Select subarray [2,2] (which is [2]), where the minimum non-negative integer is 2. Setting all occurrences of 2 to 0 results in [3,0,0,0].
• Select subarray [0,0] (which is [3]), where the minimum non-negative integer is 3. Setting all occurrences of 3 to 0 results in [0,0,0,0].
• Thus, the minimum number of operations required is 3.

Example 3:

Input: nums = 1,2,1,2,1,2

Output: 4

Explanation:

• Select subarray [0,5] (which is [1,2,1,2,1,2]), where the minimum non-negative integer is 1. Setting all occurrences of 1 to 0 results in [0,2,0,2,0,2].
• Select subarray [1,1] (which is [2]), where the minimum non-negative integer is 2. Setting all occurrences of 2 to 0 results in [0,0,0,2,0,2].
• Select subarray [3,3] (which is [2]), where the minimum non-negative integer is 2. Setting all occurrences of 2 to 0 results in [0,0,0,0,0,2].
• Select subarray [5,5] (which is [2]), where the minimum non-negative integer is 2. Setting all occurrences of 2 to 0 results in [0,0,0,0,0,0].
• Thus, the minimum number of operations required is 4.

Constraints:

• 1 <= n == nums.length <= 10^5
• 0 <= nums[i] <= 10^5

2025-11-11
474. Ones and Zeroes

Topic: Array, String, Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given an array of binary strings strs and two integers m and n.

Return the size of the largest subset of strs such that there are at most m 0's and n 1's in the subset.

A set x is a subset of a set y if all elements of x are also elements of y.

Example 1:

Input: strs = ["10","0001","111001","1","0"], m = 5, n = 3
Output: 4
Explanation: The largest subset with at most 5 0's and 3 1's is {"10", "0001", "1", "0"}, so the answer is 4.
Other valid but smaller subsets include {"0001", "1"} and {"10", "1", "0"}.
{"111001"} is an invalid subset because it contains 4 1's, greater than the maximum of 3.

Example 2:

Input: strs = ["10","0","1"], m = 1, n = 1
Output: 2
Explanation: The largest subset is {"0", "1"}, so the answer is 2.

Constraints:

• 1 <= strs.length <= 600
• 1 <= strs[i].length <= 100
• strs[i] consists only of digits '0' and '1'.
• 1 <= m, n <= 100

2025-11-12
2654. Minimum Number of Operations to Make All Array Elements Equal to 1

Topic: Array, Math, Number Theory
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given a 0-indexed array nums consisiting of positive integers. You can do the following operation on the array any number of times:

• Select an index i such that 0 <= i < n - 1 and replace either of nums[i] or nums[i+1] with their gcd value.

Return the minimum number of operations to make all elements of nums equal to 1. If it is impossible, return -1.

The gcd of two integers is the greatest common divisor of the two integers.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [2,6,3,4]
Output: 4
Explanation: We can do the following operations:
- Choose index i = 2 and replace nums[2] with gcd(3,4) = 1. Now we have nums = [2,6,1,4].
- Choose index i = 1 and replace nums[1] with gcd(6,1) = 1. Now we have nums = [2,1,1,4].
- Choose index i = 0 and replace nums[0] with gcd(2,1) = 1. Now we have nums = [1,1,1,4].
- Choose index i = 2 and replace nums[3] with gcd(1,4) = 1. Now we have nums = [1,1,1,1].

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,10,6,14]
Output: -1
Explanation: It can be shown that it is impossible to make all the elements equal to 1.

Constraints:

• 2 <= nums.length <= 50
• 1 <= nums[i] <= 10^6

2025-11-13
3228. Maximum Number of Operations to Move Ones to the End

Topic: String, Greedy, Counting
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given a binary string s.

You can perform the following operation on the string any number of times:

• Choose any index i from the string where i + 1 < s.length such that s[i] == '1' and s[i + 1] == '0'.
• Move the character s[i] to the right until it reaches the end of the string or another '1'. For example, for s = "010010", if we choose i = 1, the resulting string will be s = "000110".

Return the maximum number of operations that you can perform.

Example 1:

Input: s = "1001101"

Output: 4

Explanation:

We can perform the following operations:

• Choose index i = 0. The resulting string is s = "0011101".
• Choose index i = 4. The resulting string is s = "0011011".
• Choose index i = 3. The resulting string is s = "0010111".
• Choose index i = 2. The resulting string is s = "0001111".

Example 2:

Input: s = "00111"

Output: 0

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 10^5
• s[i] is either '0' or '1'.

2025-11-14
2536. Increment Submatrices by One

Topic: Array, Matrix, Prefix Sum
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given a positive integer n, indicating that we initially have an n x n 0-indexed integer matrix mat filled with zeroes.

You are also given a 2D integer array query. For each query[i] = [row1_i, col1_i, row2_i, col2_i], you should do the following operation:

• Add 1 to every element in the submatrix with the top left corner (row1_i, col1_i) and the bottom right corner (row2_i, col2_i). That is, add 1 to mat[x][y] for all row1_i <= x <= row2_i and col1_i <= y <= col2_i.

Return the matrix mat after performing every query.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2022/11/24/p2example11.png

Input: n = 3, queries = [[1,1,2,2],[0,0,1,1]]
Output: [[1,1,0],[1,2,1],[0,1,1]]
Explanation: The diagram above shows the initial matrix, the matrix after the first query, and the matrix after the second query.
- In the first query, we add 1 to every element in the submatrix with the top left corner (1, 1) and bottom right corner (2, 2).
- In the second query, we add 1 to every element in the submatrix with the top left corner (0, 0) and bottom right corner (1, 1).

