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Practice First Missing Positive

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Hard#41
LeetCode Problem

First Missing Positive

Problem Statement

Given an unsorted integer array nums. Return the smallest positive integer that is not present in nums. You must implement an algorithm that runs in O(n) time and uses O(1) auxiliary space.

Source: First Missing Positive on LeetCode. Use the original task for its coding environment and submissions.

Examples

# Example 1

Input
nums = [1,2,0]
Output
3

# Example 2

Input
nums = [3,4,-1,1]
Output
2

# Example 3

Input
nums = [7,8,9,11,12]
Output
1

Constraints

1 <= nums.length <= 10^5
-2^31 <= nums[i] <= 2^31 - 1

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