K Closest Points to Origin

Posted by Leetcode Solution on May 30, 2020

We have a list of points on the plane. Find the K closest points to the origin (0, 0).

(Here, the distance between two points on a plane is the Euclidean distance.)

You may return the answer in any order. The answer is guaranteed to be unique (except for the order that it is in.)

Example 1:

Input: points = [[1,3],[-2,2]], K = 1
Output: [[-2,2]]
Explanation: 
The distance between (1, 3) and the origin is sqrt(10).
The distance between (-2, 2) and the origin is sqrt(8).
Since sqrt(8) < sqrt(10), (-2, 2) is closer to the origin.
We only want the closest K = 1 points from the origin, so the answer is just [[-2,2]].

Example 2:

Input: points = [[3,3],[5,-1],[-2,4]], K = 2
Output: [[3,3],[-2,4]]
(The answer [[-2,4],[3,3]] would also be accepted.)

Solution

这个题的思路就是计算每个点的平方和,然后按从小到大排列,取出前个数。我们用优先队列来实现。

Python中的heapq

import heapq
class Solution:
    def kClosest(self, points: List[List[int]], K: int) -> List[List[int]]:
        q=[]
        for x, y in points:
            t = (-x*x-y*y,x,y)
            if len(q)<K:
                heapq.heappush(q,t)
            else:
                heapq.heappushpop(q,t)
        res =[]
        for _,x,y in q:
            res.append([x,y])
        return res

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