LC 21

Merge Two Sorted Lists

Easy · LC 1–100

linked-listrecursion
Free

Candidate solution routes

Primary

Linked-List Pointer Rewiring

Free

Invariant: prev bounds the correctly processed chain and cur is the first unprocessed node; every original node belongs to exactly one side and remains reachable.

candidate confidence: 0.740 · metadata_only

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