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Set Intersection Size At Least Two

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You receive a 2D integer array intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi] represents all the integers from starti to endi inclusively.

A containing set is an list nums where each interval from intervals has at least two integers in nums .

  • For example, if intervals = [[1,3], [3,7], [8,9]] , then [1,2,4,7,8,9] and [2,3,4,8,9] are containing sets .

Produce the minimum possible size of a containing set .

Example 1

Input: intervals = [[1,3],[3,7],[8,9]]

Output: 5

Explanation: let nums = [2, 3, 4, 8, 9].

It can be shown that there cannot be any containing array of size 4.

Example 2

Input: intervals = [[1,3],[1,4],[2,5],[3,5]]

Output: 3

Explanation: let nums = [2, 3, 4].

It can be shown that there cannot be any containing array of size 2.

Example 3

Input: intervals = [[1,2],[2,3],[2,4],[4,5]]

Output: 5

Explanation: let nums = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

It can be shown that there cannot be any containing array of size 4.

Constraints

  • 1 <= intervals.length <= 3000
  • intervals[i].length == 2
  • 0 <= starti< endi<= 10^8

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