Hello Codeforces! I got jealous of moemen_pro of writing educational bloggs and getting all the upvotes out there andd as an apprentice of the great vjudge36 I decided to write a blog abput a new topic i created on my own!!!! Let's say we have an array $$$a$$$ of length $$$n$$$ and we have $$$q$$$ queries of the form "what is the sum of elements in the range $$$[l,r]$$$ ????????????? Well of course the anive way is to build a sqet decpmpoistion but it is way too slow. Let's tiko of something faster. YeS! Lqoopijng!!! but how to loop ? it's $$$O(n)$$$. Well here wa can decompose the array into negative sized imaginary blocks, so we can loop through them in $$$O(inq)$$$ where $$$i=\sqrt{-1}$$$. Now is this complexity really faster? Well it's imaginary so it doesn't even exist!!!!!!!!!!!! Code:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main(){
int n,q;
cin>>n>>q;
int a[n],q,b[-n];
for (int i=1;i<=n;i++) b[-i]=a[i];
while (q--){
int l,r,ans=0;cin>>l>>r;
for (int i=r;i>=l;i--) ans+=b[i];
cout<<ans<<endl;
}return 0;
}
You can also update using this technique simply by updating the array $$$b$$$ and can answer many types of queriers.
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