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Given an array a that contains only numbers in the range from 1 to a.length, find the first duplicate number for which the second occurrence has the minimal index. In other words, if there are more than 1 duplicated numbers, return the number for which the second occurrence has a smaller index than the second occurrence of the other number does. If there are no such elements, return -1.




My tests are running correctly, but I'm getting a timeout from the website codesignalDotCom. I'm wondering what I'm doing that could be taking so much time, and what could be done to fix it.



int firstDuplicate(std::vector<int> a) {
std::vector<int> newVector;
std::cout << a.size() << std::endl;
for(int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
if(std::find(newVector.begin(), newVector.end(), a.at(i)) != newVector.end()){
return a.at(i);
}
newVector.push_back(a.at(i));
}
return -1;
}









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    This question has been asked for other languages, but I haven't seen it for C++. Most notably here and here.




    Given an array a that contains only numbers in the range from 1 to a.length, find the first duplicate number for which the second occurrence has the minimal index. In other words, if there are more than 1 duplicated numbers, return the number for which the second occurrence has a smaller index than the second occurrence of the other number does. If there are no such elements, return -1.




    My tests are running correctly, but I'm getting a timeout from the website codesignalDotCom. I'm wondering what I'm doing that could be taking so much time, and what could be done to fix it.



    int firstDuplicate(std::vector<int> a) {
    std::vector<int> newVector;
    std::cout << a.size() << std::endl;
    for(int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
    if(std::find(newVector.begin(), newVector.end(), a.at(i)) != newVector.end()){
    return a.at(i);
    }
    newVector.push_back(a.at(i));
    }
    return -1;
    }









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      This question has been asked for other languages, but I haven't seen it for C++. Most notably here and here.




      Given an array a that contains only numbers in the range from 1 to a.length, find the first duplicate number for which the second occurrence has the minimal index. In other words, if there are more than 1 duplicated numbers, return the number for which the second occurrence has a smaller index than the second occurrence of the other number does. If there are no such elements, return -1.




      My tests are running correctly, but I'm getting a timeout from the website codesignalDotCom. I'm wondering what I'm doing that could be taking so much time, and what could be done to fix it.



      int firstDuplicate(std::vector<int> a) {
      std::vector<int> newVector;
      std::cout << a.size() << std::endl;
      for(int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
      if(std::find(newVector.begin(), newVector.end(), a.at(i)) != newVector.end()){
      return a.at(i);
      }
      newVector.push_back(a.at(i));
      }
      return -1;
      }









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      This question has been asked for other languages, but I haven't seen it for C++. Most notably here and here.




      Given an array a that contains only numbers in the range from 1 to a.length, find the first duplicate number for which the second occurrence has the minimal index. In other words, if there are more than 1 duplicated numbers, return the number for which the second occurrence has a smaller index than the second occurrence of the other number does. If there are no such elements, return -1.




      My tests are running correctly, but I'm getting a timeout from the website codesignalDotCom. I'm wondering what I'm doing that could be taking so much time, and what could be done to fix it.



      int firstDuplicate(std::vector<int> a) {
      std::vector<int> newVector;
      std::cout << a.size() << std::endl;
      for(int i = 0; i < a.size(); i++) {
      if(std::find(newVector.begin(), newVector.end(), a.at(i)) != newVector.end()){
      return a.at(i);
      }
      newVector.push_back(a.at(i));
      }
      return -1;
      }






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