Checkpoint: The Living Maximum
Challenge on lesson: Checkpoint — The Living Maximum
CHALLENGE
Difficulty: advanced+25 XP
**Task.** An array of n values. q operations: 1 p x sets a[p] = x;
2 l r asks the maximum of a[l..r] (inclusive, 0-indexed). After all
operations, print the XOR of every answer from type-2 operations.
**Constraints:** 1 ≤ n, q ≤ 200000; 0 ≤ a[i], x < 10^6; 0 ≤ l ≤ r < n.
**Budget check:** interleaved updates kill static prefixes; the named
bottleneck is 'range max that changes' → segment tree, O((n + q) log n).
The naive rescan is O(n·q) ≈ 4·10^10 — dead.
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