Intervals

Ranges with a start and end — sorting by start (or end) turns overlap and merge problems into a single linear pass.

Read

42 min

Practice MCQs

25

Interview QA

25

Edition

v7

Editorial status

Reviewed

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Scope: Language-neutral, with sorting and heap behaviour cited from CPython 3.14.