Climbing Stairs from Two Angles
LeetCode's Climbing Stairs problem looks like a simple dynamic-programming challenge, but a closer look connects Fibonacci numbers, binomial coefficients, and Pascal's triangle.
2026-07-05 12 min readAdrian Junge (vurlo)
CTF player, vulnerability researcher, and computer science student creating writeups, collecting CVEs, bounties, and notes from real targets and challenges, occasionally algorithmic and LeetCode challenges. I poke things politely and occasionally convince software to confess.
LeetCode's Climbing Stairs problem looks like a simple dynamic-programming challenge, but a closer look connects Fibonacci numbers, binomial coefficients, and Pascal's triangle.
2026-07-05 12 min read