Description
You are given an integer n
denoting the number of cities in a country. The cities are numbered from 0
to n - 1
.
You are also given a 2D integer array roads
where roads[i] = [ai, bi]
denotes that there exists a bidirectional road connecting cities ai
and bi
.
You need to assign each city with an integer value from 1
to n
, where each value can only be used once. The importance of a road is then defined as the sum of the values of the two cities it connects.
Return the maximum total importance of all roads possible after assigning the values optimally.
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Example 1:

Input: n = 5, roads = [[0,1],[1,2],[2,3],[0,2],[1,3],[2,4]] Output: 43 Explanation: The figure above shows the country and the assigned values of [2,4,5,3,1]. - The road (0,1) has an importance of 2 + 4 = 6. - The road (1,2) has an importance of 4 + 5 = 9. - The road (2,3) has an importance of 5 + 3 = 8. - The road (0,2) has an importance of 2 + 5 = 7. - The road (1,3) has an importance of 4 + 3 = 7. - The road (2,4) has an importance of 5 + 1 = 6. The total importance of all roads is 6 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 7 + 6 = 43. It can be shown that we cannot obtain a greater total importance than 43.
Example 2:

Input: n = 5, roads = [[0,3],[2,4],[1,3]] Output: 20 Explanation: The figure above shows the country and the assigned values of [4,3,2,5,1]. - The road (0,3) has an importance of 4 + 5 = 9. - The road (2,4) has an importance of 2 + 1 = 3. - The road (1,3) has an importance of 3 + 5 = 8. The total importance of all roads is 9 + 3 + 8 = 20. It can be shown that we cannot obtain a greater total importance than 20.
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Constraints:
2 <= n <= 5 * 104
1 <= roads.length <= 5 * 104
roads[i].length == 2
0 <= ai, bi <= n - 1
ai != bi
- There are no duplicate roads.
Solution
Python3
class Solution:
def maximumImportance(self, n: int, roads: List[List[int]]) -> int:
degree = [0] * n
V = [None] * n
for x, y in roads:
degree[x] += 1
degree[y] += 1
s = sorted(range(n), key = lambda i : degree[i])
for i, node in enumerate(s):
V[node] = i + 1
res = 0
for x, y in roads:
res += V[x]
res += V[y]
return res