Leetcode - How Many Numbers Are Smaller Than the Current Number Solution
Given the array nums
, for each nums[i]
find out how many numbers in the array are smaller than it. That is, for each nums[i]
you have to count the number of valid j's
such that j != i
and nums[j] < nums[i]
.
Return the answer in an array.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [8,1,2,2,3]
Output: [4,0,1,1,3]
Explanation:
For nums[0]=8 there exist four smaller numbers than it (1, 2, 2 and 3).
For nums[1]=1 does not exist any smaller number than it.
For nums[2]=2 there exist one smaller number than it (1).
For nums[3]=2 there exist one smaller number than it (1).
For nums[4]=3 there exist three smaller numbers than it (1, 2 and 2).
Example 2:
Input: nums = [6,5,4,8]
Output: [2,1,0,3]
Example 3:
Input: nums = [7,7,7,7]
Output: [0,0,0,0]
Constraints:
2 <= nums.length <= 500
0 <= nums[i] <= 100
Solution in Python
from collections import Counter
class Solution:
def smallerNumbersThanCurrent(self, nums: List[int]) -> List[int]:
counts = Counter(nums)
smaller_nums = []
total = 0
for x,y in sorted(counts.items()):
total += y
smaller_nums.append((x,total-y))
smaller_nums = dict(smaller_nums)
return [smaller_nums[i] for i in nums]