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Real-world version: Combined Toggle RowThe statement here is our own: the same inputs, outputs and technique.
A test rig has two long rows of toggle switches. A row is recorded as a string of the characters '0' and '1', one character per switch, the most significant switch written first, and the row is read as a count in base two. A recorded row never opens with '0' unless the whole row is the single character '0'.
Given the recorded rows top and bottom, return the row that would show their combined count. Use the same format: base two, most significant switch first, and no opening '0' unless the combined count is zero, in which case the answer is the single character '0'.
A row can hold far more switches than the rig's registers can count, so settle the columns one at a time from the least significant switch, carrying into the next column, rather than reading a whole row into a single number.
Examples
Example 1
- Input
- top = "1011", bottom = "110"
- Output
- "10001"
The rows stand for eleven and six, and the seventeen they combine to is written 10001 in base two.
Example 2
- Input
- top = "10011", bottom = "1101"
- Output
- "100000"
The rows stand for nineteen and thirteen, and the thirty-two they combine to is written 100000 in base two.
Example 3
- Input
- top = "0", bottom = "1001"
- Output
- "1001"
The top row is zero, so the combined count matches the bottom row and is written the same way.
Constraints
- 1 <= top.length, bottom.length <= 10^4
- top and bottom hold only the characters '0' and '1'
- Neither row opens with '0' unless it is the single character '0'
The signature
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def combine_toggle_rows(top: str, bottom: str) -> str:public String combineToggleRows(String top, String bottom)Checking your plan…
How this problem was checked
- Passed: Reference solution run against 12 test cases: 12 passed
- Passed: 3 worked examples confirmed by running the code
- Passed: 0 eight-word sequences shared with the parent problem's text
- Passed: Agrees with an independent brute-force solution on random inputs
- Passed: Test set shown to catch deliberately broken solutions
- Passed: Reviewed by a separate quality pass
- Passed: Function arity matches the parent problem's