Counting Bits

Posted by ysd on August 30, 2016

Given a non negative integer number num.
For every numbers i in the range 0 ≤ i ≤ num calculate the number of 1’s in their binary representation and return them as an array.
Example:
For num = 5 you should return [0,1,1,2,1,2].
Follow up:

  • It is very easy to come up with a solution with run time O(n*sizeof(integer)). But can you do it in linear time O(n) /possibly in a single pass?
  • Space complexity should be O(n).
  • Can you do it like a boss? Do it without using any builtin function like __builtin_popcount in c++ or in any other language.

利用或与加中的 a + b = a | b
对每一个数 n,等于比其小的最大的2的指数 an - a 的和,此时 n = a | (n - a) = a + (n - a)
所以有,ans[n] = ans[a] + ans[n - a]

class Solution {
public:
    vector<int> countBits(int num) {
        vector<int> ans(num + 1);
        if (num == 0) {
            return ans;
        }
        ans[1] = 1;
        int bit = 2;    // 记录比i大的最小的2的指数
        for (size_t i = 2; i <= num; i++) {
            if (bit & i) {
                bit <<= 1;
                ans[i] = 1;
                continue;
            }
            int a = bit >> 1;   // a就是比i小的最大的2的指数
            int b = i - a;
            ans[i] = ans[a] + ans[b];
        }
        return ans;
    }
};