# README
Sum of Intervals
Write a function called sumIntervals
/sum_intervals
that accepts an array of intervals, and returns the sum of all the interval lengths. Overlapping intervals should only be counted once.
Intervals
Intervals are represented by a pair of integers in the form of an array. The first value of the interval will always be less than the second value. Interval example: [1, 5]
is an interval from 1
to 5
. The length of this interval is 4
.
Overlapping Intervals
List containing overlapping intervals:
[
[1, 4],
[7, 10],
[3, 5]
]
The sum of the lengths of these intervals is 7
. Since [1, 4]
and [3, 5]
overlap, we can treat the interval as [1, 5]
, which has a length of 4
.
Examples:
sumIntervals( [
[1, 2],
[6, 10],
[11, 15]
] ) => 9
sumIntervals( [
[1, 4],
[7, 10],
[3, 5]
] ) => 7
sumIntervals( [
[1, 5],
[10, 20],
[1, 6],
[16, 19],
[5, 11]
] ) => 19
sumIntervals( [
[0, 20],
[-100000000, 10],
[30, 40]
] ) => 100000030
Tests with large intervals
Your algorithm should be able to handle large intervals. All tested intervals are subsets of the range [-1000000000, 1000000000]
.
### Encodings
purity: `LetRec`
numEncoding: `ScottBinary` ( subsets are actually in range `[0, 2000]` )
export constructor `Pair` for your `Pair` encoding
export constructors `nil, cons` for your `List` encoding