47. Permutations II

1. Description

Given a collection of numbers, nums, that might contain duplicates, return all possible unique permutations in any order.

2. Example

Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,1,2]
Output:
[[1,1,2],
[1,2,1],
[2,1,1]]

Example 2:
Input: nums = [1,2,3]
Output: [[1,2,3],[1,3,2],[2,1,3],[2,3,1],[3,1,2],[3,2,1]]

3. Constraints

  • 1 <= nums.length <= 8
  • -10 <= nums[i] <= 10

4. Solutions

Backtracking

n = nums.size()
Time complexity: O(nn!)
Space complexity: O(n)

class Solution {
public:
    vector<vector<int>> permuteUnique(vector<int> nums) {
        vector<vector<int>> result;
        permute(nums, 0, result);

        return result;
    }

private:
    void permute(vector<int> &nums, int index, vector<vector<int>> &result) {
        if (index < nums.size()) {
            map<int, bool> visit;
            for (int i = index; i < nums.size(); ++i) {
                if (!visit[nums[i]]) {
                    visit[nums[i]] = true;

                    swap(nums[i], nums[index]);
                    permute(nums, index + 1, result);
                    swap(nums[i], nums[index]);
                }
            }
        } else {
            result.push_back(nums);
        }
    }
};
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