LeetCode - 11. Container With Most Water

Given n non-negative integers a1a2, ..., an , where each represents a point at coordinate (iai). n vertical lines are drawn such that the two endpoints of line i is at (iai) and (i, 0). Find two lines, which together with x-axis forms a container, such that the container contains the most water.

Note: You may not slant the container and n is at least 2.

The above vertical lines are represented by array [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]. In this case, the max area of water (blue section) the container can contain is 49.

Example:

Input: [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]
Output: 49

思路:

    这种一行的东西里遍历的题,基本都离不开“哨兵”位,也就是两个“哨兵”分别在最左和最右,然后向里边夹逼。循环的条件一般都是while(left < right),在这个过程中最重要的就是判断哪个哨兵进行移动,在这道题中,我们可以看到“木桶效应”,也就是短板限制了水的多少,所以每次都是哨兵位上板子短的哨兵进行移动,这样就可以跳过很多不可能是最大值的情况,算法效率变高。AC代码如下:

int maxArea(vector<int>& height)
{
    int len = height.size();
    int l = 0, r = len - 1; // left, right
    int max_water = -1;
    while(l < r)
    {
        max_water = max(max_water, (r - l) * min(height[l], height[r]));
        if(height[r] < height[l])
            --r;
         else
            ++l;
    }
    return max_water;
}

    两个哨兵位相等的时候,++l 和 --r 都可以。所以下边代码也AC:

int maxArea(vector<int>& height)
{
    int len = height.size();
    int l = 0, r = len - 1; // left, right
    int max_water = -1;
    while(l < r)
    {
        max_water = max(max_water, (r - l) * min(height[l], height[r]));
        if(height[l] < height[r])
            ++l;
        else
            --r;
    }
    return max_water;
}

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