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Edit This problem asks us to count the number of valid ways to divide a rectangular pizza into exactly k pieces such tha
We have a theatre club with n boys and m girls. A performance group must contain exactly t people, with two extra restrictions: at least 4 of them must be boys, and at least 1 must be a girl. The task is to count how many different valid groups can be formed.
We are given two sequences of balls, labeled by lowercase letters: the original sequence A and the target sequence B. We want to transform A into B using four types of operations: inserting a ball, deleting a ball, replacing a ball, or swapping two adjacent balls.
The problem asks us to sort a singly linked list in ascending order and return the head of the sorted list. The input is the head node of a linked list. Each node contains an integer value and a pointer to the next node.
The problem presents two database tables: NPV and Queries. The NPV table contains historical net present value (NPV) dat
We are asked to implement a simplified autocomplete function. The input consists of a string s, which represents the text the user has typed so far, followed by a list of previously visited pages.
This problem asks us to find the length of the longest consecutive sequence path in a binary tree. Unlike the simpler version of the problem where the sequence must move strictly downward from parent to child, this version allows the path to move in a child-parent-child…
This problem asks us to determine whether two strings become identical after processing backspace operations. Each string represents characters typed into a text editor, where the '' character means "delete the previous character", similar to pressing the backspace key on a…
This problem asks us to find numbers in a table that appear at least three times consecutively in order of their id. The table Logs consists of two columns: id and num, where id is an auto-incrementing primary key and num is a string representing a number.
The problem asks us to convert a positive integer into the column naming format used by Microsoft Excel. Excel labels columns alphabetically instead of numerically. The sequence begins as: The input, columnNumber, represents a 1-based column index.
The problem asks us to design a data structure that supports efficient range sum queries on a fixed array. We are given an integer array nums, and after initialization, the array never changes.
The problem is asking us to count the number of valid subarrays in a given integer array nums. A subarray is valid if its leftmost element is not larger than any other element in the subarray.
The problem gives us a sorted array nums and an integer maximumBit. For every query, we must choose a number k such that: - 0 <= k < 2^maximumBit - The value of: is as large as possible.
This problem asks us to parse a chemical formula represented as a string and return a canonical string that counts the number of each atom in the formula. Each atom starts with an uppercase letter and may have lowercase letters following it.
This problem gives us two arrays, nums1 and nums2, where both arrays are already sorted in non-decreasing order. We are also given two integers, m and n, which tell us how many valid elements exist in each array. The important detail is that nums1 has extra space at the end.
The problem asks us to determine whether an array contains a continuous subarray whose sum is a multiple of k, while also satisfying an important constraint: the subarray must contain at least two elements.
The problem asks us to modify a binary tree by adding a new row of nodes with a given value val at a specified depth depth. The input consists of the root of a binary tree, the integer value val to insert, and the target depth depth.
The problem gives us a two dimensional grid representing a gold mine. Each cell contains either a positive amount of gold or 0, which means the cell is empty. We are allowed to start from any cell that contains gold and move through the grid collecting gold along the way.
This problem requires analyzing a table of orders to calculate monthly statistics. Specifically, for each unique month present in the Orders table, we need to determine two metrics: the number of unique orders and the number of unique customers whose orders have an invoice…
We are given a text file written in INI format. Every meaningful line is either a section declaration such as [network] or a key-value assignment such as port=8080. Spaces around keys, values, and section brackets are irrelevant and must be removed in the final output.
This problem is asking us to simulate a single move in a simple two-player game. The input is a string currentState consisting only of '+' and '-' characters.
The problem asks us to find the k-th smallest fraction that can be formed by dividing one element of a sorted array arr by another element later in the array. The array arr is strictly increasing, starts with 1, and all elements after the first are prime numbers.
The problem asks us to determine whether two strings are anagrams of each other. Two strings are considered anagrams if they contain exactly the same characters with exactly the same frequencies, but possibly in a different order.
