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By lrohit678, history, 2 days ago, In English

Hi CodeForces, Currently I am studying Randomised algorithms for my Theoretical Computer science course. Our professor mentioned that there used to be many problems prior which had a randomised solution in polynomial time but not a known deterministic solution in polynomial time, but there aren’t that many problems of this type left now.

I wanted to know are there any Competitive programming problems which have a randomised algorithm solution and have a much worse deterministic solution in terms of time complexity or implementation.

Note our course mostly focuses on the theoretical aspects, so it would gave me a better intuition about randomised algorithms if I am able to do such a problem.

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https://codeforces.me/contest/2014/problem/H

This is a recent problem, the idea is pretty trivial, there is a deterministic solution using Mo's algorithm, however, it can also be done using xor hashing