diff --git a/other/majority_vote_algorithm.py b/other/majority_vote_algorithm.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ab8b386dd --- /dev/null +++ b/other/majority_vote_algorithm.py @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +""" +This is Booyer-Moore Majority Vote Algorithm. The problem statement goes like this: +Given an integer array of size n, find all elements that appear more than ⌊ n/k ⌋ times. +We have to solve in O(n) time and O(1) Space. +URL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_majority_vote_algorithm +""" +from collections import Counter + + +def majority_vote(votes: list[int], votes_needed_to_win: int) -> list[int]: + """ + >>> majority_vote([1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2], 3) + [2] + >>> majority_vote([1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2], 2) + [] + >>> majority_vote([1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2], 4) + [1, 2, 3] + """ + majority_candidate_counter: Counter[int] = Counter() + for vote in votes: + majority_candidate_counter[vote] += 1 + if len(majority_candidate_counter) == votes_needed_to_win: + majority_candidate_counter -= Counter(set(majority_candidate_counter)) + majority_candidate_counter = Counter( + vote for vote in votes if vote in majority_candidate_counter + ) + return [ + vote + for vote in majority_candidate_counter + if majority_candidate_counter[vote] > len(votes) / votes_needed_to_win + ] + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + import doctest + + doctest.testmod()