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Top K Frequent Elements

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Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return the k most frequent elements.

To make the output deterministic, sort elements by frequency in descending order. If two elements have the same frequency, the smaller numeric value comes first.

Function Description

Complete solveTopKFrequentElements. It has the following parameters:

int[] nums: the input array

int k: the number of elements to return

Return an int[] containing the top k elements in the deterministic order described above.

Examples
01 · Example 1
nums = [1,1,1,2,2,3]
k = 2
return = [1,2]

1 appears 3 times and 2 appears 2 times, so they are the two most frequent elements.

02 · Example 2
nums = [4,5,2,1,3]
k = 5
return = [1,2,3,4,5]

Every number appears once, so ties are resolved by smaller value first.

Constraints

1 <= nums.length <= 10^5

-10^4 <= nums[i] <= 10^4

1 <= k <= number of distinct elements in nums

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public int[] solveTopKFrequentElements(int[] nums, int k) {
    // write your code here
}
nums[1,1,1,2,2,3]
k2
expected[1,2]
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