Solution: The Number of the Smallest Unoccupied Chair
Explore how to solve the problem of assigning the smallest available chair to arriving friends using min heaps. Learn to efficiently manage occupied and free chairs by sorting arrivals and using two priority queues. This lesson helps you implement a time-efficient solution with O(n log n) complexity, essential for handling dynamic scheduling problems in coding interviews.
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At a party,
For example, if chairs