Shift Totals on Demand
easyA café logs its hourly sales for the day. The owner keeps asking questions like "what did we make between hour 2 and hour 5?" — dozens of such questions against the same fixed log.
Given sales (one number per hour) and a list of queries where each query is [i, j], return a list with the total sales from hour i through hour j inclusive, one answer per query.
Re-adding the slice for every query is O(n) per question. With many questions, that adds up — precompute something once so each answer costs O(1).
Example 1
in sales = [4, 2, 7, 1, 5], queries = [[1, 3], [0, 4]]
out [10, 19]
Hours 1..3: 2 + 7 + 1 = 10. Hours 0..4: the whole day, 19.
Example 2
in sales = [3], queries = [[0, 0]]
out [3]
Constraints
- · 1 <= len(sales) <= 10^5
- · 1 <= len(queries) <= 10^5
- · 0 <= i <= j < len(sales)
- · -10^4 <= sales[h] <= 10^4
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