2026-01-19 Daily Challenge
Today I have done leetcode's January LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.
January LeetCoding Challenge 19
Description
Maximum Side Length of a Square with Sum Less than or Equal to Threshold
Given a m x n matrix mat and an integer threshold, return the maximum side-length of a square with a sum less than or equal to threshold or return 0 if there is no such square.
Example 1:
Input: mat = [[1,1,3,2,4,3,2],[1,1,3,2,4,3,2],[1,1,3,2,4,3,2]], threshold = 4 Output: 2 Explanation: The maximum side length of square with sum less than 4 is 2 as shown.
Example 2:
Input: mat = [[2,2,2,2,2],[2,2,2,2,2],[2,2,2,2,2],[2,2,2,2,2],[2,2,2,2,2]], threshold = 1 Output: 0
Constraints:
m == mat.lengthn == mat[i].length1 <= m, n <= 3000 <= mat[i][j] <= 1040 <= threshold <= 105
Solution
class Solution {
const int MOD = 1e9 + 7;
unordered_set<int> getLengths(vector<int> &fences, int border) {
unordered_set<int> st;
fences.push_back(1);
fences.push_back(border);
sort(fences.begin(), fences.end());
int sz = fences.size();
for(int i = 0; i < sz - 1; ++i) {
for(int j = i + 1; j < sz; ++j) {
st.insert(fences[j] - fences[i]);
}
}
return st;
}
public:
int maximizeSquareArea(int m, int n, vector<int>& hFences, vector<int>& vFences) {
auto hLengths = getLengths(hFences, m);
auto vLengths = getLengths(vFences, n);
int side = 0;
for(auto hl : hLengths) {
if(vLengths.count(hl)) side = max(side, hl);
}
if(side == 0) return -1;
return 1LL * side * side % MOD;
}
};
// Accepted
// 648/648 cases passed (1806 ms)
// Your runtime beats 22.88 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 9.8 % of cpp submissions (445.9 MB)