- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Two Pointers, String, leetcode-481, O(n)
Problem
A magical string s
consists of only '1'
and '2'
and obeys the following rules:
- The string s is magical because concatenating the number of contiguous occurrences of characters
'1'
and'2'
generates the strings
itself.
The first few elements of s
is s = "1221121221221121122……"
. If we group the consecutive 1
's and 2
's in s
, it will be "1 22 11 2 1 22 1 22 11 2 11 22 ......"
and the occurrences of 1
's or 2
's in each group are "1 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 ......"
. You can see that the occurrence sequence is s
itself.
Given an integer n
, return the number of 1
's in the first n
number in the magical string s
.
Example 1:
Input: n = 6 Output: 3 Explanation: The first 6 elements of magical string s is "122112" and it contains three 1's, so return 3.
Example 2:
Input: n = 1 Output: 1
Constraints:
1 <= n <= 105