题目描述:
Given an array with integers.
Find two non-overlapping subarrays A and B, which|SUM(A) - SUM(B)|
is the largest.
Return the largest difference.
Notice
The subarray should contain at least one number
Example
For [1, 2, -3, 1]
, return 6
.
Challenge
题目思路:
O(n) time and O(n) space.
这题还是用forward-backward traversal的想法,left类vector算出i以左subarray的最大sum和最小sum,right类vector算出i以右subarray的最大sum和最小sum。然后重新遍历array,找出最大difference就可以了。
Mycode(AC = 39ms):
class Solution {
public:
/**
* @param nums: A list of integers
* @return: An integer indicate the value of maximum difference between two
* Subarrays
*/
int maxDiffSubArrays(vector<int> nums) {
// write your code here
if (nums.size() == 0) {
return 0;
}
vector<int> left_min(nums), left_max(nums),
right_min(nums), right_max(nums);
// get the left_min and left_max
int local_min = nums[0], local_max = nums[0];
for (int i = 1; i < nums.size(); i++) {
local_min = min(local_min + nums[i], nums[i]);
local_max = max(local_max + nums[i], nums[i]);
left_min[i] = min(left_min[i - 1], local_min);
left_max[i] = max(left_max[i - 1], local_max);
}
// get the right_min and right_max
local_min = nums[nums.size() - 1];
local_max = nums[nums.size() - 1];
for (int i = nums.size() - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
local_min = min(local_min + nums[i], nums[i]);
local_max = max(local_max + nums[i], nums[i]);
right_min[i] = min(right_min[i + 1], local_min);
right_max[i] = max(right_max[i + 1], local_max);
}
// get the max diff
int diff = 0;
for (int i = 1; i < nums.size(); i++) {
diff = max(abs(right_max[i] - left_min[i - 1]),
max(diff, abs(right_min[i] - left_max[i - 1])));
}
return diff;
}
};