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CodingEasycod-g951
Subject ArraysLevel Entry–Mid~12 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given a list of integers nums, return the second largest distinct value. If there is no second distinct value (the list is empty or every element is equal), return None. Example: [3, 1, 3, 2] has distinct values {1,2,3}, so the answer is 2.

Implement
second_largest(nums: list[int]) → int | None
Examples
in[[3,1,3,2]]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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