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We solve LeetCode 1002: Find Common Characters using Python and a clean frequency-intersection idea.
Goal: given an array of lowercase words, return all characters that appear in every word (with multiplicity).
Approach:
- Build a frequency count for the first word.
- For each next word, take the elementwise minimum with its frequency count.
- Expand the final counts back into a list of characters.
π Problem Link: https://leetcode.com/problems/find-common-characters/
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### β± Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Problem Statement
0:50 Min-Frequency Intersection
14:00 Python Code Walkthrough
20:00 Time & Space Complexity
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### π‘ Why Watch?
- Elegant intersection-by-counts pattern for strings
- Linear in total characters, constant alphabet size
- Interview-friendly and easy to reason about
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