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@nishantingle14382 жыл бұрын
Why not create something like 350-450 also ? I think that is the minimum number of standard questions required to crack FAANG.
@bruh-moment-21 Жыл бұрын
@@nishantingle1438 do neetcode 150 and striver sde sheet along with some spicy extra questions you can find while browsing leetcode.
@sucraloss Жыл бұрын
@@bruh-moment-21 Didn't know about striver's thanks for the recommendation just added to my list
@shaoyvxn Жыл бұрын
honestly, it's not even the solution that make your videos so valuable; it's the fact that i get to take a look at your thought process which infinitely more assists in the structure of solving a problem
@rejul0085 ай бұрын
So true
@DarnMyNameDoesntFi3 жыл бұрын
My favorite part about all of your videos is that you start out in a pretty chill vocal register and the moment you get to the crux of the problem you escalate and get super intense. I've been watching and trying to note when that always happens... it's pretty much the moment you start drawing out the problem. Anyone else notice this?
@goodgoodduckqi21392 жыл бұрын
yes lmfao
@againnotgood89802 жыл бұрын
thanks, apart from grasping leetcode 42, I also learned 3 more words: vocal register, crux, escalate
@MeridithLee2 жыл бұрын
@@againnotgood8980 lmao thank you for this, it made me laugh out loud in the middle of a leetcode grind
@knowledgedose19562 жыл бұрын
@@MeridithLee apparently I am not the only one who reads comments during leetcode video
@theastuteangler2 жыл бұрын
@@againnotgood8980 crux is overrused, let this word die already
@andrewcenteno3462 Жыл бұрын
The two pointer solution is insane, I would never come up with that 'on the spot' at an interview.
@prafulparashar98492 жыл бұрын
This explanation is so spot on that i actually coded everything myself before even looking into the code part of the video. You are doing great work !! Congrats on the new job and thanks a lot !!
@symbol7672 жыл бұрын
I've come back to this problem so many times, I feel this is a horrid interview question, its beyond unintuitive. I guarantee 99% of the entry level dev's at least would not be able to figure out the solution to this problem if they've never seen the solution before. Even if they did 400 other leetcode problems
@thecap72498 ай бұрын
It's kind of relaxing for me after reading this comment, I knew what needs to be done but was unable to put it in code.
@VV-ps8rt6 ай бұрын
Lol same
@Thanos-hp1mw4 ай бұрын
I think most hard problems on leetcode are like that
@sky9k-unlimited3 ай бұрын
Make it 100%
@PabitraPadhy2 ай бұрын
Don't be disheartened, the O(N) space solution is not that unintuitive. It's difficult to achieve, that's why it's a hard problem. but atleast you know that you need a boundary, and the water that could be there is the min of those two boundary. Now it's difficult to expand immediately, if the boundary is not immediate next to it. But then problems like this are always PITA. Don't bother too much. Also don't bother too much on the LPA's you need to achieve. This is anyway a nonsensical way of interviewing someone, take it from a staff engg. so just play the ball the best you could. I know some people will get triggerred with my statement, defending the time they wasted doing this instead of solving real-world problems, but then I don't consider them developers.
@wellinettiАй бұрын
Your O(1) two-pointer solution is so much better than the two-pointer solution provided by Leetcode editorial, which I still don't understand after more than an hour. I understand yours right away! They don't compare the current max_left and max_right. Rather they compare the height at the current left index and right index (whether height[left] < height[right]). I cannot figure out the logic there (only understand it in a fuzzy unexplainable way...)
@whimsicalkins55855 ай бұрын
The optimized solution was pretty neat.. But, like @NeetCode says, it is very important to understand why two pointers approach work ? ( Anyway, extra memory method is straight forward). What the O(1) memory solution tries to exploit is, we "only" need info about "bottleneck pillar", to compute possible storage. But, this trick does not function alone. At the initial stage, we decide, from which direction we should traverse using min(L_Max,R_Max). What this essential translates to is that, from either corners, I am going to pick up the lowest valued bottleneck pillar, and I am going to consider that are my starting point. Assume (L_Max < R_Max), so we start from left, traverse from left to right and keep on changing the L_Max value on our way to right. Note that, L_max value maybe several magnitudes less than R_Max. But, when L_max value becomes greater than R_Max, the Bottleneck pillar swaps from left side of reference to right side reference, resulting in traversing the array from right to left now. This change in perspective of what we consider as bottleneck is very very important concept to understand this solution.
