Solution: House Robber II
Explore how to apply dynamic programming techniques to solve the House Robber II challenge where houses are arranged in a circle. Understand the problem constraints, compare naive and optimized solutions, and implement an efficient bottom-up approach that reduces space complexity while maximizing the stolen amount.
Statement
A professional robber plans to rob some houses along a street. These houses are arranged in a circle, which means that the first and the last house are neighbors. The robber cannot rob adjacent houses because they have security alarms installed.
Following the constraints mentioned above and given an integer array money representing the amount of money in each house, return the maximum amount the robber can steal without alerting the police.
Constraints:
-
money.length -
money[i]