Medium · System Design

Random Pick Index

Given an integer array nums that may contain duplicates, answer repeated pick(target) calls: return an index i with nums[i] == target, chosen uniformly at random among all such indices. The target always occurs in nums.

Examples

Example 1

[1,2,3,3,3] target 3

Output: index 3

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