Gas Station

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.

思路:

这道题也挺麻烦的。乍看不难,用最简单的算法就是一个一个点地计算,计算到没油了,证明这点不能作为出发点。移动到下一个点作为出发点。这样的话思路还是挺简单的,不过这样写不accepted的,因为编译超时。

我觉得做这道题的关键是要可以总结出来这道题目的属性,注意Note这个地方,其属性主要有两个:

1 如果总的gas - cost小于零的话,那么没有解返回-1

2 如果前面所有的gas - cost加起来小于零,那么前面所有的点都不能作为出发点。

 

C++实现代码:

#include<iostream>
#include<vector>
using namespace std;

class Solution {
public:
    int canCompleteCircuit(vector<int> &gas, vector<int> &cost) {
        int i,j=-1;
        int sum=0;
        int total=0;
        for(i=0;i<(int)gas.size();i++)
        {
            sum+=gas[i]-cost[i];
            total+=gas[i]-cost[i];
            if(sum<0)
            {
                sum=0;
                j=i;
            }
        }
        return total>=0?j+1:-1;
    }
};

int main()
{
    Solution s;
    vector<int> gas={0,4,5};
    vector<int> cost={1,2,6};
    cout<<s.canCompleteCircuit(gas,cost)<<endl;
}

 

posted @ 2014-11-25 21:47  Jessica程序猿  阅读(211)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报