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Solution Review: Single Number

Explore the use of the bitwise XOR operator to solve the single number problem. Understand how XOR properties can isolate a unique number among duplicates by iterating and applying XOR to all elements. This lesson teaches you to implement this algorithm with O(n) time and O(1) space complexity.

Solution review: Bit manipulation

We are dealing with bit manipulation and want to solve all of these problems with Bitwise operators.

Concepts

If we take XOR of zero and a bit, it will return that bit.

a ^ 0 = a

If we take XOR of two same bits, it will return 0.

a ^ a = 0

For n numbers, the below math can be applied.

a ^ ...