3Sum Smaller 解答

Question

Given an array of n integers nums and a target, find the number of index triplets i, j, k with 0 <= i < j < k < n that satisfy the condition nums[i] + nums[j] + nums[k] < target.

For example, given nums = [-2, 0, 1, 3], and target = 2.

Return 2. Because there are two triplets which sums are less than 2:

[-2, 0, 1]
[-2, 0, 3]

Solution

由于这道题题目并不要求去重,所以我们就不考虑重复。

题目虽然提到了index,但我们发现返回的是个数。因此还是可以先将数组排序,用2Sum的方法。

注意到对于nums[l] + nums[r]

如果已经小于target,那么nums[l] + nums[r - 1], nums[l] + nums[r - 2], nums[l] + nums[r - 3], ...一定也满足条件。所以count += r - l。之后l++,看后一个左指针指向的数。

Time complexity O(n2)

 1 public class Solution {
 2     public int threeSumSmaller(int[] nums, int target) {
 3         Arrays.sort(nums);
 4         int count = 0;
 5         for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
 6             int tmpTarget = target - nums[i];
 7             int start = i + 1, end = nums.length - 1;
 8             while (start < end) {
 9                 int sum = nums[start] + nums[end];
10                 if (sum >= tmpTarget) {
11                     end--;
12                 } else {
13                     count += end - start;
14                     start++;
15                 }
16             }
17         }
18         return count;
19     }
20 }
原文地址:https://www.cnblogs.com/ireneyanglan/p/4937844.html