code第一部分数组:第二十题:加油站
there are N gas stations along a circular route, where the amount of gas at station i is gas[i].
You have a car with an unlimited gas tank and it costs cost[i] of gas to travel from station i to its
next station (i+1). You begin the journey with an empty tank at one of the gas stations.
Return the starting gas station’s index if you can travel around the circuit once, otherwise return -1.
Note: �e solution is guaranteed to be unique。
分析
O(N) 的解法是,设置两个变量, sum 判断当前的指针的有效性; total 则判断整个数组是否有
解,有就返回通过 sum 得到的下标,没有则返回 -1。
对于一个循环数组,如果这个数组整体和 SUM >= 0,那么必然可以在数组中找到这么一个元素:从这个数组元素出发,绕数组一圈,能保证累加和一直是出于非负状态。
int gasstation(int gas[],int cost[],int n) { int total=0; int j=-1; int sum; for (int i = 0,sum=0; i < n; ++i) { sum+=gas[i]-cost[i]; total+=gas[i]-cost[i]; if (sum<0) { j=i; sum=0; } } return total>=0?j+1:-1; }