179-largest-number

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Description

Given a list of non-negative integers nums, arrange them such that they form the largest number and return it.

Since the result may be very large, so you need to return a string instead of an integer.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [10,2]
Output: "210"

Example 2:

Input: nums = [3,30,34,5,9]
Output: "9534330"

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 100
• 0 <= nums[i] <= 109

Solution(Python)

class LargerNumKey(str):
    def __lt__(x, y):
        return x + y > y + x


class Solution:
    def largestNumber(self, nums):
        largest_num = "".join(sorted(map(str, nums), key=LargerNumKey))
        return "0" if largest_num[0] == "0" else largest_num