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## 1431. Kids With the Greatest Number of Candies [Easy]
https://leetcode.com/problems/kids-with-the-greatest-number-of-candies/

### Explanation

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## Description
There are `n` kids with candies. You are given an integer array `candies`, where each `candies[i]` represents the number of candies the `i`th kid has, and an integer `extraCandies`, denoting the number of extra candies that you have.

Return a boolean array `result` of length `n`, where `result[i]` is `true` if, after giving the `i`th kid all the `extraCandies`, they will have the greatest number of candies among all the kids, or false otherwise.

Note that multiple kids can have the greatest number of candies.

**Examples**

```text
Input: candies = [2,3,5,1,3], extraCandies = 3
Output: [true,true,true,false,true]
Explanation: If you give all extraCandies to:
- Kid 1, they will have 2 + 3 = 5 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 2, they will have 3 + 3 = 6 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 3, they will have 5 + 3 = 8 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 4, they will have 1 + 3 = 4 candies, which is not the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 5, they will have 3 + 3 = 6 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.

Input: candies = [4,2,1,1,2], extraCandies = 1
Output: [true,false,false,false,false]

Input: candies = [12,1,12], extraCandies = 10
Output: [true,false,true]
```

**Constraints**

```text
- n == candies.length
- 2 <= n <= 100
- 1 <= candies[i] <= 100
- 1 <= extraCandies <= 50
```

## Hint
For each kid, check if their candies plus `extraCandies` is at least as much as the current maximum.

## Explanation
First, you want to know the highest number of candies any kid currently has. This is important because you need a reference point to see if giving extra candies to a kid will make them "the greatest."

For each kid, you add the `extraCandies` to their current amount. You do this because you want to see if, after the bonus, they can reach or beat the current maximum. If they do, you mark them as `True` in our answer list; otherwise, False.

You only need to find the maximum once, and then just compare each kid's total to it. Don't need to recalculate the maximum for every kid.

### Solution

```python
def kidsWithCandies(candies, extraCandies):
max_candies = max(candies) # Find the current maximum
return [(c + extraCandies) >= max_candies for c in candies]
```

## 1448. Count Good Nodes in Binary Tree [Medium]
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## 1431. Kids With the Greatest Number of Candies [Easy]
https://leetcode.com/problems/kids-with-the-greatest-number-of-candies/

### Explanation

## 1431. Kids With the Greatest Number of Candies [Easy]

https://leetcode.com/problems/kids-with-the-greatest-number-of-candies

## Description
There are `n` kids with candies. You are given an integer array `candies`, where each `candies[i]` represents the number of candies the `i`th kid has, and an integer `extraCandies`, denoting the number of extra candies that you have.

Return a boolean array `result` of length `n`, where `result[i]` is `true` if, after giving the `i`th kid all the `extraCandies`, they will have the greatest number of candies among all the kids, or false otherwise.

Note that multiple kids can have the greatest number of candies.

**Examples**

```text
Input: candies = [2,3,5,1,3], extraCandies = 3
Output: [true,true,true,false,true]
Explanation: If you give all extraCandies to:
- Kid 1, they will have 2 + 3 = 5 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 2, they will have 3 + 3 = 6 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 3, they will have 5 + 3 = 8 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 4, they will have 1 + 3 = 4 candies, which is not the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 5, they will have 3 + 3 = 6 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.

Input: candies = [4,2,1,1,2], extraCandies = 1
Output: [true,false,false,false,false]

Input: candies = [12,1,12], extraCandies = 10
Output: [true,false,true]
```

**Constraints**

```text
- n == candies.length
- 2 <= n <= 100
- 1 <= candies[i] <= 100
- 1 <= extraCandies <= 50
```

## Hint
For each kid, check if their candies plus `extraCandies` is at least as much as the current maximum.

## Explanation
First, you want to know the highest number of candies any kid currently has. This is important because you need a reference point to see if giving extra candies to a kid will make them "the greatest."

For each kid, you add the `extraCandies` to their current amount. You do this because you want to see if, after the bonus, they can reach or beat the current maximum. If they do, you mark them as `True` in our answer list; otherwise, False.

You only need to find the maximum once, and then just compare each kid's total to it. Don't need to recalculate the maximum for every kid.

### Solution

```python
def kidsWithCandies(candies, extraCandies):
max_candies = max(candies) # Find the current maximum
return [(c + extraCandies) >= max_candies for c in candies]
```

## 2215. Find the Difference of Two Arrays [Easy]
https://leetcode.com/problems/find-the-difference-of-two-arrays/

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## 1431. Kids With the Greatest Number of Candies [Easy]

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## Description
There are `n` kids with candies. You are given an integer array `candies`, where each `candies[i]` represents the number of candies the `i`th kid has, and an integer `extraCandies`, denoting the number of extra candies that you have.

Return a boolean array `result` of length `n`, where `result[i]` is `true` if, after giving the `i`th kid all the `extraCandies`, they will have the greatest number of candies among all the kids, or false otherwise.

