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looking for a better solution to a dp problem
By OverKiller, history, 4 years ago, In English

This problem appeared in a Hiring Challenge on Hackerrank and i couldn't solve it in better than $$$O(N^2)$$$ which was giving TLE. Here is the problem below:

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I can't think of a solution better than $$$O(N^2)$$$. Any help/hints will be appreciated.

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4 years ago, # |
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Consider, that you will never be able to make a jump larger than $$$O(\sqrt{n})$$$. Using that, you can solve in $$$O(n\sqrt{n})$$$

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    makes sense. but $$$d$$$ can be greater than $$$√n$$$ ? How to handle that?

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      Ok I somewhat misread, but the solution remains the same. You can only make $$$O(\sqrt{n})$$$ types of jumps. So you can let $$$dp_{i,j}$$$, be the maximum gold you can get if the last jump was $$$d - offset + j$$$. offset should be somewhere around $$$2\sqrt{n}$$$, and $$$j$$$ should be from $$$0$$$ to $$$4 \sqrt{n}$$$.

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Also can anyone tell me why am i getting downvotes? i am just curious to know.

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