AquaMoon's blog

By AquaMoon, history, 3 years ago, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

I'm glad to invite you to Codeforces Round 732 (Div. 1) and Codeforces Round 732 (Div. 2), which will be held on Jul/11/2021 17:05 (Moscow time). Note the unusual start time of the round.

The round will be rated for both divisions. Each division will have 6 problems and 2.5 hours to solve them. There may or may not be an interactive problem, so I suggest you should read the guide for interactive problems.

All problems were written and prepared by CoupDeGrace, kuangbin, mejiamejia, Sugar_fan, Melacau, Nanako, GOATWU, Cirno_9baka, Suiseiseki, ODT, box, Ynoi, syh0313, wh0816 and me.

And thanks to QAQAutoMaton, gamegame, starusc, interestingLSY, chenkuowen, JianfengZhu, Monogon, ijxjdjd, Schwarzenegger, sunsiyu, Nezzar, mtw, TheOneYouWant, gyz_gyz, kimoyami, njupt_lyy, ptd, coderz189, manik.jain, absi2011, gyh20, errorgorn, antontrygubO_o, oolimry, zhangzx123, wxhtzdy, tribute_to_Ukraine_2022, SonDinh, triple__a, Pecco, AzusaCat, dorijanlendvaj, Imakf, Forever_Pursuit, kartikeyasri23 for testing and good advice, isaf27 for his excellent round coordination and help with preparation and MikeMirzayanov for great systems Codeforces and Polygon.And you, for participating!

This is my first round ever. Great efforts have been put in during the past six months. We are sincerely looking forward to your participation. We hope everyone will enjoy it.

Good luck!

UPD1: Here's the score distribution:

Div 1: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2250 — (2000+2000) — 4000

Div 2: 500 — 1000 — 1250 — 1750 — 2250 — 3000

UPD2: Sorry to everyone! This is my first round and I spent lots of time to prepare it. I prepared at least 23 problems, and chose these eight ones for this round. I invited 35 testers to test, and chose problems according to their feedback. However, the difficulty is more than expect.And the pretest is not strong, leading to FST for many people. I blamed myself sadly. So I must say sorry to you, my dear friends. I will improve myself in the future. Wish you good luck and happy everyday. (๑•ᴗ•๑)

UPD3: Tutorial is available.

UPD4: Congratulations to the winners

Div1:

1.gisp_zjz

2.VivaciousAubergine

3.xtqqwq

4.Swistakk

5.Endagorion

Div2:

1.ki_msaga

2.jk-jung

3.RBurgundy

4.motomuman

5.flashsonic

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First Upvote done.

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orz! Looking forward for a great round!

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I can confirm problems are awesome! Good luck in the round!

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    though only the first 2 problems of div2 are different :)

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Is Aquamoon a girl?AquaMoon

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    Yes, I hope you like my problems!

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      You are a very cute girl, I believe I must have good luck in this contest. Hope I can like your problems.

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        Thank you! Wish you good luck and happy every day! (๑•ᴗ•๑)

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        I believe I must have good luck in this contest.

        And you didnt even participate lol

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      I just solved a single problem! :(

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    Yes. She is a lovely girl.

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    Yes, but, unfortunately, this is not a dating site. :P

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Coordinators: How many testers do you want?
Authors: Yes.

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    Most of the testers are my friends. It's me but not coordinators who invited them for testing.I want to make the problems better.

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      Seems like you like making even blue as your friends. Can I be your friend in next round? :P

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        Of course you can. Welcome!

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          I am interested in testing too. Hope i can be your friend too

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            Tip: If you want to be her friend, you can ask her discord using the cf station letter.

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              what is cf station letter. Pardon my naiveness but i dont spend a lot of time on cf. Also google search showed irrelevant results

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      It displays that you are quite passionate in making your first round likeable. I wish you good luck that everyone will like your contest!

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      I think that this contest shows well why friends are not good testers

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As a tester, problems are great!

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2.5 hours... Any reason?

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    Determination is based on the feedback of the testers.

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      The photo below the goodluck!..is giving me good vibes ❤️

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      How u practice your math skills like typical pnc problems and dp + pnc , so difficult to find intuition sometimes.

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Good problems! The difficulty level is moderate, the knowledge covered is broad, the statements are clear and short and the solutions are more natural.

I would like to give upvote to the writers!

update near the end of the contest: Now you may know what's the true meaning I said.

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    Great thanks to conscience problem writers!()

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    "The difficulty level is moderate"

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      There's a famous problem setter in China.

      And he always set comments like this after the hardest contest in China.

      I just translate it into English and change something.

      Chinese version
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        you should've said this before the contest "/

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          But someone didn't let me say.

          So I could only set a comment like that, expected someone would get the meaning.

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      5g50e0

      Every asian rounds ever

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    no nothing is true T-T, you played with us.

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I'm a tester and I'm sure the problems are excellent!

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Good lucky to everyone.Get a high rank!

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As a tester, I hope you can get the ideal score :)

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As a setter, I hope you enjoy the problems!

Subscribe to Technoblade to AK div1 :)

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    And what about div2 guys? What should they do to AK round #732 div1 ?

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      Work hard and improve yourself. Good luck! Wish you would be happy everyday.(๑•ᴗ•๑)

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After mathforces and messforces I am hoping for good codeforces Round .

This was just a sarcasm guys don't take too seriously?.

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    It's like talking random shit which belittles the efforts of the setters and testers and then trying to push it aside as a joke. I can't see why you wouldn't get downvotes for this.

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Good luck in the round! I do wish that you can enjoy our contest!

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How is this not in the homepage yet?

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    It's on the homepage now.⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄

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I literally had a heart attack seeing this much color at one place!!

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    Bro thats serious, go to the doctor.

