There are N gas stations along a circular route, where the amount of gas at station i is gas[i].
You have a car with an unlimited gas tank and it costs cost[i] of gas to travel from station i to its next station (i+1). You begin the journey with an empty tank at one of the gas stations.
Return the starting gas station's index if you can travel around the circuit once, otherwise return -1.
Note: The solution is guaranteed to be unique.
首先,这个题目要明确如果gas[0] + gas[1] + ... + gas[n] >= cost[0] + cost[1] + .. + cost[n],那么这个题目一定有解。因为,根据条件移项可得:
(gas[0] - cost[0]) + (gas[1] - cost[1]) + ... + (gas[n] - cost[n]) >= 0,由于最终结果大于等于零,因此一定可以通过加法交换律,得到一个序列,使得中间结果都为非负。因此可以将算法实现如下:
1 public class GasStation {
2 public int canCompleteCircuit(int[] gas, int[] cost) {
3 int sum = 0, total = 0, len = gas.length, index = -1;
4 for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
5 sum += gas[i] - cost[i];
6 total += gas[i] - cost[i];
7 if (sum < 0) {
8 index = i;
9 sum = 0;
10 }
11 }
12 return total >= 0 ? index + 1 : -1;
13 }
14 }