Flood Fill

An image is represented by a 2-D array of integers, each integer representing the pixel value of the image (from 0 to 65535). Given a coordinate (sr, sc) representing the starting pixel (row and column) of the flood fill, and a pixel value newColor, “flood fill” the image. To perform a “flood fill”, consider the starting pixel, plus any pixels connected 4-directionally to the starting pixel of the same color as the starting pixel, plus any pixels connected 4-directionally to those pixels (also with the same color as the starting pixel), and so on.

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Cousins in Binary Tree

In a binary tree, the root node is at depth 0, and children of each depth k node are at depth k+1. Two nodes of a binary tree are cousins if they have the same depth, but have different parents. We are given the root of a binary tree with unique values, and the values x and y of two different nodes in the tree. Return true if and only if the nodes corresponding to the values x and y are cousins.

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Check if a String Is a Valid Sequence From Root to Leaves Path in a Binary Tree

Given a binary tree where each path going from the root to any leaf form a valid sequence, check if a given string is a valid sequence in such binary tree. We get the given string from the concatenation of an array of integers arr and the concatenation of all values of the nodes along a path results in a sequence in the given binary tree. Example 1: Input: root = [0,1,0,0,1,0,null,null,1,0,0], arr = [0,1,0,1] Output: true Explanation: The path 0 -> 1 -> 0 -> 1 is a valid sequence (green color in the figure).

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Longest Univalue Path

Given a binary tree, find the length of the longest path where each node in the path has the same value. This path may or may not pass through the root. The length of path between two nodes is represented by the number of edges between them. Example 1: Input: 5 / \ 4 5 / \ \ 1 1 5 Output: 2 Example 2: Input: 1 / \ 4 5 / \ \ 4 4 5 Output: 2 Note: The given binary tree has not more than 10000 nodes.

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Longest Increasing Path in a Matrix

Given an integer matrix, find the length of the longest increasing path. From each cell, you can either move to four directions: left, right, up or down. You may NOT move diagonally or move outside of the boundary (i.e. wrap-around is not allowed). Example 1 Input: nums = [ [9,9,4], [6,6,8], [2,1,1] ] Output: 4 Explanation: The longest increasing path is [1, 2, 6, 9]. Example 2 Input: nums = [ [3,4,5], [3,2,6], [2,2,1] ] Output: 4 Explanation: The longest increasing path is [3, 4, 5, 6].

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Android Unlock Patterns

Given an Android 3x3 key lock screen and two integers m and n, where 1 ≤ m ≤ n ≤ 9, count the total number of unlock patterns of the Android lock screen, which consist of minimum of m keys and maximum n keys. Rules for a valid pattern: Each pattern must connect at least m keys and at most n keys. All the keys must be distinct. If the line connecting two consecutive keys in the pattern passes through any other keys, the other keys must have previously selected in the pattern.

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Course Schedule II

There are a total of n courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to n-1. Some courses may have prerequisites, for example to take course 0 you have to first take course 1, which is expressed as a pair: [0,1] Given the total number of courses and a list of prerequisite pairs, return the ordering of courses you should take to finish all courses. There may be multiple correct orders, you just need to return one of them.

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Flatten a Multilevel Doubly Linked List

You are given a doubly linked list which in addition to the next and previous pointers, it could have a child pointer, which may or may not point to a separate doubly linked list. These child lists may have one or more children of their own, and so on, to produce a multilevel data structure, as shown in the example below. Flatten the list so that all the nodes appear in a single-level, doubly linked list.

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Optimal Account Balancing

A group of friends went on holiday and sometimes lent each other money. For example, Alice paid for Bill’s lunch for $10. Then later Chris gave Alice $5 for a taxi ride. We can model each transaction as a tuple (x, y, z) which means person x gave person y $z. Assuming Alice, Bill, and Chris are person 0, 1, and 2 respectively (0, 1, 2 are the person’s ID), the transactions can be represented as [[0, 1, 10], [2, 0, 5]].

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Delete Nodes and Return Forest

Given the root of a binary tree, each node in the tree has a distinct value. After deleting all nodes with a value in to_delete, we are left with a forest (a disjoint union of trees). Return the roots of the trees in the remaining forest. You may return the result in any order. Example 1 Input: root = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], to_delete = [3,5] Output: [[1,2,null,4],[6],[7]] Constraints 1 The number of nodes in the given tree is at most 1000.

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