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This problem gives us a special nested data structure called NestedInteger. Each element in the input can either be: 1. A single integer 2.
The input is a numeric string num that is guaranteed to already be a palindrome. The task is to rearrange its digits to create another palindrome that is strictly larger than the original number, while also being the smallest such palindrome possible.
We are given a short Brainfuck program consisting of characters like +, -, , <, and so on. Each command corresponds to a fixed 4-bit binary string. After replacing every character with its binary code, we concatenate all those 4-bit chunks into one long binary number.
The problem asks us to design a mutable sequence data structure that supports four operations efficiently: 1. Append a v
We have a strip of cells, and each cell contains an integer. We may cut the strip only between adjacent cells, which splits the array into a left part and a right part. The task is to count how many cut positions produce two non-empty parts with equal sums.
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The problem asks us to design a mutable data structure that simulates the classic Snake game. The game is played on a rectangular grid with dimensions height x width. The snake starts at the top-left corner (0, 0) and initially has length 1.
The problem gives us an array of lowercase strings called words. We must return all characters that appear in every string in the array, including duplicate occurrences. The important detail is that duplicates matter.
The problem gives us a collection of unique points on a 2D plane. Our task is to determine the minimum possible area of any rectangle that can be formed using exactly four of these points as vertices.
This problem asks us to multiply two matrices, but with an important detail: both matrices are sparse. A sparse matrix is a matrix where most entries are zero. The goal is to take advantage of this property so that we avoid unnecessary computation involving zero values.
This problem asks us to take a string s consisting of lowercase English letters and the character '?' and replace every '?' with a lowercase letter so that no two consecutive characters in the resulting string are the same.
This problem asks us to find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes, p and q, in a binary tree, under the c
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The problem gives us n unique songs and asks us to build playlists of length goal. Songs may repeat, but two important constraints must always hold. First, every one of the n songs must appear at least once in the playlist.
This problem asks us to maximize the length of a contiguous block of identical answers in a true/false exam answer key. The input string answerKey contains only two characters, 'T' and 'F', representing the answers for each question.
We are given three integers, A, B, and n. The task is to find an integer value X such that:
This problem asks us to implement a concurrent synchronization mechanism for the classic Dining Philosophers problem. We have five philosophers sitting around a circular table, and between every pair of neighboring philosophers lies a single fork.
The problem asks us to convert a given integer num into its representation in base 7, returning the result as a string.
We need to build a circular sequence of colors for n eggs. There are exactly seven available colors: R, O, Y, G, B, I, V Two conditions must hold simultaneously. First, every color must appear at least once.
The problem is asking us to produce aggregated statistics on transactions, grouped by month and country, from the Transactions table.
The problem asks us to determine whether a given integer n can be represented as a power of three. In mathematical terms, we need to check whether there exists an integer x such that: A power of three sequence looks like this: The input is a single integer n, and the output…
We are given the final text printed by INTERCAL's strange "Turing Tape" output procedure. Each printed character was produced from one integer of an unknown array. The encoding process depends on the previous printed character, so every step is linked to the one before it.
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We have a line with a series of discrete platforms. Each platform has a fixed length l and is separated from the next by a fixed distance m - l, so platform k occupies the segment from (k-1)m to (k-1)m + l.
The problem asks us to count how many distinct non-empty subsequences can be formed from a given string s. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters while keeping the remaining characters in their original order.
This problem is a variation of the classic House Robber dynamic programming problem, but instead of houses being arranged in a straight line, the houses form a binary tree.
The problem asks us to segment a given string s into all possible sentences where each word in the sentence exists in a given dictionary wordDict.
We are given an interval of consecutive integers starting at a and having length l. For every number x, define F(x) as the count of lucky digits inside its decimal representation. Only digits 4 and 7 are considered lucky.
This problem asks us to rearrange a list of non-negative integers so that, when concatenated together, they form the largest possible number. At first glance, this may look like a straightforward sorting problem where we simply sort the numbers in descending order.
The problem gives us an integer array nums and a collection of range requests. Each request [start, end] asks for the su
Zeyad wants to commit exactly n crimes in a sequence so that he avoids any punishment. Each crime type is represented by a capital letter, and for some crimes there are conditions describing multiplicities: committing that crime a number of times divisible by its multiplicity…
We have four integers describing the number of fingers on two alien hands. The Venusian girl has al fingers on her left hand and ar on her right hand. The Marsian boy has bl and br fingers. They want to hold exactly one pair of hands.
You are given a 2D grid where each cell represents one of three possible states: - 0 means the cell is empty. - 1 means the cell contains a fresh orange. - 2 means the cell contains a rotten orange.
The problem gives us a set of allowed digits, stored as strings, and an integer n. We may construct any positive integer by repeatedly using digits from the given set. Each digit can be reused any number of times.
The problem gives us a target array and asks us to build it starting from an array of all zeros. The only operation allowed is selecting any contiguous subarray and incrementing every element in that subarray by exactly one.
We are given a string that represents a simplified HTML table language. The language contains only three kinds of tags: <table>, <tr>, and <td>, together with their matching closing tags.
