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Lowest Common Ancestor (Binary Lifting)

Given a tree rooted at node 1, answer q queries, each asking for the lowest common ancestor of two nodes. Preprocess with binary lifting so each query takes O(log n).

Constraints

1 <= n, q <= 10^5

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