118 Pascal’s Triangle – Easy¶
Problem:¶
Given numRows, generate the first numRows of Pascal’s triangle.
For example, given numRows = 5, Return
[ [1], [1,1], [1,2,1], [1,3,3,1], [1,4,6,4,1] ]
Thoughts:¶
Very straight forward based on formula of Pascal’s Triangle.
Solutions:¶
public class Solution {
public List<List<Integer>> generate(int numRows) {
List<List<Integer>> result = new LinkedList<List<Integer>>();
for (int i = 0; i < numRows; i ++) {
List<Integer> toAdd = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (int j = 0; j < i + 1; j ++) {
if (j == 0 || j == i) {
toAdd.add(1);
}
else {
List<Integer> previous = result.get(i-1);
toAdd.add(previous.get(j - 1) + previous.get(j));
}
}
result.add(toAdd);
}
return result;
}
}