# Posts tagged as “geometry”

You have a cubic storeroom where the width, length, and height of the room are all equal to n units. You are asked to place n boxes in this room where each box is a cube of unit side length. There are however some rules to placing the boxes:

• You can place the boxes anywhere on the floor.
• If box x is placed on top of the box y, then each side of the four vertical sides of the box y must either be adjacent to another box or to a wall.

Given an integer n, return the minimum possible number of boxes touching the floor.

Example 1:

Input: n = 3
Output: 3
Explanation: The figure above is for the placement of the three boxes.
These boxes are placed in the corner of the room, where the corner is on the left side.


Example 2:

Input: n = 4
Output: 3
Explanation: The figure above is for the placement of the four boxes.
These boxes are placed in the corner of the room, where the corner is on the left side.


Example 3:

Input: n = 10
Output: 6
Explanation: The figure above is for the placement of the ten boxes.
These boxes are placed in the corner of the room, where the corner is on the back side.

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 109

## Solution: Geometry

Step 1: Build a largest pyramid that has less then n cubes, whose base area is d*(d+1) / 2
Step 2: Build a largest triangle with cubes left, whose base area is l, l*(l + 1) / 2 >= left

Time complexity: O(n^(1/3))
Space complexity: O(1)

## C++

A delivery company wants to build a new service centre in a new city. The company knows the positions of all the customers in this city on a 2D-Map and wants to build the new centre in a position such that the sum of the euclidean distances to all customers is minimum.

Given an array positions where positions[i] = [xi, yi] is the position of the ith customer on the map, return the minimum sum of the euclidean distances to all customers.

In other words, you need to choose the position of the service centre [xcentre, ycentre] such that the following formula is minimized:

Answers within 10^-5 of the actual value will be accepted.

Example 1:

Input: positions = [[0,1],[1,0],[1,2],[2,1]]
Output: 4.00000
Explanation: As shown, you can see that choosing [xcentre, ycentre] = [1, 1] will make the distance to each customer = 1, the sum of all distances is 4 which is the minimum possible we can achieve.


Example 2:

Input: positions = [[1,1],[3,3]]
Output: 2.82843
Explanation: The minimum possible sum of distances = sqrt(2) + sqrt(2) = 2.82843


Example 3:

Input: positions = [[1,1]]
Output: 0.00000


Example 4:

Input: positions = [[1,1],[0,0],[2,0]]
Output: 2.73205
Explanation: At the first glance, you may think that locating the centre at [1, 0] will achieve the minimum sum, but locating it at [1, 0] will make the sum of distances = 3.
Try to locate the centre at [1.0, 0.5773502711] you will see that the sum of distances is 2.73205.
Be careful with the precision!


Example 5:

Input: positions = [[0,1],[3,2],[4,5],[7,6],[8,9],[11,1],[2,12]]
Output: 32.94036
Explanation: You can use [4.3460852395, 4.9813795505] as the position of the centre.


Constraints:

• 1 <= positions.length <= 50
• positions[i].length == 2
• 0 <= positions[i][0], positions[i][1] <= 100

## Solution: Weiszfeld’s algorithm

Use Weiszfeld’s algorithm to compute geometric median of the samples.

Time complexity: O(f(epsilon) * O)
Space complexity: O(1)

## C++

Given n points on a 2D plane where points[i] = [xi, yi], Return the widest vertical area between two points such that no points are inside the area.

vertical area is an area of fixed-width extending infinitely along the y-axis (i.e., infinite height). The widest vertical area is the one with the maximum width.

Note that points on the edge of a vertical area are not considered included in the area.

Example 1:

Input: points = [[8,7],[9,9],[7,4],[9,7]]
Output: 1
Explanation: Both the red and the blue area are optimal.


Example 2:

Input: points = [[3,1],[9,0],[1,0],[1,4],[5,3],[8,8]]
Output: 3


Constraints:

• n == points.length
• 2 <= n <= 105
• points[i].length == 2
• 0 <= xi, yi <= 109

## Solution: Sort by x coordinates

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

## C++

Implement the class SubrectangleQueries which receives a rows x cols rectangle as a matrix of integers in the constructor and supports two methods:

1. updateSubrectangle(int row1, int col1, int row2, int col2, int newValue)

• Updates all values with newValue in the subrectangle whose upper left coordinate is (row1,col1) and bottom right coordinate is (row2,col2).

2. getValue(int row, int col)

• Returns the current value of the coordinate (row,col) from the rectangle.

