2024-05-04
881. Boats to Save People

Topic: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given an array people where people[i] is the weight of the i^th person, and an infinite number of boats where each boat can carry a maximum weight of limit. Each boat carries at most two people at the same time, provided the sum of the weight of those people is at most limit.

Return the minimum number of boats to carry every given person.

Example 1:

Input: people = [1,2], limit = 3
Output: 1
Explanation: 1 boat (1, 2)

Example 2:

Input: people = [3,2,2,1], limit = 3
Output: 3
Explanation: 3 boats (1, 2), (2) and (3)

Example 3:

Input: people = [3,5,3,4], limit = 5
Output: 4
Explanation: 4 boats (3), (3), (4), (5)

Constraints:

• 1 <= people.length <= 5 * 10^4
• 1 <= people[i] <= limit <= 3 * 10^4

2024-05-05
237. Delete Node in a Linked List

Topic: Linked List
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
There is a singly-linked list head and we want to delete a node node in it.

You are given the node to be deleted node. You will not be given access to the first node of head.

All the values of the linked list are unique, and it is guaranteed that the given node node is not the last node in the linked list.

Delete the given node. Note that by deleting the node, we do not mean removing it from memory. We mean:

• The value of the given node should not exist in the linked list.
• The number of nodes in the linked list should decrease by one.
• All the values before node should be in the same order.
• All the values after node should be in the same order.

Custom testing:

• For the input, you should provide the entire linked list head and the node to be given node. node should not be the last node of the list and should be an actual node in the list.
• We will build the linked list and pass the node to your function.
• The output will be the entire list after calling your function.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/09/01/node1.jpg

Input: head = [4,5,1,9], node = 5
Output: [4,1,9]
Explanation: You are given the second node with value 5, the linked list should become 4 -> 1 -> 9 after calling your function.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/09/01/node2.jpg

Input: head = [4,5,1,9], node = 1
Output: [4,5,9]
Explanation: You are given the third node with value 1, the linked list should become 4 -> 5 -> 9 after calling your function.

Constraints:

• The number of the nodes in the given list is in the range [2, 1000].
• -1000 <= Node.val <= 1000
• The value of each node in the list is unique.
• The node to be deleted is in the list and is not a tail node.

2024-05-06
2487. Remove Nodes From Linked List

Topic: Linked List, Stack, Recursion, Monotonic Stack
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given the head of a linked list.

Remove every node which has a node with a greater value anywhere to the right side of it.

Return the head of the modified linked list.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2022/10/02/drawio.png

Input: head = [5,2,13,3,8]
Output: [13,8]
Explanation: The nodes that should be removed are 5, 2 and 3.
- Node 13 is to the right of node 5.
- Node 13 is to the right of node 2.
- Node 8 is to the right of node 3.

Example 2:

Input: head = [1,1,1,1]
Output: [1,1,1,1]
Explanation: Every node has value 1, so no nodes are removed.

Constraints:

• The number of the nodes in the given list is in the range [1, 10^5].
• 1 <= Node.val <= 10^5

2024-05-07
2816. Double a Number Represented as a Linked List

Topic: Linked List, Math, Stack
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given the head of a non-empty linked list representing a non-negative integer without leading zeroes.

Return the head of the linked list after doubling it.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2023/05/28/example.png

Input: head = [1,8,9]
Output: [3,7,8]
Explanation: The figure above corresponds to the given linked list which represents the number 189. Hence, the returned linked list represents the number 189 * 2 = 378.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2023/05/28/example2.png

Input: head = [9,9,9]
Output: [1,9,9,8]
Explanation: The figure above corresponds to the given linked list which represents the number 999. Hence, the returned linked list reprersents the number 999 * 2 = 1998.

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the list is in the range [1, 10^4]
• 0 <= Node.val <= 9
• The input is generated such that the list represents a number that does not have leading zeros, except the number 0 itself.

2024-05-08
506. Relative Ranks

Topic: Array, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue)
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
You are given an integer array score of size n, where score[i] is the score of the i^th athlete in a competition. All the scores are guaranteed to be unique.

