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Medium#581
LeetCode Problem

Shortest Unsorted Continuous Subarray

Problem Statement

Given an integer array nums, you need to find one continuous subarray such that if you only sort this subarray in non-decreasing order, then the whole array will be sorted in non-decreasing order. Return the shortest such subarray and output its length.

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Examples

# Example 1

Input
nums = [2,6,4,8,10,9,15]
Output
5

# Example 2

Input
nums = [1,2,3,4]
Output
0

# Example 3

Input
nums = [1]
Output
0

Constraints

1 <= nums.length <= 10^4
-10^5 <= nums[i] <= 10^5

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