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Solution: Rectangle Overlap

Understand how to determine if two axis-aligned rectangles overlap by examining their projections on the x and y axes. This lesson teaches you to reduce the problem to one-dimensional interval overlaps and verify positive width and height intersections using mathematical checks. You'll learn a constant time and space complexity solution for this common geometry-based coding interview question.

Statement

An axis-aligned rectangle is represented by a list [x1,y1,x2,y2][x_1 ...