@fatcat22able2 жыл бұрын
For anyone confused about the res += leftMax - height[l] line like I was, look at the line above it. > leftMax = max(leftMax, height[l]) If leftMax is less than (or equal to) height[l], we set leftMax equal to height[l] and then subtract height[l] from it, which would equal zero. On the other hand, if leftMax is greater than height[l], we keep leftMax as is and subtract height[l] from it, which would be a positive value. In either case, the result will always be greater than or equal to zero, which means you don't have to check for negatives. Hope this helps!
@vamshisagargadde1629 Жыл бұрын
thanks, looking for this
@nw3052 Жыл бұрын
And if leftMax becomes greater than rightMax? That means we would add more water than the two pillars could hold since the minimum is the bottleneck. Honestly didn't quite get how his code worked.
@cagatay2462 Жыл бұрын
@@nw3052 if leftMax is greater, we start adding water from only right side. In other words, if leftMax is greater, we run else statement till while loop ends.
@nw3052 Жыл бұрын
@@cagatay2462 oh yeah, you're right. I got a bit of a tunnel vision in here.
@jasonahn8658 Жыл бұрын
such a genius way to calculate it
@TheseOfWe0112 Жыл бұрын
‘…and it’s actually pretty simple…’ Excuse me while I throw my laptop across the room.
@karthik8293 жыл бұрын
Clear explanation !! I'm truly amazed how people can come up with this algorithm during and interview.
@andrewgordon47743 жыл бұрын
I’d say 95% of people don’t, you either get lucky and don’t get this question or have seen it before and know the technique
@prasad90123 жыл бұрын
@@andrewgordon4774 Agreed. We just have to practice as many problems as we can to increase the probability of getting asked something we've already seen before.
@ShikaIE2 жыл бұрын
@@prasad9012 agree. I think given the problem in day2day work, people might be able to work it out without the time limit and stress. It’s a bit ridiculous to think of it being the norm in the technical interview. But the good thing about it is that people who did this are at least aware and care about important of algorithms. Interviewers might consider those who came out with o(n) memory at least rather than the brute force.
@theastuteangler2 жыл бұрын
this algorithm is easy
@tran-st2 жыл бұрын
Mega Thanks! You are the best
@NeetCode2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Steven!!
@MP-ny3ep2 жыл бұрын
This was a phenomenal explanation! You made it soooo easy. Thank you so much. You channel is gold. And , congrats for getting placed! I wish you all the success in the world!
@geg_ant3 жыл бұрын
That is impressive how simple actual solution might be! Thank you!
@linli70493 жыл бұрын
I think we should use "while ( l < r - 1 )" instead of "while( l < r )" because we don't want to compute the water in the same position twice. So if l and r are adjacent, we should stop shifting l or r pointer. However, while ( l < r ) still works in leetcode. I am not sure if it is guaranteed to be correct if we use while ( l < r )
@twin3923 жыл бұрын
When L and R overlap, the leftMax and rightMax are going to be the true max, so doing rightMax or leftMax - height[l or r] always produces 0 and doesn't add to res. It's unnecessary but doesn't change the answer.
@anantprakashsingh87772 жыл бұрын
Well, when Left and Right pointer end up at the same position, they have also arrived at the highest value in the array. This would mean that no water can be trapped at that location, hence the answer would be correct regardless. Introducing your condition to the algorithm would result in one less comparison, that would result in a faster algorithm, but not by a significant margin. You can introduce your condition into the algorithm, the answer would still be correct.
@Han-ve8uh3 ай бұрын
Don't agree with above that it's still correct with 1 less comparison. I say it's wrong. Imagine a simple example of 1,0,2. Your tighter loop will not count the 1 water in middle. The algorithm in video starts at left and right walls, so the 1st move of any of these will add 0 to water because current height is same as wall height. Only after moving one step can water adding be possible. But if l < r-1, and l = 0, r = 2 with 3 elements, the loop can only run once when r = 0 on the wall which adds nothing. After left move, when r = 1, it fails l < r-1 already.
