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I struggle with 3D DP problems. Can you recommend some good 3-D DP problems to practice?
By thePointyEnd, history, 3 hours ago, In English

Everytime I get a 3-D DP problem, I'm able to figure out that the problem can be solved using 3-D DP, I'm also able to define the DP sometimes, but I'm never able to define the base cases and therefore can't solve the problem. Can you please recommend some Standard/Good 3-D DP problems that I can practice?

For Eg. There was this problem: An array of n integers is given. Each element of the array is an integer value > 0. You have to divide the array in 2 parts such that the difference between the sizes of the two parts cannot be greater than 1 and the difference between the summation of elements of the two parts is minimised.

How do I solve this problem?

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I think I have seen that problem on atcoder. I think it was C and was solved via bitmasking as the constraints were really low. Could you link to the problem or mention the constraints if so. Thanks.

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    Constraints were not low as far as I can remember. Also I don't have the link as this was asked to me in a test.

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104772G - Game of Nim

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best time to buy and sell stocks 3 & 4 (Leetcode), but ig thats an easy problem of 3D DP

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