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LC-2006 Easy LeetCode

2006. Count Number of Pairs With Absolute Difference K

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Difficulty: easy Acceptance: 85% Topics: Array, Hash Table, Counting
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Reference solution (spoiler · python)
# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(n)

import collections


class Solution(object):
    def countKDifference(self, nums, k):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :type k: int
        :rtype: int
        """
        lookup = collections.defaultdict(int)
        result = 0
        for x in nums:
            if x-k in lookup:
                result += lookup[x-k]
            if x+k in lookup:
                result += lookup[x+k]
            lookup[x] += 1            
        return result

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT