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Solution: Sort Items by Groups Respecting Dependencies

Explore how to solve a complex ordering problem by applying hierarchical topological sorting to both items and their groups. Learn to manage dual dependencies ensuring item order and group continuity, and develop an understanding of implementing this with graph algorithms to find valid sequences or detect impossible orderings.

Statement

You are given nn items indexed from 00 to n1n − 1. Each item belongs to 00 or one of m groups, described by the array group, where:

  • group[i] ...