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#455 - Assign Cookies

Problem Description

Assume you are an awesome parent and want to give your children some cookies. But, you should give each child at most one cookie.

Each child i has a greed factor g[i], which is the minimum size of a cookie that the child will be content with; and each cookie j has a size s[j]. If s[j] >= g[i], we can assign the cookie j to the child i, and the child i will be content. Your goal is to maximize the number of your content children and output the maximum number.

Solution

/**
 * @param {number[]} g
 * @param {number[]} s
 * @return {number}
 */
var findContentChildren = function(g, s) {
  g.sort((a, b) => a - b);
  s.sort((a, b) => a - b);

  let result = 0;
  for (let j = 0; result < g.length && j < s.length; j++) {
    if (s[j] >= g[result]) {
      result++;
    }
  }

  return result;
};