- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Greedy, Bit Manipulation, leetcode-2429, O(logn), O(1)
Problem
Given two positive integers num1
and num2
, find the positive integer x
such that:
x
has the same number of set bits asnum2
, and- The value
x XOR num1
is minimal.
Note that XOR
is the bitwise XOR operation.
Return the integer x
. The test cases are generated such that x
is uniquely determined.
The number of set bits of an integer is the number of 1
's in its binary representation.
Example 1:
Input: num1 = 3, num2 = 5
Output: 3
Explanation:
The binary representations of num1 and num2 are 0011 and 0101, respectively.
The integer 3 has the same number of set bits as num2, and the value 3 XOR 3 = 0
is minimal.
Example 2:
Input: num1 = 1, num2 = 12
Output: 3
Explanation:
The binary representations of num1 and num2 are 0001 and 1100, respectively.
The integer 3 has the same number of set bits as num2, and the value 3 XOR 1 = 2
is minimal.
Constraints:
1 <= num1, num2 <= 109