Code RoomPartition minimum difference
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Partition minimum difference

CodingDistributed systemsAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~25 min

Partition a list of non-negative integers into two subsets and return the minimum possible absolute difference between their sums. Every element must go to exactly one subset. 1 <= len(nums) <= 16, values are non-negative with total sum <= 300. Return the minimum difference.

Implement
min_subset_diff(nums: list[int]) → int
Examples
in[[1,6,11,5]]out1
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
[[1,6,11,5]]1not run yetsample