2022-12-05
876. Middle of the Linked List

Topic: Linked List, Two Pointers
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
Given the head of a singly linked list, return the middle node of the linked list.

If there are two middle nodes, return the second middle node.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/07/23/lc-midlist1.jpg

Input: head = [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: [3,4,5]
Explanation: The middle node of the list is node 3.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/07/23/lc-midlist2.jpg

Input: head = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Output: [4,5,6]
Explanation: Since the list has two middle nodes with values 3 and 4, we return the second one.

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the list is in the range [1, 100].
• 1 <= Node.val <= 100

2022-12-06
328. Odd Even Linked List

Topic: Linked List
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given the head of a singly linked list, group all the nodes with odd indices together followed by the nodes with even indices, and return the reordered list.

The first node is considered odd, and the second node is even, and so on.

Note that the relative order inside both the even and odd groups should remain as it was in the input.

You must solve the problem in O(1) extra space complexity and O(n) time complexity.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/03/10/oddeven-linked-list.jpg

Input: head = [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: [1,3,5,2,4]

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/03/10/oddeven2-linked-list.jpg

Input: head = [2,1,3,5,6,4,7]
Output: [2,3,6,7,1,5,4]

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the linked list is in the range [0, 10^4].
• -10^6 <= Node.val <= 10^6

2022-12-07
938. Range Sum of BST

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

Problem:
Given the root node of a binary search tree and two integers low and high, return the sum of values of all nodes with a value in the inclusive range [low, high].

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/11/05/bst1.jpg

Input: root = [10,5,15,3,7,null,18], low = 7, high = 15
Output: 32
Explanation: Nodes 7, 10, and 15 are in the range [7, 15]. 7 + 10 + 15 = 32.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/11/05/bst2.jpg

Input: root = [10,5,15,3,7,13,18,1,null,6], low = 6, high = 10
Output: 23
Explanation: Nodes 6, 7, and 10 are in the range [6, 10]. 6 + 7 + 10 = 23.

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 2 * 10^4].
• 1 <= Node.val <= 10^5
• 1 <= low <= high <= 10^5
• All Node.val are unique.

2022-12-08
872. Leaf-Similar Trees

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

Problem:
Consider all the leaves of a binary tree, from left to right order, the values of those leaves form a leaf value sequence.

Image: https://s3-lc-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/07/16/tree.png

For example, in the given tree above, the leaf value sequence is (6, 7, 4, 9, 8).

Two binary trees are considered leaf-similar if their leaf value sequence is the same.

Return true if and only if the two given trees with head nodes root1 and root2 are leaf-similar.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/09/03/leaf-similar-1.jpg

Input: root1 = [3,5,1,6,2,9,8,null,null,7,4], root2 = [3,5,1,6,7,4,2,null,null,null,null,null,null,9,8]
Output: true

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/09/03/leaf-similar-2.jpg

Input: root1 = [1,2,3], root2 = [1,3,2]
Output: false

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in each tree will be in the range [1, 200].
• Both of the given trees will have values in the range [0, 200].

2022-12-09
1026. Maximum Difference Between Node and Ancestor

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

Problem:
Given the root of a binary tree, find the maximum value v for which there exist different nodes a and b where v = |a.val - b.val| and a is an ancestor of b.

A node a is an ancestor of b if either: any child of a is equal to b or any child of a is an ancestor of b.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/11/09/tmp-tree.jpg

Input: root = [8,3,10,1,6,null,14,null,null,4,7,13]
Output: 7
Explanation: We have various ancestor-node differences, some of which are given below :
|8 - 3| = 5
|3 - 7| = 4
|8 - 1| = 7
|10 - 13| = 3
Among all possible differences, the maximum value of 7 is obtained by |8 - 1| = 7.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/11/09/tmp-tree-1.jpg

Input: root = [1,null,2,null,0,3]
Output: 3

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [2, 5000].
• 0 <= Node.val <= 10^5

2022-12-10
1339. Maximum Product of Splitted Binary Tree

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

Problem:
Given the root of a binary tree, split the binary tree into two subtrees by removing one edge such that the product of the sums of the subtrees is maximized.

Return the maximum product of the sums of the two subtrees. Since the answer may be too large, return it modulo 10^9 + 7.

