Posts tagged as “array”

Problem:

You’re now a baseball game point recorder.

Given a list of strings, each string can be one of the 4 following types:

1. Integer (one round’s score): Directly represents the number of points you get in this round.
2. "+" (one round’s score): Represents that the points you get in this round are the sum of the last two validround’s points.
3. "D" (one round’s score): Represents that the points you get in this round are the doubled data of the last valid round’s points.
4. "C" (an operation, which isn’t a round’s score): Represents the last valid round’s points you get were invalid and should be removed.

Each round’s operation is permanent and could have an impact on the round before and the round after.

You need to return the sum of the points you could get in all the rounds.

Example 1:

Example 2:

Note:

• The size of the input list will be between 1 and 1000.
• Every integer represented in the list will be between -30000 and 30000.

Idea:

Simulation

Solution:

C++:

Java:

Python

Problem:

Design a data structure that supports all following operations in average O(1) time.

1. insert(val): Inserts an item val to the set if not already present.
2. remove(val): Removes an item val from the set if present.
3. getRandom: Returns a random element from current set of elements. Each element must have the same probability of being returned.

Idea:

Hashtable + array

Time complexity:

O(1)

Solution:

Related Problems:

Problem:

Given a string, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency of characters.

Example 1:

Input:
“tree”

Output:
“eert”

Explanation:
‘e’ appears twice while ‘r’ and ‘t’ both appear once.
So ‘e’ must appear before both ‘r’ and ‘t’. Therefore “eetr” is also a valid answer.
Example 2:

Input:
“cccaaa”

Output:
“cccaaa”

Explanation:
Both ‘c’ and ‘a’ appear three times, so “aaaccc” is also a valid answer.
Note that “cacaca” is incorrect, as the same characters must be together.
Example 3:

Input:
“Aabb”

Output:
“bbAa”

Explanation:
“bbaA” is also a valid answer, but “Aabb” is incorrect.
Note that ‘A’ and ‘a’ are treated as two different characters.

Idea:

Counting sort

Solution 1:

Sort the string based on element frequency

Solution 2:

Counting sort

Problem:

Given an array containing n distinct numbers taken from 0, 1, 2, …, n, find the one that is missing from the array.

For example,
Given nums = [0, 1, 3] return 2.

Note:
Your algorithm should run in linear runtime complexity. Could you implement it using only constant extra space complexity?

Idea:

sum / xor

Solution:

Problem:

Suppose an array sorted in ascending order is rotated at some pivot unknown to you beforehand.

(i.e., 0 1 2 4 5 6 7 might become 4 5 6 7 0 1 2).

Find the minimum element.

The array may contain duplicates.

Idea:

Divide and conquer

Time complexity:

Average: O(logn)

Worst: O(n)

Solution:

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