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You are given N counters, initially set to 0, and you have two possible operations on them:

increase(X) − counter X is increased by 1, max counter − all counters are set to the maximum value of any counter. A non-empty zero-indexed array A of M integers is given. This array represents consecutive operations:

if A[K] = X, such that 1 ≤ X ≤ N, then operation K is increase(X), if A[K] = N + 1 then operation K is max counter. For example, given integer N = 5 and array A such that:

A[0] = 3
A[1] = 4
A[2] = 4
A[3] = 6
A[4] = 1
A[5] = 4
A[6] = 4

the values of the counters after each consecutive operation will be:

(0, 0, 1, 0, 0)
(0, 0, 1, 1, 0)
(0, 0, 1, 2, 0)
(2, 2, 2, 2, 2)
(3, 2, 2, 2, 2)
(3, 2, 2, 3, 2)
(3, 2, 2, 4, 2)

The goal is to calculate the value of every counter after all operations.

Write a function:

class Solution { public int[] solution(int N, int[] A); }

that, given an integer N and a non-empty zero-indexed array A consisting of M integers, returns a sequence of integers representing the values of the counters.

The sequence should be returned as:

a structure Results (in C), or a vector of integers (in C++), or a record Results (in Pascal), or an array of integers (in any other programming language). For example, given:

A[0] = 3
A[1] = 4
A[2] = 4
A[3] = 6
A[4] = 1
A[5] = 4
A[6] = 4

the function should return [3, 2, 2, 4, 2], as explained above.

Assume that:

N and M are integers within the range [1..100,000]; each element of array A is an integer within the range [1..N + 1]. Complexity:

expected worst-case time complexity is O(N+M); expected worst-case space complexity is O(N), beyond input storage (not counting the storage required for input arguments).