Solution: House Robber II
Explore the dynamic programming approach to solve the House Robber II problem, where houses are arranged in a circle and adjacent robberies are forbidden. Understand how to optimize the solution by splitting the problem and using a bottom-up method to maximize the stolen amount efficiently with linear time and space complexity.
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:
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money.length -
money[i]