Elements of Programming Challenges
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Challenge 1 Two Sum
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✒ Solution. Let us assume that
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the same element cannot be used twice, i.e. the pair should consist of two different array elements.
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the elements can be positive, negative or zero.
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the array may contain duplicates.
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there is only one such pair if at all.
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1.1 Brute Force
We can try all the pairs in the array and see if any of these add up to the number \(k\).
bool hasPairSum(const std::vector<int> & arr, int k)
{
std::size_t len = arr.size();
for(int i = 0; i < len; i++)
{
for(int j = i + 1; j < len; j++)
{
if (arr[i] + arr[j] == k)
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
Since there are \(\Theta (n^2)\) possible pairs, time complexity of this approach is \(\bigO (n^2)\). Space complexity is \(\bigO (1)\).