{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 25, "metadata": { "scrolled": true }, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "5\n" ] } ], "source": [ "# ----------------------------------------------------------------\n", "# Consider an array of non-negative integers.\n", "# A second array is formed by shuffling the elements of the first array and deleting a random element. \n", "# Given these two arrays, find which element is missing in the second array.\n", "# Here is an example input, the first array is shuffled and the number 5 is removed to construct the second array.\n", "# Input:\n", "# finder([1,2,3,4,5,6,7],[3,7,2,1,4,6])\n", "# Output:\n", "# 5 is the missing number\n", "# ----------------------------------------------------------------\n", "# Algorithm\n", "# \n", "# ----------------------------------------------------------------\n", "\n", "\n", "first_array = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]\n", "second_array = [3,7,2,1,4,6]\n", "\n", "def finder(first_array, second_array):\n", " return(sum(first_array) - sum(second_array))\n", "\n", "missing_number = finder(first_array, second_array)\n", "\n", "print(missing_number) " ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.6.1" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 2 }