@Shiv Collision is itself a wel known issue in hashing and much need to be done to avoid collision. When you say your appraoch is hash the numbers, how do u make sure without knowing the nature of the numbers that you can hash them without bringing ing collision of inequal items of the array?
On Jul 28, 11:38 pm, "Shiv ..." <shivsinha2...@gmail.com> wrote: > What if the number are not consecutive? > > My approach- > Put the numbers in a hash till a collision occurs. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Apoorve Mohan <apoorvemo...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Solution : > > > 1. Find Xor of numbers from 1 to n-1. > > > 2. Find Xor of the numbers present in the array. > > > 3. Xor the results from step 1 and 2 you will get the repeated number. > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:46 PM, akshay <akshayrastogi2...@gmail.com>wrote: > > >> An array of unsorted numbers n is given with one no.repeated once ie > >> n-1 distinct nos to find duplicate no. in o(n) complexity > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > > -- > > regards > > > Apoorve Mohan > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > > To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.