我会用另一种方法来回答这个问题，询问面试官关于他试图解决的更大问题的更多细节。根据问题和围绕它的需求，显而易见的基于集的解决方案可能是正确的，而生成一个列表然后从中挑选的方法可能不是。

For example, it might be that the interviewer is going to dispatch n messages and needs to know the k that didn't result in a reply and needs to know it in as little wall clock time as possible after the n-kth reply arrives. Let's also say that the message channel's nature is such that even running at full bore, there's enough time to do some processing between messages without having any impact on how long it takes to produce the end result after the last reply arrives. That time can be put to use inserting some identifying facet of each sent message into a set and deleting it as each corresponding reply arrives. Once the last reply has arrived, the only thing to be done is to remove its identifier from the set, which in typical implementations takes O(log k+1). After that, the set contains the list of k missing elements and there's no additional processing to be done.

这当然不是批处理预先生成的数字袋的最快方法，因为整个过程运行O((log 1 + log 2 +…)+ log n) + (log n + log n-1 +…+ log k))。但它确实适用于任何k值(即使它事先不知道)，在上面的例子中，它的应用方式使最关键的区间最小化。

这里有一个解决方案，使用k位额外的存储空间，没有任何聪明的技巧，只是简单。执行时间O (n)，额外空间O (k)。只是为了证明这个问题可以解决，而不需要先阅读解决方案或成为天才:

void puzzle (int* data, int n, bool* extra, int k)
{
    // data contains n distinct numbers from 1 to n + k, extra provides
    // space for k extra bits. 

    // Rearrange the array so there are (even) even numbers at the start
    // and (odd) odd numbers at the end.
    int even = 0, odd = 0;
    while (even + odd < n)
    {
        if (data [even] % 2 == 0) ++even;
        else if (data [n - 1 - odd] % 2 == 1) ++odd;
        else { int tmp = data [even]; data [even] = data [n - 1 - odd]; 
               data [n - 1 - odd] = tmp; ++even; ++odd; }
    }

    // Erase the lowest bits of all numbers and set the extra bits to 0.
    for (int i = even; i < n; ++i) data [i] -= 1;
    for (int i = 0; i < k; ++i) extra [i] = false;

    // Set a bit for every number that is present
    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
    {
        int tmp = data [i];
        tmp -= (tmp % 2);
        if (i >= even) ++tmp;
        if (tmp <= n) data [tmp - 1] += 1; else extra [tmp - n - 1] = true;
    }

    // Print out the missing ones
    for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i)
        if (data [i - 1] % 2 == 0) printf ("Number %d is missing\n", i);
    for (int i = n + 1; i <= n + k; ++i)
        if (! extra [i - n - 1]) printf ("Number %d is missing\n", i);

    // Restore the lowest bits again.
    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
        if (i < even) { if (data [i] % 2 != 0) data [i] -= 1; }
        else { if (data [i] % 2 == 0) data [i] += 1; }
    }
}

也许这个算法可以解决问题1:

预计算前100个整数的xor (val=1^2^3^4....100) 对来自输入流的元素进行Xor (val1=val1^next_input) 最终的答案= val ^ val1

或者更好:

def GetValue(A)
  val=0
  for i=1 to 100
    do
      val=val^i
    done
  for value in A:
    do
      val=val^value 
    done
  return val

这个算法实际上可以扩展到两个缺失的数字。第一步还是一样。当我们调用缺少两个数字的GetValue时，结果将是a1^a2是缺少的两个数字。让说

跌倒 = a1^a2

Now to sieve out a1 and a2 from val we take any set bit in val. Lets say the ith bit is set in val. That means that a1 and a2 have different parity at ith bit position. Now we do another iteration on the original array and keep two xor values. One for the numbers which have the ith bit set and other which doesn't have the ith bit set. We now have two buckets of numbers, and its guranteed that a1 and a2 will lie in different buckets. Now repeat the same what we did for finding one missing element on each of the bucket.

