Efficient algorithm to determine if two sets of numbers are disjoint

Question

Practicing for software developer interviews and got stuck on an algorithm question.

Given two sets of unsorted integers with array of length m and other of          


        

Answer 1

Using a datastructure that has O(1) lookup/insertion you can easily insert all elements of first set.

Then foreach element in second set, if it exists not disjoint, otherwise it is disjoint

Pseudocode

function isDisjoint(list1, list2)
    HashMap = new HashMap();
    foreach( x in list1)
        HashMap.put(x, true);

    foreach(y in list2)
        if(HashMap.hasKey(y))
             return false;
    return true;

This will give you an O(n + m) solution