3 Sum | Brute - Better - Optimal with Codes

[@takeUforward]

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[@utsavseth6573]

Legendary stuff Raj bhai. Your explanation clearly shows you actually have a very strong depth on these fundamentals. And of course you do, you work for Google😉

[@deepak8720]

Awesome stuff. Liked and subscribed. Keep going. 👍

[@pardhi8959]

great content love u bhai

[@pardhi8959]

I start by like for all the video

[@Bhai9866]

Bhaiya code nhi chal raha hai 3 sum ki u give the condition sum is greater than 0 , less than 0 but didn't give the condition sum is equal to 0 why?

[@luckshaeey]

Tried 2 sum, 3 sum and 4 sum problems together as a beginner. It was so frustrating after a point before I understood the optimal approach 😂

[@rishav144]

true bro

[@it-51gulshanbhati89]

u r strong bro u have tried all as a beginner 😅

[@Akash-yr2if]

You have a lot more experience than the whole comment section combined.

[@Ashutosh-t7j]

The optimal approach for 3sum is just the extension of optimal approach of 2 sum when the array given is sorted

[@joeljacob4685]

@@Ashutosh-t7j yup !! you are right

[@S__Arslaan]

no need of condtion j

[@mehulthuletiya497]

00:41 Problem Statement 02:56 Brute force approach (Using 3-pointer) 04:55 Pseudocode 07:36 Code 09:27 Complexity 10:26 Better approach (Using Hashing) 12:23 Dry run 18:09 Code 20:15 Complexity 22:20 Optimal approach (Using 2-pointer) 23:20 2-Pointer Technique 31:50 Code 36:41 Complexity

[@rajatyadav4077]

It's interesting-I initially tackled this problem with three nested loops, but when the time exceeded, I decided to find a way to eliminate one loop and ended up developing a two-pointer solution. Although I found the solution, I still enjoy watching Striver's videos to refresh my mind, spark creativity, and discover new approaches to problem-solving.

[@karthikeyan.s2565]

Bro 3 loops was the best I could think of, I can't able to optimize it How do you develop this logical thinking ? Could you help me with this ?

[@NeelakshiSachdeva]

Me too pls

[@graviton001]

I also solved with two pointer approach on my own after 3 loops got time exceeded 😊 he built my logical thinking

[@rajatyadav4077]

@@karthikeyan.s2565 This is a long process bro, keep in mind the techniques you have already employed and then try to come up with ideas for how we may shorten the loop as much as possible. Actually, after successfully answering an easy issue, I usually attempt to answer it in three or four ways (if at all feasible). Occasionally, after solving the problem, I peruse other people's answers on Leetcode to discover new strategies, and the Striker video assisted me in approaching the problem.

[@mujtabakhan4521]

@@karthikeyan.s2565 have you got the answer?

[@shashankrajput8084]

That's what a explanation beginner require for these type of problems

[@30vaibhavdhaygondexdr.v.sa22]

The fact that I came up with the optimal solution makes me happy!

[@itzmartin20]

Just cameback for a quick revision, and now it's indeed got into my head, thanks for your crystal clear intuition!

[@Pamir026]

Yes! I was onto this optimal approach but my implementation failed because I wasn't thinking it through. Simply lovely explanation!

[@abhijeetmishra3804]

how can one explain so smoothly man...Hats of STRIVER bhaiya

[@impalash_ag]

Hi Raj, there are 2 slight mistakes in your optimal solution. 1: The for loop will run till n-2 instead of n, because when i=n-1, j becomes n (j=i+1=n-1+1) and num[j] throws out of bound exception. 2: We could also insert another check in the for loop(nums[i] = 1 there's no way any 3 elements sum would be 0 since the array is now sorted. 3: Here's the more readable code(JAVA): class Solution { public List threeSum(int[] nums) { int n = nums.length; List result = new ArrayList(); Arrays.sort(nums); for(int i=0; i low && nums[high] == nums[high+1]) high--; } else { result.add(Arrays.asList(nums[i], nums[low], nums[high])); low++; high--; while(low < high && nums[low] == nums[low-1]) low++; while(high > low && nums[high] == nums[high+1]) high--; } } } }

[@devanshkhandelwal7749]

However, since j < k condition fails, the inner loop won't run, and thus, the loop safely terminates.

[@PrashantSingh-qr3vn]

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[@pragyatripathi8833]

I love the way you teach bhayiya.❤❤ I don't have seen the teacher like you....you are God of DSA.

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[@subhranshuswayampravadash4656]

Thanks brother for helping and providing us amazing solutions of the most important questions that asked in MNC's. Thanks a lot brother🙏

[@ruchikaahujaasm]

Explained all 3 approaches very clearly. Thank you so much!!!

[@swathigp3818]

Great examples, which helps understand the algorithm very clearly even for non CSE folks!!

