LC-1760 Medium LeetCode

1760. Minimum Limit of Balls in a Bag

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Difficulty: medium Acceptance: 67% Topics: Array, Binary Search

Reading material

Arrays & Hashing 12 min Binary Search 12 min

Reference solution (spoiler · python)

# Time:  O(nlogm), m is the max of nums
# Space: O(1)

class Solution(object):
    def minimumSize(self, nums, maxOperations):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :type maxOperations: int
        :rtype: int
        """
        def check(nums, maxOperations, x):
            return sum((num+x-1)//x-1 for num in nums) <= maxOperations
    
        left, right = 1, max(nums)
        while left <= right:
            mid = left + (right-left)//2
            if check(nums, maxOperations, mid):
                right = mid-1
            else:
                left = mid+1
        return left

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT