programming-examples/ruby/Arrays/MajorityElement.rb
2019-11-15 12:59:38 +01:00

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# Find majority element(if exists) in a given array.
# A majority element in an array A[] of size n is an element that appears more than n/2 times
#Time-complexity: O(n), Auxiliary-space:O(1)
#Moore's Voting algorithm
def majority_element(a)
len=a.length
maj_index=0
count=1
for i in 1...len
if a[i]==a[maj_index]
count+=1
else
count-=1
end
if count==0
a[maj_index]=a[i]
count=1
end
end
candidate=a[maj_index]
count=0
for i in 0...len
if a[i]==candidate
count+=1
end
end
if count > (len/2)
return candidate
else
return -1
end
end
majority_element([2, 2, 3, 5, 2, 3])