Maximal Square Given a 2D binary matrix filled with 0’s and 1’s, find the largest square containing all 1’s and return its area. For example, given the following matrix: 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 Return […]

Unique Word Abbreviation An abbreviation of a word follows the form <first letter><number><last letter>. Below are some examples of word abbreviations: a) it –> it (no abbreviation) 1 b) d|o|g –> d1g 1 1 1 1—5—-0—-5–8 c) i|nternationalizatio|n –> i18n 1 1—5—-0 d) l|ocalizatio|n –> l10n Assume you have a […]

Palindrome Permutation II Given a string s, return all the palindromic permutations (without duplicates) of it. Return an empty list if no palindromic permutation could be form. For example: Given s = “aabb”, return [“abba”, “baab”]. Given s = “abc”, return []. First, count the frequency of the each character […]

Given an array nums containing n + 1 integers where each integer is between 1 and n (inclusive), prove that at least one duplicate number must exist. Assume that there is only one duplicate number, find the duplicate one. Note: You must not modify the array (assume the array is […]

H-Index Given an array of citations (each citation is a non-negative integer) of a researcher, write a function to compute the researcher’s h-index. According to the definition of h-index on Wikipedia: “A scientist has index h if h of his/her N papers have at leasth citations each, and the other […]

Paint Fence There is a fence with n posts, each post can be painted with one of the k colors. You have to paint all the posts such that no more than two adjacent fence posts have the same color. Return the total number of ways you can paint the […]

Perfect Squares Given a positive integer n, find the least number of perfect square numbers (for example, 1, 4, 9, 16, …) which sum to n. For example, given n = 12, return 3 because 12 = 4 + 4 + 4; given n = 13, return 2 because 13 […]

Zigzag Iterator Given two 1d vectors, implement an iterator to return their elements alternately. For example, given two 1d vectors: v1 = [1, 2] v2 = [3, 4, 5, 6] By calling next repeatedly until hasNext returns false, the order of elements returned by next should be: [1, 3, 2, […]

You are given a m x n 2D grid initialized with these three possible values. -1 – A wall or an obstacle. 0 – A gate. INF – Infinity means an empty room. We use the value 231 – 1 = 2147483647 to represent INF as you may assume that […]

Move Zeroes Given an array nums, write a function to move all 0‘s to the end of it while maintaining the relative order of the non-zero elements. For example, given nums = [0, 1, 0, 3, 12], after calling your function, nums should be [1, 3, 12, 0, 0]. Note: […]