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https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-gap/description/

Problem:

Given an unsorted array, find the maximum difference between the successive elements in its sorted form.

Try to solve it in linear time/space.

Return 0 if the array contains less than 2 elements.

You may assume all elements in the array are non-negative integers and fit in the 32-bit signed integer range.

Example:

Input:  [5, 0, 4, 2, 12, 10]

Output: 5

Explanation:

Sorted: [0, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12]

max gap is 10 – 5 = 5

Idea:

Bucket sort. Use n buckets to store all the numbers. For each bucket, only track the min / max value.

max gap must come from two “adjacent” buckets, b[i], b[j], j > i, b[i+1] … b[j – 1] must be empty.

max gap 只可能来自”相邻”的两个桶 b[i] 和 b[j], j > i, b[i] 和 b[j] 之间的桶（如果有）必须为空。

max gap = b[j].min – b[i].min

Time complexity: O(n)

Space complexity: O(n)

Solution:

C++

Problem:

Implement a MyCalendarThree class to store your events. A new event can always be added.

Your class will have one method, book(int start, int end). Formally, this represents a booking on the half open interval [start, end), the range of real numbers x such that start <= x < end.

K-booking happens when K events have some non-empty intersection (ie., there is some time that is common to all K events.)

For each call to the method MyCalendar.book, return an integer K representing the largest integer such that there exists a K-booking in the calendar.

Your class will be called like this: MyCalendarThree cal = new MyCalendarThree();MyCalendarThree.book(start, end)

Example 1:

MyCalendarThree();
MyCalendarThree.book(10, 20); // returns 1
MyCalendarThree.book(50, 60); // returns 1
MyCalendarThree.book(10, 40); // returns 2
MyCalendarThree.book(5, 15); // returns 3
MyCalendarThree.book(5, 10); // returns 3
MyCalendarThree.book(25, 55); // returns 3
Explanation:
The first two events can be booked and are disjoint, so the maximum K-booking is a 1-booking.
The third event [10, 40) intersects the first event, and the maximum K-booking is a 2-booking.
The remaining events cause the maximum K-booking to be only a 3-booking.
Note that the last event locally causes a 2-booking, but the answer is still 3 because
eg. [10, 20), [10, 40), and [5, 15) are still triple booked.


Note:

• The number of calls to MyCalendarThree.book per test case will be at most 400.
• In calls to MyCalendarThree.book(start, end)start and end are integers in the range [0, 10^9].

Idea:

Similar to LeetCode 731 My Calendar II Use an ordered / tree map to track the number of event at current time.

For a new book event, increase the number of events at start, decrease the number of events at end.

Scan the timeline to find the maximum number of events.

# Solution 1: Count Boundaries

Time complexity: O(n^2)

Space complexity: O(n)

# Solution 3: Segment Tree

## Python3

Related Problems:

Problem:

Given n balloons, indexed from 0 to n-1. Each balloon is painted with a number on it represented by array nums. You are asked to burst all the balloons. If the you burst balloon i you will get nums[left] * nums[i] * nums[right] coins. Here left and right are adjacent indices of i. After the burst, the left and rightthen becomes adjacent.

Find the maximum coins you can collect by bursting the balloons wisely.

Note:
(1) You may imagine nums[-1] = nums[n] = 1. They are not real therefore you can not burst them.
(2) 0 ≤ n ≤ 500, 0 ≤ nums[i] ≤ 100

Example:

Given [3, 1, 5, 8]

Return 167

Idea

DP

Solution1:

C++ / Recursion with memoization

Solution2:

C++  / DP

Java / DP

## Java

Problem:

A message containing letters from A-Z is being encoded to numbers using the following mapping way:

Beyond that, now the encoded string can also contain the character ‘*’, which can be treated as one of the numbers from 1 to 9.

Given the encoded message containing digits and the character ‘*’, return the total number of ways to decode it.

Also, since the answer may be very large, you should return the output mod 109 + 7.

Example 1:

Example 2:

Note:

1. The length of the input string will fit in range [1, 105].
2. The input string will only contain the character ‘*’ and digits ‘0’ – ‘9’.

Idea:

DP

Time complexity: O(n)

Space complexity: O(1)

Solution:

C++

Related Problems:

Problem:

Given a chemical formula (given as a string), return the count of each atom.

An atomic element always starts with an uppercase character, then zero or more lowercase letters, representing the name.

1 or more digits representing the count of that element may follow if the count is greater than 1. If the count is 1, no digits will follow. For example, H2O and H2O2 are possible, but H1O2 is impossible.

Two formulas concatenated together produce another formula. For example, H2O2He3Mg4 is also a formula.

A formula placed in parentheses, and a count (optionally added) is also a formula. For example, (H2O2) and (H2O2)3 are formulas.

Given a formula, output the count of all elements as a string in the following form: the first name (in sorted order), followed by its count (if that count is more than 1), followed by the second name (in sorted order), followed by its count (if that count is more than 1), and so on.

Example 1:

Example 2:

Example 3:

Note:

• All atom names consist of lowercase letters, except for the first character which is uppercase.
• The length of formula will be in the range [1, 1000].
• formula will only consist of letters, digits, and round parentheses, and is a valid formula as defined in the problem.

Idea:

Recursion

Time complexity: O(n)

Space complexity: O(n)

Solution:

C++

Java

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