Code RoomHouse robber circular
MediumPrep Room Coding #1591

House robber circular

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~25 min

Houses are arranged in a circle (first and last are adjacent). Return the max you can rob without robbing two adjacent houses.

Implement
rob_circular(nums: list[int]) → int
Examples
in[[2,3,2]]out3
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
[[2,3,2]]3not run yetsample