Easy
Minimum Operations to Make Array Values Equal to K — Python
Full explanation · Time O(n) · Space O(n)
# Time: O(n)
# Space: O(n)
# hash table, constructive algorithms
class Solution(object):
def minOperations(self, nums, k):
"""
:type nums: List[int]
:type k: int
:rtype: int
"""
mn = min(nums)
return len(set(nums))-int(mn == k) if mn >= k else -1