LC-0875 Medium LeetCode

875. Koko Eating Bananas

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Difficulty: medium Acceptance: 49% Topics: Array, Binary Search

Reading material

Arrays & Hashing 12 min Binary Search 12 min

Reference solution (spoiler · python)

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

class Solution(object):
    def minEatingSpeed(self, piles, H):
        """
        :type piles: List[int]
        :type H: int
        :rtype: int
        """
        def possible(piles, H, K):
            return sum((pile-1)//K+1 for pile in piles) <= H

        left, right = 1, max(piles)
        while left <= right:
            mid = left + (right-left)//2
            if possible(piles, H, mid):
                right = mid-1
            else:
                left = mid+1
        return left

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT