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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.

• For example, if nums = [2, 1], you can add a '+' before 2 and a '-' before 1 and concatenate them to build the expression "+2-1".

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:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 20
• 0 <= nums[i] <= 1000
• 0 <= sum(nums[i]) <= 1000
• -1000 <= target <= 1000

Solution

/**
 * @param {number[]} nums
 * @param {number} target
 * @return {number}
 */
var findTargetSumWays = function(nums, target) {
    const n = nums.length
    let totalSum = 0
    for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        totalSum += nums[i]
    }

    const sum = totalSum - target
    if (sum < 0 || sum % 2 === 1) {
        return 0
    }

    const targetSum = Math.floor(sum / 2)

    const solve = (nums, target) => {
        let prev = new Array(target + 1).fill(0)

        if (nums[0] === 0) {
            prev[0] = 2
        } else {
            prev[0] = 1
        }

        if (nums[0] !== 0 && nums[0] <= target) {
            prev[nums[0]] = 1
        }

        for (let i = 1; i < nums.length; i++) {
            const curr = new Array(target + 1).fill(0)
            for (let j = 0; j <= target; j++) {
                const taken = j >= nums[i] ? prev[j - nums[i]] : 0
                const nonTaken = prev[j]
                curr[j] = taken + nonTaken
            }
            prev = curr
        }

        return prev[target]
    }

    return solve(nums, targetSum)
};

export { findTargetSumWays }

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