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help on segment tree
By vikas11111, history, 18 months ago, In English

I wants to do this question with segment tree
i know i can change element in logn time but how i can check there at least on segment available or not according to the que

que link link

plz help

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18 months ago, # |
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In the contest, I tried implementing the Segment tree and thought the prefix array won't pass the time constraints, but I was wrong, here is my segment tree AC solution although it can be further optimized.

https://codeforces.net/contest/1843/submission/210506220

Also I didn't quite get wym by " check there at least on segment available " ??

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18 months ago, # |
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you don't need segment trees for this... its just a basic binary search

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18 months ago, # |
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Why learning segment trees when you haven't even solved 1300-Rated problems ?

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    Yeah, In last maybe 20 rounds i dont see a problem(with rating <= 2000), which have solution like "segment tree" or simething more harder. But learning it when you are 1000...

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18 months ago, # |
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If you're curious, this is a working solution with binary search and prefix sums — no segtree needed, and takes only ~60ms and 1.5MB: 210537397

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Why do you learn Segment Tree? Go learn Binary Search.

In fact Binary Search was the expected solution, stop overcomplicating your solutions using hard algorirthms.

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If you are interested in the range update method of solving the problem but you need an easy way to do this, I recommend the square root algorithm. It's more suited for beginners, and it is what I used in the contest.

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