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Problem: Remove Covered Intervals

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30 min
Explore how to solve the remove covered intervals problem by understanding interval coverage rules. Learn to efficiently eliminate intervals fully contained within others and return the count of remaining intervals. This lesson helps you apply coding interview patterns to interval challenges and build practical skills.

Statement

Given an array of intervals, where each interval is represented as intervals[i] =[li,ri)= [l_i, r_i) (indicating the range from lil_i to rir_i, inclusive of lil_i and exclusive of rir_i), remove all intervals that are completely covered by another interval in the list. Return the count of intervals that remain after removing the covered ones.

Note: An interval [a,b)[a, b) is considered covered by another interval [c,d)[c, d) if and only if c<=ac <= a and b<=db <= d.

Constraints:

  • 1<=1 <= intervals.length <=1000<= 1000

  • intervals[i].length ==2== 2

  • 0<=li<ri<=1050 <= l_i < r_i <= 10^5

  • All the given intervals are unique.

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Problem: Remove Covered Intervals

Medium
30 min
Explore how to solve the remove covered intervals problem by understanding interval coverage rules. Learn to efficiently eliminate intervals fully contained within others and return the count of remaining intervals. This lesson helps you apply coding interview patterns to interval challenges and build practical skills.

Statement

Given an array of intervals, where each interval is represented as intervals[i] =[li,ri)= [l_i, r_i) (indicating the range from lil_i to rir_i, inclusive of lil_i and exclusive of rir_i), remove all intervals that are completely covered by another interval in the list. Return the count of intervals that remain after removing the covered ones.

Note: An interval [a,b)[a, b) is considered covered by another interval [c,d)[c, d) if and only if c<=ac <= a and b<=db <= d.

Constraints:

  • 1<=1 <= intervals.length <=1000<= 1000

  • intervals[i].length ==2== 2

  • 0<=li<ri<=1050 <= l_i < r_i <= 10^5

  • All the given intervals are unique.