PermMissingElem
Task Discription
An array A consisting of N different integers is given. The array contains integers in the range [1..(N + 1)], which means that exactly one element is missing.
Your goal is to find that missing element.
Write a function:
def solution(A)
that, given an array A, returns the value of the missing element.
For example, given array A such that:
A[0] = 2
A[1] = 3
A[2] = 1
A[3] = 5
the function should return 4, as it is the missing element.
Write an efficient algorithm for the following assumptions:
N is an integer within the range [0..100,000];
the elements of A are all distinct;
each element of array A is an integer within the range [1..(N + 1)].
Solution
def solution(A): check = [0]*(len(A)+1) for a in A: check[a-1] = 1 return check.index(0)+1