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      i took this advice seriously and doc prescribed me 3 more cf rounds in this month
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As I tester, I can say that the problems are very interesting! Strongly suggest you to participate!

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Wow, Chinese Round again!! So many familiar writers and testers, can't wait to participate in ;)

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    Why is it called the China Round

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As a participant , I can say that I dont know anything about this round.
Just look I see the post after 6 days !!!

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I can't confirm as I'm mentioned in the blog for absolutely no reason, but I do believe problems will be great.

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First time I've seen the word "behoove" in a sentence...interesting word!

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    Sorry, I have fixed the issue. Sorry for my word. Sorry again. Could you forgive me? (╯﹏╰)

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      There's nothing wrong with behoove? I just thought it was interesting..

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Coming!

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    Orz yyb !!! You're my idol !!!

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      I have not worked out any problem for a long time, probably I cannot solve any problem in the round >_<

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        I bet you will solve at least three problems (*≧▽≦*)

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          I think that is impossible >_<. I have no ability to solve so many problems in a round now.

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            Don't be too modest ! (✿ω✿)

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              But that is the truth. QwQ

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                I wonder how this idiotic talk is getting upvotes

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                  This is to illustrate that contribution points reliably measure valuable contribution. :)

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I am really excited for the problems! hope high rating for everyone .. including me :)

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Aarghh!! Clashing with Wimbledon finals time (:

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    Are you participating in Wimbledon finals?

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by AquaMoon (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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I'm sure that AquaMoon's first attempt will be glorious

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first time a round post where round coordinator is given a backseat and testers are racing to win the game~

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This comment section is one of the most wholesome ones I've seen on codeforces thanks to AquaMoon!!

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Aoligei, ganle!

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Mathforces->My favorite genre

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The mighty Chinese questioning team!

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Looking at testers and setters I already feel like I'm going to learn a lot from this round. Thank you for efforts!!

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An All-star Round

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Best wishes to everyone):

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It must be an interesting round.

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I think Div.1 F is a data-structure problem. Because ODT is one of writers.

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99% of the comments : "as a tester...."

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As a tester...

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Is this rated?

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A 'relevant to this blog' meme

Hnet-com-image-2

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Should i start my journey with this contest ?is div1 easy than div 2 ? I have registered today itself ,i don't know anything about this site

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    difficulty level is div1>div2>div3 If you are just getting started, div3 would be better. But there is no harm in giving div2 contest. Give div2 contests.

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      Thanks bro .btw can you give me some tips to be a specialist over here

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        A noob whose first problem solved on Codeforces involving fenwick trees :|

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The score distribution seems very good! I hope I will be able to participate. If you need an extra tester in future contests, I'll gladly help :))

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    Get to that level firstly man

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      Hi, I hope to get there soon! It's going pretty good, no worries! :))

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    Welcome! You can contact me in CF talks.

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      At which rating we can be a tester and can i be a tester ?

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        There is no requirement for rating, but you must be a good friend of the writer or coordinator (the core idea is that you are trustworthy).

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I hope there are no math problems

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CCP is proud of you! No more gang of four!

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Sunday = contest day (Leetcode->Kickstart->CF) Back2back contests

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    Also, Leetcode $$$\lt\lt$$$ Kickstart $$$\lt$$$ CF, gets better

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Any tips for the newbies:)

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What is the penalty for div 2?

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Aquamoon responding to every comments leads to some fat contribution for her, ngl.

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Standing on 1399 I can ask only one thing from you , I need atleast +1 rating change .

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Q!!

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AquaMoon is not good at Programming is a pun!

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Why did i even start programming ?

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The difficulty gap between problem D and E (B and C in div 1) is so large. The contest has run 1 hours and half and no one accepted E in div 2.

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    i quit after solving a, b, c.

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      I quit after seeing problem E has no accepted submissions. And go to the standing board to see my current ranking dropping.

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        I'm not even reading E, comment section is more exciting.

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    Maybe not. D seamed crazy too to me at first. Maybe from some strange angle there's short solution too.

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Wow. That's some really monster combinatorics :) I'd like to see where to read on this.

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AquaMoon was so hard but the problem was interesting !!

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    But still, problem statements where ones of the clearest I've seen on codeforces :)

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We couldn't help this much. Tell AquaMoon to be good at programming.

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Hackforces

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AquaMoon aka 'not good at programming, yet better than you'

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Me seeing numerous solution of Div1A get hacked:

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What is the hack test for Div1.A?

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      Oh, god. Two adjacent friends with same number but different directions can't switch their directions! Why did it seam so apparent they could... ah...

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Did anyone actually manage to prove the solution for Div1B? I just did some guesswork based off the pascal's triangle. And also how weak is the pretest for Div1A because I see so many people getting hacked

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    You can moves 1s in pairs. So consider 0s and one 1 from odd size blocks of 1s to be fixed. Now this is just normal stars and bars where you're trying to place the pairs of 1s among the 0s (odd block 1s are indistinguishable regardless of which side you place the block(s) on).

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      Damn, I could not make that observation during contest, guess I have to work on some combinatorics.

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    Note that the operation is equivalent to 'shift 2 1's to the right or left'.

    Now we can just move any even subsequence, so let's focus on the sequences of an odd number of 1's. Between these sequences, the number of 0's is constant.

    Great, so if we ignore the pairs, which we can move, we get a sequence like 0000100101 with no 2 consecutive 1's. Then we can basically ignore the 1's, we only get to choose which 0's to put each of the pairs of 1's between. Suppose there are Z 0's and P pairs. Using the stars and bars argument, there are exactly

    $$$\binom{Z + P}{P}$$$

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    Here's one intuitive way to justify the formula for Div1B: Greedily pair up adjacent ones. Then, you can (with the operation) permute the zeros and the pairs of ones arbitrarily, and the unpaired ones will have their locations determined by the zeros. If there are $$$p$$$ zeros and $$$q$$$ pairs of ones, there are clearly exactly $$$\binom{p+q}{p}$$$ different ways to do this.

