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Leetcode 973. K Closest Points to Origin

Given N points on the plane and an integer k, return the k points with the smallest Euclidean distance to the origin (order doesn't matter). The core challenge is efficiently selecting the k smallest distances (e.g., via a max-heap or quickselect/partial sort) for up to N = 10^4 points.

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