FREQUENT - Frequent values


You are given a sequence of n integers a1, a2 ... an in non-decreasing order. In addition to that, you are given several queries consisting of indices i and j (1 ≤ i ≤ j ≤ n). For each query, determine the most frequent value among the integers ai ... aj.

Input Specification

The input consists of several test cases. Each test case starts with a line containing two integers n and q (1 ≤ n, q ≤ 100000). The next line contains n integers a1 ... an (-100000 ≤ ai ≤ 100000, for each i ∈ {1 ... n}) separated by spaces. You can assume that for each i ∈ {1 ... n-1}: ai ≤ ai+1. The following q lines contain one query each, consisting of two integers i and j (1 ≤ i ≤ j ≤ n), which indicate the boundary indices for the query.

The last test case is followed by a line containing a single 0.

Output Specification

For each query, print one line with one integer: The number of occurrences of the most frequent value within the given range.

Sample Input

10 3
-1 -1 1 1 1 1 3 10 10 10
2 3
1 10
5 10
0

Sample Output

1
4
3

A naive algorithm may not run in time!

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saurabh32gupta: 2020-06-26 09:43:06

I have realized now that java is not for competitive programming.

kamina01: 2020-06-15 16:03:27

non-decreasing order helps a lot!!!

bhavi2000: 2020-06-06 07:16:49

tle in java:(

pareksha: 2020-04-28 07:36:52

Spoj really gives me a hard time on I/O

Mohammad Ali: 2020-04-09 00:24:37

using scanf literally got my solution accepted.
used scanf and cout.

alone_musk: 2020-03-07 02:35:45

It costed me 4WA for this and a lot of time. Be careful for the last zero input.

Last edit: 2020-03-07 02:36:15
godofspeed: 2019-12-29 21:31:34

Nice problem

fardin_abir: 2019-11-04 10:23:30

nice problem, try GSS1 after this...

tonystarkk: 2019-10-31 19:13:04

AC in one go.....After reading the comments!!

landofkings: 2019-07-01 01:27:21

good problem

Last edit: 2019-07-01 01:27:40

Added by:Adrian Kuegel
Date:2007-07-06
Time limit:1s
Source limit:50000B
Memory limit:1536MB
Cluster: Cube (Intel G860)
Languages:All except: ERL JS-RHINO NODEJS PERL6 VB.NET
Resource:University of Ulm Local Contest 2007