- Difficulty: Hard
- Tags: LeetCode, Hard, Array, Binary Search, leetcode-774, O(nlogr), O(1)
Problem
You are given an integer array stations that represents the positions of the gas stations on the x-axis. You are also given an integer k.
You should add k new gas stations. You can add the stations anywhere on the x-axis, and not necessarily on an integer position.
Let penalty() be the maximum distance between adjacent gas stations after adding the k new stations.
Return the smallest possible value of penalty(). Answers within 10-6 of the actual answer will be accepted.
Example 1:
Input: stations = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10], k = 9 Output: 0.50000
Example 2:
Input: stations = [23,24,36,39,46,56,57,65,84,98], k = 1 Output: 14.00000
Constraints:
10 <= stations.length <= 20000 <= stations[i] <= 108stationsis sorted in a strictly increasing order.1 <= k <= 106