LeetCode 1196, Easy. Topics: Array, Greedy, Sorting. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
You have some apples and a basket that can carry up to 5000 units of weight.
Given an integer array weight where weight[i] is the weight of the i-th apple, return the maximum number of apples you can put in the basket.
Examples
Constraints
1 <= weight.length <= 10^3
1 <= weight[i] <= 10^3
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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