Dsa
Intervals
Easy
Merging Event Intervals
You are tasked with managing event schedules for a conference. Given a list of event intervals, where each interval is represented by a start and end time, you need to merge any overlapping intervals into one unified interval. Each interval is defined by two integers, the start and end time, with the start time always less than the end time.
The program should read from standard input, where the first line contains an integer n (the number of intervals). The next n lines each contain two space-separated integers representing the start and end times of an interval. Your goal is to print the merged intervals in ascending order of their start times.
Input Format:
- An integer n (1 ≤ n ≤ 10000)
- Followed by n lines, each containing two integers (start, end) (0 ≤ start < end ≤ 10^9)
Output Format:
- The merged intervals, each represented as "start end" on a new line.
Example:
Input:
5
1 3
2 4
5 7
6 8
9 10
Output:
1 4
5 8
9 10
Key concepts
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