@theornament11 ай бұрын
I was able to solve this by calculating the index of the greatest value and creating two loops where each one is designated for left and right pointers, and loop them until we reach the index where we found the greatest element. I basically calculated that we need to find the next greatest element in each loop (remembering that the next greatest value is current greatest value + 1) where, until it gets to that point, increase/decrease our pointers and sum the actual greatest value - the current value. The only difference for the right pointer loop is that we need to calculate if we already reached a point where we got to the greatest value (as it can be repeated). It's a bit more inefficient than this solution, but it's still O(n) so I'm proud of coming up with it myself.
@AshishKumar-dk5ve3 жыл бұрын
Your way of explaining the problem and solution is simply AWESOME. Kudos to you !!!
@dhyeyparekh49943 күн бұрын
I have seen many tutorials on this but definitely yours is the most intuitive one. Thank You.
@jacktrainer43872 жыл бұрын
Brilliant explanation. My loathing of this problem ran deep, until now.
@devonchia5976Ай бұрын
I changed the while loop process on the pointer that is similar to what he has explained with the drawing so its more intuitive: while l < r: if maxL < maxR: if maxL - height[l] > 0: res += maxL - height[l] l += 1 maxL = max(maxL, height[l]) else: if maxR - height[r] > 0: res += maxR - height[r] r -= 1 maxR = max(maxR, height[r])
@yamaan93 Жыл бұрын
I know it doesn't end up mattering but a piece of feedback I thought I'd give on the video, the order in which you explain in the drawing is: 1. Move the pointer 2. Calculate Volume 3. Update the leftMax but in the actual code, you: 1. Move the pointer 2. update the max 3. Calculate the volume I understand that this doesn't end up mattering in the end, however it can make it really confusing if you can't figure out why that's fine.
@youpremium1752 ай бұрын
Why?
@bigz81552 ай бұрын
I noticed this as well
@80kg3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@NeetCode3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it 😊
@nikhildinesan52593 жыл бұрын
Good to see you back after a long time !!!
@Oliver-nt8pw Жыл бұрын
I wish I would udnerstand why can we safely assume that the right max doesnt matter in case we moved left pointer due to l < r.
@tsunghan_yu10 ай бұрын
when max_left < max_right, that means the left part is the bottleneck. It doesn't matter what the true max_right is, simply because max_left is smaller. Just like the barrel theory, how much water the barrel can contain is not decided by the longest but the shortest board.
@anjanaouseph46056 ай бұрын
Sameee doubt
@anjanaouseph46056 ай бұрын
@tsunghan_yu but we can have a case where initial max left is 2 max right is 3 but the actual max right is say 1 somewhere in the middle. Then won't this matter?
