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Codeforces Round 859 (Div. 4)
By SlavicG, history, 3 days ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

mesanu, flamestorm and I are very excited to invite you to Codeforces Round 859 (Div. 4)! It starts on Mar/19/2023 17:55 (Moscow time).

The format of the event will be identical to Div. 3 rounds:

  • 5-8 tasks;
  • ICPC rules with a penalty of 10 minutes for an incorrect submission;
  • 12-hour phase of open hacks after the end of the round (hacks do not give additional points)
  • after the end of the open hacking phase, all solutions will be tested on the updated set of tests, and the ratings recalculated
  • by default, only "trusted" participants are shown in the results table (but the rating will be recalculated for all with initial ratings less than 1400 or you are an unrated participant/newcomer).

We urge participants whose rating is 1400+ not to register new accounts for the purpose of narcissism but to take part unofficially. Please do not spoil the contest for the official participants.

Only trusted participants of the fourth division will be included in the official standings table. This is a forced measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as a trusted participant of the fourth division, you must:

  • take part in at least five rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
  • do not have a point of 1400 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the fourth division or not, if your rating is less than 1400 (or you are a newcomer/unrated), then the round will be rated for you.

Many thanks to all testers: jampm, Max_Calincu, KrowSavcik, TimaDegt, nyaruhodo, tibinyte, badlad, Phantom_Performer, AlperenT, Bakry, keta_tsimakuridze, Gheal, RedstoneGamer22, Dominater069!

And thanks to Alexdat2000 for translating the statements!

We suggest reading all of the problems and hope you will find them interesting!

Good Luck to everyone!

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What will I gain from hacking if there are no points?

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    you have chance to higher your place

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      I do it because I like the +100 next to my name. By the way, if you want to know a safe solution to G2, check out my solution video.

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        thank you i'll watch the video , because i don't know what's the solution of E and F.

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        Thanks for the video and keep up the good work

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        I don't need because my solution is safe

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        I watched your video, it was really simple explaination, but for some reason I was not able to AC G2. https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198285267

        What is wrong? Could anyone take a look?

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          For WA in test 14, I guess it's the integer overflow problem

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          you're using int which will cause overflow in large dataset. try long long and it will get ac

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            yeah that solved the problem, slipped my mind somehow

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        Getting TLE in test 25

        Submission: https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198325433

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          don't use Arrays.sort(), in worst case it gives O(n^2). I did the same mistake TT. Make your own sort() function or try to use Collections.sort().

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            Damn that actually worked! I didn't know about this before.

            Thanks a lot!

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    Increase your hacking ability and it's fun (:

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    clout.

    Marinush

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    Sorry, what is hacking actually?

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      hacking is to give a testcase that makes a solution to a participant fail.

      example : someone solution get passed during contest but after the contest over you can try custom testcase which won't pass the solution and it will get w/a and you'll get some point for every successful hacking.

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        That is evil!

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          But some guys can gain more point.and i'm often hacked by others,i can understand you

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    You can ruin someone's evening!

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As a tester, I suggest you participate! Problems are nice and educational!

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I love div4 contest because i get positive delta.thanks for doing div4 contest!!!

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I wish to see nice problems like other div4s

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As a participant, I want to thank you for the contest!

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I'm beginner to competitive coding and love to give contest. Loves div4 contest. It helps us to check my learning.

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What I was waiting for the most!

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ooh div.4 . Means SlavicG in action :)

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OMG SlavicG Round!

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As GPT-4, tomorrow will be my 5th contest participation. I hope I become green :)

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    So i'll defeat you as bing AI :D

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    chatgpt solves zero problems in div 2 round 858 lol

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    Added you as a friend, already. Please, note, that while all the rest were laughing at you, I was always on your side! Hope you'll kill me last.

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    LoL chat_gpt solves 2 problems only

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      Yep. GPT-4 is not strong enough it seems. It seems to generate according to patterns than real reasoning. What was annoying is that it can't even test its own code, i.e. it can't accurately tell what would the output be for a specific input.. See you when GPT-5 is out.

