[LeetCode 260] Single Number III

Given an array where all numbers appear in pairs except for two numbers, find those two numbers.
The single-number case is well known – just XOR everything. With two unique numbers, XOR gives a^b. Since a^b is non-zero, pick any bit position where it is 1, partition the array into two groups based on that bit, and XOR each group separately to get a and b.

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class Solution {
public:
    vector<int> singleNumber(vector<int>& nums) {
        int ab = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < nums.size(); i++) {
            ab ^= nums[i];
        }

        int pos = 0;
        while(0 == ab % 2) {
            pos++;
            ab /= 2;
        }

        int a = 0;
        int b = 0;
        int tmp = (int)pow(2.0, pos);

        for (int i = 0; i < nums.size(); i++) {
            if ((nums[i]^tmp) == (nums[i] - tmp)) {
                a ^= nums[i];
            }
            else {
                b ^= nums[i];
            }
        }

        vector<int> ans(0);
        ans.push_back(a);
        ans.push_back(b);
        return ans;
    }
};