Jump Game II (#45)

You are given a 0-indexed array of integers nums of length n. You are initially positioned at nums[0].

Each element nums[i] represents the maximum length of a forward jump from index i. In other words, if you are at nums[i], you can jump to any nums[i + j] where:

  • 0 <= j <= nums[i]
  • i + j < n

Return the minimum number of jumps to reach nums[n - 1]. The test cases are generated such that you can always reach nums[n - 1].

Company Tags: Amazon, Google

Core Concept: Greedy Algorithm, BFS

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