[leetcode] problem 169 – majority element

Given an array of size n, find the majority element. The majority element is the element that appears more than ⌊ n/2 ⌋ times.

You may assume that the array is non-empty and the majority element always exist in the array.

Example

No.1

Input: [3,2,3]

Output: 3

No.2

Input: [2,2,1,1,1,2,2]

Output: 2

Code

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public int (int[] nums) {
int result = 0;
int count = 0;

for (int num : nums) {
if (count == 0) {
result = num;
count = 1;
}
else if (num != result)
count--;
else
count++;
}

return result;
}