Challenge: Find the Minimum Platforms Required for a Station
Discover how to determine the minimum number of platforms needed at a train station to avoid waiting trains. Learn to design a step-by-step greedy algorithm that analyzes arrival and departure schedules for overlapping times and implement a function that calculates the optimal platform count.
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Problem statement
Implement a function that returns the minimum number of platforms required for the train so that none of them wait.
Input
Two arrays that represent the arrival and departure times of ...