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Leetcode 977. Squares of a Sorted Array
Given a non-decreasing integer array (which may contain negatives), return the squares of each number in non-decreasing order; the core challenge is to produce this in O(n) time by leveraging the input order (e.g., merging largest squares from both ends) instead of re-sorting.
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Given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order (may contain negative numbers), return a new array ans where ans[i] = nums[i]^2, and ans is also sorted in non-decreasing order. Follow up find kth smallest square in O(1) space.
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