This problem asks us to compute a rolling seven day summary of restaurant revenue. The input table stores individual cus
This problem asks us to count how many valid ways exist to assign hats to people under two constraints: 1. Every person
This problem asks us to transform an initial array arr of zeros into a target array nums using a minimal number of operations. There are two allowed operations: incrementing any single element of the array by 1, or doubling all elements of the array.
We are given a laboratory grid of size n × n, representing a research station where some tiles are reactors and others are laboratories. One reactor is malfunctioning and will explode, causing toxic coolant to spread to neighboring labs.
The problem gives us a string s containing lowercase English letters and balanced parentheses. Our task is to repeatedly reverse the substrings enclosed inside every matching pair of parentheses, starting from the innermost pair first.
The problem gives us an integer num, and asks us to find two integers whose product equals either num + 1 or num + 2, su
The problem describes a sequence of n bulbs, all initially turned off. We perform n rounds of operations on these bulbs. In the first round, every bulb is turned on. In the second round, every second bulb is toggled, meaning on bulbs become off and off bulbs become on.
The problem gives an array called citations, where each element represents how many citations a research paper has received. Each index corresponds to one paper, and the value at that index is the number of times that paper has been cited.
The problem asks us to find the number of non-empty subsequences of a given array nums such that for each subsequence, t
The problem asks us to rearrange the characters of a given string s such that no two adjacent characters are the same. The input is a string of lowercase English letters with a length between 1 and 500.
This problem gives us a set of cities positioned on a number line. The array locations stores the coordinate of each cit
This problem gives us an n x n binary matrix called board, where every cell contains either 0 or 1. In one operation, we are allowed to swap any two rows or swap any two columns.
The problem asks whether a given integer n can be expressed as the sum of distinct powers of three. A power of three is any number of the form: where x is a non-negative integer. That means the valid powers are: - 3^0 = 1 - 3^1 = 3 - 3^2 = 9 - 3^3 = 27 - and so on.
Here’s a complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 787, following your formatting instructions exactly. The problem asks us to find the cheapest flight cost from a source city src to a destination city dst while taking at most k stops along the way.
This problem gives us an array of lowercase English words and asks us to find the longest word that can be constructed one character at a time using other words from the same dictionary. More specifically, suppose we have a candidate word like "world".
Valera has a list of subjects he knows how to solve. Every subject takes a fixed amount of working time. Students come with requests: each request has a subject, an exam deadline, and a reward. If Valera finishes the solution strictly before the exam starts, he gets paid.
We have a fixed sequence of trucks. For every truck we know its value, the number of people inside it, and two fear constraints.
The problem gives us an undirected connected graph where each node represents a city, and each city has a three letter name. We are also given a target sequence of names called targetPath. Our goal is to construct a valid path through the graph such that: 1.
The problem gives us a two dimensional grid where each cell contains an integer representing a color. We are also given a starting position, (row, col), and a new color value. The cell at grid[row][col] belongs to some connected component.
The problem asks us to find the maximum possible average value among all contiguous subarrays whose length is at least k. We are given an integer array nums and an integer k. A subarray is a contiguous portion of the array, meaning the elements must appear consecutively.
The problem gives us two arrays, values and labels, where each index represents a single item. The item at index i has a value values[i] and a category or group identifier labels[i].
The problem gives us two binary search trees, root1 and root2. A binary search tree, commonly abbreviated as BST, has the important property that for every node: - All values in the left subtree are smaller than the node's value - All values in the right subtree are larger…
This problem asks us to select the largest possible subset of binary strings while staying within two resource constraints. Each string consumes a certain number of 0 characters and a certain number of 1 characters.
This problem asks us to find the minimum cost to buy a set of items given individual prices and optional special offers.
The problem gives us a list of email addresses and asks how many unique destinations actually receive emails after applying Gmail-like normalization rules.
This problem asks us to construct an array of length n where every element is a positive integer, the difference between adjacent elements is at most 1, and the total sum of the array does not exceed maxSum.
