# Leetcode 452 - Min number of arrows to burst balloons

Note:

• As we’ve seen in other greedy questions:
• Local optima: Min arrows in every shot
• Global optima: Min arrows on all shots
• And as we’be concluded, when it’s 2D array, we need to sort it first. Yes, in this question, we can sort either by start or end.
• Sort by start, use boundary to check if points[i] is in between. If not, update.
• Sort by end, less code we need to write. Use pos to record boundaries. We only need to compare if points[i][0] is less than pos.

There are some spherical balloons taped onto a flat wall that represents the XY-plane. The balloons are represented as a 2D integer array points where points[i] = [xstart, xend] denotes a balloon whose horizontal diameter stretches between xstart and xend. You do not know the exact y-coordinates of the balloons.

Arrows can be shot up directly vertically (in the positive y-direction) from different points along the x-axis. A balloon with xstart and xend is burst by an arrow shot at x if xstart <= x <= xend. There is no limit to the number of arrows that can be shot. A shot arrow keeps traveling up infinitely, bursting any balloons in its path.

Given the array points, return the minimum number of arrows that must be shot to burst all balloons.

Example

Greedy - Not optimal

Greedy - Optimal