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There is a tournament where n
players are participating. The players are standing in a single row and are numbered from 1
to n
based on their initial standing position (player 1
is the first player in the row, player 2
is the second player in the row, etc.).
The tournament consists of multiple rounds (starting from round number 1
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1, 2, 4, 6, 7
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competes against player 6
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\n\nThe players numbered firstPlayer
and secondPlayer
are the best in the tournament. They can win against any other player before they compete against each other. If any two other players compete against each other, either of them might win, and thus you may choose the outcome of this round.
Given the integers n
, firstPlayer
, and secondPlayer
, return an integer array containing two values, the earliest possible round number and the latest possible round number in which these two players will compete against each other, respectively.
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Example 1:
\n\n\nInput: n = 11, firstPlayer = 2, secondPlayer = 4\nOutput: [3,4]\nExplanation:\nOne possible scenario which leads to the earliest round number:\nFirst round: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11\nSecond round: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11\nThird round: 2, 3, 4\nOne possible scenario which leads to the latest round number:\nFirst round: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11\nSecond round: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6\nThird round: 1, 2, 4\nFourth round: 2, 4\n\n\n
Example 2:
\n\n\nInput: n = 5, firstPlayer = 1, secondPlayer = 5\nOutput: [1,1]\nExplanation: The players numbered 1 and 5 compete in the first round.\nThere is no way to make them compete in any other round.\n\n\n
\n
Constraints:
\n\n2 <= n <= 28
1 <= firstPlayer < secondPlayer <= n
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