The athletes are placed based on their scores, where the 1^st place athlete has the highest score, the 2^nd place athlete has the 2^nd highest score, and so on. The placement of each athlete determines their rank:

• The 1^st place athlete's rank is "Gold Medal".
• The 2^nd place athlete's rank is "Silver Medal".
• The 3^rd place athlete's rank is "Bronze Medal".
• For the 4^th place to the n^th place athlete, their rank is their placement number (i.e., the x^th place athlete's rank is "x").

Return an array answer of size n where answer[i] is the rank of the i^th athlete.

Example 1:

Input: score = [5,4,3,2,1]
Output: ["Gold Medal","Silver Medal","Bronze Medal","4","5"]
Explanation: The placements are [1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th].

Example 2:

Input: score = [10,3,8,9,4]
Output: ["Gold Medal","5","Bronze Medal","Silver Medal","4"]
Explanation: The placements are [1^st, 5^th, 3^rd, 2^nd, 4^th].

Constraints:

• n == score.length
• 1 <= n <= 10^4
• 0 <= score[i] <= 10^6
• All the values in score are unique.

2024-05-09
3075. Maximize Happiness of Selected Children

Topic: Array, Greedy, Sorting
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given an array happiness of length n, and a positive integer k.

There are n children standing in a queue, where the i^th child has happiness value happiness[i]. You want to select k children from these n children in k turns.

In each turn, when you select a child, the happiness value of all the children that have not been selected till now decreases by 1. Note that the happiness value cannot become negative and gets decremented only if it is positive.

Return the maximum sum of the happiness values of the selected children you can achieve by selecting k children.

Example 1:

Input: happiness = [1,2,3], k = 2
Output: 4
Explanation: We can pick 2 children in the following way:
- Pick the child with the happiness value == 3. The happiness value of the remaining children becomes [0,1].
- Pick the child with the happiness value == 1. The happiness value of the remaining child becomes [0]. Note that the happiness value cannot become less than 0.
The sum of the happiness values of the selected children is 3 + 1 = 4.

Example 2:

Input: happiness = [1,1,1,1], k = 2
Output: 1
Explanation: We can pick 2 children in the following way:
- Pick any child with the happiness value == 1. The happiness value of the remaining children becomes [0,0,0].
- Pick the child with the happiness value == 0. The happiness value of the remaining child becomes [0,0].
The sum of the happiness values of the selected children is 1 + 0 = 1.

Example 3:

Input: happiness = [2,3,4,5], k = 1
Output: 5
Explanation: We can pick 1 child in the following way:
- Pick the child with the happiness value == 5. The happiness value of the remaining children becomes [1,2,3].
The sum of the happiness values of the selected children is 5.

Constraints:

• 1 <= n == happiness.length <= 2 * 10^5
• 1 <= happiness[i] <= 10^8
• 1 <= k <= n

2024-05-10
786. K-th Smallest Prime Fraction

Topic: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue)
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given a sorted integer array arr containing 1 and prime numbers, where all the integers of arr are unique. You are also given an integer k.

For every i and j where 0 <= i < j < arr.length, we consider the fraction arr[i] / arr[j].

Return the k^th smallest fraction considered. Return your answer as an array of integers of size 2, where answer[0] == arr[i] and answer[1] == arr[j].

Example 1:

Input: arr = [1,2,3,5], k = 3
Output: [2,5]
Explanation: The fractions to be considered in sorted order are:
1/5, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, and 2/3.
The third fraction is 2/5.

Example 2:

Input: arr = [1,7], k = 1
Output: [1,7]

Constraints:

• 2 <= arr.length <= 1000
• 1 <= arr[i] <= 3 * 10^4
• arr[0] == 1
• arr[i] is a prime number for i > 0.
• All the numbers of arr are unique and sorted in strictly increasing order.
• 1 <= k <= arr.length * (arr.length - 1) / 2

Follow up: Can you solve the problem with better than O(n^2) complexity?

2024-05-11
857. Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Topic: Array, Greedy, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue)
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
There are n workers. You are given two integer arrays quality and wage where quality[i] is the quality of the i^th worker and wage[i] is the minimum wage expectation for the i^th worker.

We want to hire exactly k workers to form a paid group. To hire a group of k workers, we must pay them according to the following rules:

1. Every worker in the paid group must be paid at least their minimum wage expectation.
2. In the group, each worker's pay must be directly proportional to their quality. This means if a worker’s quality is double that of another worker in the group, then they must be paid twice as much as the other worker.

