Solution: Minimum Number of Platforms Required for TrainStation
Explore solutions to find the minimum number of platforms needed at a train station by analyzing train arrival and departure intervals. Understand the brute force method and optimize it using sorting and greedy techniques to improve efficiency from O(n^2) to O(n log n). This lesson helps you implement best practices for interval overlap problems in algorithmic coding challenges.
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Solution #1: Brute force
Explanation
The problem is to find the maximum number of trains that are at the given railway station at a time. An iterative solution would be to take every interval one by one and find the number of intervals that overlap with it (lines 8-12). Keep track of the maximum number of intervals that overlap, and then return the maximum value (lines 15-18).
Time complexity
Since this algorithm moves iteratively, the time complexity is ...