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287. Find the Duplicate Number

Medium

Given an array of integers nums containing n + 1 integers where each integer is in the range [1, n] inclusive.

There is only one repeated number in nums, return this repeated number.

You must solve the problem without modifying the array nums and uses only constant extra space.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,3,4,2,2]

Output: 2

Example 2:

Input: nums = [3,1,3,4,2]

Output: 3

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1,1]

Output: 1

Example 4:

Input: nums = [1,1,2]

Output: 1

Constraints:

• 1 <= n <= 105
• nums.length == n + 1
• 1 <= nums[i] <= n
• All the integers in nums appear only once except for precisely one integer which appears two or more times.

Follow up:

• How can we prove that at least one duplicate number must exist in nums?
• Can you solve the problem in linear runtime complexity?

Solution

# @param {Integer[]} nums
# @return {Integer}
def find_duplicate(nums)
  arr = Array.new(nums.length + 1, 0)

  nums.each do |num|
    arr[num] += 1
    return num if arr[num] == 2
  end

  0
end

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