Queries Editorial (CRANQRYS) - Cranium 2015

PROBLEM LINK

Contest

DIFFICULTY

Medium

PRERQUISITES

Persistent Segment Tree

SOLUTION

The

l

values were not given directly in the question to force an online solution to the problem without changing the given order of the queries.

You should refer to the links given below, and solve similar problems to understand persistent segment trees.

In the solution, we maintain an array

pos

which contains the rightmost occurrence of each element. The persistent segment tree’s

nth

root contains the number of distinct elements in the range

[1,n]

. Since the segment tree counts only the rightmost occurrence of each element, it allows us to safely split our queries.

SETTER’S SOLUTION

Link

LINKS

Tutorial

Problems:
MKTHNUM FRBSUM