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214. Shortest Palindrome

Description

You are given a string s. You can convert s to a palindrome by adding characters in front of it.

Return the shortest palindrome you can find by performing this transformation.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "aacecaaa"
Output: "aaacecaaa"

Example 2:

Input: s = "abcd"
Output: "dcbabcd"

 

Constraints:

  • 0 <= s.length <= 5 * 104
  • s consists of lowercase English letters only.

Solutions

Solution 1

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class Solution:
    def shortestPalindrome(self, s: str) -> str:
        base = 131
        mod = 10**9 + 7
        n = len(s)
        prefix = suffix = 0
        mul = 1
        idx = 0
        for i, c in enumerate(s):
            prefix = (prefix * base + (ord(c) - ord('a') + 1)) % mod
            suffix = (suffix + (ord(c) - ord('a') + 1) * mul) % mod
            mul = (mul * base) % mod
            if prefix == suffix:
                idx = i + 1
        return s if idx == n else s[idx:][::-1] + s
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class Solution {
    public String shortestPalindrome(String s) {
        int base = 131;
        int mul = 1;
        int mod = (int) 1e9 + 7;
        int prefix = 0, suffix = 0;
        int idx = 0;
        int n = s.length();
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
            int t = s.charAt(i) - 'a' + 1;
            prefix = (int) (((long) prefix * base + t) % mod);
            suffix = (int) ((suffix + (long) t * mul) % mod);
            mul = (int) (((long) mul * base) % mod);
            if (prefix == suffix) {
                idx = i + 1;
            }
        }
        if (idx == n) {
            return s;
        }
        return new StringBuilder(s.substring(idx)).reverse().toString() + s;
    }
}
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typedef unsigned long long ull;

class Solution {
public:
    string shortestPalindrome(string s) {
        int base = 131;
        ull mul = 1;
        ull prefix = 0;
        ull suffix = 0;
        int idx = 0, n = s.size();
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
            int t = s[i] - 'a' + 1;
            prefix = prefix * base + t;
            suffix = suffix + mul * t;
            mul *= base;
            if (prefix == suffix) idx = i + 1;
        }
        if (idx == n) return s;
        string x = s.substr(idx, n - idx);
        reverse(x.begin(), x.end());
        return x + s;
    }
};
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func shortestPalindrome(s string) string {
    n := len(s)
    base, mod := 131, int(1e9)+7
    prefix, suffix, mul := 0, 0, 1
    idx := 0
    for i, c := range s {
        t := int(c-'a') + 1
        prefix = (prefix*base + t) % mod
        suffix = (suffix + t*mul) % mod
        mul = (mul * base) % mod
        if prefix ==