Greedy Scheduling of Maximum Meetings and Reconstructing Target Arrays via Reverse Operations

Maximum Meetings Attendance Given a list of meetings where each meeting is represented as [start, end], determine the largest number of meetings you can attend if you can only be in one meeting per day and you may pick any day within the inclusive interval [start, end] to attend that meeting. Intuition The key observation is that we want to fin ...

Posted on Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:22:07 +0000 by cullouch

Bamboo Cutting Problem: Reverse Thinking Approach for Competitive Programming

Problem Analysis The challenge involves cutting bamboo stalks of varying heights down to a uniform height of 1 using magical operations. Each spell can simultaneously reduce multiple consecutive bamboo pieces of identical height. When applied to bamboo of height H, the new height becomes ⌊√(⌊H/2⌋ + 1)⌋. The goal is to determine the minimum numb ...

Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026 22:33:35 +0000 by dewen