2022-07-13
102. Binary Tree Level Order Traversal

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

Problem:
Given the root of a binary tree, return the level order traversal of its nodes' values. (i.e., from left to right, level by level).

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/02/19/tree1.jpg

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

Example 2:

Input: root = [1]
Output: [[1]]

Example 3:

Input: root = []
Output: []

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 2000].
• -1000 <= Node.val <= 1000

2022-07-14
105. Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Inorder Traversal

Topic: Array, Hash Table, Divide and Conquer, Tree, Binary Tree
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given two integer arrays preorder and inorder where preorder is the preorder traversal of a binary tree and inorder is the inorder traversal of the same tree, construct and return the binary tree.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/02/19/tree.jpg

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

Example 2:

Input: preorder = [-1], inorder = [-1]
Output: [-1]

Constraints:

• 1 <= preorder.length <= 3000
• inorder.length == preorder.length
• -3000 <= preorder[i], inorder[i] <= 3000
• preorder and inorder consist of unique values.
• Each value of inorder also appears in preorder.
• preorder is guaranteed to be the preorder traversal of the tree.
• inorder is guaranteed to be the inorder traversal of the tree.

2022-07-15
695. Max Area of Island

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

Problem:
You are given an m x n binary matrix grid. An island is a group of 1's (representing land) connected 4-directionally (horizontal or vertical.) You may assume all four edges of the grid are surrounded by water.

The area of an island is the number of cells with a value 1 in the island.

Return the maximum area of an island in grid. If there is no island, return 0.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/05/01/maxarea1-grid.jpg

Input: grid = [[0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0],[0,1,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,0,0],[0,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,1,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0]]
Output: 6
Explanation: The answer is not 11, because the island must be connected 4-directionally.

Example 2:

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

Constraints:

• m == grid.length
• n == grid[i].length
• 1 <= m, n <= 50
• grid[i][j] is either 0 or 1.

2022-07-16
576. Out of Boundary Paths

Topic: Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
There is an m x n grid with a ball. The ball is initially at the position [startRow, startColumn]. You are allowed to move the ball to one of the four adjacent cells in the grid (possibly out of the grid crossing the grid boundary). You can apply at most maxMove moves to the ball.

Given the five integers m, n, maxMove, startRow, startColumn, return the number of paths to move the ball out of the grid boundary. Since the answer can be very large, return it modulo 10^9 + 7.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/04/28/out_of_boundary_paths_1.png

Input: m = 2, n = 2, maxMove = 2, startRow = 0, startColumn = 0
Output: 6

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/04/28/out_of_boundary_paths_2.png

Input: m = 1, n = 3, maxMove = 3, startRow = 0, startColumn = 1
Output: 12

Constraints:

• 1 <= m, n <= 50
• 0 <= maxMove <= 50
• 0 <= startRow < m
• 0 <= startColumn < n

2022-07-17
629. K Inverse Pairs Array

Topic: Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
For an integer array nums, an inverse pair is a pair of integers [i, j] where 0 <= i < j < nums.length and nums[i] > nums[j].

Given two integers n and k, return the number of different arrays consist of numbers from 1 to n such that there are exactly k inverse pairs. Since the answer can be huge, return it modulo 10^9 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: n = 3, k = 0
Output: 1
Explanation: Only the array [1,2,3] which consists of numbers from 1 to 3 has exactly 0 inverse pairs.

Example 2:

Input: n = 3, k = 1
Output: 2
Explanation: The array [1,3,2] and [2,1,3] have exactly 1 inverse pair.

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 1000
• 0 <= k <= 1000

2022-07-18
1074. Number of Submatrices That Sum to Target

Topic: Array, Hash Table, Matrix, Prefix Sum
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
Given a matrix and a target, return the number of non-empty submatrices that sum to target.

A submatrix x1, y1, x2, y2 is the set of all cells matrix[x][y] with x1 <= x <= x2 and y1 <= y <= y2.

Two submatrices (x1, y1, x2, y2) and (x1', y1', x2', y2') are different if they have some coordinate that is different: for example, if x1 != x1'.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/09/02/mate1.jpg

Input: matrix = [[0,1,0],[1,1,1],[0,1,0]], target = 0
Output: 4
Explanation: The four 1x1 submatrices that only contain 0.

Example 2:

Input: matrix = [[1,-1],[-1,1]], target = 0
Output: 5
Explanation: The two 1x2 submatrices, plus the two 2x1 submatrices, plus the 2x2 submatrix.

Example 3:

Input: matrix = [[904]], target = 0
Output: 0

Constraints:

• 1 <= matrix.length <= 100
• 1 <= matrix[0].length <= 100
• -1000 <= matrix[i] <= 1000
• -10^8 <= target <= 10^8

2022-07-19
118. Pascal's Triangle

Topic: Array, Dynamic Programming
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
Given an integer numRows, return the first numRows of Pascal's triangle.

In Pascal's triangle, each number is the sum of the two numbers directly above it as shown:

Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/PascalTriangleAnimated2.gif

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

Input: numRows = 1
Output: [[1]]

Constraints:

• 1 <= numRows <= 30

2022-07-20
792. Number of Matching Subsequences

Topic: Hash Table, String, Trie, Sorting
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given a string s and an array of strings words, return the number of words[i] that is a subsequence of s.

