Sunday, 1 September 2013

Count the number of 1s in bits of given number

Count he number of 1s in bits of given number.

Example:
Input:  3
Output : 2 (because the binary representation of 3 is 0011, so the number of 1s are 2)

Input : 15
Output : 4 (because the binary representation of 15 is 1111, so the number of 1s are 4)

Implementation

Method 1:

          int setBits(int n){
int count = 0;

while(n > 0){
if( (n&1) == 1)
count++;

n = n >> 1;
}
return count;
         }
         Time Complexity : Theta of logN

Method  2:

          int setBits2(int n){
int count = 0;
while( n > 0){
count++;
n = n&(n-1);
}
return count;
         }
         Time Complexity : O(logN)
         This algorithm goes through as many iterations as there are set bits. So if we have a 32-bit word with only the high bit set, then it will only go once through the loop. In the worst case, it will pass             once per bit. An integer n has log(n) bits, hence the worst case is O(log(n)).

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