Python | Minimum number of subsets with distinct elements using Counter

You are given an array of n-element. You have to make subsets from the array such that no subset contain duplicate elements. Find out minimum number of subset possible.

Examples:

Input : arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4}
Output :1
Explanation : A single subset can contains all 
values and all values are distinct

Input : arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 3}
Output : 2
Explanation : We need to create two subsets
{1, 2, 3} and {3} [or {1, 3} and {2, 3}] such
that both subsets have distinct elements.

We have existing solution for this problem please refer Minimum number of subsets with distinct elements link. We will solve this problem quickly in python using Counter(iterable) method. Approach is very simple, calculate frequency of each element in array and print value of maximum frequency because we want each subset to be different and we have to put any repeated element in different subset, so to get minimum number of subset we should have at least maximum frequency number of subsets.

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# Python program to find Minimum number of 
# subsets with distinct elements using Counter
  
# function to find Minimum number of subsets 
# with distinct elements
from collections import Counter
  
def minSubsets(input):
  
     # calculate frequency of each element
     freqDict = Counter(input)
  
     # get list of all frequency values
     # print maximum from it 
     print (max(freqDict.values()))
  
# Driver program
if __name__ == "__main__":
    input = [1, 2, 3, 3]
    minSubsets(input)

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