- Difficulty: Easy
- Tags: LeetCode, Easy, Bit Manipulation, leetcode-868, O(1)
Problem
Given a positive integer n
, find and return the longest distance between any two adjacent 1
's in the binary representation of n
. If there are no two adjacent 1
's, return 0
.
Two 1
's are adjacent if there are only 0
's separating them (possibly no 0
's). The distance between two 1
's is the absolute difference between their bit positions. For example, the two 1
's in "1001"
have a distance of 3.
Example 1:
Input: n = 22 Output: 2 Explanation: 22 in binary is "10110". The first adjacent pair of 1's is "10110" with a distance of 2. The second adjacent pair of 1's is "10110" with a distance of 1. The answer is the largest of these two distances, which is 2. Note that "10110" is not a valid pair since there is a 1 separating the two 1's underlined.
Example 2:
Input: n = 8 Output: 0 Explanation: 8 in binary is "1000". There are not any adjacent pairs of 1's in the binary representation of 8, so we return 0.
Example 3:
Input: n = 5 Output: 2 Explanation: 5 in binary is "101".
Constraints:
1 <= n <= 109