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CodingMediumcod-g362
Subject PermutationsLevel Mid–Senior~25 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given a list nums (length 1..8) that may contain duplicate integers, return all unique permutations. Two permutations are the same if they are identical position by position. Return the list of permutations with the overall result sorted ascending.

Implement
permute_unique(nums: list[int]) → list[list[int]]
Examples
in[[1,1,2]]out[[1,1,2],[1,2,1],[2,1,1]]
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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