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Abhishek Chaudhary
Abhishek Chaudhary

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K-th Symbol in Grammar

We build a table of n rows (1-indexed). We start by writing 0 in the 1st row. Now in every subsequent row, we look at the previous row and replace each occurrence of 0 with 01, and each occurrence of 1 with 10.

  • For example, for n = 3, the 1st row is 0, the 2nd row is 01, and the 3rd row is 0110.

Given two integer n and k, return the kth (1-indexed) symbol in the nth row of a table of n rows.

Example 1:

Input: n = 1, k = 1
Output: 0
Explanation: row 1: 0

Example 2:

Input: n = 2, k = 1
Output: 0
Explanation:
row 1: 0
row 2: 01

Example 3:

Input: n = 2, k = 2
Output: 1
Explanation:
row 1: 0
row 2: 01

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 30
  • 1 <= k <= 2n - 1

SOLUTION:

class Solution:
    def kthGrammar(self, n: int, k: int) -> int:
        if n == 1 and k == 1:
            return 0
        prev = self.kthGrammar(n - 1, (k + 1) >> 1)
        if k & 1:
            return prev
        return 1 - prev
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