2527. Find Xor-Beauty of Array
November 16, 2025 · View on GitHub
Description
You are given a 0-indexed integer array nums.
The effective value of three indices i, j, and k is defined as ((nums[i] | nums[j]) & nums[k]).
The xor-beauty of the array is the XORing of the effective values of all the possible triplets of indices (i, j, k) where 0 <= i, j, k < n.
Return the xor-beauty of nums.
Note that:
val1 | val2is bitwise OR ofval1andval2.val1 & val2is bitwise AND ofval1andval2.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,4] Output: 5 Explanation: The triplets and their corresponding effective values are listed below: - (0,0,0) with effective value ((1 | 1) & 1) = 1 - (0,0,1) with effective value ((1 | 1) & 4) = 0 - (0,1,0) with effective value ((1 | 4) & 1) = 1 - (0,1,1) with effective value ((1 | 4) & 4) = 4 - (1,0,0) with effective value ((4 | 1) & 1) = 1 - (1,0,1) with effective value ((4 | 1) & 4) = 4 - (1,1,0) with effective value ((4 | 4) & 1) = 0 - (1,1,1) with effective value ((4 | 4) & 4) = 4 Xor-beauty of array will be bitwise XOR of all beauties = 1 ^ 0 ^ 1 ^ 4 ^ 1 ^ 4 ^ 0 ^ 4 = 5.
Example 2:
Input: nums = [15,45,20,2,34,35,5,44,32,30]
Output: 34
Explanation: The xor-beauty of the given array is 34.
Constraints:
1 <= nums.length <= 1051 <= nums[i] <= 109
Solutions
Solution 1: Bit Manipulation
We first consider the case where and are not equal. In this case, ((nums[i] | nums[j]) & nums[k]) and ((nums[j] | nums[i]) & nums[k]) produce the same result, and their XOR result is $0$.
Therefore, we only need to consider the case where and are equal. In this case, ((nums[i] | nums[j]) & nums[k]) = (nums[i] & nums[k]). If , then this is the same as the result of nums[k] & nums[i], and the XOR result of these values is $0$.
Therefore, we ultimately only need to consider the case where , and the answer is the XOR result of all .
The time complexity is and the space complexity is , where is the length of the array.
Python3
class Solution:
def xorBeauty(self, nums: List[int]) -> int:
return reduce(xor, nums)
Java
class Solution {
public int xorBeauty(int[] nums) {
int ans = 0;
for (int x : nums) {
ans ^= x;
}
return ans;
}
}
C++
class Solution {
public:
int xorBeauty(vector<int>& nums) {
int ans = 0;
for (auto& x : nums) {
ans ^= x;
}
return ans;
}
};
Go
func xorBeauty(nums []int) (ans int) {
for _, x := range nums {
ans ^= x
}
return
}
TypeScript
function xorBeauty(nums: number[]): number {
return nums.reduce((acc, cur) => acc ^ cur, 0);
}