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Welcome to Day 3 of my #30DaysofCode challenge with Educative!

Today we’re tackling one of those sneaky binary problems that looks simple at first: Leetcode 1404 – Number of Steps to Reduce a Binary Number to One.

💭 The challenge? You’re given a binary string and told to reduce it to one by repeatedly dividing by two if it’s even or adding one if it’s odd. Sounds easy… until you realize this isn’t about math at all. It’s about understanding how bits actually behave.

💡 In this video, I’ll break it down visually and walk through the three versions of my thought process:
• The wrong version: thinking in decimal, not binary
• The naïve version: manually simulating bit operations
• The optimized version: modeling carry propagation and using XOR logic

Each step gets me closer to thinking like the computer instead of just coding line-by-line.

🔁 I’m learning and practicing daily through Educative’s #30DaysofCode challenge. It’s the perfect way to stay consistent, strengthen your DSA foundations, and build real problem-solving intuition.

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🧠 Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:44 Understanding the Problem
01:27 Wrong Attempt
02:01 Mental Model Flaw
03:01 Naive Code
03:50 Understanding the Core Pattern
04:23 Naive Complexity Analysis
04:47 Optimized Code & Complexity
06:37 Key Insights
07:51 Lessons Learned
08:29 Reflection & Outro

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🎨 By Ashley Bedford, Founder of The Runtime Diaries
Making complex code visual, simple, and actually fun.

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