@whimsicalkins55855 ай бұрын
@@anjanaouseph4605 @Oliver-nt89w Let me explain you with two simple examples: ex1: [2,0,1,3] , ex2: [2,0,4,1,3]. At Initial stage L_max =2 and r_max = 3. Now, there are two possibility, there exist right pillar with value lesser than L_max (just like you said, we have 1 inbetween 2 and 3) or there exist right pillar greater than l_max. Lets analyze, case one: after 2, the next two values are lesser than L_max, so L_max does not change (still L_max=2,R_max=3) and we keep traversing from left to right. To answer your question, why we disregard 0 or 1 is that, we see the entire array as one big container (the extreme values are the boundary of the container) and from left most side's perspective, the right boundary is 3 units, which is clearly taller than left side boundary 2. This makes, 2 as the bottleneck value even when we iterate through 0 and 1. As we only need bottle neck value to compute the amount of water that can be stored from the formula, it does not matter if in actuality we have 1 in between 2 and 3. But, you have to understand, that ``it does matter`` , if L_Max value becomes greater than R_max value. In case of ex2, L_Max is no longer bottle neck, when L_max becomes 4. R_max is the new bottleneck value, and we need to change our direction of traversal from left->right to right->left. This happens safely until, we encounter a value that makes R_max greater than L_max. When that happens, we again change the perspective. Hope this helped .( You can also see that, whenever perspective changes, the container size also changes (this is not relevant to problem) and progressively shrinks and eventually becomes 0, effectively helping us to come out of loop. This is not relevant to problem, but is very beautify to imagine)
@youpremium1752 ай бұрын
@@anjanaouseph4605no because water will be trapped between the 2 on left and 3 on right
@christendombaffler Жыл бұрын
Goodness, this problem was hell for me to visualise. I gave up on it when doing it on my own after a couple of hours because I couldn't come up with anything and I couldn't understand any of the solutions and their explanations. In particular I really didn't understand how you didn't need O(n) to figure out the required filling in a given space even if we ignored one side or the other. I had to go through your position-by-position explanation twice and I needed to make an array for all 5 calculations just to understand how to process the idea correctly, but at least it's how I got my breakthrough, and figuring out the two pointer solution after that was trivial. Thank you for the video. Looking up what people thought were the hardest problems on leetcode and seeing this very problem get the most mentions made me feel a lot better about myself.
@avahome52853 жыл бұрын
the explanation is so natural. thank you.
@FitnessChaos3 жыл бұрын
Seems simple when you explain it but how do you come up with a solution when its all on the line? thats the frustrating part
@brandonnoll55273 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I'm just not so good at this stuff lmao.
@MrTacoMan1233 жыл бұрын
right?? theres no way I could come up with this solution in < 25mins during interview if I havent seen this problem before
@akashkewar3 жыл бұрын
well, this is what it is all about. You solve problems that give you intuition and the same intuition can be used to solve multiple problems. The solution provided in the video is not the only solution, you can approach this problem in multiple ways from brute force to linear time and this is what would come to you automatically by solving problems.
@viridianite4 ай бұрын
8:42 An alternative way to think about the round up to greater or equal to zero is checking if (min - height[i]) is greater than or equal to zero. If it's, then that means the block of height[i] can hold (min - height[i]) blocks of water above it. Otherwise, it can not and we can simply skip over with the condition.
@ThamaraiselvamT2 жыл бұрын
you nailed it, I just solved my first ever hard problem at leetcode :D
@gustavosena78766 ай бұрын
same here :D
@pun1sher983 ай бұрын
The problem felt like Easy instead of Hard after watching this! This was one of the best explanations that you have presented. I did not even need to see the actual code.
@sankeerthsirikonda35652 жыл бұрын
Awesome explanation, BTW i think there is no need for if condition at the starting instead of returning 0, we will return res as 0 if there are no elements(while loop will not be executed)
@AlexDeathway6 ай бұрын
Since there is LeftMax and RightMax, it would cause an IndexError.
@cakecup-r6g2 ай бұрын
i didnt get one thing , 11:35 , shouldnt't the max right be initially zero because on the right hand side there is nothing meaning the water cant be contained
@sarthakpatidar109924 күн бұрын
I was failing to understand how 2 pointers approach is able to solve it even though the array is not sorted. The key part lies in the decision making where if on the right there exists a value greater than on the left, no matter what other elements are on the right, the decision for that position will be determined by the left (which is correct and determined one). I asked chatgpt, searched google, went through lots of youtube videos and couldn't convince myself. You precisely explained that point on how right doesn't matter to us and our solution get be obtained from left OR vice versa .. cheers !
@silkyjain59643 жыл бұрын
You explained this so well. It was hard for me to understand this problem otherwise. Thank you!!
@sarvesh67852 жыл бұрын
Your video is fantastic. Each video guarantees a precise and clear explanation.
@TheRisingLlama Жыл бұрын
Why is it l < r over l
@Han-ve8uh3 ай бұрын
When l == r, both pointers are on the highest wall. There is no water in that position
@tanmoy0032 жыл бұрын
One of the best explanation that I have seen!
@hbhavsi5 ай бұрын
This was a really really good explanation and breakdown. Don't need to memorize anything after this. Thanks a lot!
