Set Mismatch
Real-world version: Bib Number MixupThe statement here is our own: the same inputs, outputs and technique.
A road race orders one bib per runner, so a field of n runners should receive the numbers 1 through n, each on a single bib. The press misfired: one number came out on two bibs and one number never came out at all. Every other number landed on exactly one bib.
You are given the integer array bibs of length n holding the number printed on each bib, in the order the bibs came off the press. Return a two-element array [repeated, absent], where repeated is the number printed on two bibs and absent is the number in the range 1 to n printed on none of them.
Examples
Example 1
- Input
- bibs = [3, 1, 3]
- Output
- [3, 2]
Three bibs came off the press for a field of 3 runners. The number 3 sits on two of them and no bib carries 2, so the answer is [3, 2].
Example 2
- Input
- bibs = [5, 3, 2, 1, 2]
- Output
- [2, 4]
Two bibs carry the number 2 and no bib carries 4.
Example 3
- Input
- bibs = [1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6]
- Output
- [5, 4]
The number 5 appears on two bibs, and 4 is the number in the range 1 to 6 that is missing.
Constraints
- 2 <= bibs.length <= 10^4
- 1 <= bibs[i] <= 10^4
- Exactly one number in the range 1 to bibs.length appears twice in bibs
- Exactly one number in the range 1 to bibs.length does not appear in bibs
- Every other number in the range 1 to bibs.length appears exactly once
The signature
The editor starts with this. It matches the parent problem's shape, so a solution that works here works on a standard judge unchanged.
def find_bib_slip(bibs: list[int]) -> list[int]:public int[] findBibSlip(int[] bibs)Checking your plan…
How this problem was checked
- Passed: Reference solution run against 10 test cases: 10 passed
- Passed: 3 worked examples confirmed by running the code
- Passed: 0 eight-word sequences shared with the parent problem's text
- Passed: Agrees with an independent brute-force solution on random inputs
- Passed: Test set shown to catch deliberately broken solutions
- Passed: Reviewed by a separate quality pass
- Passed: Function arity matches the parent problem's