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Given a triangle, find the minimum path sum from top to bottom. Each step you may move to adjacent numbers on the row below.
/*
For example, given the following triangle
[
[2],
[3,4],
[6,5,7],
[4,1,8,3]
]
The minimum path sum from top to bottom is 11 (i.e., 2 + 3 + 5 + 1 = 11).
Note:
Bonus point if you are able to do this using only O(n) extra space, where n is the total number of rows in the triangle.
*/
public class Solution {
public int minimumTotal(ArrayList<ArrayList<Integer>> triangle) {
// Start typing your Java solution below
// DO NOT write main() function
if (triangle.size() == 0) return 0;
int size = triangle.size();
int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
int[] sum = new int[size];;
sum[0] = triangle.get(0).get(0);
for(int cur = 1; cur <= size - 1; cur++){
int next_size = triangle.get(cur).size();
// it has to start with the end of the array
// because the further one need the clean sum
// value than the newer one.
for(int next = next_size - 1; next >= 0; next--) {
if (next == 0) {
sum[0] = sum[0] + triangle.get(cur).get(next);
} else if (next == (next_size - 1)) {
sum[next] = sum[next-1] + triangle.get(cur).get(next);
} else {
sum[next] = Math.min(sum[next-1], sum[next]) + triangle.get(cur).get(next);
}
}
}
for(int i = 0; i < size; i++){
if(sum[i] < min){
min = sum[i];
}
}
return min;
}
}
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public static int minimumTotal(List<List> triangle) {

    Integer tot = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < triangle.size(); i++) {
        List<Integer> row = triangle.get(i);
        Integer minimum = row.stream().sorted().findFirst().get();
        tot += minimum;
    }
    return tot;
}

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