LC-2126 Medium LeetCode

2126. Destroying Asteroids

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Difficulty: medium Acceptance: 53% Topics: Array, Greedy, Sorting

Reading material

Arrays & Hashing 12 min Greedy 11 min Sorting 13 min

Reference solution (spoiler · python)

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

class Solution(object):
    def asteroidsDestroyed(self, mass, asteroids):
        """
        :type mass: int
        :type asteroids: List[int]
        :rtype: bool
        """
        asteroids.sort()
        for x in asteroids:
            if x > mass:
                return False
            mass += min(x, asteroids[-1]-mass)
        return True

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT