Maximize Social Distancing
You are given a list of integers seats containing 1s and 0s. Each element seats[i] represents a seat and is either occupied if seats[i] = 1 or empty if seats[i] = 0.
Given that there’s at least one empty seat and at least one occupied seat, return the maximum distance from an empty seat to the closest occupied seat.
Constraints
n ≤ 100,000wherenis the length ofseats
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Examples
Example 1
Input
- seats =
[1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1]
Output
- answer =
2
Explanation
We can sit at seats[4].
Example 2
Input
- seats =
[1, 0, 0, 0]
Output
- answer =
3
Explanation
We can sit at seats[3].
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