Note that you need to maximize the answer before taking the mod and not after taking it.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/01/21/sample_1_1699.png

Input: root = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Output: 110
Explanation: Remove the red edge and get 2 binary trees with sum 11 and 10. Their product is 110 (11*10)

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/01/21/sample_2_1699.png

Input: root = [1,null,2,3,4,null,null,5,6]
Output: 90
Explanation: Remove the red edge and get 2 binary trees with sum 15 and 6.Their product is 90 (15*6)

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [2, 5 * 10^4].
• 1 <= Node.val <= 10^4

2022-12-11
124. Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum

Topic: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
A path in a binary tree is a sequence of nodes where each pair of adjacent nodes in the sequence has an edge connecting them. A node can only appear in the sequence at most once. Note that the path does not need to pass through the root.

The path sum of a path is the sum of the node's values in the path.

Given the root of a binary tree, return the maximum path sum of any non-empty path.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/10/13/exx1.jpg

Input: root = [1,2,3]
Output: 6
Explanation: The optimal path is 2 -> 1 -> 3 with a path sum of 2 + 1 + 3 = 6.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/10/13/exx2.jpg

Input: root = [-10,9,20,null,null,15,7]
Output: 42
Explanation: The optimal path is 15 -> 20 -> 7 with a path sum of 15 + 20 + 7 = 42.

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [1, 3 * 10^4].
• -1000 <= Node.val <= 1000

2022-12-12
70. Climbing Stairs

Topic: Math, Dynamic Programming, Memoization
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
You are climbing a staircase. It takes n steps to reach the top.

Each time you can either climb 1 or 2 steps. In how many distinct ways can you climb to the top?

Example 1:

Input: n = 2
Output: 2
Explanation: There are two ways to climb to the top.
1. 1 step + 1 step
2. 2 steps

Example 2:

Input: n = 3
Output: 3
Explanation: There are three ways to climb to the top.
1. 1 step + 1 step + 1 step
2. 1 step + 2 steps
3. 2 steps + 1 step

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 45

2022-12-13
931. Minimum Falling Path Sum

Topic: Array, Dynamic Programming, Matrix
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an n x n array of integers matrix, return the minimum sum of any falling path through matrix.

A falling path starts at any element in the first row and chooses the element in the next row that is either directly below or diagonally left/right. Specifically, the next element from position (row, col) will be (row + 1, col - 1), (row + 1, col), or (row + 1, col + 1).

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/11/03/failing1-grid.jpg

Input: matrix = [[2,1,3],[6,5,4],[7,8,9]]
Output: 13
Explanation: There are two falling paths with a minimum sum as shown.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/11/03/failing2-grid.jpg

Input: matrix = [[-19,57],[-40,-5]]
Output: -59
Explanation: The falling path with a minimum sum is shown.

Constraints:

• n == matrix.length == matrix[i].length
• 1 <= n <= 100
• -100 <= matrix[i][j] <= 100

2022-12-14
198. House Robber

Topic: Array, Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house has a certain amount of money stashed, the only constraint stopping you from robbing each of them is that adjacent houses have security systems connected and it will automatically contact the police if two adjacent houses were broken into on the same night.

Given an integer array nums representing the amount of money of each house, return the maximum amount of money you can rob tonight without alerting the police.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,1]
Output: 4
Explanation: Rob house 1 (money = 1) and then rob house 3 (money = 3).
Total amount you can rob = 1 + 3 = 4.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,7,9,3,1]
Output: 12
Explanation: Rob house 1 (money = 2), rob house 3 (money = 9) and rob house 5 (money = 1).
Total amount you can rob = 2 + 9 + 1 = 12.

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 100
• 0 <= nums[i] <= 400

2022-12-15
1143. Longest Common Subsequence

Topic: String, Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given two strings text1 and text2, return the length of their longest common subsequence. If there is no common subsequence, return 0.

A subsequence of a string is a new string generated from the original string with some characters (can be none) deleted without changing the relative order of the remaining characters.

• For example, "ace" is a subsequence of "abcde".

A common subsequence of two strings is a subsequence that is common to both strings.

Example 1:

Input: text1 = "abcde", text2 = "ace" 
Output: 3  
Explanation: The longest common subsequence is "ace" and its length is 3.

Example 2:

Input: text1 = "abc", text2 = "abc"
Output: 3
Explanation: The longest common subsequence is "abc" and its length is 3.

Example 3:

Input: text1 = "abc", text2 = "def"
Output: 0
Explanation: There is no such common subsequence, so the result is 0.

Constraints:

• 1 <= text1.length, text2.length <= 1000
• text1 and text2 consist of only lowercase English characters.

2022-12-16
232. Implement Queue using Stacks

Topic: Stack, Design, Queue
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
Implement a first in first out (FIFO) queue using only two stacks. The implemented queue should support all the functions of a normal queue (push, peek, pop, and empty).

