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Kth Largest Element in an Array

Medium
heapquickselectsorting

Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return the k-th largest element (in sorted order, not the k-th distinct value).

Input

  • Line 1: space-separated integers nums
  • Line 2: integer k

Output: the k-th largest value.

Example 1
Input:
3 2 1 5 6 4
2
Output:
5
Example 2
Input:
3 2 3 1 2 4 5 5 6
4
Output:
4

Constraints

  • 1 ≤ k ≤ nums.length ≤ 10^5
  • -10^4 ≤ nums[i] ≤ 10^4
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