Given the integer k, return the least amount of money needed to form a paid group satisfying the above conditions. Answers within 10^-5 of the actual answer will be accepted.

Example 1:

Input: quality = [10,20,5], wage = [70,50,30], k = 2
Output: 105.00000
Explanation: We pay 70 to 0^th worker and 35 to 2^nd worker.

Example 2:

Input: quality = [3,1,10,10,1], wage = [4,8,2,2,7], k = 3
Output: 30.66667
Explanation: We pay 4 to 0^th worker, 13.33333 to 2^nd and 3^rd workers separately.

Constraints:

• n == quality.length == wage.length
• 1 <= k <= n <= 10^4
• 1 <= quality[i], wage[i] <= 10^4

2024-05-12
2373. Largest Local Values in a Matrix

Topic: Array, Matrix
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
You are given an n x n integer matrix grid.

Generate an integer matrix maxLocal of size (n - 2) x (n - 2) such that:

• maxLocal[i][j] is equal to the largest value of the 3 x 3 matrix in grid centered around row i + 1 and column j + 1.

In other words, we want to find the largest value in every contiguous 3 x 3 matrix in grid.

Return the generated matrix.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2022/06/21/ex1.png

Input: grid = [[9,9,8,1],[5,6,2,6],[8,2,6,4],[6,2,2,2]]
Output: [[9,9],[8,6]]
Explanation: The diagram above shows the original matrix and the generated matrix.
Notice that each value in the generated matrix corresponds to the largest value of a contiguous 3 x 3 matrix in grid.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2022/07/02/ex2new2.png

Input: grid = [[1,1,1,1,1],[1,1,1,1,1],[1,1,2,1,1],[1,1,1,1,1],[1,1,1,1,1]]
Output: [[2,2,2],[2,2,2],[2,2,2]]
Explanation: Notice that the 2 is contained within every contiguous 3 x 3 matrix in grid.

Constraints:

• n == grid.length == grid[i].length
• 3 <= n <= 100
• 1 <= grid[i][j] <= 100

2024-05-13
861. Score After Flipping Matrix

Topic: Array, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, Matrix
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given an m x n binary matrix grid.

A move consists of choosing any row or column and toggling each value in that row or column (i.e., changing all 0's to 1's, and all 1's to 0's).

Every row of the matrix is interpreted as a binary number, and the score of the matrix is the sum of these numbers.

Return the highest possible score after making any number of moves (including zero moves).

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/07/23/lc-toogle1.jpg

Input: grid = [[0,0,1,1],[1,0,1,0],[1,1,0,0]]
Output: 39
Explanation: 0b1111 + 0b1001 + 0b1111 = 15 + 9 + 15 = 39

Example 2:

Input: grid = [[0]]
Output: 1

Constraints:

• m == grid.length
• n == grid[i].length
• 1 <= m, n <= 20
• grid[i][j] is either 0 or 1.

2024-05-14
1219. Path with Maximum Gold

Topic: Array, Backtracking, Matrix
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
In a gold mine grid of size m x n, each cell in this mine has an integer representing the amount of gold in that cell, 0 if it is empty.

Return the maximum amount of gold you can collect under the conditions:

• Every time you are located in a cell you will collect all the gold in that cell.
• From your position, you can walk one step to the left, right, up, or down.
• You can't visit the same cell more than once.
• Never visit a cell with 0 gold.
• You can start and stop collecting gold from any position in the grid that has some gold.

Example 1:

Input: grid = [[0,6,0],[5,8,7],[0,9,0]]
Output: 24
Explanation:
[[0,6,0],
 [5,8,7],
 [0,9,0]]
Path to get the maximum gold, 9 -> 8 -> 7.

Example 2:

Input: grid = [[1,0,7],[2,0,6],[3,4,5],[0,3,0],[9,0,20]]
Output: 28
Explanation:
[[1,0,7],
 [2,0,6],
 [3,4,5],
 [0,3,0],
 [9,0,20]]
Path to get the maximum gold, 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7.

Constraints:

• m == grid.length
• n == grid[i].length
• 1 <= m, n <= 15
• 0 <= grid[i][j] <= 100
• There are at most 25 cells containing gold.

