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CF 2227D - Palindromex

CF 2227D - Palindromex Rating: - Tags: binary search, brute force, constructive algorithms, data structures, greedy, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 3m 24s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array of length $2n$. Every value from $0$ to $n-1$ appears exactly twice. The task is to select a contiguous segment of this array that reads the same left-to-right and right-to-left, and among all such segments we want...

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CF 2226E - Mental Monumental (Hard Version)

CF 2226E - Mental Monumental (Hard Version) Rating: - Tags: data structures, greedy, math, two pointers Solve time: 3m 59s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array, and we look at it prefix by prefix. For each prefix we are allowed to transform each element independently exactly once using a very permissive operation: pick any integer $b_i \ge 1$, replace $a_i$ with the remainder of dividing it...

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CF 2226C - Mental Monumental (Easy Version)

CF 2226C - Mental Monumental (Easy Version) Rating: - Tags: binary search, data structures, greedy, math, two pointers Solve time: 6m 17s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding Each array element can be modified independently. For a value $x$, we may choose any positive integer $b$, then replace $x$ by $x \bmod b$. The goal is to maximize the MEX of the resulting array. Since the operation is applied independently to...

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Codeforces Round 1095 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 1095 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 7 | Verified: 0/7 | Rating range: - | Time: 23m 23s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Disturbing Distribution - greedy, math 3m 10s ✗ B Everything Everywhere - greedy, math, number-theory 3m 22s ✗ C Mental Monumental (Easy Version) - binary-search, data-structures, greedy 6m 17s ✗ D Reserved Reversals - constructive-algorithms, dp, greedy 2m 22s ✗...

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LeetCode 3633 - Earliest Finish Time for Land and Water Rides I

LeetCode Problem 3633 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the earliest possible time a tourist can finish exactly one land ride and one water ride at a theme park, where rides may be taken in either order. Each ride has a start time , representing when it becomes available, and a duration , representing how long...

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CF 1948D - Tandem Repeats?

CF 1948D - Tandem Repeats? Rating: 1700 Tags: brute force, strings, two pointers Solve time: 2m 48s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given a string consisting of lowercase letters and wildcard characters. Each wildcard can later be replaced by any lowercase letter we choose. After fixing all wildcards, we look at every substring of the resulting string and ask whether it can be split into two consecutive halves...

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CF 1973B - Cat, Fox and the Lonely Array

CF 1973B - Cat, Fox and the Lonely Array Rating: 1300 Tags: binary search, bitmasks, data structures, greedy, math, two pointers Solve time: 5m 16s Verified: no Solution

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CF 1943E2 - MEX Game 2 (Hard Version)

CF 1943E2 - MEX Game 2 (Hard Version) Rating: 3300 Tags: binary search, greedy, two pointers Solve time: 1m 18s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given a multiset of integers, but instead of listing it explicitly, we receive frequencies of each value from 0 up to some maximum m. Alice and Bob remove elements from this multiset until nothing remains. Alice builds a new sequence c by picking...

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CF 1955D - Inaccurate Subsequence Search

CF 1955D - Inaccurate Subsequence Search Rating: 1400 Tags: data structures, two pointers Solve time: 46s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to count subsegments of length m in an array a that are “good” relative to another array b of length m . A subsegment is considered good if, after rearranging its elements, at least k of them match elements from b . In practice, this means...

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CF 1976C - Job Interview

CF 1976C - Job Interview Rating: 1600 Tags: binary search, dp, greedy, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 5m 16s Verified: no Solution

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Codeforces Round 943 (Div. 3)

Codeforces Round 943 (Div. 3) Type: Div. 3 | Problems: 2 | Verified: 1/2 | Rating range: 800-800 | Time: 2m 13s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Maximize? 800 brute-force, math, number-theory 1m 6s ✗ B Prefiquence 800 greedy, two-pointers 1m 7s ✓

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CF 1974F - Cutting Game

CF 1974F - Cutting Game Rating: 1900 Tags: binary search, brute force, data structures, implementation, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 5m 16s Verified: no Solution

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Codeforces Round 281 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 281 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 3/5 | Rating range: 1300-2800 | Time: 16m 6s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Vasya and Football 1300 implementation 1m 38s ✓ B Vasya and Wrestling 1400 implementation 10m 54s ✗ C Vasya and Basketball 1600 binary-search, brute-force, data-structures 54s ✓ D Vasya and Chess 1700 constructive-algorithms, games, math 1m 25s ✓ E Vasya...

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CF 1967D - Long Way to be Non-decreasing

CF 1967D - Long Way to be Non-decreasing Rating: 2800 Tags: binary search, dfs and similar, graphs, implementation, shortest paths, two pointers Solve time: 1m 43s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array where each position contains a value in the range $1$ to $m$, and a second array that defines a deterministic transformation on values: every value $x$ has a fixed replacement $b_x$. One operation, called...

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CF 1968B - Prefiquence

CF 1968B - Prefiquence Rating: 800 Tags: greedy, two pointers Solve time: 1m 7s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to find, for each test case, the longest prefix of a binary string a that can appear as a subsequence in another binary string b . A prefix is simply the first k characters of a , and a subsequence of b is formed by deleting zero or...

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CF 484B - Maximum Value

CF 484B - Maximum Value Rating: 2100 Tags: binary search, math, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 10m 57s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given a list of integers, and we are allowed to pick two positions in it, say one value acts as a dividend and the other as a divisor. The only restriction is that the dividend must be at least as large as the divisor. For...

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CF 493C - Vasya and Basketball

CF 493C - Vasya and Basketball Rating: 1600 Tags: binary search, brute force, data structures, implementation, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 54s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding Vasya wants to maximize the point advantage of his team in a basketball game by choosing a threshold distance, d , that separates 2-point throws from 3-point throws. Each team has a list of distances from which they made successful throws. A throw...

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Codeforces Round 276 (Div. 1)

Codeforces Round 276 (Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 4 | Verified: 0/4 | Rating range: 1700-2500 | Time: 26m 55s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Bits 1700 bitmasks, constructive-algorithms 5m 23s ✗ B Maximum Value 2100 binary-search, math, sortings 10m 57s ✗ D Kindergarten 2400 data-structures, dp, greedy 5m 17s ✗ E Sign on Fence 2500 binary-search, constructive-algorithms, data-structures 5m 18s ✗

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CF 1976D - Invertible Bracket Sequences

CF 1976D - Invertible Bracket Sequences Rating: 2000 Tags: binary search, combinatorics, data structures, divide and conquer, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 5m 14s Verified: no Solution

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CF 1949J - Amanda the Amoeba

CF 1949J - Amanda the Amoeba Rating: 2600 Tags: graphs, implementation, trees, two pointers Solve time: 1m 3s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to guide Amanda the Amoeba from an initial configuration to a target configuration on a rectangular grid. Each configuration marks Amanda's body with * , free pixels with . , and blocked pixels with X . Her body is connected and contains at least...

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LeetCode 3649 - Number of Perfect Pairs

LeetCode Problem 3649 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums and must count how many index pairs (i, j) with i < j are perfect . For each pair, let: a = nums[i] b = nums[j] The pair is considered perfect if both of the following conditions hold: min(|a - b|, |a + b|) <= min(|a|, |b|) max(|a...

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LeetCode 3884 - First Matching Character From Both Ends

LeetCode Problem 3884 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution LeetCode 3884 - First Matching Character From Both Ends Problem Understanding This problem gives us a string s of length n consisting of lowercase English letters. For every index i , we compare two characters: The character at position i , which is s[i] The character at the mirrored position from the other end, which is s[n - i...

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LeetCode 3867 - Sum of GCD of Formed Pairs

LeetCode Problem 3867 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Two Pointers, Simulation, Number Theory Solution LeetCode 3867 - Sum of GCD of Formed Pairs Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums of length n . For every index i , we first compute: mxi , the maximum value among nums[0...i] prefixGcd[i] = gcd(nums[i], mxi) This creates a new array called prefixGcd . After that, we sort prefixGcd in...

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LeetCode 3775 - Reverse Words With Same Vowel Count

LeetCode Problem 3775 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires processing a string s consisting of lowercase English words separated by single spaces. The first task is to count the number of vowels in the first word . Then, for each subsequent word in the string, if the word has the same number of vowels as the first word, it should be reversed....

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LeetCode 3865 - Reverse K Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 3865 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to take an integer array nums of length n and divide it into k contiguous subarrays of equal length, then reverse each subarray individually. The resulting array should preserve the order of the subarrays but reflect the reversal within each one. For example, if nums = [1,2,4,3,5,6] and k = 3 , each...

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LeetCode 3766 - Minimum Operations to Make Binary Palindrome

LeetCode Problem 3766 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the minimum number of increment or decrement operations needed to convert each number in a list into a binary palindrome . A binary palindrome is a number whose binary representation reads the same forwards and backwards once leading zeros are removed. For example, the number 5 in...

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LeetCode 3844 - Longest Almost-Palindromic Substring

LeetCode Problem 3844 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3844 - Longest Almost-Palindromic Substring Problem Understanding We are given a string s consisting of lowercase English letters. We must find the length of the longest substring that is almost-palindromic . A substring is almost-palindromic if we can remove exactly one character from that substring and the remaining characters form a palindrome. The key detail is...

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LeetCode 3750 - Minimum Number of Flips to Reverse Binary String

LeetCode Problem 3750 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Math, Two Pointers, String, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a positive integer n , and asks us to work with its binary representation. First, we convert n into a binary string s without leading zeros. Then, we compute the reverse of that binary string. Our goal is to determine the minimum number of bit flips required so that s...

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LeetCode 3823 - Reverse Letters Then Special Characters in a String

LeetCode Problem 3823 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, Simulation Solution LeetCode 3823 - Reverse Letters Then Special Characters in a String Problem Understanding This problem gives us a string s that contains two types of characters: Lowercase English letters ( 'a' to 'z' ) Special characters from the set "!@#$%^&*()" We must perform two independent reversals, in a specific order. First, we extract all lowercase letters from the...

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LeetCode 3730 - Maximum Calories Burnt from Jumps

LeetCode Problem 3730 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the maximum total calories that can be burned while visiting every block exactly once in an arbitrary order. We are given an integer array heights , where heights[i] represents the height of a block. We begin on the ground at height 0 , and our first jump must go...

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LeetCode 3722 - Lexicographically Smallest String After Reverse

LeetCode Problem 3722 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, Binary Search, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the lexicographically smallest string after performing exactly one reverse operation on a contiguous prefix or suffix of a given string s . The string consists only of lowercase English letters and can have a length up to 1000 characters. In other words, we can either reverse the first k...

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LeetCode 3801 - Minimum Cost to Merge Sorted Lists

LeetCode Problem 3801 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding We are given between 2 and 12 sorted lists. At any moment we may choose any two existing lists and merge them. If the two lists are $a$ and $b$, the merge cost is $$\operatorname{len}(a)+\operatorname{len}(b)+ \left|\operatorname{median}(a)-\operatorname{median}(b)\right|.$$ After the merge, the two lists disappear and are replaced by their sorted union. The...

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LeetCode 3685 - Subsequence Sum After Capping Elements

LeetCode Problem 3685 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution Here is a complete, rigorous study companion-style solution guide for LeetCode 3685 - Subsequence Sum After Capping Elements , following your requested format and voice. Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums of size n and a positive integer k . For any integer x from 1 to n , we define the capped...

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LeetCode 3794 - Reverse String Prefix

LeetCode Problem 3794 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution LeetCode 3794 - Reverse String Prefix Problem Understanding This problem gives us a string s and an integer k . Our task is to reverse only the first k characters of the string while leaving the remaining characters unchanged. In other words, we take the substring consisting of the first k characters, reverse its order, and then append the...

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LeetCode 3584 - Maximum Product of First and Last Elements of a Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 3584 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks for the maximum possible product of the first and last elements of any subsequence of length m chosen from an integer array nums . A subsequence means we can pick elements in order from the array, not necessarily contiguous, as long as their indices are strictly increasing. However, only the first and last elements...

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LeetCode 3635 - Earliest Finish Time for Land and Water Rides II

LeetCode Problem 3635 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Greedy, Sorting Solution Great! We will cover LeetCode 3627 - Maximum Median Sum of Subsequences of Size 3 in a full, comprehensive technical guide following your formatting requirements. Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums with a length divisible by 3. We are asked to remove the array in steps by selecting any three elements...

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LeetCode 3555 - Smallest Subarray to Sort in Every Sliding Window

LeetCode Problem 3555 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Stack, Greedy, Sorting, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to examine every contiguous subarray (window) of length k in the array nums and determine the minimum continuous segment within that window that must be sorted to make the entire window non-decreasing. In other words, for each sliding window, we want the smallest subarray that, if sorted, results...

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LeetCode 3534 - Path Existence Queries in a Graph II

LeetCode Problem 3534 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, Graph Theory, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compute the shortest path between nodes in an implicit undirected graph defined by a nums array and a maxDiff . Each node i corresponds to nums[i] . There is an edge between nodes i and j if the absolute difference of their...

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LeetCode 3504 - Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation II

LeetCode Problem 3504 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3504, Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation II Problem Understanding We are given two strings, s and t . We may choose any substring from s and any substring from t . Either substring is allowed to be empty. After selecting them, we concatenate them in this exact order: substring_from_s + substring_from_t The resulting string must be...

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LeetCode 3406 - Find the Lexicographically Largest String From the Box II

LeetCode Problem 3406 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution LeetCode 3406 - Find the Lexicographically Largest String From the Box II Problem Understanding We are given a string word of length n and an integer numFriends . In every round, Alice splits the entire string into exactly numFriends non-empty pieces. Every possible valid split is considered exactly once. Every piece produced by every split is placed into a...

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LeetCode 3734 - Lexicographically Smallest Palindromic Permutation Greater Than Target

LeetCode Problem 3734 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding We are given two strings, s and target , of the same length n . The goal is to rearrange the characters of s into a palindrome and then choose, among all possible palindromic permutations, the lexicographically smallest one that is strictly greater than target . A string a is lexicographically greater than a string b...

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LeetCode 3667 - Sort Array By Absolute Value

LeetCode Problem 3667 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Math, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to reorder an integer array such that the elements are sorted in non-decreasing order of their absolute values . This means we are not sorting based on the actual numeric value, but rather based on how far each number is from zero on the number line, regardless of sign. In simpler...

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LeetCode 3643 - Flip Square Submatrix Vertically

LeetCode Problem 3643 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Matrix Solution LeetCode 3643 - Flip Square Submatrix Vertically Problem Understanding This problem gives us an m x n matrix called grid and three integers: x , y , and k . The values x and y specify the top-left corner of a square submatrix, while k specifies the side length of that square. Therefore, the submatrix occupies: Problem Understanding...

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LeetCode 3503 - Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation I

LeetCode Problem 3503 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Enumeration Solution LeetCode 3503 - Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation I Problem Understanding We are given two strings, s and t , and we are allowed to choose: Any substring of s , including the empty string. Any substring of t , including the empty string. The chosen substring from s must come first, and the chosen substring...

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LeetCode 3460 - Longest Common Prefix After at Most One Removal

LeetCode Problem 3460 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution LeetCode 3460 - Longest Common Prefix After at Most One Removal Problem Understanding We are given two lowercase strings, s and t . We may remove at most one character from s . The removal is optional, so we are also allowed to leave s unchanged. After performing zero or one removal, we want to compute the length of...

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LeetCode 3403 - Find the Lexicographically Largest String From the Box I

LeetCode Problem 3403 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Enumeration Solution LeetCode 3403 - Find the Lexicographically Largest String From the Box I Problem Understanding We are given a string word of length n and an integer numFriends . In each round, the string is split into exactly numFriends non-empty contiguous pieces. Every distinct way to place the numFriends - 1 cuts is considered a different round. After each...

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LeetCode 1960 - Maximum Product of the Length of Two Palindromic Substrings

LeetCode Problem 1960 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Rolling Hash, Hash Function Solution LeetCode 1960 - Maximum Product of the Length of Two Palindromic Substrings Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find two non-overlapping odd-length palindromic substrings whose length product is as large as possible. We are given a string s of length up to 10^5 . We must choose two palindromic substrings: The first occupies indices...

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LeetCode 1963 - Minimum Number of Swaps to Make the String Balanced

LeetCode Problem 1963 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Stack, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform a given string of brackets into a balanced string with the minimum number of swaps. The input string s consists of n characters, where n is even, and there are exactly n / 2 opening brackets '[' and n / 2 closing brackets ']' . A string is balanced...

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LeetCode 1782 - Count Pairs Of Nodes

LeetCode Problem 1782 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Graph Theory, Sorting, Counting Solution LeetCode 1782 - Count Pairs Of Nodes Problem Understanding We are given an undirected graph with n nodes and a list of edges. Multiple edges between the same pair of nodes are allowed. For any pair of nodes (a, b) , define incident(a, b) as the number of edges connected to...

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CF 466C - Number of Ways

CF 466C - Number of Ways Rating: 1700 Tags: binary search, brute force, data structures, dp, two pointers Solve time: 1m 18s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a sequence of integers arranged in a line, and we want to split it into three contiguous segments. The cut points must produce three non-empty parts, and each part must have exactly the same sum. In other words, we are...

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LeetCode 3455 - Shortest Matching Substring

LeetCode Problem 3455 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Binary Search, String Matching Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the length of the shortest substring in a string s that matches a pattern p , where p contains exactly two '*' wildcards . Each '*' can match zero or more characters. The substring of s must contain all the letters in p in the correct order,...

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LeetCode 3008 - Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array II

LeetCode Problem 3008 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Binary Search, Rolling Hash, String Matching, Hash Function Solution LeetCode 3008 - Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array II Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find every starting index where the substring a appears inside the string s , subject to an additional proximity condition involving another substring b . More specifically, an index i is considered beautiful...

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LeetCode 1961 - Check If String Is a Prefix of Array

LeetCode Problem 1961 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to determine whether a given string s can be formed by concatenating the first k elements of an array words , where k is some positive integer less than or equal to the length of words . In other words, s must match exactly the prefix of the array when all...

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CF 166D - Shoe Store

CF 166D - Shoe Store Rating: 2500 Tags: dp, graph matchings, greedy, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 2m 34s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We have a collection of shoes, where every shoe has a unique size and a price. We also have customers, where each customer has a budget and a foot size. A customer can buy a shoe only if two conditions hold. The first condition is financial:...

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LeetCode 2234 - Maximum Total Beauty of the Gardens

LeetCode Problem 2234 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Greedy, Sorting, Enumeration, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given several gardens, where flowers[i] represents how many flowers are already planted in the i-th garden. We are also given a limited number of additional flowers, newFlowers , that we may distribute among the gardens. The goal is to maximize the total beauty score after...

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LeetCode 2095 - Delete the Middle Node of a Linked List

LeetCode Problem 2095 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us the head of a singly linked list and asks us to delete the middle node. The definition of the middle node is based on 0-based indexing. If the list has n nodes, then the middle node is the node at index ⌊n / 2⌋ . For example: If the list length is...

