Single Number III

Given an array of numbers nums, in which exactly two elements appear only once and all the other elements appear exactly twice. Find the two elements that appear only once.

Example:

Input:  [1,2,1,3,2,5]
Output: [3,5]

Note:

  1. The order of the result is not important. So in the above example, [5, 3] is also correct.

  2. Your algorithm should run in linear runtime complexity. Could you implement it using only constant space complexity?

public class Solution {
    public int[] singleNumber(int[] nums) {
        // Get the XOR of the two numbers we need to find
        int diff = 0;
        for (int num : nums)
            diff ^= num;
        // Get its right-most set bit (LSB)
        int setBit = diff & (~(diff - 1));
        // Now on the basis of this bit, we can divide array into 2 parts
        // The one with all the elements with this bit set
        // and the other part with this bit unset
        // Pass 2 :
        int[] ans = { 0, 0 };
        for (int num : nums) {
            if ((num & setBit) == 0)
                ans[0] ^= num;
            else
                ans[1] ^= num;
        }
        return ans;
    }
}

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