Code RoomShortest palindrome prepend
HardPrep Room Coding #941

Shortest palindrome prepend

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~30 min

Given a string s, you may add characters in front of it to make it a palindrome. Return the shortest palindrome you can form by performing this transformation. s consists of lowercase English letters and may be empty (0 <= len(s) <= 5*10^4), so an O(n) approach is expected.

Implement
shortest_palindrome(s: str) → str
Examples
in["aacecaaa"]out"aaacecaaa"
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
["aacecaaa"]"aaacecaaa"not run yetsample