@TaiChiSWAG3 жыл бұрын
The way you start explaining makes the problem pretty easy 👍
@fredtrentini6791 Жыл бұрын
Spent a bit more than 2 hours doing this one and some O(N ** 2) solution I came with ended up getting accepted. The whole time I was so worried about knowing where each of those gaps of water started and ended, until I looked for the best solution and noticed there was no need to know that, all I had to know was the maximum amount water that could be trapped in the current position. Great explanation.
@idolgin7762 жыл бұрын
Thanks for a great explanation! I am starting to play with algorithms, and this has been a big help.
@sumeetkamat6 ай бұрын
What an amazing explanation! It is supposed to be a HARD problem and you made it look so easy!
@jesuscruz8008 Жыл бұрын
great explanation like always! i wrote a long function to get this to work but your way was way better than mine glad i always watch your videos after im done to see a better way of doing the question
@shalsteven2 жыл бұрын
How can you have an idea that we need to find the maximum of the left side and the maximum of the right in each point?
@goldfishbrainjohn24622 жыл бұрын
I'm also wondering. Neetcode is a truly genius.
@wen179911 ай бұрын
Is the implementation different from the approach explained? Seems like the approach(two pointer) computes the height first before updating the height. The implementation on the other hand computes the height first to prevent the negative case (It's such a brilliant idea). Was a little confused while reading the code and wondering where the negative water retained case is handled. On the other hand, this is the best video I have seen so far explaining the solution. Thank you
@sabihabarlaskar83183 жыл бұрын
Such a detailed explanation! Thank you!
@nguyenbach4710 Жыл бұрын
the way u make prolems easier drive m crazy thanks a lot plz don't stop
@demaxl732 Жыл бұрын
This guy seriously just made a hard problem look so easy
@TarunKumar283 жыл бұрын
Nicely explained, simple and elegant solutions.
@aduhaneh10577 ай бұрын
i tried doing this question before going through the vid but couldn't figure it out. u r super smart man, thx for the thorough explanation
@aashishbathe Жыл бұрын
Actual best, most efficient explanation!!
@jackliu635110 ай бұрын
Your explaination of concept is so easy to understand!!!!!! keep making videos!!!!!
@karann60103 жыл бұрын
U make it look so easy ❤️ thanks a lot ☺️
@hoangvietng71009 ай бұрын
I have no words to say about how good your help is
@svran123410 ай бұрын
This was so easy to understand and very neatly explained. Thank you so much!
@thearturro3 ай бұрын
What a great explanation! I actually coded 3/4 of your solution while you were explaining it and I only missed the part of updating the result. Thank you!
@chayan_ghosh Жыл бұрын
best explanation for this problem on yt. Thank you
@zetagundam20x2 ай бұрын
Very shocked I solved my first leetcord hard and in one go. Even more shocked at the Two Pointer solution. Keep it up bro!
@shivkrishnajaiswal83943 жыл бұрын
Underrated channel in Leetcode solution. Highly recommending this channel for Algo preparation
@Ruben-ho9jd2 ай бұрын
You don't need to check if the heights array is empty because in the constraints it mentions that you will always be given an array of size n where n>= 1.
@francaniilista Жыл бұрын
Thanks a ton, pal! Very clear explanation, I've tried to solve it, but I did not figure out alone before watching your video.
@shreyaschaudhary-r6d2 ай бұрын
just by listening to you explain the solution, I could code it up before you give us the code! Thank you
@Ahmad_Al-Deeb5 ай бұрын
You Are So Good At Explaining! Thanks!
@sanjarcode7 ай бұрын
There's no explanation for this: "We don't need to calculate right max for this instance", and then generalizing, i.e. we don't need it ever.
@rostyslavmochulskyi1596 ай бұрын
You take min of maxes, if you have 1 as maxL and 2 as maxR instead of 5, min(1,2)=min(1,5)=1 And you always shift the min pointer, so there won’t be maxL>1 in this case
@anjanaouseph46056 ай бұрын
@@rostyslavmochulskyi159i didn't understand by how can you ignore the max right. What if there exists a smaller value somewhere say 0 instead of 2 or 5 in the middle?
