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CodingMediumcod-g514
Subject GraphsLevel Mid–Senior~20 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

You operate a content-distribution network modeled as a directed acyclic graph of n servers (0..n-1); edge [a, b] means server a can push content to server b. You want to seed content into the fewest servers so that every server eventually receives it (directly or transitively). Return the minimum number of seed servers required. The graph is guaranteed acyclic; self-loops, if present, should be ignored.

Implement
min_seed_nodes(n: int, edges: list[list[int]]) → int
Examples
in[4,[[0,1],[0,2],[2,3]]]out1
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