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Find the k-th largest element in a list #29

Open unozerocode opened 4 years ago

unozerocode commented 4 years ago

Given a list, find the k-th largest element in the list.

Input: list = [3, 5, 2, 4, 6, 8], k = 3
Output: 5

Here is a starting point:

def findKthLargest(nums, k):
# Fill this in.

print findKthLargest([3, 5, 2, 4, 6, 8], 3)
# 5