Longest Consecutive Sequence

IF
AlgoAxiomStaff Engineers
JSTS
Medium20 mins

Given an unsorted array of integers nums, return the length of the longest consecutive elements sequence.

You must write an algorithm that runs in O(n) time.

Examples

Example 1:

Input: nums = [100,4,200,1,3,2]

Output: 4

Explanation: The longest consecutive elements sequence is [1, 2, 3, 4]. Therefore its length is 4.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [0,3,7,2,5,8,4,6,0,1]

Output: 9

Explanation: The longest consecutive elements sequence is [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Therefore its length is 9.

Example 3:

Input: nums = [1,0,-1]

Output: 3

Explanation: The longest consecutive elements sequence is [-1, 0, 1]. Therefore its length is 3.

Constraints

  • 0 <= nums.length <= 10^5
  • -10^9 <= nums[i] <= 10^9
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JavaScript
Test Case 1
root = [1, 2, 3]
Test Case 2
root = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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