Solution: House Robber II

Explore how to apply dynamic programming techniques to solve the House Robber II problem. Learn to optimize robbery amounts from houses arranged in a circle by avoiding adjacent houses, using bottom-up tabulation and space-efficient strategies to maximize gain while maintaining O(n) time complexity.

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Solution
- Naive approach
- Optimized approach using dynamic programming

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:

$1\leq$ money.length $\leq 10^3$
$0\leq$ money[i] $\leq 10^3$

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