Sunday, 28 August 2016

Range Sum Query - Immutable

Given an integer array nums, find the sum of the elements between indices i and j (i ≤ j), inclusive.
Example:
Given nums = [-2, 0, 3, -5, 2, -1]

sumRange(0, 2) -> 1
sumRange(2, 5) -> -1
sumRange(0, 5) -> -3
Note:
  1. You may assume that the array does not change.
  2. There are many calls to sumRange function.
Approach: Compute the sum till all the ith index in the array for all  0 <= i < n. Use this precomputed values to return the sum.


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class NumArray {
public:
    vector<int> array;
    vector<int> sum;
    NumArray(vector<int> &nums) {
        for(int i = 0 ; i < nums.size(); i++){
            array.push_back(nums[i]);
        }
        //preProcess after the vector is initialized
        preProcess();
    }
    
    //preProcess to store the sum till all i in a vector since the function is called many times
    void preProcess(){
        sum.push_back(0);
        for(int i = 1; i <= array.size(); i++){
            sum.push_back(sum[i - 1] + array[i - 1]);
        }
    }

    int sumRange(int i, int j) {
        //return sum directly from the calculated sums
        int res = sum[j + 1] - sum[i];
        return res;
    }
};


// Your NumArray object will be instantiated and called as such:
// NumArray numArray(nums);
// numArray.sumRange(0, 1);
// numArray.sumRange(1, 2);
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2 comments:

  1. I did it this way
    #include
    using namespace std;

    Int main ()
    { int i,j;
    int are[10]={6,9,7,4,3,2,9,5,3,5};

    int sum =0;

    cout< "enter range i and j";
    cin>>i;
    con>>j;
    for(int a =i-1;a<j;a++)
    { sum = sum + art[a];}
    cout<<sum<<endl;
    return 0;
    }

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    1. Hi Mr. Ashutosh,

      Your solution will work but it is mentioned that there are many calls to the same function so that gives us a clue that we need to preprocess and store the result so that we can do it in O(1) time excluding the preprocessing.

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