2024-08-02 Daily Challenge

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

August LeetCoding Challenge 2

Description

Minimum Swaps to Group All 1's Together II

A swap is defined as taking two distinct positions in an array and swapping the values in them.

A circular array is defined as an array where we consider the first element and the last element to be adjacent.

Given a binary circular array nums, return the minimum number of swaps required to group all 1's present in the array together at any location.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [0,1,0,1,1,0,0]
Output: 1
Explanation: Here are a few of the ways to group all the 1's together:
[0,0,1,1,1,0,0] using 1 swap.
[0,1,1,1,0,0,0] using 1 swap.
[1,1,0,0,0,0,1] using 2 swaps (using the circular property of the array).
There is no way to group all 1's together with 0 swaps.
Thus, the minimum number of swaps required is 1.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,0]
Output: 2
Explanation: Here are a few of the ways to group all the 1's together:
[1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1] using 2 swaps (using the circular property of the array).
[1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0] using 2 swaps.
There is no way to group all 1's together with 0 or 1 swaps.
Thus, the minimum number of swaps required is 2.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1,1,0,0,1]
Output: 0
Explanation: All the 1's are already grouped together due to the circular property of the array.
Thus, the minimum number of swaps required is 0.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 105
  • nums[i] is either 0 or 1.

Solution

class Solution {
public:
  int minSwaps(vector<int>& nums) {
    int n = nums.size();
    int ones = 0;
    for(auto n : nums) {
      ones += n;
    }

    if(ones == n || ones == 0) return 0;

    int current = 0;
    for(int i = 0; i < ones; ++i) {
      current += nums[i];
    }

    int maxOnes = current;
    for(int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
      current -= nums[i];
      current += nums[(i + ones) % n];
      maxOnes = max(maxOnes, current);
    }

    return ones - maxOnes;
  }
};