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CodingMediumcod-g052
Subject Binary treesLevel Mid–Senior~25 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given a binary tree as a level-order array `arr` (null for missing), return its bottom view: for each horizontal distance (root at 0, left child -1, right child +1), the value of the node that would be seen from directly below. When several nodes share a horizontal distance, the one visited LAST in a left-to-right level-order (BFS) traversal wins. Return values ordered by horizontal distance, left to right. `0 <= node count <= 10000`.

Implement
bottom_view(arr: list[int]) → list[int]
Examples
in[[20,8,22,5,3,null,25]]out[5,8,3,22,25]
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