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Solution: Merge Sorted Array

Solution: Merge Sorted Array

Let's solve the Merge Sorted Array problem using the K-way Merge pattern.

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Statement

You are given two integer arrays, nums1 and nums2, both sorted in non-decreasing order. You are also given two integers, m and n, representing the number of elements in nums1 and nums2, respectively.

Your task is to merge the elements of nums2 into nums1 so that nums1 becomes a single array sorted in non-decreasing order.

The merged result is stored in nums1, which has a total length of m + n. The first m positions contain the initial elements, the last n positions are placeholders (initialized to 0), and nums2 contains the n elements to merge.

Constraints:

  • nums1.length =m+n= m + n
  • nums2.length =n= n
  • 0≤m,n≤2000 \leq m, n \leq 200
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