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Regular Expression Matching

September 1, 2011 in backtracking, string

Implement regular expression matching with support for ‘.’ and ‘*’.

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Unique Paths

November 4, 2010 in backtracking, dynamic programming

A robot is located at the top-left corner of a m x n grid (marked ‘Start’ in the diagram below). The robot can only move either down or right at any point in time. The robot is trying to reach the bottom-right corner of the grid (marked ‘Finish’ in the diagram below). How many possible unique paths are there?

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Print All Combinations of a Number as a Sum of Candidate Numbers

September 30, 2010 in backtracking

Given a target number, and a series of candidate numbers, print out all combinations, so that the sum of candidate numbers equals to the target.
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