Example 1:

Input
[[[[1,2,1],[4,3,4],[3,2,1],[1,1,1]]],[0,2],[0,0,3,2,5],[0,2],[3,1],[3,0,3,2,10],[3,1],[0,2]]
Output


[null,1,null,5,5,null,10,5]

Explanation SubrectangleQueries subrectangleQueries = new SubrectangleQueries([[1,2,1],[4,3,4],[3,2,1],[1,1,1]]); // The initial rectangle (4×3) looks like: // 1 2 1 // 4 3 4 // 3 2 1 // 1 1 1 subrectangleQueries.getValue(0, 2); // return 1 subrectangleQueries.updateSubrectangle(0, 0, 3, 2, 5); // After this update the rectangle looks like: // 5 5 5 // 5 5 5 // 5 5 5 // 5 5 5 subrectangleQueries.getValue(0, 2); // return 5 subrectangleQueries.getValue(3, 1); // return 5 subrectangleQueries.updateSubrectangle(3, 0, 3, 2, 10); // After this update the rectangle looks like: // 5 5 5 // 5 5 5 // 5 5 5 // 10 10 10 subrectangleQueries.getValue(3, 1); // return 10 subrectangleQueries.getValue(0, 2); // return 5

Example 2:

Input
[[[[1,1,1],[2,2,2],[3,3,3]]],[0,0],[0,0,2,2,100],[0,0],[2,2],[1,1,2,2,20],[2,2]]
Output


[null,1,null,100,100,null,20]

Explanation SubrectangleQueries subrectangleQueries = new SubrectangleQueries([[1,1,1],[2,2,2],[3,3,3]]); subrectangleQueries.getValue(0, 0); // return 1 subrectangleQueries.updateSubrectangle(0, 0, 2, 2, 100); subrectangleQueries.getValue(0, 0); // return 100 subrectangleQueries.getValue(2, 2); // return 100 subrectangleQueries.updateSubrectangle(1, 1, 2, 2, 20); subrectangleQueries.getValue(2, 2); // return 20

Constraints:

• There will be at most 500 operations considering both methods: updateSubrectangle and getValue.
• 1 <= rows, cols <= 100
• rows == rectangle.length
• cols == rectangle[i].length
• 0 <= row1 <= row2 < rows
• 0 <= col1 <= col2 < cols
• 1 <= newValue, rectangle[i][j] <= 10^9
• 0 <= row < rows
• 0 <= col < cols

## Solution 1: Simulation

Update the matrix values.

Time complexity:
Update: O(m*n), where m*n is the area of the sub-rectangle.
Query: O(1)

Space complexity: O(rows*cols)

## Solution 2: Geometry

For each update remember the region and value.

Time complexity:
Update: O(1)
Query: O(|U|), where |U| is the number of updates so far.

Space complexity: O(|U|)

## C++

Given a rectangular cake with height h and width w, and two arrays of integers horizontalCuts and verticalCuts where horizontalCuts[i] is the distance from the top of the rectangular cake to the ith horizontal cut and similarly, verticalCuts[j] is the distance from the left of the rectangular cake to the jth vertical cut.

Return the maximum area of a piece of cake after you cut at each horizontal and vertical position provided in the arrays horizontalCuts and verticalCutsSince the answer can be a huge number, return this modulo 10^9 + 7.

Example 1:

Input: h = 5, w = 4, horizontalCuts = [1,2,4], verticalCuts = [1,3]
Output: 4
Explanation: The figure above represents the given rectangular cake. Red lines are the horizontal and vertical cuts. After you cut the cake, the green piece of cake has the maximum area.


Example 2:

Input: h = 5, w = 4, horizontalCuts = [3,1], verticalCuts = [1]
Output: 6
Explanation: The figure above represents the given rectangular cake. Red lines are the horizontal and vertical cuts. After you cut the cake, the green and yellow pieces of cake have the maximum area.


Example 3:

Input: h = 5, w = 4, horizontalCuts = [3], verticalCuts = [3]
Output: 9


Constraints:

• 2 <= h, w <= 10^9
• 1 <= horizontalCuts.length < min(h, 10^5)
• 1 <= verticalCuts.length < min(w, 10^5)
• 1 <= horizontalCuts[i] < h
• 1 <= verticalCuts[i] < w
• It is guaranteed that all elements in horizontalCuts are distinct.
• It is guaranteed that all elements in verticalCuts are distinct.

## Solution: Geometry

Find the max gap between vertical cuts mx and max gap between horizontal cuts my. ans = mx * my

Time complexity: O(nlogn)
Space complexity: O(1) if sort in place otherweise O(n)