Note that multiple kids can have the greatest number of candies.

**Examples**

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Input: candies = [2,3,5,1,3], extraCandies = 3
Output: [true,true,true,false,true]
Explanation: If you give all extraCandies to:
- Kid 1, they will have 2 + 3 = 5 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 2, they will have 3 + 3 = 6 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 3, they will have 5 + 3 = 8 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 4, they will have 1 + 3 = 4 candies, which is not the greatest among the kids.
- Kid 5, they will have 3 + 3 = 6 candies, which is the greatest among the kids.

Input: candies = [4,2,1,1,2], extraCandies = 1
Output: [true,false,false,false,false]

Input: candies = [12,1,12], extraCandies = 10
Output: [true,false,true]
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- 2 <= n <= 100
- 1 <= candies[i] <= 100
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First, you want to know the highest number of candies any kid currently has. This is important because you need a reference point to see if giving extra candies to a kid will make them "the greatest."

For each kid, you add the `extraCandies` to their current amount. You do this because you want to see if, after the bonus, they can reach or beat the current maximum. If they do, you mark them as `True` in our answer list; otherwise, False.

You only need to find the maximum once, and then just compare each kid's total to it. Don't need to recalculate the maximum for every kid.

### Solution

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def kidsWithCandies(candies, extraCandies):
max_candies = max(candies) # Find the current maximum
return [(c + extraCandies) >= max_candies for c in candies]
```

## 1798. Maximum Number of Consecutive Values You Can Make [Medium]
https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-number-of-consecutive-values-you-can-make/

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## Explanation

### Strategy (The "Why")

**Restate the problem:** We need to count special triplets (i, j, k) where i < j < k, nums[i] == nums[j] * 2, and nums[k] == nums[j] * 2. In other words, for each middle element j, we need to count how many i < j have nums[i] == target and how many k > j have nums[k] == target, where target = nums[j] * 2.

**1.1 Constraints & Complexity:**
- Input size: `3 <= n <= 10^5`, `0 <= nums[i] <= 10^5`
- **Time Complexity:** O(n) - single pass through array with hash map operations
- **Space Complexity:** O(n) for hash maps storing frequencies
- **Edge Case:** If no triplets exist, return 0

**1.2 High-level approach:**
We process each position j as the middle element. We maintain two frequency maps: one for elements before j (freq_before) and one for elements after j (freq_after). For each j, we count how many i < j have nums[i] == target and how many k > j have nums[k] == target, then multiply these counts.

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**1.3 Brute force vs. optimized strategy:**
- **Brute Force:** Check all triplets (i, j, k) where i < j < k, which is O(n³)
- **Optimized Strategy:** For each j, use hash maps to count valid i and k positions in O(1), achieving O(n) time
- **Emphasize the optimization:** Hash maps allow us to count frequencies before and after each position efficiently without nested loops

**1.4 Decomposition:**
1. Initialize freq_before (empty) and freq_after (contains all elements initially)
2. Process each position j from left to right
3. Remove nums[j] from freq_after (since j is no longer "after")
4. Calculate target = nums[j] * 2
5. Count valid i positions (freq_before[target]) and valid k positions (freq_after[target])
6. Multiply counts and add to result (modulo 10^9 + 7)
7. Add nums[j] to freq_before for future j positions

### Steps (The "How")

**2.1 Initialization & Example Setup:**
Let's use the example: `nums = [6, 3, 6]`
- Initialize: `freq_before = {}`, `freq_after = {6: 2, 3: 1}`, `res = 0`, `MOD = 10^9 + 7`

**2.2 Start Processing:**
We iterate through each position j from 0 to n-1.

**2.3 Trace Walkthrough:**

| j | nums[j] | Remove from freq_after | target | freq_before[target] | freq_after[target] | Count | res |
|---|---------|------------------------|--------|---------------------|-------------------|-------|-----|
| 0 | 6 | freq_after = {6: 1, 3: 1} | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 * 0 = 0 | 0 |
| 0 | - | Add to freq_before | - | freq_before = {6: 1} | - | - | 0 |
| 1 | 3 | freq_after = {6: 1} | 6 | 1 (from freq_before) | 1 (from freq_after) | 1 * 1 = 1 | 1 |
| 1 | - | Add to freq_before | - | freq_before = {6: 1, 3: 1} | - | - | 1 |
| 2 | 6 | freq_after = {} | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 * 0 = 0 | 1 |

**2.4 Increment and Loop:**
For each j, we update frequency maps and count triplets where j is the middle element.

**2.5 Return Result:**
After processing all positions, `res = 1`, which is the number of special triplets. The triplet is (0, 1, 2) where nums[0] = 6 = 3 * 2 and nums[2] = 6 = 3 * 2.

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### Strategy (The "Why")