2024-05-15
2812. Find the Safest Path in a Grid

Topic: Array, Binary Search, Breadth-First Search, Union Find, Matrix
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given a 0-indexed 2D matrix grid of size n x n, where (r, c) represents:

• A cell containing a thief if grid[r][c] = 1
• An empty cell if grid[r][c] = 0

You are initially positioned at cell (0, 0). In one move, you can move to any adjacent cell in the grid, including cells containing thieves.

The safeness factor of a path on the grid is defined as the minimum manhattan distance from any cell in the path to any thief in the grid.

Return the maximum safeness factor of all paths leading to cell (n - 1, n - 1).

An adjacent cell of cell (r, c), is one of the cells (r, c + 1), (r, c - 1), (r + 1, c) and (r - 1, c) if it exists.

The Manhattan distance between two cells (a, b) and (x, y) is equal to |a - x| + |b - y|, where |val| denotes the absolute value of val.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2023/07/02/example1.png

Input: grid = [[1,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,1]]
Output: 0
Explanation: All paths from (0, 0) to (n - 1, n - 1) go through the thieves in cells (0, 0) and (n - 1, n - 1).

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2023/07/02/example2.png

Input: grid = [[0,0,1],[0,0,0],[0,0,0]]
Output: 2
Explanation: The path depicted in the picture above has a safeness factor of 2 since:
- The closest cell of the path to the thief at cell (0, 2) is cell (0, 0). The distance between them is | 0 - 0 | + | 0 - 2 | = 2.
It can be shown that there are no other paths with a higher safeness factor.

Example 3:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2023/07/02/example3.png

Input: grid = [[0,0,0,1],[0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0],[1,0,0,0]]
Output: 2
Explanation: The path depicted in the picture above has a safeness factor of 2 since:
- The closest cell of the path to the thief at cell (0, 3) is cell (1, 2). The distance between them is | 0 - 1 | + | 3 - 2 | = 2.
- The closest cell of the path to the thief at cell (3, 0) is cell (3, 2). The distance between them is | 3 - 3 | + | 0 - 2 | = 2.
It can be shown that there are no other paths with a higher safeness factor.

Constraints:

• 1 <= grid.length == n <= 400
• grid[i].length == n
• grid[i][j] is either 0 or 1.
• There is at least one thief in the grid.

2024-05-16
2331. Evaluate Boolean Binary Tree

Topic: Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
You are given the root of a full binary tree with the following properties:

• Leaf nodes have either the value 0 or 1, where 0 represents False and 1 represents True.
• Non-leaf nodes have either the value 2 or 3, where 2 represents the boolean OR and 3 represents the boolean AND.

The evaluation of a node is as follows:

• If the node is a leaf node, the evaluation is the value of the node, i.e. True or False.
• Otherwise, evaluate the node's two children and apply the boolean operation of its value with the children's evaluations.

Return the boolean result of evaluating the root node.

A full binary tree is a binary tree where each node has either 0 or 2 children.

A leaf node is a node that has zero children.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2022/05/16/example1drawio1.png

Input: root = [2,1,3,null,null,0,1]
Output: true
Explanation: The above diagram illustrates the evaluation process.
The AND node evaluates to False AND True = False.
The OR node evaluates to True OR False = True.
The root node evaluates to True, so we return true.

Example 2:

Input: root = [0]
Output: false
Explanation: The root node is a leaf node and it evaluates to false, so we return false.

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 1000].
• 0 <= Node.val <= 3
• Every node has either 0 or 2 children.
• Leaf nodes have a value of 0 or 1.
• Non-leaf nodes have a value of 2 or 3.

2024-05-17
1325. Delete Leaves With a Given Value

Topic: Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given a binary tree root and an integer target, delete all the leaf nodes with value target.

Note that once you delete a leaf node with value target, if its parent node becomes a leaf node and has the value target, it should also be deleted (you need to continue doing that until you cannot).

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/01/09/sample_1_1684.png

Input: root = [1,2,3,2,null,2,4], target = 2
Output: [1,null,3,null,4]
Explanation: Leaf nodes in green with value (target = 2) are removed (Picture in left). 
After removing, new nodes become leaf nodes with value (target = 2) (Picture in center).

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/01/09/sample_2_1684.png

Input: root = [1,3,3,3,2], target = 3
Output: [1,3,null,null,2]

Example 3:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/01/15/sample_3_1684.png

Input: root = [1,2,null,2,null,2], target = 2
Output: [1]
Explanation: Leaf nodes in green with value (target = 2) are removed at each step.

