- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Array, Math, Interactive, leetcode-1538, O(n), O(1), 🔒
Problem
We have an integer array nums
, where all the integers in nums
are 0 or 1. You will not be given direct access to the array, instead, you will have an API ArrayReader
which have the following functions:
int query(int a, int b, int c, int d)
: where0 <= a < b < c < d < ArrayReader.length()
. The function returns the distribution of the value of the 4 elements and returns:- 4 : if the values of the 4 elements are the same (0 or 1).
- 2 : if three elements have a value equal to 0 and one element has value equal to 1 or vice versa.
- 0 : if two element have a value equal to 0 and two elements have a value equal to 1.
int length()
: Returns the size of the array.
You are allowed to call query()
2 * n times at most where n is equal to ArrayReader.length()
.
Return any index of the most frequent value in nums
, in case of tie, return -1.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [0,0,1,0,1,1,1,1] Output: 5 Explanation: The following calls to the API reader.length() // returns 8 because there are 8 elements in the hidden array. reader.query(0,1,2,3) // returns 2 this is a query that compares the elements nums[0], nums[1], nums[2], nums[3] // Three elements have a value equal to 0 and one element has value equal to 1 or viceversa. reader.query(4,5,6,7) // returns 4 because nums[4], nums[5], nums[6], nums[7] have the same value. we can infer that the most frequent value is found in the last 4 elements. Index 2, 4, 6, 7 is also a correct answer.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [0,0,1,1,0] Output: 0
Example 3:
Input: nums = [1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0] Output: -1
Constraints:
5 <= nums.length <= 105
0 <= nums[i] <= 1
Follow up: What is the minimum number of calls needed to find the majority element?