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The problem is asking us to find the largest connected area of land in a 2D binary matrix. Each cell in the matrix represents either water (0) or land (1). A group of 1s forms an island if the 1s are connected 4-directionally (up, down, left, or right).
The problem asks us to find the k-th missing number in a sorted, strictly increasing array of unique integers. Given nums and an integer k, we need to identify the number that is missing from the sequence formed by consecutive integers starting from nums[0].
The problem asks us to determine how many triplets from a given integer array nums can form a valid triangle. In geometric terms, a triangle is valid if the sum of any two sides is greater than the third side.
This problem asks us to take an integer array nums and perform a series of increment operations so that every element in the array becomes unique. An increment operation increases an element by exactly 1. The goal is to compute the minimum number of such moves required.
We are given a collection of ticket pieces. Each piece is a number, representing the fragment of a ticket that was originally divisible by three. The problem asks us to reconstruct the maximum number of lucky tickets we can from these pieces.
The problem gives us the head of a singly linked list and asks us to return a random node value such that every node in the list has exactly the same probability of being selected. The class has two operations: 1. Solution(head) initializes the object with the linked list. 2.
The problem gives us a directed acyclic graph, usually abbreviated as a DAG. The graph contains n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1. The graph is represented as an adjacency list, where graph[i] contains all nodes that can be reached directly from node i.
The problem gives us two binary search trees, root1 and root2, along with an integer target. We must determine whether there exists one node from the first tree and one node from the second tree such that their values add up exactly to target.
The problem asks us to detect cycles in a 2D grid of characters where all cells in the cycle must contain the same character. A cycle is defined as a path that starts and ends at the same cell and has a length of four or more.
In this problem, we are given an integer n, and we must count how many numbers in the range [1, n] are considered confusing numbers. A number becomes a confusing number if, after rotating every digit by 180 degrees, the resulting number is both: 1. Valid after rotation 2.
This problem gives us two inputs: - arr, a one-dimensional array of distinct integers - pieces, a collection of smaller
The problem asks us to rotate a given integer array nums to the right by k steps. In other words, each element of the array should be shifted k positions forward, and the elements that "fall off" the end wrap around to the front of the array.
We are given a string of characters consisting of lowercase letters and digits. The task is to count the number of ordered pairs of positions in the string where the characters at those positions are identical.
This problem asks us to manipulate a binary tree so that its pre-order traversal matches a given sequence called voyage.
We are asked to analyze a two-player game on an rectangular board. The players take turns moving a single chess piece starting in the top-left corner. On each turn, a player can move the piece one cell right, one cell down, or diagonally cells down-right.
The problem gives us two database tables, Visits and Transactions. The Visits table records every time a customer visite
The problem gives us two inputs: an array of strings called words, and a target string s. Every occurrence of every word from words inside s must become bold by surrounding that substring with <b and </b tags.
This problem asks us to determine the first day each player logged into a game based on a table called Activity. Each row of this table contains a playerid, the deviceid used, the eventdate on which the player logged in, and the number of gamesplayed during that session.
The problem gives us the head of a singly linked list and asks whether the sequence of values stored in the list forms a palindrome. A palindrome is a sequence that reads the same forward and backward.
The problem gives us a fence with n posts and k available colors. Every fence post must be painted using exactly one of those colors. The important restriction is that we are not allowed to have three or more consecutive posts painted with the same color.
The problem gives us an even integer n and defines an initial permutation: This means the array initially looks like: We repeatedly apply a transformation rule to build a new array arr: - If the index i is even: - If the index i is odd: After constructing arr, we replace perm…
This problem asks us to determine which words from a given list can be constructed using the characters available in another string, chars. A word is considered good if every character it needs exists in chars in sufficient quantity.
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This problem asks us to build the lexicographically largest possible number of length k using digits taken from two arrays, nums1 and nums2. Each array represents a sequence of digits from a number.
The problem asks us to build a complete Sudoku solver. We are given a partially filled 9 x 9 grid where each cell contains either a digit from '1' to '9' or the character '.', which represents an empty space.
The problem gives us an integer array arr and two integers, m and k. We need to determine whether there exists a contiguous subarray of length m that repeats consecutively at least k times.
The problem asks us to count the number of valid ways to divide an array into three contiguous, non-empty parts: - left - mid - right The split must satisfy two conditions: 1. sum(left) <= sum(mid) 2.
The problem asks us to compute every possible bitwise OR value that can be formed from all non-empty contiguous subarrays of the given array arr, then return how many distinct values exist. A subarray is any contiguous slice of the array.
We are asked to compute the n-th Tribonacci number, but only its value modulo 26. The sequence starts with: $$t0 = 0,quad t1 = 0,quad t2 = 1$$ and every later value is formed by summing the previous three: $$ti = t{i-1} + t{i-2} + t{i-3}$$ The input contains a single integer n…
The problem gives us a matrix called costs, where costs[i][j] represents the cost of painting house i with color j. We must paint every house such that no two adjacent houses use the same color, and we want the minimum total painting cost.
The problem gives us two arrays, tops and bottoms, representing a sequence of dominoes. Each domino has two values, one on the top half and one on the bottom half. For the ith domino, the top value is tops[i] and the bottom value is bottoms[i].
