#3245

Alternating Groups III

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array · binary indexed tree · ordered set

Description

There are some red and blue tiles arranged circularly. You are given an array of integers colors and a 2D integers array queries.

The color of tile i is represented by colors[i]:

- colors[i] == 0 means that tile i is red.

- colors[i] == 1 means that tile i is blue.

An alternating group is a contiguous subset of tiles in the circle with alternating colors (each tile in the group except the first and last one has a different color from its adjacent tiles in the group).

You have to process queries of two types:

- queries[i] = [1, sizei], determine the count of alternating groups with size sizei.

- queries[i] = [2, indexi, colori], change colors[indexi] to colori.

Return an array answer containing the results of the queries of the first type in order.

Note that since colors represents a circle, the first and the last tiles are considered to be next to each other.

Solution