Question
We draw N discs on a plane. The discs are numbered from 0 to N − 1. An array A of N non-negative integers, specifying the radiuses of the discs, is given. The J-th disc is drawn with its center at (J, 0) and radius A[J].
We say that the J-th disc and K-th disc intersect if J ≠ K and the J-th and K-th discs have at least one common point (assuming that the discs contain their borders).
The figure below shows discs drawn for N = 6 and A as follows:
A[0] = 1
A[1] = 5
A[2] = 2
A[3] = 1
A[4] = 4
A[5] = 0
There are eleven (unordered) pairs of discs that intersect, namely:
discs 1 and 4 intersect, and both intersect with all the other discs;
disc 2 also intersects with discs 0 and 3.
Write a function:
def solution(A)
that, given an array A describing N discs as explained above, returns the number of (unordered) pairs of intersecting discs. The function should return −1 if the number of intersecting pairs exceeds 10,000,000.
Given array A shown above, the function should return 11, as explained above.
Write an efficient algorithm for the following assumptions:
N is an integer within the range [0..100,000];
each element of array A is an integer within the range [0..2,147,483,647].
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Answer
def solution(A):
arr = []
for i,v in enumerate(A):
arr.append((i+v,1))
arr.append((i-v,-1))
arr.sort()
intersect = 0
intervals = 0
for i,v in enumerate(arr):
if v[1] == 1:
intervals -= 1
if v[1] == -1:
intersect += intervals
intervals += 1
if intersect > 10000000:
return -1
return intersect