use crate::data_structures::Heap;
use std::cmp::{Ord, Ordering};
/// Returns k-th smallest element of an array.
/// Time complexity is stably O(nlog(k)) in all cases
/// Extra space is required to maintain the heap, and it doesn't
/// mutate the input list.
///
/// It is preferrable to the partition-based algorithm in cases when
/// we want to maintain the kth smallest element dynamically against
/// a stream of elements. In that case, once the heap is built, further
/// operation's complexity is O(log(k)).
pub fn kth_smallest_heap<T>(input: &[T], k: usize) -> Option<T>
where
T: Default + Ord + Copy,
{
if input.len() < k {
return None;
}
// heap will maintain the kth smallest elements
// seen so far, when new elements, E_new arrives,
// it is compared with the largest element of the
// current Heap E_large, which is the current kth
// smallest elements.
// if E_new > E_large, then E_new cannot be the kth
// smallest because there are already k elements smaller
// than it
// otherwise, E_large cannot be the kth smallest, and should
// be removed from the heap and E_new should be added
let mut heap = Heap::new_max();
// first k elements goes to the heap as the baseline
for &val in input.iter().take(k) {
heap.add(val);
}
for &val in input.iter().skip(k) {
// compare new value to the current kth smallest value
let cur_big = heap.next().unwrap(); // heap.next() can't be None
match val.cmp(&cur_big) {
Ordering::Greater => {
heap.add(cur_big);
}
_ => {
heap.add(val);
}
}
}
heap.next()
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn empty() {
let zero: [u8; 0] = [];
let first = kth_smallest_heap(&zero, 1);
assert_eq!(None, first);
}
#[test]
fn one_element() {
let one = [1];
let first = kth_smallest_heap(&one, 1);
assert_eq!(1, first.unwrap());
}
#[test]
fn many_elements() {
// 0 1 3 4 5 7 8 9 9 10 12 13 16 17
let many = [9, 17, 3, 16, 13, 10, 1, 5, 7, 12, 4, 8, 9, 0];
let first = kth_smallest_heap(&many, 1);
let third = kth_smallest_heap(&many, 3);
let sixth = kth_smallest_heap(&many, 6);
let fourteenth = kth_smallest_heap(&many, 14);
assert_eq!(0, first.unwrap());
assert_eq!(3, third.unwrap());
assert_eq!(7, sixth.unwrap());
assert_eq!(17, fourteenth.unwrap());
}
}