it can be done by doing set of operation on the data.
1) check sum of the square of arr1 = arr2
2) sum of elements of arr1=arr2
3) xoring elements of arr1 and arr2 == 0

if all 3 condition are successful then..permutation found.

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:59 AM, HARSHIT PAHUJA <[email protected]>wrote:

> given 2 unsorted integer arrays a and b of equal size. Determine if b is a
> permutation of a. Can this be done in O(n) time and O(1) space ?
>
>
>
>
> please help me with my solution
>
>
> suppose a --  3 5 4
>              b --  4 3 5
>
> now we replace a[i] with a[i]..th prime number  and b with b[i] .. th
> prime number
>
>   now array  a becomes  5 11 7
>          array  b becomes  7 5 11
>
> now we take product of elements of array a and do the same with array  b
> elements
> if product is equal  then b is a permutation of a
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