A conveyor belt has packages that must be shipped from one port to another within
The
Return the least weight capacity of the ship that will result in all the packages on the conveyor
belt being shipped within
Output: 15
Explanation: A ship capacity of 15 is the minimum to ship all the packages in 5 days like this:
1st day: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2nd day: 6, 7
3rd day: 8
4th day: 9
5th day: 10
Note that the cargo must be shipped in the order given, so using a ship of capacity 14 and splitting the packages into parts like (2, 3, 4, 5), (1, 6, 7), (8), (9), (10) is not allowed.
Output: 6
Explanation: A ship capacity of 6 is the minimum to ship all the packages in 3 days like this:
1st day: 3, 2
2nd day: 2, 4
3rd day: 1, 4
Output: 3
Explanation:
1st day: 1
2nd day: 2
3rd day: 3
4th day: 1, 1
Constraints:
1 <= days <= weights.length <= 5 * 104 1 <= weights[i] <= 500
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Solution 1 - Using binary search
As per the problem statement, we were given some
In this approach, we will apply
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If the element at
mid index is the target, then return themid index, since the element is same, it can be inserted at this position. -
If the element at
mid index is greater than target, since the array is sorted in ascending order, this means that the target lies on left half of the array, so we will updateright index tomid-1 . -
If the element at
mid index is less than target, since the array is sorted in ascending order, this means that the target lies on right half of the array, so we will updateleft index tomid+1 .
If that
Complexity Analysis:
Time complexity: Above code runs in O(log n) time where
Space complexity: O(1).
Above implementations source code can be found at