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An efficient approach is to first sort the intervals according to the starting time. Once we have the sorted intervals, we can combine all intervals in a linear traversal. The idea is, in sorted array of intervals, if interval[i] doesn’t overlap with interval[i-1], then interval[i+1] cannot overlap with interval[i-1] because starting time of interval[i+1] must be greater than or equal to interval[i]. Following is the detailed step by step algorithm.

The idea is to consider the starting position as (0, 0) and direction as East (We can pick any values for these). If after the given sequence of moves, we come back to (0, 0), then given sequence is circular, otherwise not.

Queue which is implemented using a doubly linked list. The maximum size of the queue will be equal to the total number of frames available (cache size). The most recently used pages will be near front end and least recently pages will be near the rear end. A Hash with page number as key and address of the corresponding queue node as value.