2022-01-30
189. Rotate Array

Topic: Array, Math, Two Pointers
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an array, rotate the array to the right by k steps, where k is non-negative.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], k = 3
Output: [5,6,7,1,2,3,4]
Explanation:
rotate 1 steps to the right: [7,1,2,3,4,5,6]
rotate 2 steps to the right: [6,7,1,2,3,4,5]
rotate 3 steps to the right: [5,6,7,1,2,3,4]

Example 2:

Input: nums = [-1,-100,3,99], k = 2
Output: [3,99,-1,-100]
Explanation: 
rotate 1 steps to the right: [99,-1,-100,3]
rotate 2 steps to the right: [3,99,-1,-100]

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
• -2^31 <= nums[i] <= 2^31 - 1
• 0 <= k <= 10^5

Follow up:

• Try to come up with as many solutions as you can. There are at least three different ways to solve this problem.
• Could you do it in-place with O(1) extra space?

2022-01-31
1672. Richest Customer Wealth

Topic: Array, Matrix
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
You are given an m x n integer grid accounts where accounts[i][j] is the amount of money the i​​​​​^​​​​​​th​​​​ customer has in the j​​​​​^​​​​​​th​​​​ bank. Return the wealth that the richest customer has.

A customer's wealth is the amount of money they have in all their bank accounts. The richest customer is the customer that has the maximum wealth.

Example 1:

Input: accounts = [[1,2,3],[3,2,1]]
Output: 6
Explanation:
1st customer has wealth = 1 + 2 + 3 = 6
2nd customer has wealth = 3 + 2 + 1 = 6
Both customers are considered the richest with a wealth of 6 each, so return 6.

Example 2:

Input: accounts = [[1,5],[7,3],[3,5]]
Output: 10
Explanation: 
1st customer has wealth = 6
2nd customer has wealth = 10 
3rd customer has wealth = 8
The 2nd customer is the richest with a wealth of 10.

Example 3:

Input: accounts = [[2,8,7],[7,1,3],[1,9,5]]
Output: 17

Constraints:

• m == accounts.length
• n == accounts[i].length
• 1 <= m, n <= 50
• 1 <= accounts[i][j] <= 100

2022-02-01
121. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

Topic: Array, Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Easy

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

You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock.

Return the maximum profit you can achieve from this transaction. If you cannot achieve any profit, return 0.

Example 1:

Input: prices = [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 5
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-1 = 5.
Note that buying on day 2 and selling on day 1 is not allowed because you must buy before you sell.

Example 2:

Input: prices = [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transactions are done and the max profit = 0.

Constraints:

• 1 <= prices.length <= 10^5
• 0 <= prices[i] <= 10^4

2022-02-02
438. Find All Anagrams in a String

Topic: Hash Table, String, Sliding Window
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given two strings s and p, return an array of all the start indices of p's anagrams in s. You may return the answer in any order.

An Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.

Example 1:

Input: s = "cbaebabacd", p = "abc"
Output: [0,6]
Explanation:
The substring with start index = 0 is "cba", which is an anagram of "abc".
The substring with start index = 6 is "bac", which is an anagram of "abc".

Example 2:

Input: s = "abab", p = "ab"
Output: [0,1,2]
Explanation:
The substring with start index = 0 is "ab", which is an anagram of "ab".
The substring with start index = 1 is "ba", which is an anagram of "ab".
The substring with start index = 2 is "ab", which is an anagram of "ab".

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length, p.length <= 3 * 10^4
• s and p consist of lowercase English letters.

2022-02-03
454. 4Sum II

Topic: Array, Hash Table
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given four integer arrays nums1, nums2, nums3, and nums4 all of length n, return the number of tuples (i, j, k, l) such that:

• 0 <= i, j, k, l < n
• nums1[i] + nums2[j] + nums3[k] + nums4[l] == 0

Example 1:

Input: nums1 = [1,2], nums2 = [-2,-1], nums3 = [-1,2], nums4 = [0,2]
Output: 2
Explanation:
The two tuples are:
1. (0, 0, 0, 1) -> nums1[0] + nums2[0] + nums3[0] + nums4[1] = 1 + (-2) + (-1) + 2 = 0
2. (1, 1, 0, 0) -> nums1[1] + nums2[1] + nums3[0] + nums4[0] = 2 + (-1) + (-1) + 0 = 0

Example 2:

Input: nums1 = [0], nums2 = [0], nums3 = [0], nums4 = [0]
Output: 1

Constraints:

• n == nums1.length
• n == nums2.length
• n == nums3.length
• n == nums4.length
• 1 <= n <= 200
• -2^28 <= nums1[i], nums2[i], nums3[i], nums4[i] <= 2^28

2022-02-04
525. Contiguous Array

Topic: Array, Hash Table, Prefix Sum
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given a binary array nums, return the maximum length of a contiguous subarray with an equal number of 0 and 1.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [0,1]
Output: 2
Explanation: [0, 1] is the longest contiguous subarray with an equal number of 0 and 1.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [0,1,0]
Output: 2
Explanation: [0, 1] (or [1, 0]) is a longest contiguous subarray with equal number of 0 and 1.

