Move All Negative Elements to End

Problem You’re given an array of integers and need to move all negative elements to the end while maintaining the order of elements. Strategy At first, it feels like you can just swap elements in-p...

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Move All Negative Elements to End

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Problem You’re given an array of integers and need to move all negative elements to the end while maintaining the order of elements. Strategy At first, it feels like you can just swap elements in-place. But that quickly gets messy, especially if you want to preserve the order. Instead, I thought about it differently: At each element, I asked— Is it positive or negative? So for every element: If it’s positive, keep it in one list If it’s negative, keep it in another list This way, I can process the array in one pass and rebuild it. Code class Solution: def segregateElements(self, arr): positives = [] negatives = [] for num in arr: if num >= 0: positives.append(num) else: negatives.append(num) i = 0 for num in positives: arr[i] = num i += 1 for num in negatives: arr[i] = num i += 1 Key Lines Explained current_sum = max(arr[i], current_sum + arr[i]) This line doesn’t apply here, but the key idea is similar—making a decision at each step. Here, the decision is simply whether the number

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