Find the Town Judge

Posted by Leetcode Solution on May 10, 2020

In a town, there are N people labelled from 1 to N. There is a rumor that one of these people is secretly the town judge.

If the town judge exists, then:

  1. The town judge trusts nobody.
  2. Everybody (except for the town judge) trusts the town judge.
  3. There is exactly one person that satisfies properties 1 and 2.

You are given trust, an array of pairs trust[i] = [a, b] representing that the person labelled a trusts the person labelled b.

If the town judge exists and can be identified, return the label of the town judge. Otherwise, return -1.

Example 1:

Input: N = 2, trust = [[1,2]]
Output: 2

Example 2:

Input: N = 3, trust = [[1,3],[2,3]]
Output: 3

Example 3:

Input: N = 3, trust = [[1,3],[2,3],[3,1]]
Output: -1

Example 4:

Input: N = 3, trust = [[1,2],[2,3]]
Output: -1

Example 5:

Input: N = 4, trust = [[1,3],[1,4],[2,3],[2,4],[4,3]]
Output: 3

Solution

根据题意,作为一个法官,如果有N个人,那么必须要有N-1个人信任他,也就是在trust列表的第二个元素个数要等于N-1,而且,他不相信任何人,也就是说他不会出现在trust列表的第一个元素上。用个图形来表示,下图中1,2,4都信任3,而3不信任任何人,也就是入度-出度= N-1

class Solution:
    def findJudge(self, N: int, trust: List[List[int]]) -> int:
        ct= [0] * (N+1)
        for x, y in trust:
            ct[x] -=1
            ct[y] +=1
        for i in range(1,N+1):
            if ct[i] ==N-1:
                return i
        return -1

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