leetcode Question 112: Triangle

Triangle:

Given a triangle, find the minimum path sum from top to bottom. Each step you may move to adjacent numbers on the row below.
For example, given the following triangle
[
     [2],
    [3,4],
   [6,5,7],
  [4,1,8,3]
]
The minimum path sum from top to bottom is 11 (i.e., 2 + 3 + 5 + 1 = 11).

Analysis:
This problem is more likely to be a (dynamic programming) DP problem,
where a[n][i] = a[n][i]+min(a[n-1][i], a[n-1][i-1]).
Note that in this problem, "adjacent" of a[i][j] means a[i-1][j] and a[i-1][j-1], if available(not out of bound), while a[i-1][j+1] is not "adjacent" element.

The minimum of the last line after computing is the final result.

Code:
class Solution {
public:
    int minimumTotal(vector<vector<int> > &triangle) {
        // Start typing your C/C++ solution below
        // DO NOT write int main() function
        int n = triangle.size();
        if (n==0){return 0;}
        
        for (int i=1;i<n;i++){
            for (int j=0;j<triangle[i].size();j++){
                if (j==0){triangle[i][j] += triangle[i-1][j];}
                if (j>0){
                    if (i>j){
                        triangle[i][j] += min(triangle[i-1][j-1],triangle[i-1][j]);
                    }else{
                        triangle[i][j] += triangle[i-1][j-1];
                    }
                    
                }
                
            }
        }
        sort(triangle[n-1].begin(),triangle[n-1].end());
        return triangle[n-1][0];    
    }
};

2 comments:

  1. int minimumTotal(vector > &triangle) {

    for (int i = triangle.size() - 2; i >= 0; --i)
    for (int j = 0; j < i + 1; ++j)
    triangle[i][j] += min(triangle[i + 1][j], triangle[i + 1][j + 1]);

    return triangle[0][0];
    }

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  2. this is with o(N) space complexity logic



    private int minimumTotal(ArrayList> a) {

    int m, n;
    m = a.size();
    n = a.get(m - 1).size();
    int [] dp = new int[n + 1];
    int size = n;

    for (int i = m - 1; i >= 0; i--) {

    for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) {
    dp[j] = Math.min(dp[j], dp[j + 1]) + a.get(i).get(j);
    }

    size--;
    }

    return dp[0];
    }

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