Question

Given an array equations of strings that represent relationships between variables, each string equations[i] has length 4 and takes one of two different forms: "a==b" or "a!=b". Here, a and b are lowercase letters (not necessarily different) that represent one-letter variable names.

Return true if and only if it is possible to assign integers to variable names so as to satisfy all the given equations.

Example 1:

Input: ["a==b","b!=a"] Output: false Explanation: If we assign say, a = 1 and b = 1, then the first equation is satisfied, but not the second. There is no way to assign the variables to satisfy both equations.

Example 2:

Input: ["b==a","a==b"] Output: true Explanation: We could assign a = 1 and b = 1 to satisfy both equations.

Example 3:

Input: ["a==b","b==c","a==c"] Output: true

Example 4:

Input: ["a==b","b!=c","c==a"] Output: false

Example 5:

Input: ["c==c","b==d","x!=z"] Output: true

Note:

1. 1 <= equations.length <= 500
2. equations[i].length == 4
3. equations[i][0] and equations[i][3] are lowercase letters
4. equations[i][1] is either '=' or '!'
5. equations[i][2] is '='

Difficulty:Medium

Category:

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