1257. Smallest Common Region 🔒

Description

You are given some lists of regions where the first region of each list directly contains all other regions in that list.

If a region x contains a region y directly, and region y contains region z directly, then region x is said to contain region z indirectly. Note that region x also indirectly contains all regions indirectly containd in y.

Naturally, if a region x contains (either directly or indirectly) another region y, then x is bigger than or equal to y in size. Also, by definition, a region x contains itself.

Given two regions: region1 and region2, return the smallest region that contains both of them.

It is guaranteed the smallest region exists.

Example 1:

Input:
regions = [["Earth","North America","South America"],
["North America","United States","Canada"],
["United States","New York","Boston"],
["Canada","Ontario","Quebec"],
["South America","Brazil"]],
region1 = "Quebec",
region2 = "New York"
Output: "North America"

Example 2:

Input: regions = [["Earth", "North America", "South America"],["North America", "United States", "Canada"],["United States", "New York", "Boston"],["Canada", "Ontario", "Quebec"],["South America", "Brazil"]], region1 = "Canada", region2 = "South America"
Output: "Earth"

Constraints:

2 <= regions.length <= 10⁴
2 <= regions[i].length <= 20
1 <= regions[i][j].length, region1.length, region2.length <= 20
region1 != region2
regions[i][j], region1, and region2 consist of English letters.
The input is generated such that there exists a region which contains all the other regions, either directly or indirectly.
A region cannot be directly contained in more than one region.

Solutions

Solution 1: Hash Table

We can use a hash table \(\textit{g}\) to store the parent region of each region. Then, starting from \(\textit{region1}\), we keep moving upwards to find all its parent regions until the root region, and store these regions in the set \(\textit{s}\). Next, starting from \(\textit{region2}\), we keep moving upwards to find the first region that is in the set \(\textit{s}\), which is the smallest common region.

The time complexity is \(O(n)\), and the space complexity is \(O(n)\). Where \(n\) is the length of the region list \(\textit{regions}\).

Python3JavaC++GoTypeScriptRust

class Solution:
    def findSmallestRegion(
        self, regions: List[List[str]], region1: str, region2: str
    ) -> str:
        g = {}
        for r in regions:
            x = r[0]
            for y in r[1:]:
                g[y] = x
        s = set()
        x = region1
        while x in g:
            s.add(x)
            x = g[x]
        x = region2
        while x in g and x not in s:
            x = g[x]
        return x

class Solution {
    public String findSmallestRegion(List<List<String>> regions, String region1, String region2) {
        Map<String, String> g = new HashMap<>();
        for (var r : regions) {
            String x = r.get(0);
            for (String y : r.subList(1, r.size())) {
                g.put(y, x);
            }
        }
        Set<String> s = new HashSet<>();
        for (String x = region1; x != null; x = g.get(x)) {
            s.add(x);
        }
        String x = region2;
        while (g.get(x) != null && !s.contains(x)) {
            x = g.get(x);
        }
        return x;
    }
}

class Solution {
public:
    string findSmallestRegion(vector<vector<string>>& regions, string region1, string region2) {
        unordered_map<string, string> g;
        for (const auto& r : regions) {
            string x = r[0];
            for (size_t i = 1; i < r.size(); ++i) {
                g[r[i]] = x;
            }
        }
        unordered_set<string> s;
        for (string x = region1; !x.empty(); x = g[x]) {
            s.insert(x);
        }
        string x = region2;
        while (!g[x].empty() && s.find(x) == s.end()) {
            x = g[x];
        }
        return x;
    }
};

func findSmallestRegion(regions [][]string, region1 string, region2 string) string {
    g := make(map[string]string)

    for _, r := range regions {
        x := r[0]
        for _, y := range r[1:] {
            g[y] = x
        }
    }

    s := make(map[string]bool)
    for x := region1; x != ""; x = g[x] {
        s[x] = true
    }

    x := region2
    for g[x] != "" && !s[x] {
        x = g[x]
    }

    return x
}

function findSmallestRegion(regions: string[][], region1: string, region2: string): string {
    const g: Record<string, string> = {};

    for (const r of regions) {
        const x = r[0];
        for (const y of r.slice(1)) {
            g[y] = x;
        }
    }

    const s: Set<string> = new Set();
    for (let x: string = region1; x !== undefined; x = g[x]) {
        s.add(x);
    }

    let x: string = region2;
    while (g[x] !== undefined && !s.has(x)) {
        x = g[x];
    }

    return x;
}

use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};

impl Solution {
    pub fn find_smallest_region(regions: Vec<Vec<String>>, region1: String, region2: String) -> String {
        let mut g: HashMap<String, String> = HashMap::new();

        for r in &regions {
            let x = &r[0];
            for y in &r[1..] {
                g.insert(y.clone(), x.clone());
            }
        }

        let mut s: HashSet<String> = HashSet::new();
        let mut x = Some(region1);
        while let Some(region) = x {
            s.insert(region.clone());
            x = g.get(&region).cloned();
        }

        let mut x = Some(region2);
        while let Some(region) = x {
            if s.contains(&region) {
                return region;
            }
            x = g.get(&region).cloned();
        }

        String::new()
    }
}

1257. Smallest Common Region 🔒

Description

Solutions

Solution 1: Hash Table

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