Rotate Array

Question

Rotate an array of n elements to the right by k steps.

For example, with n = 7 and k = 3, the array [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] is rotated to [5,6,7,1,2,3,4].

Note: Try to come up as many solutions as you can, there are at least 3 different ways to solve this problem.

Tags

• Array

Thought

Straightforward algorithm.

Notice: Time complexity is O(n) and the space complexity is also O(n) in this algorithm.

Code

class Solution(object):
    def rotate(self, nums, k):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :type k: int
        :rtype: void Do not return anything, modify nums in-place instead.
        """
        n = len(nums)
        k = k % n
        nums[:] = nums[-k:] + nums[:-k]