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I am a Specialist. Ask Me Almost Anything!

Автор DottedCalculator, история, 11 месяцев назад, По-английски

Since I just achieved the rank of specialist in the first contest of 2024, I decided to make another AMA. Please use common sense before posting here.

DottedCalculator
11 месяцев назад
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awesomeguy856

11 месяцев назад, # |

+17

What is 672+1586-1586?

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DottedCalculator

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+15

665

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Hunter_Kasa

11 месяцев назад, # |

Is 561 a prime ?

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DottedCalculator

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

not in $$$\mathbb Z$$$ since $$$561=3\cdot11\cdot17$$$

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hulm

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+10

Z sign is for intergers, isn't it?

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BraveHeart

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

No sum of its digits is divisible by 3, then the whole number is divisible by 3.

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codepasta

11 месяцев назад, # |

+13

Do you have a girlfriend?

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ilovenandini

11 месяцев назад, # |

+11

how many time have you listened to this song?

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DottedCalculator

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+20

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bitset

11 месяцев назад, # |

bitset?

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amin_2008

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

bitset?

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Lemon-Tree

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

bitset?

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attractors

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

bitset?

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Soumya1712

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

bitset?

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DavidBarbu

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+10

bitset?

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Ehsan

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

bitset?

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DottedCalculator

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

I use python

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lopital24

11 месяцев назад, # |

+10

do you like cookies?

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DottedCalculator

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

yes

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attractors

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+10

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zzzzsust19

11 месяцев назад, # |

I also used to write posts like these when I was specialist. A wise man said, "I will ask u when u become an expert". But now, nobody asks me anything

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randomalt

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+11

when cm?

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zzzzsust19

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+10

In my dreams, I have become CM

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Letscode_sundar

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

I will ask u when you and I become CMs

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xxecho

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

Hi, can you look at my graph, and give me some tips for reaching an expert? How should i go about solving problems , i don't have the confidence to go beyond the second question , coz it gets so hard , in Div 2s

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zzzzsust19

11 месяцев назад, # |

+21

Congratulations on becoming specialist. Wishing you good luck on your journey to pupil

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cry

11 месяцев назад, # |

+29

What's your choice?

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reowong

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+23

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oursaco

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+31

I would sign up and get the 30 free spins

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Palestinian_Dream

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

d) -3

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mashduihca

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

-c

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DottedCalculator

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

x=-3

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EthanKim8683

11 месяцев назад, # |

Are you DottedCaculator from Alcumus? I'm not stalking, I swear, but I remember seeing your username on the Alcumus hall of fame once and I could never forget how it was missing an 'l'.

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DottedCalculator

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

possibly

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SXZZ5

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

Damn coincidences on the internet :) Just found his comments in the live chat of Evan Chen solving CF1628C on an old live stream. Guy has too much math-connections. It must be him. Also his blog on an IMO problem.

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Shariar67

11 месяцев назад, # |

Observe my codeforces activity and tell me how to be a specialist

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bgopc

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

Something helped me to get to specialist: so have these 2 extensions installed(I'll tell u why rn): Cf Analytics, CodeForces Practice Tracker

After that open your profile, and you'll see a red tab named statics, will get to that later scroll down under your rating graph you should have smth like this:(it's your graph btw)

Spoiler

As you can see here, you do a lot of questions but mainly 800 and haven't done almost anything more than 1400, that's bad my friend, Now go to the red statics tab, and you'll see your avg problem rating in the last week, if you wanna get to a rating s.t: 1400 try to have it average around 1300-1500, quality not quantity Do this for like 2weeks, also don't spoil the question by opening the tutorial, spent days, papers anything, but do it yourself for the questions: go to problemset, Filter from 1200 to 1600, with these tags: math, greedy, constructive, number theory, implementation, brute force, games, combinatorics and work on them Good luck my friends

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Shariar67

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+10

I have 2 questions

1.I cant get a clue how to solve them even if i get some hint i still dont know what to use 2.i sometimes struggle lower rating still So shall i stop solving less than 1200?

