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Maximum Product of Word Lengths

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Given a string array words, find the maximum value of length(word[i]) * length(word[j]) where the two words do not share common letters. You may assume that each word will contain only lower case letters. If no such two words exist, return 0.
Example 1:

Input: ["abcw","baz","foo","bar","xtfn","abcdef"]
Output: 16 Explanation: The two words can be "abcw", "xtfn".

Example 2:

Input: ["a","ab","abc","d","cd","bcd","abcd"]
Output: 4 Explanation: The two words can be "ab", "cd".

Example 3:

Input: ["a","aa","aaa","aaaa"]
Output: 0 Explanation: No such pair of words.

Find All Numbers Disappeared in an Array

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Given an array of integers where 1 ≤ a[i] ≤ n (n = size of array), some elements appear twice and others appear once.
Find all the elements of [1, n] inclusive that do not appear in this array.
Could you do it without extra space and in O(n) runtime? You may assume the returned list does not count as extra space.
Example:

Input:
[4,3,2,7,8,2,3,1]
Output:
[5,6]

刚一看到这道题是Medium难度的时候，我觉得Leetcode高估了这道题。但是后面O(1)空间和O(n)时间发现还是没有那么容易的。

seen = list()
result = list()
for item in nums:
if item in seen:
    result += [item]
    seen += [item]
else:
    seen += [item]
return result

这种方法按理说是可以过的 (虽然不符合题目对空间复杂度的要求)，但是在Leetcode平台上，我发现这种方法会超时(TLE)

res = []
for x in nums:
    if nums[abs(x) - 1] < 0:
        res.append(abs(x))
    else:
        nums[abs(x) - 1] *= -1
return res

想了十分钟之后，我发现我貌似想不出什么好方法了，于是看了一下Discuss里大佬的解法。
这个解法真的是Awesome！在保证了O(n)时间的前提下，完美利用之前的空间做了一次Hash。只能说想出这个方法的人是个小天才了！(这里是Disscuss的帖子地址)