<s>
In	O
computational	O
geometry	O
and	O
database	O
theory	O
,	O
a	O
range	B-Data_Structure
reporting	I-Data_Structure
query	O
asks	O
for	O
a	O
list	O
of	O
the	O
points	O
that	O
match	O
the	O
query	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Range	B-Data_Structure
reporting	I-Data_Structure
is	O
a	O
special	O
case	O
of	O
range	B-Data_Structure
searching	I-Data_Structure
,	O
in	O
which	O
queries	O
may	O
return	O
other	O
kinds	O
of	O
aggregate	O
information	O
about	O
points	O
in	O
a	O
range	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Range	B-Data_Structure
reporting	I-Data_Structure
queries	O
are	O
often	O
handled	O
by	O
building	O
a	O
data	B-General_Concept
structure	I-General_Concept
from	O
a	O
collection	O
of	O
points	O
that	O
can	O
answer	O
queries	O
efficiently	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
the	O
worst	O
case	O
output	O
size	O
for	O
a	O
range	B-Data_Structure
reporting	I-Data_Structure
query	O
,	O
measured	O
as	O
a	O
function	O
of	O
the	O
data	O
set	O
size	O
,	O
can	O
be	O
itself	O
,	O
much	O
of	O
the	O
research	O
on	O
range	B-Data_Structure
reporting	I-Data_Structure
data	B-General_Concept
structures	I-General_Concept
has	O
investigated	O
output-sensitive	B-Language
algorithms	I-Language
,	O
where	O
the	O
query	O
time	O
is	O
analyzed	O
in	O
terms	O
of	O
both	O
and	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
reported	O
points	O
(	O
often	O
denoted	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
for	O
one-dimensional	O
(	O
numeric	O
)	O
data	O
with	O
query	O
ranges	O
that	O
are	O
intervals	O
,	O
range	B-Data_Structure
reporting	I-Data_Structure
queries	O
can	O
be	O
handled	O
by	O
storing	O
the	O
data	O
in	O
a	O
sorted	O
array	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Storing	O
this	O
data	B-General_Concept
structure	I-General_Concept
uses	O
(	O
linear	O
)	O
space	O
,	O
and	O
it	O
handles	O
queries	O
in	O
time	O
per	O
query	O
.	O
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