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Meeting Rooms II

Find the fewest rooms needed so all meetings can occur.

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Sample cases

inintervals=[[0,30],[5,10],[15,20]]

out2

inintervals=[[7,10],[2,4]]

out1

inintervals=[[1,5],[2,6],[3,7]]

out3

Find the fewest rooms needed so all meetings can occur.

A good solution should

  • State the invariant or decision rule that makes the approach correct.
  • Explain time and space costs in terms of input size and required output.
  • Handle empty, minimal, duplicate, and boundary-shaped inputs.

Reasoning prompt

Sort by start and reuse a room when its meeting ends. Specify whether touching endpoints may share a room.

Use the linked judge for the canonical challenge. The examples above are compact TRT checks; create additional tests around the boundary most likely to break your invariant.

More practice in this topic

One dispatch a week

The trace behind each problem, the tradeoff that explains it, and one technical dispatch per week — no noise.

One technical dispatch per week. No noise.

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