Matchsticks to Square

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Problem Statement

You are given an integer array matchsticks where matchsticks[i] is the length of the i ^th matchstick. You want to use all the matchsticks to make one square. You should not break any stick, but you can link them up, and each matchstick must be used exactly one time .

Return true if you can make this square and false otherwise.

Examples

Example 1

Input: matchsticks = [1,1,2,2,2]
Output: true
You can form a square with length 2, one side of the square came two sticks with length 1.

Example 2

Input: matchsticks = [3,3,3,3,4]
Output: false
You cannot find a way to form a square with all the matchsticks.

Constraints

1 <= matchsticks.length <= 15

1 <= matchsticks[i] <= 10 ^8

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Medium

Difficulty

Topic Info

ModuleDSA

CategoryArray

Sub-topicDynamic Programming