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Codeforces Round #695 (Div. 2)
By DS007, 4 years ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

I am pleased to invite you to my first contest Codeforces Round 695 (Div. 2), which will take place on Jan/08/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). The problems were written by alimq and DS007. The round is rated for all users with rating less than 2100, while other users can participate unofficially.

You will be given 5 problems and 2 hours to solve them. You are strongly advised to read all the problems.

I would really like to thank:

  • BledDest for his amazing coordination of the round.
  • Aggu_01000101 and infinitepro for helping me in shortening the problem statements and solving one of the problems.
  • MikeMirzayanov for creating the Codeforces and Polygon systems.
  • The following people for testing the round:
Geothermal
sahil_k
dorijanlendvaj
eggag32 awoo
Roms Java
stefdasca Aggu_01000101 kostia244
fishy15 Gilgameshx vrooooom
T1duS wabadabakalakaboo neko_nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
SleepyShashwat BRCode infinitepro
flamestorm saarang123 geekpradd
Jellyman102 manish.17 1_2_oatmeal
anuragbhatt socho kshitij_sodani

We hope you will enjoy the problem set! Good luck!

The scoring distribution will be added shortly.

UPD: Also thanks to nooinenoojno for testing the round.

UPD: The scoring distribution is: $$$500 - 1000 - 1500 - 1750 - 2500$$$.

UPD: Congratulations to the winners

Of div 1:
1. kort0n
2. Suiseiseki
3. peti1234
4. fastmath
5. wrinx

And of div 2:
1. raingirl
2. xsdns
3. Mister5
4. o.a
5. 20I6wudi

Thank you all for participating! My apologies for misjudging the difficulty of B.
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As a tester, I have a proof that upvoting this comment will lead to positive delta. But the proof is too long to fit the margin.

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As a tester there are 1 AI and 4 DS problems

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As a tester, I Can confirm that DS007 is a wonderful dancer.

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As a tester, I'll edit this comment later and add something witty.

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    Seems like it was quite difficult for DS007 to fit you in the above tester arrangement, which itself is pretty cool, I hope there would have been more diversity in color(given we have new year magic)

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      Isn't the colour arrangement pretty cool though? It's the CodeForces logo!

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        Indeed it is, but would be much better if we can have you also in that arrangement :P

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        Ahh my bad, seems like you are already there in expert's color :P

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          Yes :( The real CodeForces magic was that the website somehow detected my true skill level :(

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            As a tester, I can confirm I'm actually red

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This should be great contest. Good luck to everyone!

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I'm the (official) meme supplier for this contest. For every 69 upvotes, I'll upload a new, original content, cp related meme.

#1
Free Sample #1
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See this post for latest memes.

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Good luck to everybody and to me also

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Wow, no wonder you said, You had a lot of testers for this round earlier. Looks like a lot of effort went into the preparation of the round, looking forward to it. Also any authors of future rounds who are looking for testers, I would be happy to help.

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Let's wait till 11/01 to see the tester table messed up. Unless it will be changed later.

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only 192 more for pupil rank :D (lmao I'm not still good and I don't know why I'm happy)

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    Only 97 for specialist. But I know i'm gonna decrease again. :)

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(bccf)

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I tested this contest and it was good.

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As a tester, give me contribution! Also suggest me a new profile photo, I removed mine temporarily.

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    You got contribution even as a non-tester! Not positive though, but still you didn't specify what kind of contribution. May consider doing this in future myself.

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I like how the testers' names are arranged in order of the lights to the left of the logo!

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    Imagine getting rejected as contribution farmer tester just because cf logo will not look good in the announcement.

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      LMAO. Still, you gotta appreciate the effort though XD! For the testers to change their ratings so much and for DS007 to properly format it.

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Indian Round .

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pog

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I hope everyone rating goes up in this contest

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As a non tester Chaliye Fodte hai ;)

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Hope a good result for everyone !

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It's advised in the post to read all the problem statements. Does that mean the problems won't necessarily be in increasing order of difficulty?

