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2529. Maximum Count of Positive Integer and Negative Integer

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Description

Given an array nums sorted in non-decreasing order, return the maximum between the number of positive integers and the number of negative integers.

  • In other words, if the number of positive integers in nums is pos and the number of negative integers is neg, then return the maximum of pos and neg.

Note that 0 is neither positive nor negative.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [-2,-1,-1,1,2,3]
Output: 3
Explanation: There are 3 positive integers and 3 negative integers. The maximum count among them is 3.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [-3,-2,-1,0,0,1,2]
Output: 3
Explanation: There are 2 positive integers and 3 negative integers. The maximum count among them is 3.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [5,20,66,1314]
Output: 4
Explanation: There are 4 positive integers and 0 negative integers. The maximum count among them is 4.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 2000
  • -2000 <= nums[i] <= 2000
  • nums is sorted in a non-decreasing order.

Solution

maximum-count-of-positive-integer-and-negative-integer.py
class Solution:
    def maximumCount(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
        pos = neg = 0

        for x in nums:
            if x == 0: continue

            if x > 0:
                pos += 1
            else:
                neg += 1

        return max(pos, neg)