Given k sorted arrays of size n each, merge them and print the sorted output.
Input:
k = 3, n = 4
arr[][] = {
{1, 3, 5, 7},
{2, 4, 6, 8},
{0, 9, 10, 11}
} ;
Output: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Explanation: The output array is a sorted array that contains all the elements of the input matrix.
Approach
We think of the Merge operation in the Merge Sort to merge two sorted arrays into one. We can optimize this approach by merging in the pair and merge till it converges to a single array.
We can also use the Min Heap method to sort batches of k elements repeating n times. This will reduce the Space complexity to O(k)
The below problem approach might consists of minor coding issues that are resolved in the implementation in the end.
The below implementation consists of a Min Heap implementation.
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