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Quiz: When Greedy Works (and When It Doesn't)

The intuition for greedy. Interval scheduling and merging patterns. Why coin change is greedy for some denominations and DP for others.

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For interval scheduling (max non-overlapping intervals), why do we sort by END time instead of START time?