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Largest Connected City Network
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Largest Connected City Network

MediumPython

Problem

Given a network of cities and connected roads, find the size of the largest connected group of cities (with custom constraints).

Asked in the Round 2: DSA stage. Focus on DSU Data Structure & Connected Components.

Implement largest_connected_group(n, roads), where cities are labeled 0 through n - 1 and each road is a pair [u, v]. Return the number of cities in the largest connected component. Roads may be duplicated or connect a city to itself.

Constraints

  • 1 <= n <= 10^5
  • 0 <= len(roads) <= 2 * 10^5
  • Each road has exactly two endpoints
  • Each endpoint is an integer in [0, n - 1]
  • Duplicate roads and self-loops are allowed

Function Signature

def largest_connected_group(n, roads):
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