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647. Palindromic Substrings (Medium)

Given a string s, return the number of palindromic substrings in it.

A string is a palindrome when it reads the same backward as forward.

A substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within the string.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "abc"
Output: 3
Explanation: Three palindromic strings: "a", "b", "c".

Example 2:

Input: s = "aaa"
Output: 6
Explanation: Six palindromic strings: "a", "a", "a", "aa", "aa", "aaa".

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 1000
• s consists of lowercase English letters.

Related Topics

[String] [Dynamic Programming]

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Hints

Hint 1

How can we reuse a previously computed palindrome to compute a larger palindrome?

Hint 2

If “aba” is a palindrome, is “xabax” and palindrome? Similarly is “xabay” a palindrome?

Hint 3

Complexity based hint:
If we use brute-force and check whether for every start and end position a substring is a palindrome we have O(n^2) start - end pairs and O(n) palindromic checks. Can we reduce the time for palindromic checks to O(1) by reusing some previous computation?