Can someone provide the editorial of this hackerearth problem? Specially @meooow can you please look at this question?
Hint 1: βandβ will keep on decreasing if we fix right end point of sub-array and keep on decreasing left end point.
Hint 2: Binary search.
Actually I did solve this problem after seeing your question, but with a hacky \mathcal{O}(n^2) optimized solution which I cannot be sure is fast enough for some worst case. I took a look at the editorial just now which uses a very convoluted way involving bits and a segment tree. @adkroxxβs approach is likely better than both of these, so @adkroxx if you could explain further that will be helpful
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Can you please explain in detail?