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2601. Prime Subtraction Operation

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Problem Statement

2601. Prime Subtraction Operation

Medium


You are given a 0-indexed integer array nums of length n.

You can perform the following operation as many times as you want:

Return true if you can make nums a strictly increasing array using the above operation and false otherwise.

A strictly increasing array is an array whose each element is strictly greater than its preceding element.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [4,9,6,10]
Output: true
Explanation: In the first operation: Pick i = 0 and p = 3, and then subtract 3 from nums[0], so that nums becomes [1,9,6,10].
In the second operation: i = 1, p = 7, subtract 7 from nums[1], so nums becomes equal to [1,2,6,10].
After the second operation, nums is sorted in strictly increasing order, so the answer is true.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [6,8,11,12]
Output: true
Explanation: Initially nums is sorted in strictly increasing order, so we don't need to make any operations.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [5,8,3]
Output: false
Explanation: It can be proven that there is no way to perform operations to make nums sorted in strictly increasing order, so the answer is false.

 

Constraints:

Java

Source file
class Solution {
    public boolean primeSubOperation(int[] nums) {
        int n = nums.length;
        boolean[] primes = sieveOfEratosthenes(nums);
        // System.out.println(Arrays.toString(primes));
        int currVal = 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; currVal++) {
            int diff = nums[i] - currVal;
            if (diff < 0)
                return false;
            if (primes[diff] || diff == 0) {
                i++;
            // System.out.println(Arrays.toString(nums));
        }
        return true;
    }

    private boolean[] sieveOfEratosthenes(int[] nums) {
        int n = nums.length, ceil = 0;
        for (int i : nums)
            ceil = Math.max(ceil, i);
        boolean primes[] = new boolean[ceil + 1];
        Arrays.fill(primes, true);
        primes[0] = false;
        primes[1] = false;
        for (int curr = 2; curr <= ceil; curr++)
            if (primes[curr])
                for (int multiple = curr * curr; multiple <= ceil; multiple += curr)
                    primes[multiple] = false;
        return primes;
    }
}