Code RoomMinimum points covering intervals
HardPrep Room Coding #1416

Minimum points covering intervals

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~40 min

Given a set of closed integer intervals, find the size of the SMALLEST set S of integers such that every interval contains at least TWO distinct elements of S. Return that minimum size.

Implement
intersection_size_two(intervals: list[list[int]]) → int
Examples
in[[[1,3],[3,7],[8,9]]]out5
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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InputExpectedGot
[[[1,3],[3,7],[8,9]]]5not run yetsample