Let's define a function f(s)
over a non-empty string s
, which calculates the frequency of the smallest character in s
. For example, if s = "dcce"
then f(s) = 2
because the smallest character is "c"
and its frequency is 2.
Now, given string arrays queries
and words
, return an integer array answer
, where each answer[i]
is the number of words such that f(queries[i])
< f(W)
, where W
is a word in words
.
Example 1:
Input: queries = ["cbd"], words = ["zaaaz"] Output: [1] Explanation: On the first query we have f("cbd") = 1, f("zaaaz") = 3 so f("cbd") < f("zaaaz").
Example 2:
Input: queries = ["bbb","cc"], words = ["a","aa","aaa","aaaa"] Output: [1,2] Explanation: On the first query only f("bbb") < f("aaaa"). On the second query both f("aaa") and f("aaaa") are both > f("cc").
Constraints:
1 <= queries.length <= 2000
1 <= words.length <= 2000
1 <= queries[i].length, words[i].length <= 10
-
queries[i][j]
,words[i][j]
are English lowercase letters.
from collections import Counter
class Solution(object):
def numSmallerByFrequency(self, queries, words):
"""
:type queries: List[str]
:type words: List[str]
:rtype: List[int]
"""
qs,ws = [],[]
for q in queries: qs.append(Counter(q)[min(q)])
for w in words: ws.append(Counter(w)[min(w)])
d=Counter(ws)
helper = [0]*2005
for i in range(2003, -1, -1):
helper[i]=helper[i+1]
if i in d: helper[i]+=d[i]
res=[]
for i in qs:
res.append(helper[i]-d[i])
return res