Given array of n integers and given a number X, find all the unique pairs of elements (a,b), whose summation is equal to X.
The following is my solution, it is O(nLog(n)+n), but I am not sure whether or not it is optimal.
int main(void)
{
int arr [10] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0};
findpair(arr, 10, 7);
}
void findpair(int arr[], int len, int sum)
{
std::sort(arr, arr+len);
int i = 0;
int j = len -1;
while( i < j){
while((arr[i] + arr[j]) <= sum && i < j)
{
if((arr[i] + arr[j]) == sum)
cout << "(" << arr[i] << "," << arr[j] << ")" << endl;
i++;
}
j--;
while((arr[i] + arr[j]) >= sum && i < j)
{
if((arr[i] + arr[j]) == sum)
cout << "(" << arr[i] << "," << arr[j] << ")" << endl;
j--;
}
}
}
There are 3 approaches to this solution:
Let the sum be T and n be the size of array
Approach 1:
The naive way to do this would be to check all combinations (n choose 2). This exhaustive search is O(n2).
Approach 2:
A better way would be to sort the array. This takes O(n log n)
Then for each x in array A,
use binary search to look for T-x. This will take O(nlogn).
So, overall search is O(n log n)
Approach 3 :
The best way
would be to insert every element into a hash table (without sorting). This takes O(n) as constant time insertion.
Then for every x,
we can just look up its complement, T-x, which is O(1).
Overall the run time of this approach is O(n).
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