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LC-0768 Hard LeetCode

768. Max Chunks To Make Sorted II

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Difficulty: hard Acceptance: 54% Topics: Array, Stack, Greedy, Sorting, Monotonic Stack
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Reference solution (spoiler · python)
# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(n)

# mono stack solution
class Solution(object):
    def maxChunksToSorted(self, arr):
        """
        :type arr: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        result, increasing_stk = 0, []
        for num in arr:
            max_num = num if not increasing_stk else max(increasing_stk[-1], num)
            while increasing_stk and increasing_stk[-1] > num:
                increasing_stk.pop()
            increasing_stk.append(max_num)
        return len(increasing_stk)


# Time:  O(nlogn)
# Space: O(n)
class Solution2(object):
    def maxChunksToSorted(self, arr):
        """
        :type arr: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        def compare(i1, i2):
            return arr[i1]-arr[i2] if arr[i1] != arr[i2] else i1-i2

        idxs = [i for i in xrange(len(arr))]
        result, max_i = 0, 0
        for i, v in enumerate(sorted(idxs, cmp=compare)):
            max_i = max(max_i, v)
            if max_i == i:
                result += 1
        return result

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT