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Segment Tree Build II

Problem

The structure of Segment Tree is a binary tree which each node has two attributes start and end denote an segment / interval.

start and end are both integers, they should be assigned in following rules:

  • The root's start and end is given by build method.
  • The left child of node A has start=A.left, end=(A.left + A.right) / 2.
  • The right child of node A has start=(A.left + A.right) / 2 + 1, end=A.right.
  • if start equals to end, there will be no children for this node.

Implement a build method with a given array, so that we can create a corresponding segment tree with every node value represent the corresponding interval max value in the array, return the root of this segment tree.

Example

Given [3,2,1,4]. The segment tree will be:

                     [0,  3] (max = 4)
                      /            \
            [0,  1] (max = 3)     [2, 3]  (max = 4)
            /        \               /             \
    [0, 0](max = 3)  [1, 1](max = 2)[2, 2](max = 1) [3, 3] (max = 4)

Note

Segment Tree (a.k.a Interval Tree) is an advanced data structure which can support queries like:

which of these intervals contain a given point

which of these points are in a given interval

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