    EDIT: I should have refreshed to check if this was already answered before typing this up. It's too late now, though!

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    How did pascal triangle helped you in this "Aquamoon and Chess"?

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      Just look at the 14th row of the pascal triangle and you will see the answers for the last three sample, 1287 and 715, so I assumed there is some kind of a combinatorial formula that immediately solves the problem and found the exact formula explained by others.

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        Seems I need to byheart the pascal triangle rows.

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    Yes.First we will add 2 zeroes one at the beginning and one at the end.let x be the number of zeroes.let ai be the number of ones between the ith and (i+1)th zero for all 1<=i<=x-1 .Notice that the operation is same as subtracting 2 from one index(which has value atleast 2) and adding it to 2 to one of its neighboring index so the invariant is parity of ai.

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How to solve B?? Turns out this whole cute blog was a clickbait.

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    The key observation here is that when swapping, the swapped characters' position do not change. So you go over all n strings and store each letter's position, then go over the remaining n — 1 strings to rule out positions, which leaves you all the letter positions of the missing string.

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      Omg, this was easy, I got confused with swapping and shuffling in the statement and messed up pB.

      I thought strings could be shuffled after swapping. Smh.

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        Yeah, it happens. The statement is quite long :)

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        How did you solve D?

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          ((No. of consecutive ones-1) for all streaks of ones +no. of zeroes) choose (no. of zeroes)

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            Yeah, I just realized that too. Ran out of time to implement during contest :(

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              FSTed in C , I think I did very poorly, smh, so much weak pretest.

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                You should check my result, it'll make you feel a bit better ^^

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    I took the sum of ASCII values of i'th(1<=i<=m) character of all the original strings and subtracted from it the sum of ASCII values of i'th(1<=i<=m) character of all the new strings.Then just accumulated the character for that value in a string.that's your output.Check my submission for clarity.

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tilted off the face of this fucking planet, I can't solve C because I can't implement for fking shit, even with 50 minutes AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASDFKLSANFLKAS;JFLSJKL

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    it is actually very difficult to upvote your comment in my computer because of the huge AAAAAA

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    There's a lone V in your AAAAA...

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Finally tourist will be back on rank 1 .

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I tried to hack some of the solutions with test

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I think the answer should be YES here, but the checkers says it's NO. Any ideas? :)

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    After you convert the array to 2 2 2 3 3 3 3, the direction of each element is L R L L R L R. There is no way to convert that to all R

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      L R L L R L R -> R L L L R L R -> R R R L R L R -> R R R R L L R -> R R R R R R R ?

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        I dont think your final array is sorted

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        In the second-to-last step, you cannot make LR to RL.

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        When you swap an L with an R, nothing changes

        L R

        -> R L (swapped locations)

        -> L R (lefts become rights, rights become lefts)

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          Holy Moly! Thanks for explanation :)

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        I think you can't go from L R L L R L R to R L L L R L R by swapping only the first 2 elements. They still face the same direction.

        Note that when a person moves, they also carry direction with them. In this example, the first person is facing the L. After swapping positions with the second person, they will face R, so the direction for element 2 is still 'R'

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    Shouldn't it be NO? (Either that or my solution is going to FST)

    In essence a swap moves a person to a position of the opposite parity. So for an even number of swaps they must be on the same parity in the end. So count the number of people with each $$$a_i$$$ on each parity in the original and sorted arrays. They should be the same for YES.

    With 3 2 3 2 3 2 3, we have all 3s on odd parity and all 2s on even parity.

    After sorting we have 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 which definitely doesn't satisfy the property. Is my analysis wrong and is there some way of achieving this movement?

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    11 pretests passed. Kudos to the authors :))

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    I made the same mistake , think "LR" will be "RL" in a swap.

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When hackers get hacked :>

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    new 200iq contest strategy: write a bad solution so that you get hacked, realize that many other solutions can be hacked with the same test and gain more points than you lost

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    Give test please!

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For D2E is this true — If we make a graph of array as nodes result is $$$2^{c}$$$ where $$$c =$$$ number of bipartite components?

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    I thought about counting in such components, wherein component nodes(arrays) are pairwise distinct in every position (component is a full graph) and the answer is a sum of C(size_of_component, n) for each component

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Not to complain but this round is WAY TOO HARD for me

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System testing is gonna slower than internet explorer.

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What the hell is wrong with you? Wasn't half a year enough to prepare well? Why does this bold note in D even exist? I don't see any reason to make this task "interactive" and put that garbage in the statement. Did you want to make your long awful statements even more unreadable? Well, then you succeeded. Also, please, learn such mathematical constructions as "intervals" and "segments" so you don't have to cripple your statements with these countless 10^-18. Pls stop creating problems.

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    I think this is because it's quite hard to check if an input is valid. And, maybe codeforces doesn't have a way to provide a different input format as a hack unless the problem is interactive.

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    They are making the problems interactive to support the hacking format.

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    Prob hacks. Well, if you use intervals instead the answer has to be defined as limit and that's another can of worms.

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    Hello. It is very unpleasant to read your comment, so I can't ignore it.

    About the interactive problems Div2B and Div1D: it is impossible to ensure, that the input is valid because it is NP-hard problem. So, validator can't be written and we have some ways how to deal with it:

    • Generate tests without validator and disable hacks. Such problems already appeared on Codeforces.
    • Make this problem interactive. In this case, everything can be validated. For the participants this variant doesn't change anything.

    It was my proposal to use the second option, maybe it was not the best, we will consider this experience in the future. Anyway, if the paragraph about the interaction was unclear to you you had an option to ask the question to us.

    About the intervals. Everything was defined formally. There were no mistakes in that definitions. So what can be told here? We know the difference between intervals and segments.

