Halo

Problem

A message containing letters from A-Z is being encoded to numbers using the following mapping:

1
2
3
4

'A' -> 1
'B' -> 2
...
'Z' -> 26

Given a non-empty string containing only digits, determine the total number of ways to decode it.

The answer is guaranteed to fit in a 32-bit integer.

Problem

Given a matrix of M x N elements (M rows, N columns), return all elements of the matrix in diagonal order as shown in the below image.

Problem

Given an array A of integers, for each integer A[i] we need to choose either x = -K or x = K, and add x to A[i] **(only once)**.

After this process, we have some array B.

Return the smallest possible difference between the maximum value of B and the minimum value of B.

Problem

An encoded string S is given. To find and write the decoded string to a tape, the encoded string is read one character at a time and the following steps are taken:

• If the character read is a letter, that letter is written onto the tape.
• If the character read is a digit (say d), the entire current tape is repeatedly written d-1 more times in total.

Now for some encoded string S, and an index K, find and return the K-th letter (1 indexed) in the decoded string.

Problem

Given a rows x cols matrix grid representing a field of cherries. Each cell in grid represents the number of cherries that you can collect.

You have two robots that can collect cherries for you, Robot #1 is located at the top-left corner (0,0) , and Robot #2 is located at the top-right corner (0, cols-1) of the grid.

Return the maximum number of cherries collection using both robots by following the rules below:

• From a cell (i,j), robots can move to cell (i+1, j-1) , (i+1, j) or (i+1, j+1).
• When any robot is passing through a cell, It picks it up all cherries, and the cell becomes an empty cell (0).
• When both robots stay on the same cell, only one of them takes the cherries.
• Both robots cannot move outside of the grid at any moment.
• Both robots should reach the bottom row in the grid.

Problem

Given an integer array nums, return true if there exists a triple of indices (i, j, k) such that i < j < k and nums[i] < nums[j] < nums[k]. If no such indices exists, return false.

Problem

Given four lists A, B, C, D of integer values, compute how many tuples (i, j, k, l) there are such that A[i] + B[j] + C[k] + D[l] is zero.

To make problem a bit easier, all A, B, C, D have same length of N where 0 ≤ N ≤ 500. All integers are in the range of -228 to 228 - 1 and the result is guaranteed to be at most 231 - 1.

Problem

Given the root of a binary tree, determine if it is a valid binary search tree (BST).

A valid BST is defined as follows:

• The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys less than the node’s key.
• The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys greater than the node’s key.
• Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.