Given an unsorted array, find the maximum difference between the successive elements in its sorted form.
Try to solve it in linear time/space.
Return 0 if the array contains less than 2 elements.
You may assume all elements in the array are non-negative integers and fit in the 32-bit signed integer range.
Credits:
Special thanks to @porker2008 for adding this problem and creating all test cases.
给出乱序数组 要求排好序后相邻元素间的最大差值
由于要求是线性时间复杂度 所以所有内部排序方法都不可以用 只有用桶式排序()参考http://blog.csdn.net/apei830/article/details/6596057
代码如下:
public class Solution {
public int maximumGap(int[] num) {
if(num.length<2)return 0;
int max=-1;
int min=Integer.MAX_VALUE;
int step=(max-min)/num.length+1;
for(int i=0;i<num.length;i++){
if(num[i]>max)max=num[i];
if(num[i]<min)min=num[i];
}
if(num.length==2)return max-min;
int[] minxx=new int[num.length+1];
int[] maxxx=new int[num.length+1];
for(int i=0;i<num.length;i++){
int x = num[i];
int k = (int)(num.length * (1.0 * (x - min) / (max - min))); //attention! may have overflow problem!
if(minxx[k]==0 || x<minxx[k]) minxx[k] = x;
if(maxxx[k]==0 || x>maxxx[k]) maxxx[k] = x;
}
int maxInter = 0;
min = maxxx[0];
for(int i=1; i<num.length+1; i++) {
if(minxx[i] == 0) continue;
maxInter = Math.max(maxInter, minxx[i] - min);
min = maxxx[i];
}
return maxInter;
}
}