Many Hard Leetcode Problems Are Easy Constraint Problems
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The article discusses how many hard LeetCode problems can be simplified by understanding their constraints, with some users sharing alternative solutions.
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There are general libraries for dynamic programing that are interesitng, see for example https://didp.ai/
[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/browser-demo/browser-demo.htm...