Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1726 [Medium]

Good morning! Here's your coding interview problem for today.

This problem was asked by Palantir.

You are given a list of N numbers, in which each number is located at most k places away from its sorted position. For example, if k = 1, a given element at index 4 might end up at indices 3, 4, or 5.

Come up with an algorithm that sorts this list in O(N log k) time.

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