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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +id: degree-of-an-array |
| 3 | +title: Degree of an Array |
| 4 | +sidebar_label: 0697 - Degree of an Array |
| 5 | +tags: |
| 6 | + - Hash Table |
| 7 | + - Array |
| 8 | + - Sliding Window |
| 9 | +description: "This is a solution to the Degree of an Array problem on LeetCode." |
| 10 | +--- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +## Problem Description |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +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. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +Your task is to find the smallest possible length of a (contiguous) subarray of `nums`, that has the same degree as `nums`. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +### Examples |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +**Example 1:** |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +``` |
| 23 | +Input: nums = [1,2,2,3,1] |
| 24 | +Output: 2 |
| 25 | +Explanation: |
| 26 | +The input array has a degree of 2 because both elements 1 and 2 appear twice. |
| 27 | +Of the subarrays that have the same degree: |
| 28 | +[1, 2, 2, 3, 1], [1, 2, 2, 3], [2, 2, 3, 1], [1, 2, 2], [2, 2, 3], [2, 2] |
| 29 | +The shortest length is 2. So return 2. |
| 30 | +``` |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +**Example 2:** |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +``` |
| 35 | +Input: nums = [1,2,2,3,1,4,2] |
| 36 | +Output: 6 |
| 37 | +Explanation: |
| 38 | +The degree is 3 because the element 2 is repeated 3 times. |
| 39 | +So [2,2,3,1,4,2] is the shortest subarray, therefore returning 6. |
| 40 | +``` |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +### Constraints |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +- `nums.length` will be between 1 and 50,000. |
| 45 | +- `nums[i]` will be an integer between 0 and 49,999. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +## Solution for Degree of an Array |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +### Approach: Left and Right Index |
| 50 | +#### Intuition and Algorithm |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +An array that has degree `d`, must have some element `x` occur `d` times. If some subarray has the same degree, then some element `x` (that occurred d times), still occurs `d` times. The shortest such subarray would be from the first occurrence of `x` until the last occurrence. |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +For each element in the given array, let's know `left`, the index of its first occurrence; and `right`, the index of its last occurrence. For example, with `nums = [1,2,3,2,5]` we have `left[2] = 1` and `right[2] = 3`. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +Then, for each element `x` that occurs the maximum number of times, `right[x] - left[x] + 1` will be our candidate answer, and we'll take the minimum of those candidates. |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +## Code in Different Languages |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +<Tabs> |
| 61 | +<TabItem value="java" label="Java"> |
| 62 | + <SolutionAuthor name="@Shreyash3087"/> |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +```java |
| 65 | +class Solution { |
| 66 | + public int findShortestSubArray(int[] nums) { |
| 67 | + Map<Integer, Integer> left = new HashMap(), |
| 68 | + right = new HashMap(), count = new HashMap(); |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | + for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) { |
| 71 | + int x = nums[i]; |
| 72 | + if (left.get(x) == null) { |
| 73 | + left.put(x, I); |
| 74 | + } |
| 75 | + right.put(x, i); |
| 76 | + count.put(x, count.getOrDefault(x, 0) + 1); |
| 77 | + } |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | + int ans = nums.length; |
| 80 | + int degree = Collections.max(count.values()); |
| 81 | + for (int x: count.keySet()) { |
| 82 | + if (count.get(x) == degree) { |
| 83 | + ans = Math.min(ans, right.get(x) - left.get(x) + 1); |
| 84 | + } |
| 85 | + } |
| 86 | + return ans; |
| 87 | + } |
| 88 | +} |
| 89 | +``` |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +</TabItem> |
| 92 | +<TabItem value="python" label="Python"> |
| 93 | + <SolutionAuthor name="@Shreyash3087"/> |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +```python |
| 96 | +class Solution(object): |
| 97 | + def findShortestSubArray(self, nums): |
| 98 | + left, right, count = {}, {}, {} |
| 99 | + for i, x in enumerate(nums): |
| 100 | + if x not in left: |
| 101 | + left[x] = i |
| 102 | + right[x] = i |
| 103 | + count[x] = count.get(x, 0) + 1 |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | + ans = len(nums) |
| 106 | + degree = max(count.values()) |
| 107 | + for x in count: |
| 108 | + if count[x] == degree: |
| 109 | + ans = min(ans, right[x] - left[x] + 1) |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | + return ans |
| 112 | +``` |
| 113 | +</TabItem> |
| 114 | +</Tabs> |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | +## Complexity Analysis |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | +### Time Complexity: $O(N)$ |
| 119 | + |
| 120 | +> **Reason**: where N is the length of `nums`. Every loop is through $O(N)$ items with $O(1)$ work inside the for-block. |
| 121 | +
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| 122 | +### Space Complexity: $O(N)$ |
| 123 | + |
| 124 | +> **Reason**: the space used by `left`, `right`, and `count`. |
| 125 | +
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| 126 | + |
| 127 | +## References |
| 128 | + |
| 129 | +- **LeetCode Problem**: [Degree of an Array](https://leetcode.com/problems/degree-of-an-array/description/) |
| 130 | + |
| 131 | +- **Solution Link**: [Degree of an Array](https://leetcode.com/problems/degree-of-an-array/solutions/) |
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