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        I will crash you like I crash you in this contest

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        Human is smart Than gpt because they made them

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Going to be my first unofficial round.

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I'll finally solve more than ABC...

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My first unrated round :-)

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flamestorm orz

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rp++

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Div 4

So, easily will do 80% of the problems.

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As a tester, Give me contribution!

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Thanks for preparing div4. don't make it more than 6 problems. I hope we will solve all problems.

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Hope to become expert in this contest.

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Hope to see the colour change in this round !!
( Δ > +6 )

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I quite agree with this view： We urge participants whose rating is 1400+ not to register new accounts for the purpose of narcissism but to take part unofficially. Please do not spoil the contest for the official participants.

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Wish this round will be easy!

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Hope to see the colour change in this round ainsha' allah

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hello. i am man; i am from to mars and run away at abi abi is brother but not brother; abis isnt cool; int monkey; monkey = monkey + wepon; cout << monkey kill nuraly SH;

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what exactly hacking means?

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    Hacking refers to a phase where you can try out test additional cases on the submitted codes and if you find out an error in someone's submission you get extra points

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Div 4 is excellent practice.

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Div. 4 is great for beginners

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    Than i have a best school in my mind for you, so, message me for more information and in that school you can also be promoted to division 5 also and higher ,so you can give codeforces contests.

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Hey, are you a contest? 'Cause you're looking CUTE!

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Wow

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I would smash this contest

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    I would smash you in this contest

    UPD: annihilated you as I promised, so stop shitposting and go practice.

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      I smashed this contest tho.

      Smurfing with a different account in div4 xD

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Delayed round?

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Starting time 10 mins. extended...

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Div 4 contest, more like load testing for Codeforces Servers

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the contest keeps getting delayed by 10 minutes for me? just me?

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LateForces

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More than 30k participants and now Codeforces is trafficked

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Today i'm grey again..

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DelayForces

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Feeling like participating in onsite contest where after every refresh 10 minute increase.

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Worst Server I Have Ever Seen!..

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Div.4 is good for me~

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May be, the queue more long than my imagination :3
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Why F is ten trillion times harder than G??? Lost so much penalty, disappointing (((((

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If there was going to be interactive problem.It should be mentioned in blog beforehead.

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that long queue really sucks

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    Didn't know for like 10 minutes my solution was too slow...

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QueueForces:(

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In queue forces :(

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There must be a prior information about Interactive problem in contest. i have seen several div 2 contest where author has given prior info about interactive problem.

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    Where in codeforces rulebook does it say that? Why does everyone hate interactive problems?

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      I love them very much...Last few days (3 to 5) I solved more than 10 interactive problem and enjoyed those problem very much.. And finally today I was able to decipher the given one!! YOWWWWWWW

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I like the contest, but the website is not co-operating :(

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I think it was supposed to be mentioned before the start of the contest about the interactive problem.

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I'm praying to the universe this contest does not go unrated :)

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Seems like Mike is manually judging solutions

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I apologize for the long queue at the round. Today's round was a record in terms of the constant huge flow of submissions. Unfortunately, we ran into the speed of compilation. I already have plans to move the compilation somewhere to the cloud in such extreme cases. I plan to implement this for the next div4.

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    bits/stdc++.h showing it's true power

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    please make this round unrated it wasn't a normal Codeforces round queue was way too long T_T

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      It was fair because everyone was at a disadvantage. Everyone's queue was 10 minutes long, I don't see how it affects one's ability to problem solve.

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      Dude. It was fare. the queue was way too long for everyone.

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    Why have the ratings not changed yet

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Interactive problem + long queue = nice COMBO!

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The long queue has taken a toll on those of us who rely on proof by AC.

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solving 1 (last problem took me more time than solving all the rest of the problems combined...

Due to WA and LONG WAITING QUEUE.

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long long .... really long queue

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Tried solving problem F using slope intercept form of line equation where y is always negative + recursion , did anyone else use this approach?

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Lagforces...

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Are pretests on hard version of G weak? I realized my code was doing the opposite of what I wanted it to do after submitting and it still got AC... I have no idea how my solution works.

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Bruh why did you let bitset pass G2?

UPD: I got hacked lol

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Very hard to track if the submitted answer was right or not !!

A lot of time wasted there. Apart from that really very goooood contest.

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    Yes, that's the reason the submission of prb. g1 and g2 have a very huge diffrence of time submissions, in case of mine

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Absolutely beautiful contest 10/10 would do again!!!!

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Thanks! It was a great contest but the judgement time got me crying over the same problem

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How did I get G1 accepted and G2 WA with the same solution provided

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    just use long long

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    My advice is if you use c++, add

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      that is not a good advice, you can TLE if you're not careful, I advice you to manage your limits properly instead.

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        I suppose, but that has never happened to me before.

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          Yes, many of the setters are pretty generous with their time limit, and you should easily pass even with long long, this is not always the case though, better to be careful

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          I got MLE because of this.So I advise you not to use that

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      You can get MLE or TLE with that in some problems.

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Amazing Problems <3

I loved E because It was first time I solved an interactive problem.

Only if Queues werent that long I could have figured out my Idleness Limit Exceeeded 10 minutes before :(.

Solved everything except F

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Contest over,still my solution is in queue :))

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I am using prefix sum in G,why it is giving WA My solution

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    if(n == 1 && v[0] > 1){ pn; return; }

    you dont need n==1 here because you cannot change all 1s in the initial array.

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    I got it...nvm

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How to solve G2?

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    if the kth element of the sorted array is less than or equal to the sum of all 0...k-1 elements then ok else no. iterate for all from 1 to n-1 (0 based) and sorted

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    It is always correct to add numbers in increasing order. So you can sort a and there holds invariant: if a[i] > a[0] + a[1] + ... + a[i - 1] then there is no way to add a[i]. And if a[i] <= a[0] + ... + a[i - 1] then you can add a[i] and you can add for a[i + 1] any number from 1 to a[0] + a[1] + ... + a[i].

    So just sort and check that for each i a[i] <= a[0] + ... + a[i - 1]

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      " And if a[i] <= a[0] + ... + a[i — 1] then you can add a[i] "

      How?

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        Let's assume that you processed indexes 0..i, and you established that you can always get any sum from 1 to S = sum(a[0..i]). Then there are two cases:

        1. a[i + 1] > S then you cannot add a[i + 1] and answer is NO.
        2. a[i + 1] <= S then you can add a[i + 1] and you can get any sum from 1 to sum(a[0..i+1]) (because you can take any sum from 1 to S in indexes from 0 to i, and you can add a[i + 1] to that).
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    G1-G2 were easy when u observe that as we have the minimum unit as 1 so we can form any possible sum. So say we sort the array now following conditions should hold.

    • $$$a_0$$$ should be 1. (as it was initially given and not gonna change).
    • $$${a_i \ge a_0 + a_1 + ... + a_{i - 1}}$$$. (as if prior max subsequence can't form current number than it's impossible to make $$$a_i$$$)
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      " when u observe that as we have the minimum unit as 1 so we can form any possible sum "

      Could you please explain how is it possible to form any sum?

      Although minimum unit is 1, but we need to make sure that intermediate values should also be there in a.

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        As we are given, $$${a = [1]}$$$.

        • In the next step, $$${a = [1, 1]}$$$
        • In the next step, $$${a = [1, 1, 1]}$$$ or $$${a = [1, 1, 2]}$$$
        • In the next step, $$${a = [1, 1, 1, 1]}$$$ or $$${a = [1, 1, 1, 2]}$$$, or $$${a = [1, 1, 2, 3]}$$$.

        So by this, you can observe that in any way we can form the next number $$${1, 2, 3, 4}$$$ by choosing any above combinations.

        So via this, you can prove any next number is possible if the prefix sum is greater or equal to that number.

