LeetCode 280, Medium. Topics: Greedy, Array, Sorting. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 15 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given an integer array nums, reorder it such that nums[0] <= nums[1] >= nums[2] <= nums[3]....
You may assume the input array always has a valid answer.
Follow up: Could you solve the problem in O(n) time complexity?
Examples
Constraints
1 <= nums.length <= 5 * 10^4
0 <= nums[i] <= 10^4
- It is guaranteed that there will be an answer for the given input
nums.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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