""" File: two_sum.py Created Time: 2022-11-25 Author: krahets (krahets@163.com) """ def two_sum_brute_force(nums: list[int], target: int) -> list[int]: """Method 1: brute-force enumeration""" # Two nested loops give a time complexity of O(n^2) for i in range(len(nums) - 1): for j in range(i + 1, len(nums)): if nums[i] + nums[j] == target: return [i, j] return [] def two_sum_hash_table(nums: list[int], target: int) -> list[int]: """Method 2: auxiliary hash table""" # The auxiliary hash table uses O(n) space dic = {} # A single loop with average O(1) hash operations gives an average time complexity of O(n) for i in range(len(nums)): if target - nums[i] in dic: return [dic[target - nums[i]], i] dic[nums[i]] = i return [] """Driver code""" if __name__ == "__main__": # ======= Test case ======= nums = [2, 7, 11, 15] target = 13 # ====== Driver code ====== # Method 1 res: list[int] = two_sum_brute_force(nums, target) print("Method 1: res =", res) # Method 2 res: list[int] = two_sum_hash_table(nums, target) print("Method 2: res =", res)