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LeetCode 1855 - Maximum Distance Between a Pair of Values

LeetCode Problem 1855 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search Solution Problem Understanding You are given two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 , and both arrays are sorted in non-increasing order. That means the values either stay the same or decrease as we move from left to right. A pair of indices (i, j) is considered valid if two conditions are satisfied: i <= j nums1[i] <= nums2[j]...

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CF 264A - Escape from Stones

CF 264A - Escape from Stones Rating: 1200 Tags: constructive algorithms, data structures, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 1m 5s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We start with a segment representing Liss’s current safe region, initially the interval from 0 to 1. Stones fall one after another, and each stone always lands exactly at the midpoint of Liss’s current interval. After each impact, Liss reacts by discarding either the left...

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LeetCode 2486 - Append Characters to String to Make Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 2486 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of characters that need to be appended to the end of string s so that string t becomes a subsequence of s . A subsequence is a sequence that appears in the same order as in another string, but not necessarily consecutively. Essentially, we are allowed to...

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Codeforces Round 241 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 241 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 4/5 | Rating range: 1300-2500 | Time: 8m 12s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Guess a number! 1400 greedy, implementation, two-pointers 1m 47s ✗ B Art Union 1300 brute-force, dp, implementation 1m 26s ✓ C Booking System 1600 binary-search, dp, greedy 1m 32s ✓ D Population Size 2400 greedy, implementation, math 1m 23s ✓...

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CF 190D - Non-Secret Cypher

CF 190D - Non-Secret Cypher Rating: 1900 Tags: two pointers Solve time: 1m 36s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array of integers and a number k . We need to count how many contiguous subarrays contain some value at least k times. The condition is not about having k distinct equal pairs or anything global across the subarray. A subarray is valid if there exists at...

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LeetCode 2071 - Maximum Number of Tasks You Can Assign

LeetCode Problem 2071 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Greedy, Queue, Sorting, Monotonic Queue Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the number of tasks that can be completed using a group of workers, where each worker can perform at most one task. Each task has a required strength value, and each worker has a current strength value. A worker can complete a task if...

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LeetCode 2406 - Divide Intervals Into Minimum Number of Groups

LeetCode Problem 2406 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a list of inclusive intervals, where each interval is represented as [left, right] . We must divide all intervals into groups such that no two intervals inside the same group intersect. The important detail is that the intervals are inclusive. This means two intervals overlap even...

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CF 343C - Read Time

CF 343C - Read Time Rating: 1900 Tags: binary search, greedy, two pointers Solve time: 16m 21s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We have a set of reading heads positioned on an infinitely long tape of tracks. Each head starts at a distinct track, and it can move left, right, or stay put once per second. We are given another set of target tracks that must be read, and the...

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VK Cup 2012 Round 2

VK Cup 2012 Round 2 Type: Special | Problems: 5 | Verified: 2/5 | Rating range: 1700-2900 | Time: 9m 14s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Substring and Subsequence 1700 dp 1m 17s ✓ B Lemmings 2000 binary-search 1m 35s ✗ C Conveyor 2100 sortings, two-pointers 1m 44s ✗ D Large Refrigerator 2900 brute-force 2m 22s ✗ E e-Government 2800 data-structures, dfs-and-similar, dp 2m 16s ✓

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LeetCode 3284 - Sum of Consecutive Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 3284 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the sum of all consecutive subarrays in a given integer array nums . A consecutive subarray is defined as one where each element differs from the previous by exactly 1 or -1. This means the sequence can strictly increase or strictly decrease by 1 at each step. Subarrays of...

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LeetCode 2972 - Count the Number of Incremovable Subarrays II

LeetCode Problem 2972 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array nums of positive integers and asks us to count how many contiguous non-empty subarrays can be removed so that the remaining elements form a strictly increasing array. A strictly increasing array means that every adjacent pair satisfies: $a_i < a_{i+1}$ When we remove a subarray, the remaining elements are...

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LeetCode 2337 - Move Pieces to Obtain a String

LeetCode Problem 2337 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two strings, start and target , both having the same length. Each position in the strings contains one of three characters: 'L' , representing a piece that can only move left 'R' , representing a piece that can only move right '_' , representing an empty space A move consists of sliding a...

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LeetCode 2824 - Count Pairs Whose Sum is Less than Target

LeetCode Problem 2824 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to count the number of unique pairs of indices (i, j) in a given integer array nums such that the sum of the two numbers at those indices is strictly less than a given target . The array is 0-indexed, so valid pairs satisfy 0 <= i < j <...

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LeetCode 2825 - Make String a Subsequence Using Cyclic Increments

LeetCode Problem 2825 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two lowercase strings, str1 and str2 . We are allowed to perform at most one global operation on str1 . During this operation, we may choose any subset of indices in str1 , and increment the character at each chosen index by one alphabetically. The increment is cyclic, meaning 'z' becomes 'a' ....

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LeetCode 1850 - Minimum Adjacent Swaps to Reach the Kth Smallest Number

LeetCode Problem 1850 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to compute the minimum number of adjacent swaps needed to transform a given number num into the kth smallest wonderful integer . A wonderful integer is any permutation of num 's digits that is strictly greater than num . Among all such permutations, we only care about the kth smallest one. The...

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LeetCode 2903 - Find Indices With Index and Value Difference I

LeetCode Problem 2903 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find two indices i and j in the array such that two conditions are satisfied simultaneously : The indices must be far enough apart: $$|i - j| \geq indexDifference$$ The values at those indices must differ enough: $$|nums[i] - nums[j]| \geq valueDifference$$ We may return any valid pair if multiple answers exist....

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LeetCode 2441 - Largest Positive Integer That Exists With Its Negative

LeetCode Problem 2441 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the largest positive integer k in a given array nums such that its negative counterpart -k also exists in the array. In other words, for each positive integer in the array, we need to check whether its negative exists. If multiple positive integers satisfy this property, we return...

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LeetCode 2562 - Find the Array Concatenation Value

LeetCode Problem 2562 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to compute a special sum over a given array nums by repeatedly concatenating the first and last elements of the array until it is empty. The concatenation operation is not addition; it involves treating numbers as strings, joining them together, and then converting them back to integers. For example, concatenating 15...

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LeetCode 3362 - Zero Array Transformation III

LeetCode Problem 3362 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding We are given an integer array nums and a list of interval queries. Each query [l, r] allows us to reduce every element inside that range by at most 1 . The important detail is that the decrement is optional and independent for every index in the range. This means...

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CF 406E - Hamming Triples

CF 406E - Hamming Triples Rating: 2800 Tags: implementation, math, two pointers Solve time: 4m 23s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a collection of binary strings of a fixed length, but rather than giving the strings explicitly, each string is described compactly: the first $f_i$ bits are the same, $s_i$, and the remaining $n-f_i$ bits are the opposite of $s_i$. Each string is therefore strictly increasing or...

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LeetCode 2200 - Find All K-Distant Indices in an Array

LeetCode Problem 2200 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires identifying all indices in an array nums that are "k-distant" from at least one occurrence of a given value key . In other words, for each index i , we need to determine whether there exists some index j such that nums[j] == key and the distance between i and j is at most...

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Codeforces Round 147 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 147 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 3 | Verified: 3/3 | Rating range: 1000-2000 | Time: 9m 35s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Free Cash 1000 implementation 3m 17s ✓ C Primes on Interval 1600 binary-search, number-theory, two-pointers 4m 4s ✓ D T-decomposition 2000 dfs-and-similar, graphs, greedy 2m 14s ✓

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LeetCode 2110 - Number of Smooth Descent Periods of a Stock

LeetCode Problem 2110 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding This problem is asking us to count all "smooth descent periods" in a stock price array. A smooth descent period is defined as a contiguous sequence of days where the stock price decreases by exactly 1 each day , except the first day which is always counted as a valid period of...

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CF 439D - Devu and his Brother

CF 439D - Devu and his Brother Rating: 1700 Tags: binary search, sortings, ternary search, two pointers Solve time: 57s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given two integer arrays, one belonging to Devu and the other to his brother. We are allowed to repeatedly increase or decrease any single element of either array by 1 in one operation. The goal is to transform the arrays so that the...

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CF 224B - Array

CF 224B - Array Rating: 1500 Tags: bitmasks, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 1m 2s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array of integers and a number k . The task is to find a contiguous subarray, or segment, such that it contains exactly k distinct integers. Among all segments that satisfy this condition, we are asked to find one that is minimal by inclusion , meaning...

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LeetCode 2576 - Find the Maximum Number of Marked Indices

LeetCode Problem 2576 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the number of indices in an array that can be "marked" using a specific operation. You are given an integer array nums and can repeatedly pick two different unmarked indices i and j such that 2 * nums[i] <= nums[j] . Once selected, both indices i and...

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Codeforces Round 245 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 245 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 2 | Verified: 1/2 | Rating range: 1400-1600 | Time: 3m 20s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Points and Segments (easy) 1600 constructive-algorithms, sortings 1m 34s ✗ B Balls Game 1400 brute-force, two-pointers 1m 46s ✓

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Codeforces Round 244 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 244 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 5/5 | Rating range: 800-2200 | Time: 7m 50s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Police Recruits 800 implementation 1m 22s ✓ B Prison Transfer 1100 data-structures, implementation 1m 33s ✓ C Checkposts 1700 dfs-and-similar, graphs, two-pointers 1m 34s ✓ D Match & Catch 2200 dp, string-suffix-structures, strings 1m 27s ✓ E Police Patrol 2000...

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CF 164B - Ancient Berland Hieroglyphs

CF 164B - Ancient Berland Hieroglyphs Rating: 2000 Tags: two pointers Solve time: 1m 30s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding The problem involves two circular sequences of unique hieroglyphs. We are asked to "cut" these circles at some point to turn them into linear arrays, then find the longest contiguous segment from the first array that appears as a subsequence in the second array. Our task is to determine the...

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CF 163C - Conveyor

CF 163C - Conveyor Rating: 2100 Tags: sortings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 44s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to calculate probabilities for Anton picking up chocolates from a moving conveyor belt. The belt has a straight visible part of length l and loops back under the floor, making the total belt length 2*l . The belt moves at a constant speed v1 and Anton runs on...

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LeetCode 3006 - Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array I

LeetCode Problem 3006 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Binary Search, Rolling Hash, String Matching, Hash Function Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s and two smaller strings, a and b . We need to find every index i where substring a appears in s , but only if there exists at least one occurrence of substring b close enough to it. More formally, an index...

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CF 243D - Cubes

CF 243D - Cubes Rating: 2700 Tags: data structures, dp, geometry, two pointers Solve time: 3m 9s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given an n × n grid representing a city built from unit cubes stacked in towers. Each cell of the grid contains an integer indicating the height of the tower at that location. Petya observes the city from a very far distance in the horizontal plane...

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LeetCode 2130 - Maximum Twin Sum of a Linked List

LeetCode Problem 2130 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers, Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a singly linked list with an even number of nodes. For every node at index i , there is a corresponding twin node at index n - 1 - i , where n is the total number of nodes in the list. We define the twin sum as: node[i].val + node[n...

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LeetCode 2422 - Merge Operations to Turn Array Into a Palindrome

LeetCode Problem 2422 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to transform a given array of positive integers into a palindrome using the minimum number of operations, where each operation consists of taking two adjacent elements and replacing them with their sum. A palindrome is an array that reads the same forward and backward, so for an array nums , we require...

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CF 261E - Maxim and Calculator

CF 261E - Maxim and Calculator Rating: 2800 Tags: brute force, dp, two pointers Solve time: 1m 40s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a very small computational system that starts from two registers: the first register begins at 1 and the second at 0. From this starting point we can repeatedly apply two operations. One operation increments the second register by 1. The other operation multiplies the...

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CF 420C - Bug in Code

CF 420C - Bug in Code Rating: 1900 Tags: data structures, graphs, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 1m 57s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding Each participant in the company meeting points to two other people and claims that the culprit is one of those two. From this we can think of the input as an array of length $n$, where each index $i$ stores an unordered pair $(x_i, y_i)$. This...

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CF 231C - To Add or Not to Add

CF 231C - To Add or Not to Add Rating: 1600 Tags: binary search, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 2m 58s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array of integers and a limited number of increment operations. Each operation increases a single element by one, and the same element can be increased multiple times. Our goal is to find a number that appears as many times as...

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LeetCode 2838 - Maximum Coins Heroes Can Collect

LeetCode Problem 2838 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting, Prefix Sum Solution LeetCode 2838 - Maximum Coins Heroes Can Collect Problem Understanding This problem gives us three arrays: heroes , where heroes[i] represents the power of the i th hero. monsters , where monsters[j] represents the power of the j th monster. coins , where coins[j] represents the reward obtained for defeating the j th monster....

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CF 427C - Checkposts

CF 427C - Checkposts Rating: 1700 Tags: dfs and similar, graphs, two pointers Solve time: 1m 34s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a directed graph where each node represents a city junction, and each directed edge represents a one-way road. Each junction has a cost to build a police checkpost. A checkpost at junction i protects all junctions reachable from i and able to return to i...

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LeetCode 3240 - Minimum Number of Flips to Make Binary Grid Palindromic II

LeetCode Problem 3240 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Matrix Solution Problem Understanding We are given a binary matrix grid with m rows and n columns. Every cell contains either 0 or 1 . We may flip any cell, meaning we can change 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 . The goal is to perform the minimum number of flips such that two conditions become true simultaneously: Every...

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Codeforces Round 138 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 138 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 2 | Verified: 2/2 | Rating range: 1100-1500 | Time: 2m 3s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Parallelepiped 1100 brute-force, geometry, math 1m 1s ✓ B Array 1500 bitmasks, implementation, two-pointers 1m 2s ✓

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CF 430B - Balls Game

CF 430B - Balls Game Rating: 1400 Tags: brute force, two pointers Solve time: 1m 46s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a row of balls, each colored with one of k colors. No color initially appears three times in a row. Iahub holds a single extra ball of a given color x and can insert it anywhere in the row, including before the first ball or after...

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CF 203E - Transportation

CF 203E - Transportation Rating: 2300 Tags: greedy, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 27s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are tasked with transporting robots across a fixed distance using a limited fuel supply. Each robot has three characteristics: the number of other robots it can carry, the amount of fuel it consumes to move on its own, and the maximum distance it can travel. Valera can choose some...

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LeetCode 3316 - Find Maximum Removals From Source String

LeetCode Problem 3316 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution LeetCode 3316 - Find Maximum Removals From Source String Problem Understanding We are given three inputs: source , the original string of length n pattern , a string that is guaranteed to already be a subsequence of source targetIndices , a sorted list of indices in source that are eligible for removal An operation...

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CF 229A - Shifts

CF 229A - Shifts Rating: 1500 Tags: brute force, two pointers Solve time: 1m 34s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We have a binary matrix where each row can be rotated cyclically. A left rotation moves every element one position left and wraps the first element to the end. A right rotation does the opposite. The goal is to make at least one column consist entirely of 1 s, using...

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LeetCode 1885 - Count Pairs in Two Arrays

LeetCode Problem 1885 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count the number of index pairs (i, j) such that i < j and the sum of elements at these indices in nums1 is greater than the sum of elements at the same indices in nums2 . Formally, we want the number of pairs (i, j) where nums1[i] +...

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LeetCode 2000 - Reverse Prefix of Word

LeetCode Problem 2000 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string word and a character ch . We must locate the first occurrence of ch inside the string. Once we find it, we reverse the substring starting at index 0 and ending at that occurrence, inclusive. After reversing that prefix, the remainder of the string stays exactly the same. For example,...

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Codeforces Round 238 (Div. 1)

Codeforces Round 238 (Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 2 | Verified: 0/2 | Rating range: 2200-2800 | Time: 6m 36s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified D Hill Climbing 2200 dfs-and-similar, geometry, trees 2m 13s ✗ E Hamming Triples 2800 implementation, math, two-pointers 4m 23s ✗

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LeetCode 2511 - Maximum Enemy Forts That Can Be Captured

LeetCode Problem 2511 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given an array called forts , where each position represents one of three possible states: 1 means the fort belongs to us. 0 means there is an enemy fort. -1 means the position is empty. We want to move our army from one of our forts to an empty position. However, the...

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LeetCode 2540 - Minimum Common Value

LeetCode Problem 2540 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 , and both arrays are already sorted in non-decreasing order. Our task is to find the smallest integer that appears in both arrays. If there is no value shared between the two arrays, we must return -1 . In other words, we need...

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CF 444D - DZY Loves Strings

CF 444D - DZY Loves Strings Rating: 2500 Tags: binary search, hashing, strings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 6s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a long string s and a list of pairs of small strings (a_i, b_i) . For each pair, we need to find the shortest substring of s that contains both a_i and b_i as substrings. If no substring contains both, we report -1...

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CF 253D - Table with Letters - 2

CF 253D - Table with Letters - 2 Rating: 2000 Tags: brute force, two pointers Solve time: 1m 4s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a rectangular grid of characters, each cell containing a lowercase English letter. The task is to count how many axis-aligned subrectangles have two properties at the same time. First, if you look at the four corners of the chosen rectangle, all four corner...

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CF 204E - Little Elephant and Strings

CF 204E - Little Elephant and Strings Rating: 2800 Tags: data structures, implementation, string suffix structures, two pointers Solve time: 45s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a list of strings, and for each string, we need to count the number of its substrings that appear in at least k strings from the list. A substring is any contiguous segment of a string. For example, if the string...

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Coder-Strike 2014 - Finals (online edition, Div. 1)

Coder-Strike 2014 - Finals (online edition, Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 4/5 | Rating range: 1000-2600 | Time: 8m 34s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Start Up 1000 implementation 1m 24s ✓ B Online Meeting 1800 implementation 2m 4s ✗ C Bug in Code 1900 data-structures, graphs, implementation 1m 57s ✓ D Cup Trick 2200 data-structures 1m 9s ✓ E Playing the...

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LeetCode 2046 - Sort Linked List Already Sorted Using Absolute Values

LeetCode Problem 2046 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem provides a singly linked list where the nodes are sorted in non-decreasing order by their absolute values , rather than their actual values. The task is to rearrange this list so that the nodes are sorted in non-decreasing order according to their actual values . For example, consider the input [0, 2, -5,...

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LeetCode 2108 - Find First Palindromic String in the Array

LeetCode Problem 2108 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to examine an array of strings, words , and identify the first string that is a palindrome. A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward. In other words, the first character matches the last, the second matches the second-to-last, and so on. If no string in the array...

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Codeforces Round 182 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 182 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 2 | Verified: 2/2 | Rating range: 800-1200 | Time: 4m 57s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Eugeny and Array 800 implementation 1m 32s ✓ B Eugeny and Play List 1200 binary-search, implementation, two-pointers 3m 25s ✓

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CF 250D - Building Bridge

CF 250D - Building Bridge Rating: 1900 Tags: geometry, ternary search, two pointers Solve time: 1m 13s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are choosing a path from a western village at the origin to a river bank located at a vertical line $x = a$, then crossing the river in a straight line to another point on the eastern bank $x = b$, and finally following a pre-determined path...

