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Find duplicates under given constraints in C++
Suppose we have a list with 6 different numbers. Only one number is repeated five times. So there are total 10 elements in the array. Find duplicate numbers using only two comparisons. If the list is like [1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6], so output is 4.
As there are only 10 numbers, then for any type of duplicate numbers, the range of numbers will be placed from index 3 to 5. By checking these indices, we can find the result.
Example
#includeusing namespace std; int getDuplicate(int array[]) { if (array[3] == array[4]) return array[3]; else if (array[4] == array[5]) return array[4]; else return array[5]; } int main() { int a[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6}; cout Output
Duplicate element: 4
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