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ByteByteGo: Climbing Stairs

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ByteByteGo: Climbing Stairs:

Top-down DP:

python
def climbing_stairs(n: int) -> int:
    from functools import lru_cache

    @lru_cache(maxsize=None)
    def cs(n):
        """How many possibilities for n steps?"""
        assert n >= 0

        if n in [0, 1, 2]:
            return n

        return cs(n-1) + cs(n-2)

    return cs(n)

Their Python environment is quite old (3.8). Goodness.

We can only do from functools import cache from Python 3.9+.

Bottom-up DP:

python
def climbing_stairs(n: int) -> int:
    dp = [None] * n

    dp[0] = 1
    dp[1] = 2

    for i in range(2, n):
        dp[i] = dp[i - 1] + dp[i - 2]

    return dp[n - 1]