1673. Find the Most Competitive Subsequence ¶
Problem
Given an integer array nums
and a positive integer k
, return the most competitive subsequence of nums
of size k
.
An array's subsequence is a resulting sequence obtained by erasing some (possibly zero) elements from the array.
We define that a subsequence a
is more competitive than a subsequence b
(of the same length) if in the first position where a
and b
differ, subsequence a
has a number less than the corresponding number in b
. For example, [1,3,4]
is more competitive than [1,3,5]
because the first position they differ is at the final number, and 4
is less than 5
.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [3,5,2,6], k = 2 Output: [2,6] Explanation: Among the set of every possible subsequence: {[3,5], [3,2], [3,6], [5,2], [5,6], [2,6]}, [2,6] is the most competitive.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [2,4,3,3,5,4,9,6], k = 4 Output: [2,3,3,4]
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 105
0 <= nums[i] <= 109
1 <= k <= nums.length