Leetcode 1052.Grumpy bookstore owner

From Claude with some prompting
This image describes a programming problem titled “Grumpy bookstore owner”. Here’s a summary of the key points:

  1. Problem description:
    • A bookstore is open for n minutes.
    • Each minute, a certain number of customers enter the store.
    • The ‘customers’ array represents the number of customers entering each minute.
    • The ‘grumpy’ array indicates the bookstore owner’s mood each minute (1: grumpy, 0: not grumpy).
    • When the owner is grumpy, customers are not satisfied.
    • The owner can use a secret technique once to not be grumpy for m consecutive minutes.
  2. Objective:
    • Calculate the maximum number of customers that can be satisfied throughout the day.
  3. Solution approach:
    • Step 1: Calculate the base sum of satisfied customers (when the owner is not grumpy).
    • Step 2: Use a sliding window of size m to find the maximum additional customers that can be satisfied.
  4. Example:
    • In Example 1, with customers = [1,0,1,2,1,1,7,5], grumpy = [0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1], minutes = 3, the maximum number of satisfied customers is 16.
  5. Constraints:
    • Constraints on array length, time, and number of customers are provided.

This problem appears to be solvable using a sliding window technique for an efficient algorithmic solution.

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