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LC-0216 Medium LeetCode

216. Combination Sum III

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Difficulty: medium Acceptance: 72% Topics: Array, Backtracking
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Reference solution (spoiler · python)
# Time:  O(k * C(n, k))
# Space: O(k)

class Solution(object):
    # @param {integer} k
    # @param {integer} n
    # @return {integer[][]}
    def combinationSum3(self, k, n):
        result = []
        self.combinationSumRecu(result, [], 1, k, n)
        return result

    def combinationSumRecu(self, result, intermediate, start, k, target):
        if k == 0 and target == 0:
            result.append(list(intermediate))
        elif k < 0:
            return
        while start < 10 and start * k + k * (k - 1) / 2 <= target:
            intermediate.append(start)
            self.combinationSumRecu(result, intermediate, start + 1, k - 1, target - start)
            intermediate.pop()
            start += 1

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT

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