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Help with an interesting problem? Looks straightforward but I failed to do it today during online assessment.
By Vik, history, 3 years ago, In English

Problem

Constraints:

Size of the array: [1 10^5]

Element: 1 <= a[i] <= 10^6

Brute force won't work because of the constraints. I tried thinking of various ways but all were convoluted. I feel there is an easier way to think about it but I am missing some observation.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

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You can use graph to solve this problem, put an edge between each element of each pair .

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    How will you do it in O(n)?

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      Draw an undirected edge between every element in the pair. You know that the ends of the array must have degree 1, as they are only adjacent to 1 element. Just find any node with degree 1, run a dfs from there, and return the order in which you visited the elements in the dfs. One other thing to note is that you can "coordinate-compress" the values in the array, so your runtime is $$$O(N)$$$, not $$$O(N+A)$$$, where $$$A$$$ is the maximum value of an array element.

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Since all the values are different we can construct a graph from the pairs. Suppose we have pair [a, b] , lets make an edge a — b. After we built the graph we can find the vertex with degree of 1 and make a simple dfs to print the array.

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