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Maximum occurred Smallest integer in n ranges

February 9, 2017 by Dhaval Dave

Maximum occurred integer in n ranges

Given n ranges in the form of Start Number and End Number in Two Array L and R such that
L[i]-R[i] is one range given. Our task is to find the maximum occurred smallest (first) integer in all the ranges. Means If more than one integer occurs max times, print the smallest one.
In other you can find similar code in 
Time Complexity: O(n + MAX) and Space Complexity : O(Max) 
We have tried to reduce complexity to O(n+m), space complexity : O(m) where m is largest integer in L or R 
means m is largest range number.

Maximum occurred integer in n range
Maximum occurred Smallest integer in n range

Simple Solution : 
To find Maximum occurred integer in N ranges, we can think  of One Hash where we can store all range values 
example if L[0]=4,R[0]=6, HMap[4] = 1, HMap[5] = 1, HMap[6] = 1
Traverse or iterate full hashmap and find smallest such number in N range. 
To create hashMap, u’ll iterate through all numbers so Time complexity increases to n*m.
Time Complexity : O(n*m) , Space Complexity : O(m)
where m is largest number in Ranges given.
But We can find Maximum occurred integer in N rage ( same answer)  with Different Logic Where Space Complexity remains same : O(m).
Logic is Explained for Maximum occurred integer : We create an array arr[] of size m  ( m is maximum value of all intervals given ) . The idea is to add +1 to each Li index and -1 to corresponding Ri index in arr[].
After this, find the prefix sum of the array. (prefix sum is adding all previous value to prefix array, which shows the occurance of any index in n ranges) 
Adding +1 at Li shows the starting point of ith Range and adding -1 shows the ending point of ith range. Finally we return the array index that has maximum prefix sum

Algorithm to solve the problem:

  1. Initialize an array prefix [] to 0.
  2. For each range i, add +1 at Li index and -1 at Ri of the array.
  3. Find the prefix sum of the array and find the smallest index having maximum prefix sum.
// code owner www.gohired.in
//C++ program to find maximum occured element in given N ranges.
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;

// Return the maximum occurred element in all ranges.
int maximumOccuredSmallestElement(int L[], int R[], int n,int largest)
{
	// Initalising all element of array to 0.
	int prefixArray[largest];
	memset(prefixArray, 0, sizeof arr);

	for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
	{
		prefixArray[L[i]] += 1;
		prefixArray[R[i] + 1] -= 1;
	}
	
	int msum = prefixArray[0], ind;
	for (int i = 1; i < largest; i++)
	{
		prefixArray[i] += prefixArray[i-1];
                //SEE this Array and understand how this code and Logic of prefix works
		cout <<"prefix ["<<i<<"] = "<<prefixArray[i]<<endl;
		if (msum < prefixArray[i])
		{
			msum = prefixArray[i];
			ind = i;
		}
	}
	return ind;
}
// Driven Program
int main()
{
	int L[] = { 1, 4, 9, 13, 21 };
	int R[] = { 15, 8, 12, 20, 30 };
	int largest=0;
	int n = sizeof(L)/sizeof(L[0]);
        for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
            largest = max(largest,max(L[i],R[i]));
        }
	cout << maximumOccuredSmallestElement(L, R, n, largest+1) << endl;
	return 0;
}

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