Halo

A magic place for coding

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Problem

You want to form a target string of lowercase letters.

At the beginning, your sequence is target.length '?' marks. You also have a stamp of lowercase letters.

On each turn, you may place the stamp over the sequence, and replace every letter in the sequence with the corresponding letter from the stamp. You can make up to 10 * target.length turns.

For example, if the initial sequence is “?????”, and your stamp is "abc", then you may make “abc??”, “?abc?”, “??abc” in the first turn. (Note that the stamp must be fully contained in the boundaries of the sequence in order to stamp.)

If the sequence is possible to stamp, then return an array of the index of the left-most letter being stamped at each turn. If the sequence is not possible to stamp, return an empty array.

For example, if the sequence is “ababc”, and the stamp is "abc", then we could return the answer [0, 2], corresponding to the moves “?????” -> “abc??” -> “ababc”.

Also, if the sequence is possible to stamp, it is guaranteed it is possible to stamp within 10 * target.length moves. Any answers specifying more than this number of moves will not be accepted.

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Problem

You are given a 2D array of integers envelopes where envelopes[i] = [wi, hi] represents the width and the height of an envelope.

One envelope can fit into another if and only if both the width and height of one envelope are greater than the other envelope’s width and height.

Return the maximum number of envelopes you can Russian doll (i.e., put one inside the other).

Note: You cannot rotate an envelope.

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Problem

We are given two arrays A and B of words. Each word is a string of lowercase letters.

Now, say that word b is a subset of word a if every letter in b occurs in a, including multiplicity. For example, "wrr" is a subset of "warrior", but is not a subset of "world".

Now say a word a from A is universal if for every b in B, b is a subset of a.

Return a list of all universal words in A. You can return the words in any order.

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Problem

You are given an m x n integer matrix heights representing the height of each unit cell in a continent. The Pacific ocean touches the continent’s left and top edges, and the Atlantic ocean touches the continent’s right and bottom edges.

Water can only flow in four directions: up, down, left, and right. Water flows from a cell to an adjacent one with an equal or lower height.

Return a list of grid coordinates where water can flow to both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

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