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花花酱 LeetCode 1266. Minimum Time Visiting All Points

By zxi on November 23, 2019

On a plane there are n points with integer coordinates points[i] = [xi, yi]. Your task is to find the minimum time in seconds to visit all points.

You can move according to the next rules:

  • In one second always you can either move vertically, horizontally by one unit or diagonally (it means to move one unit vertically and one unit horizontally in one second).
  • You have to visit the points in the same order as they appear in the array.

Example 1:

Input: points = [[1,1],[3,4],[-1,0]]
Output: 7
Explanation: One optimal path is [1,1] -> [2,2] -> [3,3] -> [3,4] -> [2,3] -> [1,2] -> [0,1] -> [-1,0]   
Time from [1,1] to [3,4] = 3 seconds 
Time from [3,4] to [-1,0] = 4 seconds
Total time = 7 seconds

Example 2:

Input: points = [[3,2],[-2,2]]
Output: 5

Constraints:

  • points.length == n
  • 1 <= n <= 100
  • points[i].length == 2
  • -1000 <= points[i][0], points[i][1] <= 1000

Solution: Geometry + Greedy

dx = abs(x1 – x2)
dy = abs(y1 – y2)

go diagonally first for min(dx, dy) steps, and then go straight line for abs(dx – dy) steps.

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

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 1237. Find Positive Integer Solution for a Given Equation

By zxi on October 27, 2019

Given a function  f(x, y) and a value z, return all positive integer pairs x and y where f(x,y) == z.

The function is constantly increasing, i.e.:

  • f(x, y) < f(x + 1, y)
  • f(x, y) < f(x, y + 1)

The function interface is defined like this: 

interface CustomFunction {
public:
  // Returns positive integer f(x, y) for any given positive integer x and y.
  int f(int x, int y);
};

For custom testing purposes you’re given an integer function_id and a target z as input, where function_id represent one function from an secret internal list, on the examples you’ll know only two functions from the list.  

You may return the solutions in any order.

Example 1:

Input: function_id = 1, z = 5
Output: [[1,4],[2,3],[3,2],[4,1]]
Explanation: function_id = 1 means that f(x, y) = x + y

Example 2:

Input: function_id = 2, z = 5
Output: [[1,5],[5,1]]
Explanation: function_id = 2 means that f(x, y) = x * y

Constraints:

  • 1 <= function_id <= 9
  • 1 <= z <= 100
  • It’s guaranteed that the solutions of f(x, y) == z will be on the range 1 <= x, y <= 1000
  • It’s also guaranteed that f(x, y) will fit in 32 bit signed integer if 1 <= x, y <= 1000

Solution1 : Brute Force

Time complexity: O(1000*1000)
Space complexity: O(1)

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 1221. Split a String in Balanced Strings

By zxi on October 13, 2019

Balanced strings are those who have equal quantity of ‘L’ and ‘R’ characters.

Given a balanced string s split it in the maximum amount of balanced strings.

Return the maximum amount of splitted balanced strings.

Example 1:

Input: s = "RLRRLLRLRL"
Output: 4
Explanation: s can be split into "RL", "RRLL", "RL", "RL", each substring contains same number of 'L' and 'R'.

Example 2:

Input: s = "RLLLLRRRLR"
Output: 3
Explanation: s can be split into "RL", "LLLRRR", "LR", each substring contains same number of 'L' and 'R'.

Example 3:

Input: s = "LLLLRRRR"
Output: 1
Explanation: s can be split into "LLLLRRRR".

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 1000
  • s[i] = 'L' or 'R'

Solution: Greedy

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

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 122. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II

By zxi on October 9, 2019

Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a given stock on day i.

Design an algorithm to find the maximum profit. You may complete as many transactions as you like (i.e., buy one and sell one share of the stock multiple times).

Note: You may not engage in multiple transactions at the same time (i.e., you must sell the stock before you buy again).

Example 1:

Input: [7,1,5,3,6,4]
Output: 7
Explanation: Buy on day 2 (price = 1) and sell on day 3 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
             Then buy on day 4 (price = 3) and sell on day 5 (price = 6), profit = 6-3 = 3.

Example 2:

Input: [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: 4
Explanation: Buy on day 1 (price = 1) and sell on day 5 (price = 5), profit = 5-1 = 4.
             Note that you cannot buy on day 1, buy on day 2 and sell them later, as you are
             engaging multiple transactions at the same time. You must sell before buying again.

Example 3:

Input: [7,6,4,3,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: In this case, no transaction is done, i.e. max profit = 0.

Solution: Greedy

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

C++

花花酱 LeetCode 1217. Play with Chips

By zxi on October 5, 2019

There are some chips, and the i-th chip is at position chips[i].

You can perform any of the two following types of moves any number of times (possibly zero) on any chip:

  • Move the i-th chip by 2 units to the left or to the right with a cost of 0.
  • Move the i-th chip by 1 unit to the left or to the right with a cost of 1.

There can be two or more chips at the same position initially.

Return the minimum cost needed to move all the chips to the same position (any position).

Example 1:

Input: chips = [1,2,3]
Output: 1
Explanation: Second chip will be moved to positon 3 with cost 1. First chip will be moved to position 3 with cost 0. Total cost is 1.

Example 2:

Input: chips = [2,2,2,3,3]
Output: 2
Explanation: Both fourth and fifth chip will be moved to position two with cost 1. Total minimum cost will be 2.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= chips.length <= 100
  • 1 <= chips[i] <= 10^9

Solution: Math

We can choose either:
1. move all odd positions to an arbitrary even position and move the rest to the same position
2. move all even positions to an arbitrary odd position and move the rest to the same position
ans = min(# of odd pos, # of even pos)

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

C++