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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in Go

Solution: Find the Kth Largest Integer in the Array

Explore the top K elements pattern to efficiently identify the kth largest integer represented as strings in an array. Learn to maintain a min heap that tracks the k largest numbers, handle duplicates as distinct, and optimize time complexity for coding interviews.

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Statement

Given an array of strings, nums, where each string represents an integer without leading zeros, and an integer k, your task is to find and return the string representing the kth^{th} largest integer in the array.

Note: Treat duplicate integers as distinct entities. For instance, if nums ...