[@jeet-smokey]

We will never get such a detailed explanation of 3 Sum problem. You are a Legend for reason....Striver.....!!!!

[@AmartyaPardeshi]

My man is doing God's work, thanks for this amazing playlist!

[@deepak8720]

Completely Understood your explanation! Thank you for what you are doing, and please continue the good work. You are an amazing teacher. Have watched 3 videos of yours and I was able to understand all 3 with out any confusions. Big thumbs up for the video. 👍

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[@codeman3828]

God bless you for all the help you do

[@sahulraj9536]

we can do a small improvement int the optimal code if nums[i]>0 then we can break the loop and return answer directly

[@rodneytholanah7310]

This is an exellent explanation

[@TheDivyansh007]

When sum is less than 0 or greater than 0, then also we should skip for duplicates right? As sum will be same for the next duplicate value. EG: -4 -2 0 0 0 2 2 2. when i is at index 2, j is at index 3, and k is at the last index, and the sum is greater than 0, you want to skip duplicates for k as long as the value at k is the same as the previous one.

[@manvendrasingh4369]

While solving this problem, the very first approach which comes to my mind was optimal. Although the way I was handling duplicates was giving time limit exceeded error so I have to took help from gpt but rest of the logic was correct. Feeling extremely happy.

[@bopon4090]

Bro that hash map solution is so genius.

[@shashankgsharma0901]

we can keep the indexes of the elements in the hashmap as well, in one loop; then while taking i and j, we can check whether the index is same as that of i or j or not. That would require less time complexity than the better solution.

[@ahssanakhtar5746]

Amazing content learn a lot every day from your course.Thanks for creating such an amazing course.

[@newbie8051]

Was asked in Adobe interview for DEI hiring for specially abled candidates. Woah, thanks !

[@kaichang8186]

understood, the best explanation on the internet

[@sdakshin1]

I found your explanation the best among all available... gd job

[@culeforever5408]

understood and came up with the optimal solution myself almost same. just used an extra set to store triplets 😅

[@piyushroy3278]

Too good man, more and more kudos to you for such explanation. now im getting grip on building logic...finally.

[@RahulKumar-zp1ln]

THANK YOU FOR EXPLANING IN SIMPLE WAY

[@priyanshusinha68]

In the brute force approach discussed couldn't we have just sorted the array in the starting and then use 3 pointer technique instead of using sets

[@Manishgupta200]

Thanks for the in-depth explaination with in-depth time and space complexity

[@Bakwas_baate]

what a solution. MINDBLOWING!!!!

[@priyankaghosh2670]

best teacher in the world...........

[@placement123]

when implementing the second approach instead of using set, we can use unordered_map(with the second key as its index), and we will start i from 0 and j from i+1 and for the third value we can ensure by checking that the index of the last target element from the map should be greater than j :)

[@lakshsinghania]

hey, im not able to digest this thing in the 2nd approach arr is -1 0 1 2 -1 4 and the i & j are pointing at -1 and -1 so arr[k] = -(-2) = 2 so for this we need to search in the entire array right and he stored [0 1 2] elements between -1 and -1 but what if the arr was like this 1 0 1 2 3 -4 and i is pointing to 1 and j pointing to 3 then arr[k] = -(4) = -4 then if we store [ 0 1 2 ] we will not find in the set as -4 is after the j pointer could u pls make me understand this as im bit confused

[@CoDeEnthusiast-ev9zu]

​@@lakshsinghaniayou are right but there is a catch here , When i is pointing to 1 and j is pointing to 3 we need to search for -4 in the hashset which is not available. However after that we will add the arr[j] into the hash set i.e. we will add the element 3 into hash set .. So in the next step j will point to 4 now we have to search for -(1-4) = 3 and this element 3 is present in the hashset thereby we will get the required unique triplet

[@AkshayP-x2t]

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[@shrad6611]

If we directly use hashset and use pointer approach then we dont need to check many different conditions, which is easy for as a beginner class Solution { public List threeSum(int[] nums) { Arrays.sort(nums); HashSet res = new HashSet(); for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) { int lo = i+1, hi = nums.length-1; while (lo < hi) { int sum = nums[i] + nums[lo] + nums[hi]; if (sum == 0) { res.add(Arrays.asList(nums[i], nums[lo], nums[hi])); lo++; hi--; } else if (sum < 0) lo++; else hi--; } } List resultList = new ArrayList(res); return resultList; } }

[@prajjwaldeepghosh7329]

Consdering the third solution cant we just use Set of List and return as List of List, then we avoid the two while loops : while(j

[@sumanshekhar8110]

But it will increase your space complexity, those two while loops are light loops so Strivers 3rd solution I think is best as its saves space.

