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Merge all overlapping intervals and explain the sort-then-sweep line technique.

Merging intervals is the gateway to the whole interval family. The trick is sorting by start so overlaps land next to each other, then collapsing them in one linear sweep. Here is the pattern and the sweep-line generalization behind it.

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Merging intervals is the gateway to the whole interval family. The trick is sorting by start so overlaps land next to each other, then collapsing them in one linear sweep. Here is the pattern and the sweep-line generalization behind it.

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