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Time and Space Complexity of Leetcode Problem #31. Next Permutation

The question is as follows: Given a collection of distinct integers, return all possible permutations. Example: ...
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Permutations with replacement in Python

Many a times, I've had the need to use a permutations with replacement function. So, I've written a function to do just that: ...
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Best way to performance permutations

This has been my white whale for a while, the idea is convert all the symbols to the goal symbol using all the pieces. I did an algorithm like 5 years ago (now is lost) and reach lvl 48 but got stuck ...
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Finding all possible letter combinations from an inputted phone number

Prompt: Given a string containing digits from 2-9 inclusive, return all possible letter combinations that the number could represent. A mapping of digit to letters (just like on the telephone ...
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Generate all combinations of length N through M

I've started learning programming and as matter of practice I've decided to make a program that will output all possible string combinations and put them in a file. I've manged to do that and it works ...
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K-combination recursive algorithm implementation

Tried to implement this solution for finding n choose k. I have used recursion and this is how it goes for k as 4 and n as 6. Zero based The idea is to have array of size k keeping sequence of ...
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Count all possible attendance records with length n, which will be regarded as rewardable

Given a positive integer n, return the number of all possible attendance records with length n, which will be regarded as rewardable. The answer may be very large, return it after \$\mod 10^9 + 7\$. ...
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Non-Contiguous Substrings

Problem: A non-contiguous substring of string \$s\$ is a sequence of \$k \geq 0\$ characters in \$s\$, in the order in which they occur in \$s\$. For instance, the set of all non-contiguous ...
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Permutation algorithm of N unique elements with low memory footprint

I actually had a real life need (outside work, no less) to come up with every single permutation of N elements (the N in my case being 12, so a total of ...
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Consecutive Primes challenge at CodeEval.com and memory allocation issue

I finally solved this challenge with using recursion and figured out why the automatic scorer wasn't passing my previous solutions. I was using NSMutableArray to ...
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Nsum problem: find all n elements in an array whose sum equals a given value

I am pretty new to Python, so I want to listen to any advice that improve my coding style in a "pythonic" way, even about naming style of variables. The following code reflects a very general paradigm ...
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Seeking improved Objective-C permutation algorithm

This algorithm seeks to find all of the possible permutations of a word: ...
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Speeding up subset sum implementation

Important fact: the number of the input is greater than 1. How do I use this fact to speed up this solution? ...
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Permutation of given string

I am reading a book on DSA, and the author explains how to generate the permutation of strings using recursion. I want to know if there are better ways of doing the same, unless this is the best ...
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