Triangle *****DP
Given a triangle, find the minimum path sum from top to bottom. Each step you may move to adjacent numbers on the row below.
For example, given the following triangle
[
[2],
[3,4],
[6,5,7],
[4,1,8,3]
]
The minimum path sum from top to bottom is11
(i.e.,2+3+5+1= 11).
Note:
Bonus point if you are able to do this using onlyO(n) extra space, where _n _is the total number of rows in the triangle.
- [x] #### adjacent element coordinate, line i, jth element is adjacent to level i+1, jth and (j+1)th element
- [x] #### the number of levels are equal to the total number in the last level
- [x] #### since it has the restriction of choosing the adjacent element in each level, so it means you could not just add up all the minimum numbers in each level
- [x] #### at first the res is [0,0,0,0,0] you use int[] res = new int[triangle.size() + 1] to initialize in case pointer out of boundary
public int minimumTotal(List<List<Integer>> triangle) {
int[] res = new int[triangle.size() + 1];
for (int i = triangle.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
for (int j = 0; j < triangle.get(i).size(); j++) {
res[j] = Math.min(res[j], res[j + 1]) + triangle.get(i).get(j);
}
}
return res[0];
}
For example, given the following triangle
[
[2],
[3,4],
[6,5,7],
[4,1,8,3]
]
The minimum path sum from top to bottom is 11 (i.e., 2 + 3 + 5 + 1 = 11).
i : j
i + 1 : j, j + 1
res = [4, 1, 8, 3, 0]
res = [7, 6, 10]
res = [9, 10]
res = [2]
time : O(n^2)
space : O(n)