package com.fishercoder.solutions; /** * 683. K Empty Slots * * There is a garden with N slots. In each slot, there is a flower. * * The N flowers will bloom one by one in N days. * * In each day, there will be exactly one flower blooming and it will be in the status of blooming since then. * * Given an array flowers consists of number from 1 to N. Each number in the array represents the place where the flower will open in that day. * For example, flowers[i] = x means that the unique flower that blooms at day i will be at position x, * where i and x will be in the range from 1 to N. * * Also given an integer k, you need to output in which day there exists two flowers in the status of blooming, * and also the number of flowers between them is k and these flowers are not blooming. * If there isn't such day, output -1. Example 1: Input: flowers: [1,3,2] k: 1 Output: 2 Explanation: In the second day, the first and the third flower have become blooming. Example 2: Input: flowers: [1,2,3] k: 1 Output: -1 Note: The given array will be in the range [1, 20000]. */ public class _683 { public static class Solution1 { /**credit: https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/104771/java-c-simple-o-n-solution*/ public int kEmptySlots(int[] flowers, int k) { int[] days = new int[flowers.length]; for (int i = 0; i < flowers.length; i++) { days[flowers[i] - 1] = i + 1; } int left = 0; int right = k + 1; int result = Integer.MAX_VALUE; for (int i = 0; right < flowers.length; i++) { if (days[i] < days[left] || days[i] <= days[right]) { if (i == right) { result = Math.min(result, Math.max(days[left], days[right])); } left = i; right = k + 1 + i; } } return result == Integer.MAX_VALUE ? -1 : result; } } }