277. Find the Celebrity
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Suppose you are at a party with n
people (labeled from 0
to n - 1
) and among them, there may exist one celebrity. The definition of a celebrity is that all the other n - 1
people know him/her but he/she does not know any of them.
Now you want to find out who the celebrity is or verify that there is not one. The only thing you are allowed to do is to ask questions like: "Hi, A. Do you know B?" to get information of whether A knows B. You need to find out the celebrity (or verify there is not one) by asking as few questions as possible (in the asymptotic sense).
You are given a helper function bool knows(a, b)
which tells you whether A knows B. Implement a function int findCelebrity(n)
. There will be exactly one celebrity if he/she is in the party. Return the celebrity's label if there is a celebrity in the party. If there is no celebrity, return -1
.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Note:
The directed graph is represented as an adjacency matrix, which is an n x n
matrix where a[i][j] = 1
means person i
knows person j
while a[i][j] = 0
means the contrary.
Remember that you won't have direct access to the adjacency matrix.
先遍历找出貌似是名人的人(大家都认识的对象)。再遍历,检测此“名人”是否认识其他人或是不被其他人认识,这种情况return -1。其余返回这个人。