@phantomen3514 ай бұрын
@@anjanaouseph4605 It's kinda confusing but it makes total sense once you think it through. Remember, first of all, we only care about the max value. There *obviously* can't be a "max-value" on the right that is smaller than current right. Otherwise, it wouldn't be the max-value. So, the real max-right must be >= current right.
@jobprep8136 Жыл бұрын
You are amazing mate !!!! I cant thankyou enough. Crisp, easy and efficient solutions.
@shubhamjaiswal1325 Жыл бұрын
i am too dumb to come up with an optimal approach, unless I have sen such trick before
@TrangNguyen-hq6jq3 жыл бұрын
Hi NeetCode, thanks for your awesome explanation! I just have a question about the tools you've been using for creating these kinds of content. Do you mind sharing about it?
@vinaydeep262 жыл бұрын
Business band karayegi tu bro
@Terracraft3212 жыл бұрын
Paint 3D and a computer mouse
@deepanshugupta49012 жыл бұрын
The Best explanation video on KZbin
@cccccbgkv Жыл бұрын
Really beautifully explained! Thanks for these videos!
@JoseAntonio-sn6sf Жыл бұрын
there is a mistake in 12:03 because you need to update the actual maxL according to the code in the line of: maxL = max(maxL, height). Update of maxL is first executed then proceed with res, so the calculation of height in 14:03 is 1-1 = 0, because the maxL is updated to 1 not 0 as you put; however that doesn't change the good implementation of the algorithm :)
@nguyenquangthai6373 Жыл бұрын
I don't think so, we keep track of the max LEFT of a position, so we use the old one to calculate first, after that we change as you said
@royd-l2 жыл бұрын
Great solution explained simply! Now the real question is how to be this clever in the actual interview
@runeyman2 жыл бұрын
Your explanation is so good that I'm able to implement the solution without seeing the code! 😁
@shivrajnag123 жыл бұрын
Hi NeetCode I have one doubt while explaining you were computing the res and then computing maxL and maxR with height[l] and height[r] respectively but in code you are finding the maxL or maxR first and then computing the res. If we check maxL or maxR and height[l] and height[r] respectively then we will not get negative res but doing it afterwards yield wrong result. We need to compute maxL and maxR before finding the height of water that can be stored at a particular index. Am I right ?
@siqiliu32002 жыл бұрын
You are right! we should update the leftmax and rightmax before adding the area.
@keaindrakyaw50254 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great explanation. Really helpful
@swagatzeher3 жыл бұрын
So nicely explained ! Great job man
@matheusmenezes470211 ай бұрын
Great solution! Thank you, brother!
@yashpokar6 ай бұрын
It was a very difficult problem to solve until I watched this video. Keep the great work up!
@tiennguyenthuy75632 жыл бұрын
Very helpful. thank you. Keep up the inspiring work
@eidiazcas9 ай бұрын
I solved this using a stack for the heights on the left and calculating new volume while iterating the array, also O(N) solution, but I'd have never thought of the solutions you proposed here, very clever
@raviyadav25529 ай бұрын
this is super intuitive and easy thank you for the solution keep it up sir
@pinakadhara76502 жыл бұрын
This is one crazy problem. Thanks for this great video!
@vamsikrishnagannamaneni912 Жыл бұрын
Dude that trick to move space complexity from O(n) to O(1)
@David-hs3fu2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! This is the best presentation I've ever seen.
@chefi5357 Жыл бұрын
Just solved this problem with the O(1) solution and it took me 10 minutes to come up with. All thanks to NeetCode 150. I started Neetcode 150 about 4 days ago and it becomes more and more clear how good the order of this list is. If I didn't solve "Container With Most Water" (the prior problem on the list), coming up with the solution for this problem could easily have taken me 30+ minutes to come up with, if at all. This was my first hard difficulty question, feels so good to have solved it. Thank you so much!
@niyatikhandelwal7017Ай бұрын
Super clear, thank you!
