Here is the interview question prompt, presented for reference.
When preparing for an interview, you should be familiar with fundamental graph traversal techniques because they are frequently used in technical interviews. As we live in an interconnected society with no isolated piece of information, the use of graphs is becoming more widespread. Today's prompt has one such graph traversal technique, Depth first search (DFS).
You are given a nested list of integers nestedList
. Each element is either an:
The depth of an integer is the number of lists that it is inside of. For example, the nested list [1,[2,2],[[3],2],1]
has each integer's value set to its depth.
Return the sum of rach integer in nestedList
by its *depth*.
Input: [[1,1],2,[1,1]]
Output: 10
Explanation: Four 1
's at depth 2, one 2
at depth 1.
![Example 1 - Input [[1,1],2,[1,1]]](https://storage.googleapis.com/algodailyrandomassets/curriculum/nested-list-weight-sum/example-1.png)
Input: [1,[4,[6]]]
Output: 27
![Example 2 - Input [1,[4,[6]]]](https://storage.googleapis.com/algodailyrandomassets/curriculum/nested-list-weight-sum/example-2.png)
Explanation: One 1
at depth 1, one 4
at depth 2, and one 6
at depth 3; 1 + 4*2 + 6*3 = 27
.
nestedList.length <= 50
integers
in the nested list is in the range [-100, 100]
.maximum depth
of any integer is less than or equal to 50
.You can see the full challenge with visuals at this link.
Challenges • Asked about 2 years ago by Jake from AlgoDaily
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