We are asked to simulate a simplified Piet interpreter on a small rectangular grid. Each cell is a pixel with a color between 0 and 9, where 0 is black and other digits are colored blocks.
The problem asks us to count how many words in a given list are subsequences of a string s. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters from the string without changing the order of the remaining characters.
The problem is asking us to find the maximum path sum in a binary tree. A path is defined as any sequence of nodes connected by edges, where each node is included at most once. The path does not need to start at the root or end at a leaf.
The Employee table represents a company hierarchy. Every row corresponds to one employee and contains four pieces of information: Column Meaning --- --- id Unique employee identifier name Employee name department Department the employee belongs to managerId The id of this…
We are given an undirected graph where vertices represent people and edges represent relationships. For every query (u, v), we must decide whether there exists a simple path from u to v whose length is odd. The keyword here is "simple". We are not allowed to revisit vertices.
We are asked to move a chess king from one square to another on a standard 8×8 board in the fewest number of moves. The king can move to any adjacent square in eight possible directions: vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
The problem asks us to construct a lowercase string of length n such that the sum of the numeric values of its character
Edit The problem gives us an array hours, where each element represents the number of hours an employee worked on a specific day. A day is classified as tiring if the employee worked strictly more than 8 hours. Otherwise, the day is considered non-tiring.
The problem asks us to calculate the total time it takes for a piece of urgent information to propagate through a compan
We are asked to process a user-entered sequence of page numbers for printing. The input is a single string of positive integers separated by commas, such as 1,2,3,1,1,2,6,6,2. Some numbers may repeat, possibly non-consecutively.
The problem asks us to compute the subtree sum for every node in a binary tree, then determine which subtree sum appears most frequently. A subtree rooted at a node includes that node and all of its descendants.
We are given a connected graph representing rooms in Arnie’s apple house. Each room is a node, corridors between rooms are edges, and the graph has no self-loops or multiple edges between the same pair of rooms.
The problem gives us a string s whose length is guaranteed to be even. We split the string into two equal parts: - The first half is called a - The second half is called b We must determine whether both halves contain the same number of vowels.
This problem asks us to reorder a singly linked list so that all nodes located at odd indices appear first, followed by all nodes located at even indices. The important detail is that the grouping is based on the node's position in the list, not the node's value.
The problem gives us n cities labeled from 1 to n. Two cities are directly connected if they share a common divisor that
This problem asks us to find the minimum value in a sorted array that has been rotated, while also allowing duplicate values. A rotated sorted array is created by taking an ascending sorted array and shifting some suffix of the array to the front.
We start with an array where position i initially contains value i. Each position also has a fixed jump distance d[i]. A swap is allowed between positions i and j only if |i - j| = d[i].
The problem asks us to construct the string target using the fewest possible subsequences of the string source. A subsequence preserves relative order, but characters do not need to be contiguous.
The problem asks us to design an iterator that alternates between two input arrays, returning elements in a cyclic or zigzag order.
Each amulet is a 2 x 2 square filled with numbers from 1 to 6. We can think of it as four cells:
The problem asks us to identify all words in a given list that can be formed by concatenating at least two other words from the same list. In other words, each concatenated word must be fully composed of smaller words that exist in the input array.
The problem asks us to determine whether a given collection of cards can be rearranged into groups of consecutive numbers, each of size groupSize.
The problem gives us a string that contains encoded patterns of the form k[encodedstring]. The integer k tells us how many times the substring inside the brackets should be repeated. Our task is to fully decode the string and return the expanded result.
The problem gives us a string s and three parallel arrays: - indices[i] tells us where a replacement might happen - sources[i] is the substring we expect to find at that index - targets[i] is the string we should replace it with if the match is valid For each operation, we…
The problem asks us to determine whether one string can be transformed into another string using repeated left rotations. A single shift operation removes the first character of the string and appends it to the end.
We are tasked with counting how many pairs of soldiers in a detachment can form a reconnaissance unit. A unit consists of exactly two soldiers, and the difference in their heights cannot exceed a given threshold _d_.
This problem asks us to find the earliest overlapping time slot of a given duration between two people, given their individual availability schedules.
The problem gives us a binary string, meaning the string contains only the characters '0' and '1'. We need to count how many substrings satisfy two conditions simultaneously: 1. The substring contains the same number of 0s and 1s. 2.
The problem gives us a table named Transactions where each row represents a financial transaction. Every transaction has a unique transactionid, a timestamp stored in the day column, and an integer amount.
This problem is an interactive shortest path problem on a hidden weighted grid. We control a robot that starts somewhere in an unknown grid, and we must determine the minimum total movement cost required to reach a hidden target cell.
This problem gives us the root of a Binary Search Tree, abbreviated as BST, along with two integers, low and high. We must compute the sum of all node values whose values lie inside the inclusive range [low, high].
We are given a string of lowercase letters that contains no spaces. The task is to split this string into exactly k consecutive pieces. Every piece must have length between a and b, inclusive. The order of characters cannot change. We are only deciding where to cut the string.