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Md Ariful Haque @mah-shamim

Find Kth Bit In Nth Binary String

Find Kth Bit in Nth Binary String: Use recursion & string properties to avoid generating entire string, reducing time complexity to O(n).

1545. Find Kth Bit in Nth Binary String
Difficulty: Medium
Topics: String, Recursion, Simulation
Given two positive integers n and k, the binary string Sn is formed as follows:

S1 = "0"
Si = Si - 1 + "1" + reverse(invert(Si - 1)) for i > 1

Where + denotes the concatenation operation, reverse(x) returns the reversed string x, and invert(x) inverts all the bits in x (0 changes to 1 and 1 changes to 0).
For example, the first four strings in the above sequence are:

S1 = "0"
S2 = "011"
S3 = "0111001"
S4 = "011100110110001"

Return the kth bit in Sn. It is guaranteed that k is valid for the give...