- Difficulty: Easy
- Tags: LeetCode, Easy, Array, Hash Table, leetcode-697, O(n)
Problem
Given a non-empty array of non-negative integers nums
, the degree of this array is defined as the maximum frequency of any one of its elements.
Your task is to find the smallest possible length of a (contiguous) subarray of nums
, that has the same degree as nums
.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,2,2,3,1] Output: 2 Explanation: The input array has a degree of 2 because both elements 1 and 2 appear twice. Of the subarrays that have the same degree: [1, 2, 2, 3, 1], [1, 2, 2, 3], [2, 2, 3, 1], [1, 2, 2], [2, 2, 3], [2, 2] The shortest length is 2. So return 2.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [1,2,2,3,1,4,2] Output: 6 Explanation: The degree is 3 because the element 2 is repeated 3 times. So [2,2,3,1,4,2] is the shortest subarray, therefore returning 6.
Constraints:
nums.length
will be between 1 and 50,000.nums[i]
will be an integer between 0 and 49,999.