Dsa
Heap
Hard
Event Scheduling Conflicts
You work for a conference organizer and need to schedule talks in such a way that there are no overlaps in the schedule. Given a list of talks with start and end times, return the maximum number of talks that can be scheduled without any overlaps.
Input Format:
- The first line contains an integer N (the number of talks).
- The next N lines each contain two integers start and end, representing the start and end times of the talk.
Output Format:
- Print a single integer: the maximum number of talks that can be scheduled.
Example Input:
5
1 3
2 4
3 5
6 8
5 7
Example Output:
4
Key concepts
heapintervalsgreedy
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