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3267. Count Almost Equal Pairs II

Description

Attention: In this version, the number of operations that can be performed, has been increased to twice.

You are given an array nums consisting of positive integers.

We call two integers x and y almost equal if both integers can become equal after performing the following operation at most twice:

  • Choose either x or y and swap any two digits within the chosen number.

Return the number of indices i and j in nums where i < j such that nums[i] and nums[j] are almost equal.

Note that it is allowed for an integer to have leading zeros after performing an operation.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1023,2310,2130,213]

Output: 4

Explanation:

The almost equal pairs of elements are:

  • 1023 and 2310. By swapping the digits 1 and 2, and then the digits 0 and 3 in 1023, you get 2310.
  • 1023 and 213. By swapping the digits 1 and 0, and then the digits 1 and 2 in 1023, you get 0213, which is 213.
  • 2310 and 213. By swapping the digits 2 and 0, and then the digits 3 and 2 in 2310, you get 0213, which is 213.
  • 2310 and 2130. By swapping the digits 3 and 1 in 2310, you get 2130.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,10,100]

Output: 3

Explanation:

The almost equal pairs of elements are:

  • 1 and 10. By swapping the digits 1 and 0 in 10, you get 01 which is 1.
  • 1 and 100. By swapping the second 0 with the digit 1 in 100, you get 001, which is 1.
  • 10 and 100. By swapping the first 0 with the digit 1 in 100, you get 010, which is 10.

 

Constraints:

  • 2 <= nums.length <= 5000
  • 1 <= nums[i] < 107

Solutions

Solution 1: Sorting + Enumeration

We can enumerate each number, and for each number, we can enumerate each pair of different digits, then swap these two digits to get a new number. Record this new number in a hash table $\textit{vis}$, representing all possible numbers after at most one swap. Then continue to enumerate each pair of different digits, swap these two digits to get a new number, and record it in the hash table $\textit{vis}$, representing all possible numbers after at most two swaps.

This enumeration may miss some pairs of numbers, such as $[100, 1]$, because the number obtained after swapping $100$ is $1$, and the previously enumerated numbers do not include $1$, so some pairs of numbers will be missed. We only need to sort the array before enumeration to solve this problem.

The time complexity is $O(n \times (\log n + \log^5 M))$, and the space complexity is $O(n + \log^4 M)$. Here, $n$ is the length of the array $\textit{nums}$, and $M$ is the maximum value in the array $\textit{nums}$.

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class Solution:
    def countPairs(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
        nums.sort()
        ans = 0
        cnt = defaultdict(int)
        for x in nums:
            vis = {x}
            s = list(str(x))
            m = len(s)
            for j in range(m):
                for i in range(j):
                    s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
                    vis.add(int("".join(s)))
                    for q in range(i + 1, m):
                        for p in range(i + 1, q):
                            s[p], s[q] = s[q], s[p]
                            vis.add(int("".join(s)))
                            s[p], s[q] = s[q], s[p]
                    s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
            ans += sum(cnt[x] for x in vis)
            cnt[x] += 1
        return ans
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class Solution {
    public int countPairs(int[] nums) {
        Arrays.sort(nums);
        int ans = 0;
        Map<Integer, Integer> cnt = new HashMap<>();
        for (int x : nums) {
            Set<Integer> vis = new HashSet<>();
            vis.add(x);
            char[] s = String.valueOf(x).toCharArray();
            for (int j = 0; j < s.length; ++j) {
                for (int i = 0; i < j; ++i) {
                    swap(s, i, j);
                    vis.add(Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(s)));
                    for (int q = i; q < s.length; ++q) {
                        for (int p = i; p < q; ++p) {
                            swap(s, p, q);
                            vis.add(Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(s)));
                            swap(s, p, q);
                        }
                    }
                    swap(s, i, j);
                }
            }
            for (int y : vis) {
                ans += cnt.getOrDefault(y, 0);
            }
            cnt.merge(x, 1, Integer::sum);
        }
        return ans;
    }

    private void swap(char[] s, int i, int j) {
        char t = s[i];
        s[i] = s[j];
        s[j] = t;
    }
}
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class Solution {
public:
    int countPairs(vector<int>& nums) {
        sort(nums.begin(), nums.end());
        int ans = 0;
        unordered_map<int, int> cnt;

        for (int x