220. Contains Duplicate III

Hard
Array
Sliding Window
Sorting
Bucket Sort
Ordered Set

Description

You are given an integer array nums and two integers indexDiff and valueDiff.

Find a pair of indices (i, j) such that:

  • i != j,
  • abs(i - j) <= indexDiff.
  • abs(nums[i] - nums[j]) <= valueDiff, and

Return true if such pair exists or false otherwise.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,1], indexDiff = 3, valueDiff = 0
Output: true
Explanation: We can choose (i, j) = (0, 3).
We satisfy the three conditions:
i != j --> 0 != 3
abs(i - j) <= indexDiff --> abs(0 - 3) <= 3
abs(nums[i] - nums[j]) <= valueDiff --> abs(1 - 1) <= 0

Example 2:

Input: nums = [1,5,9,1,5,9], indexDiff = 2, valueDiff = 3
Output: false
Explanation: After trying all the possible pairs (i, j), we cannot satisfy the three conditions, so we return false.

 

Constraints:

  • 2 <= nums.length <= 105
  • -109 <= nums[i] <= 109
  • 1 <= indexDiff <= nums.length
  • 0 <= valueDiff <= 109

Hints

Hint 1
Time complexity O(n logk) - This will give an indication that sorting is involved for k elements.
Hint 2
Use already existing state to evaluate next state - Like, a set of k sorted numbers are only needed to be tracked. When we are processing the next number in array, then we can utilize the existing sorted state and it is not necessary to sort next overlapping set of k numbers again.

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