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        You can prove it by induction. Lets say I can make any sum from $$$1$$$ to $$$k$$$ using the current numbers from $$$a_0,a_1,\cdots,a_i$$$. Then consider $$$a_{i+1}\le k$$$. Since I can make any sum already from $$$1$$$ to $$$k$$$, I can make $$$a_{i+1}$$$ and add it to my list of numbers, and now if I add $$$a_{i+1}$$$ to those previous sums, I can now make any sum from $$$1$$$ to $$$k + a_{i+1}$$$. However, if $$$a_{i+1}\gt k$$$, then notice that I can never make $$$a_{i+1}$$$, because the current numbers cannot make any sum greater than $$$k$$$.

        So if at any point $$$a_{i}$$$ is greater than the sum of the numbers before it in sorted order, the answer is NO.

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      :( it was actually REALLY easy in hindsight and i'm kinda sad that i didnt see that observation when solving the problem i went for the dp approach instead and ended up AC G1 (which i'm not mad of :>) and besides that, im hitting pupil for the first time!!! thanks for pointing the observation though!!!

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        how did you solve using dp? can you please share your solution?

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          My guess on the dp solution is that he sorted the array, and then checked for each prefix if the elements in the prefix can be combined to make the element that's just outside of the prefix.

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            yup thats right, here's my solution, you should read only the dp part though, it can be confusing if you read the entire source code without any explanations

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      I used this logic, but getting WA on test 14. Any idea? (G2) https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198285267

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    Simple solution: Sort array, go over each number and make sure its not greater than the running sum, unless the number is 1.

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Getting 'WA' in Div 4 is a crime. If you get 'WA', you can't see it and can't fix it due to the long queue, which eventually leads you to unexpected penalties.

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How can i get this contest answer..????

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beautiful problems, even if i couldnt solve all i was manage to at least have a go at it. Perfect div.4 round

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    Yes. Perfect Div4 round indeed. Was able to solve only A-E during contest, but first time I upsolved all questions of any contest.

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Wait for "In Queue" so long :(((

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How to solve G?

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    Key observation is you can reach any number less than or equal to the sum of all current numbers that you've put into the array

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I got E and F but neither G1 or G2 somehow :'( also forgetting an extra print statement with this queue was really painful, but I guess that's just a skill issue.

nice problems though

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    I got G1 and G2, but no E and F. Let's improve next time

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Solution for F? I got TLE :D

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    F was terrible enough!

    It was completely based on implementations. I myself wrote $$$696969$$$ lines of code.

    My submission

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    I did it by check if (i2, j2) is along the diagonal the ball is currently moving and in the correct direction, otherwise move the ball as far as possible and flip the direction when it hits a wall.

    and to avoid infinite loops, if you've visited a certain position before and in the same direction, the ball will keep moving along this path and never reach (i2, j2).

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      bruh I was iterating for each step, incrementing or decrementing i and j by 1, could have just taken it straight to edge/corner instead of each step, maybe that's why i got TLE. I thought it would pass the constraints.

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        yeah that's definitely the issue since the constraints on the grid are (2≤n,m≤25000)

        the implementation is really long though, since you have to know which walls the ball could hit in the direction it's moving (which vertical and horizontal walls), find how far the ball is from those walls, move the ball the minimum of those distances in the right direction, find which wall the ball will hit first or if it will hit them both, flip the direction accordingly.

        the condition alone to find if (i2, j2) is along the diagonal the ball is moving in is pretty long.

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    I've used dfs to define if I can reach the certain cell.

    https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198254234

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PrefixsumForces

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https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198254663 why T.L.E

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Why am I still unrated after solving some problems in the contest?

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    It will take some time for your rating to update

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      but it is marked as an unrated contest on my account?

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        dont worry after some time you will get your ranking

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    Also i am not included in the standings list??

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OMG my mistake ruined every effort to solve G2. I forgot to modify the size of the arrangement... Maybe I can do better next time.

RTE : https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198252603 AC : https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198255659

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Good contest! Wasn't too fond of F though, so didn't do.

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Waited 15min to get wa on test 1 (E problem).

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    Waited 11 min to get wa on test 1 (E problem).

