Hey Anand, Can you(or anyone who understood it) elaborate on that XOR logic idea of yours?
Thanks, Seckin On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Manjunath Manohar <manjunath.n...@gmail.com>wrote: > no the array is unsorted.. > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:29 PM, dinesh bansal <bansal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If I understand the question correctly... there is an array of size n >> which has n/2 distinct elements and one element is repeated n/2 times. >> >> For e.g.: >> n = 4: 1 2 3 3 >> n = 6 1 2 3 4 4 4 >> n = 8 1 2 3 4 5 5 5 5 >> >> So now this problem can be reduced to finding the first duplicate element >> in the array because remaining other elements will be unique. I think this >> can be done in linear time. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:06 PM, AlgoBoy <manjunath.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> an array in which n/2 elements are unique...and the remaning n/2 have >>> the same elements but reapeated n/2 times. can anyone suggest a linear >>> solution with constant space/... >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dinesh Bansal >> The Law of Win says, "Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the >> best way." >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
