BlackRock–styleSoftware Engineer InternSoftware Developer InternQuestion #116

1. What is the difference between shallow copy and deep copy in C++? 2. Implement a class using the singleton pattern in Java. 3. Find the first common ancestor of two nodes in a binary search tree (BST).

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