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CF 175C - Geometry Horse

CF 175C - Geometry Horse Rating: 1600 Tags: greedy, implementation, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 21s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to maximize Vasya's score in a game where destroying geometric figures earns points based on a per-figure cost and a global factor. Each figure type has a quantity and a point value. The factor starts at 1 and increases at specific thresholds after a certain...

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Codeforces Round 120 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 120 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 4 | Verified: 4/4 | Rating range: 1100-1900 | Time: 6m 10s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Vasya and the Bus 1100 greedy, math 1m 11s ✓ B Surrounded 1800 geometry 1m 34s ✓ C STL 1500 dfs-and-similar 1m 49s ✓ D Non-Secret Cypher 1900 two-pointers 1m 36s ✓

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CROC-MBTU 2012, Final Round (Online version, Div. 2)

CROC-MBTU 2012, Final Round (Online version, Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 2/5 | Rating range: 1000-2000 | Time: 11m 54s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Paper Work 1000 greedy 3m 9s ✗ B Restoring IPv6 1500 implementation, strings 1m 5s ✓ C Movie Critics 1600 greedy 3m 12s ✗ D Building Bridge 1900 geometry, ternary-search, two-pointers 1m 13s ✓ E Mad Joe...

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LeetCode 3194 - Minimum Average of Smallest and Largest Elements

LeetCode Problem 3194 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution LeetCode 3194 - Minimum Average of Smallest and Largest Elements Problem Understanding The problem gives us an even-length integer array nums . We repeatedly perform the following operation until the array becomes empty: Remove the smallest element. Remove the largest element. Compute their average. Store that average in another array called averages . After all pairs have been...

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LeetCode 1898 - Maximum Number of Removable Characters

LeetCode Problem 1898 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String, Binary Search Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two strings, s and p , and a list of indices removable . The string p is guaranteed to be a subsequence of s , meaning all characters in p appear in s in the same order, though not necessarily consecutively. The array removable represents positions in s that we...

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LeetCode 3132 - Find the Integer Added to Array II

LeetCode Problem 3132 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding We are given two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 . The array nums2 was created from nums1 using two operations: Remove exactly two elements from nums1 . Add the same integer x to every remaining element. After these operations, the resulting multiset of values becomes exactly equal to nums2 . The order of elements does...

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LeetCode 2330 - Valid Palindrome IV

LeetCode Problem 2330 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s containing only lowercase English letters. We are allowed to perform operations where we change any single character into any other lowercase character. The goal is to determine whether the string can become a palindrome after performing either exactly one operation or exactly two operations. A palindrome is a string that...

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CF 138E - Hellish Constraints

CF 138E - Hellish Constraints Rating: 2900 Tags: brute force, dp, two pointers Solve time: 1m 18s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to count substrings of a given string that satisfy a complicated set of constraints. Each constraint specifies a letter and a minimum and maximum number of times that letter can appear. Additionally, a substring is considered valid only if it satisfies at least L and...

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LeetCode 2856 - Minimum Array Length After Pair Removals

LeetCode Problem 2856 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Greedy, Counting Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us a sorted integer array nums in non-decreasing order. We may repeatedly remove pairs of elements under one important rule: for a chosen pair (i, j) , the values must satisfy nums[i] < nums[j] . In other words, the two chosen numbers cannot be equal, and the smaller...

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LeetCode 2193 - Minimum Number of Moves to Make Palindrome

LeetCode Problem 2193 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Greedy, Binary Indexed Tree Solution LeetCode 2193 - Minimum Number of Moves to Make Palindrome Problem Understanding This problem asks us to transform a given string into a palindrome using the minimum number of adjacent swaps. A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward. For example, "abba" and "racecar" are palindromes. The only operation allowed is...

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LeetCode 2161 - Partition Array According to Given Pivot

LeetCode Problem 2161 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to rearrange an array around a given pivot value while preserving relative ordering inside certain groups. We are given an integer array nums and an integer pivot . The goal is to reorganize the array into three consecutive sections: All elements smaller than pivot All elements equal to pivot All elements greater...

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LeetCode 2592 - Maximize Greatness of an Array

LeetCode Problem 2592 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution Here is the complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 2592 - Maximize Greatness of an Array following your formatting requirements. Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and asks us to permute it into a new array perm such that the number of indices i for which perm[i] > nums[i] is maximized. This...

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LeetCode 2300 - Successful Pairs of Spells and Potions

LeetCode Problem 2300 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine, for each spell, how many potions it can pair with to achieve a product of at least success . The arrays spells and potions represent the strengths of spells and potions, respectively. The output is an array of integers where each element corresponds to the number of successful...

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LeetCode 2332 - The Latest Time to Catch a Bus

LeetCode Problem 2332 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the latest time we can arrive at a bus station to catch a bus , given the departure times of buses, arrival times of other passengers, and the maximum capacity of each bus. The buses and passengers are both represented as integer arrays with unique values, and passengers...

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LeetCode 3356 - Zero Array Transformation II

LeetCode Problem 3356 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of sequential queries required to transform an array nums into a Zero Array , where all elements are zero. Each query specifies a subarray [li, ri] and a value vali . We are allowed to decrement each element within that subarray by any value...

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VK Cup 2012 Round 1

VK Cup 2012 Round 1 Type: Special | Problems: 5 | Verified: 5/5 | Rating range: 1300-2500 | Time: 11m 9s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Dress'em in Vests! 1300 binary-search, brute-force, greedy 1m 15s ✓ B Discounts 1700 constructive-algorithms, greedy, sortings 2m 13s ✓ C Abracadabra 2400 divide-and-conquer 2m 37s ✓ D Distance in Tree 1800 dfs-and-similar, dp, trees 3m 13s ✓ E Polycarpus the Safecracker...

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CF 264D - Colorful Stones

CF 264D - Colorful Stones Rating: 2500 Tags: dp, two pointers Solve time: 1m 12s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given two sequences of stones, each colored red, green, or blue, represented as strings s and t . Liss starts on the first stone of the first sequence and Vasya on the first stone of the second sequence. The only operation we can perform is to announce a...

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Codeforces Round 254 (Div. 1)

Codeforces Round 254 (Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 3 | Verified: 2/3 | Rating range: 1600-2700 | Time: 4m 8s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A DZY Loves Physics 1600 greedy, math 1m 32s ✓ D DZY Loves Strings 2500 binary-search, hashing, strings 1m 6s ✓ E DZY Loves Planting 2700 binary-search, dsu, trees 1m 30s ✗

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Codeforces Round 115

Codeforces Round 115 Type: Special | Problems: 5 | Verified: 5/5 | Rating range: 1400-3000 | Time: 9m 1s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Robot Bicorn Attack 1400 brute-force, implementation 1m 3s ✓ B Plane of Tanks: Pro 1400 implementation 2m 15s ✓ C Geometry Horse 1600 greedy, implementation, sortings 1m 21s ✓ D Plane of Tanks: Duel 2400 brute-force, dp, math 2m 32s ✓ F Gnomes...

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LeetCode 2604 - Minimum Time to Eat All Grains

LeetCode Problem 2604 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum time needed for all hens to eat all grains when both hens and grains are located on a one-dimensional line. Each hen can move left or right by 1 unit per second and can eat multiple grains, but only when occupying the same position as the...

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LeetCode 2970 - Count the Number of Incremovable Subarrays I

LeetCode Problem 2970 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count all subarrays of a given array nums such that if we remove the subarray , the remaining array becomes strictly increasing. A strictly increasing array is one where each element is less than the next element. For example, [1,2,3] is strictly increasing, while [1,2,2] or [3,2,1] are not....

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LeetCode 2938 - Separate Black and White Balls

LeetCode Problem 2938 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine the minimum number of adjacent swaps required to rearrange a string of black and white balls such that all white balls ( 0 s) are grouped on the left and all black balls ( 1 s) are grouped on the right. The input is a binary string s of length...

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LeetCode 3186 - Maximum Total Damage With Spell Casting

LeetCode Problem 3186 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting, Counting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array power , where each element represents the damage value of a spell. Every spell can be used at most once, and multiple spells may share the same damage value. The restriction is the important part of the problem. If we decide to cast...

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LeetCode 1868 - Product of Two Run-Length Encoded Arrays

LeetCode Problem 1868 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to multiply two arrays that are already stored in run-length encoded form, without fully expanding them into normal arrays. A run-length encoded array stores consecutive repeated values compactly. Instead of explicitly storing every element, it stores pairs of: the value how many times it appears consecutively For example: [5,5,5,5,2,2] becomes: [[5,4],[2,2]] The task...

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LeetCode 2503 - Maximum Number of Points From Grid Queries

LeetCode Problem 2503 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Breadth-First Search, Union-Find, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), Matrix Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to calculate the maximum number of points that can be collected in a grid for a series of queries. The grid is represented by an m x n matrix of integers, where each cell has a value. For each query value q , we start...

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LeetCode 1861 - Rotating the Box

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LeetCode 3302 - Find the Lexicographically Smallest Valid Sequence

LeetCode Problem 3302 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find a sequence of indices from word1 such that the characters at those indices, when concatenated in order, form a string that is almost equal to word2 . "Almost equal" means we are allowed to change at most one character in the resulting string to make it identical to...

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LeetCode 1989 - Maximum Number of People That Can Be Caught in Tag

LeetCode Problem 1989 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a line of people represented by a binary array team , where each index corresponds to a person. A value of 1 indicates a person who is “it”, and a value of 0 indicates a person who is not “it”. Each “it” person can catch at most one non-“it” person, and only if...

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CF 251A - Points on Line

CF 251A - Points on Line Rating: 1300 Tags: binary search, combinatorics, two pointers Solve time: 1m 9s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a set of points positioned along a one-dimensional line. Petya wants to count how many triplets of points can be chosen such that the distance between the leftmost and rightmost points in the triplet does not exceed a given value d . Formally, if...

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Codeforces Round 200 (Div. 1)

Codeforces Round 200 (Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 1 | Verified: 0/1 | Rating range: 1900-1900 | Time: 16m 21s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified C Read Time 1900 binary-search, greedy, two-pointers 16m 21s ✗

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LeetCode 1877 - Minimize Maximum Pair Sum in Array

LeetCode Problem 1877 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to pair elements in an array of even length such that the largest sum among all pairs is minimized. In simpler terms, imagine we have a collection of numbers and we want to form pairs of two numbers each. Each number can only belong to one pair. Once we pair them,...

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Codeforces Round 251 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 251 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 2 | Verified: 2/2 | Rating range: 900-1700 | Time: 2m 9s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Devu, the Singer and Churu, the Joker 900 greedy, implementation 1m 12s ✓ D Devu and his Brother 1700 binary-search, sortings, ternary-search 57s ✓

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Codeforces Round 153 (Div. 1)

Codeforces Round 153 (Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 2/5 | Rating range: 1300-3000 | Time: 26m 57s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Points on Line 1300 binary-search, combinatorics, two-pointers 1m 9s ✓ B Playing with Permutations 1800 implementation, math 8m 15s ✗ C Number Transformation 2000 dp, greedy, number-theory 14m 23s ✗ D Two Sets 2700 bitmasks, math 1m 13s ✓ E...

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CF 165C - Another Problem on Strings

CF 165C - Another Problem on Strings Rating: 1600 Tags: binary search, brute force, dp, math, strings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 20s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to count substrings of a binary string that contain exactly k ones. A substring is any contiguous sequence of characters within the string, and different occurrences at different positions count separately. For instance, in the string "1010", the substring...

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LeetCode 2122 - Recover the Original Array

LeetCode Problem 2122 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Sorting, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem presents a scenario in which Alice has an original array arr of length n consisting of positive integers. She chooses a positive integer k and generates two new arrays: lower and higher . The array lower is formed by subtracting k from each element of arr , while higher is formed...

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LeetCode 2367 - Number of Arithmetic Triplets

LeetCode Problem 2367 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires us to find the number of arithmetic triplets in a strictly increasing array of integers. An arithmetic triplet (i, j, k) satisfies the conditions i < j < k , nums[j] - nums[i] == diff , and nums[k] - nums[j] == diff . Essentially, we are looking for sequences of three...

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LeetCode 2460 - Apply Operations to an Array

LeetCode Problem 2460 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Simulation Solution LeetCode 2460 - Apply Operations to an Array Problem Understanding This problem gives us a 0-indexed array nums containing non-negative integers. We must perform a sequence of operations on adjacent elements, then rearrange the resulting array by moving all zeros to the end. The first phase consists of processing the array from left to right. For every index...

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CF 309A - Morning run

CF 309A - Morning run Rating: 2000 Tags: binary search, math, two pointers Solve time: 4m 7s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We have a circular running track of length l . Each runner starts at a fixed position on the circle, and independently chooses one of two directions with equal probability. Everyone runs at speed 1 . Whenever two runners occupy the same point at the same moment, they...

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Codeforces Round 162 (Div. 1)

Codeforces Round 162 (Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 1 | Verified: 1/1 | Rating range: 1200-1200 | Time: 1m 5s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Escape from Stones 1200 constructive-algorithms, data-structures, implementation 1m 5s ✓

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LeetCode 2462 - Total Cost to Hire K Workers

LeetCode Problem 2462 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Heap (Priority Queue), Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to simulate a process of hiring k workers from a list costs , where each worker has an associated cost. We can hire workers only from the first candidates workers or the last candidates workers in each hiring session. The goal is to compute the total cost incurred after...

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Codeforces Round 143 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 143 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 3 | Verified: 3/3 | Rating range: 800-1600 | Time: 5m 32s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Team 800 brute-force, greedy 56s ✓ B Magic, Wizardry and Wonders 1500 constructive-algorithms, greedy 1m 38s ✓ C To Add or Not to Add 1600 binary-search, sortings, two-pointers 2m 58s ✓

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LeetCode 3218 - Minimum Cost for Cutting Cake I

LeetCode Problem 3218 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an m x n rectangular cake and asks us to cut it into individual 1 x 1 pieces. We are allowed to cut along predefined horizontal and vertical lines. Each line has a fixed cost associated with it. The important detail is that the same cut may need to...

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LeetCode 2472 - Maximum Number of Non-overlapping Palindrome Substrings

LeetCode Problem 2472 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the maximum number of non-overlapping palindrome substrings in a given string s such that each substring has a length of at least k . In other words, we are looking to segment the string into valid palindromic blocks, where no two selected blocks overlap and each block is...

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CF 280B - Maximum Xor Secondary

CF 280B - Maximum Xor Secondary Rating: 1800 Tags: data structures, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 1m 35s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array of distinct positive integers. For every subarray, we look at its largest value and its second largest value, then compute their XOR. Among all possible subarrays, we need the maximum such XOR value. The direct interpretation is simple: every subarray contributes exactly...

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CF 416A - Guess a number!

CF 416A - Guess a number! Rating: 1400 Tags: greedy, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 1m 47s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given a sequence of statements about an unknown integer value $y$. Each statement restricts $y$ relative to some integer threshold $x$, and is either strict or non-strict. After each statement, we are also told whether that statement is true or false. The task is not to...

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LeetCode 2465 - Number of Distinct Averages

LeetCode Problem 2465 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires calculating the number of distinct averages generated from a sequence of numbers using a specific process. The input is an integer array nums of even length. The process repeatedly removes the smallest and largest numbers from the array, calculates their average, and continues until the array is empty. The output is...

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CF 302B - Eugeny and Play List

CF 302B - Eugeny and Play List Rating: 1200 Tags: binary search, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 3m 25s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding The playlist is built from blocks of repeated songs. Song i has duration t[i] , and Eugeny listens to it c[i] times consecutively before moving to the next song. If a song lasts 4 minutes and is repeated 3 times, that block contributes 12 minutes to...

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LeetCode 2109 - Adding Spaces to a String

LeetCode Problem 2109 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires us to insert spaces into a given string s at specific positions described by the array spaces . Each element in spaces represents an index in the string before which a space should be inserted. For example, if spaces = [2] and s = "hello" , the output would be "he llo"...

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CF 161A - Dress'em in Vests!

CF 161A - Dress'em in Vests! Rating: 1300 Tags: binary search, brute force, greedy, two pointers Solve time: 1m 15s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are tasked with equipping as many soldiers as possible with bulletproof vests. Each soldier has a preferred vest size, but they are willing to tolerate deviations within a given range. Specifically, the i-th soldier can wear any vest with a size between a[i] -...

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LeetCode 2491 - Divide Players Into Teams of Equal Skill

LeetCode Problem 2491 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to divide a given list of player skill levels into teams of exactly two players such that every team has the same total skill . The chemistry of a team is defined as the product of the skills of the two players, and we are asked to return the sum...

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LeetCode 2674 - Split a Circular Linked List

LeetCode Problem 2674 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to take a circular linked list of positive integers and split it into two separate circular linked lists . The first list should contain the first half of the nodes , rounded up ( ceil(length / 2) ), and the second list should contain the remaining nodes. Importantly, the relative order of...

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LeetCode 2911 - Minimum Changes to Make K Semi-palindromes

LeetCode Problem 2911 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to partition a given string s into k contiguous substrings and modify the characters minimally so that each substring becomes a semi-palindrome . A semi-palindrome is a string that can be divided into groups based on a repeating pattern length d (a divisor of the string length), where each group forms...

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LeetCode 2563 - Count the Number of Fair Pairs

LeetCode Problem 2563 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many pairs of indices (i, j) satisfy two conditions: i < j The sum nums[i] + nums[j] lies within the inclusive range [lower, upper] We are given an integer array nums and two bounds, lower and upper . The goal is to return the total number of...

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CF 314D - Sereja and Straight Lines

CF 314D - Sereja and Straight Lines Rating: 2500 Tags: binary search, data structures, geometry, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 45s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a set of points in the plane, and we want to place two infinite straight lines that must always be perpendicular to each other. One of these lines is constrained in orientation: it must make a 45-degree angle with the...

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Codeforces Round 172 (Div. 1)

Codeforces Round 172 (Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 2 | Verified: 1/2 | Rating range: 1800-3000 | Time: 3m 38s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified B Maximum Xor Secondary 1800 data-structures, implementation, two-pointers 1m 35s ✓ E Sequence Transformation 3000 brute-force, data-structures, dp 2m 3s ✗

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Codeforces Round 142 (Div. 1)

Codeforces Round 142 (Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 5/5 | Rating range: 1500-2600 | Time: 10m 59s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Shifts 1500 brute-force, two-pointers 1m 34s ✓ B Planets 1700 binary-search, data-structures, graphs 1m 37s ✓ C Triangles 1900 combinatorics, graphs, math 2m 5s ✓ D Towers 2100 dp, greedy, two-pointers 2m 55s ✓ E Gifts 2600 combinatorics, dp, math...

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LeetCode 2868 - The Wording Game

LeetCode Problem 2868 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Math, Two Pointers, String, Greedy, Game Theory Solution Problem Understanding The problem describes a turn-based game between Alice and Bob, where both players have a lexicographically sorted list of words. Alice always starts by playing her lexicographically smallest word , and the players then alternate turns. On each turn, the current player must select a word from their list that is closely...

