Sum of All Subset XOR Totals

The XOR total of an array is defined as the bitwise XOR of all its elements, or 0 if the array is empty.

• For example, the XOR total of the array [2,5,6] is 2 XOR 5 XOR 6 = 1.

Given an array nums, return the sum of all XOR totals for every subset of nums. 

Note: Subsets with the same elements should be counted multiple times.

An array a is a subset of an array b if a can be obtained from b by deleting some (possibly zero) elements of b.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,3]
Output: 6
Explanation: The 4 subsets of [1,3] are:
- The empty subset has an XOR total of 0.
- [1] has an XOR total of 1.
- [3] has an XOR total of 3.
- [1,3] has an XOR total of 1 XOR 3 = 2.
0 + 1 + 3 + 2 = 6

Example 2:

Input: nums = [5,1,6]
Output: 28
Explanation: The 8 subsets of [5,1,6] are:
- The empty subset has an XOR total of 0.
- [5] has an XOR total of 5.
- [1] has an XOR total of 1.
- [6] has an XOR total of 6.
- [5,1] has an XOR total of 5 XOR 1 = 4.
- [5,6] has an XOR total of 5 XOR 6 = 3.
- [1,6] has an XOR total of 1 XOR 6 = 7.
- [5,1,6] has an XOR total of 5 XOR 1 XOR 6 = 2.
0 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 4 + 3 + 7 + 2 = 28

Approach

C++

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

int subset(vector<int> &nums, int cur, int ind)
{
    if (nums.size() == ind)
        return cur;
    for (int i = ind; i < nums.size(); i++)
    {
        return subset(nums, cur, ind + 1) + subset(nums, 
                    cur ^ nums[i], ind + 1);
    }
    return 0;
}
int subsetXORSum(vector<int> &nums)
{
    return subset(nums, 0, 0);
}

int main()
{
    vector<int> nums = {1, 3};

    cout << subsetXORSum(nums) << "\n";

    return 0;
}