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".

Example 1:

Input: s = "abcde", words = ["a","bb","acd","ace"]
Output: 3
Explanation: There are three strings in words that are a subsequence of s: "a", "acd", "ace".

Example 2:

Input: s = "dsahjpjauf", words = ["ahjpjau","ja","ahbwzgqnuk","tnmlanowax"]
Output: 2

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 5 * 10^4
• 1 <= words.length <= 5000
• 1 <= words[i].length <= 50
• s and words[i] consist of only lowercase English letters.

2022-07-21
92. Reverse Linked List II

Topic: Linked List
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given the head of a singly linked list and two integers left and right where left <= right, reverse the nodes of the list from position left to position right, and return the reversed list.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/02/19/rev2ex2.jpg

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

Example 2:

Input: head = [5], left = 1, right = 1
Output: [5]

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the list is n.
• 1 <= n <= 500
• -500 <= Node.val <= 500
• 1 <= left <= right <= n

Follow up: Could you do it in one pass?

2022-07-22
86. Partition List

Topic: Linked List, Two Pointers
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given the head of a linked list and a value x, partition it such that all nodes less than x come before nodes greater than or equal to x.

You should preserve the original relative order of the nodes in each of the two partitions.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/01/04/partition.jpg

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

Example 2:

Input: head = [2,1], x = 2
Output: [1,2]

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the list is in the range [0, 200].
• -100 <= Node.val <= 100
• -200 <= x <= 200

2022-07-23
315. Count of Smaller Numbers After Self

Topic: Array, Binary Search, Divide and Conquer, Binary Indexed Tree, Segment Tree, Merge Sort, Ordered Set
Difficulty: Hard

Problem:
You are given an integer array nums and you have to return a new counts array. The counts array has the property where counts[i] is the number of smaller elements to the right of nums[i].

Example 1:

Input: nums = [5,2,6,1]
Output: [2,1,1,0]
Explanation:
To the right of 5 there are 2 smaller elements (2 and 1).
To the right of 2 there is only 1 smaller element (1).
To the right of 6 there is 1 smaller element (1).
To the right of 1 there is 0 smaller element.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [-1]
Output: [0]

Example 3:

Input: nums = [-1,-1]
Output: [0,0]

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
• -10^4 <= nums[i] <= 10^4

2022-07-24
240. Search a 2D Matrix II

Topic: Array, Binary Search, Divide and Conquer, Matrix
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Write an efficient algorithm that searches for a value target in an m x n integer matrix matrix. This matrix has the following properties:

• Integers in each row are sorted in ascending from left to right.
• Integers in each column are sorted in ascending from top to bottom.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/11/24/searchgrid2.jpg

Input: matrix = [[1,4,7,11,15],[2,5,8,12,19],[3,6,9,16,22],[10,13,14,17,24],[18,21,23,26,30]], target = 5
Output: true

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2020/11/24/searchgrid.jpg

Input: matrix = [[1,4,7,11,15],[2,5,8,12,19],[3,6,9,16,22],[10,13,14,17,24],[18,21,23,26,30]], target = 20
Output: false

Constraints:

• m == matrix.length
• n == matrix[i].length
• 1 <= n, m <= 300
• -10^9 <= matrix[i][j] <= 10^9
• All the integers in each row are sorted in ascending order.
• All the integers in each column are sorted in ascending order.
• -10^9 <= target <= 10^9

2022-07-25
34. Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array

Topic: Array, Binary Search
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an array of integers nums sorted in non-decreasing order, find the starting and ending position of a given target value.

If target is not found in the array, return [-1, -1].

You must write an algorithm with O(log n) runtime complexity.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [5,7,7,8,8,10], target = 8
Output: [3,4]

Example 2:

Input: nums = [5,7,7,8,8,10], target = 6
Output: [-1,-1]

Example 3:

Input: nums = [], target = 0
Output: [-1,-1]

Constraints:

• 0 <= nums.length <= 10^5
• -10^9 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
• nums is a non-decreasing array.
• -10^9 <= target <= 10^9

2022-07-26
236. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

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

Problem:
Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree.

According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes p and q as the lowest node in T that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).”

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2018/12/14/binarytree.png

Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 1
Output: 3
Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 1 is 3.

Example 2:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2018/12/14/binarytree.png

Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 4
Output: 5
Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 4 is 5, since a node can be a descendant of itself according to the LCA definition.

Example 3:

Input: root = [1,2], p = 1, q = 2
Output: 1

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [2, 10^5].
• -10^9 <= Node.val <= 10^9
• All Node.val are unique.
• p != q
• p and q will exist in the tree.

2022-07-27
114. Flatten Binary Tree to Linked List

Topic: Linked List, Stack, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Tree
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given the root of a binary tree, flatten the tree into a "linked list":

• The "linked list" should use the same TreeNode class where the right child pointer points to the next node in the list and the left child pointer is always null.
• The "linked list" should be in the same order as a pre-order traversal of the binary tree.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/01/14/flaten.jpg

Input: root = [1,2,5,3,4,null,6]
Output: [1,null,2,null,3,null,4,null,5,null,6]

Example 2:

Input: root = []
Output: []

Example 3:

Input: root = [0]
Output: [0]

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 2000].
• -100 <= Node.val <= 100

Follow up: Can you flatten the tree in-place (with O(1) extra space)?

