Gas Station
There are n
gas stations along a circular route, where the amount of gas at the ith
station is gas[i]
.
You have a car with an unlimited gas tank and it costs cost[i]
of gas to travel from the ith
station to its next (i + 1)th
station. You begin the journey with an empty tank at one of the gas stations.
Given two integer arrays gas
and cost
, return the starting gas station's index if you can travel around the circuit once in the clockwise direction, otherwise return -1
. If there exists a solution, it is guaranteed to be unique
Example 1:
Input: gas = [1,2,3,4,5], cost = [3,4,5,1,2]
Output: 3
Explanation:
Start at station 3 (index 3) and fill up with 4 unit of gas. Your tank = 0 + 4 = 4
Travel to station 4. Your tank = 4 - 1 + 5 = 8
Travel to station 0. Your tank = 8 - 2 + 1 = 7
Travel to station 1. Your tank = 7 - 3 + 2 = 6
Travel to station 2. Your tank = 6 - 4 + 3 = 5
Travel to station 3. The cost is 5. Your gas is just enough to travel back to station 3.
Therefore, return 3 as the starting index.
My Solutions:
可以先遍历一次看看是否有解,如果sum of gas < sum of cost 一定无解。
因为知道一定有解,所以从index=0开始,遍历到最后,每一次如果汽车tank的油量小于0,说明当前的index是不能用的,此时让index+1,清除tank。
也可以优化一下,不需要先遍历一遍判断有没有解,而是多一个在遍历时计算tank total值。最后检查是不是<0。
public int canCompleteCircuit(int[] gas, int[] cost) {
if (gas == null || cost == null || gas.length == 0 || cost.length == 0) return -1;
int gasSum = 0, costSum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < gas.length; i++) {
gasSum += gas[i];
costSum += cost[i];
}
if (gasSum < costSum) return -1;
// 也可以多一个total值 total = 0;
int tank = 0, index = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < gas.length; i++) {
tank += gas[i] - cost[i];
if (tank < 0) {
index = i + 1;
tank = 0;
}
// 在这里算总值 total += gas[i] - cost[i];
}
// 在这里返回 if (total < 0) return -1;
return index;
}
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