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why so few divs?
By _Abdelatty, history, 3 years ago, In English

Why divs are few these days? We took the vacation to enter competitions, not to sleep

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There is a round tomorrow and I think contests being distributed like that ensures problems quality. Do virtuals meanwhile instead of sleeping. Also, I expect a nearby div4 (usually their frequencies are a month or a month and half)

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    I like div4only.

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    Does anyone have an idea that maybe one day no one will be able to make a problem anymore (we ran out of ideas)?

    Actually, I don't think this will happen to the hard problems. Because one can always mix difficult and complicated topics and some random unknown theories together, but what about easy problems?

    I just want to know if anyone else thinks the same?

    In this situation, one idea is that since the first three problems of Div. 2 are usually just need to be solved quickly, it's no longer important for them to be similar to the problems of very old contests!?

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      Today's F is basically 99% composed by things that already appeared in dozens of past problems. Ideas being reused will always happen, even if just because people forget that they've appeared before, and I think that's not a bad thing.

      From what I've heard, hard problems are the bottleneck and not easy problems as you seem to think.

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