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Solving this problem in O(n) time and space relies on using a hash set to store all numbers. You then go through each element in the array and see if a[n]-1 is in the set, and if it isn’t then … Continue reading →

I used a similar approach to Word Ladder I (leetcode 126), where I used BFS to go through all adjacent words (1 character different). The main difference is that I need to keep track of the whole path, which I … Continue reading →

The key here is that a single path through a node (through one child of the node rather than two) is fairly easily handled by using bottom up preorder traversal and checking which is bigger out of the left and … Continue reading →

We need to figure out max profit at each day going from left to right and going from right to left. We store those profits in two vectors called let and right. For each element in left we calculate the … Continue reading →

My first attempt was a recursive solution without memoization, which I suspected would not pass all leetcode test cases and it didn’t. I then modified this to use memoization, which saved doing the same calculations over and over again. Here … Continue reading →

The key observation is that the values should go up in an inorder traversal list and where they go down marks the value out of place. If the two out of place nodes are adjacent then we will have only … Continue reading →

I used recursion with DP memoization. A simple recursive solution will be O(2n) because there can potentially be a lot of repeating subtrees in the call graph. Memoization cuts out these duplicated paths. The idea is to recursively try all … Continue reading →

We can use the Largest Rectangle in Histogram algorithm from leetcode 84, repeatedly over rows of column counts. This results in O(Rows * Cols) time and an extra O(Cols) space.

An O(n²) solution is simple but fails time limit on a leetcode test case. The O(n²) solution goes through each element and for each one it finds the next smallest to the left and next smallest to the right. That … Continue reading →

My solution involves two pointers l and r to mark the begin and end of a sliding window. We will expand by incrementing r and shrink by incrementing l. So while we don’t have a complete window (complete in that … Continue reading →