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494. Target Sum

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Problem Statement

494. Target Sum

Medium


You are given an integer array nums and an integer target.

You want to build an expression out of nums by adding one of the symbols '+' and '-' before each integer in nums and then concatenate all the integers.

Return the number of different expressions that you can build, which evaluates to target.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,1,1,1,1], target = 3
Output: 5
Explanation: There are 5 ways to assign symbols to make the sum of nums be target 3.
-1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
+1 - 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
+1 + 1 - 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
+1 + 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 = 3
+1 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 1 = 3

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1], target = 1
Output: 1

 

Constraints:

Java — brute force

Source file
class Solution {
    public int findTargetSumWays(int[] nums, int target) {
        int n = nums.length;
        int[] signs = new int[n];
        Arrays.fill(signs, -1);
        return solve(signs, nums, target, n, 0);
    }

    private int solve(int[] signs, int[] nums, int target, int n, int idx) {
        int ct = 0;
        for (int i = idx; i < n; i++) {
            signs[i] = 1;
            ct += solve(signs, nums, target, n, i + 1);
            signs[i] = -1;
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            target -= nums[i] * signs[i];
        return target == 0 ? ++ct : ct;
    }
}