2022-07-28
242. Valid Anagram

Topic: Hash Table, String, Sorting
Difficulty: Easy

Problem:
Given two strings s and t, return true if t is an anagram of s, and false otherwise.

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 = "anagram", t = "nagaram"
Output: true

Example 2:

Input: s = "rat", t = "car"
Output: false

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length, t.length <= 5 * 10^4
• s and t consist of lowercase English letters.

Follow up: What if the inputs contain Unicode characters? How would you adapt your solution to such a case?

2022-07-29
890. Find and Replace Pattern

Topic: Array, Hash Table, String
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given a list of strings words and a string pattern, return a list of words[i] that match pattern. You may return the answer in any order.

A word matches the pattern if there exists a permutation of letters p so that after replacing every letter x in the pattern with p(x), we get the desired word.

Recall that a permutation of letters is a bijection from letters to letters: every letter maps to another letter, and no two letters map to the same letter.

Example 1:

Input: words = ["abc","deq","mee","aqq","dkd","ccc"], pattern = "abb"
Output: ["mee","aqq"]
Explanation: "mee" matches the pattern because there is a permutation {a -> m, b -> e, ...}. 
"ccc" does not match the pattern because {a -> c, b -> c, ...} is not a permutation, since a and b map to the same letter.

Example 2:

Input: words = ["a","b","c"], pattern = "a"
Output: ["a","b","c"]

Constraints:

• 1 <= pattern.length <= 20
• 1 <= words.length <= 50
• words[i].length == pattern.length
• pattern and words[i] are lowercase English letters.

2022-07-30
916. Word Subsets

Topic: Array, Hash Table, String
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
You are given two string arrays words1 and words2.

A string b is a subset of string a if every letter in b occurs in a including multiplicity.

• For example, "wrr" is a subset of "warrior" but is not a subset of "world".

A string a from words1 is universal if for every string b in words2, b is a subset of a.

Return an array of all the universal strings in words1. You may return the answer in any order.

Example 1:

Input: words1 = ["amazon","apple","facebook","google","leetcode"], words2 = ["e","o"]
Output: ["facebook","google","leetcode"]

Example 2:

Input: words1 = ["amazon","apple","facebook","google","leetcode"], words2 = ["l","e"]
Output: ["apple","google","leetcode"]

Constraints:

• 1 <= words1.length, words2.length <= 10^4
• 1 <= words1[i].length, words2[i].length <= 10
• words1[i] and words2[i] consist only of lowercase English letters.
• All the strings of words1 are unique.

2022-07-31
307. Range Sum Query - Mutable

Topic: Array, Design, Binary Indexed Tree, Segment Tree
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
Given an integer array nums, handle multiple queries of the following types:

1. Update the value of an element in nums.
2. Calculate the sum of the elements of nums between indices left and right inclusive where left <= right.

Implement the NumArray class:

• NumArray(int[] nums) Initializes the object with the integer array nums.
• void update(int index, int val) Updates the value of nums[index] to be val.
• int sumRange(int left, int right) Returns the sum of the elements of nums between indices left and right inclusive (i.e. nums[left] + nums[left + 1] + ... + nums[right]).

Example 1:

Input
["NumArray", "sumRange", "update", "sumRange"]
[[[1, 3, 5]], [0, 2], [1, 2], [0, 2]]
Output
[null, 9, null, 8]

Explanation
NumArray numArray = new NumArray([1, 3, 5]);
numArray.sumRange(0, 2); // return 1 + 3 + 5 = 9
numArray.update(1, 2);   // nums = [1, 2, 5]
numArray.sumRange(0, 2); // return 1 + 2 + 5 = 8

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 3 * 10^4
• -100 <= nums[i] <= 100
• 0 <= index < nums.length
• -100 <= val <= 100
• 0 <= left <= right < nums.length
• At most 3 * 10^4 calls will be made to update and sumRange.

2022-08-01
62. Unique Paths

Topic: Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics
Difficulty: Medium

Problem:
There is a robot on an m x n grid. The robot is initially located at the top-left corner (i.e., grid[0][0]). The robot tries to move to the bottom-right corner (i.e., grid[m - 1][n - 1]). The robot can only move either down or right at any point in time.

Given the two integers m and n, return the number of possible unique paths that the robot can take to reach the bottom-right corner.

The test cases are generated so that the answer will be less than or equal to 2 * 10^9.

Example 1:

Image: https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2018/10/22/robot_maze.png

Input: m = 3, n = 7
Output: 28

Example 2:

Input: m = 3, n = 2
Output: 3
Explanation: From the top-left corner, there are a total of 3 ways to reach the bottom-right corner:
1. Right -> Down -> Down
2. Down -> Down -> Right
3. Down -> Right -> Down

Constraints:

• 1 <= m, n <= 100