Odd Even Jump

You are given an integer array A.  From some starting index, you can make a series of jumps.  The (1st, 3rd, 5th, ...) jumps in the series are called odd numbered jumps, and the (2nd, 4th, 6th, ...) jumps in the series are called even numbered jumps.

You may from index i jump forward to index j (with i < j) in the following way:

• During odd numbered jumps (ie. jumps 1, 3, 5, ...), you jump to the index j such that A[i] <= A[j] and A[j] is the smallest possible value.  If there are multiple such indexes j, you can only jump to the smallest such index j.
• During even numbered jumps (ie. jumps 2, 4, 6, ...), you jump to the index j such that A[i] >= A[j] and A[j] is the largest possible value.  If there are multiple such indexes j, you can only jump to the smallest such index j.
• (It may be the case that for some index i, there are no legal jumps.)

A starting index is good if, starting from that index, you can reach the end of the array (index A.length - 1) by jumping some number of times (possibly 0 or more than once.)

Return the number of good starting indexes.

 

Example 1:

Input: [10,13,12,14,15]
Output: 2
Explanation: 
From starting index i = 0, we can jump to i = 2 (since A[2] is the smallest among A[1], A[2], A[3], A[4] that is greater or equal to A[0]), then we can't jump any more.
From starting index i = 1 and i = 2, we can jump to i = 3, then we can't jump any more.
From starting index i = 3, we can jump to i = 4, so we've reached the end.
From starting index i = 4, we've reached the end already.
In total, there are 2 different starting indexes (i = 3, i = 4) where we can reach the end with some number of jumps.

Example 2:

Input: [2,3,1,1,4]
Output: 3
Explanation: 
From starting index i = 0, we make jumps to i = 1, i = 2, i = 3:

During our 1st jump (odd numbered), we first jump to i = 1 because A[1] is the smallest value in (A[1], A[2], A[3], A[4]) that is greater than or equal to A[0].

During our 2nd jump (even numbered), we jump from i = 1 to i = 2 because A[2] is the largest value in (A[2], A[3], A[4]) that is less than or equal to A[1].  A[3] is also the largest value, but 2 is a smaller index, so we can only jump to i = 2 and not i = 3.

During our 3rd jump (odd numbered), we jump from i = 2 to i = 3 because A[3] is the smallest value in (A[3], A[4]) that is greater than or equal to A[2].

We can't jump from i = 3 to i = 4, so the starting index i = 0 is not good.

In a similar manner, we can deduce that:
From starting index i = 1, we jump to i = 4, so we reach the end.
From starting index i = 2, we jump to i = 3, and then we can't jump anymore.
From starting index i = 3, we jump to i = 4, so we reach the end.
From starting index i = 4, we are already at the end.
In total, there are 3 different starting indexes (i = 1, i = 3, i = 4) where we can reach the end with some number of jumps.

Example 3:

Input: [5,1,3,4,2]
Output: 3
Explanation: 
We can reach the end from starting indexes 1, 2, and 4.

 

Note:

1. 1 <= A.length <= 20000
2. 0 <= A[i] < 100000

题目理解：

给定一个数组，从某一位置出发，奇数步走到往前走到大于当前元素的最小元素上，偶数步往前走到小于当前元素的最大元素上，问有多少个位置能够走到最后一个元素的位置

解题思路：

从最后一个元素往前搜索，找到当前元素奇数步和偶数步走到的位置，记录当前元素走偶数步和奇数步能够走到最后一个元素，最后统计所有可以在第一步是奇数步，而且可以走到最后一个位置的元素数目

dp[i][0]表示当前元素，第一步按照偶数步规则能否走到最后，dp[i][1]表示当前元素，第一步按照奇数步规则是否能够走到最后

代码如下：

class Solution {
    public int oddEvenJumps(int[] A) {
        int len = A.length;
        boolean[][] record = new boolean[len][2];
        TreeMap<Integer, List<Integer>> map = new TreeMap<Integer, List<Integer>>();
        record[len - 1][1] = true;
        for(int i = len - 1; i > -1; i--){
            int upper = -1;
            if(map.ceilingKey(A[i]) != null)
                upper = map.ceilingKey(A[i]);
            if(upper != -1) {
                int next = map.get(upper).get(0);
                if(next == len -1)
                    record[i][1] = true;
                else
                    record[i][1] = record[next][0];
            }
            int under = -1;
            if(map.floorKey(A[i]) != null)
                under = map.floorKey(A[i]);
            if(under != -1){
                int next = map.get(under).get(0);
                if(next == len -1)
                    record[i][0] = true;
                else
                    record[i][0] = record[next][1];
            }
            if(!map.containsKey(A[i]))
                map.put(A[i], new ArrayList<Integer>());
            map.get(A[i]).add(0, i);
        }
        int res = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            //System.out.println(i + " " + record[i][0] + " " + record[i][1]);
            if (record[i][1])
                res++;
        }
        return res;
    }
}