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1545. Find Kth Bit in Nth Binary String

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Problem Statement

1545. Find Kth Bit in Nth Binary String

Medium


Given two positive integers n and k, the binary string Sn is formed as follows:

Where + denotes the concatenation operation, reverse(x) returns the reversed string x, and invert(x) inverts all the bits in x (0 changes to 1 and 1 changes to 0).

For example, the first four strings in the above sequence are:

Return the kth bit in Sn. It is guaranteed that k is valid for the given n.

 

Example 1:

Input: n = 3, k = 1
Output: "0"
Explanation: S3 is "0111001".
The 1st bit is "0".

Example 2:

Input: n = 4, k = 11
Output: "1"
Explanation: S4 is "011100110110001".
The 11th bit is "1".

 

Constraints:

Java

Source file
class Solution {
    public char findKthBit(int n, int k) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("0");
        for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) {
            char[] cs = sb.reverse().toString().toCharArray();
            for (int j = 0; j < cs.length; j++)
                cs[j] = cs[j] == '0' ? '1' : '0';
            sb.reverse();
            sb.append("1" + new String(cs));
            // System.out.println(sb.toString());
        }
        return sb.charAt(k - 1);
    }
}