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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 147.

The point values will be 300-500-600-700-800-1100.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 146.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Grand Contest 058. This contest counts for GP30 scores.

The point values will be 400-700-900-1000-1400-2000.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 145.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 144.

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By maroonrk, 2 years ago, In English

First of all, I have to say sorry for the vacancy of AGCs.

I'm confident in the style of AtCoder problems, but I have to admit that I was too strict; when I found a problem that was interesting but had a tiny flaw, I didn't try to use it in AGCs. In fact, I received several messages that some ARC problems are good enough for AGCs. If people who are stronger than me say that, what is my severe threshold for? Therefore, I'll be looser in selecting problems. It isn't such a big change that ARC becomes AGC. However, with the new policy, I could have made a few more AGCs in the first half of this year.

Now let's get down to the main subject: Call for Tasks. There were a few non-Japanese AGC writers, but the procedure of contest proposals was obscured. I want to make it public here. Please follow the following steps:

  • Come up with tasks for AGCs. It is desirable that you have ideas for a whole AGC set, but it's OK to have only hard problems.
  • DM me, and show me that you can possibly write AGCs. For example, I'll be convinced if
    • You are (ex-)LGM.
    • Your past problems are nice to me. (Tell me your masterpiece!)
    • Or you have some achievements like GCJWF, IOI/IMO gold, etc.
  • I'll grant you access to the problem submission interface of AtCoder. Please submit tasks there!

FAQ:

Q. What kind of problems are welcome/unwanted.
A. I'd love to have ad-hoc problems. I don't like implementation-heavy or knowledge-oriented problems. Data structures are OK as long as implementation<<<thinking.

Q. How much rejection rate should I expect?
A. It highly depends on how your "taste" is similar to mine. For some, I don't often reject proposals, while for others I keep complaining. Please check past AGC problems to see where you stand on.

Q. Why not allow ARC submissions?
A. Currently I check ARC/AGC proposals alone, so I'll be too busy to check additional ARC submissions.

Q. What happens when a problem gets rejected?
A. You are free to use it elsewhere. You may also write an ARC if you want.

Q. What's the fee?
A. 400000 JPY (subtracted by the tax) for one AGC. We can also pay for testers.

Hope to see your submissions and more AGCs!

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

What if your solution got TLE due to denormal numbers? Would you add if(val<eps)val=0 everywhere? Today I found a simpler fix: let's include #include <xmmintrin.h> and insert _MM_SET_FLUSH_ZERO_MODE(_MM_FLUSH_ZERO_ON); at the beginning of the main function.

Example Problem

TLE Submission

AC Submission

I confirmed this magic works on AtCoder, Codechef, Yandex, and, of course, on Codeforces.

Since it's written on the Wikipedia page, I won't be surprised if this is a well-known trick in some countries. However, I and my friends haven't heard of this, so it must be worth sharing.

Note that I know nothing about what exactly this snippet does, and I'm happy to hear from computer experts what the possible defects it has if such exist.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 143.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 142.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 141.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 140.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Grand Contest 057. This contest counts for GP30 scores.

The point values will be 400-700-1100-1100-1400-1800.

We are looking forward to your participation!

This is the first contest in the 2022 season that counts for the GP30 race. We are planning to invite top runners of the race to WTF 2023, but we still haven't decided on the details of the Finals. We will closely watch the domestic and international situations and consider when and how to hold the Finals. We are also trying to find a way to hold unfinished WTF 2020, 2021, and 2022.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 139.

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By maroonrk, history, 2 years ago, In English

We will hold Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. Programming Contest 2022 Spring(AtCoder Regular Contest 138).

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 137.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 136.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 135.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 134.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 133.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 132.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 131.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Grand Contest 056. This contest counts for GP30 scores, and this is the final AGC of this year.

The point values will be 300-900-900-1600-1600-1600.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

As discussed in my previous blog, we are going to introduce a new system for Rated/Unrated participation. It will take effect from this weekend's contests (ABC, AGC, and ARC). See this post for details.

If you have any questions, please leave them here.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 130.

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By maroonrk, history, 3 years ago, In English

We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 129.

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