Longest Consecutive Sequence
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Replace nested loops with unordered_map / unordered_set lookups.
unordered_map<int,int> mp;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
int need = target - nums[i];
if (mp.count(need)) return {mp[need], i};
mp[nums[i]] = i;
}MediumHashingLeetCode #128
Longest Consecutive Sequence
O(n): put all in a set; only start a streak when x-1 not in set.
Examples
Example 1
Input
6 100 4 200 1 3 2
Output
4
Example 2
Input
10 0 3 7 2 5 8 4 6 0 1
Output
9
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