You want to buy a ticket for a well-known concert which is happening in your city. But the number of tickets available is limited. Hence the sponsors of the concert decided to sell tickets to customers based on some priority. A queue is maintained for buying the tickets and every person is attached with a priority (an integer, 1 being the lowest priority).
You want to buy a ticket for a well-known concert which is happening in your city. But the number of tickets available is limited. Hence the sponsors of the concert decided to sell tickets to customers based on some priority. A queue is maintained for buying the tickets and every person is attached with a priority (an integer, 1 being the lowest priority).
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Transcribed Image Text:You want to buy a ticket for a well-known concert which is
happening in your city. But the number of tickets available
is limited. Hence the sponsors of the concert decided to sell
tickets to customers based on some priority.
A queue is maintained for buying the tickets and every
person is attached with a priority (an integer, 1 being the
lowest priority).
The tickets are sold in the following manner -
1. The first person (pi) in the queue requests for the
ticket.
2. If there is another person present in the queue who
has higher priority than pi, then ask pi to move at end
of the queue without giving him the ticket.
3. Otherwise, give him the ticket (and don't make him
stand in queue again).
Giving a ticket to a person takes exactly 1 minute and it
takes no time for removing and adding a person to the
queue. And you can assume that no new person joins the
queue.
Given a list of priorities of N persons standing in the queue
and the index of your priority (indexing starts from 0). Find
and return the time it will take until you get the ticket
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