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You are playing the following bull and cow game with your friend: you write down a number and ask your friend to guess what the number is. Whenever your friend guesses, you provide a hint as to how many of the digits in said guess match your password exactly, including the number and location (called a "bull") and how many digits match the password but are in the wrong location (called a "cow"). Write a function that returns a hint based on a secret number and a friend's guess, for A for bull and B for cow.

Example 1:

importation: secret = "1807", guess = "7810"

 exports: "1A3B"

 Description: 1 bull and 3 cows.  Bulls are 8, cows are 0, 1 and 7.

Example 2:

importation: secret = "1123", guess = "0111"

 exports: "1A1B"

 instructions: The 1st 1 in friend's guess is a bull, the 2nd or 3rd 1 is a cow.

solution (a math problem)

At first my idea was to get the number of bulls and cows in order, but the cow decision requires O(n^2) time complexity, then I thought, using the number of all matches - the number of bulls is the number of cows, which only requires O(n) time complexity and O(1) space complexity.

public String getHint(String secret, String guess) {
    int[] table = new int[10];
    
    int total = 0;
    int bulls = 0;
    for (char c :secret.toCharArray()) {
        table[c - '0']++;
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < guess.length(); i++) {
        if (secret.charAt(i) == guess.charAt(i)) {
            bulls++;
        }
        if (table[guess.charAt(i) - '0']-- > 0) {
            total++;
        }
    }
    
    return bulls + "A" + (total - bulls)  + "B";
}

Runtime: 1 ms, faster than 100.00% of Java online submissions for Bulls and Cows.

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