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Noble integers in an array or count of greater elements is equal to value java


Noble integers in an array or count of greater elements is equal to value?. Explanation: Given an array arr[], find a Noble integer in it. An integer x is said to be Noble in arr[] if the number of integers greater than x are equal to x. If there are many Noble integers, return any of them. If there is no, then return -1. Examples: Input : [7, 3, 16, 10] Output : 3 Number of integers greater than 3 is three. Input : [-1, -9, -2, -78, 0] Output : 0 Number of integers greater than 0 is zero. Solution: There can be many approach to solve this problem.you can solve this problem by "Brute Force" approach and also by "Sorting" . Brute Force Approach: First Step: Iterate through the array. Second Step: For every element arr[i], find the number of elements greater than arr[i]. Sample Program: /** * */ /** * @author Abhinaw.Tripathi * */ public class NobleIntegerApp { public static void main(String[] args) { int [] arr = {10, 3, 20, 40, 2}; int res = nobleInteger(arr); if (res!=-1) System.out.println("The noble integer is "+ res); else System.out.println("No Noble Integer Found"); } public static int nobleInteger(int arr[]) { int size = arr.length; for (int i=0; i<size; i++ ) { int count = 0; for (int j=0; j<size; j++) if (arr[i] < arr[j]) count++; if (count == arr[i]) return arr[i]; } return -1; } } Output:The noble integer is 3 Complexity: Though this is not very good Solution as you can see there are two loops and comparison happening. Sorting Approach: Step one: Sort the array in ascending order.complexity O(nlogn). Step two:Iterate through the array. Step three: Compare the value of index i to the number of elements after index i. If arr[i] equals the number of elements after arr[i], it is a noble Integer. Step four:Check condition, (A[i] == length-i-1). the complexity in doing this would be O(n). Sample Code: /** * */ /** * @author Abhinaw.Tripathi * */ public class NobleIntegerApp { public static void main(String[] args) { int [] arr = {10, 3, 20, 40, 2}; int res = nobleInteger(arr); if (res!=-1) System.out.println("The noble integer is "+ res); else System.out.println("No Noble Integer Found"); } public static int nobleInteger(int arr[]) { Arrays.sort(arr); int n = arr.length; for (int i=0; i<n-1; i++) { if (arr[i] == arr[i+1]) continue; if (arr[i] == n-i-1) return arr[i]; } if (arr[n-1] == 0) return arr[n-1]; return -1; } } Output: The noble integer is 3

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