Constraints:

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

2022-02-05
23. Merge k Sorted Lists

Topic: Linked List, Divide and Conquer, Heap (Priority Queue), Merge Sort
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
You are given an array of k linked-lists lists, each linked-list is sorted in ascending order.

Merge all the linked-lists into one sorted linked-list and return it.

Example 1:

Input: lists = [[1,4,5],[1,3,4],[2,6]]
Output: [1,1,2,3,4,4,5,6]
Explanation: The linked-lists are:
[
  1->4->5,
  1->3->4,
  2->6
]
merging them into one sorted list:
1->1->2->3->4->4->5->6

Example 2:

Input: lists = []
Output: []

Example 3:

Input: lists = [[]]
Output: []

Constraints:

• k == lists.length
• 0 <= k <= 10^4
• 0 <= lists[i].length <= 500
• -10^4 <= lists[i][j] <= 10^4
• lists[i] is sorted in ascending order.
• The sum of lists[i].length won't exceed 10^4.

2022-02-06
80. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array II

Topic: Array, Two Pointers
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order, remove some duplicates in-place such that each unique element appears at most twice. The relative order of the elements should be kept the same.

Since it is impossible to change the length of the array in some languages, you must instead have the result be placed in the first part of the array nums. More formally, if there are k elements after removing the duplicates, then the first k elements of nums should hold the final result. It does not matter what you leave beyond the first k elements.

Return k after placing the final result in the first k slots of nums.

Do not allocate extra space for another array. You must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory.

Custom Judge:

The judge will test your solution with the following code:

int[] nums = [...]; // Input array
int[] expectedNums = [...]; // The expected answer with correct length

int k = removeDuplicates(nums); // Calls your implementation

assert k == expectedNums.length;
for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
    assert nums[i] == expectedNums[i];
}

If all assertions pass, then your solution will be accepted.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,1,1,2,2,3]
Output: 5, nums = [1,1,2,2,3,\_]
Explanation: Your function should return k = 5, with the first five elements of nums being 1, 1, 2, 2 and 3 respectively.
It does not matter what you leave beyond the returned k (hence they are underscores).

Example 2:

Input: nums = [0,0,1,1,1,1,2,3,3]
Output: 7, nums = [0,0,1,1,2,3,3,\_,\_]
Explanation: Your function should return k = 7, with the first seven elements of nums being 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3 and 3 respectively.
It does not matter what you leave beyond the returned k (hence they are underscores).

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 3 * 10^4
• -10^4 <= nums[i] <= 10^4
• nums is sorted in non-decreasing order.

2022-02-07
389. Find the Difference

Topic: Hash Table, String, Bit Manipulation, Sorting
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
You are given two strings s and t.

String t is generated by random shuffling string s and then add one more letter at a random position.

Return the letter that was added to t.

Example 1:

Input: s = "abcd", t = "abcde"
Output: "e"
Explanation: 'e' is the letter that was added.

Example 2:

Input: s = "", t = "y"
Output: "y"

Constraints:

• 0 <= s.length <= 1000
• t.length == s.length + 1
• s and t consist of lowercase English letters.

2022-02-08
258. Add Digits

Topic: Math, Simulation, Number Theory
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
Given an integer num, repeatedly add all its digits until the result has only one digit, and return it.

Example 1:

Input: num = 38
Output: 2
Explanation: The process is
38 --> 3 + 8 --> 11
11 --> 1 + 1 --> 2 
Since 2 has only one digit, return it.

Example 2:

Input: num = 0
Output: 0

Constraints:

• 0 <= num <= 2^31 - 1

Follow up: Could you do it without any loop/recursion in O(1) runtime?

2022-02-09
532. K-diff Pairs in an Array

Topic: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an array of integers nums and an integer k, return the number of unique k-diff pairs in the array.

A k-diff pair is an integer pair (nums[i], nums[j]), where the following are true:

• 0 <= i < j < nums.length
• |nums[i] - nums[j]| == k

Notice that |val| denotes the absolute value of val.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [3,1,4,1,5], k = 2
Output: 2
Explanation: There are two 2-diff pairs in the array, (1, 3) and (3, 5).
Although we have two 1s in the input, we should only return the number of unique pairs.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4,5], k = 1
Output: 4
Explanation: There are four 1-diff pairs in the array, (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4) and (4, 5).

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1,3,1,5,4], k = 0
Output: 1
Explanation: There is one 0-diff pair in the array, (1, 1).

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 10^4
• -10^7 <= nums[i] <= 10^7
• 0 <= k <= 10^7

2022-02-10
560. Subarray Sum Equals K

Topic: Array, Hash Table, Prefix Sum
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an array of integers nums and an integer k, return the total number of continuous subarrays whose sum equals to k.

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

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

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 2 * 10^4
• -1000 <= nums[i] <= 1000
• -10^7 <= k <= 10^7

2022-02-11
567. Permutation in String

Topic: Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Sliding Window
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given two strings s1 and s2, return true if s2 contains a permutation of s1, or false otherwise.

