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455. Assign Cookies

• Difficulty: Easy.
• Related Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Greedy, Sorting.
• Similar Questions: .

Problem

Assume you are an awesome parent and want to give your children some cookies. But, you should give each child at most one cookie.

Each child i has a greed factor g[i], which is the minimum size of a cookie that the child will be content with; and each cookie j has a size s[j]. If s[j] >= g[i], we can assign the cookie j to the child i, and the child i will be content. Your goal is to maximize the number of your content children and output the maximum number.

  Example 1:

Input: g = [1,2,3], s = [1,1]
Output: 1
Explanation: You have 3 children and 2 cookies. The greed factors of 3 children are 1, 2, 3. 
And even though you have 2 cookies, since their size is both 1, you could only make the child whose greed factor is 1 content.
You need to output 1.

Example 2:

Input: g = [1,2], s = [1,2,3]
Output: 2
Explanation: You have 2 children and 3 cookies. The greed factors of 2 children are 1, 2. 
You have 3 cookies and their sizes are big enough to gratify all of the children, 
You need to output 2.

  Constraints:

• 1 <= g.length <= 3 * 104

• 0 <= s.length <= 3 * 104

• 1 <= g[i], s[j] <= 231 - 1

Solution

/**
 * @param {number[]} g
 * @param {number[]} s
 * @return {number}
 */
var findContentChildren = function(g, s) {
    g.sort((a, b) => a - b);
    s.sort((a, b) => a - b);
    var j = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < g.length; i++) {
        while (s[j] < g[i] && j < s.length) j++;
        if (j === s.length) return i;
        j++;
    }
    return g.length;
};

Explain:

nope.

Complexity:

• Time complexity : O(n * log(n)).
• Space complexity : O(1).