Code RoomDistinct palindromic subsequences
HardPrep Room Coding #947

Distinct palindromic subsequences

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~35 min

Given a string s of lowercase letters (0 <= len(s) <= 1000), return the number of DISTINCT non-empty palindromic subsequences of s, modulo 1_000_000_007. Two subsequences are different if their resulting strings differ (distinct by value, not by index set).

Implement
count_palindromic_subsequences(s: str) → int
Examples
in["bccb"]out6
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
["bccb"]6not run yetsample