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Given an array where every element occurs three times, except one element which occurs only once. Find the element that occurs once. Expected time complexity is O(n) and O(1) extra space.
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#include <stdio.h> int getSingle(int arr[], int n) { int ones = 0, twos = 0 ; int common_bit_mask; // Let us take the example of {3, 3, 2, 3} to understand this for( int i=0; i< n; i++ ) { /* The expression "one & arr[i]" gives the bits that are there in both \'ones\' and new element from arr[]. We add these bits to \'twos\' using bitwise OR Value of \'twos\' will be set as 0, 3, 3 and 1 after 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th iterations respectively */ twos = twos | (ones & arr[i]); /* XOR the new bits with previous \'ones\' to get all bits appearing odd number of times Value of \'ones\' will be set as 3, 0, 2 and 3 after 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th iterations respectively */ ones = ones ^ arr[i]; /* The common bits are those bits which appear third time So these bits should not be there in both \'ones\' and \'twos\'. common_bit_mask contains all these bits as 0, so that the bits can be removed from \'ones\' and \'twos\' Value of \'common_bit_mask\' will be set as 00, 00, 01 and 10 after 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th iterations respectively */ common_bit_mask = ~(ones & twos); /* Remove common bits (the bits that appear third time) from \'ones\' Value of \'ones\' will be set as 3, 0, 0 and 2 after 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th iterations respectively */ ones &= common_bit_mask; /* Remove common bits (the bits that appear third time) from \'twos\' Value of \'twos\' will be set as 0, 3, 1 and 0 after 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th itearations respectively */ twos &= common_bit_mask; // uncomment this code to see intermediate values //printf (" %d %d n", ones, twos); } return ones; } int main() { int arr[] = {3, 3, 2, 3}; int n = sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]); printf("The element with single occurrence is %d ", getSingle(arr, n)); return 0; } |
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