Solution: House Robber II

Explore the dynamic programming approach to the House Robber II problem. Understand how to handle circular house arrangements and optimize robbery strategies by splitting the problem and using bottom-up tabulation. Learn to improve space complexity using variables while maintaining efficient computation.

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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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