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花花酱 LeetCode 1496. Path Crossing

By zxi on June 28, 2020

Given a string path, where path[i] = 'N', 'S', 'E' or 'W', each representing moving one unit north, south, east, or west, respectively. You start at the origin (0, 0) on a 2D plane and walk on the path specified by path.

Return True if the path crosses itself at any point, that is, if at any time you are on a location you’ve previously visited. Return False otherwise.

Example 1:

Input: path = "NES"
Output: false 
Explanation: Notice that the path doesn't cross any point more than once.

Example 2:

Input: path = "NESWW"
Output: true
Explanation: Notice that the path visits the origin twice.

Constraints:

1 <= path.length <= 10^4
path will only consist of characters in {'N', 'S', 'E', 'W}

Solution: Simulation + Hashtable

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

bool isPathCrossing(string path) {

unordered_set<int> s;

int x = 0;

int y = 0;

s.insert(x * 10000 + y);

for (char d : path) {

if (d == 'N') ++y;

else if (d == 'S') --y;

else if (d == 'E') ++x;

else if (d == 'W') --x;

if (!s.insert(x * 10000 + y).second)

return true;

}

return false;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1491. Average Salary Excluding the Minimum and Maximum Salary

By zxi on June 27, 2020

Given an array of unique integers salary where salary[i] is the salary of the employee i.

Return the average salary of employees excluding the minimum and maximum salary.

Example 1:

Input: salary = [4000,3000,1000,2000]
Output: 2500.00000
Explanation: Minimum salary and maximum salary are 1000 and 4000 respectively.
Average salary excluding minimum and maximum salary is (2000+3000)/2= 2500

Example 2:

Input: salary = [1000,2000,3000]
Output: 2000.00000
Explanation: Minimum salary and maximum salary are 1000 and 3000 respectively.
Average salary excluding minimum and maximum salary is (2000)/1= 2000

Example 3:

Input: salary = [6000,5000,4000,3000,2000,1000]
Output: 3500.00000

Example 4:

Input: salary = [8000,9000,2000,3000,6000,1000]
Output: 4750.00000

Constraints:

3 <= salary.length <= 100
10^3 <= salary[i] <= 10^6
salary[i] is unique.
Answers within 10^-5 of the actual value will be accepted as correct.

Solution: Brute Force

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

double average(vector<int>& salary) {

auto [lit, hit] = minmax_element(begin(salary), end(salary));

int sum = accumulate(begin(salary), end(salary), 0);

return (sum - *lit - *hit) * 1.0 / (salary.size() - 2);

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1486. XOR Operation in an Array

By zxi on June 20, 2020

Given an integer n and an integer start.

Define an array nums where nums[i] = start + 2*i (0-indexed) and n == nums.length.

Return the bitwise XOR of all elements of nums.

Example 1:

Input: n = 5, start = 0
Output: 8
Explanation: Array nums is equal to [0, 2, 4, 6, 8] where (0 ^ 2 ^ 4 ^ 6 ^ 8) = 8.
Where "^" corresponds to bitwise XOR operator.

Example 2:

Input: n = 4, start = 3
Output: 8
Explanation: Array nums is equal to [3, 5, 7, 9] where (3 ^ 5 ^ 7 ^ 9) = 8.

Example 3:

Input: n = 1, start = 7
Output: 7

Example 4:

Input: n = 10, start = 5
Output: 2

Constraints:

1 <= n <= 1000
0 <= start <= 1000
n == nums.length

Solution: Simulation

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

int xorOperation(int n, int start) {

int ans = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)

ans ^= (start + 2 * i);

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1480. Running Sum of 1d Array

By zxi on June 14, 2020

Given an array nums. We define a running sum of an array as runningSum[i] = sum(nums[0]…nums[i]).

Return the running sum of nums.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4]
Output: [1,3,6,10]
Explanation: Running sum is obtained as follows: [1, 1+2, 1+2+3, 1+2+3+4].

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,1,1,1,1]
Output: [1,2,3,4,5]
Explanation: Running sum is obtained as follows: [1, 1+1, 1+1+1, 1+1+1+1, 1+1+1+1+1].

Example 3:

Input: nums = [3,1,2,10,1]
Output: [3,4,6,16,17]

Constraints:

1 <= nums.length <= 1000
-10^6 <= nums[i] <= 10^6

Solution

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

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

vector<int> runningSum(vector<int>& nums) {

vector<int> ans(nums);

for (int i = 1; i < ans.size(); ++i)

ans[i] += ans[i - 1];

return ans;

}

};

花花酱 LeetCode 1475. Final Prices With a Special Discount in a Shop

By zxi on June 13, 2020

Given the array prices where prices[i] is the price of the ith item in a shop. There is a special discount for items in the shop, if you buy the ith item, then you will receive a discount equivalent to prices[j] where j is the minimum index such that j > i and prices[j] <= prices[i], otherwise, you will not receive any discount at all.

Return an array where the ith element is the final price you will pay for the ith item of the shop considering the special discount.

Example 1:

Input: prices = [8,4,6,2,3]
Output: [4,2,4,2,3]
Explanation: 
For item 0 with price[0]=8 you will receive a discount equivalent to prices[1]=4, therefore, the final price you will pay is 8 - 4 = 4. 
For item 1 with price[1]=4 you will receive a discount equivalent to prices[3]=2, therefore, the final price you will pay is 4 - 2 = 2. 
For item 2 with price[2]=6 you will receive a discount equivalent to prices[3]=2, therefore, the final price you will pay is 6 - 2 = 4. 
For items 3 and 4 you will not receive any discount at all.

Example 2:

Input: prices = [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: [1,2,3,4,5]
Explanation: In this case, for all items, you will not receive any discount at all.

Example 3:

Input: prices = [10,1,1,6]
Output: [9,0,1,6]

Constraints:

1 <= prices.length <= 500
1 <= prices[i] <= 10^3

Solution 1: Simulation

Time complexity: O(n^2)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

vector<int> finalPrices(vector<int> prices) {

const int n = prices.size();

for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)

for (int j = i + 1; j < n; ++j)

if (prices[j] <= prices[i]) {

prices[i] -= prices[j];

break;

}

return prices;

}

};

Solution 2: Monotonic Stack

Use a stack to store monotonically increasing items, when the current item is cheaper than the top of the stack, we get the discount and pop that item. Repeat until the current item is no longer cheaper or the stack becomes empty.

Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n)

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

vector<int> finalPrices(vector<int> prices) {

// stores pointers of monotonically incraseing elements.

stack<int*> s;

for (int& p : prices) {

while (!s.empty() && *s.top() >= p) {

*s.top() -= p;

s.pop();

}

s.push(&p);

}

return prices;

}

};

index version

C++

// Author: Huahua

class Solution {

public:

vector<int> finalPrices(vector<int> prices) {

// stores indices of monotonically incraseing elements.

stack<int> s;

for (int i = 0; i < prices.size(); ++i) {

while (!s.empty() && prices[s.top()] >= prices[i]) {

prices[s.top()] -= prices[i];

s.pop();

}

s.push(i);

}

return prices;

}

};