3020. Find the Maximum Number of Elements in Subset
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You are given an array of positive integers nums.
You need to select a subset of nums which satisfies the following condition:
- You can place the selected elements in a 0-indexed array such that it follows the pattern:
[x, x2, x4, ..., xk/2, xk, xk/2, ..., x4, x2, x](Note thatkcan be be any non-negative power of2). For example,[2, 4, 16, 4, 2]and[3, 9, 3]follow the pattern while[2, 4, 8, 4, 2]does not.
Return the maximum number of elements in a subset that satisfies these conditions.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [5,4,1,2,2]
Output: 3
Explanation: We can select the subset {4,2,2}, which can be placed in the array as [2,4,2] which follows the pattern and 22 == 4. Hence the answer is 3.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [1,3,2,4]
Output: 1
Explanation: We can select the subset {1}, which can be placed in the array as [1] which follows the pattern. Hence the answer is 1. Note that we could have also selected the subsets {2}, {3}, or {4}, there may be multiple subsets which provide the same answer.
Constraints:
2 <= nums.length <= 1051 <= nums[i] <= 109
Hints
Hint 1
We can select an odd number of
1’s.Hint 2
Put all the values into a HashSet. We can start from each
x > 1 as the smallest chosen value and we can find the longest subset by checking the new values (which are the square of the previous value) in the set by brute force.Hint 3
Note when
x > 1, x2, x4, x8, … increases very fast, the longest subset with smallest value x cannot be very long. (The length is O(log(log(109))).Hint 4
Hence we can directly check all lengths less than
10 for all values of x.