Title Description
Given a triangle, find the minimum and the top-down path. Each step can move to the next line adjacent nodes.
For example, a given triangle:
[
[2],
[3,4],
[6,5,7],
[4,1,8,3]
]
top-down and minimum path 11 (i.e., 2 + 3 + 5 + 1 = 11).
Thinking
Code
class Solution:
def mininumTotal(self,triangle):
if(not triangle):
return 0
n = len(triangle)
if (n == 1):
return triangle[0][0]
for i in range(1,n):
for j in range(len(triangle[i])):
if(j==0):
triangle[i][j] += triangle[i-1][j]
elif(j == len(triangle[i]) - 1):
triangle[i][j] += triangle[i-1][j-1]
else:
triangle[i][j] += min(triangle[i-1][j],triangle[i-1][j-1])
return min(triangle[-1])
test = Solution()
test.mininumTotal([
[2],
[3,4],
[6,5,7],
[4,1,8,3]
])