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Remove One Element to Make the Array Strictly Increasing
Given a 0-indexed integer array nums
, return true
if it can be made strictly increasing after removing exactly one element, or false
otherwise. If the array is already strictly increasing, return true
.
The array nums
is strictly increasing if nums[i - 1] < nums[i]
for each index (1 <= i < nums.length).
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,2,10,5,7] Output: true Explanation: By removing 10 at index 2 from nums, it becomes [1,2,5,7]. [1,2,5,7] is strictly increasing, so return true.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [2,3,1,2] Output: false Explanation: [3,1,2] is the result of removing the element at index 0. [2,1,2] is the result of removing the element at index 1. [2,3,2] is the result of removing the element at index 2. [2,3,1] is the result of removing the element at index 3. No resulting array is strictly increasing, so return false.
Example 3:
Input: nums = [1,1,1] Output: false Explanation: The result of removing any element is [1,1]. [1,1] is not strictly increasing, so return false.
Example 4:
Input: nums = [1,2,3] Output: true Explanation: [1,2,3] is already strictly increasing, so return true.
Constraints:
2 <= nums.length <= 1000
1 <= nums[i] <= 1000
Program:
class Solution {
public:
bool canBeIncreasing(vector<int>& nums) {
int n=nums.size();
int chances=1; // i have only one chance to remove a number
int i=0;
while(i<nums.size()-1){
if(nums[i]>=nums[i+1]){
if(chances==0)return false;
if(i==0){
nums[i]=nums[i+1]-1;
}
else{
if(nums[i+1]>nums[i-1])nums[i]=nums[i-1];
else nums[i+1]=nums[i];
}
chances--;
}
i++;
}
return true;
}
};
Approach:
While travesring through the array Ill keep checking the strictly increasing sequence for the condition
and when the condition doesn't satisfy the condition A[i] < A[i+1]:
Then we know for sure that we have to remove either of these two
here comes the main part i.e, which one to remove when you have a chance to remove both:
then it's always better to remove the first one.
You'll better understand it when you draw them as a graph on the paper
credit : here
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