The problem asks us to calculate aggregate monetary information for each product based on invoices. We have two tables:
The problem asks us to count how many contiguous subarrays contain exactly k distinct integers. We are given: - An integer array nums - An integer k A subarray is any continuous portion of the array.
The problem asks us to generate a valid Gray code sequence for a given number of bits, n. A Gray code sequence is a special ordering of numbers where every adjacent pair differs by exactly one bit in binary form.
The problem asks whether a given undirected graph is bipartite. In simpler terms, we are given a graph represented as an adjacency list graph, where graph[u] lists all nodes directly connected to node u.
The problem presents a grid where each cell represents a street segment with a specific orientation, denoted by a number
The problem asks us to compute the sum of the minimum value of every possible contiguous subarray of a given array. For an array arr, every contiguous slice of the array is considered a subarray. For each subarray, we determine its minimum element.
This problem is asking us to determine the minimum number of vertical arrows required to burst all balloons represented as intervals along the x-axis. Each balloon is defined by its start and end x-coordinates, [xstart, xend].
We are given two strings made of English letters. Both strings have the same length, but letters may appear in either uppercase or lowercase form. The task is to compare the two strings lexicographically while completely ignoring letter case.
The problem gives an array of unique integers called preorder. This array is supposed to represent the preorder traversal of a binary search tree, and we must determine whether such a BST could actually exist. In a preorder traversal, nodes are visited in this order: 1.
We have three convex polygons on the plane. From each polygon we must choose one point, and the average of these three chosen points must equal the position of the idol.
The problem provides a table named Products, where each row represents the price of a specific product in a specific store.
This problem asks us to count how many pairs of rectangles are interchangeable. Each rectangle is represented by two integers, width and height. Two rectangles are considered interchangeable if their width-to-height ratios are exactly the same.
The problem asks us to return the postorder traversal of a binary tree. A binary tree is made of nodes, where each node contains: - A value - A pointer to a left child - A pointer to a right child In postorder traversal, we must visit nodes in this exact order: 1.
We are given a string of lowercase letters, and the task is to find the length of the longest substring that occurs at least twice in the string. The repeated occurrences may overlap. The input is a single string of at most 100 characters.
This problem asks us to compute the minimum number of moves required to gather all balls in a string of boxes into each individual box. Each box can either be empty ('0') or contain one ball ('1'). A single operation consists of moving a ball from one box to an adjacent box.
This problem gives us a sorted array of integers named nums and a target integer named target. The array is sorted in ascending order, meaning every element is smaller than the elements that come after it. We must determine whether the target value exists in the array.
The problem gives us the root of a binary search tree, but exactly two nodes in the tree have had their values swapped accidentally. Our task is to restore the tree so that it once again satisfies the binary search tree property, without modifying the tree structure itself.
We have a single row of hooks, numbered from 1 to n, which initially are all empty. Employees arrive and leave at specified times, and each arrival or departure is encoded by an employee ID: the first occurrence is an arrival, the second is the departure, and so on.
The problem asks us to count how many permutations of numbers from 1 to n satisfy a specific condition: all prime numbers must appear at prime-numbered indices (1-indexed).
We are given a directed graph where nodes represent crossroads and edges represent one-way tramlines. The engine house is at node 1. Every node has at least one outgoing edge, so the tram is never trapped.
The problem asks us to determine whether a given integer target exists inside an m x n matrix. Unlike a completely unsorted matrix, this matrix has two important ordering guarantees: 1. Each row is sorted in ascending order from left to right. 2.
The problem gives two arrays, houses and heaters, where each value represents a position on a one dimensional horizontal line.
The problem asks us to process a paragraph of text and determine which word appears most frequently, while ignoring a given list of banned words. The final answer must be returned in lowercase.
This problem asks us to find the names of all salespeople who have never handled an order for the company named "RED". We are given three database tables: - SalesPerson contains information about each salesperson, including their unique salesid and name.
This problem asks us to generate all possible synonymous variations of a given sentence based on a list of equivalent wo
We start with an undirected graph that may be disconnected and may contain cycles. We are allowed to repeatedly merge two vertices into one. Merging decreases the number of vertices by one, while the number of edges stays unchanged.
