On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Aman Goyal <[email protected]> wrote:
> You receive a series of online queries : "Give nearest common ancestor of
> u,v " . Your objective is to preprocess the tree in O(n) time to get a data
> structure of size O(n) so that you can answer any such query in O(log n)
> time.

Segment tree [0] is what you are looking for.

[0] 
http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials&d2=lowestCommonAncestor


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