leetcode------Gas Station

标题: Gas Station
通过率: 25.7%
难度: 中等

There are N gas stations along a circular route, where the amount of gas at station i is gas[i].

You have a car with an unlimited gas tank and it costs cost[i] of gas to travel from station i to its next station (i+1). You begin the journey with an empty tank at one of the gas stations.

Return the starting gas station's index if you can travel around the circuit once, otherwise return -1.

Note:
The solution is guaranteed to be unique.

 

本题看半天不明白什么意思,网上有一大堆的解法各种动态规划什么的。我感觉都不靠谱,下面我们分析:

先分析暴力破解,就是从每一个点出发计算一次,看看最后是否成立。那么时间复杂度是O(n^2)

其实一遍就能知道,

如从一个点p出发到k时油量小于0,下一次试探肯定是从k开始,

若从k开始刚好可以到数组的最后,那么不用不去测试从数组最后返回前面,

因为若能循环一次那么gas-cost总和一定大于0.所以只用确定有一个点出发可以走到最后,然后看total是否大于0,

具体看代码:

 1 class Solution:
 2     # @param gas, a list of integers
 3     # @param cost, a list of integers
 4     # @return an integer
 5     def canCompleteCircuit(self, gas, cost):
 6         if len(gas)==0 or len(cost)==0 or len(gas)!=len(cost):return -1
 7         start,total,sum=0,0,0
 8         for i in range(len(gas)):
 9             total+=(gas[i]-cost[i])
10             if sum<0:
11                 sum=gas[i]-cost[i]
12                 start=i
13             else :sum+=(gas[i]-cost[i])
14         if total<0:return -1
15         else: return start

 

posted @ 2015-04-15 21:23  pku_smile  阅读(166)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报