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 3000].
• 1 <= Node.val, target <= 1000

2024-05-18
979. Distribute Coins in Binary Tree

Topic: Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given the root of a binary tree with n nodes where each node in the tree has node.val coins. There are n coins in total throughout the whole tree.

In one move, we may choose two adjacent nodes and move one coin from one node to another. A move may be from parent to child, or from child to parent.

Return the minimum number of moves required to make every node have exactly one coin.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2019/01/18/tree1.png

Input: root = [3,0,0]
Output: 2
Explanation: From the root of the tree, we move one coin to its left child, and one coin to its right child.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2019/01/18/tree2.png

Input: root = [0,3,0]
Output: 3
Explanation: From the left child of the root, we move two coins to the root [taking two moves]. Then, we move one coin from the root of the tree to the right child.

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is n.
• 1 <= n <= 100
• 0 <= Node.val <= n
• The sum of all Node.val is n.

2024-05-19
3068. Find the Maximum Sum of Node Values

Topic: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, Tree, Sorting
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
There exists an undirected tree with n nodes numbered 0 to n - 1. You are given a 0-indexed 2D integer array edges of length n - 1, where edges[i] = [u_i, v_i] indicates that there is an edge between nodes u_i and v_i in the tree. You are also given a positive integer k, and a 0-indexed array of non-negative integers nums of length n, where nums[i] represents the value of the node numbered i.

Alice wants the sum of values of tree nodes to be maximum, for which Alice can perform the following operation any number of times (including zero) on the tree:

• Choose any edge [u, v] connecting the nodes u and v, and update their values as follows:
• nums[u] = nums[u] XOR k
• nums[v] = nums[v] XOR k

Return the maximum possible sum of the values Alice can achieve by performing the operation any number of times.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2023/11/09/screenshot-2023-11-10-012513.png

Input: nums = [1,2,1], k = 3, edges = [[0,1],[0,2]]
Output: 6
Explanation: Alice can achieve the maximum sum of 6 using a single operation:
- Choose the edge [0,2]. nums[0] and nums[2] become: 1 XOR 3 = 2, and the array nums becomes: [1,2,1] -> [2,2,2].
The total sum of values is 2 + 2 + 2 = 6.
It can be shown that 6 is the maximum achievable sum of values.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2024/01/09/screenshot-2024-01-09-220017.png

Input: nums = [2,3], k = 7, edges = [[0,1]]
Output: 9
Explanation: Alice can achieve the maximum sum of 9 using a single operation:
- Choose the edge [0,1]. nums[0] becomes: 2 XOR 7 = 5 and nums[1] become: 3 XOR 7 = 4, and the array nums becomes: [2,3] -> [5,4].
The total sum of values is 5 + 4 = 9.
It can be shown that 9 is the maximum achievable sum of values.

Example 3:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2023/11/09/screenshot-2023-11-10-012641.png

Input: nums = [7,7,7,7,7,7], k = 3, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[0,3],[0,4],[0,5]]
Output: 42
Explanation: The maximum achievable sum is 42 which can be achieved by Alice performing no operations.

Constraints:

• 2 <= n == nums.length <= 2 * 10^4
• 1 <= k <= 10^9
• 0 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
• edges.length == n - 1
• edges[i].length == 2
• 0 <= edges[i][0], edges[i][1] <= n - 1
• The input is generated such that edges represent a valid tree.

2024-05-20
1863. Sum of All Subset XOR Totals

Topic: Array, Math, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Combinatorics, Enumeration
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
The XOR total of an array is defined as the bitwise XOR of all its elements, or 0 if the array is empty.

• For example, the XOR total of the array [2,5,6] is 2 XOR 5 XOR 6 = 1.

Given an array nums, return the sum of all XOR totals for every subset of nums. 

Note: Subsets with the same elements should be counted multiple times.

