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Solution: Minimum Interval to Include Each Query

Explore how to determine the minimum sized interval that includes each query value by processing intervals and queries in sorted order. Understand how to use a min heap to track active intervals, efficiently discard irrelevant intervals, and return the smallest covering interval or -1 if none exists. This lesson guides you through an optimized approach with clear algorithmic steps and complexity analysis.

Statement

You are given a 2D integer array, intervals, where each element intervals[i] = [lefti, righti][left_i, \space right_i] represents the ithi^{th} ...