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Hackerrank: Winning Lottery Ticket

Problem statement The SuperBowl Lottery is about to commence, and there are several lottery tickets being sold, and each ticket is identified with a ticket ID. In one of the many winning scenarios in the Superbowl lottery, a winning pair of tickets is: Concatenation of the two ticket IDs in the pair, in any order, contains each digit from 0 to 9 at least once. For example, if there are 2 distinct tickets with ticket ID 129300455 and 56789, (129300455, 56789) is a winning pair.

Monday, March 11, 2024 | 6 minutes Read
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Hackerrank: Balanced Brackets

Problem statement A bracket is considered to be any one of the following characters: (, ), {, }, [, or ]. Two brackets are considered to be a matched pair if the an opening bracket (i.e., (, [, or {) occurs to the left of a closing bracket (i.e., ), ], or }) of the exact same type. There are three types of matched pairs of brackets: [], {}, and ().

Sunday, February 18, 2024 | 6 minutes Read
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Hackerrank: Queen's Attack II

Problem statement You will be given a square chess board with one queen and a number of obstacles placed on it. Determine how many squares the queen can attack. A queen is standing on an $n \times n$ chessboard. The chess board’s rows are numbered from $1$ to $n$, going from bottom to top. Its columns are numbered from $1$ to $n$, going from left to right. Each square is referenced by a tuple, $(r, c)$, describing the row, $r$, and column, $c$, where the square is located.

Thursday, November 2, 2023 | 9 minutes Read