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Help with a problem
By frank1369blogger, history, 5 years ago, In English

https://www.spoj.com/problems/DQUERY/

can anybody give me a fenwick tree approach for this problem?

Thanks.

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Sort all queries by j, create an array L initially consisting of N zeros, then for each ind = 0...N-1 set L[ind] = 1 and L[pos] = 0, where pos is the previous occurrence of a[ind] in a, now you can answer on all queries [i, ind] by finding sum of L[i...ind].

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