Hello everyone!

I would like to invite you to participate in HackerEarth December Circuits '18. It's a long contest that will start on December 21, 21:00 IST (check your timezone). The contest will run for 9 days.

The participants will be challenged with 7 traditional algorithmic tasks of varying difficulty levels and 1 approximate problem for a duration of 9 days. For traditional algorithmic tasks, you will receive points for every test case your solution passes — so you can get some points with partial solutions as well. For the approximation task, your score depends on the best solution in the contest so far. Here is the detailed timeline of the challenge,

• Day — 0 Problem 1, Problem 2, Problem 3 (Approximate)
• Day — 1 Problem 4, Problem 5
• Day — 4 Problem 6, Problem 7
• Day — 6 Problem 8
• Day — 9 Challenge ends

As usual, there will be some nice prizes for the top five competitors:

1. $100 Amazon gift card + HE t-shirt.
2. $75 Amazon gift card + HE t-shirt.
3. $50 Amazon gift card + HE t-shirt.
4. HE t-shirt.
5. HE t-shirt.

I am the tester of all the problems. I'd like to thank the problem setters Sanjay Gidwani (sanjaygidwani), Mohd Salik (abx_2109), Orap Andrew (Dalgerok), Saurabh Joshi (Apptica) and Anand Jaisingh (MazzForces).

The contest will be RATED.

Happy Coding :)