Leetcode Problem 1170. Compare Strings by Frequency of the Smallest Character

1170. Compare Strings by Frequency of the Smallest Character

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Binary Search Approach

  1. Define a helper function extractFrequency that takes a string w and returns the frequency of its lexicographically smallest character.
  2. Apply extractFrequency to each word in words and store the results in a list.
  3. Sort the list of frequencies obtained from words.
  4. Initialize an empty list ans to store the results for each query.
  5. For each query in queries, calculate its frequency using extractFrequency.
  6. Perform a binary search on the sorted list of frequencies to find the count of words with a higher frequency than the current query.
  7. Append the count to the ans list.
  8. Return the ans list.
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