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Problem: Remove Covered Intervals

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30 min
Understand how to identify and remove intervals that are completely covered by others in a list. This lesson helps you develop skills to solve interval problems, a common pattern in coding interviews, by analyzing interval boundaries and implementing efficient solutions.

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
Understand how to identify and remove intervals that are completely covered by others in a list. This lesson helps you develop skills to solve interval problems, a common pattern in coding interviews, by analyzing interval boundaries and implementing efficient solutions.

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.