tvl-depot/users/wpcarro/scratch/facebook/find-unique-int-among-duplicates.py

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import random
def find_duplicate(xs):
mini, maxi, acc = xs[0], xs[0], xs[0]
for i in range(1, len(xs)):
mini = min(mini, xs[i])
maxi = max(maxi, xs[i])
acc = acc ^ xs[i]
mask = mini
for i in range(mini + 1, maxi + 1):
mask = mask ^ i
return mask ^ acc
xs = [5, 3, 4, 1, 5, 2]
print(xs)
result = find_duplicate(xs)
print(result)