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1583. Count Unhappy Friends

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You are given a list of preferences for n friends, where n is always even.

For each person i, preferences[i] contains a list of friends sorted in the order of preference. In other words, a friend earlier in the list is more preferred than a friend later in the list. Friends in each list are denoted by integers from 0 to n-1.

All the friends are divided into pairs. The pairings are given in a list pairs, where pairs[i] = [xi, yi] denotes xi is paired with yi and yi is paired with xi.

However, this pairing may cause some of the friends to be unhappy. A friend x is unhappy if x is paired with y and there exists a friend u who is paired with v but:

  • x prefers u over y, and
  • u prefers x over v.

Return the number of unhappy friends.

Example 1:

Input: n = 4, preferences = [[1, 2, 3], [3, 2, 0], [3, 1, 0], [1, 2, 0]], pairs = [[0, 1], [2, 3]]
Output: 2
Explanation:
Friend 1 is unhappy because:
- 1 is paired with 0 but prefers 3 over 0, and
- 3 prefers 1 over 2.
Friend 3 is unhappy because:
- 3 is paired with 2 but prefers 1 over 2, and
- 1 prefers 3 over 0.
Friends 0 and 2 are happy.

Example 2:

Input: n = 2, preferences = [[1], [0]], pairs = [[1, 0]]
Output: 0
Explanation: Both friends 0 and 1 are happy.

Example 3:

Input: n = 4, preferences = [[1, 3, 2], [2, 3, 0], [1, 3, 0], [0, 2, 1]], pairs = [[1, 3], [0, 2]]
Output: 4

Constraints:

  • 2 <= n <= 500
  • n is even.
  • preferences.length == n
  • preferences[i].length == n - 1
  • 0 <= preferences[i][j] <= n - 1
  • preferences[i] does not contain i.
  • All values in preferences[i] are unique.
  • pairs.length == n/2
  • pairs[i].length == 2
  • xi != yi
  • 0 <= xi, yi <= n - 1
  • Each person is contained in exactly one pair.

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Hint 1
Create a matrix “rank” where rank[i][j] holds how highly friend ‘i' views ‘j’. This allows for O(1) comparisons between people
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Examples
Input
4
[[1,2,3],[3,2,0],[3,1,0],[1,2,0]]
[[0,1],[2,3]]
Input
2
[[1],[0]]
[[1,0]]
Input
4
[[1,3,2],[2,3,0],[1,3,0],[0,2,1]]
[[1,3],[0,2]]
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