Question

67. Add Binary

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Description

Given two binary strings a and b, return _their sum as a binary string_.

 

Example 1:

Input: a = "11", b = "1"
Output: "100"

Example 2:

Input: a = "1010", b = "1011"
Output: "10101"

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= a.length, b.length <= 104
• a and b consist only of '0' or '1' characters.
• Each string does not contain leading zeros except for the zero itself.

Solutions

Solution 1: Simulation

We use a variable $carry$ to record the current carry, and two pointers $i$ and $j$ to point to the end of $a$ and $b$ respectively, and add them bit by bit from the end to the beginning.

The time complexity is $O(\max(m, n))$, where $m$ and $n$ are the lengths of strings $a$ and $b$ respectively. The space complexity is $O(1)$.

class Solution:
  def addBinary(self, a: str, b: str) -> str:
    return bin(int(a, 2) + int(b, 2))[2:]

class Solution {
  public String addBinary(String a, String b) {
    var sb = new StringBuilder();
    int i = a.length() - 1, j = b.length() - 1;
    for (int carry = 0; i >= 0 || j >= 0 || carry > 0; --i, --j) {
      carry += (i >= 0 ? a.charAt(i) - '0' : 0) + (j >= 0 ? b.charAt(j) - '0' : 0);
      sb.append(carry % 2);
      carry /= 2;
    }
    return sb.reverse().toString();
  }
}

class Solution {
public:
  string addBinary(string a, string b) {
    string ans;
    int i = a.size() - 1, j = b.size() - 1;
    for (int carry = 0; i >= 0 || j >= 0 || carry; --i, --j) {
      carry += (i >= 0 ? a[i] - '0' : 0) + (j >= 0 ? b[j] - '0' : 0);
      ans.push_back((carry % 2) + '0');
      carry /= 2;
    }
    reverse(ans.begin(), ans.end());
    return ans;
  }
};

func addBinary(a string, b string) string {
  i, j := len(a)-1, len(b)-1
  ans := []byte{}
  for carry := 0; i >= 0 || j >= 0 || carry > 0; i, j = i-1, j-1 {
    if i >= 0 {
      carry += int(a[i] - '0')
    }
    if j >= 0 {
      carry += int(b[j] - '0')
    }
    ans = append(ans, byte(carry%2+'0'))
    carry /= 2
  }
  for i, j := 0, len(ans)-1; i < j; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
    ans[i], ans[j] = ans[j], ans[i]
  }
  return string(ans)
}

function addBinary(a: string, b: string): string {
  return (BigInt('0b' + a) + BigInt('0b' + b)).toString(2);
}

impl Solution {
  pub fn add_binary(a: String, b: String) -> String {
    let mut i = (a.len() as i32) - 1;
    let mut j = (b.len() as i32) - 1;
    let mut carry = 0;
    let mut ans = String::new();
    let a = a.as_bytes();
    let b = b.as_bytes();
    while i >= 0 || j >= 0 || carry > 0 {
      if i >= 0 {
        carry += a[i as usize] - b'0';
        i -= 1;
      }
      if j >= 0 {
        carry += b[j as usize] - b'0';
        j -= 1;
      }
      ans.push_str(&(carry % 2).to_string());
      carry /= 2;
    }
    ans.chars().rev().collect()
  }
}

public class Solution {
  public string AddBinary(string a, string b) {
    int i = a.Length - 1;
    int j = b.Length - 1;
    var sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (int carry = 0; i >= 0 || j >= 0 || carry > 0; --i, --j) {
      carry += i >= 0 ? a[i] - '0' : 0;
      carry += j >= 0 ? b[j] - '0' : 0;
      sb.Append(carry % 2);
      carry /= 2;
    }
    var ans = sb.ToString().ToCharArray();
    Array.Reverse(ans);
    return new string(ans);
  }
}

Solution 2

class Solution:
  def addBinary(self, a: str, b: str) -> str:
    ans = []
    i, j, carry = len(a) - 1, len(b) - 1, 0
    while i >= 0 or j >= 0 or carry:
      carry += (0 if i < 0 else int(a[i])) + (0 if j < 0 else int(b[j]))
      carry, v = divmod(carry, 2)
      ans.append(str(v))
      i, j = i - 1, j - 1
    return ''.join(ans[::-1])

function addBinary(a: string, b: string): string {
  let i = a.length - 1;
  let j = b.length - 1;
  let ans: number[] = [];
  for (let carry = 0; i >= 0 || j >= 0 || carry; --i, --j) {
    carry += (i >= 0 ? a[i] : '0').charCodeAt(0) - '0'.charCodeAt(0);
    carry += (j >= 0 ? b[j] : '0').charCodeAt(0) - '0'.charCodeAt(0);
    ans.push(carry % 2);
    carry >>= 1;
  }
  return ans.reverse().join('');
}