1827. Minimum Operations to Make the Array Increasing
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You are given an integer array nums (0-indexed). In one operation, you can choose an element of the array and increment it by 1.
- For example, if
nums = [1,2,3], you can choose to incrementnums[1]to makenums = [1,3,3].
Return the minimum number of operations needed to make nums strictly increasing.
An array nums is strictly increasing if nums[i] < nums[i+1] for all 0 <= i < nums.length - 1. An array of length 1 is trivially strictly increasing.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,1,1] Output: 3 Explanation: You can do the following operations: 1) Increment nums[2], so nums becomes [1,1,2]. 2) Increment nums[1], so nums becomes [1,2,2]. 3) Increment nums[2], so nums becomes [1,2,3].
Example 2:
Input: nums = [1,5,2,4,1] Output: 14
Example 3:
Input: nums = [8] Output: 0
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 50001 <= nums[i] <= 104
Hints
Hint 1
nums[i+1] must be at least equal to nums[i] + 1.
Hint 2
Think greedily. You don't have to increase nums[i+1] beyond nums[i]+1.
Hint 3
Iterate on i and set nums[i] = max(nums[i-1]+1, nums[i]) .