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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in JavaScript

Solution: Find the Kth Largest Integer in the Array

Explore how to identify the kth largest integer in an array of strings by applying the top K elements pattern. Learn to use a min heap to maintain the largest elements efficiently, understand the algorithm's time and space complexity, and implement a solution suitable 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 ...