1564. Put Boxes Into the Warehouse I

Description

You are given two arrays of positive integers, boxes and warehouse, representing the heights of some boxes of unit width and the heights of n rooms in a warehouse respectively. The warehouse's rooms are labelled from 0 to n - 1 from left to right where warehouse[i] (0-indexed) is the height of the ith room.

Boxes are put into the warehouse by the following rules:

• Boxes cannot be stacked.

• You can rearrange the insertion order of the boxes.

• Boxes can only be pushed into the warehouse from left to right only.

• If the height of some room in the warehouse is less than the height of a box, then that box and all other boxes behind it will be stopped before that room.

Return the maximum number of boxes you can put into the warehouse.

Constraints

• n == warehouse.length

• 1 <= boxes.length, warehouse.length <= 10^5

• 1 <= boxes[i], warehouse[i] <= 10^9

Approach

Links

• GeeksforGeeks

• Leetcode

• ProgramCreek

• YouTube

Examples

Example 1

Input: boxes = [4, 3, 4, 1], warehouse = [5, 3, 3, 4, 1]

Output: 3

Explanation:

We can first put the box of height 1 in room 4. Then we can put the box of height 3 in either of the 3 rooms 1, 2, or 3. Lastly, we can put one box of height 4 in room 0.

There is no way we can fit all 4 boxes in the warehouse.

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

Solutions

Solution 1

/**
 * Time complexity : O(nlog(n)+m) because we need to sort the boxes 
 *    O(nlogn)) and iterate over the warehouse rooms and boxes O(n+m).
 * Space complexity : O(1)
 */

class Solution {
    public int maxBoxesInWarehouse(int[] boxes, int[] warehouse) {
        if(boxes.length == 0 || warehouse.length == 0) {
            return 0;
        }
        
        Arrays.sort(boxes);
                
        for(int i = 1; i < warehouse.length; i++) {
            warehouse[i] = Math.min(warehouse[i], warehouse[i-1]);
        }
        
        int count = 0;
        for(int i = warehouse.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
            if(count < boxes.length && warehouse[i] >= boxes[count]) {
                count++;
            }
        }
        
        return count;
    }
}

Follow up