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MediumPrep Room Coding #898

Dutch flag sort

CodingDistributed systemsMid–Senior~22 min

Given an array nums with only the values 0, 1, and 2, sort it in place in a single pass using O(1) extra space (the Dutch national flag problem), and return the sorted array. Constraints: 1 <= len(nums) <= 3*10^4, nums[i] in {0,1,2}.

Implement
sort_colors(nums: list[int]) → list[int]
Examples
in[[2,0,2,1,1,0]]out[0,0,1,1,2,2]
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
[[2,0,2,1,1,0]][0,0,1,1,2,2]not run yetsample