740. Delete and Earn

Medium


You are given an integer array nums. You want to maximize the number of points you get by performing the following operation any number of times:

  • Pick any nums[i] and delete it to earn nums[i] points. Afterwards, you must delete every element equal to nums[i] - 1 and every element equal to nums[i] + 1.

Return the maximum number of points you can earn by applying the above operation some number of times.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [3,4,2]
Output: 6
Explanation: You can perform the following operations:
- Delete 4 to earn 4 points. Consequently, 3 is also deleted. nums = [2].
- Delete 2 to earn 2 points. nums = [].
You earn a total of 6 points.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,2,3,3,3,4]
Output: 9
Explanation: You can perform the following operations:
- Delete a 3 to earn 3 points. All 2's and 4's are also deleted. nums = [3,3].
- Delete a 3 again to earn 3 points. nums = [3].
- Delete a 3 once more to earn 3 points. nums = [].
You earn a total of 9 points.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 2 * 104
  • 1 <= nums[i] <= 104




 class Solution:
    def deleteAndEarn(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
        count = Counter(nums)
        num = sorted(set(nums))


        num1 = 0
        num2 = 0

        for i, n in enumerate(num):
            currentEarn = n*count[n]

            if n > 0 and n == num[i-1]+1:
                temp = max(num2, num1+currentEarn)
                num1 = num2
                num2 = temp

            else:
                temp = num2+currentEarn
                num1 = num2
                num2 = temp

        return num2

Random Note


From python 3.7 dict guarantees that order will be kept as they inserted, and popitem will use LIFO order but we need FIFO type system. so we need OrderedDict which have popIten(last = T/F) for this req. One thing, next(iter(dict)) will return the first key of the dict