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CodingHardcod-g464
Subject Bridges articulationLevel Senior–Staff~30 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given an undirected graph with n nodes (0..n-1) and a list of edges [u, v], count the number of articulation points (cut vertices): vertices whose removal increases the number of connected components. Handle the DFS-root special case correctly (a root is an articulation point iff it has more than one DFS child). Assume 1 <= n <= 10000; the graph may be disconnected.

Implement
count_articulation_points(n: int, edges: list[list[int]]) → int
Examples
in[5,[[0,1],[1,2],[2,0],[1,3],[3,4]]]out2
What a strong answer looks like

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