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Solution: Smallest Range Covering Elements from K Lists

Understand how to find the smallest range containing at least one element from each of K sorted lists with a min heap approach. Learn to track current min and max elements dynamically, update ranges efficiently, and apply this pattern to optimize problems involving multiple sorted arrays.

Statement

You are given kk sorted lists of integers, nums, where each list in nums is in non-decreasing order. Your task is to find the smallest range that contains at least one element from each of the kk lists.

A range [a,b][a,b] is considered smaller than another range [c,d][c,d] if ...