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Solution: Redundant Connection

Understand how to apply the Union Find data structure to identify a redundant connection in a graph. Explore the algorithm's step-by-step build, including union by rank and path compression, to detect cycles efficiently and return the edge that, when removed, makes the graph a tree.

Statement

We’re given an undirected graph consisting of nn nodes. The graph is represented as an array called edges, of length nn, where edges[i] = [a, b] indicates that there is an edge between nodes a and b in the graph.

Return an edge that can be removed to make the graph a treeA tree is an undirected graph that is connected and has no cycles. of nn nodes. If there are multiple candidates for removal, return the edge that occurs last in edges.

Constraints:

  • 33 \leq nn 100\leq 100
  • edges.length
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