Program to count number of valid pairs from a list of numbers, where pair sum is odd in Python

Suppose we have a list of positive numbers nums, we have to find the number of valid pairs of indices (i, j), where i < j, and nums[i] + nums[j] is an odd number.

So, if the input is like [5, 4, 6], then the output will be 2, as two pairs are [5,4] and [5,6], whose sum are odd.

To solve this, we will follow these steps −

• e := a list by taking only the even numbers in nums
• return (size of nums - size of e) * size of e

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

Example

 Live Demo

class Solution:
   def solve(self, nums):
      e=[i for i in nums if i%2==0]
      return (len(nums)-len(e))*len(e)
nums = [5, 4, 6]
ob = Solution()
print(ob.solve(nums))

Input

[5, 4, 6]

Output

2

Arnab Chakraborty

Updated on: 06-Oct-2020

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