Circular Tour

You have been given a circular path. There are N petrol pumps on this path that are numbered from 0 to N - 1 (Both inclusive). Each petrol pump has two values associated with it:

1)The amount of petrol that is available at this particular petrol pump.

2)The distance to reach the next petrol pump.

You are on a truck having an empty tank of infinite capacity. You can start the tour from any of the petrol pumps. Your task is to calculate the first petrol pump from where the truck will be able to complete the full circle or determine if it is impossible to do so.

You may assume that the truck will stop at every petrol pump and it will add the petrol from that pump to its tank. The truck will move one kilometre for each litre of petrol consumed.

Input Format
The first line of input contains an integer 'N' representing the number of petrol pumps.

Each of the next N lines will contain a pair of space-separated integers representing the amount of petrol that pump has and the distance to reach the next petrol pump, respectively.
Output Format :
Print an integer representing the index of the first petrol pump from which we should start the tour. If no such petrol pump exists, print ‘-1’.
Note:
You do not need to print anything; it has already been taken care of. Just implement the given function.  Make sure that the output has 0 - based indexing.
Constraints:
1 <= N <= 5*10^5
1 <= Amount of petrol on each pump <= 10^9
1 <= Distance to next pump <= 10^9

Where N is the total number of petrol pumps on the circular path.

Time Limit: 1sec
CodingNinjas
author
2y

Explanation : Let's take an example

Petrol_Pump = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Distance = [3, 4, 5, 1, 2]

ind = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

Now we will find difference the betweeen Petrol_Pump[i] - Distance[i] = [-2, -2, -2, 3, 3...read more

CodingNinjas
author
2y
Brute Force
  1. We can choose every index to be our starting point and check whether we can complete the round trip starting from that index.
  2. For each start point, we will run a loop starting from this inde...read more
CodingNinjas
author
2y
Array Sum
  • Condition for -1, i.e. No trip is possible:
    • If the total distance that we have to travel is strictly greater than the total petrol available to us, then no matter what starting index we choose...read more
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