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1980. Find Unique Binary String

Description

Given an array of strings nums containing n unique binary strings each of length n, return a binary string of length n that does not appear in nums. If there are multiple answers, you may return any of them.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = ["01","10"]
Output: "11"
Explanation: "11" does not appear in nums. "00" would also be correct.

Example 2:

Input: nums = ["00","01"]
Output: "11"
Explanation: "11" does not appear in nums. "10" would also be correct.

Example 3:

Input: nums = ["111","011","001"]
Output: "101"
Explanation: "101" does not appear in nums. "000", "010", "100", and "110" would also be correct.

 

Constraints:

  • n == nums.length
  • 1 <= n <= 16
  • nums[i].length == n
  • nums[i] is either '0' or '1'.
  • All the strings of nums are unique.

Solutions

Solution 1: Counting + Enumeration

Since the number of occurrences of '1' in a binary string of length $n$ can be $0, 1, 2, \cdots, n$ (there are $n + 1$ possibilities), we can certainly find a new binary string that has a different number of '1's from every string in nums.

We can use an integer $mask$ to record the occurrence of '1' in all strings, i.e., the $i$-th bit of $mask$ is $1$ indicates that there is a string of length $n$ in which '1' appears $i$ times, otherwise it does not exist.

Then we start to enumerate the number of times '1' appears in a binary string of length $n$ from $0$. If the $i$-th bit of $mask$ is $0$, it means that there is no string of length $n$ in which '1' appears $i$ times. We can return this string as the answer.

The time complexity is $O(L)$, where $L$ is the total length of the strings in nums. The space complexity is $O(1)$.

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class Solution:
    def findDifferentBinaryString(self, nums: List[str]) -> str:
        mask = 0
        for x in nums:
            mask |= 1 << x.count("1")
        n = len(nums)
        for i in range(n + 1):
            if mask >> i & 1 ^ 1:
                return "1" * i + "0" * (n - i)

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class Solution {
    public String findDifferentBinaryString(String[] nums) {
        int mask = 0;
        for (var x : nums) {
            int cnt = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < x.length(); ++i) {
                if (x.charAt(i) == '1') {
                    ++cnt;
                }
            }
            mask |= 1 << cnt;
        }
        for (int i = 0;; ++i) {
            if ((mask >> i & 1) == 0) {
                return "1".repeat(i) + "0".repeat(nums.length - i);
            }
        }
    }
}

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class Solution {
public:
    string findDifferentBinaryString(vector<string>& nums) {
        int mask = 0;
        for (auto& x : nums) {
            int cnt = count(x.begin(), x.end(), '1');
            mask |= 1 << cnt;
        }
        for (int i = 0;; ++i) {
            if (mask >> i & 1 ^ 1) {
                return string(i, '1') + string(nums.size() - i, '0');
            }
        }
    }
};

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func findDifferentBinaryString(nums []string) string {
    mask := 0
    for _, x := range nums {
        mask |= 1 << strings.Count(x, "1")
    }
    for i := 0; ; i++ {
        if mask>>i&1 == 0 {
            return strings.Repeat("1", i) + strings.Repeat("0", len(nums)-i)
        }
    }
}

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function findDifferentBinaryString(nums: string[]): string {
    let mask = 0;
    for (let x of nums) {
        const cnt = x.split('').filter(c => c === '1').length;
        mask |= 1 << cnt;
    }
    for (let i = 0; ; ++i) {
        if (((mask >> i) & 1) === 0) {
            return '1'.repeat(i) + '0'.repeat(nums.length - i);
        }
    }
}

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public class Solution {
    public string FindDifferentBinaryString(string[] nums) {
        int mask = 0;
        foreach (var x in nums) {
            int cnt = x.Count(c => c == '1');
            mask |= 1 << cnt;
        }
        int i = 0;
        while ((mask >> i & 1) == 1) {
            i++;
        }
        return string.Format("{0}{1}", new string('1', i), new string('0', nums.Length - i));
    }
}

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