Code RoomSafe nodes in directed graph
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Safe nodes in directed graph

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~30 min

A directed graph is given as an adjacency list: graph[i] is the list of nodes reachable in one step from node i. A node is 'safe' if every walk starting from it eventually reaches a terminal node (a node with no outgoing edges) without ever entering a cycle. Return the sorted list of all safe nodes. Terminal nodes are trivially safe.

Implement
safe_nodes(graph: list[list[int]]) → list[int]
Examples
in[[[1,2],[2,3],[5],[0],[5],[],[]]]out[2,4,5,6]
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
[[[1,2],[2,3],[5],[0],[5],[],[]]][2,4,5,6]not run yetsample