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Replace the Substring for Balanced String in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 564 Views

Suppose we have a string containing only 4 kinds of characters 'Q', 'W', 'E' and 'R'. A string will be balanced if each of its characters appears n/4 times where n is the length of the string. Find the minimum length of the substring that can be replaced with any other string of the same length to make the original string is balanced. So if s = “QQWE”, then output will be 1. This is because we can replace Q to R, so that “RQWE”, that is balanced.Return 0 if the string is already balanced.To solve this, we will follow ...

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Rotate Function in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 422 Views

Suppose we have Given an array of integers A and let n is the length of array A. Now assume Bk to be an array obtained by rotating the array A, k positions clock-wise. Here the rotation can be defined as −F(k) = 0 * Bk[0] + 1 * Bk[1] + ... + (n-1) * Bk[n-1].Now find the maximum value of F(0), F(1), ..., F(n-1).So if the input is like A = [4, 3, 2, 6], then −F(0) = (0 * 4) + (1 * 3) + (2 * 2) + (3 * 6) = 0 + 3 + 4 ...

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Exclusive Time of Functions in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 373 Views

Suppose on a single threaded CPU, we execute some functions. Now each function has a unique id between 0 and N-1. We will store logs in timestamp order that describe when a function is entered or exited.Here each log is a string written this format: "{function_id}:{"start" | "end"}:{timestamp}". For example, if the string is like "0:start:3" this means that the function with id 0 started at the beginning of timestamp 3. "1:end:2" means the function with id 1 ended at the end of timestamp 2. A function's exclusive time is the number of units of time spent in this function.So ...

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Shopping Offers in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 357 Views

Suppose there is a store, there are some items to sell. Each item has some price. However, there are some special offers, and a special offer consists of one or more different kinds of items with a sale price. So we have the list of prices, a set of special offers, and the number we need to buy for each item. The task is to find the lowest price we have to pay for exactly certain items as given, where we could make optimal use of the special offers.Here each special offer is represented in the form of an array, ...

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Asteroid Collision in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 1K+ Views

Suppose we have an array asteroids of integers representing asteroids in a row. Now for each asteroid, the absolute value represents its size, and the sign represents its direction that can be positive or negative for the right and left respectively. Each asteroid moves at the same speed.We have to find the state of the asteroids after all collisions. When two asteroids meet, the smaller one will explode. If both are the same size, both will explode. Two asteroids moving in the same direction will never meet.So if the input is like [5, 10, -5], then output will be [5, ...

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Circular Permutation in Binary Representation in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 301 Views

Suppose we have 2 integers n and start. Our task is return any permutation p of (0, 1, 2....., 2^n -1) as follows −p[0] = startp[i] and p[i+1] differ by only one bit in their binary representation.p[0] and p[2^n -1] must also differ by only one bit in their binary representation.So if the input is like n = 2 and start = 3, then the returned array will be [3, 2, 0, 1], these are [11, 10, 00, 01]To solve this, we will follow these steps −ans is an arrayfor i in range 0 to 2^ninsert start XOR i XOR ...

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Delete and Earn in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 325 Views

Suppose we have an array nums of integers, we can perform some operations on the array. Here in each operation, we pick any nums[i] and delete it to earn nums[i] amount of points. We must delete every element equal to nums[i] - 1 or nums[i] + 1. Initially the point is 0. We have to find the maximum number of points we can earn by applying such operations. So if the input is like [3, 4, 2], then the output will be 6. So this is because, if we delete 4, we will get 4 points, consequently 3 will also ...

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Greatest Sum Divisible by Three in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 535 Views

Suppose we have an array nums of integers, we need to find the maximum possible sum of elements of the given array such that it is divisible by three. So if the input is like [3, 6, 5, 1, 8], then the output will be 18, as the subarray is [3, 6, 1, 8], and the sum is 18, that is divisible by 3.To solve this, we will follow these steps −n := size of nums arraycreate one 2d array dp of size (n + 1) x 3set dp[0, 0] := 0, dp[0, 1] := -inf, dp[0, 2] := inffor ...

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Minimum Swaps To Make Sequences Increasing in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 411 Views

Suppose we have two integer sequences A and B of the same non-zero length. We can swap elements A[i] and B[i]. We have to keep in mind that both elements are in the same index position in their respective sequences. After completing some number of swaps, A and B are both strictly increasing. We have to find the minimum number of swaps to make both sequences strictly increasing.So if the input is like A = [1, 3, 5, 4] and B = [1, 2, 3, 7], then the answer will be 1, if we swap A[3] with B[3], then the ...

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Number of Burgers with No Waste of Ingredients in C++

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 359 Views

Suppose we have two integers tomatoSlices and cheeseSlices. These are the ingredients of different burgers −Jumbo Burger: 4 tomato slices and 1 cheese slice.Small Burger: 2 Tomato slices and 1 cheese slice.We have to find [total_jumbo, total_small] so that the number of tomatoSlices that are left is equal to 0 and the number of cheeseSlices that are left is also 0. If it is not possible to make the remaining tomatoSlices and cheeseSlices equal to 0 return []. So if the input is tomatoSlices = 16 and chesseSlices = 7, then the output will be [1, 6]. So this indicates, ...

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