If we can retrieve ith prime efficiently, we can do the following...
1.maintain a prod=1, start from 1st element, say a[0]=n find n th prime
2.check if (prod% (ith_prime * ith_prime )==0) then return i;
else prod=prod*ith_prime;
3.repeat it till end
On Thursday, 12 July 2012 10:55:02 UTC+5:30, algo bard wrote:
>
> Given an array of integers where some numbers repeat once, some numbers
> repeat twice and only one number repeats thrice, how do you find the number
> that gets repeated 3 times?
>
> Does this problem have an O(n) time and O(1) space solution?
> No hashmaps please!
>
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