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Tagged with dynamic-programming memoization
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LeetCode 678: Valid Parenthesis String, Recursion memoization to DP
How can the following recursion + memoization code be converted into a tabulation format dynamic programming solution?
The code is working, but I want to improve it.
The challenge I am facing is ...
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Calculate optimal game upgrades, v2
This is the second iteration of the code I originally posted here: Calculate optimal game upgrades. Based on the feedback there, I chose to change the code to use a dynamic programming approach with ...
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Leetcode: 2327. Number of People Aware of a Secret
On day 1, one person discovers a secret.
You are given an integer delay, which means that each person will share the secret with a new person every day, starting from delay days after discovering the ...
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k-dice Ways to get a target value
I'm trying to solve the following problem:
You have a k-dice.
A k-dice is a dice which have k-faces and each face have value written from 1 to k.
Eg. A 6-dice is the normal dice we use while playing ...
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Efficiently calculate value of Pascal's Triangle using memoization and recursion
So reading about functional programming, applications to dynamic programming, and learning Scala. I figured I would try it out with a popular example, Pascal's Triangle, tests against known values ...
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Knapsack performance issue
I'm solving a knapsack problem here. It works, but gives time limit exceeds on a certain test case.
Problem statement
There are N
items, numbered 1,2,…,N. For each i (1≤i≤N), Item i has a weight of ...
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CodeChef Matches challenge
I am solving some problems from CodeChef but I am stuck on the Matches problem:
Ari and Rich are playing a pretty confusing game. Here are the rules
of the game:
The game is played with ...
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Number of way to render an amount of money
I made an algorithm to train my skill in dynamic programming and I would like to have feed back on it. This algorithm takes a money system (int) and have a certain ...
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Robot on a Grid: Find a path between two corners with forbidden cells on the road
Problem statement
The problem is defined in the book as following:
8.2 Robot in a Grid Imagine a robot sitting on the upper left corner of grid with r rows and <...
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Dynamic programming to solve two printers with different speeds
I solved this problem using a Class, but thought I might try to figure out this memoization thing.
Problem
There are two printers that print pages at different speeds (X, Y).
What is the minimum ...
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Check the equality for each subset of a string S against the target T and return a count
I wrote the following code to solve this leetcode problem:
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Optimally allocating a resource with time-varying demand and cost
I'm working on the following DP which finds the optimal way to allocate a resource. At each time step I can either allocate (0.2 resources) at cost C or not in which case the storage is reduced by the ...
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Find the Nth number divisible by only 2,3,5, or 7
I recently participated in a small friendly competition and this was one of the questions:
A number whose only prime factors are 2, 3, 5 or 7 is called a humble
number. The first 20 humble numbers ...
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Implementation of Longest Common Subsequence
So I implemented the LCS algorithm once using a 2-D matrix to store values while the other one used a python dictionary. I found the dictionary implementation was easier to implement and was a more ...
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Google CodeJam Round D APAC Test
Problem A:
Vincenzo decides to make cube IV but only has the budget to make a square maze. Its a perfect maze, every room is in the form of a square and there are 4 doors (1 on each side of the room)...
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