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Solution: Subarray Sum Equals K

Understand how to use prefix sums and hash maps to find the total count of continuous subarrays in an array that sum to a target value k. This lesson teaches the insight of expressing subarray sums as prefix sum differences and demonstrates an efficient O(n) approach for solving the problem with explained code and complexity analysis.

Statement

Given an array of integers nums and an integer k, determine the total number of subarrays whose sum is exactly equal to k.

Note: A subarray is a contiguous, non empty sequence of elements within an array.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq nums.length 2×104\leq 2 \times 10^4

  • 1000-1000 \leq ...