    If you couldn't solve the problems it is very stupid to take out your anger on authors. I have personally seen how much work was done to make this round possible and know how much sadness you can make by your comment.

    Of course, in this round, there are some things, that we could do better. And thanks to everyone, who will write his or her good or bad opinion, but not in such form.

    And according to the style of your comment, I propose you stop writing such comments after the round.

    I hope I will see many rounds from AquaMoon and her friends because in my opinion the problems were very interesting and had very beautiful solutions.

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      I also liked the round, thanks for your efforts in preparing it.

      One thing I want to point out here. Maybe it would be better to let the participants know why this problem is "interactive". It was a little annoying reading a restriction that comes out of nowhere.

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      what the hell are you talking about? why if problems are disgusting and statements are ugly people can't talk about it in comments?

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        He never asked not to talk about it. You know you can discuss about them without insults to authors right?

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      Hello. It is very unpleasant to read your answer to this comment, so I can't ignore it.

      First of all I want to clarify that I missed the round and had a chance only to read the problems in the middle of it so I can not honestly say anything about the quality of the problems even so I may or may not like them. I want to thank authors and testers for their efforts in preparing this round, but certainly there were some issues which could be fixed for the sake of future contests.

      About Div1D: I believe that most of the displeased contestants were confused by the fact that problem was interactive for some reason and that it was included in the middle of the statement without any proper explanation. I think it should be considered a bad tone to say that if you had any questions(about obviously somewhat unclear statement) you should have asked them lol. From my and my friends experience of problem setting, it is considered to be authors' and coordinators' responsibility to make problem statements clear and easy to understand for the majority of participants, as it is your desire to attract as many people as possible to take part in your round.

      About Div1E: I guess that the main objection here is that using intervals of time with +- 1e-18 thingies sounds a bit strange and obfuscates the problem statement in a certain way. For sure, your definition was formally correct, but again it is best to write it more clearly. These intervals just look ugly and it's unpleasant to read a problem statement like that.

      It also looks very petty to me to make remarks like "If you couldn't solve the problems it is very stupid to take out your anger on authors". It's very bold to make such assumptions, and from what I understood despite the offensive form of his comment the main problem in this round in his opinion was not his lack of ACed problems during the contest or even the quality of the problems themselves, but the problem statements. Even the most offensive phrase is just a reference to an old comment from the famous nuttela coder if I recall correctly.

      There were lots of rounds and lots of displeased people in the comment section with messages way more rude than this one(for example under my global round). I agree that it was wrong to put all the blame on the authors, however, decent problems statements are mainly coordinators responsibility and your a bit childish response made it look even worse than the comment itself.

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        Maybe late, but here is an explanation on Div1E.

        Cirno_9baka told me the problem like this: there are some squares in a plane, and there is a line (y=x), the line can't cross the squares( but not include the bound), and change the line need some cost, find the min cost.

        Then change it to the statement with the backgroud is a hard work ( The problem had been changed because no writters could solve the previous version. ) How to define we can walking on the bound?

        We have discuss about both closed interval and open interval, if it is closed interval, than the boundary is not able to be walked.

        It seemed that open interval can solve the problem, but there is still a problem, how to control the time?

        We can stop the time, but if we let the time go, and then, the person will die immediately.

        Finally, we thought to define it with +-1e-18 is the most clearly definition for the problem.

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      The statement of Div2B is hard to understand, which is bad given that it is a more or less trivial problem.

      The main points are:

      • missleading explanations about interactivity
      • the information "what is asked for" is in the last paragraph instead of the first
      • dispite of hard to read and to much information, still you tried to tell a "funny" story, making it even harder to understand (using unique words like a "stolen" string, "complete disarray")

      For me it was like 20 minutes text understanding but only 2 minutes problem understanding. Since A was not very clear either I did work on B before submitting A. And after having spent that 20 minutes I was out, not submitting anything.

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      it is impossible to ensure, that the input is valid because it is NP-hard problem. So, validator can't be written and we have some ways how to deal with it.

      Hi ! I have a doubt regarding this. Can you please help me understand why getting a validator in a non-interactive version is np-hard and how making it interactive solves it ?

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    talant's comment is very rude. It is also arrogant and aggressive. I'm sad that high-rated participants allow themselves to lead the discussion in this way. This tone divides the community and multiplies the negative. The same facts could be stated without aggression.

    Let's read the text again.

    What the hell is wrong with you?

    Intolerable form and transition to personality. Great start to the discussion.

    Wasn't half a year enough to prepare well?

    Well, why is it here? It is solely a matter for the writers and the coordinator with what intensity they work.

    Why does this bold note in D even exist? I don't see any reason to make this task "interactive" and put that garbage in the statement.

    The word "garbage" has been added to make the authors more unpleasant.

    Did you want to make your long awful statements even more unreadable? Well, then you succeeded.

    Again all sorts of unjustified rudeness and amplification: "awful", "even more unreadable". Well, you're just manipulating! The problem is quite normal, except for this unusual phrase. There is nothing at all bad about it.

    Also, please, learn such mathematical constructions as "intervals" and "segments" so you don't have to cripple your statements with these countless 10^-18.

    What an arrogant tone. And very disgusting. In addition, the international mathematical community (in contrast to the Russian mathematical school) did not seem to agree on the terms interval and segment. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(mathematics)#Note_on_conflicting_terminology

    Pls stop creating problems.

    No, I prefer you just stop solving problems here, please. I really hope that the authors will not listen to you, but will simply draw some conclusions and please us with another round. They made significant efforts to make the community better. And you have no moral right to write to them in that tone.

