1605C - Dominant Character - CodeForces Solution


brute force greedy implementation strings *1400

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Python Code:

for _ in range(int(input())):
    n = int(input())
    s = input()
    p1=0
    p2=0
    cntC=0
    cntB=0
    ans = float('inf')
    if ('abbacca' in s) or ('accabba' in s):
        ans = 7
    while p1<n:
        if s[p1]=='a':
            p2=p1+1
            break
        else:
            p1+=1
        while p2<n:
        if s[p2]=='a':
            if cntB<2 and cntC<2:
                ans = min(ans,p2-p1+1)
            cntB=0
            cntC=0
            p1=p2
            p2+=1
            
            if ans==2:
                break
        elif s[p2]=='b':
            cntB+=1
            p2+=1
        else:
            cntC+=1
            p2+=1
    if ans>n:
        print(-1)
    else:
        print(ans)

C++ Code:

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
 
using namespace std;
 
typedef long long ll;
 
const char nl = '\n';
const ll INF = 4000000000000000000;
const int MOD = 1000000007; // 998244353
 
int f(string &s, int l, int r) {
    int cnt = 0;
    for (int i = l; i <= r; ++i) {
        if (s[i] == 'b') {
            ++cnt;
        }
    }
    return max(cnt, r-l-cnt);
}
void solve() {
    int n;
    cin >> n;
    string s;
    cin >> s;
    for (int i = 0; i+1 < n; ++i) {
        if (s[i] == 'a' && s[i+1] == 'a') {
            cout << 2 << nl;
            return;
        }
    }
    for (int i = 0; i+2 < n; ++i) {
        if (s[i] == 'a' && s[i+2] == 'a') {
            cout << 3 << nl;
            return;
        }
    }
    for (int i = 0; i+3 < n; ++i) {
        if (s[i] == 'a' && s[i+3] == 'a' && s[i+1] != s[i+2]) {
            cout << 4 << nl;
            return;
        }
    }
    for (int i = 0; i + 6 < n; ++i) {
        if (s[i] == 'a' && s[i+3] == 'a' && s[i+6] == 'a' && f(s, i+1, i+5) < 3) {
            cout << 7 << nl;
            return;
        }
    }
    cout << -1 << nl;
}
int main() {
    ios::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0);
    int T = 1;
    cin >> T;
    while (T--)	solve();
}
/* TEMPLATE NOTES
  New ideas?
  Overflow error?
  Array bound?
  a*(b/c) != a*b/c
*/
// LEMMA: odgovor pocinje sa A.
// dokaz: Pretpostavimo da ne pocinje sa A.
// Taj string tada pocinje sa B ili sa C.
// Neka Acnt, Bcnt i Ccnt redom oznacavaju
// broj pojavljivanja A, B i C u tom odgovoru.
// Neka su l i r pocetak i kraj polozaja naseg
// odgovora u stringu. String l+1 i r je isto
// tacan jer, ako je Acnt > max(Bcnt, Ccnt),
// Onda je i Acnt vece od oba broja pojavljivanja
// B i C u string l+1 i r. Duzina odgovora koji smo
// prvobitno gledali je r-l, a duzina ovog novog validnog
// string je r-l-1. Kako je r-l-1 < r-l, dobijamo kontradikciju.
// Slicno se i dokazuje da se zavrsava sa A.


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