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As an idler, there are too many useless spoilers on this page, so one can use this script in the console to expand them all:

$(".spoiler-content").map((i,val)=>{val.style.display="block";})
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SPOILERFORCES

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Guys don't waste your time in B and C like me. There is always an easier approach and everytime I think of an overkilled solution.

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    You may consider rethinking your strategy after this contest...

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    I feel you bro :'(

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    ALways start from harderlike D or E onwards as cheaters can't ruin them easily. Also you may get first to solve award for a problem with that startegy, Last contest I would have solved Div2 D as the first person to solve but I got a silly error thus finished it after 7-8 people.

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    Guys guess what?? Again I overkilled the solution of problem B. Although i solved it but wasted a lot of time. XD

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Love this comment section

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There are only 3 ratings left before I can be a Master(without using "magic")!Hope I can do it!

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I hope no one cheats in today's contest.

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    How to decrease mass cheating ?
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Just two hours left in the contest and still not able to see the score distribution for problems.

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Ok

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If the contest gets 20k participants, I'm going to post 25 high quality memes.

Plus, DS007 promises a div1+div2 contest in the near future if this contest is well received...

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scoring PLS

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Is it rated for newbie?

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    i think u did not read the contest announcement (The round is rated for all users with rating less than 2100)

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    Don't generalize a bad deed to many people, especially when lots of them are helpful and honest :D

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    Indians aren't cheaters. Don't generalise something to whole community. It's not a good thing.

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good luck

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div2A is kind of diffcult >_<

I think we could add a problem in front of this and make a 6 problem round.

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it's been only 30 minutes and I already hate this contest.

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    Even Masters are struggling, now that's tough

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      No,masters just close the website and enjoy their life because they're unrated.

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I think authors should not make problems anymore

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Describe the contest in 1 line: Wrong answer on pretest 3

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The round of Wrong answer

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Contests 2021 is so boring !!!

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I am in doubt this is a div2 round ...

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    I have a similar doubt too. Looks like a DIV 1 I guess. One thing which presents always while submitting my code i.e--"W.A on pretest 3". Disappointed after giving today's contest. :(

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well there goes my expert

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As I can see from my friends standings this contest has been a total mess.

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it is been more than half of the contest and less than 3000 one solved b :o , i can say that this is a big mess

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Pretests for B are too damn strong. Kudos.

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    Better strong than weak. Would you really want to fail a system test?

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Just waiting for time to end and someone tell me all I did was miss an edge case to get Wrong Answer on Pretest 3 :(

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    You can try this;

    1
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1 10 5 2 7 4 1

    output:2

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I am actually curious to see the standing of the testers' virtual participation.

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CF #695 IN A NUTSHELL
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Div2-B Pretest 3 is KILLER !!!

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What the hell is this Pretest 3 in B

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SOLVED C but Failed B. this is CODEFORCES EFFECT

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No way this was a DIV 2 round

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Too hard!!

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Really confusing statement for A, or so it appeared to me. Although they explicitly mentioned $$$|x-y|$$$, I had considered array to be circular in my mind. Even the examples satisfy the circular array assumption.

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    Same, I to get WA on pretest 3, not able to solve a single question, RIP my ratings ;-; :( ;-;

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WA on pretest 3

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The most evil: "Problem B pretest 3"

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I probably misread Div 2

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To the people complaining — Div2B is all about a simple brute-force, so yes — you've read that right — perfectly suitable problem for Div2B. As for the Div2C I believe it has to do something with finding the two minimum elements and a few corner cases, but wasn't able to solve it fully.

Overall a great contest! Really challenging and interesting problemset! Thanks to the authors for such an amazing contest!

EDIT: Again downvoted for saying truth — newbies go be real mad. Y'all expect to solve 3 problems and stay pupil? No, that's not how it works. Back in the day, people who solved 2 problems fast could reach 1700 — because problems used to be tough. Trust me — no improvement if you do only easy problems.

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    I don't know about rest of the comment but yes challenging problems must be welcome

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    Downvoted, I don't like when D2B is bruteforce. Am I newbie?

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      I didn't call people newbies for not liking D2B bruteforce — just not being able to figure it out in 2 hours really doesn't deserve any higher rank. I was very scared when It took me over 30 minutes to get such an easy problem right. It's really a standard thing these days to see D2B done using brute-force.

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      D2B was not a bruteforce, it was $$$ifififelseifelseelseififelseelseififelse$$$.

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        It was brute-force without many ifs if you are smart about it. Take a look at my code and compare it to yours.

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    Agree that this was a nice contest. Couldn't complete finding C corner cases. It was a hard fight and annoying.

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    In my opinion B was "hard" for the wrong reasons. Most people at the Div 2B level can definitely understand the solution for B. The most pleasant word I would use to describe today's B is not "hard", but "tedious": had the right idea and most of the details early on, took forever to find the missing corner case.

    Also, it wouldn't be such a big deal if the very next problem, C, wasn't yet another "figure out the cases" problem 0_0.

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      Again i will say — no special case exists in Div2B. Take a look at my accepted code.

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        Ignoring template my code is shorter than yours .___.

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          But it's more bug prone. I was 100% convinced my solution would not fail, while it took you more attempts to get it right.

          I'm not disapproving your knowledge in any way, just to be clear.

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      I don't think B had a special case... You just needed to implement it carefully.

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    did you lost your mind??

    Div2 B are generally of rating 1200-1300 and this contest's div2B is of rating 1700. This is the most unbalanced contest.

    Its easy for you to say these things because simply you are expert.

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Got stuck even on B. As a result, return to the cyan :(

How to solve B and C?

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    B is brute force. Change each character so that it is equal to one of its neighbors and "carefully" calculate the change of cost for only the subarray where the change has an effect. Then do the same for the other neighbor.

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      Change the character $$$a_i$$$ to previous $$$a_i$$$ or to the next $$$a_i$$$? I did so, and got WA 3 :(

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        I got a nasty bug where I did not check if the neighbors that were previously not a hill/valley became a hill/valley after changing the value of a[i]

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        Change to both, and see which one gives you a better result.

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        Also, if $$$a_{i-1} \neq a_{i+1}$$$ you might try something between them, like $$$\frac{a_{i-1} + a_{i+1}}{2}$$$

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      With this exact approach I submitted 7 wrong answers, still unsolved. Can you share a clean implementation?

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        Brother you might be missing that after changing A[i] to A[i-1] what is the impact of A[i-1] on A[i+1]. initially I was also missing this but got AC after i checked it.

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          I did realize this later but i guess i suck at implementing. Thanks

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getting wrong answer on pretest 3 for B question ,can anyone give any test case

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quite a peculiar contest many people had the first problem wrong in the first attempt and even the second question. loved the contest by the way

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Those who failed B, try this

Testcase
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    My answer is 1 1 and still getting Wrong answer on pretest 3.

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    Got 1 to both, for the incorrect submission of B. Any other Test Case?

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    My solution passed these tests and got WA 3 :(

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    Ah, got it. Thanks mate! Was trying to find the mistake for 1.5 hours!

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    thanks !!! was thinking along the same lines but then decided to move on to question 3

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    Try this also:

    Spoiler
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    thanks it worked for me

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Who made these problems is an evil person ...

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Since contest is over, may I get some hints on how to solve problem C?

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    I replaced a[i] for 1<i<n with both adjacent elements one by one and then counted minimum for all the 1<i<n. It passed.

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    Without loss of generality, lets assume that the final element will belong to bag A.
    Now, think of the problem as ans = a1 + a2 + ...an + -b1 + b2 + ...bn + -c1 + c2 + ... cn
    (Move all but 1 element in A to B. Move all but 1 in C to B. Move all but one in B to C. Now move all back to A. So all the elements except the ones unmoved in B and C will have a -(-) positive contribution to the sum.

    There is one more possibility. Assume c1 was infinite, so a -c1 is not affordable. So we move all Cs to B and then to A, and ignore moving B twice.
    Answer in this case will be Sum(A) + Sum(C) — Sum(B).
    Swap A, B, C and find the max case. 103801386

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      This outline makes complete sense. Such a short solution for such difficult problem! Beautiful

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My mistake from past 30 or so minutes

if(!isValley(idx, arr) && !isValley(idx, arr)){
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if(!isValley(idx, arr) && !isPeak(idx, arr)){
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and that happens despite using an IDE that warns against this :)

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Who wants to hear how we, the testers, trolled the cheating telegram group? Lot's of WA are cause of our efforts.

To those who want to help: Search for solutions of B that have a -25 anywhere in the code. Post their names here, they are all cheaters...

Reason why? Will make a blog post "soon".

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    Upvote for calling testers of this round to be called batmen/women

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    Yes, interested to hear that.

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    Couldn't you have made some good problems instead of doing this? Many masters have struggled to solve A, B?? The problems were too random. The setters of this contest should not be allowed for any further rounds.

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      No they weren't. The problems were actually on easier side as later ones were standard. But it was diverse round.

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Some thoughts after solving B:

If you wrote exactly once in bold why couldn't you write or let the sequence remain unchanged in bold as well?

Why can't n be just greater than 2?

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    Agreed. Why would you want us to handle n = 1,2 separately? Just make n > 2.

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    "In the second test case, the best answer is just to leave the array as it is." This is the sample explanation so it was mentioned there.

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      The second test case will give the same answer when you do exactly one change (change the last 2 to 3). I agree that we should be more careful while reading the problem statement but I just thought it would have been better if it would have also been mentioned in bold that we can perform no changes also...

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        spooky's comment would make more sense then. It was still mentioned in the explanation of sample cases.

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        why is mentioning that no change is allowed sush a big issue. if u really wanted to do that you could just increase or decrease a particular number such that it does not make any difference. it was asking to print the minimum intimidation number not the steps required for that

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    It says "You can change exactly one integer...", which has the meaning you can do, or do not.

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    LMAO lol I had no idea what was wrong with my program and yeah, it was the fact I did not account for n = 1 and since I now use c++ instead of Java it did not say index out of bounds.... That's honestly stupid.

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tricky contest XD

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Div2 C I think I figured out... I was not sure though: is it just total — 2*(smallest + second_smallest) ? D was easier I thought...

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    Nope for C counter example 1 1 1 3 4 5 Answer 6

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      What is the counter-example? Like which ones belong to which list?

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        It's like each list is of length 1. Take 3, 4 and 5 as elements of different lists.

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        i dont know how to put "newline" in this comments. You have 1 element in each bag,in the first one is 3,the second 4 and the last one si 5.

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          Two spaces after line is newline here

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          All good — I understand your test. Looking at the submissions that seem to be passing for problem C, it seems like they used what I mentioned but adjusted it a bit for the edge cases :(

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    No, I did that and failed test 3.

    Counter example can also be:

    1 1 1

    1 1 1

    Correct answer 1, we print -1.

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    will fail on this

    1 1 1
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    except when smallest and second smallest are from same bag. In that case its min of that and total-2*(min sum in any bag). correct me If am wrong.

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    You have two cases.

    1. total sum-2*(smallest + second smallest) (as you said). (Find the minimum of all 3 sets and take the smallest and second smallest)
    2. sum of two largest sets — the smallest set sum.

    Take the maximum of both cases

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In my opinion only fault was it was of 2 hrs . It should have been half or 1 hour more.

Problems weren't straight forward and samples didn't gave any hint and that's why accuracy in this contest was low. But contest wasn't that bad.

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    This is the worst contest I have ever seen

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      Problems were difficult thus i think more time would have worked. Except difficulty was there any other issue ?

      Please don't down vote the blog , no one intentionally wants people to perform bad . At least we can appreciate that it was not typing test.

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    Ya, even i solved the third problem exactly 2 minutes before the end of the contest and couldn't even read problem D

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I am eagerly waiting to see the 3rd test case of problem "B".

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Problem solved

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    I am getting 1 but still WA on pretest 3

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      yeah, there is also one test:

      Test case 2

      by SarthakBansal

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        How is this 1 1

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          I checked this out on the paper and that's true. Just because in both cases you can not rid of all from 1 mountain or hill. You can try to do it on the first test picture:

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I'm not exactly in a position to say this, but I think pretests for E were too weak. Let's define an array occ[1e9], where occ[i] represents the number of nodes with assigned number equal to i. Then my solution worked in O(sum(occ[i] ^ 2)), which on worst case is O(n ^ 2), and for some reason pass the pretests without much problem. I guess that's because my solution is too counter-intuitive to even think of, but allowing any kind of O(n ^ 2) to pass is in my opinion a sign of very weak testcases.

