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TODO 0207. Course Schedule   medium

There are a total of numCourses courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1. You are given an array prerequisites where prerequisites[i] = [a_{i}, b_{i}] indicates that you must take course b_{i} first if you want to take course a_{i}.

  • For example, the pair [0, 1], indicates that to take course 0 you have to first take course 1.

Return true if you can finish all courses. Otherwise, return false.

Example 1:

Input: numCourses = 2, prerequisites = [[1,0]]
Output: true
Explanation: There are a total of 2 courses to take. 
To take course 1 you should have finished course 0. So it is possible.

Example 2:

Input: numCourses = 2, prerequisites = [[1,0],[0,1]]
Output: false
Explanation: There are a total of 2 courses to take. 
To take course 1 you should have finished course 0, and to take course 0 you should also have finished course 1. So it is impossible.

Constraints:

  • 1 <= numCourses <= 2000
  • 0 <= prerequisites.length <= 5000
  • prerequisites[i].length == 2
  • 0 <= a_{i}, b_{i} < numCourses
  • All the pairs prerequisites[i] are unique.

TODO Approach

Write your approach here.

TODO Python

class Solution:
    def canFinish(self, numCourses: int, prerequisites: List[List[int]]) -> bool:

TODO C++

class Solution {
public:
    bool canFinish(int numCourses, vector<vector<int>>& prerequisites) {
        
    }
};