JavaAlgorithms/Others/BoyerMoore.java
2021-10-27 22:03:51 +03:00

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/* this Code is the illustration of Boyer moore's voting algorithm to
find the majority element is an array that appears more than n/2 times in an array
where "n" is the length of the array.
For more information on the algorithm refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_majority_vote_algorithm
*/
package Others;
import java.util.*;
public class BoyerMoore {
public static int findmajor(int [] a){
int count=0; int cand=-1;
for(int i=0;i<a.length;i++){
if(count==0){
cand=a[i];
count=1;
}
else {
if (a[i] == cand)
count++;
else
count--;
}
}for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
if (a[i] == cand)
count++;}
if (count > (a.length / 2))
return cand;
return -1;
}
public static void main(String args[]){
Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);
int n=input.nextInt();
int a[]=new int[n];
for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
a[i]=input.nextInt();
}
System.out.println("the majority element is "+findmajor(a));
}
}