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# 04. Find element occurring once when all others are present thrice

The problem can be found at the following link: [Question Link](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/find-element-occuring-once-when-all-other-are-present-thrice/1)

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## My Approach

The idea is to use a bitwise counting algorithm.

* We maintain an array `bits` of size 32 to store the count of set bits at each position for all the numbers in the array.
* Then, we iterate through the array and update the `bits` array by counting the set bits for each number.
* Finally, we go through the `bits` array and construct the result by adding the bits where the count is not a multiple of 3.

## Time and Auxiliary Space Complexity

* **Time Complexity:** `O(N)`, where N is the length of the input array.
* **Auxiliary Space Complexity:** `O(1)` (as we use only a constant 32 size vector).

## Code (C++)

```cpp
class Solution {
  public:
    int singleElement(int arr[], int N) {
        vector<int> bits(32, 0);
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < 32; j++) {
                bits[j] += arr[i] & 1;
                arr[i] >>= 1;
            }
        }

        int ans = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++)
            if (bits[i] % 3 != 0)
                ans += 1 << i;

        return ans;
    }
};
```

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