An array a is a subset of an array b if a can be obtained from b by deleting some (possibly zero) elements of b.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,3]
Output: 6
Explanation: The 4 subsets of [1,3] are:
- The empty subset has an XOR total of 0.
- [1] has an XOR total of 1.
- [3] has an XOR total of 3.
- [1,3] has an XOR total of 1 XOR 3 = 2.
0 + 1 + 3 + 2 = 6

Example 2:

Input: nums = [5,1,6]
Output: 28
Explanation: The 8 subsets of [5,1,6] are:
- The empty subset has an XOR total of 0.
- [5] has an XOR total of 5.
- [1] has an XOR total of 1.
- [6] has an XOR total of 6.
- [5,1] has an XOR total of 5 XOR 1 = 4.
- [5,6] has an XOR total of 5 XOR 6 = 3.
- [1,6] has an XOR total of 1 XOR 6 = 7.
- [5,1,6] has an XOR total of 5 XOR 1 XOR 6 = 2.
0 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 4 + 3 + 7 + 2 = 28

Example 3:

Input: nums = [3,4,5,6,7,8]
Output: 480
Explanation: The sum of all XOR totals for every subset is 480.

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 12
• 1 <= nums[i] <= 20

2024-05-21
78. Subsets

Topic: Array, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an integer array nums of unique elements, return all possible subsets (the power set).

The solution set must not contain duplicate subsets. Return the solution in any order.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3]
Output: [[],[1],[2],[1,2],[3],[1,3],[2,3],[1,2,3]]

Example 2:

Input: nums = [0]
Output: [[],[0]]

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 10
• -10 <= nums[i] <= 10
• All the numbers of nums are unique.

2024-05-22
131. Palindrome Partitioning

Topic: String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given a string s, partition s such that every substring of the partition is a palindrome. Return all possible palindrome partitioning of s.

Example 1:

Input: s = "aab"
Output: [["a","a","b"],["aa","b"]]

Example 2:

Input: s = "a"
Output: [["a"]]

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 16
• s contains only lowercase English letters.

2024-05-23
2597. The Number of Beautiful Subsets

Topic: Array, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Sorting
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given an array nums of positive integers and a positive integer k.

A subset of nums is beautiful if it does not contain two integers with an absolute difference equal to k.

Return the number of non-empty beautiful subsets of the array nums.

A subset of nums is an array that can be obtained by deleting some (possibly none) elements from nums. Two subsets are different if and only if the chosen indices to delete are different.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [2,4,6], k = 2
Output: 4
Explanation: The beautiful subsets of the array nums are: [2], [4], [6], [2, 6].
It can be proved that there are only 4 beautiful subsets in the array [2,4,6].

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1], k = 1
Output: 1
Explanation: The beautiful subset of the array nums is [1].
It can be proved that there is only 1 beautiful subset in the array [1].

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 20
• 1 <= nums[i], k <= 1000

2024-05-24
1255. Maximum Score Words Formed by Letters

Topic: Array, String, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Bit Manipulation, Bitmask
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
Given a list of words, list of  single letters (might be repeating) and score of every character.

Return the maximum score of any valid set of words formed by using the given letters (words[i] cannot be used two or more times).

It is not necessary to use all characters in letters and each letter can only be used once. Score of letters 'a', 'b', 'c', ... ,'z' is given by score[0], score[1], ... , score[25] respectively.

Example 1:

Input: words = ["dog","cat","dad","good"], letters = ["a","a","c","d","d","d","g","o","o"], score = [1,0,9,5,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Output: 23
Explanation:
Score  a=1, c=9, d=5, g=3, o=2
Given letters, we can form the words "dad" (5+1+5) and "good" (3+2+2+5) with a score of 23.
Words "dad" and "dog" only get a score of 21.

Example 2:

Input: words = ["xxxz","ax","bx","cx"], letters = ["z","a","b","c","x","x","x"], score = [4,4,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,0,10]
Output: 27
Explanation:
Score  a=4, b=4, c=4, x=5, z=10
Given letters, we can form the words "ax" (4+5), "bx" (4+5) and "cx" (4+5) with a score of 27.
Word "xxxz" only get a score of 25.

Example 3:

Input: words = ["leetcode"], letters = ["l","e","t","c","o","d"], score = [0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Output: 0
Explanation:
Letter "e" can only be used once.

Constraints:

• 1 <= words.length <= 14
• 1 <= words[i].length <= 15
• 1 <= letters.length <= 100
• letters[i].length == 1
• score.length == 26
• 0 <= score[i] <= 10
• words[i], letters[i] contains only lower case English letters.