Imagine you’re reading a sentence and trying to find the longest stretch of letters where no letter is repeated. The goal is to figure out the maximum length of such a stretch of unique characters without having to go through every possible combination. Brute Force Approach Optimal Approach Algorithm &…
Median Two Sorted Arrays – 4. LeetCode
Imagine you have two lists of numbers that are already sorted in order. You want to combine them and find the middle number (or the average of the two middle numbers if the total count is even). This middle value is called the “median”. The challenge is to do this…
Next Greater Element I – 496. LeetCode
Imagine you have two lists of numbers. For each number in the first list, you want to find the next larger number in the second list that comes after it. If no such number exists, you return -1. This problem is about efficiently finding these “next greater elements”. Brute Force…
Koko Eating Bananas – 875. LeetCode
Koko, a monkey, loves bananas. She has a pile of banana stacks and wants to eat all of them within H hours. She can only eat a fixed number of bananas per hour. The goal is to determine the minimum eating speed (bananas per hour) that allows her to finish…
Online Stock Span – 901. LeetCode
The “Online Stock Span” problem involves calculating the stock span, which the number of consecutive days (including today) a stock’s price was less than or equal to its current price. For example, if the stock price today is higher than the last three days, the span is four. It’s like…
Daily Temperatures – 739. LeetCode
The problem Daily Temperatures asks you to analyze a list of daily temperatures and determine, for each day, how many days you need to wait to see a warmer temperature. If no warmer day exists in the future, the result for that day is 0. For example, given temperatures like…
String Compression – 443. LeetCode
The “String Compression” problem requires reducing the size of a character array by compressing consecutive repeating characters into a single character followed by their count. For example, the [“a”, “a”, “b”, “b”, “b”, “c”] should be compressed to [“a”, “2”, “b”, “3”, “c”]. The challenge is to perform this compression…
Reverse Integer – 7. LeetCode
The Reverse Integer problem asks us to take an integer as input and return its digits reversed. For example, if the input is 123, the output should be 321. If the input is negative, like -123, the output should be -321. There is a constraint: if reversing the integer causes…
Summary Ranges – 228. LeetCode
The Summary Ranges problem asks us to take a sorted list of integers and group consecutive numbers into ranges. For example, given the input [0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7], the output would be [“0->2”, “4->5”, “7”]. The goal is to find and summarize sequences of consecutive numbers in a…
Insert Interval – 56. LeetCode
The Insert Interval problem involves inserting a new interval into a sorted list of non-overlapping intervals and merging any overlapping intervals. Think of it like scheduling a new meeting in a calendar: you add the meeting and merge it with existing ones if they overlap, ensuring the schedule remains clean…
