LeetCode MEDIUM 11 Container With Most Water Summary

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The input is an array of heights. Each height represents a vertical line drawn at that index.

The task is to pick two lines that, together with the x-axis, form a container that holds the most water.

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LeetCode MEDIUM 2 Add Two Numbers Summary

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  • Difficulty: MEDIUM
  • Problem: Add Two Numbers
  • Main tags: Linked List, Math, Recursion

What the problem is really asking

Two linked lists represent two non-negative integers. Each node stores one digit, and the digits are already in reverse order, so the ones place comes first.

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LeetCode MEDIUM 3 Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters Summary

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Given a string, the goal is to find the length of the longest contiguous block of characters with no repeats.

The important word is contiguous. This is not asking for a subsequence that can skip characters. It is asking for one unbroken window inside the string.

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LeetCode MEDIUM 5 Longest Palindromic Substring Summary

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Given a string, return the longest contiguous substring that reads the same forward and backward.

The word “substring” is the important constraint. This is not about picking scattered characters. The answer has to be one continuous block inside the original string.

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LeetCode MEDIUM 560 Subarray Sum Equals K Summary

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The input is an integer array and a target k.

The task is not to find the longest subarray or to return the subarray itself. It is simply to count how many contiguous subarrays add up to k.

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