LeetCode 779, Medium. Topics: Math, Bit Manipulation, Recursion. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
We build a table of n rows (1-indexed). We start by writing 0 in the 1st row. Now in every subsequent row, we look at the previous row and replace each occurrence of 0 with 01, and each occurrence of 1 with 10.
- For example, for
n = 3, the 1st row is 0, the 2nd row is 01, and the 3rd row is 0110.
Given two integer n and k, return the kth (1-indexed) symbol in the nth row of a table of n rows.
Examples
Constraints
- 1 <= n <= 30
- 1 <= k <= 2n - 1
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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