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Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return the kth largest element in the array.

Note that it is the kth largest element in the sorted order, not the kth distinct element.

class Solution:
    def findKthLargest(self, nums, k):
        if not nums: return
        pivot = random.choice(nums)
        left =  [x for x in nums if x > pivot]
        mid  =  [x for x in nums if x == pivot]
        right = [x for x in nums if x < pivot]
        
        L, M = len(left), len(mid)
        
        if k <= L:
            return self.findKthLargest(left, k)
        elif k > L + M:
            return self.findKthLargest(right, k - L - M)
        else:
            return mid[0]

Posted by Jamie Meyer 8 months ago

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