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Solution: Sort Items by Groups Respecting Dependencies

Explore how to arrange items so all dependencies and groupings are respected using a hierarchical topological sorting approach. Understand how to build and process dependency graphs for both items and groups, handle unique group assignments, and return valid sorted orders or identify impossibility due to cycles. This lesson helps develop skills for complex dependency resolution problems commonly encountered in coding interviews.

Statement

You are given nn items indexed from 00 to n1n − 1. Each item belongs to 00 or one of m groups, described by the array group, where:

  • group[i] ...