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Codeforces Round 154 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Round 154 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 5/5 | Rating range: 1100-2200 | Time: 7m 19s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Boys and Girls 1100 greedy 1m 7s ✓ B Physics Practical 1400 binary-search, dp, sortings 3m 14s ✓ C Text Editor 1600 data-structures, dfs-and-similar, graphs 53s ✓ D Table with Letters - 2 2000 brute-force, two-pointers 1m 4s ✓ E...

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Croc Champ 2013 - Finals (online version, Div. 1)

Croc Champ 2013 - Finals (online version, Div. 1) Type: Div. 1 | Problems: 4 | Verified: 4/4 | Rating range: 1900-2900 | Time: 12m 12s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Morning run 2000 binary-search, math, two-pointers 4m 7s ✓ C Memory for Arrays 1900 binary-search, bitmasks, greedy 3m 39s ✓ D Tennis Rackets 2700 brute-force, geometry 1m 52s ✓ E Sheep 2900 binary-search, greedy 2m 34s...

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CF 229D - Towers

CF 229D - Towers Rating: 2100 Tags: dp, greedy, two pointers Solve time: 2m 55s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a sequence of towers standing in a straight line, where the height of the tower at position i is h[i] . The goal is to make the sequence non-decreasing from left to right using a set of allowed operations. Each operation consists of picking a tower and...

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VK Cup 2012 Round 3

VK Cup 2012 Round 3 Type: Special | Problems: 5 | Verified: 3/5 | Rating range: 1700-3100 | Time: 9m 50s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Variable, or There and Back Again 1700 dfs-and-similar, graphs 1m 51s ✓ B Ancient Berland Hieroglyphs 2000 two-pointers 1m 30s ✓ C Machine Programming 2400 flows, graphs 2m 16s ✓ D Minimum Diameter 3100 binary-search, brute-force 2m 18s ✗ E Polycarpus...

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LeetCode 2396 - Strictly Palindromic Number

LeetCode Problem 2396 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Two Pointers, Brainteaser Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks whether a given integer n is strictly palindromic . A number is strictly palindromic if, for every base b between 2 and n - 2 (inclusive), its representation in base b reads the same forwards and backwards. In simpler terms, you need to check all number systems from base 2 up to base...

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CF 414D - Mashmokh and Water Tanks

CF 414D - Mashmokh and Water Tanks Rating: 2300 Tags: binary search, data structures, greedy, trees, two pointers Solve time: 1m 43s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given a rooted tree where each vertex represents a water tank. Initially all tanks are empty, but we are allowed to place up to $k$ liters of water, each liter placed into a distinct non-root node. After that, the process runs...

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CF 216D - Spider's Web

CF 216D - Spider's Web Rating: 1700 Tags: binary search, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 26s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding Paw the Spider's web consists of n main threads radiating from the center, dividing the plane into n equal sectors. Each sector may have bridges connecting its bounding main threads. Every bridge has attachment points at the same distance from the center. A cell in the web is...

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LeetCode 2014 - Longest Subsequence Repeated k Times

LeetCode Problem 2014 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Backtracking, Counting, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the longest subsequence of a string s that can be repeated k times while still being a subsequence of s . A subsequence is derived by deleting zero or more characters from a string without changing the order of the remaining characters. A subsequence seq repeated...

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LeetCode 2570 - Merge Two 2D Arrays by Summing Values

LeetCode Problem 2570 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two sorted 2D integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 , where every element is a pair of integers in the form [id, value] . Each id uniquely identifies an entry inside its own array, and the corresponding value represents that id's associated number. Since both arrays are already sorted in ascending order...

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LeetCode 2149 - Rearrange Array Elements by Sign

LeetCode Problem 2149 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to rearrange a given integer array nums such that positive and negative numbers alternate, starting with a positive number. The array has an even length and contains an equal number of positive and negative integers. In addition to alternating signs, the relative order of positive numbers among themselves and negative numbers among...

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LeetCode 2905 - Find Indices With Index and Value Difference II

LeetCode Problem 2905 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find two indices i and j in an integer array nums that satisfy two conditions simultaneously: the absolute difference between the indices must be at least indexDifference ( abs(i - j) >= indexDifference ) and the absolute difference between the values at these indices must be at least valueDifference ( abs(nums[i] -...

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LeetCode 3400 - Maximum Number of Matching Indices After Right Shifts

LeetCode Problem 3400 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two arrays, nums1 and nums2 , both of the same length n . We are allowed to repeatedly perform a right circular shift on nums1 . A right shift moves every element one position to the right, and the last element wraps around to the beginning. For example: [1, 2, 3, 4]...

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LeetCode 3239 - Minimum Number of Flips to Make Binary Grid Palindromic I

LeetCode Problem 3239 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Matrix Solution LeetCode 3239 - Minimum Number of Flips to Make Binary Grid Palindromic I Problem Understanding You are given a binary matrix grid with m rows and n columns. Every cell contains either 0 or 1 . A row is considered palindromic if reading it from left to right gives the same sequence as reading it from right to...

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LeetCode 2105 - Watering Plants II

LeetCode Problem 2105 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given a row of plants where each plant requires a certain amount of water. Two people, Alice and Bob, water the plants simultaneously from opposite ends of the array. Alice starts from the left side at index 0 and moves toward the right. Bob starts from the right side at index...

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LeetCode 2565 - Subsequence With the Minimum Score

LeetCode Problem 2565 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Binary Search Solution This problem is long and deserves a detailed explanation to do it properly, especially with all requested sections, worked examples, Python and Go implementations, proof sketch, comprehensive tests, and edge cases. I can provide the complete LeetCode 2565 guide in one response , but it will be very long. To ensure formatting quality and avoid truncation, I...

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LeetCode 2697 - Lexicographically Smallest Palindrome

LeetCode Problem 2697 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, Greedy Solution LeetCode 2697, Lexicographically Smallest Palindrome Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s consisting only of lowercase English letters. We are allowed to replace characters in the string with other lowercase letters. Our goal is to transform the string into a palindrome. A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward. This means that...

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CF 253B - Physics Practical

CF 253B - Physics Practical Rating: 1400 Tags: binary search, dp, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 3m 14s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a list of measurement results from a physics experiment. Vasya wants to keep as many measurements as possible, but the remaining set must satisfy one condition: the largest remaining value cannot be more than twice the smallest remaining value. The task is to remove...

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CF 237C - Primes on Interval

CF 237C - Primes on Interval Rating: 1600 Tags: binary search, number theory, two pointers Solve time: 4m 4s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are looking at every contiguous segment inside the interval $[a, b]$. For a chosen length $l$, every segment of exactly $l$ consecutive integers must contain at least $k$ prime numbers. The task is to find the smallest such $l$. If no segment length works, we...

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CF 293D - Ksusha and Square

CF 293D - Ksusha and Square Rating: 2700 Tags: geometry, math, probabilities, two pointers Solve time: 1m 59s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a convex polygon with integer coordinates. Inside this polygon, including its boundary, there are finitely many lattice points. We choose two distinct lattice points uniformly at random, then construct a square whose diagonal is the segment between those two points. The task is to...

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LeetCode 2410 - Maximum Matching of Players With Trainers

LeetCode Problem 2410 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem requires us to maximize the number of matchings between players and trainers under the condition that a player's ability cannot exceed the trainer's training capacity. In other words, a player i can only be assigned to trainer j if players[i] <= trainers[j] . Additionally, each player and each trainer can participate in at...

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LeetCode 1237 - Find Positive Integer Solution for a Given Equation

LeetCode Problem 1237 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Interactive Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us access to a hidden function f(x, y) through an interface. We are not allowed to know or implement the formula directly. Instead, we can only call the function with positive integers x and y and observe the result. The important property is that the function is strictly increasing in both...

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LeetCode 524 - Longest Word in Dictionary through Deleting

LeetCode Problem 524 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a source string s and a list of candidate words called dictionary . We must determine which dictionary word can be formed by deleting characters from s without changing the relative order of the remaining characters. This means we are looking for a subsequence relationship. A word is valid if we...

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LeetCode 1755 - Closest Subsequence Sum

LeetCode Problem 1755 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Sorting, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find a subsequence of a given integer array nums such that the sum of that subsequence is as close as possible to a given integer goal . A subsequence can include any subset of elements in their original order, including the possibility of selecting none (which...

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CF 79C - Beaver

CF 79C - Beaver Rating: 1800 Tags: data structures, dp, greedy, hashing, strings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 27s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to find the longest contiguous substring of a string s that avoids certain "boring" substrings. In other words, given a string s and a small list of forbidden patterns b1, b2, ..., bn , we must identify the longest segment of s that...

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LeetCode 253 - Meeting Rooms II

LeetCode Problem 253 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a list of meeting intervals where each interval is represented as [start, end] . Each interval describes the time range during which a meeting occupies a conference room. The goal is to determine the minimum number of conference rooms needed so that all meetings can take...

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LeetCode 350 - Intersection of Two Arrays II

LeetCode Problem 350 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the intersection of two integer arrays, but with an important detail: duplicates matter. If a number appears multiple times in both arrays, it must appear in the result as many times as it appears in both. For example, if 2 appears twice in nums1 and three...

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CF 1941F - Rudolf and Imbalance

CF 1941F - Rudolf and Imbalance Rating: 1800 Tags: binary search, greedy, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 1m 36s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We start with a strictly increasing array of problem complexities. The imbalance of the set is defined as the largest difference between two neighboring elements after sorting. We are allowed to insert at most one additional problem. The new problem must have complexity d_i + f_j...

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LeetCode 786 - K-th Smallest Prime Fraction

LeetCode Problem 786 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding 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. For every...

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LeetCode 455 - Assign Cookies

LeetCode Problem 455 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution LeetCode 455, Assign Cookies Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the number of children who can be satisfied with the available cookies. Each child has a greed factor, and each cookie has a size. A child becomes content only if they receive a cookie whose size is greater than or equal to their greed factor....

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LeetCode 1826 - Faulty Sensor

LeetCode Problem 1826 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two arrays, sensor1 and sensor2 , representing readings collected simultaneously by two sensors. Under normal circumstances, both sensors should produce the same sequence of values. However, one sensor may be defective. A defective sensor behaves in a very specific way. It drops exactly one value somewhere in the sequence. After that dropped value,...

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LeetCode 1147 - Longest Chunked Palindrome Decomposition

LeetCode Problem 1147 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Greedy, Rolling Hash, Hash Function Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to decompose a given string text into the largest possible number of contiguous substrings such that the sequence of substrings forms a palindromic pattern. Specifically, the first substring must equal the last substring, the second substring must equal the second-to-last substring, and so on. The goal...

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LeetCode 408 - Valid Word Abbreviation

LeetCode Problem 408 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given two strings: word , the original full word abbr , a supposed abbreviation of that word We must determine whether abbr is a valid abbreviation of word . An abbreviation works by replacing one or more non-empty substrings with their lengths. For example, "internationalization" can become "i12iz4n" because: "i" stays the...

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LeetCode 696 - Count Binary Substrings

LeetCode Problem 696 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding 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: The substring contains the same number of 0 s and 1 s. All 0 s are grouped together and all 1 s are grouped together. The second condition...

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LeetCode 1089 - Duplicate Zeros

LeetCode Problem 1089 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to modify a fixed-length integer array in-place by duplicating each zero and shifting the subsequent elements to the right. The critical part of the problem is that the array has a fixed length, so any elements that would go beyond the original size are discarded. For example, if duplicating a zero would push...

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LeetCode 18 - 4Sum

LeetCode Problem 18 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution LeetCode 18 - 4Sum Problem Statement We are given an integer array nums and an integer target . The goal is to find every unique quadruplet of numbers in the array whose sum equals the target value. A quadruplet consists of four elements: nums[a], nums[b], nums[c], nums[d] where all four indices are distinct. The output should contain only...

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LeetCode 977 - Squares of a Sorted Array

LeetCode Problem 977 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to take an array of integers nums that is already sorted in non-decreasing order and return a new array containing the squares of each number , also sorted in non-decreasing order. In simpler terms, we first transform every number x in the array to x * x , and then we produce...

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LeetCode 1697 - Checking Existence of Edge Length Limited Paths

LeetCode Problem 1697 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Union-Find, Graph Theory, Sorting Solution LeetCode 1697 - Checking Existence of Edge Length Limited Paths Problem Understanding This problem gives us an undirected weighted graph with n nodes. Each edge connects two nodes and has a distance value associated with it. We are also given multiple queries, where each query asks whether there exists a path between two nodes such...

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LeetCode 475 - Heaters

LeetCode Problem 475 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives two arrays, houses and heaters , where each value represents a position on a one dimensional horizontal line. Every heater has the same warming radius, and a house is considered covered if there exists at least one heater whose distance to the house is less than or equal to that radius....

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School Personal Contest #2 (Winter Computer School 2010/11) - Codeforces Beta Round 43 (ACM-ICPC Rules)

School Personal Contest #2 (Winter Computer School 2010/11) - Codeforces Beta Round 43 (ACM-ICPC Rules) Type: Beta | Problems: 7 | Verified: 6/7 | Rating range: 800-2500 | Time: 10m 14s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Ball Game 800 brute-force, implementation 1m 23s ✓ B T-shirts from Sponsor 1100 implementation 1m 13s ✓ C Hamsters and Tigers 1600 two-pointers 1m 18s ✓ D Parking Lot 1800 data-structures,...

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CF 48G - Galaxy Union

CF 48G - Galaxy Union Rating: 2700 Tags: dp, trees, two pointers Solve time: 2m 23s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given an undirected weighted graph with exactly n vertices and n edges. Since a connected graph with n vertices and n edges contains exactly one cycle, the graph is a unicyclic graph, a tree with one extra edge. For every planet u , we must compute the...

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LeetCode 349 - Intersection of Two Arrays

LeetCode Problem 349 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 , and asks us to return their intersection. The intersection consists of all values that appear in both arrays. However, the result must contain only unique elements, even if a number appears many times in either array. For example, if nums1 =...

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LeetCode 1577 - Number of Ways Where Square of Number Is Equal to Product of Two Numbers

LeetCode Problem 1577 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Math, Two Pointers Solution LeetCode 1577, Number of Ways Where Square of Number Is Equal to Product of Two Numbers Problem Understanding The problem gives us two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 . We must count the number of valid triplets that satisfy one of two mathematical relationships. A Type 1 triplet exists when: We pick one element from nums1...

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CF 55E - Very simple problem

CF 55E - Very simple problem Rating: 2500 Tags: geometry, two pointers Solve time: 1m 49s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given a convex polygon defined by a list of points in clockwise order. For each query point in the plane, we need to count how many triangles formed by the polygon’s vertices contain that point strictly inside. The point is guaranteed not to lie on any side...

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CF 14D - Two Paths

CF 14D - Two Paths Rating: 1900 Tags: dfs and similar, dp, graphs, shortest paths, trees, two pointers Solve time: 1m 27s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a tree of n cities, meaning each city is connected in such a way that there is exactly one simple path between any two cities. Roads are undirected, and each road has a length of 1. The task is to...

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LeetCode 161 - One Edit Distance

LeetCode Problem 161 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine whether two strings are exactly one edit apart. An edit can be one of three operations: Insert a single character Delete a single character Replace one character with a different character The key detail is the word exactly. The strings must differ by precisely one valid edit. If they are already...

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LeetCode 832 - Flipping an Image

LeetCode Problem 832 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Bit Manipulation, Matrix, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires transforming an n x n binary matrix in two steps: first flipping it horizontally, then inverting it. Horizontally flipping a row means reversing the order of elements in that row, so the first element becomes last, the second becomes second-to-last, and so on. Inverting a row means changing all 0...

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LeetCode 969 - Pancake Sorting

LeetCode Problem 969 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to sort an array of unique integers using only pancake flips . A pancake flip is defined as reversing a prefix of the array from index 0 to index k-1 for some integer k between 1 and the length of the array. The input is a permutation of integers from...

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LeetCode 870 - Advantage Shuffle

LeetCode Problem 870 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to maximize the advantage of one array over another . Given two arrays nums1 and nums2 of equal length, the advantage is defined as the number of positions i where nums1[i] > nums2[i] . Our task is to rearrange nums1 to maximize this advantage. The input arrays represent two sets of...

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LeetCode 1048 - Longest String Chain

LeetCode Problem 1048 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming, Sorting Solution That is a long, structured technical guide that will exceed a practical single-message limit if done comprehensively with all requested sections, detailed walkthroughs, Python and Go solutions, worked examples, full test suite, and edge case analysis. I can provide it in full, following your exact formatting rules. I will include: Problem Understanding Brute...

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LeetCode 1498 - Number of Subsequences That Satisfy the Given Sum Condition

LeetCode Problem 1498 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the number of non-empty subsequences of a given array nums such that for each subsequence, the sum of the minimum and maximum elements is less than or equal to a given target . A subsequence can be obtained by deleting zero or more elements from the array without...

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LeetCode 16 - 3Sum Closest

LeetCode Problem 16 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and a target integer target . We must select exactly three elements from the array, using distinct indices, and compute their sum. Among all possible three-number sums, we want the one whose value is closest to the target. The important detail is that we are not trying to...

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LeetCode 1634 - Add Two Polynomials Represented as Linked Lists

LeetCode Problem 1634 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Math, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to add two polynomials represented as singly linked lists. Each node in the linked list represents a single term of a polynomial, with a coefficient and a power. The linked list is sorted in strictly descending order of powers, and terms with zero coefficients do not appear. For example, the polynomial...

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LeetCode 277 - Find the Celebrity

LeetCode Problem 277 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, Graph Theory, Interactive Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to identify whether there is a "celebrity" among n people at a party. A celebrity has a very specific property: Every other person knows the celebrity. The celebrity knows nobody else. We are not given the entire relationship graph directly. Instead, we can only query relationships through the helper API: knows(a,...

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LeetCode 1055 - Shortest Way to Form String

LeetCode Problem 1055 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Binary Search, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding 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. For example, "ace" is a subsequence of "abcde" because we can delete "b" and "d" while keeping the order of the remaining...

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LeetCode 1842 - Next Palindrome Using Same Digits

LeetCode Problem 1842 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding 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. A palindrome has mirror symmetry. For example: "1221" is a palindrome because it reads the...

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LeetCode 881 - Boats to Save People

LeetCode Problem 881 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution LeetCode 881, Boats to Save People Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine the minimum number of boats required to rescue all people, given two constraints. Each boat can carry at most two people, and the combined weight of the people in a boat cannot exceed the given weight limit. The input consists of: people ,...

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LeetCode 1229 - Meeting Scheduler

LeetCode Problem 1229 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the earliest overlapping time slot of a given duration between two people, given their individual availability schedules. Each person's availability is represented as an array of non-overlapping time slots [start, end] , where start and end are integers indicating the inclusive time range. The meeting duration is a single integer...

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LeetCode 28 - Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String

LeetCode Problem 28 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, String Matching Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to locate the first occurrence of one string inside another string. The string we are searching for is called needle , and the larger string we search inside is called haystack . More formally, we need to determine whether needle appears as a contiguous substring inside haystack . If it does,...

