leetcode No198. House Robber

Posted 2022-06-11 Dufre.WC

Question

You are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house has a certain amount of money stashed, the only constraint stopping you from robbing each of them is that adjacent houses have security system connected and it will automatically contact the police if two adjacent houses were broken into on the same night.

Given a list of non-negative integers representing the amount of money of each house, determine the maximum amount of money you can rob tonight without alerting the police.

Example 1:

Input: [1,2,3,1]
Output: 4
Explanation: Rob house 1 (money = 1) and then rob house 3 (money = 3).
             Total amount you can rob = 1 + 3 = 4.

Example 2:

Input: [2,7,9,3,1]
Output: 12
Explanation: Rob house 1 (money = 2), rob house 3 (money = 9) and rob house 5 (money = 1).
             Total amount you can rob = 2 + 9 + 1 = 12.

Algorithm

This is DP Problem, we can find recursive relation.

• cur node: cur
• pre node of cur: pre
• pre node of pre: prepre
• the res the end of cur node: sum(cur)

so, the max value of cur node has two choice:

• cur->value + sum(prepre)
• sum(pre)

And actually, you can use only two parameter to record this two choice.

Code

C++

class Solution 
public:
    int rob(vector<int>& nums) 
        int a = 0;
        int b = 0;
        
        for(int i=0; i<nums.size(); i++)
            if(i%2==0)
                a = max(a+nums[i], b);
            
            else
                b = max(b+nums[i], a);
            
        
        
        return max(a,b);
    
;

Java

class Solution 
    public int rob(int[] nums) 
        int a = 0;
        int b = 0;
        
        for(int i=0; i<nums.length; i++)
            if(i%2==0)
                a = Math.max(a+nums[i], b);
            
            else
                b = Math.max(b+nums[i], a);
            
        
        
        return Math.max(a,b);        
    

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