LC986

Eddie Dong
Aug 18, 2021

Problem:
Given two sorted lists of intervals, List A and List B, the intervals in each list are not overlapped or disjoint. Find the overlapping intervals between A and B

Intuition:
When we see two sorted arrays/Lists, naturally we can think of anther problem that we know how to solve — merge two sorted arrays.
Thus, we can use two pointers to do this problem. We now how to move the pointers according to the ending time of each interval. If A[i].end < B[j].end, we move i because B[j] may have additional time period to overlap with different interval from A.
Secondly, we can easily get the overlapping interval by:

Interval a = [s1, e1], b = [s2, e2]
If s2 <= e1 and s1 <= e2 then,
overlap interval = [max(s1, s2), min(e1, e2)]

Algorithm

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