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Solution: Sort Items by Groups Respecting Dependencies

Understand how to apply a two-level topological sorting approach to arrange items respecting both item dependencies and group continuity. Learn to build and use dependency graphs for items and groups, detect cycles, and generate valid orderings when solving complex scheduling problems.

Statement

You are given nn items indexed from 00 to n1n − 1. Each item belongs to 00 or one of m groups, described by the array group, where:

  • group[i] ...