Use the formula for sum of first n natural numbers to get the missing number.
Thanks & regards, Sathaiah Dontula On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Banoo <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > can you help me solve the following problem? > > You are given an unsorted list of n-1 distinct integers from the range > 1 to n. Write a linear-time algorithm to find the missing integer. > > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<algogeeks%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
