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LeetCode 475: Heaters

LeetCode 475: Heaters

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Author
Dawn Magnet
Tech enthusiast & daily solver.

Winter has arrived. Your task is to design heaters with a fixed heating radius to warm all the houses.

Every house within the heating radius of a heater can receive heat.

Given the positions of the houses houses and heaters heaters on a horizontal line, find and return the minimum heating radius that covers every house.

Note: All heaters use the same radius specified by you, so their heating radii are identical.

 

Example 1:

Input: houses = [1,2,3], heaters = [2]
    Output: 1
    Explanation: There is one heater at position 2. If we set the heating radius to 1, every house can be heated.
    

Example 2:

Input: houses = [1,2,3,4], heaters = [1,4]
    Output: 1
    Explanation: There are two heaters at positions 1 and 4. We need a heating radius of 1 to heat every house.
    

Example 3:

Input:houses = [1,5], heaters = [2]
    Output:3
    

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= houses.length, heaters.length <= 3 * 104
  • 1 <= houses[i], heaters[i] <= 109

Solution
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impl Solution {
    pub fn find_radius(mut houses: Vec<i32>, mut heaters: Vec<i32>) -> i32 {
        houses.sort_unstable();
        heaters.sort_unstable();
        let mut res = 0;
        let mut cur = 0;
        for house in houses {
            while cur < heaters.len() - 1 &&
                (heaters[cur + 1] - house).abs() <= (heaters[cur] - house).abs() {
                cur += 1;
            }
            res = res.max((heaters[cur] - house).abs())
        }
        res
    }
}