2 posts tagged with "Greedy"

from collections import Counter


class Solution:
    def minDeletions(self, s: str) -> int:
        result = 0
        used: set[int] = set()
        for c in Counter(s).values():
            while c and c in used:
                result += 1
                c -= 1
            used.add(c)
        return result

class Solution:
    def maxArea(self, height: list[int]) -> int:
        result = 0
        l, r = 0, len(height) - 1
        while l != r:
            result = max(result, min(height[l], height[r]) * (r - l))
            if height[l] < height[r]:
                l += 1
            else:
                r -= 1
        return result