- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Math, Dynamic Programming, Combinatorics, leetcode-2400, O(k)
Problem
You are given two positive integers startPos
and endPos
. Initially, you are standing at position startPos
on an infinite number line. With one step, you can move either one position to the left, or one position to the right.
Given a positive integer k
, return the number of different ways to reach the position endPos
starting from startPos
, such that you perform exactly k
steps. Since the answer may be very large, return it modulo 109 + 7
.
Two ways are considered different if the order of the steps made is not exactly the same.
Note that the number line includes negative integers.
Example 1:
Input: startPos = 1, endPos = 2, k = 3 Output: 3 Explanation: We can reach position 2 from 1 in exactly 3 steps in three ways: - 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 2. - 1 -> 2 -> 1 -> 2. - 1 -> 0 -> 1 -> 2. It can be proven that no other way is possible, so we return 3.
Example 2:
Input: startPos = 2, endPos = 5, k = 10 Output: 0 Explanation: It is impossible to reach position 5 from position 2 in exactly 10 steps.
Constraints:
1 <= startPos, endPos, k <= 1000