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LeetCode 678: Valid Parenthesis String, Recursion memoization to DP

How can the following recursion + memoization code be converted into a tabulation format dynamic programming solution? The code is working, but I want to improve it. The challenge I am facing is ...
1 vote
3 answers
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Another ATMs cash-out (denomination) algorithm in Java

Related to this question and this answer, I would like to have a second review from you on a modified version. The problem I tried to solve Some kind of "Minimum count of numbers required from ...
4 votes
2 answers
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Optimal matrix chain multiplication in Java

Preliminaries Given two matrices $$ A = \begin{pmatrix} a_{11} & a_{12} & \dots & a_{1q} \\ a_{21} & a_{22} & \dots & a_{2q} \\ \vdots & \vdots & \ddots & \vdots \\ ...
2 votes
1 answer
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An iterator returning all possible solutions to n-queen problem in Java - follow-up

(See the initial iteration.) Now I have slightly improved performance of the iterator. Whenever we have set a queen at a particular board cell, the previous iteration sacrifices \$\mathcal{O}(n)\$ ...
8 votes
5 answers
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Repeatedly partitioning an array equally as far as possible

I solved HackerRank Nikita and the Game. The implementation is correct as program passes all test cases. Nikita just came up with a new array game. The rules are as follows: Initially, ...
3 votes
2 answers
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Counting the number of ways to decode a string

I am working on problem where I need to decode a string: A message containing letters from A-Z is being encoded to numbers using the following mapping: 'A' -> 1 'B' -> 2 ... '...
3 votes
1 answer
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Count the number of distinct subarrays

I want to determine the number of distinct subarrays that can form having at most a given number of odd elements. Two subarrays are distinct if they differ at even one position. The subarray is a ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Searching for an idiomatic Rust implementation of Minimum Edit Distance (LeetCode #72)

I am solving LeetCode Dynamic Programming challenges (this one is #72, at https://leetcode.com/problems/edit-distance). Here below, I've implemented a Rust solution for the minimum edit distance ...
5 votes
1 answer
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Snakes and Ladders using a magic die

This is a problem from here where you're given a magic die, and the objective is to find the minimum number of dice throws (hops) to go from the start point to the end of the board, and win the game. ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Maximum subset sum with no adjacent elements

Write a function that takes an array of integers (Both Positive and negative) and return the maximum sum of non adjacent elements. Note that even if all values are negative, I don't have an option to ...
2 votes
2 answers
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(Java) Read .txt and organize activities for hours / minutes

Doubts in logic to generate the output file according to the example I need that even if he reaches the total_min <720 condition he continues to travel the lines. 720 is the total number of minutes ...
3 votes
2 answers
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LeetCode: Longest String Chain (Java)

For the question, I had a pretty messy solution so I would like some advice on how to better use Java to make the code a bit cleaner. Also, a semi-hack that I did that I'm not proud of is checking if ...
5 votes
2 answers
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Calculate the rates at which users get stuck at each stage

I completed an algorithm problem just as a personal study, and I can't help but feel like my solution is a bit needlessly complicated, although I can't figure out a better way to do it. Here's the ...
3 votes
2 answers
833 views

Optimal burger-eating challenge

Little history to give context to the problem: The Krusty-Burgers Homer Simpson is a smart guy who likes to eat Krusty-Burgers, and it takes m minutes for Homer ...
0 votes
2 answers
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Making Anagram Problem Implementation

Problem Statement Alice is taking a cryptography class and finding anagrams to be very useful. We consider two strings to be anagrams of each other if the first string's letters can be rearranged to ...

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