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Problem: Interval List Intersections

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30 min
Explore techniques to identify intersections of two sorted lists of closed intervals. Understand how to determine overlapping intervals using their start and end points. This lesson teaches you to efficiently compute interval intersections, a common challenge in coding interviews involving interval-related problems.

Statement

Given two lists of closed intervalsA closed interval [start, end] (with start <= end) includes all real numbers x such that start <= x <= end., interval_list_a and interval_list_b, return the intersection of the two interval lists.

Each interval in the lists has its own start and end time and is represented as [start, end]. Specifically:

  • interval_list_a[i] = [starti, endi]

  • interval_list_b[j] = [startj, endj]

The intersection of two closed intervals i and j is either:

  • An empty set, if they do not overlap, or

  • A closed interval [max(starti, startj), min(endi, endj)] if they do overlap.

Also, each list of intervals is pairwise disjoint and in sorted order.

Constraints:

  • 00 \leq interval_list_a.length, interval_list_b.length 1000\leq 1000

  • interval_list_a.length ++ interval_list_b.length >=1>=1

  • 00 \leq starti << endi 109\leq 10^9

  • endi << starti + 1

  • 00 \leq startj << endj 109\leq 10^9

  • endj << start[j + 1]

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Problem: Interval List Intersections

Medium
30 min
Explore techniques to identify intersections of two sorted lists of closed intervals. Understand how to determine overlapping intervals using their start and end points. This lesson teaches you to efficiently compute interval intersections, a common challenge in coding interviews involving interval-related problems.

Statement

Given two lists of closed intervalsA closed interval [start, end] (with start <= end) includes all real numbers x such that start <= x <= end., interval_list_a and interval_list_b, return the intersection of the two interval lists.

Each interval in the lists has its own start and end time and is represented as [start, end]. Specifically:

  • interval_list_a[i] = [starti, endi]

  • interval_list_b[j] = [startj, endj]

The intersection of two closed intervals i and j is either:

  • An empty set, if they do not overlap, or

  • A closed interval [max(starti, startj), min(endi, endj)] if they do overlap.

Also, each list of intervals is pairwise disjoint and in sorted order.

Constraints:

  • 00 \leq interval_list_a.length, interval_list_b.length 1000\leq 1000

  • interval_list_a.length ++ interval_list_b.length >=1>=1

  • 00 \leq starti << endi 109\leq 10^9

  • endi << starti + 1

  • 00 \leq startj << endj 109\leq 10^9

  • endj << start[j + 1]