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Find the Town Judge

Problem statement

In a town, there are n people labeled from 1 to n. There is a rumor that one of these people is secretly the town judge.

If the town judge exists, then:

  1. The town judge trusts nobody.
  2. Everybody (except for the town judge) trusts the town judge.
  3. There is exactly one person that satisfies properties 1 and 2.

You are given an array trust where trust[i] = [ai, bi] representing that the person labeled ai trusts the person labeled bi.

Return the label of the town judge if the town judge exists and can be identified, or return -1 otherwise.

Example 1:

Input: n = 2, trust = [[1,2]]Output: 2

Example 2:

Input: n = 3, trust = [[1,3],[2,3]]Output: 3

Example 3:

Input: n = 3, trust = [[1,3],[2,3],[3,1]]Output: -1

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 1000
  • 0 <= trust.length <= 104
  • trust[i].length == 2
  • All the pairs of trust are unique.
  • ai != bi
  • 1 <= ai, bi <= n

My solution

/**
* @param {number} n
* @param {number[][]} trust
* @return {number}
*/
var findJudge = function(n, trust) {
if (!trust.length && n === 1) {
return 1
}

let maxFreq = Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER;
const trustFreq = new Map();

for (const [truster, trustee] of trust) {
if (!trustFreq.has(trustee)) {
trustFreq.set(trustee, 0)
}

trustFreq.set(trustee, trustFreq.get(trustee) + 1)

maxFreq = Math.max(maxFreq, trustFreq.get(trustee));

// console.log("maxFreq", maxFreq)
}

// console.log(trustFreq, maxFreq)

const trustBank = new Map(trust);
for (let i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
// console.log(i, trustBank, trustBank.has(i), maxFreq)
if (!trustBank.has(i) && maxFreq === n - 1) {
return i
}
}

return -1
};