Note: I'm not saying anything about the main tests, I do hope that some in-contest hacks will be added to break my solution (post-contest hacks will surely break it). However, I suspect this is not the case since there were only around 100 accepted solutions for E, and I've not seen a hacked solution in-contest.

UPDATE: So thankfully (or not?), a new test was introduced to break my solution. My opinion holds though.

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My wait for cyan continues....

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Respect ! To those who solved B from the first submission !

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Excuse me for saying this .. There are two points that make this contest bad : You have underestimated it as Div2 ,,,, The tests were not enough to fully understand problems

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Very interesting round, first time I've had to write a brute-force for A and B to debug my fast-but-WA code.

For those facing WA in B, here is a brute-force solution and a test harness in python.

Brute-force solution
Test harness
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On the positive side, fast system testing.

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system testing on nitros. so much lesser submissions relatively.

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In C, can we take a and b from the same bag? The problem statement makes it sound like we can't, but then I don't really see how the answer to the second test can be 29...

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    (7 5 4) (7 1) (2 9)
    (7 5) (7 (1 — 4)) (2 9)
    (7) (7 (1 — 4 — 5)) (2 9)
    (7) (7 (1 — 4 — 5 — 9)) (2)
    (7) ((1 — 4 — 5 — 9)) (2 — 7)
    ((7 — (1 — 4 — 5 — 9))) () (2 — 7)
    ((7 — (1 — 4 — 5 — 9) — (2 — 7))) () ()
    (7 — (-17) — (-5)) () ()
    (29) () ()

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    Put the 9 in 2nd bag with the 1 in 3rd bag making it -8

    Put the 7 in 3rd bag with the 2 in 2nd bag making it -5

    So the bags now have

    7 5 4

    -5

    -8

    I think you will be able to make 29 from here.

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For Task $$$B$$$ The maximum no of hill/valley we can destroy by changing a number is $$$3$$$ right?

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    The best possible case is when changing an element, the answer decreases by 3, however, you have to be careful because many corner cases may exist.

    What I did was: for each position $$$i$$$, I have some options. Keep the value of $$$v[i]$$$ the same or for each $$$j$$$ $$$(i - 2 \le j \le i + 2)$$$, assign $$$v[i] = v[j] + 1$$$ or $$$v[i] = v[j] - 1$$$ or $$$v[i] = v[j]$$$.

    Therefore, I just have to iterate over all these possibilities and see which one is the best.

    Note that for each possibilty, I just need to recalculate the answer in the interval $$$[i - 2, i + 2]$$$.

    My code: https://codeforces.me/contest/1467/submission/103779093

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is my idea for B totally wrong ? We can at most decrease the hills and valleys by 3 because at most we can affect 2 hills and one valley or 2 valleys and one hill how could I be wrong about that

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    Can most decrease by 3 — correct.

    Code with too much ifs must not exist never. Sure thing either one case is missing or misprinted.

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      I guess there's a stupid bug in my code that I didn't notice the idea is correct

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    yes but when you have a hill and valley adjacent, flattening a valley may give rise to a new valley eg: 15 10 5 20 17, here when you try to get rid of valley 5 , you must make it >=20 but that would make 10 a new valley

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      Yeah I tried to change the hill or valley to one of the two adjacent values and took the best change
      my code is just terrible I should have found a better way to code it

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    Well that part isn't wrong

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This contest was a trap. :))

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Another Div 1.5 Contest.
Those who submitted A and B in one go without wrong answer on pretest 3. Hats off to their accuracy.

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Rozen Maiden one-two finish with Suiseiseki :)

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Next time Don't believe on a new setter too Quickly!!!:(

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    Dude, he is making contests, actually making actual contribution to the community. What have you done to do the same? It's pathetic to see the entitlement which participants seem to have. Even I had a terrible contest, but I wouldn't take it out on the authors. Try to give constructive criticism, if possible or don't comment at all :)

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Very weak pretests for C :(

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The contest is fun and annoying at the same time as "WA on pretest 3", corner cases killed my rating :)) Anyway, I like it :D

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why contest div2 was too hard ???

