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Given a number n, the task is to find the XOR from 1 to n.
Examples :
Input : n = 6
Output : 7
// 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 5 ^ 6 = 7Input : n = 7
Output : 0
// 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 5 ^ 6 ^ 7 = 0
1- Initialize the result as 0.
1- Traverse all numbers from 1 to n.
2- Do XOR of numbers one by one with results.
3- At the end, return the result.
0
Time Complexity: O(n)
Auxiliary Space: O(1)
1- Find the remainder of n by moduling it with 4.
2- If rem = 0, then XOR will be same as n.
3- If rem = 1, then XOR will be 1.
4- If rem = 2, then XOR will be n+1.
5- If rem = 3 ,then XOR will be 0.
How does this work?
When we do XOR of numbers, we get 0 as the XOR value just before a multiple of 4. This keeps repeating before every multiple of 4.
Number Binary-Repr XOR-from-1-to-n
1 1 [0001]
2 10 [0011]
3 11 [0000] <----- We get a 0
4 100 [0100] <----- Equals to n
5 101 [0001]
6 110 [0111]
7 111 [0000] <----- We get 0
8 1000 [1000] <----- Equals to n
9 1001 [0001]
10 1010 [1011]
11 1011 [0000] <------ We get 0
12 1100 [1100] <------ Equals to n
1
Time Complexity: O(1)
Auxiliary Space: O(1)