LeetCode 1611, Hard. Topics: Math, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Recursion, Memoization. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 23 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given an integer n, you must transform it into 0 using the following operations any number of times:
- Change the rightmost (0th) bit in the binary representation of
n.
- Change the
ith bit in the binary representation of n if the (i-1)th bit is set to 1 and the (i-2)th through 0th bits are set to 0.
Return the minimum number of operations to transform n into 0.
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Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
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