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2022/11/24/p2example22.png

Input: n = 2, queries = [[0,0,1,1]]
Output: [[1,1],[1,1]]
Explanation: The diagram above shows the initial matrix and the matrix after the first query.
- In the first query we add 1 to every element in the matrix.

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 500
• 1 <= queries.length <= 10^4
• 0 <= row1_i <= row2_i < n
• 0 <= col1_i <= col2_i < n

2025-11-15
3234. Count the Number of Substrings With Dominant Ones

Topic: String, Sliding Window, Enumeration
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given a binary string s.

Return the number of substrings with dominant ones.

A string has dominant ones if the number of ones in the string is greater than or equal to the square of the number of zeros in the string.

Example 1:

Input: s = "00011"

Output: 5

Explanation:

The substrings with dominant ones are shown in the table below.

ijsi..jNumber of ZerosNumber of Ones33101441012301113411022401112
Example 2:

Input: s = "101101"

Output: 16

Explanation:

The substrings with non-dominant ones are shown in the table below.

Since there are 21 substrings total and 5 of them have non-dominant ones, it follows that there are 16 substrings with dominant ones.

ijsi..jNumber of ZerosNumber of Ones110104401014011022041011023150110123

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 4 * 10^4
• s consists only of characters '0' and '1'.

2025-11-16
1513. Number of Substrings With Only 1s

Topic: Math, String
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given a binary string s, return the number of substrings with all characters 1's. Since the answer may be too large, return it modulo 10^9 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: s = "0110111"
Output: 9
Explanation: There are 9 substring in total with only 1's characters.
"1" -> 5 times.
"11" -> 3 times.
"111" -> 1 time.

Example 2:

Input: s = "101"
Output: 2
Explanation: Substring "1" is shown 2 times in s.

Example 3:

Input: s = "111111"
Output: 21
Explanation: Each substring contains only 1's characters.

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 10^5
• s[i] is either '0' or '1'.

2025-11-17
1437. Check If All 1's Are at Least Length K Places Away

Topic: Array
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
Given an binary array nums and an integer k, return true if all 1's are at least k places away from each other, otherwise return false.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/04/15/sample_1_1791.png

Input: nums = [1,0,0,0,1,0,0,1], k = 2
Output: true
Explanation: Each of the 1s are at least 2 places away from each other.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/04/15/sample_2_1791.png

Input: nums = [1,0,0,1,0,1], k = 2
Output: false
Explanation: The second 1 and third 1 are only one apart from each other.

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
• 0 <= k <= nums.length
• nums[i] is 0 or 1

2025-11-18
717. 1-bit and 2-bit Characters

Topic: Array
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
We have two special characters:

• The first character can be represented by one bit 0.
• The second character can be represented by two bits (10 or 11).

Given a binary array bits that ends with 0, return true if the last character must be a one-bit character.

Example 1:

Input: bits = [1,0,0]
Output: true
Explanation: The only way to decode it is two-bit character and one-bit character.
So the last character is one-bit character.

Example 2:

Input: bits = [1,1,1,0]
Output: false
Explanation: The only way to decode it is two-bit character and two-bit character.
So the last character is not one-bit character.

Constraints:

• 1 <= bits.length <= 1000
• bits[i] is either 0 or 1.

2025-11-19
2154. Keep Multiplying Found Values by Two

Topic: Array, Hash Table, Sorting, Simulation
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
You are given an array of integers nums. You are also given an integer original which is the first number that needs to be searched for in nums.

You then do the following steps:

1. If original is found in nums, multiply it by two (i.e., set original = 2 * original).
2. Otherwise, stop the process.
3. Repeat this process with the new number as long as you keep finding the number.

Return the final value of original.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [5,3,6,1,12], original = 3
Output: 24
Explanation: 
- 3 is found in nums. 3 is multiplied by 2 to obtain 6.
- 6 is found in nums. 6 is multiplied by 2 to obtain 12.
- 12 is found in nums. 12 is multiplied by 2 to obtain 24.
- 24 is not found in nums. Thus, 24 is returned.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,7,9], original = 4
Output: 4
Explanation:
- 4 is not found in nums. Thus, 4 is returned.

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 1000
• 1 <= nums[i], original <= 1000

2025-11-20
757. Set Intersection Size At Least Two

Topic: Array, Greedy, Sorting
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
You are given a 2D integer array intervals where intervals[i] = [start_i, end_i] represents all the integers from start_i to end_i inclusively.

A containing set is an array nums where each interval from intervals has at least two integers in nums.

• For example, if intervals = [[1,3], [3,7], [8,9]], then [1,2,4,7,8,9] and [2,3,4,8,9] are containing sets.

Return the minimum possible size of a containing set.

Example 1:

Input: intervals = [[1,3],[3,7],[8,9]]
Output: 5
Explanation: let nums = [2, 3, 4, 8, 9].
It can be shown that there cannot be any containing array of size 4.

Example 2:

Input: intervals = [[1,3],[1,4],[2,5],[3,5]]
Output: 3
Explanation: let nums = [2, 3, 4].
It can be shown that there cannot be any containing array of size 2.

Example 3:

Input: intervals = [[1,2],[2,3],[2,4],[4,5]]
Output: 5
Explanation: let nums = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
It can be shown that there cannot be any containing array of size 4.

Constraints:

• 1 <= intervals.length <= 3000
• intervals[i].length == 2
• 0 <= start_i < end_i <= 10^8