Editorial for MWC '15 #1 P1: Playlist Panic


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Sorting the songs based on their length in ascending order, and greedily choosing songs until the total time runs out is sufficient to solve this problem. Edge cases occur when the time limit is 0 (a song of length 0 can still be listened to in this time!).

Time complexity: \mathcal{O}(N \log N), the time complexity of sorting N songs.


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