LeetCode 219, Easy. Topics: Array, Hash Table, Sliding Window. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 15 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return true *if there are two distinct indices * i and j in the array such that nums[i] == nums[j] and abs(i - j) <= k.
Examples
Constraints
- 1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
- -10^9 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
- 0 <= k <= 10^5
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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