Detect loop in linked list

I am not understand why we are taking two conditions for running the while loop in code.

hi @ankit_verma please share the code/ timestamp where this is discussed

hi @ankit_verma
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whever we try to access the “next” pointer of a node we must ensure that the node is not null, because doing NULL->next will give runtime error

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