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Given three integers N, K and X, the task is to construct an array of length N, in which XOR of all elements of each contiguous sub-array of length K is X.
Examples: 
 

Input: N = 5, K = 1, X = 4 
Output: 4 4 4 4 4 
Explanation: 
Each subarray of length 1 has Xor value equal to 4.
Input: N = 5, K = 2, X = 4 
Output: 4 0 4 0 4 
Explanation: 
Each subarray of length 2 has Xor value equal to 4. 
 

 

Approach: 
To solve the problem mentioned above, we need to follow the steps given below:
 

  • Bitwise-XOR of any number, X with 0 is equal to the number itself. So, if we set the first element of the array A as X, and the next K – 1 elements as 0, then we will have the XOR of elements of first sub-array of length K, equal to X.
  • If we set A[K] as A[0], then we will have XOR(A[1], …, A[K]) = X. Similarly, if we set A[K + 1] as A[1], then we will have XOR(A[2], …, A[K+1]) = X
  • Continuing in this manner, we can observe that the general formula can be described as below:

Below is the implementation of the above approach:
 

C++




// C++ implementation to Create an array
// in which the XOR of all elements of
// each contiguous sub-array of
// length K is X
 
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
// Function to construct the array
void constructArray(int N, int K, int X)
{
 
    // Creating a vector of size K,
    // initialised with 0
    vector<int> ans(K, 0);
 
    // Initialising the first element
    // with the given XOR
    ans[0] = X;
 
    for (int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
        cout << ans[i % K] << " ";
    }
 
    cout << endl;
}
 
// Driver code
int main()
{
    int N = 5, K = 2, X = 4;
 
    constructArray(N, K, X);
 
    return 0;
}


Java




// Java implementation to create an array
// in which the XOR of all elements of
// each contiguous sub-array of
// length K is X
class GFG{
     
// Function to construct the array
public static void constructArray(int N, int K,
                                         int X)
{
     
    // Creating an array of size K,
    // initialised with 0
    int[] ans = new int[K];
      
    // Initialising the first element
    // with the given XOR
    ans[0] = X;
     
    for(int i = 0; i < N; ++i)
    {
       System.out.print(ans[i % K] + " ");
    }
}
 
// Driver code
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    int N = 5, K = 2, X = 4;
     
    constructArray(N, K, X);
}
}
 
// This code is contributed by divyeshrabadiya07


Python3




# Python3 implementation to create an array
# in which the XOR of all elements of
# each contiguous sub-array of
# length K is X
 
# Function to construct the array
def constructArray(N, K, X):
     
    # Creating a list of size K,
    # initialised with 0
    ans = []
     
    for i in range(0, K):
        ans.append(0)
         
    # Initialising the first element
    # with the given XOR
    ans[0] = X
         
    for i in range(0, N):
        print(ans[i % K], end = " ")
 
# Driver code
N = 5
K = 2
X = 4
 
# Function call
constructArray(N, K, X)
 
# This code is contributed by ishayadav181


C#




// C# implementation to create an array
// in which the XOR of all elements of
// each contiguous sub-array of
// length K is X
using System;
 
class GFG{
     
// Function to construct the array
public static void constructArray(int N, int K,
                                         int X)
{
     
    // Creating an array of size K,
    // initialised with 0
    int[] ans = new int[K];
     
    // Initialising the first element
    // with the given XOR
    ans[0] = X;
     
    for(int i = 0; i < N; ++i)
    {
        Console.Write(ans[i % K] + " ");
    }
}
 
// Driver code
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    int N = 5, K = 2, X = 4;
     
    constructArray(N, K, X);
}
}
 
// This code is contributed by rutvik_56


Javascript




<script>
 
// Javascript implementation to Create an array
// in which the XOR of all elements of
// each contiguous sub-array of
// length K is X
 
// Function to construct the array
function constructArray(N, K, X)
{
 
    // Creating a vector of size K,
    // initialised with 0
    let ans = new Array(K).fill(0);
 
    // Initialising the first element
    // with the given XOR
    ans[0] = X;
 
    for (let i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
        document.write(ans[i % K] + " ");
    }
 
    document.write("<br>");
}
 
// Driver code
    let N = 5, K = 2, X = 4;
 
    constructArray(N, K, X);
 
</script>


Output: 

4 0 4 0 4

 

Time Complexity: O(N)
Auxiliary Space: O(K)



Last Updated : 28 Jan, 2022
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