Implement the MyQueue class:

• void push(int x) Pushes element x to the back of the queue.
• int pop() Removes the element from the front of the queue and returns it.
• int peek() Returns the element at the front of the queue.
• boolean empty() Returns true if the queue is empty, false otherwise.

Notes:

• You must use only standard operations of a stack, which means only push to top, peek/pop from top, size, and is empty operations are valid.
• Depending on your language, the stack may not be supported natively. You may simulate a stack using a list or deque (double-ended queue) as long as you use only a stack's standard operations.

Example 1:

Input
["MyQueue", "push", "push", "peek", "pop", "empty"]
[[], [1], [2], [], [], []]
Output
[null, null, null, 1, 1, false]

Explanation
MyQueue myQueue = new MyQueue();
myQueue.push(1); // queue is: [1]
myQueue.push(2); // queue is: [1, 2] (leftmost is front of the queue)
myQueue.peek(); // return 1
myQueue.pop(); // return 1, queue is [2]
myQueue.empty(); // return false

Constraints:

• 1 <= x <= 9
• At most 100 calls will be made to push, pop, peek, and empty.
• All the calls to pop and peek are valid.

Follow-up: Can you implement the queue such that each operation is amortized O(1) time complexity? In other words, performing n operations will take overall O(n) time even if one of those operations may take longer.

2022-12-17
150. Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation

Topic: Array, Math, Stack
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Evaluate the value of an arithmetic expression in Reverse Polish Notation.

Valid operators are +, -, *, and /. Each operand may be an integer or another expression.

Note that division between two integers should truncate toward zero.

It is guaranteed that the given RPN expression is always valid. That means the expression would always evaluate to a result, and there will not be any division by zero operation.

Example 1:

Input: tokens = ["2","1","+","3","*"]
Output: 9
Explanation: ((2 + 1) * 3) = 9

Example 2:

Input: tokens = ["4","13","5","/","+"]
Output: 6
Explanation: (4 + (13 / 5)) = 6

Example 3:

Input: tokens = ["10","6","9","3","+","-11","*","/","*","17","+","5","+"]
Output: 22
Explanation: ((10 * (6 / ((9 + 3) * -11))) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * (6 / (12 * -11))) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * (6 / -132)) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * 0) + 17) + 5
= (0 + 17) + 5
= 17 + 5
= 22

Constraints:

• 1 <= tokens.length <= 10^4
• tokens[i] is either an operator: "+", "-", "*", or "/", or an integer in the range [-200, 200].

2022-12-18
739. Daily Temperatures

Topic: Array, Stack, Monotonic Stack
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an array of integers temperatures represents the daily temperatures, return an array answer such that answer[i] is the number of days you have to wait after the i^th day to get a warmer temperature. If there is no future day for which this is possible, keep answer[i] == 0 instead.

Example 1:

Input: temperatures = [73,74,75,71,69,72,76,73]
Output: [1,1,4,2,1,1,0,0]

Example 2:

Input: temperatures = [30,40,50,60]
Output: [1,1,1,0]

Example 3:

Input: temperatures = [30,60,90]
Output: [1,1,0]

Constraints:

• 1 <= temperatures.length <= 10^5
• 30 <= temperatures[i] <= 100

2022-12-19
1971. Find if Path Exists in Graph

Topic: Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Union Find, Graph
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
There is a bi-directional graph with n vertices, where each vertex is labeled from 0 to n - 1 (inclusive). The edges in the graph are represented as a 2D integer array edges, where each edges[i] = [u_i, v_i] denotes a bi-directional edge between vertex u_i and vertex v_i. Every vertex pair is connected by at most one edge, and no vertex has an edge to itself.

You want to determine if there is a valid path that exists from vertex source to vertex destination.

Given edges and the integers n, source, and destination, return true if there is a valid path from source to destination, or false otherwise.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/08/14/validpath-ex1.png

Input: n = 3, edges = [[0,1],[1,2],[2,0]], source = 0, destination = 2
Output: true
Explanation: There are two paths from vertex 0 to vertex 2:
- 0 → 1 → 2
- 0 → 2

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/08/14/validpath-ex2.png

Input: n = 6, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[3,5],[5,4],[4,3]], source = 0, destination = 5
Output: false
Explanation: There is no path from vertex 0 to vertex 5.

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 2 * 10^5
• 0 <= edges.length <= 2 * 10^5
• edges[i].length == 2
• 0 <= u_i, v_i <= n - 1
• u_i != v_i
• 0 <= source, destination <= n - 1
• There are no duplicate edges.
• There are no self edges.

2022-12-20
841. Keys and Rooms

Topic: Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Graph
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
There are n rooms labeled from 0 to n - 1 and all the rooms are locked except for room 0. Your goal is to visit all the rooms. However, you cannot enter a locked room without having its key.

