Code RoomMinimum arrows burst balloons
MediumPrep Room Coding #1421

Minimum arrows burst balloons

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~25 min

Spherical balloons are taped to a wall, each spanning a horizontal closed interval [xstart, xend]. An arrow shot upward at coordinate x bursts every balloon whose interval contains x (xstart <= x <= xend); arrows travel infinitely high. Return the minimum number of arrows needed to burst all balloons.

Implement
find_min_arrows(points: list[list[int]]) → int
Examples
in[[[10,16],[2,8],[1,6],[7,12]]]out2
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
[[[10,16],[2,8],[1,6],[7,12]]]2not run yetsample