花花酱 LeetCode 1712. Ways to Split Array Into Three Subarrays

A split of an integer array is good if:

• The array is split into three non-empty contiguous subarrays – named left, mid, right respectively from left to right.
• The sum of the elements in left is less than or equal to the sum of the elements in mid, and the sum of the elements in mid is less than or equal to the sum of the elements in right.

Given nums, an array of non-negative integers, return the number of good ways to split nums. As the number may be too large, return it modulo 109 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,1,1]
Output: 1
Explanation: The only good way to split nums is [1] [1] [1].

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,2,2,2,5,0]
Output: 3
Explanation: There are three good ways of splitting nums:
[1] [2] [2,2,5,0]
[1] [2,2] [2,5,0]
[1,2] [2,2] [5,0]

Example 3:

Input: nums = [3,2,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: There is no good way to split nums.

Constraints:

• 3 <= nums.length <= 105
• 0 <= nums[i] <= 104

Solution 1: Prefix Sum + Binary Search

We split the array into [0 … i] [i + 1… j] [j + 1 … n – 1]
we can use binary search to find the min and max of j for each i.
s.t. sum(0 ~ i) <= sums(i + 1 ~j) <= sums(j + 1 ~ n – 1)
min is lower_bound(2 * sums(0 ~ i))
max is upper_bound(sums(0 ~ i) + (total – sums(0 ~ i)) / 2)

Time complexity: O(nlogn)
Space complexity: O(1)

Solution 2: Prefix Sum + Two Pointers

The right end of the middle array is in range [j, k – 1] and there are k – j choices.
Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(1)