[@ru2979]

never got an opportunity to do 3sum 😢 koi na LC pe hi krleta hu 🙂 seh lenge

[@AmanSingh-wr6mj]

agreed🤣

[@Benstokes555]

mind blown, dopamine released, love u striver

[@sarangkumarsingh7901]

Another Awesome Lecture................

[@anmjubaer]

Great explanation but what about the time complexity of those 2 while loops from the optimal solution? Can you elaborate a bit here please?

[@jingfulin2322]

Great job! your code is so clean.

[@charann1495]

Great explanation, thanks!!

[@lakshyarajsinghpanwar8523]

Java Solution that is accepted on Leetcode: public List threeSum(int[] nums) { int n = nums.length; HashSet set = new HashSet(); for (int i = 0; i < n - 2; i++) { HashSet s = new HashSet(); for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) { int third = -(nums[i] + nums[j]); if (s.contains(third)) { List temp = new ArrayList(); temp.add(nums[i]); temp.add(nums[j]); temp.add(third); Collections.sort(temp); set.add(temp); } s.add(nums[j]); } } List ans = new ArrayList(set); return ans; }

[@mohitrawat8550]

Bro can please explain me new ArrayList(set); this line where u passed set how is this fetching List in hashset to arraylist of ans.

[@samlinus836]

Thank you bro, love from Tamil Nadu ❤

[@dipingrover1970]

amazing exlanation , loved this video

[@VidhiJainB22CS083]

also, we can stop when nums[i] reaches some positive value in the most optimal solution, because after then zero cannot occur as our sum

[@cinime]

Understood! Super amazing explanation as always, thank you very much for your effort!!

[@moonlight-td8ed]

dont forget to add if nums[i]>0: break at starting line in the for loop, since it is a sorted one, if your 1st element itself >0 then you cant find the sum that is ==0 so add this, which improves runtime drastically

[@umaagarwal4588]

in this input [1,-1,-1,0] output should come [-1,0,1] but instead coming [ ] please help @Striver

[@vishalgupta7522]

Line 29: Char 10: error: type 'vector' does not provide a call operator ans(st.begin(), st.end()); ^~~ 1 error generated. brute force code

[@_SahilShah]

Understood! I went somewhere near the optimal approach but wasnt able to come up with the concrete solution

[@rishabhsingh-gw3gf]

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[@welcometoc.s.easpirants]

Awesome explaination. Thank u for such a great content.

[@VasanthChoudary-uc5cz]

13:07 we can actually use a hashmap, by sorting and storing all the elements of given array as key and indexes as values. If 3rd element of triplet i.e. -(arr[i]+arr[j]) lies in the map and you don't want it to clash with value at current 1st and 2nd elements then simple check if index of that 3rd triplet ele in map is greater than index of 2nd triplet j. Arrays.sort(arr);//o(n*logn) HashMap map = new HashMap(); for(int i=0;i > set = new LinkedHashSet(); for(int i=0;i > list = new ArrayList(set); return list;

[@misty6129]

I have a doubt... Why are we running the i loop till less than n-2 and j till less than n-1

[@VasanthChoudary-uc5cz]

@@misty6129 according to my intuition which I mentioned above , i always lies before j and k , j always lies before k.

[@sayantanpoddar5428]

understood!!! please came up with string series...please

[@arnd12940]

in better solution ; time complexicity :-> O(n^2 * log(no. of unique triplets)) but for seraching to hashset using find and insert operation of hashset should we count ? why ?

[@rishav144]

God of DSA❤

[@JackCoderr]

Thank you so much bhaiya....you are the best teacher ❤❤❤

[@disciplines4]

nice all the three approaches, helped a lot.

[@joeljacob4685]

Beautiful dry run!! Understood😄

[@MohammedAfzal-d2b]

what a fantastic explantion!!!!

[@nightgamer8953]

HashSet in C# still stores duplicate List in C# . Is there any alternatives in C# to store unique List of Integers?

[@rohansingh6329]

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[@gamingchampions4105]

gained a subscriber with your amazing explanation

[@rahulraaja5056]

Great Explanation 💯💯

[@ruchirtd1]

Understood! Java Solution that is accepted on Leetcode: class Solution { public List threeSum(int[] nums) { Set res = new HashSet(); Arrays.sort(nums); for(int i=0;i

[@DevilJim-p1s]

I think that's the first and only time when I'll do 3 sum

[@secretvibz6300]

As Smooth as Butter 😃

[@GhostVaibhav]

Understood🔥

[@eashan2405]

Great explanation Striver ❤

[@trinitykhuman]

I was looking for brute force approach tried myself but couldn't remember I have to used set DS but now , I can understand where I was wrong. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@Prashant-Dedha]

its java solution even if i copy paste from your sheet is not working, only 3 or 4 test cases are getting passed for brute and better solution.😫😫😫😫

[@eruditecoder5215]

I've 2 queries please resolve them 1) Set datastructure stores sorted and unique elements only then why are we storing in temp and then sorting it. 2) 2D vector "ans" is called only once at end so it will only have 1 list with all elements rather than list of lists

[@saranshdhyani3164]

Yesterday i gave oracle interview the same problem was asked i have 5 years of experience as full stack but i was not able to solve it because am not doing DSA from last 4 year

[@swacharahman5084]

Thank you bhaiya, Love from bangladesh

[@arunprashanna7494]

Perfect explanation

[@a1_32_aarushi8]

Thank you so much sir for such a nice explanation your are super sir❤

[@pranabpaul6317]

Understood

[@aviralmishra181]

I think it should work but it gives wrong answer on leetcode it does not passes all the testcases. If you find solution please comment back.

