A zero-indexed array A consisting of N integers is given. The dominatorof array A is the value that occurs in more than half of the elements of A.
For example, consider array A such that
A[0] = 3 A[1] = 4 A[2] = 3 A[3] = 2 A[4] = 3 A[5] = -1 A[6] = 3 A[7] = 3
The dominator of A is 3 because it occurs in 5 out of 8 elements of A (namely in those with indices 0, 2, 4, 6 and 7) and 5 is more than a half of 8.
Write a function
int solution(const vector<int> &A);
that, given a zero-indexed array A consisting of N integers, returns index of any element of array A in which the dominator of A occurs. The function should return −1 if array A does not have a dominator.
Assume that:
- N is an integer within the range [0..100,000];
- each element of array A is an integer within the range [−2,147,483,648..2,147,483,647].
For example, given array A such that
A[0] = 3 A[1] = 4 A[2] = 3 A[3] = 2 A[4] = 3 A[5] = -1 A[6] = 3 A[7] = 3
the function may return 0, 2, 4, 6 or 7, as explained above.
Complexity:
- expected worst-case time complexity is O(N);
- expected worst-case space complexity is O(1), beyond input storage (not counting the storage required for input arguments).
Elements of input arrays can be modified.
此题放在lesson 6--leader,在其阅读材料中讲了选取leader的方法,我们只要在选取leader的同时记录下该元素下标即可。
选取leader的思路如下:
注意到如果序列a1~~an中含有leader,那么在移除两个不相等的元素后,剩余序列与原序列有相同的leader。
建立一个空栈,将a1~~an依次压入,每次压入新元素后检查栈顶的两个元素是否相等,如不等,则将这两个元素移除。最后,如果该序列中确实含有leader,则栈中剩下的元素就是leader。
事实上该序列中可能不含leader,故最后要检验一下栈中剩余元素是否为leader。
代码如下:
// you can use includes, for example:
// #include
// you can write to stdout for debugging purposes, e.g.
// cout << "this is a debug message" << endl;
int solution(const vector &A) {
// write your code in C++11
int value = 0;
int size = 0;
int pos = -1;
for(unsigned int i=0;iA.size()/2)
return pos;
else
return -1;
}