    Let me summarize. I believe that it is imperative to give feedback on the rounds and problems. Including pointing out defects and mistakes. But this must be done in the form of civilized communication of educated people. You offend people. It's always easier to attack and criticize. It's just mean to behave like that. Preparing problems is very difficult, it is not an easy job. We must support the writers, be grateful to them. This is an adult and mature position. And mistakes and defects must be pointed out correctly.

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Hack test(problem div2C/div1A)

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    Is "NO" what a correct program would output in this case?

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    I think the answer is 'YES'. My logic:

    Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken somewhere.

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      every 5 is on odd position and 1 need to be on even position at the end so answer is no

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        Eh? The original three 5s are on odd positions, and 2 need to be on even positions (a.k.a the 'L's), which can be swapped to 'R's. Same goes with the four 7s.

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      You can't do L R L -> L L R.

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        oh yeah, i see. thanks a lot

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        why not..? Can you please explain...?

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          If you swap RL the R on the left becomes an L when it get's to the right, and the opposite occurs with the L, making RL -> RL

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Thanks for this beautiful contest.

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Can't believe the solved count of problem D in Div2

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    Solution was leaked...lol

    A,B,C,D...Some uploaded all of them at 9:40 India Time

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    They sky rocketed in last 20 mins

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    Thats why u shd never underestimate the power of telegram.
    If someone told u ans=ncr(zeros+ $$$\Sigma$$$ consecutive ones/2,zeros), you would have solved it too.
    No cases of plagiarism, no penalty, <500 rank, absolute win.

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    Could anyone explain the solution to Div2D ? Editorial is not helpful at all.

    What's the intuition behind the nCr formula?

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      Let n be the no. of zeroes and m be the no. of pairs of 1 . Observation : we can replace atmost 1 one from a pair of one's with any zero in the string . So answer is (n+m)C(n) , since there are total n+m things and we have to choose n of them which will be zero

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Already figured out D2D is calculating combinatorial number but didn't have the time to implement it... sad :(

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thanks for the contest

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I regret not trying to hack during the contest

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Wow what a contest (--_--)....**** the test cases :|

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Anyone faced an issue with B problem, thinking about the answer when n = 1 Submission 1 Submission 2 Ac I got two Idleness limit exceeded on pretest 3 because of this.

Great problems anyway!

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    Notice how the pawns travel in pairs. If a pair of traveling pawns meets an isolated pawn, then the odd pawn gets shifted one to the left and the pair continues on its journey:

    11010
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    This is equivalent to if the odd pawn didn't exist at all.

    So we can iterate over the array and count the number of pawn pairs $$$p$$$ and zeros $$$z$$$. Then the total arrangements are $$$C(p + z, z)$$$.

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    The answer is nCr, where r is the count of number of zeros in the string and n is r + (No of consecutive 1s)/2.

    For ex, 100111100

    Here, r is 4, and n is 4 + (1/2) + (4/2) = 6. So answer is 6C4

    You'll have to find nCr % p using some efficient technique (like here : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/compute-ncr-p-set-3-using-fermat-little-theorem/)

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      Can you explain why it works?

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        Sure.

        Observe that if you have 0110, you can move this "11" as a single entity. So, you can have 1100 or 0011. Similarly, if you have 011110, you can move the two "11" as separate entities, like 110110 or 011011 and so on..

        Basically "11"s move together and 0 can move anyways as it pleases.

        Now, 011110 can basically be treated as collection of 4 elements where two 0s and two 11s are identical. This means you have 4!/(2! * 2!) possible ways to permute, which is same as 4C2.

        You can try multiple examples with variations like 01110 or 10110 (i.e. what if you have odd number of consecutive 1s) and you'll see that the observation still holds

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          Thanks for this explanation! To add on the last point about odd number of consecutive 1s, if we fix the positions of all 1 pairs, then all the remaining single 1's position will be fixed as well, hence they do not really matter, right?

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            Yes. Once we choose certain "11"s as pairs that we're gonna permute, the remaining single 1s won't matter as they'll be fixed.

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          Thanks for this. Editorial was too bad for this problem.

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    The binomial solution is also pretty heavily motivated by analyzing the simples. Two of them are 13C5 and one of them is 13C4 which leads one to think whether we can break the structure down in order to get that form. Once you look for something along those lines, the solution becomes way easier to find.

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Man, Div 2 C really gave me hell. I can't think clearly about permutations this early in the morning.

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    And I didn't even solve it correctly in the end, FST my life. :(

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Why was B such a half baked interactive problem tho?

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    I have the same question

    It actually caused some timelimit issues in python for me, so I would like to know what was the reason to set up the problem as interactive

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      Can you tell me whether this TLEd due to time limit issues for py or anything can be optimized?:/

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        The biggest issue is ans += chr(curr) actually. In pypy strings are trully immutable and this operation is O(n)

        But even without it you have input of 10^5 strings which is somewhat expensive and pypy is not good with io. I usually bypass it by having the entire input read in the beginning which is not possible in interactive problems, That was my issue.

        The solution is the same though. I think your code may pass if you resubmit in python3, not pypy

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    Because it's impossible to write a validator if we don't use the hack format.

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I think the word Pre-Tests is self-explanatory. Why did you even care to run pre-tests on Div1 A if they were so weak.

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5g4ypa

I accidentally submitted for A at 00:54. ╥﹏╥ I swear my hand autopilotted me to submit A.

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I will be orange without the pA hack. I am going to quit cp. (Nah just kidding but I hope the pretests are stronger :(

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Solution for div1D

For finding the culprit, find the consecutive sums of coordinates of that aren't in AP.

With this we get the culprit, and the number $$$D$$$ to be added to one of the coordinates in that culprit time $$$T'$$$.

Now observe sum of squares of coordinates for a time moment.

They are of the form $$$f(t) = a + tb + ct^2$$$

Find a, b, c by finding the sum of squares for any three unchanged moments and solving the linear equation.

We now know what the sum of squares of coordinates will be at $$$T'$$$. It's just $$$f(T')$$$.

