672. Bulb Switcher II (Medium)

https://leetcode.com/problems/bulb-switcher-ii/

There is a room with n lights which are turned on initially and 4 buttons on the wall. After performing exactly m unknown operations towards buttons, you need to return how many different kinds of status of the n lights could be.

Suppose n lights are labeled as number [1, 2, 3 ..., n], function of these 4 buttons are given below:

  1. Flip all the lights.
  2. Flip lights with even numbers.
  3. Flip lights with odd numbers.
  4. Flip lights with (3k + 1) numbers, k = 0, 1, 2, ...

 

Example 1:

Input: n = 1, m = 1.
Output: 2
Explanation: Status can be: [on], [off]

 

Example 2:

Input: n = 2, m = 1.
Output: 3
Explanation: Status can be: [on, off], [off, on], [off, off]

 

Example 3:

Input: n = 3, m = 1.
Output: 4
Explanation: Status can be: [off, on, off], [on, off, on], [off, off, off], [off, on, on].

 

Note: n and m both fit in range [0, 1000].

Solutions

class Solution {
    // For same operations that performed odd times, the outcome is same with 1 time.
    // For same operations that performed even times, the outcome is same with 0 time.

    // The effect of flipping button 1 equates with flipping both button 2 and 3.
    // Literally, among button 1, 2, 3, each one can be expressed with other two.
    // Consequently, we have at most 8 possible combinations for these four kinds of buttons

    // Specially,  if n=1, button 2 is invalid, and button 1, 3, 4 are equivalent;
    // if n=2, button 4 equates with button 3.
    public int flipLights(int n, int m) {
        if (n == 0 || m == 0) {
            return 1;
        }

        if (n == 1 && m >= 1) {
            return 2;
        }

        if (n == 2) {
            if (m == 1) {
                return 3;
            }

            if (m >= 2) {
                return 4;
            }
        }

        if (n >= 3) {
            if (m == 1) {
                return 4;
            }

            if (m == 2) {
                return 7;
            }
        }

        return 8;
    }
}

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