[@pranabpaul6317]

@@aviralmishra181 class Solution { public: vector threeSum(vector& nums) { //first sort the array. sort(nums.begin(), nums.end()); int n = nums.size(); vector res; for(int i = 0; i < n-2; i++) { //to skip duplicate values in nums[i]. if(i == 0 || i > 0 && nums[i] != nums[i-1]) { int low = i + 1; int high = n - 1; int sum = 0 - nums[i]; //reminder a+b+c = 0, so b+c = -a; nums[low] = b //nums[high] = c so if b + c = -a (can be found that will be the triplet.) while(low < high) { if(nums[low] + nums[high] == sum) { //means triplet found. vector temp; temp.push_back(nums[low]); temp.push_back(nums[high]); temp.push_back(nums[i]); res.push_back(temp); //to ignore duplicate values. while(low < high && nums[low] == nums[low + 1]) low++; while(low < high && nums[high] == nums[high - 1]) high--; //[....1 1 0....] after above loop low is in first 1 so do low++ low++; high--; } else if(nums[low] + nums[high] < sum) { while(low < high && nums[low] == nums[low + 1]) low++; low++; //low++; } else { while(low < high && nums[high] == nums[high - 1]) high--; high--; //high--; } } } } return res; } }; This code passes all the test cases try it.

[@sayakghosh5104]

Awesome explanation....

[@sri-z5d]

happy diwaliii

[@RohitRaj-kr7ti]

Hey @takeUforward While I was going through the optimal solution, ans.push_back(temp) will not eliminate duplicity. You will have to add in a set and then later use the set to derive ans as list.

[@ujjwalkumarsingh5216]

nope, as we are using unique elements whenever sum gets to 0 through 2 while loops.

[@RohitRaj-kr7ti]

@@ujjwalkumarsingh5216 Yeah noticed that.. its working fine..

[@AniketKumar-hf2bo]

understood ,thnx for explanation ❤❤❤❤❤❤👌👌💕💕💕💕

[@sumitkumartah2106]

u r motivating all the students of tire 3 colleges of West Bengal and India . You are like Virat Kohli in coding.

[@anuragprasad6116]

3-sum code using 2 for loops and 1 while loop. Using for loops helps in more readability in this problem. // Sort the vector and create ans array. sort(arr.begin(), arr.end()); vector ans; // Iterate the sorted array. for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { // Make sure first element of triplet is unique. // Now whole array on right of 'i' is a 2-sum problem. if (i > 0 && arr[i] == arr[i-1]) continue; // Take -ith element as target. int twosum = -arr[i]; int right = n-1; // Look for unique 2nd element in the search space. Notice that for // each unique i, the pairs that create 3sum with it are unique. // Similarily, for each unique j, the 3rd element will be unique. for (int j = i+1; j < right; j++) { // Looking only for unique 2nd element. if (j > i+1 && arr[j] == arr[j-1]) continue; // Look for its partner. while (j < right && arr[j] + arr[right] > twosum) right--; // No need to skip. All the 2nd elements are unique! if (arr[j] + arr[right] == twosum && j != right) ans.push_back({arr[i], arr[j], arr[right]}); } } return ans; Similarily, 4sum can be broken down as: first unique element + 3sum in remaining search space.

[@hashcodez757]

Mza aagya Understood!!

[@anshusorrot316]

why unordered set of vector is giving error in leetcode

[@priyanshuagrawal7509]

Now i can finally answer someone if someone ask me have you done 3Sum 😆. Thanks Striver 😉

[@harigs72]

I found the optimal initially. And I thought it might not be the optimal. so,i had been trying to find the better optimal 😂.but I couldn't And came to your video.guess what I successfully wasted a day..😅😢

[@19abhishekgupt70]

although i know the solution but watching for optimal solution

[@038aakashkhanna2]

Also if i becomes positive then we can simply break as then ele of i+ j + k will never be equal to zero in sorted array

[@chandaniitdelhi1498]

thanks great explaination

[@amankumar5230]

Sir, Please continue your solution videos for A-Z DSA course

[@kritikagupta1395]

why are we not using a hashmap like in previous questions for the hashing method?