Monday, March 31, 2014

Find the two non-repeating elements in a ranged array of repeating elements

Problem
Given an array in which all numbers except two are repeated once. (i.e. we have 2n+2 numbers and n numbers are occurring twice and remaining two have occurred once). Find those two numbers in the most efficient way.
Example
Input : {2,4,7,9,2,4}
Output : 7,9

Solution
Method 1 - Use Sorting
First sort all the elements. In the sorted array, by comparing adjacent elements we can easily get the non-repeating elements. Time complexity of this method is O(nLogn)

Method 2 - Use XOR
Let x and y be the non-repeating elements we are looking for and arr[] be the input array. First calculate the XOR of all the array elements.
     xor = arr[0]^arr[1]^arr[2].....arr[n-1]
All the bits that are set in xor will be set in one non-repeating element (x or y) and not in other. So if we take any set bit of xor and divide the elements of the array in two sets – one set of elements with same bit set and other set with same bit not set. By doing so, we will get x in one set and y in another set. Now if we do XOR of all the elements in first set, we will get first non-repeating element, and by doing same in other set we will get the second non-repeating element.
Let us see an example.
   arr[] = {2, 4, 7, 9, 2, 4}
1) Get the XOR of all the elements.
     xor = 2^4^7^9^2^4 = 14 (1110)
2) Get a number which has only one set bit of the xor.   
   Since we can easily get the rightmost set bit, let us use it.
     set_bit_no = xor & ~(xor-1) = (1110) & ~(1101) = 0010
   Now set_bit_no will have only set as rightmost set bit of xor.
3) Now divide the elements in two sets and do xor of         
   elements in each set, and we get the non-repeating 
   elements 7 and 9. Please see implementation for this   
   step.

Implementation:
class Pair{
 public int x;
 public int y;
}
 
// This finction sets the values of *x and *y to nonr-epeating
// elements in an array arr[] of size n
public Pair get2NonRepeatingNos(int arr[], int n)
{
  int xor = arr[0]; // Will hold xor of all elements 
  int set_bit_no;  // Will have only single set bit of xor 
  int i;
  int x = 0;
  int y = 0;
 
  // Get the xor of all elements 
  for(i = 1; i < n; i++)
   xor ^= arr[i];
 
  // Get the rightmost set bit in set_bit_no 
  set_bit_no = xor & ~(xor-1);
 
  // Now divide elements in two sets by comparing rightmost set
   bit of xor with bit at same position in each element. 
  for(i = 0; i < n; i++)
  {
    if(arr[i] & set_bit_no)
     x = x ^ arr[i]; //XOR of first set 
    else
     y = y ^ arr[i]; //XOR of second set
  }
  
  return new Pair(x,y);
}

Time Complexity: O(n)
Auxiliary Space: O(1)

References
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-two-non-repeating-elements-in-an-array-of-repeating-elements/

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