Leetcode 881 - Boats to Save People solution

Solution:

The strategy is to sort the people array first then set two pointers for the array. First pointer left points at the first index and right pointer points at last index. Then we just need to compare the summation of the two pointers value with the limit and move pointers accordingly.

Time Complexity: O(n)
Space Complexity: O(1)

class Solution:
    def numRescueBoats(self, people: List[int], limit: int) -> int:
        people = sorted(people)
        
        left = 0
        right = len(people) - 1
        c = 0
        
        while left <= right:
            if people[left] + people[right] > limit:
                right -= 1
                c += 1
            else:
                left += 1
                right -= 1
                c += 1
        return c