975. 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

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思路：关键是要计算出以下：

1. 对于index为i的位置，后面比A[i]大的最小数对应的index

2. 对于index为i的位置，后面比A[i]小的最大数对应的index

然后就可以从后往前DP了，

1. dp[i][0]表示到第index为i，并且下一步是奇数步的情况下，能不能到最后

2. dp[i][1]表示到第index为i，并且下一步是偶数步的情况下，能不能到最后

状态转移方程就是要用到上面预先计算出来的数组

PS：Java直接TreeMap就搞定了，Python应该是要维护单调数组然后bisect二分来找，太麻烦了。。。。

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;

class Solution {
    public int oddEvenJumps(int[] A) {
    	Map<Integer, Integer>larger_smallest = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
    	Map<Integer, Integer>small_largest = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
        TreeMap<Integer, Integer>helper = new TreeMap<Integer, Integer>();
        for(int i=A.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
        	larger_smallest.put(i, -1); 
        	small_largest.put(i, -1);
        	
        	Integer t1 = helper.ceilingKey(A[i]);
        	Integer t2 = helper.floorKey(A[i]);
        	if(t1!=null) larger_smallest.put(i, helper.get(t1));
        	if(t2!=null) small_largest.put(i, helper.get(t2));
        	
        	helper.put(A[i], i);
        }
        
        
        boolean[][] dp = new boolean[A.length][2];
        dp[A.length-1][0] = true;
        dp[A.length-1][1] = true;
        for(int i=A.length-2; i>=0; i--) {
        	if(larger_smallest.get(i)!=-1) dp[i][0]=dp[larger_smallest.get(i)][1];
        	if(small_largest.get(i)!=-1)   dp[i][1]=dp[small_largest.get(i)][0];
        }
        
        int res=0;
        for(int i=0;i<dp.length;i++){
        	if(dp[i][0])res++;
        }
        return res;
    }
}