November 2018

Link: Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column Thought When I saw the question, I realized its a Union Find […]

Link:  validate stack sequences Thought Its pretty straight forward, just stimulate a stack and push/pop as the sequence shows.  Code

Link: Bag of Tokens Thought For this question, I find we could do 2 things: spend any cost form the

Link Minimum Increment to Make Array Unique Thought Firstly, I try to enumerate all existing number, and I got TLE

link: Minimum Area Rectangle Thought I plan to use sweep line to solve. Firstly I put a dictionary with x-val

link: Range Sum of BST Thought When first saw this question, I think using tree traverse could solve it and

link Distinct Subsequences II Thought The very first thought here is use DFS to find all distinct subsequences. However it

link: Number of Recent Calls Thought Question ask for numbers of calls in 3000. So sliding windows is my choice

link Knight Dialer Thought Since it ask how many distinct numbers could be generated, DP jumps to my mind immediately.

link: Shortest Bridge Thought Since the question ask for shortest, so BFS probabely the best algorithms to solve it. But