Editorial for TLE '16 Contest 7 P3 - NOR
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It is not necessary to use a segment tree or a sparse table to solve this problem. These approaches are overkill and run quite slowly. Binary search is also not necessary, and it increases execution time.
The first observation is that , where 
 can be any expression. In particular, if 
, then the answer to the query 
 is always 
.
To solve a query, it is only necessary to get the largest  that satisfies both 
 and 
. In case 
 are all 
0's, let . This information can be preprocessed and stored in an array in 
 time (linear time). Now there are 
 cases to consider:
: In this case, all integers are equal to
.
: In this case, only the first integer is equal to
. The rest are equal to
.
: In this case,
, because
and
.
A query can be solved in  (constant time). Make sure to print the correct answer for each case.
Time Complexity: 
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