1496. Path Crossing

![https://leetcode.com/problems/path-crossing/] Given a string path, where path[i] = ‘N’, ‘S’, ‘E’ or ‘W’, each representing moving one unit north, south, east, or west, respectively. You start at the origin (0, 0) on a 2D plane and walk on the path specified by path. Return True if the path crosses itself at any point, that is, if at any time you are on a location you’ve previously visited. Return False otherwise. ...

February 12, 2021 · 2 min · volyx

990. Satisfiability of Equality Equations

![https://leetcode.com/problems/satisfiability-of-equality-equations/] Given an array equations of strings that represent relationships between variables, each string equations[i] has length 4 and takes one of two different forms: “a==b” or “a!=b”. Here, a and b are lowercase letters (not necessarily different) that represent one-letter variable names. Return true if and only if it is possible to assign integers to variable names so as to satisfy all the given equations. Example 1: Input: ["a==b","b!=a"] Output: false Explanation: If we assign say, a = 1 and b = 1, then the first equation is satisfied, but not the second. There is no way to assign the variables to satisfy both equations. Example 2: Input: ["b==a","a==b"] Output: true Explanation: We could assign a = 1 and b = 1 to satisfy both equations. Example 3: Input: ["a==b","b==c","a==c"] Output: true Example 4: Input: ["a==b","b!=c","c==a"] Output: false Example 5: Input: ["c==c","b==d","x!=z"] Output: true Note: ...

February 12, 2021 · 2 min · volyx

130. Surrounded Regions

![https://leetcode.com/problems/surrounded-regions/] Given a 2D board containing ‘X’ and ‘O’ (the letter O), capture all regions surrounded by ‘X’. A region is captured by flipping all ‘O’s into ‘X’s in that surrounded region. Example: X X X X X O O X X X O X X O X X After running your function, the board should be: X X X X X X X X X X X X X O X X Explanation: ...

February 10, 2021 · 3 min · volyx

947. Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column

![https://leetcode.com/problems/most-stones-removed-with-same-row-or-column/] On a 2D plane, we place n stones at some integer coordinate points. Each coordinate point may have at most one stone. A stone can be removed if it shares either the same row or the same column as another stone that has not been removed. Given an array stones of length n where stones[i] = [xi, yi] represents the location of the ith stone, return the largest possible number of stones that can be removed. ...

February 9, 2021 · 3 min · volyx

773. Sliding Puzzle

![https://leetcode.com/problems/sliding-puzzle/] On a 2x3 board, there are 5 tiles represented by the integers 1 through 5, and an empty square represented by 0. A move consists of choosing 0 and a 4-directionally adjacent number and swapping it. The state of the board is solved if and only if the board is [[1,2,3],[4,5,0]]. Given a puzzle board, return the least number of moves required so that the state of the board is solved. If it is impossible for the state of the board to be solved, return -1. ...

February 7, 2021 · 4 min · volyx

1021. Remove Outermost Parentheses

![https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-outermost-parentheses/] A valid parentheses string is either empty (""), “(” + A + “)”, or A + B, where A and B are valid parentheses strings, and + represents string concatenation. For example, “”, “()”, “(())()”, and “(()(()))” are all valid parentheses strings. A valid parentheses string S is primitive if it is nonempty, and there does not exist a way to split it into S = A+B, with A and B nonempty valid parentheses strings. ...

January 26, 2021 · 2 min · volyx

547. Number of Provinces

![https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-provinces/] There are n cities. Some of them are connected, while some are not. If city a is connected directly with city b, and city b is connected directly with city c, then city a is connected indirectly with city c. A province is a group of directly or indirectly connected cities and no other cities outside of the group. You are given an n x n matrix isConnected where isConnected[i][j] = 1 if the ith city and the jth city are directly connected, and isConnected[i][j] = 0 otherwise. ...

January 16, 2021 · 2 min · volyx

684. Redundant Connection

![https://leetcode.com/problems/redundant-connection/] In this problem, a tree is an undirected graph that is connected and has no cycles. The given input is a graph that started as a tree with N nodes (with distinct values 1, 2, …, N), with one additional edge added. The added edge has two different vertices chosen from 1 to N, and was not an edge that already existed. The resulting graph is given as a 2D-array of edges. Each element of edges is a pair [u, v] with u < v, that represents an undirected edge connecting nodes u and v. ...

January 16, 2021 · 3 min · volyx

1010. Pairs of Songs With Total Durations Divisible by 60

You are given a list of songs where the ith song has a duration of time[i] seconds. Return the number of pairs of songs for which their total duration in seconds is divisible by 60. Formally, we want the number of indices i, j such that i < j with (time[i] + time[j]) % 60 == 0. Example 1: Input: time = [30,20,150,100,40] Output: 3 Explanation: Three pairs have a total duration divisible by 60: (time[0] = 30, time[2] = 150): total duration 180 (time[1] = 20, time[3] = 100): total duration 120 (time[1] = 20, time[4] = 40): total duration 60 Example 2: Input: time = [60,60,60] Output: 3 Explanation: All three pairs have a total duration of 120, which is divisible by 60. Constraints: ...

January 2, 2021 · 1 min · volyx

Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree

Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree. According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes p and q as the lowest node in T that has both p and q as descendants (where we allow a node to be a descendant of itself).” Example 1: Input: root = [3,5,1,6,2,0,8,null,null,7,4], p = 5, q = 1 Output: 3 Explanation: The LCA of nodes 5 and 1 is 3. ...

November 12, 2020 · 4 min · volyx