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What type of div2B has <30% passing rate smh

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    Yeah, many people got stuck on QB... QC is relatively easier imo

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      If you don't spend a lot of time on B, that is...

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Fastest system testing.

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Just asking, did the testers give no feedback about the difficulty? It would be much better if there were one more problem between A and B.

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Problem B WA3: When you replace a number, you may not improve the answer, but rather make it worse. Most likely, you only checked the destruction of valleys/hills.

Example:
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answer(1), your answer(0)

Your program will replace the number 10 with a smaller number X. Then most likely there will be a hill (6, 7, X). It was necessary to make a separate check for this

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My PyPy 3 O(N) solutions TLE for both A and B. What is going on this contest?

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    Update: I submitted exactly same code for problem B and get AC after the contest, with passing time of 960ms. What a great feeling LOL.. if python O(N) cannot pass TLE during contest, I suggest naming it a C++ round.

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      Yeah, 1 second really is quite harsh, it's not like 2 seconds would have permitted any n² solutions or anything.

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        Yes, I agree. Sometimes I have seen when O(NlogN) PyPY will not pass, but this is the first time to see O(N) not pass. I don't mean to serve too many sour grapes, but it's my 39th contest, and first time not solving A or B. It does seem there is something with this round. I know CF is for more for CP, so maybe it's my own fault for using python.

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Usually when I did not that well I complain about bad problem statements, so I do not write this often, but:

I liked this problemset. Of course, A and B where less simply than expected, but nevertheless solveable. I did not solve C and D, but was close to D. And all the problems were exciting to solve.

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    For a 5 problem contest I think A was simple enough (just think about first 3 digits is not so hard). I ruined my contest because I wrote on C v[N][5] instead of v[5][N]. For me B was impossible and D some math problem, interesting overall.

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WA on test #695: "Division of contest" Expected answer: 1 Given answer: 2

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    Lol

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    Well, although B and C are a bit tricky, D and E aren't that hard :)

    IMO, D should have been C or maybe even B.

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:/ I'm bad in CP

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Problem B had very painful implementation.

Is there some trick in it?

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    I've just asked other people( after the competition ended). There was a quite simple implementation based on simulation: instead of trying all cases, just try to change a[i] to a[i+1] and and a[i-1], and calculate the improvement.

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      Yeah, but if we try to simulate it by placing a[i] as a[i+1] or a[i-1], it would go upto $$$O(n^2)$$$.

      And, if we do some precomputation and try to calculate the new result or improvement in $$$O(1)$$$, the implementation goes really difficult.

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        No. As a[i] belongs only to three groups( i-2 to i, i-1 to i+1, i to i+2), this simulation takes O(1), and the solution using it is O(N)

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          So, everytime I replace, I need a loop from i-2 to i+2, right?

          Damn, this problem was not too difficult for me then :(. But I messed up.

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        It wont really, when you change a[i] to a[i+1] for each i you just need to check the defference in peak/valley for the i-1,i and i+1th element

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I had my worst performance but still definitely a brilliant contest. Thanks for such a great contest. I learnt a lot and I won't repeat these mistakes.

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Was there an elegant solution to B? I spent 2 hours brainstorming and solved it using prefix, suffix arrays.

For all $$$i$$$ change $$$a_{i}$$$ to $$$a_{i-1}$$$, $$$a_{i+1}$$$, a pretty big value, a pretty small value and count the number of hills and valley. Speed up the counting using prefix and suffix arrays. My implementation was way too ugly.

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    I first counted total hills and valleys, then for every 1<i<n replace a[i] with a[i-1] and a[i+1]. The counted the min ans for this each 1<i<n.

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    For each $$$a_i$$$, change it to either $$$a_{i-1}$$$ or $$$a_{i+1}$$$ and recalculate answer.

