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Solution: Find the Town Judge

Explore how to determine the town judge by using graph algorithms that analyze trust relationships. This lesson helps you understand and implement the logic to identify the judge based on indegree and outdegree values, improving problem-solving skills for coding interviews.

Statement

There are n people numbered from 11 to n in a town. There’s a rumor that one of these people is secretly the town judge. A town judge must meet the following conditions:

  1. The judge doesn’t trust anyone.

  2. Everyone else in the town (except the town judge) trusts the judge.

  3. There is exactly one person who fulfills both the above conditions.

You are given an integer n and a two-dimensional array, trust, where each entry trust[i]=[ai,bi]trust[i] = [a_i, b_i] indicates that the person labeled aia_i ...