Re: [QUIZ] Perl 'Medium' Quiz of the Week #2005-05-06 - Ranges' Lookup

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:16:36PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Well, the previous quiz did not seem to be very popular. Even I started 
> writing it, and then abandoned. I also reached the conclusion that I'd be 
> better off adapting Template Toolkit or whatever for this.

Maybe it would be good to prepare a sample solution ahead of time, to
filter out the ideas that *sound* interesting, but turn out not to
be...

> You are given a large number of ranges (A[i],B[i]) where B[i] > A[i] for every 
> i, and A[i] and B[i] are real. The ranges are not supplied in any particular 
> order. You are then given a sequence of real numbers X[0], X[1], X[2] one by 
> one. For each number, you have to determine whether it falls inside at least 
> one of the ranges. 

inside exclusively or inclusively?