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Panasonic Programming Contest 2024（AtCoder Beginner Contest 375） Announcement
By atcoder_official, history, 5 weeks ago, In English

We will hold Panasonic Programming Contest 2024（AtCoder Beginner Contest 375）.

We are looking forward to your participation!

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Hoping to get more active on AtCoder starting from this ABC

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Wow, the gap from B to C is huge o.O

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    But gap btw D and E is low

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    I think C is not difficult to get the logic , understanding and implementation is little difficult.

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C 400pts？That's so amazing.

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What is the Distribution of Problem Statements on the top page for?

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    Same question

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    AtCoder suffered DDoS attacks during some contests last year. During that period, Panasonic (also the sponsor of this contest) sponsored a contest, ABC301. To avoid the effect of the DDoS attack, they distributed the problem statements in PDF format during the contest.

    Later, when Panasonic hosted contests again, they might have directly copied the problem statements from previous contests without any modifications, so the PDF version of the problem statements was retained—even though the statement was still from ABC301.

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Wow, 400 points problem C!

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375 is 3/8 times 1000.

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It seems that problem C will be very hard this time.

GL!

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I hope we can all get a high score in the competition. Good luck!

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Wow, C and D have the same score this time, both are 400 points

GL&&HF

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400 points problem C? It must be difficult!

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As a participant, I confirm that problems are problems

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Hoping to get 0.

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Hoping it is easy enough......

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Is there a bit of water in the data of question E, I can still AC if I write the DP transfer wrongly.

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G is almost the same as 567E

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Can someone explain C and G?

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    C is just implementation, do what the question is saying to do. Note that the operation rotates a square submatrix each time. The size of this submatrix goes from n to 1. For every index, figure out how many times it will get rotated(distance from edge % 4), and just do the operation that many times.

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      Nice implementation. I ended up writing a complex code for performing complete rotation on each outer strip of (n-i)*(n-i) square.

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    To solve C, is helpful to visualize each operation as a 90 degrees clock-wise rotation in the square. Then, the border of the complete square N*N will be rotated once, the border of the centered square of N-2*N-2 will be rotated two times and so on. You can only implement a function that performs rotation, and then have in count that each 4 rotations you get the original values in the border of the square.

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    For G I ran dijkstra and made a new graph based in all edges for all shortest path. an edge is part of a shortest path if it make the distance lower or keep the distance equal from 1 to some vertex when running dijkstra. Then I made a new graph based on this edges and found all bridges. bridges can make the new graph disconnected and then there won't be a path from 1 to N using that graph.

    For C, I divided the grid in layers (like a onion). in layer 1 you will rotate 1, and in general in layer i you will rotate each cell i times. find i%4 and rotate i%4 times, because after 4 rotations the cell will be in the same place.

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      Thank you, can you please also explain how to find edges which are part of all shortest paths?

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        Let dist[x] be the distance from 1 to x, and w[a][b] = weight of the edge ab

        if the distance from "1" to "b" is X, and dist[a] + w[a][b] = X, and b is in some shortest path, then ab is one of these edges.

        First I ran dijkstra and keep a "parent" vector, then I ran a bfs from N to 1 to make the new graph

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      in problem $$$C$$$ I have to rotate for each $$$i$$$ upto $$$N/2$$$?Also how did you reach this observation?What was your observation?

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        This way

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        Need to rotate all cells

        This is just what I got after read the statement. The main observation to solve the problem is you don't need to rotate i times, only i%4 times. and the other observation is how to get the layer. the layer is the minimum distance from i to 0, from i to n+1, from j to 1, from j to n+1

        int layer = min(min(i, n+1-i), min(j, n+1-j));
layer %= 4;
int ri = i, rj = j;
for(int r=1;r<=layer;r++){
    swap(ri, rj);
    rj = n + 1 - rj;
}
ans[ri][rj] = gr[i][j];
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where will the editorial for the problems be published?

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A little confusion on C. It took me a while to realize that: all pairs {x, y} between a and b means: a << x <= b and a <= y <= b.

Otherwise, the problem setting is excellent as usual.

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For G , consider all edges which are part of smallest path from 1 to N . Now we need to find all the bridges in the final graph . Its implementation heavy.

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These are the diseases I suffered while trying to solve problem C.

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    I left C after reading the statement cause C and D gave me same points but D's statement was much simpler.

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Can somebody please help me understand my mistake in the submission for G? Submission Link-> https://atcoder.jp/contests/abc375/submissions/58739004

Edit: I got my error, my infinity value was not enough in dijkstra implementation.

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$$$C$$$ $$$\gt\gt$$$ $$$E$$$

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Well, G is weaker than a well-known problem in China called Bridge.

Link: https://www.luogu.com.cn/problem/P2685

The solution is to calculate any shortest path of the graph first, and get the point for each point v where the shortest path from 1 or n to v part from the shortest path from 1 to n. For each edge (u,v) which is not on the path, we can know the range it can influence. So that we can use a segtree to maintain the shortest path from 1 to n when we delete an edge on the former path.

BTW, I tried to modify the code I wrote for that problem to pass G but failed :(

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    I see the official editorial and it is easier than the problem I just mentioned so it have a simplier implementation. But I believe many of the people must have solved this problem before.

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I think this contest's F is quite interesting, despite I haven't got it during the contest.

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