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Codeforces Round #442 (Div. 2). Announcement
By Livace, history, 9 years ago, translation, In English

Hi, Codeforces!

On monday, October 23rd, at 18:35 MSK rated Div. 2 round will be held. Participants from first division can take part out of competition.

The problems for this round were prepared by me. Thanks to Daniil (qoo2p5) Nikolenko, Nikita (FalseMirror) Bosov, Alexander (Alladdin) Proskurin, AmirReza (Arpa) PoorAkhavan, Ildar (300iq) Gainullin, Alexey (ashmelev) Shmelev for help in preparations and testing problems, Ann Izyumova for help with translation, Nikolay (KAN) Kalinin for the round coordination and Mike (MikeMirzayanov) Mirzayanov for amazing platforms Codeforces and Polygon.

You will have 2 hours for 6 problems.

Hope you will enjoy problems! Good luck!

Upd1: Editorial

Upd2: Congratulation to winners!

Div1

  1. Farhod
  2. vintage_Vlad_Makeev
  3. KrK
  4. rajat1603
  5. chemthan
  6. Barichek

Div2

  1. wzp666
  2. isybuq154
  3. SORONGON
  4. Sheng_D_Bao
  5. wxh010910
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Is it rated?

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As far as I remember, all the Codeforce Rounds in the past eight months have been rated unless otherwise stated before, during, or after the Contest.

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seriously guys , how two comments with same question and in the same time and they have the same color :/ , the first got upvotes and the other one got downvotes ?

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Is it Rated Contest or unrated???

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To all people who are asking whether the contest is rated: check the tags.

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The increase of the legendary word.

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Hope problem statements are understandable easily and the contest will enjoyable.

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I'm one point below div 1. So to me seems like a notorious coincidence

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I hope the difficulty of problems decreases gradually. In the last few contests, I have noticed a massive decrease in the number of submissions for the last two problems. The image shows one such contest. Note the actual number of submissions during the contest were quite less than that in the image. The same thing happened in yesterday's cook off on codechef.

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Oh, God why?

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Scoring distribution?

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delayed :P

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Delays, classic

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Wait for 10 minutes more :(

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Looks like they wanted the total registrations to reach 7k :P

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this delay means a lot of inqueue :(

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Thanks for the delay. I've just noticed that I didn't register for the contest before the delay.

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Please, no more delays.

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How to solve Div2 B Nikita And Strings.i didnt' able to solve it plzz help

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    my solution is to write two nested loops with the end of the first part and the begin of the third part and maximize your solution and you can calculate the length of the final string with pre-calculations in O(1)

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    brute force for 2 points to split the string into 3 parts..

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      That gives TLE? I did same thing and got TLE

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        yes, it will give TLE if you use any further loop inside 2 nested loops to iterate the string. you can use the 2nd loop to count the frequency of 'a' and 'b' at 2nd and 3rd part of the string. see my code.

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Can anyone explain the problem 3? It seem simple but got WA.

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How to solve B ??

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was O(N*M*2*log(n*m)*8) too much for D

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How to solve C ?

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How to solve D?

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Does this problem have a logN per query solution? :

ask for number of occurences of x in range l,r

update range l,r by some d

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A was clearly the hardest problem, as I didn't really understand the following sentence. :(

"It is known, that problem is from this contest iff its name contains one of Alex's friends' name exactly once."

So I made two submissions, both of which are incorrect but passed pretests. :P

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Why in D grid is 1000 x 1000 (when time limit is 2 sec), it is too big for slower languages. Why not 500 x 500?

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E was just a tree version of http://www.spoj.com/problems/LITE/

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Anyone can tell me how they did C? I did a recurrence but I got WA. if its odd then hit the middle one, then recursively destroy (i, mid-1) and (mid+1, j). If even then if mid=floor(n/2) destroy (i,mid) then destroy (mid+1, j) then hit mid. Anyone sees why this is wrong or what the correct answer is?

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    I destroyed all even first. Then all odd. Then all even again. Passed Pretests. I dont know about sys tests.

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    it isn't really a recursive structure since after hitting mid, you leave a guy with 1 health on mid-1 or mid+1, but all the other guys have health 2

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    1. Hit the even indices
    2. Hit the odd indices
    3. Hit the even indices

    Then you'll get a plan with n + n/2 steps

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    I had same mistake. I used almost the same solution.

    This solution definitely constructive a valid answer, but not in minimum number of bombs needed. I believe it fails when there is a configuration where some element appears once. Just check answer when N = 10.

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Is the intented solution for F O(NsqrtN), and if it is, why are solutions with that complexity getting a TLE?

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hack for A-> DDanilanil :)

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    Some other people forgot to check if the name does not appear more than once in the problem name. Simple hack : AnnAnn but your case is more tricky like AAnnnn since some people removes the first occurrence of the name and then recheck if it is in there one more time.

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How to solve F?

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Any corner case for Div2 B ?

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Can't D be done in O(n*m)? I see a lot of solutions with complexity O(n*m*k) passing pretests.

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    Carefully observe the 'break' statement and calculate the complexity.

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      No, I noticed pure O(n*m*k) solutions without any break statements passing the pretests.

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        I have passed the pretests without any break (see 31647369). However, I got AC after using breaks (31658960), but I do not think I should have gotten AC on a solution of O(nmk).

        I think that my solution would TLE on a test of the form below. The answer is -1.

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          I got TL on such test and I really don't understand why your solution got AC. That's mine — 31650304. It seems to me that they are equal to each other.

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            Your source code has the break (actually return 0) when you pop (x2, y2) from the queue. My source breaks a little earlier, when (x2, y2) is pushed into the queue.

