k-th Lexicographical Happy String of Length n🪢 Given n and k, return the k-th lexicographical happy string of length n. Thought process Brute force idea: Generate all possible happy strings of length n, Sort them, Return the string at k-1 index Optimization Instead of generating everything and sorting later, we can control the order while generating. During backtracking: Try characters in order → a, b, c Skip if the current character is the same as the previous one This way strings are already generated in lexicographical order, so we can directly return the k-th string. #leetcode #thoughtProcess #problemSolving #programming #recursion #backtracking
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