Solution: Merge Intervals

Explore how to merge overlapping intervals by sorting and iterating through intervals in C#. Understand both naive and optimized approaches, focusing on time and space efficiencies. By mastering this lesson, you will be able to write clear and effective code to handle interval merging problems commonly asked in coding interviews.

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- Naive approach
- Optimized approach using the intervals pattern

Statement

We are given an array of closed intervalsclosedintervals called intervals, where each interval has a start time and an end time and is represented as intervals[i] = [start_i, end_i]. Your task is to merge the overlapping intervalsOverlapping intervals are two or more intervals with at least one common point in time. and return a new output array consisting of only the non-overlapping intervals.

Constraints:

$1 \leq$ intervals.length $\leq10^3$
intervals[i].length $== 2$ ...