[leetcode] problem 1049 – last stone weight ii

We have a collection of rocks, each rock has a positive integer weight.

Each turn, we choose any two rocks and smash them together. Suppose the stones have weights x and y with x <= y. The result of this smash is:

  • If x == y, both stones are totally destroyed;
  • If x != y, the stone of weight x is totally destroyed, and the stone of weight y has new weight y-x.

At the end, there is at most 1 stone left. Return the smallest possible weight of this stone (the weight is 0 if there are no stones left.)

Example

Input: [2,7,4,1,8,1]

Output: 1

Explanation:
We can combine 2 and 4 to get 2 so the array converts to [2,7,1,8,1] then,
we can combine 7 and 8 to get 1 so the array converts to [2,1,1,1] then,
we can combine 2 and 1 to get 1 so the array converts to [1,1,1] then,
we can combine 1 and 1 to get 0 so the array converts to [1] then that’s the optimal value.

Note

  1. 1 <= stones.length <= 30
  2. 1 <= stones[i] <= 100

Code

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public int (int[] stones) {
int sum = 0;

for (int stone : stones)
sum += stone;

int n = sum / 2;
int[] dp = new int[n + 1];

for (int i = 0; i < stones.length; i++) {
int stone = stones[i];

for (int j = n; j >= stone; j--)
dp[j] = Math.max(dp[j], dp[j - stone] + stone);
}

return sum - 2 * dp[n];
}