so i was solving a cses question and i had a confusion...why dont we sort a set or multiset before applying lower bound and upper bound? i saw some solutions and they just simply added the elements and directly applied lower bound and upper bound.
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It's because they are sorted data structures. You might want to read the references for these containers on Cppreference.
Sorted data structures = Already sorted right? also why do they have a separate lower bound and upper bound function. why not use the std:lowerbound and upperbound?
Oh, so you were asking for why they had their own member function. You can refer to the functions' reference for this, see the reference for std::lower_bound, especially the section labeled Complexity.