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    If you look at the solutions of people that got the AC for example: 103776223 they just check correctly as you said the indexes i-1 and i+1 for all i= 2..n-1 and they make them equal values and then go ahead and see what changed. I also followed the same logic and I was loosing test case 3. I urge them to publish test case 3 so that we find our mistakes. It is a pretty straight forward problem. We can all see that the initial answer can only decrease only by 3 at the most in any test case. I'm going to try and reverse engineer for now and find out what happened in the test case that I'm loosing because it says that my answer was 8 when it should have been 7. I will reverse engineer the test case and publish it here for all the people to find their mistake.

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      I also failed test case 3, then added additional loops to check $$$a_i = \infty$$$ and $$$a_i = - \infty$$$. Got AC after that.

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        Look at the submission that I mention in my comment it doesn't use -infinity or +infinity it simply checks the result when ai is the same ai = ai+1 and ai = ai-1

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    I went all out ad-hoc to solve it. Pretty sure there is an elegant solution out there somewhere.

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I want my rating back.

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Can we get the full version of test case 3 for problem B? Thanks a lot.

My thinking which is the same with all the people who got the AC
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To not keep you waiting, the ratings updated preliminarily. In a few hours, I will remove cheaters and update the ratings again!

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    Thank you very much we would also appreciate test case 3 on problem B be published soon so I don't have to wait until I manage to reverse engineer it. Thanks!

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    Hi, have ratings been reupdated yet? If no is there ETA?

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Finally after 2 and a half years...

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My solution for problem C failed on test case 17. Can anyone please suggest an easier case on which this solution is failing?

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guys my contribution is decreasing but i checked every comment i did and there were no downvotes any help!

MikeMirzayanov

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    Older comments give you less contribution, that's how it works

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there some moments you want to get wrong answer , a solution you finished writing 2mins after the contest ended is one of those moments. Man just needed 2 more minutes.

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can anyone explain this part for problem D?

for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
        for (int x = 0; x <= K; x++)
            coefficients[i] += dp[x][i] * dp[K - x][i];
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    The idea is for each element a[i], count the number of paths it occurs in. dp[x][i] counts the number of length "x" paths ending at "i". But this isn't quite what we wanted above, so we consider all the paths which have a[i] at the "xth" position in the path. From the dp definition, there are dp[K - x][i] ways to "finish" the path with "a[i]" at the "xth" position, so we multiply the two values together.

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But in all honesty, a brutal contest. Lucky to have solved 1 problem (late in the contest).

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My code for problem B got killed by systest, but when I resubmitted the exact same code twice, it passed both times. Is it possible for me to get a rejudge? If not, that's fine :)

Original contest submission (TLE): https://codeforces.me/contest/1467/submission/103773278

First resubmit (AC): https://codeforces.me/contest/1467/submission/103811031

Second resubmit (AC): https://codeforces.me/contest/1467/submission/103811357

Edit: issue has been resolved.

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The trickier contest than usual.

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one of the best contest, looking forward to more like these contests

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SuperFast Results

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Huh! Superfast rating update.

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Too much whine just because problem-setters made somewhat tricky questions and didn't give away hints in the samples.

It was unusual but if you ask me, is not it the way it should be?

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How to determine if a round is good
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I can't see any penalties for my wrong submissions in this round. Why?

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I think A, C, D, E were all good quality problems though they bit have been on the harder side. hard != bad problems. B was boring and tedious.

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    I have to agree B should have allowed quadratic solutions to pass, but the idea behind the main part of the solution is really nice!

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I found problem E is doable by DSU-on-tree 30 minutes after the contest began, and jump into the honey trap debugging for one hour and a half. It will only cost me 40 minutes if I decided first to do C and D, but it was too tempting for me to solve E first...

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When I uncomment 4th line i.e when I convert all integer to long long. Why am I getting runtime error on test case 8. Without this conversion i.e. int to long long code is getting accepted.

https://codeforces.me/contest/1467/submission/103815290

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    I think that the array gets too big. Try declaring array outside of functions or use vectors.

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Where are editorials?

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    It's not been uploaded yet. You can see it on contest problem page when it uploaded.

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Someone please help me in finding a counterexample for my submission

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can D solve faster than O(N^2)? I've considered many ways to improve, but couldn't reach any efficient way.

