【leetcode】264. Ugly Number II【M】【15】

Write a program to find the n-th ugly number.

Ugly numbers are positive numbers whose prime factors only include 2, 3, 5. For example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 is the sequence of the first 10 ugly numbers.

Note that 1 is typically treated as an ugly number.

Hint:

1. The naive approach is to call isUgly for every number until you reach the nth one. Most numbers are not ugly. Try to focus your effort on generating only the ugly ones.
2. An ugly number must be multiplied by either 2, 3, or 5 from a smaller ugly number.
3. The key is how to maintain the order of the ugly numbers. Try a similar approach of merging from three sorted lists: L1, L2, and L3.
4. Assume you have Uk, the kth ugly number. Then Uk+1 must be Min(L1 * 2, L2 * 3, L3 * 5).

Credits:
Special thanks to @jianchao.li.fighter for adding this problem and creating all test cases.

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申请一个长度为n的数组res，用于从小到大顺序存储n个丑数，数组中的首项为1，即第一个丑数为1

设置三个变量idx2、idx3、idx5存储下标，初始值都为0

找出数组res[idx2]*2、res[idx3]*3、res[idx5]*5的最小值，最小值即为下一个丑数，同时更新最小值对应的下标，如果多个数字同时为最小值，则它们的下标都要更新

找到第n个丑数时，循环结束