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We are given hours
, a list of the number of hours worked per day for a given employee.
A day is considered to be a tiring day if and only if the number of hours worked is (strictly) greater than 8
.
A well-performing interval is an interval of days for which the number of tiring days is strictly larger than the number of non-tiring days.
Return the length of the longest well-performing interval.
Example 1:
Input: hours = [9,9,6,0,6,6,9]
Output: 3
Explanation: The longest well-performing interval is [9,9,6].
Constraints:
1 <= hours.length <= 10000
0 <= hours[i] <= 16
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Hints
Hint 1
Make a new array A of +1/-1s corresponding to if hours[i] is > 8 or not. The goal is to find the longest subarray with positive sum.
Hint 2
Using prefix sums (PrefixSum[i+1] = A[0] + A[1] + ... + A[i]), you need to find for each j, the smallest i < j with PrefixSum[i] + 1 == PrefixSum[j].