Help needed for https://cses.fi/problemset/task/1163 Traffic Lights

Revision en4, by pranshukas, 2020-08-14 11:00:02

I need help with this Problem Traffic Lights. CSES Problem Set under Sorting and Searching. I thought of an approach that

  1. create a set add elements at every step,

  2. Traverse the set and take the difference and take the maximum out of it.

  3. display maximum at every step.

But I think this is a very naive approach and Time Complexity would be O(n^2) and n can be up to 10^5, so most of my Test Cases are giving TLE.

I am not able to think of another approach. Can Anyone give me a hint, how should I approach it.

Tags #sorting, c++ 11, #cses, #binary search

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