I tried this problem using segment tree but it's getting TLE. Can anybody explain how to remove TLE from this code?
Solution : https://pastebin.com/8iuk4mQp
Problem : http://www.spoj.com/problems/PATULJCI/
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I tried this problem using segment tree but it's getting TLE. Can anybody explain how to remove TLE from this code?
Solution : https://pastebin.com/8iuk4mQp
Problem : http://www.spoj.com/problems/PATULJCI/
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Well, i don't see why this code should pass. There are simple alternatives than trying to squeeze a heavy-constant segment tree anyway, but if you still want to, you can read. I was able to pass with a Merge Sort Tree in szkopul using some constant optimization, code here. There is a simple solution using the fact that the element appears > 1/2 in the range, we can try to pick random a number between [L,R] and see if in the range, this number appears more than 1/2 times using a histogram, the probability of error is
if you try k numbers
I read that editorial but still couldn't get past the TLE. By the way that codechef question got AC. Thanks for help
Can you explain the probability idea more clearly as I am not aware about it
Just random generate index between L and R ~30 times and see if the number this index represent appears more than 1/2 in subarray [L,R]
Thanks for the idea