Now find a coordinate in $$$T'$$$ which if incremented by $$$D$$$, makes the sum of squares $$$f(T')$$$. This number is unique under the constraints. (brute force)

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Who can estimate the difficulty of C div1?

I guess 2900?

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What the hell is the interactive solution? Why does not my solution work? I' ve added fflush(stdout) as tutorial says.

https://codeforces.me/contest/1546/submission/122130911

UPD: see my comment below.

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    Dude, you have to flush in a loop, not outside the loop

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    You only flushed for the last output, do it inside the loop

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    You had to flush after every use of printf, your fflush(stdout) is outside the loop.

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    UPD: problem is, as mentioned several times: flush must be inside loop, like my another solution: https://codeforces.me/contest/1546/submission/122130422

    The reason why does the second solution fails is that test case input does not send new line at the end of input. I'm reading input as scanf("%s\n",s). My opinion is that it is a bug of a test case.

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      You don't actually ever have to flush the output, I have no idea why people in this thread and the problem statement said that you have to. The only problem was there not being a newline at the end of the input, which is really weird.

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      It is very interesting, why the solution doesn't work.

      I checked now, that we send new line at the end of the input, so there is no bugs with a test case.

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        May be a bug with the test system?

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          It is very unlikely, because I think test system just creates a pipe between the solution and interactor and they communicate through it.

          Maybe scanf works differently when it reads the data from pipe.

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Div.1 become speedforces, sad to see my negative delta...

1E and 1F just stand there, and no one can defeat even either of them! lol

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Find a hack case in the last minute and lose 400 pts :(

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Lots of WA on problem A because of my carelessness.
(._.) (._.) (._.)

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How do you manage to have 998244353 testers yet have weak test cases and imbalanced af contest.

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    Maybe because 998244353 = 0 (mod 998244353)

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    "How do you manage to have 998244353 testers yet have weak test cases"

    It's very easy: just don't stress test the testers' solutions. My solution for d1A would've gotten hacked.

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Forgot that B was "interactive". Waiting for my Idleness limit exceeded on test 5 :D

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I was lucky to be late for the contest.

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As a tester, I dont know why they thought that most testers only solving AB was good difficulty balance.

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when can I enter virtual participation in this contest?

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    I believe it's just after the system finish testing all incontest submission so it should be in half an hour approximately

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There is a decades-long technique to store secret data in the answer file.
A pity Polygon does not support it, and the authors have to resort to technical interactiveness.

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    What's happened?

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      Umm, nothing?..

      What didn't happen so far is supporting the technique in Polygon. Generally, pre-generated answer files are against best practices. So, such feature would be abused by novice or lazy problem authors, if it existed. At least that's the rationale I know.

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        Can you explain how this relates to today's contest? Is this related to why Div 2B was interactive?

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          Yeah. Ask yourself the question: why is the problem set as interactive?

          Anyway, it's not without upsides: the current technique (with interactiveness) allows for hacking, without changing anything in the hacking interface. I'd like it to matter more though, the common and very loud opinion is that hacks are bad somehow...

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It's sad that just "knowing" a formula can get you solving Div. 2 D problems.

Spoiler
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    Can you elaborate pls!

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      The link in the spoiler describes it very well.

      Here in our problem, we have:

      $$$N = n - 1 - odds$$$
      $$$K = \sum\limits_{G ∈ Ones} ⌊\frac {|G|} 2⌋$$$

      and the answer becomes:

      $$$\binom{N - K + 1}{N - 2K + 1}$$$

      Where $Ones$ contains the sets of consecutive ones in the input string and $$$odds$$$ is the number of sets in $$$G$$$ which have an odd size.

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    Wont it be Scenario 2? Edit: It can be solved with Scenario 3.

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    Come on! It's Stars and bars.That's like basic combinatorics .We are supposed to know that.

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    but it's a basic combinatoric formula, it's like complaining about binsearch problem that has to be solved using binsearch

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      I'm complaining about that knowing the formula without any understanding was sufficient to solve the problem.

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There is a good number of cheaters in this contest. In particular there was a guy that "magically" solved problems A through D from 2:22 to 2:24 a little behind me in the standings

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can some help me with Div2 B, its clearly states that n.m<=1e5, but i am getting TLE on test case 4 Here is my code // fr(i,n) ===> for(ll i=0;i<n;i++)

https://codeforces.me/contest/1546/submission/122127484

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    This is literally unreadable. I think you have to use the "block" thing in the menu, but when you're doing this kind of stuff use the preview button first

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      sorry,will keep it mind next time.

      https://codeforces.me/contest/1546/submission/122127484 here is the link to the code

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        I think the problem is that intead of ans=ans+z.first; you should do ans+=z.first or ans.append(z.first), because in your code you are first making a copy of ans, then summing it with z.first, and only then atributing that value to ans. This is O(n^2) because for each iteration making the copy takes O(n).

        I think depending on the compiler your code could work though

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Everyone complaining about C and D meanwhile, I was stuck for an hour on Div 2 B and gave up. All hope is lost

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FSTforces...

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past 5 contests are boon for me.... No DP/Graph...Adhocforces/Greedyforces/constructiveforces/Mathforces Orz

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the operation in div1b is same as 625 div1D Reachable strings

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    I told them this exact thing in feedback lol

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    Did many people guess div1b from the samples because by solve counts the above div1d is much harder and the idea is similar.IMO problems which are known to be similar to already existing problems and problems which can be guessed by samples should not be used in div1 rounds

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      Finding those big numbers (1287,715) in the Pascal triangle gave an idea that the answer is a binomial coefficient.

      Without this hint I couldn't have solved this problem

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    This is how I solved it under 10 minutes (and this shouldn't happen).

