The two-pass length-then-delete solution works, but the interview wants a single pass: a gap of N between two pointers, plus a dummy head that makes deleting the real head fall out for free. Here is the clean answer.
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The two-pass length-then-delete solution works, but the interview wants a single pass: a gap of N between two pointers, plus a dummy head that makes deleting the real head fall out for free. Here is the clean answer.
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