How can I find a number which occurs an odd number of times in a SORTED array in O(n) time?

Question

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Answer 1

Try this:

int getOddOccurrence(int ar[], int ar_size)
{
     int i;
     int xor = 0; 
     for (i=0; i < ar_size; i++)     
        xor = xor ^ ar[i];

     return res;
}

XOR will cancel out everytime you XOR with the same number so 1^1=0 but 1^1^1=1 so every pair should cancel out leaving the odd number out.