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Grow up in pain

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Don't blame yourself. The difficulty of the problems is not a problem. The difficulty only reflects that we have a lot to learn, which is not your mistake at all. Thanks for the meaningful questions!

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    Lmao, stop simping and be honest.

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      The honest word is, I need to improve. Nothing else.

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      Instead of blaming the weak pretests, as opposed to test 38 of problem C (which I failed too), why not think about the coding mistake we make? If you think programmers can simp, you are overestimating them.

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      Also, beside the problemset, the editorial is not easy to understand... I really don't get how does the word "group" mean in div2D/div1B. Would somebody explain it?

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    Sorry, I just saw this news, and I saw some people’s replies that were indeed a bit sad, but it was all over. I am not money, and it is impossible for everyone to like it. But as a writer, I will try my best to make everyone satisfied with my problems. I believe I will do better next time. Thank you very much! (๑•ᴗ•๑)

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This type of bad contest should be discouraged. Several problems are with weak pretests. If you want people to hack each other, you should provide weak testcase to atmax one problem. But I take this as an ignorance to making strong pretests.

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So many testers and still so weak pretests of Div2C lmao

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    Even the max TL case was not in the pretest. 1500+ solutions getting FST is sick.

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      how did you check this count of FSTs?

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        Go to contest standings, problems, then status page. Use status filter with verdict "Rejected", then basically use binary search on the page number in the query in the URL, until you find where the page containing last during contest submission. Then use binary search again to see the last submission that failed pretests. There are 50 submissions per page.

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why was div2B fake interactive?

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I got 3 secs late in submitting D and my C got hacked and people say breakup hurts the most :)

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Finally I am specialist(After today's rating update according to cf predictor)

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    How did u practice bro? my rating is just going down since the last 3 contests.. and now I'm back to gray again :'(

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AquaMoon Thanks for creating such awesome problems, I solved 1 but will got to know what next I should work upon.

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I wont comment on difficulty since it is obvious to everyone, but the problems were simply amazing.

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Most of programmers now :

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This round was amazing! I enjoyed all of the first 4 problems which is extremely rare. Thanks for the great round.

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    Thank you very much, our problem is unevenly distributed, which has caused you trouble. I'm very sorry!

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      I'll take unbalanced contest with good problems over balanced contest with boring problems any day.

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What a FST round.

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Got 1 minute late on submitting D, and FST on C :|

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Even if I fail numerous system tests, my love <3 for AquaMoon round will never fail. :0 :/ ;-;

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People who left the contest reading B is interactive
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    Bro wtf It's correct acc to me too

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    Also in the last, it should be {4,5} not 5,6 but it seems correct to me

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    After swapping adjacent R L, the elements at those indices remain R L. Same goes for L R. I also made the wrong assumption that L R becomes R L after swapping.

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To not keep you waiting, the ratings updated preliminarily. We will remove cheaters and update the ratings again soon!

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    I have ended up at 2599 and 2598 recently.a coincidence.I hope it increases by atleast 1 when it is updated again

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AquaMoon It was your first contest so don't lose heart. You did a great job coming up with the questions. Even if my solution failed Div2 C, it is my fault that I didn't take account of the corner cases. We would like to see more contests from you soon. Cheers!

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    Thank you very much! Sorry that our pretest is not strong enough, which caused you trouble! Good luck and happy every day! (๑•ᴗ•๑)

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      I think it doesn't matter whether a guy or girl is making the contest, they need to be appreciated for their first venture. The upvotes decrease from 1000 to around 800 on the blog and there is no one who would not blame himself or herself if so many negative comments will flood in. If appreciating someone counts as simping, I would gladly simp for both guys and girls.

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why most solutions in div2 C that calculated the number of swaps per index through number of inversions failed the system test ? Has anyone passed the tests with this approach ?

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    my solution failed too. we are missing the fact that if we are swapping two adjacent indices i and i+1 and before swapping i is facing right and i+1 is facing left,then even after swapping,index i will face right and index i+1 will face left.

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the biggest winner is tourist and he just didn't participated :)

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please rejudge problem C at Codeforces Round #732 (Div. 2) the test case 38 that fail my solution is

1
6
2 1 2 1 2 1

you say that the answer is NO but I have a way to sort it

2(r) 1(r) 2(r) 1(r) 2(r) 1(r)
1(L) 2(L) 1(L) 2(L) 1(L) 2(L)
1(L) 1(R) 2(R) 1(R) 2(R) 2(L)
1(L) 1(R) 1(L) 2(L) 2(R) 2(L)
1(L) 1(L) 1(R) 2(L) 2(L) 2(R)
1(R) 1(R) 1(R) 2(R) 2(R) 2(R)

so my answer is yes

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    Your way to sort is blatantly wrong, your output has more 2's that the input...

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      thank you. edited

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        Now this part is wrong:

        1(L) 1(R) 1(L) 2(L) 2(R) 2(L) 1(L) 1(L) 1(R) 2(L) 2(L) 2(R)

        If you swap 1(R) and 1(L) you get 1(R) and 1(L).

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    From step 4 to step 5, when you are swapping the 5th and 6th '2', the directions will remain R L instead of L R. Same way for the 2nd and 3rd '1's.

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    Line 4 to 5 transition is wrong. When you swap 1L <> 1R you get 1L 1R. That is the nuance most of us missed.

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FOr INDIANS For those nerds who are flirting with aquamoon. I would say "Nahi degi".

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The constrains for Problem B was enough to TLE O(n^2) solution, even so how come all the solutions are o(n^2) or o(mn)..This was the cause I was thinking of other than O(nm) solutions.

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    Well , it was written in the problem statement that you guarantee nm <= 1e5.

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    Just reading the input is $$$O(nm)$$$ so any solution must have at least that complexity.

