Code RoomDistinct palindromic subsequences
HardPrep Room Coding #1180

Distinct palindromic subsequences

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~35 min

Given a string s, count the number of distinct non-empty palindromic SUBSEQUENCES in s, modulo 1000000007. Subsequences are distinguished by their character content (equal strings count once), not by index. 1 <= len(s) <= 1000, lowercase letters. Example: 'bccb' has palindromic subsequences b, c, cc, bb, bcb, bccb = 6.

Implement
count_distinct_palindromic_subseq(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