The problem asks us to find the length of the longest subsequence in an array such that the differences between consecutive elements alternate between positive and negative.
The problem gives two arrays of positive integers, nums1 and nums2, both of equal length n. The goal is to calculate the absolute sum difference between these arrays, which is the sum of the absolute differences at each index: |nums1[i] - nums2[i]|.
We are given four stick lengths, and we must choose exactly three of them. Depending on the relationship between those three lengths, there are three possible outcomes.
This problem asks us to design a reusable data structure that can efficiently answer repeated shortest-distance queries between words in a fixed list of strings. We are given an array of words, wordsDict, during initialization.
The problem gives us two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2, where every element is between 1 and 6. In one operation, we may choose any element from either array and change it to any value from 1 to 6.
The problem gives us an array nums containing non-negative integers. We need to determine whether there exists an intege
This problem asks us to determine whether one string can be transformed into another using a specific recursive scrambling process. We are given two strings, s1 and s2, and they are guaranteed to have the same length. The scrambling process works recursively.
This problem gives us an undirected graph representing a network of servers. Each server is identified by an integer from 0 to n - 1, and each pair [a, b] in connections represents a bidirectional edge between server a and server b.
Each row of the river can be treated independently. Along a chosen row, we want to place supports in some columns so that the first and last columns always contain supports, and the number of cells skipped between two neighboring supports is at most d.
The problem gives an integer array nums and asks us to find a contiguous subarray that has the largest possible sum. A subarray means the elements must appear next to each other in the original array. We are not allowed to rearrange elements or skip positions arbitrarily.
This problem is asking us to identify all customers from a Customers table who have never placed an order according to the Orders table. In other words, we are looking for entries in Customers that do not have a corresponding customerId in the Orders table.
The problem describes a staircase with n total steps. You start at the bottom and want to reach the top. At every move, you are allowed to climb either 1 step or 2 steps. The goal is to determine how many distinct sequences of moves can take you from the bottom to the top.
This problem provides a database table named Users with two columns: userid and name. The userid column uniquely identifies each user, while the name column stores a person's name using a mixture of uppercase and lowercase English letters.
The problem gives us two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2. We must count the number of valid triplets that satisfy one of
The problem is asking us to filter and sort a list of restaurants based on multiple criteria. Each restaurant is represe
The problem asks us to generate the sequence of ugly numbers and return the nth value in that sequence. An ugly number is defined as a positive integer whose only prime factors are 2, 3, and 5.
The problem is asking us to partition a string s into as many contiguous parts as possible such that no letter appears in more than one part. In other words, each character in the string should be confined to a single segment.
This problem asks us to generate random points uniformly inside a circle. The circle is defined by its radius and the coordinates of its center. Every call to randPoint() must return a point [x, y] such that the point lies either inside the circle or exactly on its boundary.
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This problem asks us to transform a given integer n into 0 using a specialized set of bit-flipping operations. Each oper
We are given two positive integers, a and b. First we compute their normal sum c = a + b. Then we apply the same transformation to all three numbers: remove every digit 0 from their decimal representation. The question is whether the transformed equation still holds.
The problem gives us two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2. We are allowed to draw lines between matching values in the two arrays, but with an important restriction: the lines cannot cross each other. A line can only connect nums1[i] with nums2[j] when the values are equal.
The problem gives us a rectangular grid called heights, where each cell represents the elevation of a piece of land. Water can flow from one cell to another if the neighboring cell has a height less than or equal to the current cell.
The problem gives us a grid called heights, where each cell contains an integer representing elevation. We start at the top-left corner (0, 0) and want to reach the bottom-right corner (rows - 1, columns - 1).
The problem gives us two strings, word1 and word2. We must choose a non-empty subsequence from each string, concatenate them together, and form a palindrome. Our goal is to maximize the length of that palindrome. A subsequence does not require characters to be contiguous.