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Find Median from Data Stream

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Problem statement

Process a finite sequence of operations while maintaining every integer added so far. Each row in operations has one of these forms:

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Example 1

operations = [["add","5"],["median"],["add","1"],["median"],["add","9"],["median"]]return = [5.0,3.0,5.0]

The stored multisets at the three queries are [5], [1,5], and [1,5,9], whose medians are 5, 3, and 5.

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