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LeetCode 151 - Reverse Words in a String

LeetCode Problem 151 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to take a string s containing words separated by spaces and return a new string where the words appear in reverse order . A word is defined as any sequence of non-space characters, and words can be separated by multiple spaces. The output must normalize spaces so that only a single space exists...

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LeetCode 658 - Find K Closest Elements

LeetCode Problem 658 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sliding Window, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue) Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a sorted integer array arr , along with two integers, k and x . We need to return exactly k elements from the array that are closest to x . The definition of "closest" is important: An element a is closer than b if |a...

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CF 1941E - Rudolf and k Bridges

CF 1941E - Rudolf and k Bridges Rating: 1600 Tags: binary search, data structures, dp, two pointers Solve time: 2m 6s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding 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...

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LeetCode 1163 - Last Substring in Lexicographical Order

LeetCode Problem 1163 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the substring of a given string s that is lexicographically largest among all possible substrings. A substring is any contiguous portion of the string. For a string of length n , there are O(n²) possible substrings because every starting position can pair with many ending positions. Lexicographical order is the same...

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LeetCode 647 - Palindromic Substrings

LeetCode Problem 647 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many palindromic substrings exist inside a given string s . A substring is any contiguous segment of the string. This means we cannot rearrange characters or skip positions. For example, in "abc" , "ab" is a substring, but "ac" is not because the characters are not adjacent. A...

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LeetCode 905 - Sort Array By Parity

LeetCode Problem 905 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to rearrange an array so that all even numbers appear before all odd numbers. The relative ordering among even numbers does not matter, and the relative ordering among odd numbers also does not matter. The problem explicitly states that any valid arrangement is acceptable. We are given an integer array nums ....

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LeetCode 986 - Interval List Intersections

LeetCode Problem 986 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sweep Line Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two lists of closed intervals. Each interval is represented as [start, end] , meaning every value from start through end , inclusive, belongs to that interval. The important guarantees are: Each individual list is already sorted by interval start time Intervals inside the same list do not overlap each other The...

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LeetCode 1764 - Form Array by Concatenating Subarrays of Another Array

LeetCode Problem 1764 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, String Matching Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine whether we can select disjoint subarrays from a given array nums such that each subarray matches exactly one of the subarrays in the groups array, in order. A subarray is contiguous, and "disjoint" means no element in nums is part of more than one selected subarray. The order...

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LeetCode 259 - 3Sum Smaller

LeetCode Problem 259 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many distinct index triplets (i, j, k) satisfy two conditions: The indices are ordered such that 0 <= i < j < k < n The sum of the corresponding values is strictly smaller than the given target In other words, we must examine combinations of three...

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LeetCode 557 - Reverse Words in a String III

LeetCode Problem 557 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires reversing the characters of each individual word in a string while maintaining the original order of the words and the spacing between them. In other words, the sentence structure remains the same, but each word is mirrored in place. For example, the word "Let's" becomes "s'teL" , and "LeetCode" becomes "edoCteeL" . The input...

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LeetCode 244 - Shortest Word Distance II

LeetCode Problem 244 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Design Solution LeetCode 244 - Shortest Word Distance II Problem Understanding 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. After that, we must repeatedly answer queries asking: What is...

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LeetCode 186 - Reverse Words in a String II

LeetCode Problem 186 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to reverse the order of words in a character array s in-place . Each word is a contiguous sequence of non-space characters, and words are separated by exactly one space. The input array does not have leading or trailing spaces, so we do not need to handle extra spaces at the ends. The...

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LeetCode 295 - Find Median from Data Stream

LeetCode Problem 295 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, Design, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), Data Stream Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to design a data structure that continuously receives integers from a stream and can efficiently return the median of all numbers seen so far. The median is defined as the middle element in a sorted list. If the number of elements is odd, the median is the...

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CF 43E - Race

CF 43E - Race Rating: 2300 Tags: brute force, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 3m 27s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to analyze a straight-line race of length s kilometers involving n cars. Each car has a list of driving segments, and each segment specifies a constant speed and a duration. The car moves at that speed for the given time before switching to the next segment....

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Codeforces Beta Round 6 (Div. 2 Only)

Codeforces Beta Round 6 (Div. 2 Only) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 5/5 | Rating range: 900-2600 | Time: 7m 21s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Triangle 900 brute-force, geometry 1m 18s ✓ B President's Office 1100 implementation 1m 18s ✓ C Alice, Bob and Chocolate 1200 greedy, two-pointers 1m 29s ✓ D Lizards and Basements 2 2600 brute-force, dp 2m 18s ✓ E...

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LeetCode 1712 - Ways to Split Array Into Three Subarrays

LeetCode Problem 1712 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding 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: sum(left) <= sum(mid) sum(mid) <= sum(right) The array contains only non-negative integers, which is an extremely important property because prefix sums become monotonic. That...

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Codeforces Beta Round 56

Codeforces Beta Round 56 Type: Beta | Problems: 5 | Verified: 4/5 | Rating range: 1300-2600 | Time: 11m 17s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Where Are My Flakes? 1300 implementation, two-pointers 1m 40s ✓ B Serial Time! 1400 dfs-and-similar, dsu 2m 8s ✗ C Mushroom Strife 2100 brute-force, dfs-and-similar 2m 15s ✓ D Savior 2500 brute-force, dsu, math 2m 1s ✓ E Mushroom Gnomes 2600 math,...

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LeetCode 26 - Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array

LeetCode Problem 26 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array Problem Understanding The problem gives us a sorted integer array nums in non-decreasing order. Because the array is already sorted, any duplicate values will always appear next to each other. Our task is to remove duplicate values in-place so that each distinct number appears exactly once at the beginning of the array. The phrase...

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LeetCode 1574 - Shortest Subarray to be Removed to Make Array Sorted

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LeetCode 61 - Rotate List

LeetCode Problem 61 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to rotate a singly linked list to the right by k positions. A right rotation means that each node shifts one position toward the end of the list, and the last node wraps around to become the new head. For example, if the linked list is: 1 → 2 → 3 →...

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LeetCode 246 - Strobogrammatic Number

LeetCode Problem 246 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Hash Table, Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine whether a given numeric string remains valid and unchanged when rotated 180 degrees. This property is called being "strobogrammatic". A strobogrammatic number is formed only by digits that still represent valid digits after rotation. The valid transformations are: 0 -> 0 1 -> 1 6 -> 9 8 ->...

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CF 60A - Where Are My Flakes?

CF 60A - Where Are My Flakes? Rating: 1300 Tags: implementation, two pointers Solve time: 1m 40s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding There are n boxes arranged in a straight line. Exactly one of them may contain the cereal flakes. The roommate leaves statements of two possible forms. If the hint says "To the left of i" , then the flakes must be somewhere strictly before box i . Box...

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LeetCode 1471 - The k Strongest Values in an Array

LeetCode Problem 1471 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the k strongest values in an array according to a custom definition of "strength". The first important detail is the definition of the array's centre. We do not use the average or median in the mathematical sense. Instead, we first sort the array, then select the element at index: $$\frac{n...

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LeetCode 1570 - Dot Product of Two Sparse Vectors

LeetCode Problem 1570 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Design Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to efficiently compute the dot product between two sparse vectors. A normal vector is simply an array of numbers. The dot product of two vectors is computed by multiplying corresponding elements and summing the results. For two vectors a and b of the same length: $$a \cdot b = \sum_{i=0}^{n-1}...

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LeetCode 942 - DI String Match

LeetCode Problem 942 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given a string s consisting only of the characters 'I' and 'D' . The string has length n , and we must construct a permutation of the integers from 0 to n , inclusive. A permutation means every number in the range appears exactly once. Since the range is [0,...

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All-Ukrainian School Olympiad in Informatics

All-Ukrainian School Olympiad in Informatics Type: Special | Problems: 6 | Verified: 5/6 | Rating range: 1700-2700 | Time: 12m 33s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Gift 2200 dsu, graphs, sortings 2m 12s ✓ B Mice 2100 greedy, two-pointers 1m 53s ✗ C Mutation 2700 bitmasks, dp, math 2m 6s ✓ D Plus and xor 1700 dp, greedy, math 1m 46s ✓ E Points 1700 implementation, math...

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LeetCode 1793 - Maximum Score of a Good Subarray

LeetCode Problem 1793 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Stack, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given an integer array nums and a specific index k . We must find a contiguous subarray that contains index k , and among all such subarrays, maximize the following score: $$\text{score} = \min(\text{subarray}) \times \text{length of subarray}$$ The minimum element inside the chosen subarray determines the...

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LeetCode 1332 - Remove Palindromic Subsequences

LeetCode Problem 1332 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s that contains only the characters 'a' and 'b' . In one operation, we are allowed to remove any subsequence of the string, as long as that subsequence forms a palindrome. A subsequence is different from a substring. A substring must be contiguous, but a subsequence can skip characters while preserving...

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LeetCode 1768 - Merge Strings Alternately

LeetCode Problem 1768 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires merging two input strings word1 and word2 in an alternating fashion, starting with the first character of word1 . This means we take one character from word1 , then one character from word2 , and repeat this process until one or both strings are exhausted. If one string is longer than the other, the...

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LeetCode 19 - Remove Nth Node From End of List

LeetCode Problem 19 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to remove the nth node counted from the end of a singly linked list and return the modified list. A singly linked list is a sequence of nodes where each node contains a value and a pointer to the next node. Unlike arrays, linked lists do not allow direct indexing, so accessing...

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LeetCode 344 - Reverse String

LeetCode Problem 344 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to reverse a string that is represented as an array of characters. Instead of returning a new reversed string, we must modify the original array directly. This requirement is important because the problem explicitly states that the solution must work in-place and use only O(1) extra memory. The input is an array s...

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LeetCode 809 - Expressive Words

LeetCode Problem 809 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine how many words in the words array can be transformed into the target string s using a very specific type of expansion operation. The key concept is that characters in a word can only be expanded if they belong to a group whose final size becomes at least three. A...

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LeetCode 845 - Longest Mountain in Array

LeetCode Problem 845 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Enumeration Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest contiguous subarray that forms a valid mountain. A mountain is a sequence that strictly increases up to a peak, then strictly decreases afterward. The peak cannot be the first or last element of the subarray because the mountain must contain both an uphill...

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LeetCode 15 - 3Sum

LeetCode Problem 15 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution LeetCode 15 - 3Sum Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums , and we need to find every unique triplet of numbers whose sum is exactly 0 . A triplet consists of three different indices: i != j i != k j != k The values themselves may be equal, but the indices must be...

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LeetCode 360 - Sort Transformed Array

LeetCode Problem 360 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a sorted integer array nums and a quadratic transformation function: $$f(x) = ax^2 + bx + c$$ We must apply this function to every element in the array and return the transformed values in sorted order. The important detail is that the original array is already sorted in ascending order, but...

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LeetCode 1537 - Get the Maximum Score

LeetCode Problem 1537 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Solution Here’s a complete, detailed technical solution guide for LeetCode 1537 - Get the Maximum Score following your requested format. Problem Understanding The problem gives us two strictly increasing arrays of integers, nums1 and nums2 , and asks us to compute the maximum sum obtainable along a valid path . A valid path starts from either array...

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LeetCode 27 - Remove Element

LeetCode Problem 27 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and a target value val . Our task is to remove every occurrence of val from the array, but we must do it in-place. This means we are not supposed to create another array and return it. Instead, we modify the original array directly. The function should return an...

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LeetCode 1023 - Camelcase Matching

LeetCode Problem 1023 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String, Trie, String Matching Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a list of query strings and a target camel case pattern. For each query, we must determine whether the query can be formed by inserting only lowercase English letters into the pattern. The important restriction is that we are only allowed to insert lowercase letters. We are not allowed...

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LeetCode 141 - Linked List Cycle

LeetCode Problem 141 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Hash Table, Linked List, Two Pointers Solution LeetCode 141, Linked List Cycle Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether a singly linked list contains a cycle. A cycle exists when following the next pointers eventually leads back to a node that has already been visited, instead of reaching None . The input is the head node of a singly linked list....

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LeetCode 80 - Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array II

LeetCode Problem 80 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to modify a sorted integer array in-place so that every unique value appears at most twice . Since the array is already sorted in non-decreasing order, duplicate values will always appear next to each other, which is a very important property that makes an efficient solution possible. In simpler terms, we want to...

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CF 78D - Archer's Shot

CF 78D - Archer's Shot Rating: 2300 Tags: binary search, geometry, math, two pointers Solve time: 2m 7s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to calculate how many hexagonal cells a single archer can fully cover with a circular attack of radius k , where the archer is positioned at the center of a cell. Each hexagon has side length 1. A cell counts as covered only if...

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LeetCode 2035 - Partition Array Into Two Arrays to Minimize Sum Difference

LeetCode Problem 2035 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Sorting, Ordered Set, Bitmask Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an array nums containing exactly 2 * n integers. We must divide these integers into two separate groups, each containing exactly n elements. After forming the two groups, we compute the sum of each group and measure the absolute difference between those sums. Our...

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LeetCode 1385 - Find the Distance Value Between Two Arrays

LeetCode Problem 1385 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to compute the distance value between two arrays arr1 and arr2 given a threshold d . Specifically, the distance value is defined as the count of elements in arr1 for which no element in arr2 is within a distance of d , i.e., there is no arr2[j] such that...

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LeetCode 719 - Find K-th Smallest Pair Distance

LeetCode Problem 719 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the k -th smallest distance among every possible pair of numbers in the array. For any pair (a, b) , the distance is defined as: $|a-b|$ We are given an array nums , and we must consider every pair (nums[i], nums[j]) where i < j . For each...

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LeetCode 1721 - Swapping Nodes in a Linked List

LeetCode Problem 1721 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem provides a singly linked list and an integer k . The task is to swap the values of the kth node from the start with the kth node from the end of the list. The list is 1-indexed , meaning that the first node is position 1, not 0. The input head represents the...

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LeetCode 922 - Sort Array By Parity II

LeetCode Problem 922 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an integer array nums where exactly half of the elements are even numbers and the other half are odd numbers. The task is to rearrange the array so that every even index contains an even number and every odd index contains an odd number. In other words: If an index i is even,...

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LeetCode 633 - Sum of Square Numbers

LeetCode Problem 633 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Two Pointers, Binary Search Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives a non-negative integer c and asks whether it can be represented as the sum of the squares of two integers. In mathematical terms, we need to determine whether there exist integers a and b such that: $a^2 + b^2 = c$ The integers a and b can be zero, and they do...

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LeetCode 581 - Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray

LeetCode Problem 581 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Stack, Greedy, Sorting, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an integer array nums and asks for the length of the shortest continuous subarray such that, if only that subarray is sorted in non-decreasing order, the entire array becomes sorted. In other words, the array is "almost sorted", except for some misplaced elements. We need to identify the smallest...

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LeetCode 86 - Partition List

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Codeforces Beta Round 42 (Div. 2)

Codeforces Beta Round 42 (Div. 2) Type: Div. 2 | Problems: 5 | Verified: 5/5 | Rating range: 1000-2300 | Time: 9m 18s Problem Name Rating Tags Solve Time Verified A Football 1000 strings 1m 29s ✓ B Letter 1100 implementation, strings 1m 31s ✓ C Lucky Tickets 1300 greedy 1m 12s ✓ D Journey 2000 brute-force, constructive-algorithms, implementation 1m 39s ✓ E Race 2300 brute-force, implementation, two-pointers 3m 27s...

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LeetCode 1099 - Two Sum Less Than K

LeetCode Problem 1099 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the maximum sum of any two distinct numbers in an integer array nums such that their sum is strictly less than a given integer k . In other words, we are looking for two indices i and j with i < j where nums[i] + nums[j] is less...

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LeetCode 170 - Two Sum III - Data structure design

LeetCode Problem 170 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Design, Data Stream Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to design a data structure that supports two operations efficiently over a stream of integers. The first operation, add(number) , inserts a number into the data structure. Numbers may appear multiple times, so duplicates must be handled correctly. The second operation, find(value) , checks whether there exists any...

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LeetCode 82 - Remove Duplicates from Sorted List II

LeetCode Problem 82 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to process a sorted singly linked list and remove every value that appears more than once. The important distinction is that we are not keeping one copy of duplicated values. Instead, every node containing a duplicated value must be removed entirely. For example, consider the list: 1 -> 2 -> 3 ->...

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LeetCode 838 - Push Dominoes

LeetCode Problem 838 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding This problem models a chain reaction of falling dominoes. We are given a string where each character represents the initial state of a domino in a row. A domino can be in one of three states: 'L' means the domino has been pushed to the left. 'R' means the domino has been pushed to the...

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LeetCode 1508 - Range Sum of Sorted Subarray Sums

LeetCode Problem 1508 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting, Prefix Sum Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires calculating the sum of a subrange of all possible contiguous subarray sums of a given array nums . The first step is to generate every possible continuous subarray sum, sort them in non-decreasing order, and then extract the sum of elements between the left and right indices, inclusive, with...

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LeetCode 234 - Palindrome Linked List

LeetCode Problem 234 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers, Stack, Recursion Solution Problem Understanding 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. For example, the array [1,2,2,1] is a palindrome because reversing it produces the same sequence. On the...

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CF 121D - Lucky Segments

CF 121D - Lucky Segments Rating: 2500 Tags: binary search, implementation, two pointers Solve time: 1m 59s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are asked to find the maximum number of "full lucky numbers" that can appear after adjusting segments of numbers. A lucky number is any positive integer whose digits consist only of 4 and 7. Each segment is a range [l_i, r_i] on the number line. A number...

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LeetCode 143 - Reorder List

LeetCode Problem 143 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers, Stack, Recursion Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us the head of a singly linked list and asks us to reorder the nodes in a very specific alternating pattern. A normal linked list looks like this: L0 → L1 → L2 → ... → Ln We must transform it into: L0 → Ln → L1 → Ln-1 → L2...

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LeetCode 1750 - Minimum Length of String After Deleting Similar Ends

LeetCode Problem 1750 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s containing only the characters 'a' , 'b' , and 'c' . We may repeatedly perform a deletion operation on the string. In each operation, we must remove: A non-empty prefix where every character is the same A non-empty suffix where every character is the same Both groups must contain the...

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LeetCode 821 - Shortest Distance to a Character

LeetCode Problem 821 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a string s and a target character c . For every index in the string, we must compute the distance to the nearest occurrence of c . The distance between two indices is defined as: $$|i - j|$$ where i is the current index and j is the index of some occurrence...

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LeetCode 541 - Reverse String II

LeetCode Problem 541 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem requires us to manipulate a string s in a structured way. Specifically, we need to reverse the first k characters for every consecutive block of 2k characters in the string. If a block has fewer than k characters, we reverse all of them. If a block has between k and 2k characters, we reverse the...

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CF 70C - Lucky Tickets

CF 70C - Lucky Tickets Rating: 2200 Tags: binary search, data structures, sortings, two pointers Solve time: 2m 11s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding Each ticket is described by two positive integers. The first is the series number a , the second is the ticket number inside that series b . A ticket is called lucky when $a \cdot b = \operatorname{rev}(a) \cdot \operatorname{rev}(b)$ The function rev(x) reverses the decimal...

