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Implement a Trie and support prefix search + delete
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1Give yourself 5 minutes
2Answer out loud, not in your head
3Then compare with the answer below
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Stuck? Show a way to structure it+
- 01Represent nodes with children and terminal metadata
- 02Insert one character edge at a time
- 03Search exact words using terminal flag
- 04Traverse prefix then enumerate or count descendants
- 05Delete bottom-up only when a node is unused
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