2518. Number of Great Partitions
Description
You are given an array nums consisting of positive integers and an integer k.
Partition the array into two ordered groups such that each element is in exactly one group. A partition is called great if the sum of elements of each group is greater than or equal to k.
Return the number of distinct great partitions. Since the answer may be too large, return it modulo 109 + 7.
Two partitions are considered distinct if some element nums[i] is in different groups in the two partitions.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,2,3,4], k = 4 Output: 6 Explanation: The great partitions are: ([1,2,3], [4]), ([1,3], [2,4]), ([1,4], [2,3]), ([2,3], [1,4]), ([2,4], [1,3]) and ([4], [1,2,3]).
Example 2:
Input: nums = [3,3,3], k = 4 Output: 0 Explanation: There are no great partitions for this array.
Example 3:
Input: nums = [6,6], k = 2 Output: 2 Explanation: We can either put nums[0] in the first partition or in the second partition. The great partitions will be ([6], [6]) and ([6], [6]).
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length, k <= 10001 <= nums[i] <= 109
Solutions
Solution 1
Thinking
Each element goes to exactly one of two groups, and both group sums must be at least \(k\). There are \(2^n\) assignments; \(n\) and \(k\) are up to \(10^3\), so listing them is impossible, but a group whose sum is already below \(k\) is exactly the forbidden case.
If the total sum is less than \(2k\), both sides cannot succeed and the answer is \(0\). Otherwise subtract the bad partitions from \(2^n\). A bad partition is a subset with sum \(<k\) used as one side — a \(0\)-\(1\) knapsack of capacity \(k-1\). Either side may be the small one, so the bad count is twice the number of such subsets.
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