I need to find the maximum slice of the array which contains no more than two different numbers.
Here is my array [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 1, 8]
My thought process on this is to find the numbers that are not repeated and return their index within a new array.
Here is what I have so far:
function goThroughInteger(number) {
var array = [];
//iterate the array and check if number is not repeated
number.filter(function (element, index, number) {
if(element != number[index-1] && element != number[index+1]) {
array.push(index);
return element;
}
})
console.log(array);
}
goThroughInteger([1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 1, 8]);
I'm unsure where to go next, I'm struggling to understand the question that being - find the maximum slice which contains no more than two different numbers - that confuses me.
A solution with a single loop, which checks the last values and increments a counter.
function getLongestSlice(array) {
var count = 0,
max = 0,
temp = [];
array.forEach(function (a) {
var last = temp[temp.length - 1];
if (temp.length < 2 || temp[0].value === a || temp[1].value === a) {
++count;
} else {
count = last.count + 1;
}
if (last && last.value === a) {
last.count++;
} else {
temp.push({ value: a, count: 1 });
temp = temp.slice(-2);
}
if (count > max) {
max = count;
}
});
return max;
}
console.log(getLongestSlice([58, 800, 0, 0, 0, 356, 8988, 1, 1])); // 4
console.log(getLongestSlice([58, 800, 0, 0, 0, 356, 356, 8988, 1, 1])); // 5
console.log(getLongestSlice([1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 1, 8])); // 10
function goThroughInteger(array) {
var solutionArray = [];
var max = 0;
for (var i = 0; i <= array.length; i++) {
for (var j = i + 1; j <= array.length; j++) {
var currentSlice= array.slice(i,j);
var uniqSet = [...new Set(currentSlice)];
if(uniqSet.length <3) {
if(currentSlice.length>max) {
max= currentSlice.length;
}
}
}
}
console.log(max);
}
goThroughInteger([1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 1, 8]);
This solution checks every possible slice of the array, checks if it has not more than 2 different numbers and finally prints out the length of the longest slice.
This is a possible solution, with complexity O(n²) (as pointed out by @le_m in the comments)
goThroughInteger = (list) => {
let scores = list.reduce((slices, num, pos) => {
let valid = [num];
let count = 0;
for (let i = pos; i < list.length; i++) {
if (valid.indexOf(list[i]) == -1) {
if (valid.length < 2) {
valid.push(list[i]);
count++;
} else {
break;
}
} else {
count++;
}
}
slices[pos] = { pos, count };
return slices;
}, []);
scores.sort((a, b) => b.count - a.count);
let max = scores[0];
return list.slice(max.pos, max.pos + max.count);
};
console.log(goThroughInteger([1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 1, 8]));
console.log(goThroughInteger([58, 800, 0, 0, 0, 356, 8988, 1, 1]));
```
The solution calculates the 'score' at every position of the input list, counting the length of a sequence of no more than 2 different values, then takes the result with the highest score and extracts a slice from the original list based on that information.
It can definitely be cleaned and optimized but I think it's a good starting point.