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Solution: Data Stream as Disjoint Intervals

Understand how to summarize a stream of non-negative integers into disjoint intervals by merging and updating intervals efficiently. Learn to implement a data structure that dynamically manages intervals as new numbers arrive, ensuring compact and sorted interval storage. This lesson helps you solve interval pattern problems commonly seen in coding interviews.

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Statement

You are given a stream of non-negative integers a1,a2,…,ana_1, a_2, \dots, a_n. At any point, you need to summarize all numbers seen so far as a list of disjoint intervals.

Your task is to implement the Summary Ranges class, where:

  • Constructor: Initializes the Summary Ranges object with an empty stream.

  • Add Num(int value): Adds the integer value to the stream.

  • Get Intervals(): Returns the current summary of numbers as a list of disjoint intervals [start_i, end_i], sorted by start_i.

Note: Each number belongs to exactly one interval. Intervals must merge whenever new numbers connect or extend existing ones, and duplicate insertions should not affect the summary.

Constraints:

  • 0≤0 \leq value ≤104\leq 10^4 ...