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Leetcode 1557. Minimum Number of Vertices to Reach All Nodes

Given a directed acyclic graph, find the smallest set of starting vertices from which every node is reachable. In a DAG this is uniquely achieved by selecting all nodes with zero in-degree (sources).

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