Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Toph: Arya and OR

Problem link: Arya and OR

Solution: 

Firstly, the maximum value we could get is the largest element of the array. So we will sort the array. Then our maximum value could get greater by doing OR ( | ) with other elements of the array. So in that case, what we will do is that, each time we will make bitwise OR with the largest element of the array with other elements in descending order. So, gradually, we will get values after everytime we OR them. If our current value is greater than our maximum value, then we will simply update the maximum value.

As there is a term "arbitrary group of numbers"
Arbitrary group should mean any group possible from the whole array, and in that case the bitwise or of the whole array is always the maximum answer

**ps: We don't even need sorting for this problem. Simply compute OR of all the numbers.

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