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Kth largest unsorted

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~35 min

Return the kth largest element in an unsorted array (the kth in sorted order, not the kth distinct).

Implement
find_kth_largest(nums: list[int], k: int) → int
Examples
in[[3,2,1,5,6,4],2]out5
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
[[3,2,1,5,6,4],2]5not run yetsample