Merge two sorted arrays in place
Given two sorted integer arrays nums1 and nums2, merge nums2 into nums1 as one sorted array.
Note: You may assume that nums1 has enough space (size that is greater or equal tom+n) to hold additional elements from nums2. The number of elements initialized in nums1 and nums2 are 'm' and 'n' respectively.
class Solution(object):
    def merge(self, nums1, m, nums2, n):
        """
        :type nums1: List[int]
        :type m: int
        :type nums2: List[int]
        :type n: int
        :rtype: void Do not return anything, modify nums1 in-place instead.
        """
        #print 'nums1: ', nums1
        #print 'nums2: ', nums2
        # The idea here is to use the empty space to the right of nums1 array. Also traverse from greatest to lowest
        i = m - 1
        j = n - 1
        k = m + n - 1
        while i >= 0 and j >= 0:
            if nums1[i] >= nums2[j]:
                nums1[k] = nums1[i]
                i -= 1
            else:
                nums1[k] = nums2[j]
                j -= 1
            k -= 1
        while i >= 0:
            nums1[k] = nums1[i]
            i -= 1
            k -= 1
        while j >= 0:
            nums1[k] = nums2[j]
            j -= 1
            k -= 1Last updated
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