In other words, return true if one of s1's permutations is the substring of s2.

Example 1:

Input: s1 = "ab", s2 = "eidbaooo"
Output: true
Explanation: s2 contains one permutation of s1 ("ba").

Example 2:

Input: s1 = "ab", s2 = "eidboaoo"
Output: false

Constraints:

• 1 <= s1.length, s2.length <= 10^4
• s1 and s2 consist of lowercase English letters.

2022-02-12
127. Word Ladder

Topic: Hash Table, String, Breadth-First Search
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
A transformation sequence from word beginWord to word endWord using a dictionary wordList is a sequence of words beginWord -> s_1 -> s_2 -> ... -> s_k such that:

• Every adjacent pair of words differs by a single letter.
• Every s_i for 1 <= i <= k is in wordList. Note that beginWord does not need to be in wordList.
• s_k == endWord

Given two words, beginWord and endWord, and a dictionary wordList, return the number of words in the shortest transformation sequence from beginWord to endWord, or 0 if no such sequence exists.

Example 1:

Input: beginWord = "hit", endWord = "cog", wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log","cog"]
Output: 5
Explanation: One shortest transformation sequence is "hit" -> "hot" -> "dot" -> "dog" -> cog", which is 5 words long.

Example 2:

Input: beginWord = "hit", endWord = "cog", wordList = ["hot","dot","dog","lot","log"]
Output: 0
Explanation: The endWord "cog" is not in wordList, therefore there is no valid transformation sequence.

Constraints:

• 1 <= beginWord.length <= 10
• endWord.length == beginWord.length
• 1 <= wordList.length <= 5000
• wordList[i].length == beginWord.length
• beginWord, endWord, and wordList[i] consist of lowercase English letters.
• beginWord != endWord
• All the words in wordList are unique.

2022-02-13
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.

2022-02-14
104. Maximum Depth of Binary Tree

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

Problem:
Given the root of a binary tree, return its maximum depth.

A binary tree's maximum depth is the number of nodes along the longest path from the root node down to the farthest leaf node.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/11/26/tmp-tree.jpg

Input: root = [3,9,20,null,null,15,7]
Output: 3

Example 2:

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

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 10^4].
• -100 <= Node.val <= 100

2022-02-15
136. Single Number

Topic: Array, Bit Manipulation
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
Given a non-empty array of integers nums, every element appears twice except for one. Find that single one.

You must implement a solution with a linear runtime complexity and use only constant extra space.

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

Input: nums = [4,1,2,1,2]
Output: 4

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1]
Output: 1

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 3 * 10^4
• -3 * 10^4 <= nums[i] <= 3 * 10^4
• Each element in the array appears twice except for one element which appears only once.

2022-02-16
24. Swap Nodes in Pairs

Topic: Linked List, Recursion
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given a linked list, swap every two adjacent nodes and return its head. You must solve the problem without modifying the values in the list's nodes (i.e., only nodes themselves may be changed.)

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/10/03/swap_ex1.jpg

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

Example 2:

Input: head = []
Output: []

Example 3:

Input: head = [1]
Output: [1]

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the list is in the range [0, 100].
• 0 <= Node.val <= 100

2022-02-17
39. Combination Sum

Topic: Array, Backtracking
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an array of distinct integers candidates and a target integer target, return a list of all unique combinations of candidates where the chosen numbers sum to target. You may return the combinations in any order.

The same number may be chosen from candidates an unlimited number of times. Two combinations are unique if the frequency of at least one of the chosen numbers is different.

It is guaranteed that the number of unique combinations that sum up to target is less than 150 combinations for the given input.

Example 1:

Input: candidates = [2,3,6,7], target = 7
Output: [[2,2,3],[7]]
Explanation:
2 and 3 are candidates, and 2 + 2 + 3 = 7. Note that 2 can be used multiple times.
7 is a candidate, and 7 = 7.
These are the only two combinations.

Example 2:

Input: candidates = [2,3,5], target = 8
Output: [[2,2,2,2],[2,3,3],[3,5]]

Example 3:

Input: candidates = [2], target = 1
Output: []

Constraints:

• 1 <= candidates.length <= 30
• 1 <= candidates[i] <= 200
• All elements of candidates are distinct.
• 1 <= target <= 500

2022-02-18
402. Remove K Digits

Topic: String, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given string num representing a non-negative integer num, and an integer k, return the smallest possible integer after removing k digits from num.

Example 1:

Input: num = "1432219", k = 3
Output: "1219"
Explanation: Remove the three digits 4, 3, and 2 to form the new number 1219 which is the smallest.

Example 2:

Input: num = "10200", k = 1
Output: "200"
Explanation: Remove the leading 1 and the number is 200. Note that the output must not contain leading zeroes.

Example 3:

Input: num = "10", k = 2
Output: "0"
Explanation: Remove all the digits from the number and it is left with nothing which is 0.

Constraints:

• 1 <= k <= num.length <= 10^5
• num consists of only digits.
• num does not have any leading zeros except for the zero itself.