练习英文描述算法
88. Merge Sorted Array - LeetCode 【easy】
class Solution {
public void merge(int[] nums1, int m, int[] nums2, int n) {
// two pointers, initially i,j points to the last number of the array (m-1, n-1)
// use k to record the position of merged array, initially set to m+n-1
// then compare i,j's element, put the larger one in the merged array,
// and decrease the pointers of larger element index, and merged index
// until either i or j reaches -1, if i = -1, copy remaining nums2 to merged array
// if j = -1, no need to copy nums1 as it already in the right pos
int i = m - 1, j = n - 1, k = m + n - 1;
while (i >= 0 && j >= 0) {
if (nums1[i] > nums2[j]) {
nums1[k--] = nums1[i--];
} else {
nums1[k--] = nums2[j--];
}
}
while (j >= 0) {
nums1[k--] = nums2[j--];
}
}
}
LC 26. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array - LeetCode 【easy】
class Solution {
public int removeDuplicates(int[] nums) {
// use two pointers i,j. use i to traverse the numbers, use j to track the
// uniq number pos, initially set i = 1, j = 1.
// when we found a uniq number, put it to j's position and move j forward
int j = 1;
for(int i = 1; i < nums.length; i++) {
if (nums[i] != nums[i-1]) {
nums[++j] = nums[i];
}
}
return j + 1;
}
}
LC80. Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array II - LeetCode【Mid】
class Solution {
public int removeDuplicates(int[] A) {
// two pointers, use j to track the kept number's pos,
// use i to enumerate each num from 2nd elem, init j to 0
// if A[i] != A[j-1] || A[i] != A[j-2], kept A[i], copy A[i] to A[j] and move j forward
if (A.length <= 2) return A.length;
int j = 2;
for (int i = 2; i < A.length; i++) {
if (A[i] != A[j - 1] || A[i] != A[j - 2]) {
A[j++] = A[i];
}
}
return j;
}
}
学习英文官方的描述：
Intuition 1: The input array is already sorted and hence, all the duplicates appear next to each other. The problem statement mentions that we are not allowed to use any additional space and we have to modify the array in-place. The easiest approach for in-place modifications would be to get rid of all the unwanted duplicates. For every number in the array, if we detect > 2 duplicates, we simply remove them from the list of elements and we do this for all the elements in the array.
Intuition 2
The second approach is really inspired by the fact that the problem statement asks us to return the new length of the array from the function. If all we had to do was remove elements, the function would not really ask us to return the updated length. However, in our scenario, this is really an indication that we don't need to actually remove elements from the array. Instead, we can do something better and simply overwrite the duplicate elements that are unwanted.
We won't be able to achieve this using a single pointer. We will be using a two-pointer approach where one pointer iterates over the original set of elements and another one that keeps track of the next "empty" location in the array or the next location that can be overwritten in the array.
Algorithm
- We define two pointers,
iandjfor our algorithm. The pointeriiterates of the array processing one element at a time andjkeeps track of the next location in the array where we can overwrite an element. - We also keep a variable
countwhich keeps track of the count of a particular element in the array. Note that the minimum count would always be 1. - We start with index
1and process one element at a time in the array. - If we find that the current element is the same as the previous element i.e.
nums[i] == nums[i - 1], then we increment thecount. If the value ofcount > 2, then we have encountered an unwanted duplicate element. In this case, we simply move forward i.e. we incrementibut notj. - However, if the count is
<= 2, then we can move the element from indexito indexj. - If we encounter that the current element is not the same as the previous element i.e.
nums[i] != nums[i - 1], then it means we have a new element at hand and so accordingly, we updatecount = 1and also move this element to indexj. - It goes without saying that whenever we copy a new element to
nums[j], we have to update the value ofjas well sincejalways points to the location where the next element can be copied to in the array.
这个解法更容易懂一点，使用count来统计数字出现的数量，多用了一个变量而已。
class Solution {
public int removeDuplicates(int[] nums) {
// Initialize the counter and the second pointer.
int j = 1, count = 1;
// Start from the second element of the array and process
// elements one by one.
for (int i = 1; i < nums.length; i++) {
// If the current element is a duplicate, increment the count.
if (nums[i] == nums[i - 1]) {
count++;
} else {
// Reset the count since we encountered a different element
// than the previous one.
count = 1;
}
// For a count <= 2, we copy the element over thus
// overwriting the element at index "j" in the array
if (count <= 2) {
nums[j++] = nums[i];
}
}
return j;
}
}
另外一个精简的代码：
class Solution {
public int removeDuplicates(int[] A) {
// two pointers, use j to track the kept number's pos,
// use i to enumerate each num from 2nd elem, init j to 0
// if i <= 1 or A[i] != A[j-2], kept A[i], copy A[i] to A[j] and move j forward
int j = 1;
for (int i = 1; i < A.length; i++) {
if (i <= 1 || A[i] != A[j - 2]) {
A[j++] = A[i];
}
}
return j;
}
}
LC 169. Majority Element - LeetCode 【easy】
class Solution {
public int majorityElement(int[] A) {
// use a voting alg, each element vote for itself.
// keep track of candidate and its voting count.
// iterate each elem, first if count is 0, set current elem as candidate
// update count, if current num is same as candidate vote 1, other decrease 1
int candidate = 0, count = 0;
for(int num : A) {
if (count == 0) {
candidate = num;
}
count += (num == candidate ? 1 : -1);
}
return candidate;
}
}
这里比较巧妙的是，遍历所有元素，初始化时，count = 0. 循环里先更新candidate，再更新count，这样把第一个人的投票算进去了。
练习刷题思路
LC15. 3Sum - LeetCode
思路：
- 如果暴力来做的话，使用三个指针i,j,k分别去找每一组的三个数，然后判断是否是答案，如果是加到结果List，注意需要使用Set去重，时间是O(n^3). 空间复杂度是O(n)
- 优化的做法，使用排序+双指针。可以优化一维的空间，而且排序，可以很方便的去重。
class Solution {
public List<List<Integer>> threeSum(int[] A) {
int n = A.length;
List<List<Integer>> ans = new ArrayList<>();
Arrays.sort(A);
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
if (i > 0 && A[i] == A[i-1]) { // avoid duplicate a
continue;
}
// find b + c = -A[i]
for(int j = i + 1, k = n - 1; j < k;) {
if (j > i + 1 && A[j] == A[j-1]) { // avoid duplicate b
j++;
continue;
}
if (A[j] + A[k] > -A[i]) {
k--;
} else if (A[j] + A[k] < -A[i]) {
j++;
} else {
ans.add(Arrays.asList(A[i], A[j], A[k]));
j++;
k--;
}
}
}
return ans;
}
}
最容易犯错的两个点：
- 首先要对输入数组进行排序，容易丢
- 其次，在最里面的循环中，避免第二个数重复的时候，使用了continue，却忘记更新j索引。
复杂度分析：
- 时间：排序数组 O(nlogn)，枚举a, b, c两层循环，O(n^2). 所以总的时间复杂度是 O(n^2)
- 空间：没有使用额外空间，O(1)