Minimum Sideway Jumps
There is a 3 lane road of length n that consists of n + 1 points labeled from 0 to n. A frog starts at point 0 in the second lane and wants to jump to point n. However, there could be obstacles along the way.
You are given an array obstacles of length n + 1 where each obstacles[i], ranging from 0 to 3, describes an obstacle on lane obstacles[i] at point i. If obstacles[i] == 0, there are no obstacles at point i. There will be at most one obstacle in the 3 lanes at each point.
- For example, if
obstacles[2] == 1, then there is an obstacle on lane1at point2.
The frog can only travel from point i to point i + 1 on the same lane if there is not an obstacle on that lane at point i + 1. To avoid obstacles, the frog can also perform a side jump to jump to another lane, even if it is not adjacent, at the same point if there is no obstacle on the new lane.
- For example, the frog can jump from lane
3at point3to lane1at point3.
Return the minimum number of side jumps the frog needs to reach any lane at point n starting from lane 2 at point 0.
Note: There will be no obstacles on points 0 and n.
obstacles = [0,1,2,3,0]2obstacles = [0,1,1,3,3,0]0Constraints
- obstacles.length == n + 1
- 1 <= n <= 5 * 10^5
- 0 <= obstacles[i] <= 3
- obstacles[0] == obstacles[n] == 0