The Earliest Moment When Everyone Become Friends

Problem

There are n people in a social group labeled from 0 to n - 1. You are given an array logs where logs[i] = [timestampi, xi, yi] indicates that xi and yi will be friends at the time timestampi.

Friendship is symmetric. That means if a is friends with b, then b is friends with a. Also, person a is acquainted with a person b if a is friends with b, or a is a friend of someone acquainted with b.

Return the earliest time for which every person became acquainted with every other person. If there is no such earliest time, return -1.

Example 1:

Input: logs = [[20190101,0,1],[20190104,3,4],[20190107,2,3],[20190211,1,5],[20190224,2,4],[20190301,0,3],[20190312,1,2],[20190322,4,5]], n = 6
Output: 20190301
Explanation:
The first event occurs at timestamp = 20190101, and after 0 and 1 become friends, we have the following friendship groups [0,1], [2], [3], [4], [5].
The second event occurs at timestamp = 20190104, and after 3 and 4 become friends, we have the following friendship groups [0,1], [2], [3,4], [5].
The third event occurs at timestamp = 20190107, and after 2 and 3 become friends, we have the following friendship groups [0,1], [2,3,4], [5].
The fourth event occurs at timestamp = 20190211, and after 1 and 5 become friends, we have the following friendship groups [0,1,5], [2,3,4].
The fifth event occurs at timestamp = 20190224, and as 2 and 4 are already friends, nothing happens.
The sixth event occurs at timestamp = 20190301, and after 0 and 3 become friends, we all become friends.

Example 2:

Input: logs = [[0,2,0],[1,0,1],[3,0,3],[4,1,2],[7,3,1]], n = 4
Output: 3
Explanation: At timestamp = 3, all the persons (i.e., 0, 1, 2, and 3) become friends.

Constraints:

  • 2 <= n <= 100
  • 1 <= logs.length <= 104
  • logs[i].length == 3
  • 0 <= timestampi <= 109
  • 0 <= xi, yi <= n - 1
  • xi != yi
  • All the values timestampi are unique.
  • All the pairs (xi, yi) occur at most one time in the input.

Solution

The most wholesome LeetCode problem.

class Solution {
    int[] root;
    int[] rank;

    public int earliestAcq(int[][] logs, int n) {
        root = new int[n];
        rank = new int[n];

        Arrays.sort(logs, (l, r) -> Integer.compare(l[0], r[0]));

        for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            root[i] = i;
            rank[i] = 1;
        }

        var time = 0;

        for (var l : logs) {
            union(l[1], l[2]);
            time = l[0];

            var ok = true;
            for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) {
                if (find(i) != find(i - 1)) {
                    ok = false;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (ok) {
                return time;
            }
        }

        return -1;
    }

    int find(int x) {
        if (root[x] != x) {
            root[x] = find(root[x]);
        }

        return root[x];
    }

    void union(int x, int y) {
        var rootX = find(x);
        var rootY = find(y);

        if (rank[rootX] > rank[rootY]) {
            rootX ^= rootY;
            rootY ^= rootX;
            rootX ^= rootY;
        }

        root[rootX] = rootY;
        rank[rootY] += rank[rootX];
    }
}

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