delete_and_earn

README

< Previous 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Next >

740. Delete and Earn (Medium)

Given an array nums of integers, you can perform operations on the array.

In each operation, you pick any nums[i] and delete it to earn nums[i] points. After, you must delete every element equal to nums[i] - 1 or nums[i] + 1.

You start with 0 points. Return the maximum number of points you can earn by applying such operations.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [3, 4, 2]
Output: 6
Explanation: 
Delete 4 to earn 4 points, consequently 3 is also deleted.
Then, delete 2 to earn 2 points. 6 total points are earned.

 

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4]
Output: 9
Explanation: 
Delete 3 to earn 3 points, deleting both 2's and the 4.
Then, delete 3 again to earn 3 points, and 3 again to earn 3 points.
9 total points are earned.

 

Note:

• The length of nums is at most 20000.
• Each element nums[i] is an integer in the range [1, 10000].

 

Related Topics

[Dynamic Programming]

Similar Questions

1. House Robber (Easy)

Hints

Hint 1

If you take a number, you might as well take them all. Keep track of what the value is of the subset of the input with maximum M when you either take or don't take M.