Editorial for Baltic OI '01 P5 - Mars Maps
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The intended solution passes all vertical lines in increasing order of their x values and keeps a list of active y intervals. At each "stop", i.e. for every vertical line, it does the following:
- multiply the x distance to the previous stop with the size of the interval that is the union of all active y intervals,
 - add the result of this multiplication to the total result,
 - update the set of active y intervals.
 
The scan line is implemented as a full binary tree over range  (whole structure is hidden in array, like in standard heap implementation). Every node of the
tree consists:
- number of edges which cover whole interval
 - summary length of covered space in the interval defined by subtree of vertex
 
The complexity of this solution is , where 
 is the maximum y coordinate.
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