Solution: Unique Number of Occurrences
Understand how to use hash maps and hash sets to check if each element in an array has a unique frequency. This lesson enables you to implement a linear time algorithm that counts occurrences efficiently and checks for duplicates in frequencies, improving your skills in solving common data structure challenges.
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Statement
Given an array of integers nums, return TRUE if each value in the array has a unique number of occurrences; otherwise, return FALSE.
Constraints:
<= nums.length<=<= nums[i]<=
Solution
The algorithm checks if there is a unique number of occurrences of each element by using a hash map and a hash set. First, for each element of the nums array, put the element in the hash map if it does not already exist in the hash map; otherwise, increment its count. Second, put all the elements' frequencies (counts) in a hash set. Finally, the algorithm will return TRUE if the count of the hash map and the hash set is the same and FALSE otherwise.
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