691. Stickers to Spell Word

691. Stickers to Spell Word

class Solution:
    def minStickers(self, stickers: List[str], target: str) -> int:
        sticker_count=[Counter(s) for s in stickers]

        @cache
        def dp(remain):
            if not remain:return 0
            
            remain_count=Counter(remain)

            res=float('inf')
            for count in sticker_count:
                if count[remain[0]] == 0:
                    continue
                new_remain=[]
                for ch in remain_count:
                    if remain_count[ch]>count[ch]:
                        new_remain.append(ch*(remain_count[ch]-count[ch]))
                new_remain=''.join(new_remain)
                res=min(res,dp(new_remain)+1)
            return res
        result=dp(target)
        return result if result!=float('inf') else -1

if count[remain[0]] == 0:continue

这是非常重要的剪枝，如果当前不含首字母，至少这一次不可能是最优解