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LeetCode 75 - Sort Colors

LeetCode Problem 75 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to sort an array that contains only three distinct values: 0 , 1 , and 2 . These values represent colors: 0 represents red 1 represents white 2 represents blue The goal is to rearrange the array so that all 0 s come first, followed by all 1 s, followed by all...

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CF 86D - Powerful array

CF 86D - Powerful array Rating: 2200 Tags: data structures, implementation, math, two pointers Solve time: 3m 46s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given an array of positive integers and many interval queries. For each query [l, r] , we look only at the subarray between those indices and compute a value called its power. If a number x appears k times inside the subarray, then x contributes...

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LeetCode 1679 - Max Number of K-Sum Pairs

LeetCode Problem 1679 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to repeatedly remove pairs of numbers from an array such that the sum of each selected pair equals a target value k . Every time we successfully remove one valid pair, it counts as one operation. Our goal is to determine the maximum number of operations that can be performed...

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LeetCode 795 - Number of Subarrays with Bounded Maximum

LeetCode Problem 795 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many contiguous, non-empty subarrays have a maximum element that lies within the inclusive range [left, right] . A subarray is a continuous segment of the original array. For every possible subarray, we look at its maximum value. If that maximum is at least left and at most right , then...

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LeetCode 167 - Two Sum II - Input Array Is Sorted

LeetCode Problem 167 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us a sorted, 1-indexed array of integers called numbers and a target integer target . Our task is to find exactly two numbers in the array whose sum equals target , then return their 1-based indices . The key detail is that the array is already sorted in non-decreasing order , meaning...

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LeetCode 825 - Friends Of Appropriate Ages

LeetCode Problem 825 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an array ages , where each value represents the age of a person on a social media platform. We must determine how many friend requests are sent between people according to a specific set of rules. A person x can send a friend request to person y only if all...

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LeetCode 611 - Valid Triangle Number

LeetCode Problem 611 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding 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. Because we are only concerned with side lengths from an array, the key...

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LeetCode 1346 - Check If N and Its Double Exist

LeetCode Problem 1346 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an integer array arr and asks whether there exist two different indices i and j such that: arr[i] == 2 * arr[j] In simpler terms, we need to determine whether one number in the array is exactly double another number in the same array. The indices must be different,...

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LeetCode 31 - Next Permutation

LeetCode Problem 31 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to modify an integer array so that it becomes the next lexicographically greater permutation of its current arrangement. A permutation is simply an ordering of the elements. Lexicographical order works the same way dictionary order works for words. When comparing two arrays, we compare elements from left to right until we find the...

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LeetCode 925 - Long Pressed Name

LeetCode Problem 925 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding In this problem, we are given two strings, name and typed . The string name represents the intended sequence of characters your friend wanted to type. The string typed represents the actual characters that appeared on the screen. The complication is that some keys may have been long pressed. A long press means that when a character...

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LeetCode 148 - Sort List

LeetCode Problem 148 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers, Divide and Conquer, Sorting, Merge Sort Solution Problem Understanding 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. Unlike arrays, linked lists do not...

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LeetCode 345 - Reverse Vowels of a String

LeetCode Problem 345 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to reverse only the vowels in a string while leaving all non-vowel characters in their original positions. A vowel is defined as one of the following characters: a e i o u The problem also states that vowels may appear in both lowercase and uppercase forms. This means characters like A , E...

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LeetCode 160 - Intersection of Two Linked Lists

LeetCode Problem 160 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Hash Table, Linked List, Two Pointers Solution LeetCode 160, Intersection of Two Linked Lists Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether two singly linked lists share a common node, and if they do, return the exact node where the intersection begins. The important detail is that an intersection is based on node reference, not node value. Two nodes containing the same...

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LeetCode 125 - Valid Palindrome

LeetCode Problem 125 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether a given string is a palindrome after applying two transformations: Convert all uppercase letters to lowercase. Remove all non-alphanumeric characters. An alphanumeric character is any English letter ( a-z , A-Z ) or digit ( 0-9 ). Characters such as spaces, punctuation marks, commas, colons, and symbols should be ignored...

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LeetCode 1455 - Check If a Word Occurs As a Prefix of Any Word in a Sentence

LeetCode Problem 1455 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, String Matching Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to determine whether a given searchWord occurs as a prefix of any word within a sentence. A sentence is defined as a string of lowercase English letters separated by single spaces, and a prefix is any contiguous leading substring of a word. We are asked to return the 1-indexed position of...

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LeetCode 287 - Find the Duplicate Number

LeetCode Problem 287 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Bit Manipulation Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums of length n + 1 , where every value is guaranteed to be in the range [1, n] . Since there are n + 1 numbers but only n possible distinct values, at least one number must appear more than once. The task is to...

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LeetCode 466 - Count The Repetitions

LeetCode Problem 466 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the maximum number of times a string str2 can be obtained from another string str1 when both are repeated multiple times. Specifically, str1 is the string s1 repeated n1 times, and str2 is the string s2 repeated n2 times. To "obtain" str2 from str1 means that we can remove...

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LeetCode 1265 - Print Immutable Linked List in Reverse

LeetCode Problem 1265 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers, Stack, Recursion Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us a special type of linked list called an immutable linked list. Unlike a normal linked list problem, we are not allowed to access node fields directly. Instead, we can only interact with the list through two provided APIs: printValue() , which prints the current node's value getNext() , which returns...

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LeetCode 457 - Circular Array Loop

LeetCode Problem 457 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether a circular array contains a valid cycle under a specific movement rule. Each element in the array represents how far we move from the current index. Positive numbers move forward, negative numbers move backward, and movement wraps around because the array is circular. The key requirement is that...

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LeetCode 777 - Swap Adjacent in LR String

LeetCode Problem 777 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us two strings, start and result , both consisting only of the characters 'L' , 'R' , and 'X' . We are allowed to transform the start string using only two kinds of moves: Replace "XL" with "LX" Replace "RX" with "XR" The goal is to determine whether it is possible to transform start...

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LeetCode 1616 - Split Two Strings to Make Palindrome

LeetCode Problem 1616 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding This problem gives us two strings, a and b , both having the same length. We are allowed to choose a split index and divide both strings at exactly the same position. If we split: a into aprefix + asuffix b into bprefix + bsuffix then we may form two candidate strings: aprefix + bsuffix bprefix +...

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LeetCode 88 - Merge Sorted Array

LeetCode Problem 88 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Sorting Solution LeetCode 88 - Merge Sorted Array Problem Understanding 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...

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LeetCode 948 - Bag of Tokens

LeetCode Problem 948 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us a collection of tokens, where each token has a numeric value. We also start with an initial amount of power and an initial score of 0 . Every token can be used at most once, and each token can be played in exactly one of two ways. If we play a...

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CF 6C - Alice, Bob and Chocolate

CF 6C - Alice, Bob and Chocolate Rating: 1200 Tags: greedy, two pointers Solve time: 1m 29s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We have a row of chocolate bars, and each bar takes a certain amount of time to eat. Alice starts from the left end and keeps moving right. Bob starts from the right end and keeps moving left. Both eat continuously without pausing, and nobody can partially eat...

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LeetCode 272 - Closest Binary Search Tree Value II

LeetCode Problem 272 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Two Pointers, Stack, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Search Tree, Heap (Priority Queue), Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the k values in a Binary Search Tree, or BST, whose values are numerically closest to a given floating point target . A BST has a very important property: Every value in the left subtree is smaller than the current...

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LeetCode 962 - Maximum Width Ramp

LeetCode Problem 962 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Stack, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the maximum width ramp in an array of integers. A ramp is defined as a pair of indices (i, j) such that: i < j nums[i] <= nums[j] The width of the ramp is simply the distance between the two indices: $$\text{width} = j - i$$ Our goal...

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LeetCode 1214 - Two Sum BSTs

LeetCode Problem 1214 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, Binary Search, Stack, Tree, Depth-First Search, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding 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 ....

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LeetCode 763 - Partition Labels

LeetCode Problem 763 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding 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. After partitioning, concatenating all the segments in order should reproduce the original...

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LeetCode 844 - Backspace String Compare

LeetCode Problem 844 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, Stack, Simulation Solution LeetCode 844 - Backspace String Compare Problem Understanding 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 keyboard. We are given two input strings, s...

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LeetCode 321 - Create Maximum Number

LeetCode Problem 321 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Stack, Greedy, Monotonic Stack Solution LeetCode 321 - Create Maximum Number Problem Understanding 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. We are allowed to choose some digits from nums1 and some digits from...

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LeetCode 189 - Rotate Array

LeetCode Problem 189 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Math, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding 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. For example, if nums = [1,2,3,4,5] and k =...

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LeetCode 443 - String Compression

LeetCode Problem 443 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to perform in place string compression on an array of characters. The input is not a string object, but a mutable array named chars , where each element is a single character. The compression rule is based on groups of consecutive repeated characters. For every contiguous block of identical characters: If the character...

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LeetCode 723 - Candy Crush

LeetCode Problem 723 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Matrix, Simulation Solution Problem Understanding This problem is essentially a simulation of the Candy Crush game, where we need to repeatedly crush candies in a grid until the board reaches a stable state. The input is an m x n matrix of integers representing different types of candies, and 0 represents empty cells. Each integer from 1 to 2000 represents...

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LeetCode 923 - 3Sum With Multiplicity

LeetCode Problem 923 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Sorting, Counting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many index triplets (i, j, k) satisfy two conditions: The indices must follow the order i < j < k The values at those indices must sum to the given target Formally, we want: arr[i] + arr[j] + arr[k] == target The important detail is that...

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LeetCode 42 - Trapping Rain Water

LeetCode Problem 42 Difficulty: 🔴 Hard Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Dynamic Programming, Stack, Monotonic Stack Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an array called height , where each element represents the height of a vertical bar in an elevation map. Every bar has width 1 . After rainfall, water may become trapped between taller bars. The task is to compute the total amount of water that can be trapped. For...

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LeetCode 532 - K-diff Pairs in an Array

LeetCode Problem 532 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to count how many unique pairs of integers in the array have an absolute difference equal to k . A pair is considered valid if: The two elements come from different indices. The absolute difference between the two values is exactly k . The important detail is that...

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LeetCode 653 - Two Sum IV - Input is a BST

LeetCode Problem 653 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Hash Table, Two Pointers, Tree, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Binary Search Tree, Binary Tree Solution LeetCode 653, Two Sum IV - Input is a BST Problem Understanding This problem gives us the root of a Binary Search Tree (BST) and an integer k . We must determine whether there are two distinct nodes in the tree whose values add up to k ....

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LeetCode 251 - Flatten 2D Vector

LeetCode Problem 251 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Design, Iterator Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to design an iterator that traverses a two dimensional array as though it were a single flat sequence. Instead of returning nested lists, the iterator should expose elements one at a time through two methods, next() and hasNext() . The input is a 2D vector, meaning a list of lists. Each...

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LeetCode 826 - Most Profit Assigning Work

LeetCode Problem 826 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Greedy, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to maximize the total profit earned by assigning jobs to workers, under a specific rule: each worker can only perform jobs whose difficulty is less than or equal to their ability. We are given three arrays: difficulty[i] represents how difficult the i-th job is. profit[i] represents how much money...

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LeetCode 1813 - Sentence Similarity III

LeetCode Problem 1813 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem is asking us to determine whether two sentences can be made identical by inserting a contiguous sequence of words (possibly empty) into one of them. Each sentence is a string of words separated by single spaces. Importantly, the insertion must occur between words, not by altering any existing word. The input consists of two...

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LeetCode 917 - Reverse Only Letters

LeetCode Problem 917 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to reverse only the English letters in a string while keeping all non-letter characters fixed in their original positions. In other words, letters move, but symbols, digits, and punctuation marks stay exactly where they started. For example, consider the string "ab-cd" . The letters are "a" , "b" , "c" , and "d"...

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CF 76B - Mice

CF 76B - Mice Rating: 2100 Tags: greedy, two pointers Solve time: 1m 53s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given a row of mice located along a horizontal line at coordinate y = Y0 and a row of cheese pieces along another horizontal line at y = Y1 . Each mouse can run directly towards any piece of cheese, and all mice run at the same speed. When...

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LeetCode 1650 - Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree III

LeetCode Problem 1650 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, Two Pointers, Tree, Binary Tree Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the lowest common ancestor, usually abbreviated as LCA, of two nodes in a binary tree. Unlike the classic version of the problem, every node contains a direct pointer to its parent. That extra parent reference changes the way we can solve the problem efficiently. The input gives...

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LeetCode 567 - Permutation in String

LeetCode Problem 567 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Sliding Window Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether any permutation of s1 appears as a contiguous substring inside s2 . A permutation means the characters are rearranged, but the frequency of each character remains the same. For example, the permutations of "ab" are "ab" and "ba" . If either of these appears somewhere inside...

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LeetCode 1754 - Largest Merge Of Two Strings

LeetCode Problem 1754 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to build the lexicographically largest possible string by repeatedly choosing characters from the front of two given strings. At every step, we may take the first character from either word1 or word2 , append it to the result, and remove it from its original string. The important detail is that we are...

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LeetCode 283 - Move Zeroes

LeetCode Problem 283 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Array, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us an integer array nums and asks us to move every 0 element to the end of the array while preserving the relative order of all non-zero elements. The phrase "relative order" is extremely important. It means that if the non-zero numbers originally appear in a certain sequence, they must remain in that same...

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LeetCode 680 - Valid Palindrome II

LeetCode Problem 680 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks whether a given string s can become a palindrome after deleting at most one character . A palindrome is a string that reads the same forwards and backwards. For example, "aba" and "racecar" are palindromes because their characters match symmetrically from both ends. The input consists of a single string s made only...

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LeetCode 392 - Is Subsequence

LeetCode Problem 392 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks whether string s can be formed from string t by deleting some characters from t without changing the order of the remaining characters. A subsequence does not require characters to be adjacent. The only requirement is that the relative ordering stays the same. For example, "abc" is a subsequence of "ahbgdc" because...

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LeetCode 142 - Linked List Cycle II

LeetCode Problem 142 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Hash Table, Linked List, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether a singly linked list contains a cycle and, if it does, return the exact node where that cycle begins. A linked list is normally a sequence of nodes where each node points to the next one, eventually ending with null . However, in this problem, the next...

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LeetCode 165 - Compare Version Numbers

LeetCode Problem 165 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to compare two software version numbers represented as strings. Each version consists of one or more numeric revisions separated by dots ( . ). For example, "1.2.10" contains three revisions: 1 , 2 , and 10 . The important detail is that revisions are compared as integers, not strings. This means leading zeros...

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LeetCode 556 - Next Greater Element III

LeetCode Problem 556 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Math, Two Pointers, String Solution LeetCode 556 - Next Greater Element III Problem Understanding This problem asks us to find the smallest integer that is strictly greater than a given integer n , while using exactly the same digits as n . In other words, we are allowed to rearrange the digits of the number, but we cannot add or remove digits. Among...

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LeetCode 876 - Middle of the Linked List

LeetCode Problem 876 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives us the head of a singly linked list and asks us to return the middle node. A singly linked list is a sequence of nodes where each node contains a value and a pointer to the next node. Unlike arrays, linked lists do not support direct indexing, so we cannot instantly jump to...

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LeetCode 522 - Longest Uncommon Subsequence II

LeetCode Problem 522 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Sorting Solution Problem Understanding The problem asks us to find the length of the longest string in the array that is not a subsequence of any other string in the same array. A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters from a string without changing the order of the remaining characters. For example, "abc" is...

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CF 131F - Present to Mom

CF 131F - Present to Mom Rating: 2000 Tags: binary search, two pointers Solve time: 1m 49s Verified: no Solution Problem Understanding We are given a black-and-white photo represented as a grid of size n × m where each cell is either '1' for a white pixel or '0' for a black pixel. Polycarpus defines a "star" as a configuration of white pixels shaped like a cross: a white pixel...

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LeetCode 481 - Magical String

LeetCode Problem 481 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String Solution Problem Understanding This problem defines a special infinite sequence called the magical string. The string contains only the characters '1' and '2' , and its defining property is very unusual: If you group consecutive identical digits together and record the length of each group, the resulting sequence of lengths recreates the original string itself. For example, the beginning of...

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CF 6E - Exposition

CF 6E - Exposition Rating: 1900 Tags: binary search, data structures, dsu, trees, two pointers Solve time: 58s Verified: yes Solution Problem Understanding We are given a sequence of books by Berlbury, each with a known height, arranged chronologically. The library wants to organize an exposition by selecting consecutive books such that the difference between the tallest and shortest book in the selection does not exceed a given limit, k...

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LeetCode 11 - Container With Most Water

LeetCode Problem 11 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy Solution Problem Understanding The problem gives an array called height , where each element represents the height of a vertical line drawn on a coordinate plane. The line at index i starts at (i, 0) and ends at (i, height[i]) . We want to choose two different lines that, together with the x-axis, form a container capable of holding...

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LeetCode 202 - Happy Number

LeetCode Problem 202 Difficulty: 🟢 Easy Topics: Hash Table, Math, Two Pointers Solution Problem Understanding This problem asks us to determine whether a given positive integer n is a happy number . A happy number is defined through a repeated transformation process. Starting with the original number, we repeatedly replace it with the sum of the squares of its digits . Eventually, one of two things happens: The number becomes...

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LeetCode 5 - Longest Palindromic Substring

LeetCode Problem 5 Difficulty: 🟡 Medium Topics: Two Pointers, String, Dynamic Programming Solution Longest Palindromic Substring The problem asks us to find the longest substring of a given string that is also a palindrome. A palindrome is a sequence that reads the same forward and backward. The substring must be contiguous, which means the characters must appear next to each other in the original string. For example, in the string...

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LeetCode 1048: Longest String Chain

Problem Restatement We are given an array of words. A word wordA is a predecessor of wordB if we can insert exactly one letter anywhere in wordA to make it equal to wordB . A word chain is a sequence of words [word_1, word_2, ..., word_k] where each word_i is a predecessor of word_{i+1} . Return the length of the longest word chain. The official constraints state that 1 <=...

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LeetCode 1099: Two Sum Less Than K

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer k . We need to find the maximum sum nums[i] + nums[j] where i < j and nums[i] + nums[j] < k . Return -1 if no such pair exists. The official constraints state that 1 <= nums.length <= 100 and 1 <= nums[i] <= 1000 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Array nums and integer k...

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LeetCode 1089: Duplicate Zeros

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array arr . For each zero in the array, we duplicate it and shift all subsequent elements to the right. Elements beyond the original length are dropped. We must modify arr in-place. The official constraints state that 1 <= arr.length <= 10^4 and 0 <= arr[i] <= 9 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Array arr (modified in-place) Output None (modifies arr...

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LeetCode 1055: Shortest Way to Form String

Problem Restatement A subsequence of a string is formed by deleting some (or no) characters without changing the order. We are given two strings source and target . We need to form target by choosing the minimum number of subsequences of source and concatenating them. Return the minimum number of subsequences needed, or -1 if it is impossible. The official constraints state that 1 <= source.length, target.length <= 1000 ....

