📰 "Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow." - Carrie Fisher

                July 12, 2021

            📰 "Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow." - Carrie Fisher

            The Coding Puzzle  🧩
Last week’s puzzle:
Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target.
You may assume that each input would have exactly one solution, and you may not use the same element twice.
You can return the answer in any order.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [2,7,11,15], target = 9
Output: [0,1]
Output: Because nums[0] + nums[1] == 9, we return [0, 1].

Example 2:
Input: nums = [3,2,4], target = 6
Output: [1,2]

Solution for last week: 
class Solution(object):
   def twoSum(self, nums, target):
      """
      :type nums: List[int]
      :type target: int
      :rtype: List[int]
      """
      required = {}
      for i in range(len(nums)):
         if target - nums[i] in required:
            return [required[target - nums[i]],i]
         else:
            required[nums[i]]=i
input_list = [2,8,12,15]
ob1 = Solution()
print(ob1.twoSum(input_list, 20))

This week’s puzzle:
Given a positive integer N, returns the length of its longest binary gap. The function should return 0 if N doesn’t contain a binary gap.
Examples:
Given N = 1041 the function should return 5, because N has binary representation 10000010001 and so its longest binary gap is of length 5.
Given N = 32 the function should return 0, because N has binary representation ‘100000’ and thus no binary gaps.
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