Problem

You are given an integer array nums of even length. You have to split the array into two parts nums1 and nums2 such that:

  • nums1.length == nums2.length == nums.length / 2.
  • nums1 should contain distinct elements.
  • nums2 should also contain distinct elements.

Return true if it is possible to split the array, and false otherwise.

https://leetcode.cn/problems/split-the-array/

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,1,2,2,3,4]
Output: true
Explanation: One of the possible ways to split nums is nums1 = [1,2,3] and nums2 = [1,2,4].

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,1,1,1]
Output: false
Explanation: The only possible way to split nums is nums1 = [1,1] and nums2 = [1,1]. Both nums1 and nums2 do not contain distinct elements. Therefore, we return false.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 100
  • nums.length % 2 == 0
  • 1 <= nums[i] <= 100

Test Cases

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class Solution:
def isPossibleToSplit(self, nums: List[int]) -> bool:
solution_test.py
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import pytest

from solution import Solution


@pytest.mark.parametrize('nums, expected', [
([1,1,2,2,3,4], True),
([1,1,1,1], False),
])
@pytest.mark.parametrize('sol', [Solution()])
def test_solution(sol, nums, expected):
assert sol.isPossibleToSplit(nums) == expected

Thoughts

扫描数组,用字典记录每一个数字的次数,如果任何一个数字的次数超过 2 就返回 false。

可以用 Python 自带的 collections.Counter。但如果自己写循环处理,有可能更早地发现无法拆分,能节省一些时间。

Code

solution.py
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from collections import defaultdict


class Solution:
def isPossibleToSplit(self, nums: list[int]) -> bool:
occurs: dict[int, int] = defaultdict(int) # {num, freq}
for num in nums:
occurs[num] += 1
if occurs[num] > 2:
return False

return True