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Course Schedule with Broken Courses

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Problem statement

Courses are numbered from 0 to numCourses - 1. Each pair [course, prerequisite] means the prerequisite must be completed before the course. Some courses are broken.

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Example 1

numCourses = 6prerequisites = [[1,0],[2,0],[3,1],[4,2],[5,3]]brokenCourses = [1]return = [0,2,4]

Broken course 1 makes courses 3 and 5 unavailable. The remaining order is [0,2,4].

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