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Let's say you have a binary string such as the following: 011100011 One way to encrypt this string is to add to each digit the sum of its adjacent digits. For example, the above string would become: 123210122 In particular, if P is the original string, and Q is the encrypted string, thenQ[i] = P[i-1] + P[i] + P[i+1] for all digit positionsi. Characters off the left and right edges of the string are treated as zeroes. An encrypted string given to you in this format can be decoded as follows (using123210122 as an example):
- Assume P[0] = 0.
- Because Q[0] = P[0] + P[1] = 0 + P[1] = 1, we know that P[1] = 1.
- Because Q[1] = P[0] + P[1] + P[2] = 0 + 1 + P[2] = 2, we know that
P[2] = 1.
- Because Q[2] = P[1] + P[2] + P[3] = 1 + 1 + P[3] = 3, we know that
P[3] = 1.
- Repeating these steps gives us P[4] = 0, P[5] = 0, P[6] = 0,P[7] = 1, andP[8] = 1.
- We check our work by noting that Q[8] = P[7] + P[8] = 1 + 1 = 2. Since this equation works out, we are finished, and we have recovered one possible original string.
Now we repeat the process, assuming the opposite about P[0]:
- Assume P[0] = 1.
- Because Q[0] = P[0] + P[1] = 1 + P[1] = 0, we know that P[1] = 0.
- Because Q[1] = P[0] + P[1] + P[2] = 1 + 0 + P[2] = 2, we know that
P[2] = 1.
- Now note that Q[2] = P[1] + P[2] + P[3] = 0 + 1 + P[3] = 3, which leads us to the conclusion thatP[3] = 2. However, this violates the fact that each character in the original string must be '0' or '1'. Therefore, there exists no such original
stringP where the first digit is '1'.
Note that this algorithm produces at most two decodings for any given encrypted string. There can never be more than one possible way to decode a string once the first binary digit is set. Given a string message, containing the encrypted string, return a vector <string> with exactly two elements. The first element should contain the decrypted string assuming the first character is '0'; the second element should assume the first character is '1'. If one of the tests fails, return the string "NONE" in its place. For the above example, you should return{"011100011", "NONE"}. |