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Rakesh Reddy Peddamallu
Rakesh Reddy Peddamallu

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Leetcode - 645. Set Mismatch

Basically we need to return duplicated item and the missing item in array .

since the numbers are from 1 to n

their total sum will be n*(n+1)/2 (šŸ˜… mathematics)

Approach is simple just use a for loop and push each item in a new array only if its not in the new array , if its already present in new array then i don't push it instead store the duplicated item in a variable

i named the new array as - arrUnique
storing duplicated item in variable dup

the rest is understandable from code just have a look and try to understand

/**
 * @param {number[]} nums
 * @return {number[]}
 */
var findErrorNums = function(nums) {
    const arrUnique = [] ;
    let dup = 0;
    let remainingSum = 0;
    const n = nums.length;
    nums.forEach((num)=>{
        if(arrUnique.includes(num)){
            dup = num
        }else{
            remainingSum+=num;
            arrUnique.push(num)
        }
    })


    const sum = (n * (n+1)) / 2
    return [dup,(sum-remainingSum) ]
};
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