LeetCode 842, Medium. Topics: String, Backtracking. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 24 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
You are given a string of digits num, such as "123456579". We can split it into a Fibonacci-like sequence [123, 456, 579].
Formally, a Fibonacci-like sequence is a list f of non-negative integers such that:
0 <= f[i] < 2^31, (that is, each integer fits in a 32-bit signed integer type),
f.length >= 3, and
f[i] + f[i + 1] == f[i + 2] for all 0 <= i < f.length - 2.
Note that when splitting the string into pieces, each piece must not have extra leading zeroes, except if the piece is the number 0 itself.
Return any Fibonacci-like sequence split from num, or return [] if it cannot be done.
Examples
Constraints
1 <= num.length <= 200
num contains only digits.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
Last modified on September 7, 2026