刷题总结#16

#334. Increasing Triplet Subsequence
Given an unsorted array return whether an increasing subsequence of length 3 exists or not in the array.

Formally the function should:
Return true if there exists i, j, k
such that arr[i] < arr[j] < arr[k] given 0 ≤ i < j < k ≤ n-1 else return false.
Your algorithm should run in O(n) time complexity and O(1) space complexity.

bool increasingTriplet(vector<int>& nums) {
    int c1 = INT_MAX, c2 = INT_MAX;
    for (int x : nums) {
        if (x <= c1) {
            c1 = x;           // c1 is min seen so far (it's a candidate for 1st element)
        } else if (x <= c2) { // here when x > c1, i.e. x might be either c2 or c3
            c2 = x;           // x is better than the current c2, store it
        } else {              // here when we have/had c1 < c2 already and x > c2
            return true;      // the increasing subsequence of 3 elements exists
        }
    }
    return false;
}

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