Medium
Output Contest Matches — C++
Full explanation · Time O(n) · Space O(n)
// Time: O(n)
// Space: O(n)
class Solution {
public:
string findContestMatch(int n) {
vector<string> matches(n);
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
matches[i] = to_string(i + 1);
}
while (matches.size() / 2) {
vector<string> next_matches;
for (int i = 0; i < matches.size() / 2; ++i) {
next_matches.emplace_back("(" + matches[i] + "," + matches[matches.size() - 1 - i] + ")");
}
swap(matches, next_matches);
}
return matches[0];
}
};