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LC-0001 Easy LeetCode

1. Two Sum

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Difficulty: easy Acceptance: 56% Topics: Array, Hash Table
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Reference solution (spoiler · python)
# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(n)

class Solution(object):
    def twoSum(self, nums, target):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :type target: int
        :rtype: List[int]
        """
        lookup = {}
        for i, num in enumerate(nums):
            if target - num in lookup:
                return [lookup[target - num], i]
            lookup[num] = i

    def twoSum2(self, nums, target):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :type target: int
        :rtype: List[int]
        """
        for i in nums:
            j = target - i
            tmp_nums_start_index = nums.index(i) + 1
            tmp_nums = nums[tmp_nums_start_index:]
            if j in tmp_nums:
                return [nums.index(i), tmp_nums_start_index + tmp_nums.index(j)]


Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT