LeetCode 207, Medium. Topics: Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Graph, Topological Sort. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
There are a total of numCourses courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1. You are given an array prerequisites where prerequisites[i] = [ai, bi] indicates that you must take course bi first if you want to take course ai.
- For example, the pair
[0, 1], indicates that to take course 0 you have to first take course 1.
Return true if you can finish all courses. Otherwise, return false.
Examples
Explanation: There are a total of 2 courses to take. To take course 1 you should have finished course 0. So it is possible.
Explanation: There are a total of 2 courses to take. To take course 1 you should have finished course 0, and to take course 0 you should also have finished course 1. So it is impossible.
Constraints
1 <= numCourses <= 2000
0 <= prerequisites.length <= 5000
prerequisites[i].length == 2
0 <= ai, bi < numCourses
- All the pairs prerequisites[i] are unique.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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