【问题描述】[中等]
给定一个由表示变量之间关系的字符串方程组成的数组,每个字符串方程 equations[i] 的长度为 4,并采用两种不同的形式之一:"a==b" 或 "a!=b"。在这里,a 和 b 是小写字母(不一定不同),表示单字母变量名。只有当可以将整数分配给变量名,以便满足所有给定的方程时才返回 true,否则返回 false。
【解答思路】
并查集
时间复杂度:O(N^2) 空间复杂度:O(1)
public class Solution {public boolean equationsPossible(String[] equations) {UnionFind unionFind = new UnionFind(26);for (String equation : equations) {char[] charArray = equation.toCharArray();if (charArray[1] == '=') {int index1 = charArray[0] - 'a';int index2 = charArray[3] - 'a';unionFind.union(index1, index2);}}for (String equation : equations) {char[] charArray = equation.toCharArray();if (charArray[1] == '!') {int index1 = charArray[0] - 'a';int index2 = charArray[3] - 'a';if (unionFind.isConnected(index1, index2)) {// 如果合并失败,表示等式有矛盾,根据题意,返回 falsereturn false;}}}// 如果检查了所有不等式,都没有发现矛盾,返回 truereturn true;}private class UnionFind {private int[] parent;public UnionFind(int n) {parent = new int[n];for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {parent[i] = i;}}public int find(int x) {while (x != parent[x]) {parent[x] = parent[parent[x]];x = parent[x];}return x;}/*** @param x* @param y* @return 如果合并成功,返回 true*/public void union(int x, int y) {int rootX = find(x);int rootY = find(y);parent[rootX] = rootY;}public boolean isConnected(int x, int y) {return find(x) == find(y);}}public static void main(String[] args) {// String[] equations = new String[]{"b==a", "a==b"};// String[] equations = new String[]{"a==b","b==c","a==c"};// String[] equations = new String[]{"a==b","b!=c","c==a"};String[] equations = new String[]{"c==c", "b==d", "x!=z"};Solution solution = new Solution();boolean res = solution.equationsPossible(equations);System.out.println(res);}
}
【总结】
1.并查集知识小结
面试较少出现 酌情掌握
2.并查集时间复杂度分析
时间复杂度知乎链接:https://www.zhihu.com/question/35090745
3.并查集练习题
转载链接:https://leetcode-cn.com/problems/satisfiability-of-equality-equations/solution/shi-yong-bing-cha-ji-chu-li-bu-xiang-jiao-ji-he-we/