Burst Balloons
You are given n balloons, indexed from 0 to n - 1. Each balloon is painted with a number on it represented by an array nums. You are asked to burst all the balloons.
If you burst the ith balloon, you will get nums[i - 1] * nums[i] * nums[i + 1] coins. If i - 1 or i + 1 goes out of bounds of the array, then treat it as if there is a balloon with a 1 painted on it.
Return the maximum coins you can collect by bursting the balloons wisely.
public int maxCoins(int[] iNums) {
int[] nums = new int[iNums.length + 2];
int n = 1;
for (int x : iNums) if (x > 0) nums[n++] = x;
nums[0] = nums[n++] = 1;
int[][] dp = new int[n][n];
for (int k = 2; k < n; ++k)
for (int left = 0; left < n - k; ++left) {
int right = left + k;
for (int i = left + 1; i < right; ++i)
dp[left][right] = Math.max(dp[left][right],
nums[left] * nums[i] * nums[right] + dp[left][i] + dp[i][right]);
}
return dp[0][n - 1];
}Posted by Jamie Meyer 18 days ago