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Bob is standing at cell (0, 0)
, and he wants to reach destination
: (row, column)
. He can only travel right and down. You are going to help Bob by providing instructions for him to reach destination
.
The instructions are represented as a string, where each character is either:
\n\n'H'
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is (2, 3)
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are valid instructions.
However, Bob is very picky. Bob has a lucky number k
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lexicographically smallest instructions that will lead him to destination
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Given an integer array destination
and an integer k
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lexicographically smallest instructions that will take Bob to destination
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\n
Example 1:
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Example 2:
\n\n\n\n
\nInput: destination = [2,3], k = 2\nOutput: "HHVHV"\n\n\n
Example 3:
\n\n\n\n
\nInput: destination = [2,3], k = 3\nOutput: "HHVVH"\n\n\n
\n
Constraints:
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