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Solution: Largest Palindromic Number

Explore how to apply a greedy technique to build the largest palindromic number from a string of digits. Understand the step-by-step process of counting digit frequencies, pairing digits from highest to lowest, and placing the optimal middle digit, ensuring no leading zeros. This lesson equips you with the skills to implement a linear time and space solution for palindrome optimization problems.

Statement

You are given a string num consisting of digits from 00 to 99. Your task is to return the largest possible palindromic number as a string by using some or all of the digits in num. The resulting palindromic number must not have leading zeros.

Note: You may reorder the digits freely, and you must use at least one digit from the num string.

Constraints:

  • 11\leq num.length ...