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    My solution is $$$O(nk + q)$$$. Here's a link to my submission: 103771574. You can also do $$$O(n^3 log k + q)$$$ using matrix exponentiation.

    Edit: Sorry, I didn't realize you meant $$$O(nk)$$$

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      Sorry for my mistake, I want to know about o(NK). My solution is O(nk + q) too, and considering that it can be more faster or not.

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        Now that I think about it, you can solve this problem in $$$n^2 log k$$$ using matrix expo and the trick mentioned here. Though in this case it isn't faster, if $$$n \leq 10^3$$$ and $$$k \leq 10^9$$$, this would pass and the intended approach wouldn't. I'm not sure if this would pass with the given constraints though.

        Edit: Nvm, my idea won't work.

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      hey can you explain your approach? why you multiplied v[i] += dp1[j][i]*dp1[k-j-1][i];

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One of the Fastest Rating Updates !!!

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can someone give what are edge cases of Problem B Div 2

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hello everyone!!!! can you please tell me what's wrong with this solution for the problem B (hills and valleys)?

include<bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std;

define IOS ios::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0);

typedef long long ll; const int mod = 1e9 + 7; int main() { IOS; // string s; // cin>>s; //ll n=s.length(); int t; cin>>t;

while(t>0){
ll n;
cin>>n;
ll ar[n];
ll h=0,v=0;
vector<int>q;

    for(int j=0;j<n;j++)
   {
      cin>>ar[j];
   }
   int cnt=0,flag=0,ans=0;
for(int i=1;i<n-1;i++)
{
    if(ar[i]>ar[i-1] && ar[i]>ar[i+1])
    {
        h++;
        flag=1;
    }
    else if(ar[i]<ar[i-1] && ar[i]<ar[i+1])
    {
        v++;
        flag=2;
    }
    if(flag==1 || flag==2)
    {
        cnt++;
        flag=0;
    }
    else
    {
        flag=0;
        ans=max(ans,cnt);
        cnt=0;
    }
}
ans=max(ans,cnt);

// cout<<v<<h<<ans; v+=h; if(ans>=3) v=v-3; else if(ans==2) v=v-2; else if(ans==1) v=v-1; // if(v<0) // v=0; cout<<v<<endl; t--; } return 0; }

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Does anyone have an idea why this solution doesn't work? https://codeforces.me/contest/1467/submission/103765146. I think that the problem is not in the idea, but in the implementation, since at the 3rd pretest one result was -27!!! And I have no idea how that could happen, can someone with more c++ knowledge help me?

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    We need to handle the case n = 1 separately, because your code assumes if i == 0 then i + 1 < n. This got accepted: https://codeforces.me/contest/1467/submission/103822011

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      Yeah, thank you. Stupid from me, but to be fair I tried for n = 1 and since it returned correct (cuz c++ undefined behaviour) I did not try to fix it. A good lesson for the future though, for sure.

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    It was the fact I did not account for n = 1 and since I now use c++ instead of Java it did not say index out of bounds even though I tried for n = 1 (fucking c++ showing right answers anyways LMAO).... That's honestly stupid, I'm sure I could have gotten a very nice point increase. Eh, fuck it.

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Please can someone provide a counter-case for my submission. My code gave the correct solution for the counter-cases mentioned in the above comments. 103819406

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If they put C before B, I believe more people will be able to solve it.

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The contest had very good idea!
But it could gain much more likes if:
1. It was Div 2 contest (it was not), 2. if Testers had think more about contraints: Div2 B is very difficult to pass with scripting language and this forces to optimize only a constant and disables from other interesting solutions with same complexity but with a bit higher constant.

UPD. also, it was boring without hacking on A and B. Why multitests!?

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I think passing BC needs very careful thinking

Otherwise it will wa many times like me

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Although I struggled with B, it is hard for me to believe that a simple brute force is enough, I overthought and made it complicated with making shapes/checking valleys and hills.

I found this round pretty interesting. Thanks to setters.

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    were the shapes M,W,N,flipped N, simple hill and valley?

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someone knows how to add the date and time of creation of code like tourist does ?

Is it by hand or some script ?

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