Lesson 3 – Prefix Sums – PassingCars demo task solution code written in php. Gives 100/100 score at the time of publishing. The description of the problem is copyrighted, so please see the following link for it: https://codility.com/demo/take-sample-test/passing_cars
Solution in php:
function solution($A){ $east = 0; $passing = 0; foreach($A as &$v){ if($v == 1){ $passing += $east; } else{ $east++; } } if($passing > 1000000000 || $passing < 0){ return -1; } else{ return intval($passing); } }
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