Algorithm to determine if array contains n…n+m?

Question

I saw this question on Reddit, and there were no positive solutions presented, and I thought it would be a perfect question to ask here. This was in a thread about interview

Answer 1

Here's a working solution in O(n)

This is using the pseudocode suggested by Hazzen plus some of my own ideas. It works for negative numbers as well and doesn't require any sum-of-the-squares stuff.

function testArray($nums, $n, $m) {
    // check the sum. PHP offers this array_sum() method, but it's
    // trivial to write your own. O(n) here.
    if (array_sum($nums) != ($m * ($m + 2 * $n - 1) / 2)) {
        return false;    // checksum failed.
    }
    for ($i = 0; $i < $m; ++$i) {
        // check if the number is in the proper range
        if ($nums[$i] < $n || $nums[$i] >= $n + $m) {
            return false;  // value out of range.
        }

        while (($shouldBe = $nums[$i] - $n) != $i) {
            if ($nums[$shouldBe] == $nums[$i]) {
                return false;    // duplicate
            }
            $temp = $nums[$i];
            $nums[$i] = $nums[$shouldBe];
            $nums[$shouldBe] = $temp;
        }
    }
    return true;    // huzzah!
}

var_dump(testArray(array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 1, 5));  // true
var_dump(testArray(array(5, 4, 3, 2, 1), 1, 5));  // true
var_dump(testArray(array(6, 4, 3, 2, 0), 1, 5));  // false - out of range
var_dump(testArray(array(5, 5, 3, 2, 1), 1, 5));  // false - checksum fail
var_dump(testArray(array(5, 4, 3, 2, 5), 1, 5));  // false - dupe
var_dump(testArray(array(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2), -2, 5)); // true