Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Write a recursive function that takes a start index, array of integers, and a target sum. Your goal is to find whether a subset of the array of integers adds up to the target sum. The start index is initially 0.
A target sum of 0 is true for any array.

Examples: subsetSum(0, {2, 4, 8}, 10) -> true

 

public boolean subsetSum(int start, int[] nums, int target) {
 
}
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public class Main {
    public boolean subsetSum(int start, int[] nums, int target) {
        if (target == 0) { // base case
            return true;
        }
        if (start >= nums.length) { // base case
            return false;
        }
        // recursive case
        return subsetSum(start + 1, nums, target - nums[start]) // include nums[start]
                || subsetSum(start + 1, nums, target); // exclude nums[start]
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Main m = new Main();
        int[] nums = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 };
        System.out.println(m.subsetSum(0, nums, 10));
        System.out.println(m.subsetSum(0, nums, 11));
        System.out.println(m.subsetSum(0, nums, 12));
        System.out.println(m.subsetSum(0, nums, 56));
    }
}
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