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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in JavaScript

Solution: Longest Path With Different Adjacent Characters

Understand how to compute the longest path in a rooted tree where no two consecutive nodes share the same character. Explore the application of topological sorting, in-degree calculation, and chain combination to efficiently solve this problem and analyze its time and space complexities.

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You are given a rooted tree with nn nodes, numbered from 00 to n−1n - 1, where the tree is connected, undirected, and has no cycles. The tree is represented by a 0-indexed array parent of size nn, where parent[i] is the parent of node ...