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Suppose we have one binary list, where 1 denotes push operation and 0 denotes a pop operation on a stack or a queue. We have to check whether the possible set of operations are valid or not.

So, if the input is like nums = [1,0,1,1,0,1], then the output will be True as the sequence is [Push,Pop,Push,Push,Pop,Push] as we are not popping element from empty list so these operations are valid.

To solve this, we will follow these steps −

• push_count := 0
• for i in range 0 to size of nums - 1, do
  • if nums[i] is 1, then
    • push_count := push_count + 1
  • otherwise,
    • push_count := push_count - 1
  • if push_count < 0, then
    • return False
• return True

Example

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

 Live Demo

def solve(nums):
   push_count = 0
   for i in range (len(nums)):
      if nums[i]:
         push_count += 1
      else:
         push_count -= 1
      if push_count < 0:
         return False
   return True
nums = [1,0,1,1,0,1]
print(solve(nums))

Input

[1,0,1,1,0,1]

Output

True

Arnab Chakraborty

Updated on 19-Jan-2021 05:08:19

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