@karanvirsagar19982 жыл бұрын
why do we are not directly take the difference between both arrays, instead of applying formulae "Min(L,R)-h[i]" for example: right = 3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4 left = 4,4,4,4,3,3,3,2 diff = 1,1,1,0,1,1,1,2 = 8 (answer)
@arkamukherjee4572 жыл бұрын
Damn, the solution makes it look like the question is an LC easy
@Haseebkhan-yd9ud Жыл бұрын
after your explaination iactually coded it myseld love you bro
@neelanshsharma27511 ай бұрын
Did a few changes and was able to get 0ms runtime in Java :) Thanks NeetCode ❤
@dorbie2 жыл бұрын
I was once asked to code this but in 2D (really 3D considering it's a height field). It's an interesting challenge adding that extra dimension. I forget which company asked this (wasn't Google).
@bostonlights2749 Жыл бұрын
was it samsung ?
@ehm-wg8pd2 ай бұрын
would it be just scan x z axis first then increment one y, reiterate?
@dorbie2 ай бұрын
@@ehm-wg8pd brute force is a simple iterative scan but of course you need to check adjacent height from filled squares as you scan, and terminate when you exceed the height at a boundary.
@mingjiesong50422 жыл бұрын
Great explanation! One bug in the code: the l increment and r decrement should be after finishing recalculating the leftMax and rightMax instead of before.
@aravindmeyyappan83682 жыл бұрын
No, at the start both maximumLeft and height[l] are same. So as the name maximumLeft suggests, it should hav value left of height[l].
@AnkitaNallana5 ай бұрын
Frankly, the two pointer optimization would never strike me. In an interview, I would jump straight to the 2D array and if they ask me to optimize on top of that, I'll go for 2 pointer. They shouldn't expect an interviewee to jump straight to 2 pointers!!
@allocator7520 Жыл бұрын
The O(1) solution is easiest understood if you imagine you only see what you have scanned from the pointers and building an image of the scenery progressively, imagine you are the computer and you are scanning the image from both left and right sides you know that the height of left is 1 and the height of right is 0 that means that you are looking at a slope starting from left to right and you cannot tell if there is any water in the next tile so what you do you shift right pointer you detect a height of 1 now the image that you see is sort of a long "lake" with height 1 and as the algorithm progresses you start drawing the image and the altitudes
@crosswalker452 жыл бұрын
amazing explantion..what an amazing brainstorming session
@Rahul-pr1zr3 жыл бұрын
Nice explanation. Why/How did you decide to increment the pointer with the smaller height?
@manasvegi41702 жыл бұрын
A little too late, but its because the amount of water you can trap is dependent on the minimum of the left and right pillar. So, by incrementing only the minimum each time, you do not have to compute the maxleft and maxright for each position thus enabling the O(1) memory solution
@danny657692 жыл бұрын
The second reason is that for each position, we want the max left boundary and max right boundary. We increment the pointer with the smaller height in hopes of finding a bigger left or right boundary. If we increment the pointer with bigger height instead, the bottleneck won't change. If we increment pointer with smaller height, there might be a chance to find a higher boundary.
@anjanaouseph46056 ай бұрын
@@danny65769but how can u ignore the max Right while finding min of maxL and maxR
@mortal_coder4869 Жыл бұрын
this was amazing, proud of your videos NC, keep up the good work.
@ralucaioan7609 Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, I love to learn from your videos!
@kirillkriachenko7705 Жыл бұрын
Hello, Thank you for your videos, they really helps in understanding how to solve the problem. Can you please make a video of how you coming up with the decision of which algorithm and or data structure to use for the problem? I mean what is the logic between the task being read and the approach is chosen? Like... is there any thoughts that should be applied to determine that between all amount of knowledge (heap, stack, queue, devide&concure, linked-list, etc.) I need to choose 2 pointers.
@AbhinavKumar-ri8zi2 жыл бұрын
watched atleast 10 videos on the same problem , yours explanation was the best and simplest . Thank you
@abhinavkumarr2 жыл бұрын
i double this
@AbhinavKumar-ri8zi2 жыл бұрын
@@abhinavkumarr damn another me !
@avadhpatel1119 ай бұрын
Great explanation. Thank you very much for this video.