Odd Appearances
November 14, 2017
Today’s exercise is the kind of interview question that I don’t like. If you know the trick, you look like a genius, and if you don’t know the trick, you don’t get the job:
In an unsorted array of integers, find the one integer that appears an odd number of times. You may use O(n) time and O(1) space. For instance, in the array [4, 3, 6, 2, 6, 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3], the number 2 appears 2 times, the number 3 appears 4 times, the number 4 appears 3 times, and the number 6 appears 2 times, so the correct answer is 4.
Your task is to write a program to find the integer that appears an odd number of times. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 