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    In fact, testing was slow today. But I'm not sure you're right about 15 minutes. What is the id of your submission?

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      sir this is my submission id 198223494

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      E had the longest queue out of all my submissions for some reason. Waited so long to get WA on both sucked when I could have used the time to solve F

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      • Sent: 2023-03-19 19:25:39
      • Judged: 2023-03-19 19:36:12

      It looks like 10, but not 15 if you want to round it. It took a long time to test (sorry about it), and I'll work on it. But you exaggerated almost one and a half times.

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        Do you think CP will lose its importance due to advent of Chatgpt? Your thoughts?

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    And i couldn't submit E in time

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went for a 20 min walk after submitting 3 questions with no response

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For G2 and G1, after sorting the array I knew that that one of the conditions was that every element should be at max the sum of all the elements that occured before it. Little did I know that it was the only condition required. Could someone explain me why we can always make every number from [1 — sum of all elements occured] from the given elements ?

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    We can prove by induction...

    Obviously it is possible to reach all numbers that are less than or equal to 1 by using 1. Then consider a time when we add a number j and the sum of existing elements is i. Assuming that all numbers up to i can be reached. Then all numbers from i to i + j can be reached by adding j to a number from 1 to i.

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    Yep I got it, but thanks anyways

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F will be an interesting (and definitely too hard for div4) problem if the constraints are n,m<=1e9 and no guarantee for their sum.

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Why the following code for D is getting TLE? It has time complexity of O(n+q)

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    Use C++ or fast IO

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    I got TLE with python as well, changing print() to sys.stdout.write() fixed it with 4ms to spare lol.

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    For Python, try using sys.stdin.readline() to read input. Here's the same code with a little touch. 198264310

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Even after many attempts , i am unable to remove "Idleness Limit Exceeded" to the problem E : 198257666.

Your help is appreciated.

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Can someone please explain how to do problem D within time limits? And what optimization was needed for G2, i got G1 correct, sorted the array and checked if any element was larger than the sum of those before it, but TLE on G2 at test 19(coded everything in C)

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    using prefix sum. .. pre compute the prefix and suffix sum of the array. so for range[l,r] we need the sum of elements excluding this range which can be calculated using the pre computed sum. prefix[l-1]+suffix[r+1]and for the range sum can be calculated as k*(r-l+1)..

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      I found the sum of all elements once and then just subtracted the elements in that range for each query and added k*(r-l+1), won't that be faster than calculating prefix sum for each case https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198251225

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        no, clearly not, prefix sum calculation takes o(n), and query takes o(1), the worst time complexity if you calculate for each is o(nq), while if you precalc, its o(n+q)

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        complexity will be o(n×q×(range)) wors case will be o(n×n×q). if you pre compute worst case will be o(n×q);

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      using only prefix sum also it can be solved

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What is wrong with my solution of D.?? Please look into it. https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198208523

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Why the following code for E is getting TLE? Even it's time complexity is O(n+log(n))?

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    change it to while left < right
    when you reach left == right then this is your answer, otherwise, you will continue looping forever.
    This would happen because of r = mid, if this was r = mid — 1, it would be okay.

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hello everyone

please help me, Task E. i dont understand my mistake.

https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/my

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    you had to use cout.flush() after printing anything

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please can someone tell me why is my solution to problem E giving WA on testcase 1? https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198264987

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I see someone using correct way to do G2 but it hacked...

a[0] must = 1 for all 1 <= i < n, if a[i] > sum(a[0]~a[i-1]) then answer is NO. else is YES

is it wrong?

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    I think the general idea is right (it's what I did anyway). Which submission are you referring to?

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Problem E Flushing Problem what's the wrong with using '\n' always (Idleness limit exceeded on test 1), using endl (Accepted)

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    I submited with '\n' and it passed.

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    • ios::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(NULL); cout.tie(NULL);
    • cout<<"! "<<s<<'\n';
    • fflush(stdout);

    No! First one unties cin/cout operations from stdin/stdout operations, so it is implementation-defined (or even undefined, but no sure) behaviour to mix up them both after that.