要解决缺少2(和3)个数字的问题，您可以修改quickselect，它平均在O(n)内运行，如果分区是就地完成的，则使用恒定内存。

Partition the set with respect to a random pivot p into partitions l, which contain numbers smaller than the pivot, and r, which contain numbers greater than the pivot. Determine which partitions the 2 missing numbers are in by comparing the pivot value to the size of each partition (p - 1 - count(l) = count of missing numbers in l and n - count(r) - p = count of missing numbers in r) a) If each partition is missing one number, then use the difference of sums approach to find each missing number. (1 + 2 + ... + (p-1)) - sum(l) = missing #1 and ((p+1) + (p+2) ... + n) - sum(r) = missing #2 b) If one partition is missing both numbers and the partition is empty, then the missing numbers are either (p-1,p-2) or (p+1,p+2) depending on which partition is missing the numbers. If one partition is missing 2 numbers but is not empty, then recurse onto that partiton.

由于只缺少2个数字，该算法总是丢弃至少一个分区，因此保持了O(n)个快速选择的平均时间复杂度。类似地，当缺少3个数字时，该算法也会在每次传递中丢弃至少一个分区(因为当缺少2个数字时，最多只有1个分区包含多个缺少的数字)。然而，我不确定当添加更多缺失的数字时，性能会下降多少。

下面是一个不使用就地分区的实现，所以这个例子不满足空间要求，但它确实说明了算法的步骤:

<?php

  $list = range(1,100);
  unset($list[3]);
  unset($list[31]);

  findMissing($list,1,100);

  function findMissing($list, $min, $max) {
    if(empty($list)) {
      print_r(range($min, $max));
      return;
    }

    $l = $r = [];
    $pivot = array_pop($list);

    foreach($list as $number) {
      if($number < $pivot) {
        $l[] = $number;
      }
      else {
        $r[] = $number;
      }
    }

    if(count($l) == $pivot - $min - 1) {
      // only 1 missing number use difference of sums
      print array_sum(range($min, $pivot-1)) - array_sum($l) . "\n";
    }
    else if(count($l) < $pivot - $min) {
      // more than 1 missing number, recurse
      findMissing($l, $min, $pivot-1);
    }

    if(count($r) == $max - $pivot - 1) {
      // only 1 missing number use difference of sums
      print array_sum(range($pivot + 1, $max)) - array_sum($r) . "\n";
    } else if(count($r) < $max - $pivot) {
      // mroe than 1 missing number recurse
      findMissing($r, $pivot+1, $max);
    }
  }

Demo

我们可以通过把数字本身和这些数字的平方相加来解Q2。

我们可以把问题简化为

k1 + k2 = x
k1^2 + k2^2 = y

其中x和y表示和低于期望值的程度。

代换给我们:

(x-k2)^2 + k2^2 = y

然后我们可以解出缺失的数。

我认为这不需要任何复杂的数学方程和理论。下面是一个建议的到位和O(2n)时间复杂度的解决方案:

输入表格假设:

袋子里的数字# = n

缺失数字的数量= k

袋子里的数字由长度为n的数组表示

算法的输入数组长度= n

数组中缺失的条目(从袋子中取出的数字)将被数组中第一个元素的值替换。

如。最初袋子看起来像[2,9,3,7,8,6,4,5,1,10]。 如果4被取出，value 4将变成2(数组的第一个元素)。 因此，在取出4后，袋子将看起来像[2,9,3,7,8,6,2,5,1,10]

此解决方案的关键是在遍历数组时，通过对索引处的值求负来标记访问数的INDEX。

    IEnumerable<int> GetMissingNumbers(int[] arrayOfNumbers)
    {
        List<int> missingNumbers = new List<int>();
        int arrayLength = arrayOfNumbers.Length;

        //First Pass
        for (int i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++)
        {
            int index = Math.Abs(arrayOfNumbers[i]) - 1;
            if (index > -1)
            {
                arrayOfNumbers[index] = Math.Abs(arrayOfNumbers[index]) * -1; //Marking the visited indexes
            }
        }

        //Second Pass to get missing numbers
        for (int i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++)
        {                
            //If this index is unvisited, means this is a missing number
            if (arrayOfNumbers[i] > 0)
            {
                missingNumbers.Add(i + 1);
            }
        }

        return missingNumbers;
    }