2021-12-06 Daily-Challenge

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Today I have done leetcode's December LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.

December LeetCoding Challenge 6

Description

Minimum Cost to Move Chips to The Same Position

We have n chips, where the position of the ith chip is position[i].

We need to move all the chips to the same position. In one step, we can change the position of the ith chip from position[i] to:

  • position[i] + 2 or position[i] - 2 with cost = 0.
  • position[i] + 1 or position[i] - 1 with cost = 1.

Return the minimum cost needed to move all the chips to the same position.

Example 1:

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Input: position = [1,2,3]
Output: 1
Explanation: First step: Move the chip at position 3 to position 1 with cost = 0.
Second step: Move the chip at position 2 to position 1 with cost = 1.
Total cost is 1.

Example 2:

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Input: position = [2,2,2,3,3]
Output: 2
Explanation: We can move the two chips at position  3 to position 2. Each move has cost = 1. The total cost = 2.

Example 3:

Input: position = [1,1000000000]
Output: 1

Constraints:

  • 1 <= position.length <= 100
  • 1 <= position[i] <= 10^9

Solution

auto speedup = [](){
  cin.tie(nullptr);
  cout.tie(nullptr);
  ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
  return 0;
}();
class Solution {
public:
  int minCostToMoveChips(vector<int>& position) {
    int parity[2] = {0};
    for(auto p : position) {
      parity[p&1] += 1;
    }
    return parity[0] < parity[1] ? parity[0] : parity[1];
  }
};

// Accepted
// 51/51 cases passed (0 ms)
// Your runtime beats 100 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 53.85 % of cpp submissions (7.3 MB)
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