Code RoomPalindrome partition cuts
HardPrep Room Coding #1189

Palindrome partition cuts

CodingDistributed systemsAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~34 min

Given a string s, partition it into contiguous substrings such that every part is a palindrome, and return the MINIMUM number of cuts needed. A single character is a palindrome; a string already palindromic needs 0 cuts. 1 <= len(s) <= 2000, lowercase letters. Example: 'aab' -> 1 (cut into 'aa' | 'b').

Implement
min_palindrome_cuts(s: str) → int
Examples
in["aab"]out1
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
["aab"]1not run yetsample