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Problem: Maximum Frequency Stack

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40 min
Explore how to build a stack-like data structure that prioritizes popping elements with the highest frequency. Understand the use of frequency tracking and tie-breaking by recent insertion, essential for solving complex problems like permutations, anagrams, and game design. This lesson guides you through designing, pushing, and popping operations to efficiently handle frequency-based constraints in coding interviews.

Statement

Design a stack-like data structure. You should be able to push elements to this data structure and pop elements with maximum frequency.

You’ll need to implement the FreqStack class that should consist of the following:

  • Init(): This is a constructor used to declare a frequency stack.

  • Push(value): This is used to push an integer data onto the top of the stack.

  • Pop(): This is used to remove and return the most frequent element in the stack.

Note: If there is a tie for the most frequent element, then the most recently pushed element is removed and returned.

Constraints:

  • 00 \leq value 104\leq 10^4

  • At most, 2×1032 \times 10^3 calls will be made to Push() and Pop().

  • It is guaranteed that there will be at least one element in the stack before calling Pop().

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Problem: Maximum Frequency Stack

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40 min
Explore how to build a stack-like data structure that prioritizes popping elements with the highest frequency. Understand the use of frequency tracking and tie-breaking by recent insertion, essential for solving complex problems like permutations, anagrams, and game design. This lesson guides you through designing, pushing, and popping operations to efficiently handle frequency-based constraints in coding interviews.

Statement

Design a stack-like data structure. You should be able to push elements to this data structure and pop elements with maximum frequency.

You’ll need to implement the FreqStack class that should consist of the following:

  • Init(): This is a constructor used to declare a frequency stack.

  • Push(value): This is used to push an integer data onto the top of the stack.

  • Pop(): This is used to remove and return the most frequent element in the stack.

Note: If there is a tie for the most frequent element, then the most recently pushed element is removed and returned.

Constraints:

  • 00 \leq value 104\leq 10^4

  • At most, 2×1032 \times 10^3 calls will be made to Push() and Pop().

  • It is guaranteed that there will be at least one element in the stack before calling Pop().