Target Sum

IF
AlgoAxiomStaff Engineers
JSTS
Medium20 mins

You are given an integer array nums and an integer target.

You want to build an expression out of nums by adding one of the symbols + and - before each integer in nums and then concatenate all the integers.

Return the number of different expressions that you can build, which evaluates to target.

Examples

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,1,1,1,1], target = 3

Output: 5

Explanation: There are 5 ways to assign symbols to make the sum equal 3:

-1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 3

+1 - 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 3

+1 + 1 - 1 + 1 + 1 = 3

+1 + 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 = 3

+1 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 1 = 3

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1], target = 1

Output: 1

Explanation: The only way is +1 = 1.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1,0], target = 1

Output: 2

Explanation: The two ways are +1 + 0 = 1 and +1 - 0 = 1.

Constraints

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 20
  • 0 <= nums[i] <= 1000
  • 0 <= sum(nums[i]) <= 1000
  • -1000 <= target <= 1000
Source: Subsets pattern — AlgoAxiom
JavaScript
Test Case 1
root = [1, 2, 3]
Test Case 2
root = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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