Maximum Gap
Total Accepted: 2946 Total Submissions: 12695Given an unsorted array, find the maximum difference between the successive elements in its sorted form.
Try to solve it in linear time/space.
Return 0 if the array contains less than 2 elements.
You may assume all elements in the array are non-negative integers and fit in the 32-bit signed integer range.
public class Solution {
public int maximumGap(int[] num) {
if(num == null || num.length < 2) return 0;
int min = num[0], max = num[0];
int len = num.length;
for(int i=1; i<len; i++) {
if(num[i] < min) {
min = num[i];
} else if(num[i] > max) {
max = num[i];
}
}
if(len==2) return max - min;
int [] min_bs = new int[len+1];
int [] max_bs = new int[len+1];
for(int i=0; i<len; i++) {
int x = num[i];
int k = (int)(len * (1.0 * (x - min) / (max - min))); //attention! may have overflow problem!
if(min_bs[k]==0 || x<min_bs[k]) min_bs[k] = x;
if(max_bs[k]==0 || x>max_bs[k]) max_bs[k] = x;
}
int maxInter = 0;
min = max_bs[0];
for(int i=1; i<len+1; i++) {
if(min_bs[i] == 0) continue;
maxInter = Math.max(maxInter, min_bs[i] - min);
min = max_bs[i];
}
return maxInter;
}
}