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bgopc

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+10

for Q1: Editorial is forbidden, but if you've tried your absolute hardest and couldn't find a way, tried different ideas and non worked maybe it needs something you don't know, so after a lot of hard work feel free to check the editorial

for Q2: Something I do is I don't care when to AC, I might AC div2.A at 5/6min something I try to do is prove the solution 100% Try it and see if it works, look for flaws. Like even if when I see the question I instantly get the idea, idc, I'll prove it recommend this too and no don't stop, like if u think you still have problem, instead of 1200-1600, do 1000-1400, till u get good at them

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Shariar67

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+10

suppose this problem

https://codeforces.me/contest/1916/problem/C

Now i couldn't realize why i have to divide 3. To solve this kind of problem what should i do?

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bgopc

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+16

I'm assuming you got the idea of prefix sum, which is good. So By now, you should think about what happens if I choose 2 items and insert sum/2 and you see the divide by 2 and after a while of thinking you'll get the idea of what happens if they're both odd, even, and different parity then try and see that oh, in different parity it benefits the first player so if the second player removes 2 odds at a time it'll be more beneficial, take this path and go to the answer

and as I said don't wait for a divine inspiration, take out a piece of paper and do the work this will help you, specially in math based problems, like for math/number theory/ combinatorics just take that damn piece of paper and do the work it's hard at first but you'll get used to it the key, secret answer is a pen and a paper, not a virtual white board, text editor, something you can feel

and for questions with programming ideas not mathematical ideas, just try every think and still use papers

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p_safronov

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

+10

You say that editorials should be used as the very last resort in problem solving. Is that opinion based on your experience? If that is so, and reading editorials does slow down your learning process, then how to deal with the frustration of inability to solve a problem?

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bgopc

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

Reading editorials doesn't slow it down, they aren't as much beneficial there are many things you learn while thinking about a problem you may even find a solution to another problem while thinking about this

And about the frustration, I actually don't have an always working solution, go play a game, take a nap, rest, or just motivate yourself by something

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SxreaM

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

any tips for me? my activity is kinda messed up

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saka015

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

Hello , Can you give me some suggestions to practice to get myself around 1400 ? I using , this method : sorted the latest problem upto max 1200 rating , and solving it ,will it work or I should solved by descending the highets number of submissions?

Pls suggest!

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bgopc

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

I mean if u put in ascending it'll always be 800, and basically wasting ur time so set it to 1100, and solve descending until reach 1000 rated problems then set it to 1200, and solve them until reach 1100rated problems and do this, if u rather to keep that strategy, otherwise, the strategy i believe in is posted above

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saka015

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

Thanks for the suggestions mate ,

https://codeforces.me/problemset?tags=-1200

This is what i meant , can you share similar link as I am not getting what your point!?

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bgopc

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

https://codeforces.me/problemset?order=BY_RATING_DESC&tags=-1200

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DottedCalculator

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

solve problems when you see them

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mashduihca

11 месяцев назад, # |

are you drawing sth on your profile ?

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DottedCalculator

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

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dixith417

11 месяцев назад, # |

Are you for real?

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aoia

11 месяцев назад, # |

Imagine a situation .. u have 20 bucks and I have 20 bucks . WE club them together and we have a pool of 40 bucks . Now I buy ur 40 bucks for 30 bucks. So at the end I have 40 bucks and u have 30 buck . we made a total profit of 10 bucks each . Who is wrong here ?

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DottedCalculator

10 месяцев назад, # ^ |

ok, give me 20 bucks

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ln1

11 месяцев назад, # |

what you do after a wrong answer on test 2?!

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bgopc

11 месяцев назад, # ^ |

Say F***, And then check my algorithm, if you didn't prove it, but just thought it's reasonable and correct, prove it, if could: check your code, else: come up with another algorithm on a paper IMPORTANT: pen and a paper will 11 times out of 10 work better than code editors

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