一、题目

There are N gas stations along a circular route, where the amount of gas at station i is gas[i].

You have a car with an unlimited gas tank and it costs cost[i] of gas to travel from station i to its next station (i+1). You begin the journey with an empty tank at one of the gas stations.

Return the starting gas station’s index if you can travel around the circuit once, otherwise return -1.

Note: The solution is guaranteed to be unique.

在一条环路上有 N 个加油站,其中第 i 个加油站有汽油gas[i],并且从第i个加油站前往第i+1个加油站需要消耗汽油cost[i]

你有一辆油箱容量无限大的汽车,现在要从某一个加油站出发绕环路一周,一开始油箱为空。

求可环绕环路一周时出发的加油站的编号,若不存在环绕一周的方案,则返回-1

二、解题思路

首先我们可以得到所有油站的油量totalGas,以及总里程需要消耗的油量totalCost,如果totalCost大于totalGas,那么铁定不能够走完整个里程。

如果totalGas大于totalCost了,那么就能走完整个里程了,假设现在我们到达了第i个油站,这时候还剩余的油量为sum,如果 sum + gas[i] - cost[i]小于0,我们无法走到下一个油站,所以起点一定不在第i个以及之前的油站里面(都铁定走不到第i + 1号油站),起点只能在i + 1后者后面。

三、解题代码

  1. public class Solution {
  2. public int canCompleteCircuit(int[] gas, int[] cost) {
  3. if (gas == null || cost == null || gas.length == 0 || cost.length == 0) {
  4. return -1;
  5. }
  6. int sum = 0;
  7. int total = 0;
  8. int index = -1;
  9. for(int i = 0; i<gas.length; i++) {
  10. sum += gas[i] - cost[i];
  11. total += gas[i] - cost[i];
  12. if(sum < 0) {
  13. index = i;
  14. sum = 0;
  15. }
  16. }
  17. return total < 0 ? -1 : index + 1;
  18. // index should be updated here for cases ([5], [4]);
  19. // total < 0 is for case [2], [2]
  20. }
  21. }