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LeetCode 1023: Camelcase Matching

Problem Restatement We are given an array of strings queries and a string pattern . A query string matches the pattern if we can insert lowercase letters into the pattern to make it equal to the query. In other words, the pattern is a subsequence of the query, and all uppercase letters in the query must match uppercase letters in the pattern. Return a boolean array where result[i] is true...

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LeetCode 1040: Moving Stones Until Consecutive II

Problem Restatement We have n stones at distinct positions on an infinite line. In one move, we pick the leftmost or rightmost stone and move it to any unoccupied position between the leftmost and rightmost stones. We need to return [min_moves, max_moves] . The official constraints state that 3 <= stones.length <= 10^4 and 1 <= stones[i] <= 10^9 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Array stones (distinct positions)...

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LeetCode 925: Long Pressed Name

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: Item Meaning name The name the friend intended to type typed The actual string produced by the keyboard Sometimes a key may be long pressed. If the intended character is "a" , the typed output may contain "a" , "aa" , "aaa" , and so on. We need to return true if typed could be produced from name by long pressing some characters....

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LeetCode 849: Maximize Distance to Closest Person

Problem Restatement We are given an array seats . Each value means: Value Meaning 1 Someone is sitting in this seat 0 This seat is empty Alex wants to choose one empty seat so that the distance to the closest person is as large as possible. Return that maximum distance. There is at least one empty seat and at least one occupied seat. Input and Output Item Meaning Input Binary...

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LeetCode 923: 3Sum With Multiplicity

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array arr and an integer target . Return the number of index triples: i < j < k such that: arr[i] + arr[j] + arr[k] == target The array can contain duplicate values, and each valid index triple counts separately. Because the answer can be large, return it modulo: 10**9 + 7 The official problem asks for exactly this count of tuples i,...

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LeetCode 922: Sort Array By Parity II

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . Exactly half of the numbers are even, and exactly half are odd. We need to rearrange the array so that: Index Required value Even index Even number Odd index Odd number Return any valid arrangement. For example: nums = [4, 2, 5, 7] One valid answer is: [4, 5, 2, 7] because indices 0 and 2 contain even numbers, and...

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LeetCode 845: Longest Mountain in Array

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array arr . A mountain is a contiguous subarray that: Rule Meaning Length Has at least 3 elements Up slope Strictly increases before the peak Peak Has one element greater than both neighbors Down slope Strictly decreases after the peak Return the length of the longest mountain. If there is no mountain, return 0 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input Integer array...

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LeetCode 844: Backspace String Compare

Problem Restatement We are given two strings s and t . Each string contains lowercase letters and the character "#" . The "#" character acts like a backspace in a text editor. It deletes the character immediately before it. If there is no character before it, it does nothing. Return True if both strings become equal after applying all backspaces. Otherwise, return False . Input and Output Item Meaning Input...

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LeetCode 948: Bag of Tokens

Problem Restatement We are given an array of token values: tokens and an initial amount of power: power We start with score 0 . Each token may be played at most once, in one of two ways: Play type Requirement Effect Face-up power >= token Lose token power, gain 1 score Face-down score >= 1 Gain token power, lose 1 score We may play any number of tokens in any...

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LeetCode 917: Reverse Only Letters

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . Reverse only the English letters in the string. All characters that are not English letters must stay at the same index. Both lowercase and uppercase English letters are reversed together. For example: s = "ab-cd" The letters are: a, b, c, d After reversing the letters: d, c, b, a The hyphen stays in the same position. Output: "dc-ba" Input and...

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LeetCode 821: Shortest Distance to a Character

Problem Restatement We are given a string s and a character c . The character c appears at least once in s . For every index i , we need to find the shortest distance from i to any index where s[index] == c . The distance between two indices i and j is: abs(i - j) Return an array answer , where: answer[i] = distance from i to the...

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LeetCode 870: Advantage Shuffle

Problem Restatement We are given two integer arrays: nums1 nums2 Both arrays have the same length. The advantage of nums1 over nums2 is the number of indices i where: nums1[i] > nums2[i] We may rearrange nums1 in any order. Return any permutation of nums1 that maximizes its advantage over nums2 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input nums1 , the array we may reorder Input nums2 , the fixed comparison...

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LeetCode 723: Candy Crush

Problem Restatement We are given an m x n board of candies. Each cell contains either: Value Meaning Positive integer A candy type 0 Empty cell The board represents the game state after a move. We need to repeatedly apply these rules until the board becomes stable: If three or more candies of the same type are adjacent horizontally or vertically, crush all of them at the same time. Crushed...

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LeetCode 942: DI String Match

Problem Restatement We are given a string s of length n . Each character is either: "I" or: "D" We need to return any permutation perm of the integers from 0 to n such that: Character Required relation s[i] == "I" perm[i] < perm[i + 1] s[i] == "D" perm[i] > perm[i + 1] If multiple answers exist, any valid answer is accepted. The official statement defines the same reconstruction...

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LeetCode 795: Number of Subarrays with Bounded Maximum

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and two integers left and right . We need to count how many non-empty contiguous subarrays have a maximum value in this range: left <= max(subarray) <= right The subarray must be contiguous. Input and Output Item Meaning Input nums , left , and right Output Number of valid non-empty contiguous subarrays Valid subarray Its maximum value is between left and...

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LeetCode 941: Valid Mountain Array

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array arr . Return True if and only if arr is a valid mountain array. A valid mountain array must satisfy three rules: It has at least 3 elements. It strictly increases up to one peak. It strictly decreases after that peak. The peak cannot be the first element or the last element. The official statement defines a mountain array as one where...

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LeetCode 719: Find K-th Smallest Pair Distance

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer k . For every pair of indices: 0 <= i < j < len(nums) the distance between the pair is: abs(nums[i] - nums[j]) We need to return the kth smallest pair distance. The official problem defines the distance of two integers as their absolute difference and asks for the kth smallest distance among all pairs nums[i] and nums[j]...

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LeetCode 246: Strobogrammatic Number

Problem Restatement We are given a string num that represents an integer. We need to return true if the number looks the same after being rotated 180 degrees. Otherwise, return false . Only some digits are valid after rotation: Digit Rotates To 0 0 1 1 6 9 8 8 9 6 Digits like 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 7 cannot appear in a valid rotated...

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LeetCode 244: Shortest Word Distance II

Problem Restatement We need to design a class called WordDistance . The class receives a list of words in the constructor. Then it must support a method called shortest(word1, word2) . This method returns the shortest index distance between word1 and word2 in the original list. The important detail is that shortest will be called many times with different pairs of words. So we should avoid scanning the whole word...

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LeetCode 243: Shortest Word Distance

Problem Restatement We are given a list of words, wordsDict , and two different words, word1 and word2 . Both words appear in the list. We need to return the shortest distance between any occurrence of word1 and any occurrence of word2 . The distance between two words is the absolute difference between their indices. For example, if word1 appears at index i and word2 appears at index j ,...

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LeetCode 42: Trapping Rain Water

Problem Restatement We are given an array height . Each value represents the height of a vertical bar. Every bar has width 1 . After rain falls, water can be trapped between taller bars. We need to compute the total amount of trapped water. The official statement says: given n non-negative integers representing an elevation map where the width of each bar is 1 , compute how much water it...

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LeetCode 838: Push Dominoes

Problem Restatement We are given a string dominoes . Each character describes the initial state of one domino: Character Meaning "L" Domino is pushed to the left "R" Domino is pushed to the right "." Domino is standing upright After each second, a falling domino pushes the adjacent upright domino in the same direction. If a standing domino receives equal force from both sides at the same time, it stays...

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LeetCode 713: Subarray Product Less Than K

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer k . We need to count how many contiguous subarrays have product strictly less than k . A subarray must be contiguous. That means we can take a continuous segment of the array, not arbitrary elements. For example: nums = [10, 5, 2, 6] k = 100 The valid subarrays are: [10] [5] [2] [6] [10, 5] [5,...

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LeetCode 763: Partition Labels

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to split it into as many parts as possible so that each letter appears in at most one part. After concatenating all parts in order, we must get the original string back. Return the sizes of the parts. Input and Output Item Meaning Input A string s Output A list of partition sizes Goal Make as many partitions as...

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LeetCode 986: Interval List Intersections

Problem Restatement We are given two lists of closed intervals: firstList secondList Each list is sorted, and intervals inside the same list do not overlap. We need to return all intersections between intervals from the two lists. A closed interval [a, b] includes both endpoints. So [1, 5] and [5, 10] intersect at [5, 5] . The official constraints allow both lists to have length up to 1000 , and...

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LeetCode 647: Palindromic Substrings

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to count how many substrings of s are palindromes. A palindrome reads the same forward and backward. A substring is a contiguous part of the string. The same text can be counted multiple times if it appears at different positions. For example, in "aaa" , each "a" at each index is counted separately. The constraints are 1 <= s.length...

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LeetCode 809: Expressive Words

Problem Restatement We are given a string s and an array of query strings words . A query word is stretchy if it can be expanded to become exactly s . Expansion works on groups of the same consecutive character. For example, in: "heeellooo" the groups are: "h", "eee", "ll", "ooo" A group in the query word may be stretched only if the corresponding group in s has length at...

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LeetCode 832: Flipping an Image

Problem Restatement We are given an n x n binary matrix image . Each cell is either: Value Meaning 0 White pixel 1 Black pixel We need to do two operations: Flip the image horizontally. Invert the image. Flipping horizontally means reversing each row. For example: [1, 1, 0] -> [0, 1, 1] Inverting means changing every 0 to 1 and every 1 to 0 . For example: [0, 1,...

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LeetCode 881: Boats to Save People

Problem Restatement We are given an array people , where people[i] is the weight of the i th person. We also have an unlimited number of boats. Each boat has weight limit limit . Each boat can carry at most two people at the same time, and their total weight must be at most limit . Return the minimum number of boats needed to carry everyone. The official constraints allow...

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LeetCode 830: Positions of Large Groups

Problem Restatement We are given a string s containing lowercase English letters. Consecutive equal characters form a group. For example: s = "abbxxxxzyy" The groups are: Group Interval "a" [0, 0] "bb" [1, 2] "xxxx" [3, 6] "z" [7, 7] "yy" [8, 9] A group is large if its length is at least 3 . We need to return the start and end indices of every large group, sorted by...

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LeetCode 633: Sum of Square Numbers

Problem Restatement We are given a non-negative integer c . We need to determine whether there exist two integers a and b such that: a * a + b * b == c If such integers exist, return True . Otherwise, return False . Input and Output Item Meaning Input A non-negative integer c Output True if c = a² + b² for some integers a and b , otherwise...

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LeetCode 905: Sort Array By Parity

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to move all even integers to the beginning of the array and all odd integers after them. The relative order does not matter. Return any valid array. For example: nums = [3, 1, 2, 4] A valid answer is: [2, 4, 3, 1] Other answers such as [4, 2, 1, 3] are also valid. Input and Output Item...

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LeetCode 680: Valid Palindrome II

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to return true if s can become a palindrome after deleting at most one character. Otherwise, return false . The string may also already be a palindrome, because deleting zero characters is allowed. The constraints say 1 <= s.length <= 10^5 , and s contains lowercase English letters. A palindrome reads the same from left to right and right...

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LeetCode 524: Longest Word in Dictionary through Deleting

Problem Restatement We are given: s dictionary We may delete some characters from s . We need to return the longest string in dictionary that can be formed as a subsequence of s . If multiple answers have the same length, return the lexicographically smallest one. If no dictionary word can be formed, return the empty string. The official problem asks us to find the longest dictionary word obtainable by...

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LeetCode 611: Valid Triangle Number

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . Each value can be treated as a side length. We need to count how many triplets can form a valid triangle. A triplet means choosing three different indices from the array. The official problem asks us to return the number of triplets chosen from nums that can make triangles if we take them as side lengths. The constraints are 1...

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LeetCode 658: Find K Closest Elements

Problem Restatement We are given: Input Meaning arr A sorted integer array k Number of elements to return x Target value We must return the k elements closest to x . The returned elements must remain sorted in ascending order. If two numbers are equally close, we prefer the smaller number. The problem defines closeness using: |a - x| < |b - x| or, when distances are equal: a <...

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LeetCode 522: Longest Uncommon Subsequence II

Problem Restatement We are given an array of strings strs . We need to return the length of the longest uncommon subsequence among them. An uncommon subsequence is a string that is a subsequence of one string but not a subsequence of any other string in the array. If no such subsequence exists, return -1 . The official problem asks for the length of the longest uncommon subsequence among an...

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LeetCode 541: Reverse String II

Problem Restatement We are given a string s and an integer k . Starting from the beginning of the string, for every block of 2k characters, reverse the first k characters and leave the next k characters unchanged. There are two end cases: Remaining Characters Rule Fewer than k Reverse all remaining characters At least k but fewer than 2k Reverse the first k , leave the rest unchanged The...

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LeetCode 977: Squares of a Sorted Array

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order. We need to return a new array containing the square of each number, also sorted in non-decreasing order. The difficulty comes from negative numbers. For example: nums = [-4, -1, 0, 3, 10] If we square each value in the same order, we get: [16, 1, 0, 9, 100] This result is not sorted. The official constraints...

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LeetCode 777: Swap Adjacent in LR String

Problem Restatement We are given two strings, start and result . Both strings contain only three characters: Character Meaning L A piece that can move left R A piece that can move right X An empty space We can make two kinds of moves: XL -> LX RX -> XR The first move lets L move one step left. The second move lets R move one step right. Return True...

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LeetCode 876: Middle of the Linked List

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a singly linked list. We need to return the middle node of the linked list. If the linked list has two middle nodes, we return the second middle node. For example, in a list with 6 nodes, nodes 3 and 4 are both middle candidates, so we return node 4. LeetCode states this rule explicitly. Input and Output Item Meaning Input head...

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LeetCode 826: Most Profit Assigning Work

Problem Restatement We are given three arrays: Array Meaning difficulty difficulty[i] is the difficulty of job i profit profit[i] is the profit from job i worker worker[j] is the maximum difficulty worker j can handle Each worker can do at most one job. A job can be used more than once. This is important. If three workers all choose the same job, we count that job's profit three times. If...

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LeetCode 557: Reverse Words in a String III

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . The string contains words separated by single spaces. We need to reverse the characters inside each word while keeping: The word order unchanged. The spaces in the same positions. The problem guarantees there are no leading or trailing spaces, and words are separated by exactly one space. Input and Output Item Meaning Input A string s Output A string with each...

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LeetCode 581: Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to find the shortest continuous subarray such that, if we sort only that subarray in non-decreasing order, the whole array becomes sorted in non-decreasing order. Return the length of that subarray. If the array is already sorted, return 0 . The constraints are 1 <= nums.length <= 10^4 and -10^5 <= nums[i] <= 10^5 . The follow-up asks...

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LeetCode 556: Next Greater Element III

Problem Restatement We are given a positive integer n . We need to rearrange its digits to form the smallest integer that is greater than n . The new integer must use exactly the same digits as n . If no greater integer can be formed, return -1 . If the answer is greater than the 32-bit signed integer limit, return -1 . The official constraint is: 1 <= n...

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LeetCode 475: Heaters

Problem Restatement We are given two arrays: houses heaters Each value is a position on a horizontal line. Every heater has the same warm radius r . A heater at position h warms every house whose position x satisfies: abs(x - h) <= r We need to return the minimum radius r so that every house is covered by at least one heater. The official problem states that all heaters...

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LeetCode 424: Longest Repeating Character Replacement

Problem Restatement We are given a string s and an integer k . The string contains only uppercase English letters. In one operation, we may choose any character and change it to any other uppercase English letter. We may perform at most k operations. Return the length of the longest substring that can be made of one repeated letter after at most k replacements. The official examples include s =...

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LeetCode 350: Intersection of Two Arrays II

Problem Restatement We are given two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 . Return their intersection. Unlike LeetCode 349, duplicates matter here. Each element in the result must appear as many times as it appears in both arrays. More precisely, if a value appears a times in nums1 and b times in nums2 , it should appear: min(a, b) times in the answer. The result may be returned in any order....

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LeetCode 321: Create Maximum Number

Problem Restatement We are given two arrays of digits: nums1 nums2 They represent two numbers. We are also given an integer k . We need to create the maximum possible number of length k by taking digits from the two arrays. Rules: We may take digits from both arrays. We must take exactly k digits total. The relative order of digits taken from the same array must be preserved. Return...

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LeetCode 349: Intersection of Two Arrays

Problem Restatement We are given two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2 . Return an array containing the intersection of the two arrays. The intersection means the values that appear in both arrays. Each value in the result must be unique, and the result can be returned in any order. The constraints allow values from 0 to 1000 , but a hash set solution works for general integers too. Input and...

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LeetCode 443: String Compression

Problem Restatement We are given an array of characters: chars We must compress the array in-place using these rules: Case Output Single character Keep the character only Repeated character Write character followed by count For example: ["a","a","b","b","c","c","c"] becomes: ["a","2","b","2","c","3"] The compressed result must be written back into the same array. The function returns the new length after compression. Counts larger than 9 must be split into multiple characters. For example:...

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LeetCode 392: Is Subsequence

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: s t We need to return True if s is a subsequence of t . A subsequence is formed by deleting zero or more characters from a string without changing the order of the remaining characters. For example: s = "abc" t = "ahbgdc" The characters a , b , and c appear in t in the same order. So s is a...

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LeetCode 415: Add Strings

Problem Restatement We are given two non-negative integers as strings: num1 num2 Return their sum as a string. We cannot use a built-in big integer library. We also cannot directly convert the whole input strings into integers. So this is manual addition, the same way we add numbers on paper. The source problem states that num1 and num2 contain only digits, have no leading zeroes except "0" itself, and each...

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LeetCode 345: Reverse Vowels of a String

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . Reverse only the vowels in the string and return the resulting string. The vowels are: a, e, i, o, u A, E, I, O, U All non-vowel characters must stay in their original positions. For example: "hello" becomes: "holle" because the vowels: e, o are reversed to: o, e Input and Output Item Meaning Input String s Output String with reversed...

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LeetCode 344: Reverse String

Problem Restatement We are given an array of characters s . Reverse the array in place. This means we must modify the original array directly and use only O(1) extra memory. The function should not return a new array. It should change s itself. For example: ["h", "e", "l", "l", "o"] should become: ["o", "l", "l", "e", "h"] Input and Output Item Meaning Input Array of characters s Output Nothing...

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LeetCode 287: Find the Duplicate Number

Problem Restatement We are given an array nums containing n + 1 integers. Each integer is in the range: 1 <= nums[i] <= n Since there are n + 1 numbers but only n possible values, at least one number must repeat. The problem says there is exactly one repeated number, but it may appear more than twice. We need to return that repeated number. We must solve it without...

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LeetCode 125: Valid Palindrome

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to decide whether it is a palindrome after: Converting uppercase letters to lowercase. Removing all non-alphanumeric characters. Alphanumeric characters are letters and digits. The official problem asks us to return true if the cleaned string reads the same forward and backward. For example: s = "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" After cleaning, it becomes: "amanaplanacanalpanama" This reads...