**Restate the problem:** We need to convert string `source` to `target` with minimum cost using substring conversions. Operations must be disjoint or identical (can't overlap partially).
**Restate the problem:** We need to find the maximum number of substrings we can split a string into such that each substring starts with a distinct character. No two substrings can start with the same character.

**1.1 Constraints & Complexity:**
- Input size: `1 <= source.length == target.length <= 1000`, `1 <= original.length <= 100`
- **Time Complexity:** O(m³ + n² * m) where m is number of unique strings and n is string length, due to Floyd-Warshall and DP
- **Space Complexity:** O(m² + n) for distance matrix and DP array
- **Edge Case:** If source == target, return 0
- Input size: `1 <= s.length <= 10^5`
- **Time Complexity:** O(n) - single pass to count distinct characters
- **Space Complexity:** O(1) - using a set of at most 26 characters (lowercase English letters)
- **Edge Case:** If all characters are the same (e.g., "aaaa"), we can only have 1 substring

**1.2 High-level approach:**
We model substring conversions as a graph, use Floyd-Warshall to find shortest paths, then use dynamic programming to find the minimum cost to convert prefixes of the source string.
The key insight is that each substring must start with a distinct character. Since we can only use each starting character once, the maximum number of substrings equals the number of distinct characters in the string.

![DP with substring matching visualization](https://assets.leetcode.com/static_assets/others/dp-substring-matching.png)
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**1.3 Brute force vs. optimized strategy:**
- **Brute Force:** Try all possible sequences of substring conversions, which is exponential.
- **Optimized Strategy:** Precompute shortest paths between all string pairs using Floyd-Warshall, then use DP where dp[i] = minimum cost to convert first i characters.
- **Brute Force:** Try all possible ways to split the string, which is exponential
- **Optimized Strategy:** Simply count distinct characters - each distinct character can start exactly one substring, so the answer is the count of distinct characters
- **Emphasize the optimization:** The constraint that each substring must start with a distinct character directly limits the answer to the number of distinct characters

**1.4 Decomposition:**
1. Assign unique IDs to all unique strings in original and changed arrays
2. Build graph and run Floyd-Warshall to find shortest conversion costs
3. Use DP: dp[i] = min cost to convert source[0:i] to target[0:i]
4. For each position, try all possible substring conversions ending there
5. Return dp[n] or -1 if impossible
1. Count the number of distinct characters in the string
2. Since each substring must start with a distinct character, and we can only use each character once as a start
3. The maximum number of substrings equals the number of distinct characters
4. Return the count

### Steps (The "How")

**2.1 Initialization & Example Setup:**
Let's use the example: `source = "abcd"`, `target = "acbe"`, `original = ["a","b","c","c","e","d"]`, `changed = ["b","c","b","e","b","e"]`, `cost = [2,5,5,1,2,20]`
- Map strings to IDs: a→0, b→1, c→2, e→3, d→4
- Build graph and run Floyd-Warshall
Let's use the example: `s = "abab"`
- Distinct characters: 'a' and 'b' (2 distinct characters)
- We can split into: "a" and "bab" (starts with 'a' and 'b')

**2.2 Start Processing:**
We initialize dp[0] = 0, then process each position.
**2.2 Start Checking:**
We count distinct characters in the string.

**2.3 Trace Walkthrough:**
Processing `source = "abcd"` to `target = "acbe"`:

| i | source[0:i] | target[0:i] | Options | dp[i] |
|---|-------------|-------------|---------|-------|
| 0 | "" | "" | Base case | 0 |
| 1 | "a" | "a" | No change (dp[0] + 0) | 0 |
| 2 | "ab" | "ac" | Try "b"→"c": dp[1] + cost(b→c) = 0 + 5 = 5 | 5 |
| 3 | "abc" | "acb" | Try "c"→"b": dp[2] + cost(c→b) = 5 + 5 = 10<br>Or "bc"→"cb": need to check if exists | 10 |
| 4 | "abcd" | "acbe" | Try "d"→"e": dp[3] + cost(d→e) = 10 + 20 = 30 | 30 |

Actually, we need to check all substring conversions. For position 2, we can convert "b" to "c" at cost 5. For position 3, we convert "c" to "b" at cost 5 (or find better path). For position 4, we convert "d" to "e" at cost 20. Total: 5 + 5 + 20 = 30, but the example says 28, so there must be a better path.
| String | Distinct Characters | Count | Maximum Substrings |
|--------|-------------------|-------|-------------------|
| "abab" | {'a', 'b'} | 2 | 2 |
| "abcd" | {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd'} | 4 | 4 |
| "aaaa" | {'a'} | 1 | 1 |

**2.4 Increment and Loop:**
For each position i, we try all possible substring conversions ending at i and take the minimum cost.
We iterate through the string once to collect all distinct characters in a set.

**2.5 Return Result:**
After processing, `dp[4] = 28` (using optimal conversions), which is the minimum cost to convert "abcd" to "acbe".
For "abab", we have 2 distinct characters, so the maximum number of substrings is 2. We can split as "a" + "bab" where "a" starts with 'a' and "bab" starts with 'b'.
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