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              Yeah! Thanks a lot! Actually, I have noticed it a minute ago too. Then, the question why your solution works faster then mine? Difference ~ 500 ms. Because of using vectors? 31661871

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What should be the output for this in problem A : "DanilDanilOlya"

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      but the question said, it will be "YES" if ANY ONE OF THE FRIENDS come exactly once.. Little confused, if exactly one of the friends should come exactly once, or any one of them should come exactly once !?!?

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        The last sample helps to understand which of them is true, doesn't it?

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How to Solve C ?

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Ended up only solving D. A failed at systest because of stupid sizetype being unsigned(so 1-2=2^32-1 which isn't <1), B failed because i stopped searching for more As/Bs after finding B/A, while D was easy BFS(at least for me). I don't understand how did such a small amount of people solve D.

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Codeforces HACK round #442 (Div. 2)

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If someone would be kind enough to tell me what went wrong with my E submission ( http://codeforces.me/contest/877/submission/31648193 ). Thanks

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Is there something wrong with codeforces's servers ???

I have submitted the same code 3 times and each time I got run time error even though I didn't change anything in the code.

Can someone tell me why 31659189 solution is giving runtime error ?

My idea is to turn the tree to an array and then turn this array into sqrt(n) Buckets and then preform the queries on them to get a n * sqrt(n) solution

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can anybody plz tell me how to solve div2 E.

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Can anyone explain me why? 31638541

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oh boy!

I got WA on D test 31

I used a simple BFS too and can't find any bugs in my code or algorithm

could sb help me with it :'(

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Can somebody tell why this code gave WA for case 49 — http://codeforces.me/contest/877/submission/31647784 in problem D?

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Suppose if I have a map of size 4 in Div2 C: and I go with the sequence : 2 1 4 3 2 What's wrong with this? Aren't all the tanks damaged after following this sequence? Please Help!

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could somebody plz tell me why this simple bfs code fails on test 31 http://ide.geeksforgeeks.org/5QUsiv Thanks.

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    It failed due to the break part in the 60th line. Supose you are in position xi, yi and you are going downwards. Now you are checking (xi+i,y) but this was already visited. Just because you have previously visited (xi+i,y) you cannot assume that the next cell (xi+i+1,y) (or any of the next reachable cells) is also visited, hence the break is incorrect. And without the break you get TLE.

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Livace do you hate me? I'm in top 5 div1 :(

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I solved B by the DP method. I tried to find the largest "increasing" subsequence. Wrong answer 15. Can anybody prove why my decision is wrong? My solve: 31644137

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The problems were cool, but the pretests were really annoying since they actually didn't contain anything important (like tests 48 & 49 for D).

Only 2 D's from my room passed system testing. Out of 14!

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In the Problem statement for C it was given that If we drop a bomb on the tank in nth cell then the tank will be half damaged and will move to (n-1)th cell.So if we start dropping bombs from nth cell and and go on until first and then in the very last we drop bomb on 2nd then it gives answer (n+1).

for example say we have n=3. So at first we have a configuration 1 2 3. After dropping the first bomb on third cell--> 1 23 _ (3rd tank moved to 2nd cell and half damaged) After dropping the 2nd bomb on 2nd cell --> 12 _ _ (3rd tank is completely destroyed and 2nd is half damaged and moved 1st cell) After dropping the 3rd bomb on 1st cell --> _ 1 _ (2nd tank is completely destroyed and 1st tank is moved to 2nd cell)

This is true for any number of cell.

Have I misunderstood something? I can't also see that problem now as the problem page is showing a error saying "Oops! Something broke on Codeforces. Do not panic. You can try to reload the page or go back to the main page . We already read the megabytes of logs, solving the problem."

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After I saw that contest will be only 2 hours long, when 6 problems, I thought maybe contest should be longer. Now I think that contest surely should be longer! Because three problems A, B, D are really tricky so interesting to hack.

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I feel like I've seen problem E before...

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I have a question about div2 D.

Here is the statement of concern:

Problem Statement

Does this mean she can run UP to k or she has to run k unless she hits the edge/an obstacle? I assumed it meant she ran k, but my solution — 31656460 failed test case 5.

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How should i understand div2 B correctly my friends? I thought a beautiful string is a string that can be cut into exactly 3 substrings described as in the problem. What did i do wrong? I can't even understand english nowadays!

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in problem B can anyone please explain where my approach is wrong.

I first created blocks of a's and b's with their respective counts and then i consider the current block is the middle element and if it is 'b' then left and right part could be anything (i.e. bba, bbb, aba, abb) and if current block is 'a' then (aaa, aab, baa) and find the maximum among these (to do this i just calculate the total 'a' and 'b' in the left and right substring respectively).

code : http://codeforces.me/contest/877/submission/31666767

please help me where i am wrong !

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Problem F Why unordered_map is even slower than map? Both TLE on test 11

unordered_map use 1450ms on test 10 map use only 576ms array use 249ms on test 10

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31659292 877B - Nikita and string Hey can somebody help me find out what is wrong with my solution to B — Nikita and String. I got wrong answer in test case 37. Thanks.

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    It's easy to see. You did not consider the case when the string contains only a's.

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In div2 D, what ever i do, i always get MLE at test case 5 with this solution:31687090 .why? How can i fix it?

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Where Can I find Tutorials ?

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anyone can help to explain why in second sample case for problem C. Slava and tanks can destroy all the tanks? The solution doesn't drop a bomb in 4th cell.

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http://codeforces.me/contest/877/problem/C link not working . why?

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