When you visit a room, you may find a set of distinct keys in it. Each key has a number on it, denoting which room it unlocks, and you can take all of them with you to unlock the other rooms.

Given an array rooms where rooms[i] is the set of keys that you can obtain if you visited room i, return true if you can visit all the rooms, or false otherwise.

Example 1:

Input: rooms = [[1],[2],[3],[]]
Output: true
Explanation: 
We visit room 0 and pick up key 1.
We then visit room 1 and pick up key 2.
We then visit room 2 and pick up key 3.
We then visit room 3.
Since we were able to visit every room, we return true.

Example 2:

Input: rooms = [[1,3],[3,0,1],[2],[0]]
Output: false
Explanation: We can not enter room number 2 since the only key that unlocks it is in that room.

Constraints:

• n == rooms.length
• 2 <= n <= 1000
• 0 <= rooms[i].length <= 1000
• 1 <= sum(rooms[i].length) <= 3000
• 0 <= rooms[i][j] < n
• All the values of rooms[i] are unique.

2022-12-21
886. Possible Bipartition

Topic: Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Union Find, Graph
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
We want to split a group of n people (labeled from 1 to n) into two groups of any size. Each person may dislike some other people, and they should not go into the same group.

Given the integer n and the array dislikes where dislikes[i] = [a_i, b_i] indicates that the person labeled a_i does not like the person labeled b_i, return true if it is possible to split everyone into two groups in this way.

Example 1:

Input: n = 4, dislikes = [[1,2],[1,3],[2,4]]
Output: true
Explanation: group1 [1,4] and group2 [2,3].

Example 2:

Input: n = 3, dislikes = [[1,2],[1,3],[2,3]]
Output: false

Example 3:

Input: n = 5, dislikes = [[1,2],[2,3],[3,4],[4,5],[1,5]]
Output: false

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 2000
• 0 <= dislikes.length <= 10^4
• dislikes[i].length == 2
• 1 <= dislikes[i][j] <= n
• a_i < b_i
• All the pairs of dislikes are unique.

2022-12-22
834. Sum of Distances in Tree

Topic: Dynamic Programming, Tree, Depth-First Search, Graph
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
There is an undirected connected tree with n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1 and n - 1 edges.

You are given the integer n and the array edges where edges[i] = [a_i, b_i] indicates that there is an edge between nodes a_i and b_i in the tree.

Return an array answer of length n where answer[i] is the sum of the distances between the i^th node in the tree and all other nodes.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/07/23/lc-sumdist1.jpg

Input: n = 6, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[2,3],[2,4],[2,5]]
Output: [8,12,6,10,10,10]
Explanation: The tree is shown above.
We can see that dist(0,1) + dist(0,2) + dist(0,3) + dist(0,4) + dist(0,5)
equals 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8.
Hence, answer[0] = 8, and so on.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/07/23/lc-sumdist2.jpg

Input: n = 1, edges = []
Output: [0]

Example 3:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/07/23/lc-sumdist3.jpg

Input: n = 2, edges = [[1,0]]
Output: [1,1]

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 3 * 10^4
• edges.length == n - 1
• edges[i].length == 2
• 0 <= a_i, b_i < n
• a_i != b_i
• The given input represents a valid tree.

2022-12-23
309. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock with Cooldown

Topic: Array, Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the i^th day.

Find the maximum profit you can achieve. You may complete as many transactions as you like (i.e., buy one and sell one share of the stock multiple times) with the following restrictions:

• After you sell your stock, you cannot buy stock on the next day (i.e., cooldown one day).

Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions simultaneously (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Example 1:

Input: prices = [1,2,3,0,2]
Output: 3
Explanation: transactions = [buy, sell, cooldown, buy, sell]

Example 2:

Input: prices = [1]
Output: 0

Constraints:

• 1 <= prices.length <= 5000
• 0 <= prices[i] <= 1000

2022-12-24
790. Domino and Tromino Tiling

Topic: Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You have two types of tiles: a 2 x 1 domino shape and a tromino shape. You may rotate these shapes.

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/07/15/lc-domino.jpg

Given an integer n, return the number of ways to tile an 2 x n board. Since the answer may be very large, return it modulo 10^9 + 7.

In a tiling, every square must be covered by a tile. Two tilings are different if and only if there are two 4-directionally adjacent cells on the board such that exactly one of the tilings has both squares occupied by a tile.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/07/15/lc-domino1.jpg

Input: n = 3
Output: 5
Explanation: The five different ways are show above.

Example 2:

Input: n = 1
Output: 1

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 1000