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Find Median
By vjvjain0, 6 years ago, In English

Hey guys! I was doing a question and got an idea of this interesting question.

You are given an n size array a. The ith element of array a[i] is the frequency of the element. You are given q queries which has inputs left limit l and right limit r. You have to tell the median for the range.

1<=n<=10^6
1<=q<=10^5
1<=l<=n
1<=r<=n

Example:

Input:

5 2
4 7 9 1 2
1 2
3 5

Output:

2
3

Share your approaches in the comments. I don't if this is already a question on some online judge.

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6 years ago, # |
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keep partial sums s[i] = a[1] + a[2] + ... + a[i], now the sum of frequences on range [l, r] is s[r] — s[l — 1]

the median on [l, r] is first position k in [l, r] such that a[l] + a[l + 1] + ... + a[k] is greater than a[l] + a[l + 1] + ... + a[r] / 2 + 1 <=> s[k] — s[l — 1] >= (s[r] — s[l — 1]) / 2 + 1 which can be found with binary search

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    suppose a[l — r] = [1,2,3,1024], then sum of this range is 1024 + 6 = 1030, s/2 + 1 = 516...

    first element to do so is 4th element... ? am I missing something?

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6 years ago, # |
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you can use persistent segment tree to find the k_th element where k = (r — l + 1) / 2 , and node i of the tree stores a[i].

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