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LeetCode 75: Sort Colors

Problem Restatement We are given an array nums containing only three possible values: 0 1 2 These represent three colors: Value Color 0 Red 1 White 2 Blue We need to sort the array in place so that all 0 s come first, then all 1 s, then all 2 s. We cannot use the library sort function. The official constraints are 1 <= nums.length <= 300 , and every...

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LeetCode 148: Sort List

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a singly linked list. Return the list after sorting it in ascending order. The problem asks for an O(n log n) time solution. The follow-up asks whether we can sort the list with constant extra space. The number of nodes is in the range [0, 5 * 10^4] , and node values are between -10^5 and 10^5 . Examples Example 1: head...

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LeetCode 143: Reorder List

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a singly linked list. The list can be written as: L0 -> L1 -> L2 -> ... -> Ln-1 -> Ln We need to reorder it into: L0 -> Ln -> L1 -> Ln-1 -> L2 -> Ln-2 -> ... The reordering must be done in-place. We may change node links, but we may not modify node values. The function returns nothing....

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LeetCode 142: Linked List Cycle II

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a linked list. If the linked list contains a cycle, return the node where the cycle begins. If there is no cycle, return None . LeetCode internally represents the cycle using an index pos , where the tail points back to the node at index pos . This value is not passed into the function. Examples Example 1: 3 -> 2 ->...

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LeetCode 167: Two Sum II - Input Array Is Sorted

Problem Restatement We are given a 1-indexed integer array numbers . The array is sorted in non-decreasing order. We need to find two different numbers whose sum equals target . Return their indices as: [index1, index2] The returned indices must be 1-indexed, and: 1 <= index1 < index2 <= len(numbers) The problem guarantees exactly one valid answer. We cannot use the same element twice, and the solution must use only...

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LeetCode 141: Linked List Cycle

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a linked list. Return True if the linked list contains a cycle. Otherwise, return False . A cycle exists if some node can be reached again by continuously following next pointers. LeetCode internally represents the cycle using an index pos , where the tail node points back to the node at position pos . This value is not passed to the function....

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LeetCode 88: Merge Sorted Array

Problem Restatement We are given two integer arrays: nums1 nums2 Both arrays are sorted in non-decreasing order. We are also given two integers: m n The first m elements of nums1 are valid sorted elements. The array nums2 contains n valid sorted elements. The total length of nums1 is m + n , so it has enough space to hold all elements from both arrays. We need to merge nums2...

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LeetCode 165: Compare Version Numbers

Problem Restatement We are given two version strings: version1 version2 Each version string contains revisions separated by dots. For example: "1.2.10" has revisions: 1, 2, 10 We need to compare the two versions revision by revision from left to right. Return: Return value Meaning -1 version1 is smaller 1 version1 is larger 0 Both versions are equal Leading zeros are ignored, so: "1.01" "1.001" are equal. If one version has...

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LeetCode 109: Convert Sorted List to Binary Search Tree

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a singly linked list whose values are sorted in ascending order. We need to convert this sorted linked list into a height-balanced binary search tree. The official problem defines a height-balanced binary tree as a binary tree where the depth difference between the two subtrees of every node never exceeds 1 . The resulting tree must satisfy the BST property: left subtree...

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LeetCode 189: Rotate Array

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer k . We need to rotate the array to the right by k steps. Rotating right by one step means the last element moves to the front, and every other element shifts one position to the right. We must modify nums in-place. Input and Output Item Meaning Input Integer array nums and integer k Output Nothing is returned...

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LeetCode 86: Partition List

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a linked list and an integer x . We need to reorder the list so that: nodes with value < x come before: nodes with value >= x The relative order inside each group must stay the same. The official statement says to partition the list around x , preserving the original relative order of nodes in both partitions. The constraints allow...

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LeetCode 487: Max Consecutive Ones II

Problem Restatement We are given a binary array nums . We may flip at most one 0 into 1 . Return the maximum number of consecutive 1 s we can get after doing this optimally. The array length is at most 10^5 , and every element is either 0 or 1 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input A binary integer array nums Output Maximum consecutive 1 s after flipping...

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LeetCode 283: Move Zeroes

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to move all zeroes to the end of the array while keeping the relative order of all non-zero elements unchanged. The operation must be done in-place. For example: [0, 1, 0, 3, 12] should become: [1, 3, 12, 0, 0] The order of: 1, 3, 12 must stay the same. The official statement requires an in-place solution and...

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LeetCode 61: Rotate List

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a singly linked list and an integer k . We need to rotate the list to the right by k places. A right rotation means: Remove the last node. Move it to the front. Repeat this process k times. The official constraints are 0 <= number of nodes <= 500 , -100 <= Node.val <= 100 , and 0 <= k <=...

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LeetCode 209: Minimum Size Subarray Sum

Problem Restatement We are given: target nums nums is an array of positive integers. We need to find the minimal length of a contiguous subarray whose sum is greater than or equal to target . If no such subarray exists, return 0 . The official statement asks for the minimal length of a subarray whose sum is at least target , with constraints 1 <= target <= 10^9 , 1...

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LeetCode 360: Sort Transformed Array

Problem Restatement We are given a sorted integer array nums and three integers a , b , and c . For every number x in nums , apply this function: f(x) = a * x * x + b * x + c Return all transformed values in sorted order. The input array is already sorted in ascending order. The follow-up asks for an O(n) solution, rather than transforming everything...

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LeetCode 234: Palindrome Linked List

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a singly linked list. We need to return True if the linked list is a palindrome, and False otherwise. A palindrome reads the same forward and backward. For example: [1, 2, 2, 1] is a palindrome. But: [1, 2] is not a palindrome. LeetCode examples include head = [1,2,2,1] , which returns true , and head = [1,2] , which returns false...

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LeetCode 186: Reverse Words in a String II

Problem Restatement We are given a character array s . The array contains words separated by single spaces. There are no leading spaces, no trailing spaces, and each pair of words is separated by exactly one space. We need to reverse the order of the words in-place. The internal order of characters inside each word should stay the same. The problem requires solving it without allocating extra space. Input and...

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LeetCode 408: Valid Word Abbreviation

Problem Restatement We are given a word and an abbreviation. The abbreviation may contain lowercase letters and digits. A digit sequence means we skip that many characters in the original word. We must return whether the abbreviation correctly represents the word. Numbers cannot have leading zeroes. For example, "01" is invalid. The official problem describes abbreviations as replacing non-adjacent, non-empty substrings with their lengths. It gives examples such as "s10n"...

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LeetCode 161: One Edit Distance

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: s t Return True if they are exactly one edit distance apart. An edit means one of these operations: Operation Meaning Insert Insert exactly one character into s to get t Delete Delete exactly one character from s to get t Replace Replace exactly one character in s to get t The key word is exactly. If the strings are already equal, the...

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LeetCode 160: Intersection of Two Linked Lists

Problem Restatement We are given the heads of two singly linked lists: headA headB We need to return the node where the two linked lists intersect. If the lists do not intersect, return: None Intersection means the two lists share the same node object in memory. It does not mean two nodes merely have the same value. The test cases have no cycles, and the linked lists must keep their...

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LeetCode 259: 3Sum Smaller

Problem Restatement We are given: An integer array nums An integer target We need to count how many index triplets satisfy: i < j < k and: $$ nums[i] + nums[j] + nums[k] < target $$ Return the number of such triplets. The constraints are 0 <= nums.length <= 350 , -100 <= nums[i] <= 100 , and -100 <= target <= 100 . Input and Output Item Meaning Input...

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LeetCode 58: Length of Last Word

Problem Restatement We are given a string s containing English letters and spaces. We need to return the length of the last word in the string. A word is a maximal substring made only of non-space characters. The string contains at least one word. The official constraints are 1 <= s.length <= 10^4 , and s contains only English letters and spaces. Input and Output Item Meaning Input A string...

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LeetCode 82: Remove Duplicates from Sorted List II

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a sorted linked list. We need to delete every node whose value appears more than once. This is stronger than keeping one copy. If a value appears two or more times, all nodes with that value must be removed. For example: 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 3 -> 4 -> 4 -> 5 The values 3 and 4 are duplicated, so...

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LeetCode 457: Circular Array Loop

Problem Restatement We are given a circular array nums of non-zero integers. Each value tells us how far to move from the current index: nums[i] > 0 # move forward nums[i] < 0 # move backward Because the array is circular, moving past the last index wraps around to the first index, and moving before the first index wraps around to the last index. We need to determine whether there...

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LeetCode 31: Next Permutation

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to rearrange it into the next lexicographically greater permutation. If no greater permutation exists, we rearrange it into the smallest possible permutation, which is ascending order. The replacement must be done in place and must use only constant extra memory. The constraints are 1 <= nums.length <= 100 and 0 <= nums[i] <= 100 . Input and Output...

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LeetCode 481: Magical String

Problem Restatement We are given an integer n . There is a special infinite string s made only of characters '1' and '2' . The first part of the string is: 1221121221221121122... This string is called magical because if we group equal consecutive characters, the group lengths form the same string again. For example: s = 1 22 11 2 1 22 1 22 11 2 11 22 ... length...

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LeetCode 80: Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array II

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order. We need to remove extra duplicates in-place so that each unique number appears at most twice. The relative order of the remaining numbers must stay the same. The function returns k , where the first k elements of nums contain the final valid array. Values after index k - 1 do not matter. The official problem states...

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LeetCode 19: Remove Nth Node From End of List

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a linked list and an integer n . We need to remove the n th node from the end of the list and return the head of the modified list. The follow-up asks whether we can solve it in one pass. The constraints say the list size is sz , where 1 <= sz <= 30 , node values are between 0...

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LeetCode 18: 4Sum

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer target . We need to return all unique quadruplets: [nums[a], nums[b], nums[c], nums[d]] such that: 0 <= a, b, c, d < n the four indices are distinct, and: nums[a] + nums[b] + nums[c] + nums[d] == target The answer may be returned in any order, but duplicate quadruplets must not appear. The constraints are 1 <= nums.length...

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LeetCode 455: Assign Cookies

Problem Restatement We are given two arrays: g s The array g stores the greed factor of each child. The array s stores the size of each cookie. A child i is content if we give them one cookie j such that: s[j] >= g[i] Each child can get at most one cookie. Each cookie can be used at most once. We need to return the maximum number of content...

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LeetCode 16: 3Sum Closest

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer target . We need to choose three integers from nums such that their sum is as close as possible to target . Return the sum of those three integers. The problem guarantees that each input has exactly one solution. The constraints are 3 <= nums.length <= 500 , -1000 <= nums[i] <= 1000 , and -10^4 <= target...

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LeetCode 15: 3Sum

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . We need to return all unique triplets: [nums[i], nums[j], nums[k]] such that: i != j i != k j != k and: nums[i] + nums[j] + nums[k] == 0 The solution set must not contain duplicate triplets. The order of the output and the order of values inside each triplet do not matter. The constraints are 3 <= nums.length <=...

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LeetCode 328: Odd Even Linked List

Problem Restatement We are given the head of a singly linked list. We need to reorder the list so that all nodes at odd positions come first, followed by all nodes at even positions. The position is 1-indexed: 1st node -> odd 2nd node -> even 3rd node -> odd 4th node -> even This is about node positions, not node values. The relative order inside each group must stay...

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LeetCode 228: Summary Ranges

Problem Restatement We are given a sorted array of unique integers called nums . We need to return the smallest sorted list of ranges that covers every number in nums exactly once. A range [a,b] means all integers from a to b , inclusive. Each range should be written as: Case Output Format a == b "a" a != b "a->b" For example, [0,1,2] becomes "0->2" . LeetCode states that...

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LeetCode 277: Find the Celebrity

Problem Restatement There are n people at a party, labeled from 0 to n - 1 . A celebrity is a person who satisfies two conditions: Everyone else knows the celebrity. The celebrity knows nobody else. We are given an API: knows(a, b) It returns True if person a knows person b . We need to implement: findCelebrity(n) Return the celebrity label if one exists. Otherwise, return -1 . The...

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LeetCode 28: Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String

Problem Restatement We are given two strings: haystack and needle . We need to return the index where needle first appears inside haystack . If needle does not appear inside haystack , return -1 . For this current version of the problem, both strings have length at least 1 , and both contain only lowercase English letters. Input and Output Item Meaning Input Two strings: haystack and needle Output The...

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LeetCode 251: Flatten 2D Vector

Problem Restatement We need to design an iterator over a 2D vector. The input is a list of lists, for example: vec = [[1, 2], [3], [4]] The iterator should behave as if the numbers were stored in one flat list: [1, 2, 3, 4] The class must support two operations: Method Meaning next() Return the next integer and move the iterator forward hasNext() Return True if another integer exists,...

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LeetCode 27: Remove Element

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums and an integer val . We need to remove every occurrence of val from nums in place. After removal, the first k elements of nums should contain only the values that are not equal to val . Return k , the number of remaining elements. The values after the first k positions do not matter. The order of the remaining elements...

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LeetCode 11: Container With Most Water

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array height . There are n vertical lines. The i th line has endpoints: (i, 0) (i, height[i]) Choose two lines. Together with the x-axis, they form a container. The amount of water the container can hold depends on: the distance between the two lines the shorter of the two heights The goal is to return the maximum amount of water any pair...

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LeetCode 5: Longest Palindromic Substring

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . We need to return the longest substring that is a palindrome. A palindrome reads the same forward and backward. Examples: "aba" "racecar" "bb" All of these are palindromes. A substring must be contiguous. For example: "aceca" is a substring of "racecar" . But: "rcar" is not contiguous, so it is not a substring. The problem asks for the substring itself, not...

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LeetCode 151: Reverse Words in a String

Problem Restatement We are given a string s . The string contains words separated by spaces. A word is a sequence of non-space characters. We need to return a new string where the words appear in reverse order. The output must follow two rules: Words are separated by exactly one space. There are no leading or trailing spaces. For example: s = " hello world " The words are: ["hello",...

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LeetCode 26: Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array

Problem Restatement We are given an integer array nums . The array is already sorted in non-decreasing order. We need to remove duplicate values in place so that every unique value appears only once. The relative order of the values must stay the same. After modifying the array, return k , the number of unique values. Only the first k elements matter. Values after index k - 1 can be...

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Kth Smallest Pair Distance

Kth Smallest Pair Distance Kth Smallest Pair Distance finds the k-th smallest value among all absolute pair differences. For an array $A$, each pair $(i, j)$ with $i < j$ has distance: $$ |A[i] - A[j]| $$ Instead of generating all $O(n^2)$ distances, sort the array and binary search over possible distance values. Problem Given an array $A$ of length $n$ and a 1-based rank $k$, find the k-th smallest...

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CF 2227D - Palindromex

CF 2226E - Mental Monumental (Hard Version)

CF 2226C - Mental Monumental (Easy Version)

Codeforces Round 1095 (Div. 2)

LeetCode 3633 - Earliest Finish Time for Land and Water Rides I

CF 1948D - Tandem Repeats?

CF 1973B - Cat, Fox and the Lonely Array

CF 1943E2 - MEX Game 2 (Hard Version)

CF 1955D - Inaccurate Subsequence Search

CF 1976C - Job Interview

Codeforces Round 943 (Div. 3)

CF 1974F - Cutting Game

Codeforces Round 281 (Div. 2)

CF 1967D - Long Way to be Non-decreasing

CF 1968B - Prefiquence

CF 484B - Maximum Value

CF 493C - Vasya and Basketball

Codeforces Round 276 (Div. 1)

CF 1976D - Invertible Bracket Sequences

CF 1949J - Amanda the Amoeba

LeetCode 3649 - Number of Perfect Pairs

LeetCode 3884 - First Matching Character From Both Ends

LeetCode 3867 - Sum of GCD of Formed Pairs

LeetCode 3775 - Reverse Words With Same Vowel Count

LeetCode 3865 - Reverse K Subarrays

LeetCode 3766 - Minimum Operations to Make Binary Palindrome

LeetCode 3844 - Longest Almost-Palindromic Substring

LeetCode 3750 - Minimum Number of Flips to Reverse Binary String

LeetCode 3823 - Reverse Letters Then Special Characters in a String

LeetCode 3730 - Maximum Calories Burnt from Jumps

LeetCode 3722 - Lexicographically Smallest String After Reverse

LeetCode 3801 - Minimum Cost to Merge Sorted Lists

LeetCode 3685 - Subsequence Sum After Capping Elements

LeetCode 3794 - Reverse String Prefix

LeetCode 3584 - Maximum Product of First and Last Elements of a Subsequence

LeetCode 3635 - Earliest Finish Time for Land and Water Rides II

LeetCode 3555 - Smallest Subarray to Sort in Every Sliding Window

LeetCode 3534 - Path Existence Queries in a Graph II

LeetCode 3504 - Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation II

LeetCode 3406 - Find the Lexicographically Largest String From the Box II

LeetCode 3734 - Lexicographically Smallest Palindromic Permutation Greater Than Target

LeetCode 3667 - Sort Array By Absolute Value

LeetCode 3643 - Flip Square Submatrix Vertically

LeetCode 3503 - Longest Palindrome After Substring Concatenation I

LeetCode 3460 - Longest Common Prefix After at Most One Removal

LeetCode 3403 - Find the Lexicographically Largest String From the Box I

LeetCode 1960 - Maximum Product of the Length of Two Palindromic Substrings

LeetCode 1963 - Minimum Number of Swaps to Make the String Balanced

LeetCode 1782 - Count Pairs Of Nodes

CF 466C - Number of Ways

LeetCode 3455 - Shortest Matching Substring

LeetCode 3008 - Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array II

LeetCode 1961 - Check If String Is a Prefix of Array

CF 166D - Shoe Store

LeetCode 2234 - Maximum Total Beauty of the Gardens

LeetCode 2095 - Delete the Middle Node of a Linked List

LeetCode 1855 - Maximum Distance Between a Pair of Values

CF 264A - Escape from Stones

LeetCode 2486 - Append Characters to String to Make Subsequence

Codeforces Round 241 (Div. 2)

CF 190D - Non-Secret Cypher

LeetCode 2071 - Maximum Number of Tasks You Can Assign

LeetCode 2406 - Divide Intervals Into Minimum Number of Groups

CF 343C - Read Time

VK Cup 2012 Round 2

LeetCode 3284 - Sum of Consecutive Subarrays

LeetCode 2972 - Count the Number of Incremovable Subarrays II

LeetCode 2337 - Move Pieces to Obtain a String

LeetCode 2824 - Count Pairs Whose Sum is Less than Target

LeetCode 2825 - Make String a Subsequence Using Cyclic Increments

LeetCode 1850 - Minimum Adjacent Swaps to Reach the Kth Smallest Number

LeetCode 2903 - Find Indices With Index and Value Difference I

LeetCode 2441 - Largest Positive Integer That Exists With Its Negative

LeetCode 2562 - Find the Array Concatenation Value

LeetCode 3362 - Zero Array Transformation III

CF 406E - Hamming Triples

LeetCode 2200 - Find All K-Distant Indices in an Array

Codeforces Round 147 (Div. 2)

LeetCode 2110 - Number of Smooth Descent Periods of a Stock