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please rejudge problem C at Codeforces Round #732 (Div. 2) the test case 38 that fail my solution is 1 6 2 1 2 1 2 1 you say that the answer is NO but I have a way to sort it

2(r) 1(r) 2(r) 1(r) 2(r) 1(r) 1(L) 2(L) 1(L) 2(L) 1(L) 2(L) 1(L) 1(R) 2(R) 1(R) 2(R) 2(L) 1(L) 1(R) 1(L) 2(L) 2(R) 2(L) 1(L) 1(L) 1(R) 2(L) 2(L) 2(R) 1(R) 1(R) 1(R) 2(R) 2(R) 2(R)

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I don't understand test 38 Div. 2 C I think it should be YES

1 6 2 1 2 1 2 1 R R R R R R their directions

After (1,2), (3,4), (5,6) it's

1 2 1 2 1 2 L L L L L L

Then (2,3) (4,5)

1 1 2 1 2 2 L R R R R L

Then (3,4)

1 1 1 2 2 2 L R L L R L

At the end (1,2) (2,3) (4,5) (5,6)

1 1 1 2 2 2 R R R R R R

What am I doing wrong?

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    L R -> swap -> L R not R L if u swap positions its R L but u also have to swap letters so it become L R again

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Why did i use c++17 or c++11 get tle on div2 B???https://codeforces.me/contest/1546/submission/122123116 but when i used c++17(64) ,i get ac!!!! https://codeforces.me/contest/1546/submission/122138916

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    c++17(64) apparently working faster with 64bit long long.

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Lol... tourist back to the top!! Without even participating. :))

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I finally got to cyan!

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Weak pretests in Div 2 C.

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How to break D into a "Stars and Bar" technique problem?

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    start with writing all possible transforms of 111000 and 1111000.

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The round should be unrated, the pretests were weak and number of FSTs is high :/

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The problems were amazing, looking forward to more contests by you.

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    Thank you! I will work harder and improve myself! Wish you good luck!

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Keep Going AquaMoon 99.99 % of people of codeforces (including me) love you and want more contests from you

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    Thank you! I love my dear friends too! I will work harder and improve myself!

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    Can anyone explain why I am getting downvoted?Because I can't find any valid reason.If someone does, please mark it down so that I can improve.

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      "99,99%" where did you get the figure? you should speak for yourself.

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        (including me) love you

        This sounds straight simp

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          I think you didn't read the upper part of the comment section.Someone said some very bad words about her problem setting and used some abusive words.Feeling bad for her,I wrote that.Yes I deserve to be downvoted because I used "99.99%" and this wasn't the right way to write.But why the hell are you cutting a part of a sentence and highlighting it as a straight simp??Do constructive criticism if you can.Are you even thinking that I used those words to impress her??Come on bro ,grow up.I had no intention or willpower to that

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C...

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HackingForces! What a round it was! I had taken 2164 place after the system test where before the system test It was more than 3400.

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Great contest!! love all the problem that I was able to atempt.

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The problems were truly outstanding. Hoping for more contests from you.

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... MEME

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CNOI,Best OI!

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in question c(AquaMoon and Strange Sort) i am getting right answer but in testing it failed my code on test case 37 i am getting (YES NO YES NO YES) but it is showing i am getting (YES NO NO NO YES) please look into it because on my complier i am passing this case,please get a look into it as early as possible

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    Check your submission it says "Probably, the solution is executed with error 'out of bounds' on the line 36". This is undefined behaviour so no wonder you get different results on different machines.

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    Like senyaa said, this is because of your undefined behavior. I submitted your code with the C++11 compiler, and the result was ACCEPTED, 122175019 and then I modified your code and submitted it with C++17, and the result was also ACCEPTED. 122175222

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      AquaMoon so is my solution getting accepted or not beacause i think it should be accepted

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        Strictly speaking, your code is wrong. I also have no right to rejudge your code alone. Please develop good coding habits, come on, I believe you will have good luck next time.(๑•ᴗ•๑)

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      Why it says not allowed to open the requested page when clicking the link?

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        It may be because I am an administrator in this contest, I just modified the size of the array he allocated.

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I will reply to everyone who sends me a message on the site, but codeforces has a limit on the number of messages on the site per day. So if there is no reply, I will reply in the next few days.

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    Ma'am, I am unable to send you a message on Codeforces Talks.

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      Because I set the person who sends messages to me must have a rating of 1400 or more, otherwise I may not be able to reply to all the messages, it’s okay, you can ask in the message area. (๑•ᴗ•๑)

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        Actually, I have created a question which I wanted you to once see and if its worth can include in ur next round.

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          I will send my discord to you later, please read the talks later.

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I didn't take part in the contest, but during upsolving I had problem with div2 A. In the main problem statement it wasn't mentioned that maximum number of operations is 100. It was even highlighted that we don't need to minimize it.

Only after incorrect submission I found out in the output part of the statement that there is a limit. Technically it was my fault of not reading complete statement, but imo it would be much more better to have it in the main part of the statement. Even more for problem A, where you are trying to solve it as fast as possible, so reading input/output formats is usually waste of time (if the format is clear from main part of statement + example input/output).

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when I click on the tutorial page link, it shows that the "you are not allowed to view the requested page". can someone tell me why?

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What is the use of &mdash in Div2 Problem D?

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    This is a dash in html, I don't quite understand what you want to ask. (๑•ᴗ•๑)

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      I think he's referring to this code in the tutorial for D:

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      Looks like the minus sign got incorrectly changed to &mdash;.

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I hope you enjoy Div1C, because it's quite hard for me to generate the test data of it. Meanwhile, as a tester of Div1D, it cost me 5 hours to think, finally get ispiration to AC. In fact, I suppose it's the best problem of the contest.

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Hey guys, I received a report :"Rating changes for the last round are temporarily rolled back. They will be returned soon." . What does it mean???

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    Exactly what it says. They should be back now.