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Segment tree
In computer science, the segment tree is a data structure used for storing information about intervals or segments. It allows querying which of the stored segments contain a given point. A similar data structure is the interval tree. A segment tree for a set of n intervals uses O(n log n) storage and can be built in O(n log n) time. Segment trees support searching for all the intervals that contain a query point in time O(log n + k), k being the number of retrieved intervals or segments. Applications of the segment tree are in the areas of computational geometry, geographic information systems and machine learning. The segment tree can be generalized to higher dimension spaces.
Article summary
In computer science, the segment tree is a data structure used for storing information about intervals or segments. It allows querying which of the stored segments contain a given point. A similar data structure is the interval tree. A segment tree for a set of n intervals uses O(n log n) storage and can be built in O(n log n) time. Segment trees support searching for all the intervals that contain a query point in time O(log n + k), k being the number of retrieved intervals or segments. Applications of the segment tree are in the areas of computational geometry, geographic information systems and machine learning. The segment tree can be generalized to higher dimension spaces.
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