Day 33 of 100 Days LeetCode Challenge

LeetCode Challenge #2529. Maximum Count of Positive Integer and Negative Integer

Given an array nums sorted in non-decreasing order, return the maximum between the number of positive integers and the number of negative integers.

  • In other words, if the number of positive integers in nums is pos and the number of negative integers is neg, then return the maximum of pos and neg.

Note that 0 is neither positive nor negative.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [-2,-1,-1,1,2,3]
Output: 3
Explanation: There are 3 positive integers and 3 negative integers. The maximum count among them is 3.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [-3,-2,-1,0,0,1,2]
Output: 3
Explanation: There are 2 positive integers and 3 negative integers. The maximum count among them is 3.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [5,20,66,1314]
Output: 4
Explanation: There are 4 positive integers and 0 negative integers. The maximum count among them is 4.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 2000
  • -2000 <= nums[i] <= 2000
  • nums is sorted in a non-decreasing order.
Video Solution
Java Solution
				
					class Solution {
    public int maximumCount(int[] nums) {
        int lastnegIndex= lastNegative(nums) +1 ;
        int firtposIndex = nums.length - firstPositive(nums);
        return Math.max(lastnegIndex , firtposIndex);
    }

    public int lastNegative(int[] nums){
        int start = 0 ;
        int end = nums.length-1 ;
        int ans = -1 ;

        while(start<=end){
            int mid = (start + end)/2;
            if(nums[mid]<0){
                ans = mid ;
                start = mid+1 ;
            }else{
                end = mid-1 ;
            }
        }

        return ans ;
    }

    public int firstPositive(int[] nums){
        int start = 0 ;
        int end = nums.length-1;
        int ans = nums.length;

        while(start<=end){
            int mid = (start + end )/2;
            if(nums[mid]>0){
                ans=mid;
                end=mid-1;
            }else{
                start = mid+1 ;
            }
        }

        return ans ;
    }
}
				
			

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