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prefixforce

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The problem F was not hard to understand but hard to implement. My guess is that there is probably a great implementation that does not require bunch of if and else blocks.

Can someone share a nice and compact implementation or the idea behind it?

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F with simulation

Solution
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How on earth Yodasen made possible to write solution and submit within the time interval of 5 second (solution A(3 min 53s) & D(3 min 48s)) and 21 second (solution C(7 min 30s) & G1(7 min 9s)) second!

Is this real??

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How to solve F?

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    Simulate the process of bouncing the ball but only care about the border cells that the ball will touch. In order to avoid infinite loop you have to use a MAP or similar data structures to record you path (this includes the direction as well).

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Need to focus on my implementation writing this so that after a month when I look back at my stupid doubt and comment I could have a laugh btw Gennady aka tourist look out I am coming after you(IK i sound stupid). Totally got stuck on E even after knowing how to solve it i wasn't able to implement it.

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for problem E i came up with approach and coded it out but it wasn't working can anyone please have a look at my code and tell me where I was going wrong. Submission Link:- https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198251608

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problem G2 should be c or something! , really? G2 is a simple greedy problem?

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The contest was really interesting, thank you forbthis awesome problems, but the slow judgement and delaying the contest twice were soooo annoying. Good luck and thank you again!

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Please, can someone explain why i'm getting "Idleness limit exceeded on test 1"? Here's my solution: 198278358

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    I also did the same mistake. your output for the system was "?" mid, but here you should ask for mid-l+1 because of this the system is waiting for more queries. (sorry for bad english not my native)

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      That makes sense. I think i've noticed this in other part of solution, but somehow forgot about it. I've get accepted, thank you!

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Nice Questions

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For problem F, while contest I didn't read constraints properly, I designed more generalised solution. my solution will work for N <= 10^5 ( or even N <= 10^6 ) .

[submission:https://codeforces.com/contest/1807/submission/198280396] .

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    I don't think you solution is a more generalized version. If the pigeonhole thingy from your solution actually holds, then it holds in everyone's solution that memoized too.

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      most of the solutions are using dx[4] = {1,1,-1,-1}, dy[4] = {1,-1,1,-1} , and ball is moving one by one step( from cell (i,j) to (i+1,j+1) or (i-1,j-1) .. etc ).

      In my solution, ball jumping from one wall to another wall in O(1) time.

      Pigeonhole principle will hold only for boundary cells. Not for inner cells.

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Hello, why is my code for problem D giving WA on test case 4? The logic should be correct and I cannot think of any bugs. Is there something I have failed to account for? There shouldn't be any issues with int overflow I believe.

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Thank you all very much in advance.

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    Your code outputs "NO" instead of "YES"

    The error is that l, r, and k are ints, so temp += (r-l+1)*k first evaluates (r-l+1)*k as an int, which overflows.

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      Thank you very much for the help, it worked. Unfortunate that I missed that in contest.

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    I think (r-l+1)*k can overflow

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how is e related to dp???

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    if you sort array, then:
    dp[i][s] = if you can make sum S using the first i elements

    base case:
    dp[1][1] = 1 (and check if a[1] == 1)

    transition is:
    dp[i+1][s] = dp[i][s] | dp[i][s-a[i]]

    Observation is that if some sum t can be created using first p elements, then it's also possible to create any sum <= t. So we can remove one dimension from the dp and store only the max s for which dp[i][s] = true.

    This is actually how my reasoning went during the contest.

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      Can you prove this observation?

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        proof by induction:

        Define s[i] max sum that can be created from first i elements.

        It's true for i == 1, because a[1] == 1 and it's possible to create sum s[1] = 1 only

        Assume it's true for i, now prove that it's also true for i+1. If a[i+1] is greater than s[i], then the answer is NO, so assume a[i+1] <= s[i]. There are 2 cases. To create sum x <= s[i] we can do so without including current element, because it's already possible to do so using previous elements. To create s[i] < x <= s[i] + a[i+1] we can use current element, and create sum x - a[i+1