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2970. Count the Number of Incremovable Subarrays I

Description

You are given a 0-indexed array of positive integers nums.

A subarray of nums is called incremovable if nums becomes strictly increasing on removing the subarray. For example, the subarray [3, 4] is an incremovable subarray of [5, 3, 4, 6, 7] because removing this subarray changes the array [5, 3, 4, 6, 7] to [5, 6, 7] which is strictly increasing.

Return the total number of incremovable subarrays of nums.

Note that an empty array is considered strictly increasing.

A subarray is a contiguous non-empty sequence of elements within an array.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4]
Output: 10
Explanation: The 10 incremovable subarrays are: [1], [2], [3], [4], [1,2], [2,3], [3,4], [1,2,3], [2,3,4], and [1,2,3,4], because on removing any one of these subarrays nums becomes strictly increasing. Note that you cannot select an empty subarray.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [6,5,7,8]
Output: 7
Explanation: The 7 incremovable subarrays are: [5], [6], [5,7], [6,5], [5,7,8], [6,5,7] and [6,5,7,8].
It can be shown that there are only 7 incremovable subarrays in nums.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [8,7,6,6]
Output: 3
Explanation: The 3 incremovable subarrays are: [8,7,6], [7,6,6], and [8,7,6,6]. Note that [8,7] is not an incremovable subarray because after removing [8,7] nums becomes [6,6], which is sorted in ascending order but not strictly increasing.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 50
  • 1 <= nums[i] <= 50

Solutions

Solution 1: Two Pointers

According to the problem description, after removing a subarray, the remaining elements are strictly increasing. Therefore, there are several situations:

  1. The remaining elements only include the prefix of the array $nums$ (which can be empty);
  2. The remaining elements only include the suffix of the array $nums$;
  3. The remaining elements include both the prefix and the suffix of the array $nums$.

The second and third situations can be combined into one, that is, the remaining elements include the suffix of the array $nums$. So there are two situations in total:

  1. The remaining elements only include the prefix of the array $nums$ (which can be empty);
  2. The remaining elements include the suffix of the array $nums$.

First, consider the first situation, that is, the remaining elements only include the prefix of the array $nums$. We can use a pointer $i$ to point to the last element of the longest increasing prefix of the array $nums$, that is, $nums[0] \lt nums[1] \lt \cdots \lt nums[i]$, then the number of remaining elements is $n - i - 1$, where $n$ is the length of the array $nums$. Therefore, for this situation, to make the remaining elements strictly increasing, we can choose to remove the following subarrays:

  1. $nums[i+1,...,n-1]$;
  2. $nums[i,...,n-1]$;
  3. $nums[i-1,...,n-1]$;
  4. $nums[i-2,...,n-1]$;
  5. $\cdots$;
  6. $nums[0,...,n-1]$.

There are $i + 2$ situations in total, so for this situation, the number of removed increasing subarrays is $i + 2$.

Next, consider the second situation, that is, the remaining elements include the suffix of the array $nums$. We can use a pointer $j$ to point to the first element of the increasing suffix of the array $nums$. We enumerate $j$ as the first element of the increasing suffix in the range $[n - 1,...,1]$. Each time, we need to move the pointer $i$ to make $nums[i] \lt nums[j]$, then the number of removed increasing subarrays increases by $i + 2$. When $nums[j - 1] \ge nums[j]$, we stop enumerating because the suffix is not strictly increasing at this time.

The time complexity is $O(n)$, where $n$ is the length of the array $nums$. The space complexity is $O(1)$.

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class Solution:
    def incremovableSubarrayCount(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
        i, n = 0, len(nums)
        while i + 1 < n and nums[i] < nums[i + 1]:
            i += 1
        if i == n - 1:
            return n * (n + 1) // 2
        ans = i + 2
        j = n - 1
        while j:
            while i >= 0 and nums[i] >= nums[j]:
                i -= 1
            ans += i + 2
            if nums[j - 1] >= nums[j]:
                break
            j -= 1
        return ans

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class Solution {
    public int incremovableSubarrayCount(int[] nums) {
        int i = 0, n = nums.length;
        while (i + 1 < n && nums[i] < nums[i + 1]) {
            ++i;
        }
        if (i == n - 1) {
            return n * (n + 1) / 2;
        }
        int ans = i + 2;
        for (int j = n - 1; j > 0; --j) {
            while (i >= 0 && nums[i] >= nums[j]) {
                --i;
            }
            ans += i + 2;
            if (nums[j - 1] >= nums[j]) {
                break;
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
}

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class Solution {
public:
    int incremovableSubarrayCount(vector<int>& nums) {
        int i = 0, n = nums.size();
        while (i + 1 < n && nums[i] < nums[i + 1]) {
            ++i;
        }
        if (i == n - 1) {
            return n * (n + 1) / 2;
        }
        int ans = i + 2;
        for (int j = n - 1; j > 0; --j) {
            while (i >= 0 && nums[i] >= nums[j]) {
                --i;
            }
            ans += i + 2;
            if (nums[j - 1] >= nums[j]) {
                break;
            }
        }
        return ans;
    }
};

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func incremovableSubarrayCount(nums []int) int {
    i, n := 0, len(nums)
    for i+1 < n && nums[i] < nums[i+1] {
        i++
    }
    if i == n-1 {
        return n * (n + 1) / 2
    }
    ans := i + 2
    for j := n - 1; j > 0; j-- {
        for i >= 0 && nums[i] >= nums[j] {
            i--
        }
        ans += i + 2
        if nums[j-1] >= nums[j] {
            break
        }
    }
    return ans
}

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function incremovableSubarrayCount(nums: number[]): number {
    const n = nums.length;
    let i = 0;
    while (i + 1 < n && nums[i] < nums[i + 1]) {
        i++;
    }
    if (i === n - 1) {
        return (n * (n + 1)) / 2;
    }
    let ans = i + 2;
    for (let j = n - 1; j; --j) {
        while (i >= 0 && nums[i] >= nums[j]) {
            --i;
        }
        ans += i + 2;
        if (nums[j - 1] >= nums[j]) {
            break;
        }
    }
    return ans;
}

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