crossnokaye-2025-10-28/literally_five_more_minutes...

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// Given two sorted arrays nums1 and nums2 of size m and n respectively, return the median of the two sorted arrays.
// Input: nums1 = [1,3], nums2 = [2]
// Output: 2.00000
// Explanation: merged array = [1,2,3] and median is 2.
// Input: nums1 = [1,2], nums2 = [3,4]
// Output: 2.50000
// Explanation: merged array = [1,2,3,4] and median is (2 + 3) / 2 = 2.5.
package main
import "log"
func main() {
log.Println("CASE A SHOULD BE 2:", medianOfArrays(
[]int{1, 3},
[]int{2},
))
log.Println("CASE B SHOULD BE 2.5:", medianOfArrays(
[]int{1, 2},
[]int{3, 4},
))
}
func medianOfArrays(a, b []int) float64 {
valueCount := len(a) + len(b)
mustGetAverage := (valueCount%2 == 0)
needToSkip := valueCount / 2
if !mustGetAverage {
needToSkip += 1
}
needToSkip -= 1
skippedA, skippedB := 0, 0
for needToSkip > skippedA+skippedB {
log.Println(needToSkip, skippedA, skippedB)
aExhausted := skippedA >= len(a)
bExhausted := skippedB >= len(b)
if aExhausted || b[skippedB] < a[skippedA] {
skippedB += 1
} else if bExhausted || a[skippedA] < b[skippedB] {
skippedA += 1
} else if !aExhausted && !bExhausted {
skippedA += 1 // [1, 2, 3] vs [2, 2, 2]
}
}
if mustGetAverage {
log.Println("need to avg lowest of", a[skippedA:], b[skippedB:])
fromA, lowest := getLowestOfArrays(a[skippedA:], b[skippedB:])
log.Println("got", fromA, lowest)
if fromA {
skippedA += 1
} else {
skippedB += 1
}
log.Println("'need to avg lowest of", a[skippedA:], b[skippedB:])
_, secondLowest := getLowestOfArrays(a[skippedA:], b[skippedB:])
log.Println("avg(", lowest, secondLowest)
return (float64(lowest) + float64(secondLowest)) / 2
}
_, lowest := getLowestOfArrays(a[skippedA:], b[skippedB:])
return float64(lowest)
}
func getLowestOfArrays(a, b []int) (fromA bool, lowest int) {
if len(a) == 0 {
return false, b[0]
}
if len(b) == 0 {
return true, a[0]
}
if a[0] < b[0] {
return true, a[0]
}
return false, b[0]
}