Problem:
We draw N discs on a plane. The discs are numbered from 0 to N − 1. A zero-indexed array A of N non-negative integers, specifying the radiuses of the discs, is given. The J-th disc is drawn with its center at (J, 0) and radius A[J].
We say that the J-th disc and K-th disc intersect if J ≠ K and the J-th and K-th discs have at least one common point (assuming that the discs contain their borders).
The figure below shows discs drawn for N = 6 and A as follows:
A[0] = 1
A[1] = 5
A[2] = 2
A[3] = 1
A[4] = 4
A[5] = 0
There are eleven (unordered) pairs of discs that intersect, namely:
discs 1 and 4 intersect, and both intersect with all the other discs;
disc 2 also intersects with discs 0 and 3.
Write a function:
class Solution { public int solution(int[] A); }
that, given an array A describing N discs as explained above, returns the number of (unordered) pairs of intersecting discs. The function should return −1 if the number of intersecting pairs exceeds 10,000,000.
Given array A shown above, the function should return 11, as explained above.
Assume that:
N is an integer within the range [0..100,000];
each element of array A is an integer within the range [0..2,147,483,647].
Complexity:
expected worst-case time complexity is O(N*log(N));
expected worst-case space complexity is O(N), beyond input storage (not counting the storage required for input arguments).
Elements of input arrays can be modified.
解答:
My method and understanding
问题可以简化成若干个1D的intervals, 每个interval的中点有序,求相交的pair 数目。[startpoint, endpoint]
这里需要注意的就是每个interval 代表一个disc,每个disc的center都是从0到N-1的连续integer,所以我们要从第一个disc开始遍历,check这个disc是否与其他的discs相交。把这个问题再抽象一点,
就是对于第i个current disc,我们要check他后面的discs j(j>i) 有多少与current disc相交。我们不care 是否第i个disc之前的disc是否相交
这里要求O(N*log(N)),很容易想到要sort,其实还可以想到要tranverse一个N array,即O(N), 然后每一element进行一次binary search,每次binary search时O(logN), 最后也是O(N*log(N))
对于第i个current disc, 我要check 其end point在start point list中的位置,所以先sort start point list, 然后使用binary search,得到index。
每一个s是startpoint list的元素,已经sorted成ascending order. 我们将问题进一步formulate成 s1,s2,...,sindex,ei,sindex+1 , ei 经过binary search 发现恰好位于 [s