我使用Java 8和Java 8之前的版本编写代码。 它使用一个公式:(N*(N+1))/2作为所有数字的和。

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

   /**
 * 
 * 
 * @author pradeep
 * 
 *         Answer : SumOfAllNumbers-SumOfPresentNumbers=Missing Number;
 * 
 *         To GET SumOfAllNumbers : Get the highest number (N) by checking the
 *         length. and use the formula (N*(N+1))/2
 * 
 *         To GET SumOfPresentNumbers: iterate and add it
 * 
 * 
 */
public class FindMissingNumber {
    /**
     * Before Java 8
     * 
     * @param numbers
     * @return
     */
    public static int missingNumber(List<Integer> numbers) {
        int sumOfPresentNumbers = 0;
        for (Integer integer : numbers) {
            sumOfPresentNumbers = sumOfPresentNumbers + integer;
        }
        int n = numbers.size();
        int sumOfAllNumbers = (n * (n + 1)) / 2;
        return sumOfAllNumbers - sumOfPresentNumbers;
    }
    /**
     * Using Java 8 . mapToInt & sum using streams.
     * 
     * @param numbers
     * @return
     */
    public static int missingNumberJava8(List<Integer> numbers) {
        int sumOfPresentNumbers = numbers.stream().mapToInt(i -> i).sum();
        int n = numbers.size();
        int sumOfAllNumbers = (n * (n + 1)) / 2;
        return sumOfAllNumbers - sumOfPresentNumbers;
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
        list = Arrays.asList(0, 1, 2, 4);
        System.out.println("Missing number is :  " + missingNumber(list));
        System.out.println("Missing number using Java 8 is : " + missingNumberJava8(list));
    }
}*

You can motivate the solution by thinking about it in terms of symmetries (groups, in math language). No matter the order of the set of numbers, the answer should be the same. If you're going to use k functions to help determine the missing elements, you should be thinking about what functions have that property: symmetric. The function s_1(x) = x_1 + x_2 + ... + x_n is an example of a symmetric function, but there are others of higher degree. In particular, consider the elementary symmetric functions. The elementary symmetric function of degree 2 is s_2(x) = x_1 x_2 + x_1 x_3 + ... + x_1 x_n + x_2 x_3 + ... + x_(n-1) x_n, the sum of all products of two elements. Similarly for the elementary symmetric functions of degree 3 and higher. They are obviously symmetric. Furthermore, it turns out they are the building blocks for all symmetric functions.

你可以通过注意s_2(x,x_(n+1)) = s_2(x) + s_1(x)(x_(n+1))来构建初等对称函数。进一步思考应该会使您相信s_3(x,x_(n+1)) = s_3(x) + s_2(x)(x_(n+1))等等，因此它们可以在一次传递中计算。

我们如何知道数组中缺少了哪些项?考虑多项式(z-x_1) (z-x_2)……(z-x_n)。如果你输入任意一个数字x_i，它的值都是0。展开多项式，得到z^n-s_1(x)z^(n-1)+。+ (-1)^n s_n。初等对称函数也出现在这里，这并不奇怪，因为多项式应该保持不变，如果我们对根进行任何排列。

所以我们可以建立一个多项式，并尝试因式分解来找出哪些数不在集合中，就像其他人提到的那样。

Finally, if we are concerned about overflowing memory with large numbers (the nth symmetric polynomial will be of the order 100!), we can do these calculations mod p where p is a prime bigger than 100. In that case we evaluate the polynomial mod p and find that it again evaluates to 0 when the input is a number in the set, and it evaluates to a non-zero value when the input is a number not in the set. However, as others have pointed out, to get the values out of the polynomial in time that depends on k, not N, we have to factor the polynomial mod p.

这里有一个解决方案，使用k位额外的存储空间，没有任何聪明的技巧，只是简单。执行时间O (n)，额外空间O (k)。只是为了证明这个问题可以解决，而不需要先阅读解决方案或成为天才:

void puzzle (int* data, int n, bool* extra, int k)
{
    // data contains n distinct numbers from 1 to n + k, extra provides
    // space for k extra bits. 

    // Rearrange the array so there are (even) even numbers at the start
    // and (odd) odd numbers at the end.
    int even = 0, odd = 0;
    while (even + odd < n)
    {
        if (data [even] % 2 == 0) ++even;
        else if (data [n - 1 - odd] % 2 == 1) ++odd;
        else { int tmp = data [even]; data [even] = data [n - 1 - odd]; 
               data [n - 1 - odd] = tmp; ++even; ++odd; }
    }

    // Erase the lowest bits of all numbers and set the extra bits to 0.
    for (int i = even; i < n; ++i) data [i] -= 1;
    for (int i = 0; i < k; ++i) extra [i] = false;

    // Set a bit for every number that is present
    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
    {
        int tmp = data [i];
        tmp -= (tmp % 2);
        if (i >= even) ++tmp;
        if (tmp <= n) data [tmp - 1] += 1; else extra [tmp - n - 1] = true;
    }

    // Print out the missing ones
    for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i)
        if (data [i - 1] % 2 == 0) printf ("Number %d is missing\n", i);
    for (int i = n + 1; i <= n + k; ++i)
        if (! extra [i - n - 1]) printf ("Number %d is missing\n", i);

    // Restore the lowest bits again.
    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
        if (i < even) { if (data [i] % 2 != 0) data [i] -= 1; }
        else { if (data [i] % 2 == 0) data [i] += 1; }
    }
}

有一个通用的方法来解决这样的流问题。 我们的想法是使用一些随机化，希望将k个元素“分散”到独立的子问题中，在那里我们的原始算法为我们解决了问题。该技术用于稀疏信号重建等。

创建一个大小为u = k^2的数组a。 选取任意通用哈希函数h:{1，…，n} ->{1，…，u}。(如multiply-shift) 对于1中的每一个i，…， n增加a[h(i)] += i 对于输入流中的每个数字x，减去a[h(x)] -= x。

如果所有缺失的数字都已散列到不同的bucket中，则数组的非零元素现在将包含缺失的数字。

根据通用哈希函数的定义，特定对被发送到同一桶的概率小于1/u。由于大约有k^2/2对，我们有错误概率不超过k^2/2/u=1/2。也就是说，我们成功的概率至少是50%，如果我们增加u，我们的机会就会增加。

注意，这个算法占用k^2 logn位的空间(每个数组桶需要logn位)。这与@Dimitris Andreou的答案所需要的空间相匹配(特别是多项式因式分解的空间要求，它碰巧也是随机的。) 该算法每次更新的时间也是常数，而不是幂和情况下的时间k。

事实上，通过使用评论中描述的技巧，我们甚至可以比幂和法更有效。

一个可能的解决方案:

public class MissingNumber {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // 0-20
        int [] a = {1,4,3,6,7,9,8,11,10,12,15,18,14};
        printMissingNumbers(a,20);
    }

    public static void printMissingNumbers(int [] a, int upperLimit){
        int b [] = new int[upperLimit];
        for(int i = 0; i < a.length; i++){
            b[a[i]] = 1;
        }
        for(int k = 0; k < upperLimit; k++){
            if(b[k] == 0)
                System.out.println(k);
        }
    }
}

我们假设它是一个从1到N的数组，它的元素是a1, a2， ....一个:

1+N=N+1;
2+N-1=N+1;

… 所以这个和是唯一的。我们可以从头到尾扫描数组来添加两个元素。如果和是N+1;好吧，否则它们就不见了。

for (I <= N/2) {
    temp = a[I] + a[n-I];
    if (temp != N+1) then
        Find the missing number or numbers
}

迭代这个循环，很容易就能得到答案。