Find Duplicate in Range 0 and n-1

Code

#include <stdio.h>

int find_duplicate(int arr[], int n) {
    // Your logic here
    for(int i=0; i<n; i++){
        for(int j=0; j<n-i-1; j++){
            if(arr[j]>arr[j+1]){
                int temp=arr[j];
                arr[j]=arr[j+1];
                arr[j+1]=temp;
            }
        }
    }
    
    for(int k=0;k<n;k++){
        if(arr[k]==arr[k+1]){
        return arr[k];    
        }
    }
}

int main() {
    int n;
    scanf("%d", &n);

    int arr[100];
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) scanf("%d", &arr[i]);

    int result = find_duplicate(arr, n);
    printf("%d", result);
    return 0;
}

Solving Approach

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) {
            if (arr[i] == arr[j]) {
                return arr[i]; // Duplicate found
            }
        }
    }

 

 

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Input

5 0 1 2 3 2

Expected Output

2