2488. Count Subarrays With Median K
Description
You are given an array nums
of size n
consisting of distinct integers from 1
to n
and a positive integer k
.
Return the number of non-empty subarrays in nums
that have a median equal to k
.
Note:
- The median of an array is the middle element after sorting the array in ascending order. If the array is of even length, the median is the left middle element.
- For example, the median of
[2,3,1,4]
is2
, and the median of[8,4,3,5,1]
is4
.
- For example, the median of
- A subarray is a contiguous part of an array.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [3,2,1,4,5], k = 4 Output: 3 Explanation: The subarrays that have a median equal to 4 are: [4], [4,5] and [1,4,5].
Example 2:
Input: nums = [2,3,1], k = 3 Output: 1 Explanation: [3] is the only subarray that has a median equal to 3.
Constraints:
n == nums.length
1 <= n <= 105
1 <= nums[i], k <= n
- The integers in
nums
are distinct.
Solutions
Solution 1: Traversal + Counting
First, we find the position $i$ of the median $k$ in the array, and then start traversing from $i$ to both sides, counting the number of subarrays with a median of $k$.
Define an answer variable $ans$, which represents the number of subarrays with a median of $k$. Initially, $ans = 1$, which means that there is currently a subarray of length $1$ with a median of $k$. In addition, define a counter $cnt$, used to count the number of differences between the "number of elements larger than $k$" and the "number of elements smaller than $k$" in the currently traversed array.
Next, start traversing to the right from $i + 1$. We maintain a variable $x$, which represents the difference between the "number of elements larger than $k$" and the "number of elements smaller than $k$" in the current right subarray. If $x \in [0, 1]$, then the median of the current right subarray is $k$, and the answer variable $ans$ is incremented by $1$. Then, we add the value of $x$ to the counter $cnt$.
Similarly, start traversing to the left from $i - 1$, also maintaining a variable $x$, which represents the difference between the "number of elements larger than $k$" and the "number of elements smaller than $k$" in the current left subarray. If $x \in [0, 1]$, then the median of the current left subarray is $k$, and the answer variable $ans$ is incremented by $1$. If $-x$ or $-x + 1$ is also in the counter, it means that there is currently a subarray that spans both sides of $i$, with a median of $k$, and the answer variable $ans$ increases the corresponding value in the counter, that is, $ans += cnt[-x] + cnt[-x + 1]$.
Finally, return the answer variable $ans$.
The time complexity is $O(n)$, and the space complexity is $O(n)$. Where $n$ is the length of the array.
In coding, we can directly open an array of length $2 \times n + 1$, used to count the difference between the "number of elements larger than $k$" and the "number of elements smaller than $k$" in the current array. Each time we add the difference by $n$, we can convert the range of the difference from $[-n, n]$ to $[0, 2n]$.
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