[2018-09-30] [LeetCode-Week4] 765. Couples Holding Hands 贪心

https://leetcode.com/problems/couples-holding-hands/description/

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N couples sit in 2N seats arranged in a row and want to hold hands. We want to know the minimum number of swaps so that every couple is sitting side by side. A swap consists of choosing any two people, then they stand up and switch seats.

The people and seats are represented by an integer from 0 to 2N-1, the couples are numbered in order, the first couple being (0, 1), the second couple being (2, 3), and so on with the last couple being (2N-2, 2N-1).

The couples' initial seating is given by row[i] being the value of the person who is initially sitting in the i-th seat.

Example 1:

Input: row = [0, 2, 1, 3]
Output: 1
Explanation: We only need to swap the second (row[1]) and third (row[2]) person.
Example 2:

Input: row = [3, 2, 0, 1]
Output: 0
Explanation: All couples are already seated side by side.
Note:

len(row) is even and in the range of [4, 60].
row is guaranteed to be a permutation of 0...len(row)-1.

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思路：

1. 要求最小交换次数，感觉是个贪心，尝试证明。
2. 每次交换存在两种情况：
   a. 两组间交换后同时满足配对。
   b.两组间交换后只有一组满足配对。
3. 显然每次优先处理 a 情况的配对组。
4. 对于 b 情况，发现如果将每相邻的两个人组成一个节点，存在交换需求的两点间连上一条线，此时所有的节点一定形成了一条链。每次交换能使得两点间连线消去。很明显此时不管先消去哪条线，最后都需要 n-1次交换。
5. 结合 a 情况，此时属于 a 情况的点是自动形成环，不会影响后续交换，贪心交换成立。
6. 综上：贪心策略为每碰到一个不配对的相邻两人，贪心地从后面找一个能满足此配对的交换，记录总次数即可

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class Solution {
public:
    bool isCouple(int a, int b) {
        return a/2 == b/2;
    }
    
    int ans = 0;
    
    int minSwapsCouples(vector& row) {
        int n = row.size();
        
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i = i + 2) {
            if (!isCouple(row[i], row[i + 1])) {
                int u = i + 1;
                for (int v = u + 1; v < n; v++) {
                    if (isCouple(row[i], row[v])) {
                        int t = row[u];
                        row[u] = row[v];
                        row[v] = t;
                        
                        ans++;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        
        return ans;
    }
};