Medium
Minimum Number of Operations to Make Array Empty — C++
Full explanation · Time O(n) · Space O(n)
// Time: O(n)
// Space: O(n)
// freq table, greedy
class Solution {
public:
int minOperations(vector<int>& nums) {
const auto& ceil_divide = [](int a, int b) {
return (a + b - 1) / b;
};
unordered_map<int, int> cnt;
for (const auto& x : nums) {
++cnt[x];
}
return all_of(cbegin(cnt), cend(cnt), [](const auto& x) {
return x.second >= 2;
}) ? accumulate(cbegin(cnt), cend(cnt), 0, [&](const auto& accu, const auto& x) {
return accu + ceil_divide(x.second, 3);
}) : -1;
}
};