#3480

Maximize Subarrays After Removing One Conflicting Pair

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array · segment tree · enumeration · prefix sum

Description

You are given an integer n which represents an array nums containing the numbers from 1 to n in order. Additionally, you are given a 2D array conflictingPairs, where conflictingPairs[i] = [a, b] indicates that a and b form a conflicting pair.

Remove exactly one element from conflictingPairs. Afterward, count the number of non-empty subarrays of nums which do not contain both a and b for any remaining conflicting pair [a, b].

Return the maximum number of subarrays possible after removing exactly one conflicting pair.

Solution