LC-0455 Easy LeetCode

455. Assign Cookies

Read the full problem statement on LeetCode.

Difficulty: easy Acceptance: 54% Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting

Reading material

Arrays & Hashing 12 min Two Pointers 9 min Greedy 11 min

Reference solution (spoiler · python)

# Time:  O(nlogn)
# Space: O(1)


class Solution(object):
    def findContentChildren(self, g, s):
        """
        :type g: List[int]
        :type s: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        g.sort()
        s.sort()

        result, i = 0, 0
        for j in xrange(len(s)):
            if i == len(g):
                break
            if s[j] >= g[i]:
                result += 1
                i += 1
        return result

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT