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Reschedule Meetings for Maximum Free Time I

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You receive an integer eventTime denoting the duration of an event, where the event occurs from time t = 0 to time t = eventTime .

You are also given two integer lists startTime and endTime , each of length n . These represent the start and end time of n non-overlapping meetings, where the i^th meeting occurs during the time [startTime[i], endTime[i]] .

You can reschedule at most k meetings by moving their start time while maintaining the same duration , to maximize the longest continuous period of free time during the event.

The relative order of all the meetings should stay the same and they should remain non-overlapping.

Produce the maximum amount of free time possible after rearranging the meetings.

Note that the meetings can not be rescheduled to a time outside the event.

Example 1

Original illustrative diagram 1 for Reschedule Meetings for Maximum Free Time I

Input: eventTime = 5, k = 1, startTime = [1,3], endTime = [2,5]

Output: 2

Explanation: Reschedule the meeting at [1, 2] to [2, 3] , leaving no meetings during the time [0, 2] .

Example 2

Original illustrative diagram 2 for Reschedule Meetings for Maximum Free Time I

Input: eventTime = 10, k = 1, startTime = [0,2,9], endTime = [1,4,10]

Output: 6

Explanation: Reschedule the meeting at [2, 4] to [1, 3] , leaving no meetings during the time [3, 9] .

Example 3

Input: eventTime = 5, k = 2, startTime = [0,1,2,3,4], endTime = [1,2,3,4,5]

Output: 0

Explanation: There is no time during the event not occupied by meetings.

Constraints

  • 1 <= eventTime <= 10^9
  • n == startTime.length == endTime.length
  • 2 <= n <= 10^5
  • 1 <= k <= n
  • 0 <= startTime[i] < endTime[i] <= eventTime
  • endTime[i] <= startTime[i + 1] where i lies in the range [0, n - 2] .

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