Most Frequent Element

Problem

Return the most frequent value; break ties by smallest numeric value.

Examples

Example 1

Input: [2,3,2,4,3,2]

Output: 2

Example 2

Input: [1,1,2,2]

Output: 1

Input and output use JSON-compatible values. For linked-list and tree questions, arrays represent the node structure as described above. Your code should implement solve(input).

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Compiler

How to solve Most Frequent Element

Return the most frequent value; break ties by smallest numeric value. Count how often each value appears. The reference implementation illustrates this approach; check the example and edge cases.

Time and space complexity

O(n log n) time using sorting; O(n) extra space.

Practise and improve

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