Hello everyone this is my first time posting, so please bare with me :P
So I was solving this problem and came up with a solution.
Idea —
say for example x = 7. if ai is of the form 7d + 2 then aj needs to be of the form 7q + '5'. Basically the remainders of ai % x and aj % x needs to add up to x for the sum to be divisible by x. also for ai — aj to be divisible by y, ai % y must be same as aj % y.
Initialize a 2d vector(rems) with all values set to 0.
Loop through the input vector and calculate input%y(remy) and input%x(remx) increment rems[remy][remx].
calculate all possibilities by multiplying rems[remy][remx] * rems[remx][x-remx] at every iteration and add that to ans variable. also subtract the result of product of last time when we iterated through the same rems[remy][remx].
if say x = 8 and remx = 4; the we have to select combinations of 2 elements so we do Nc2 for such values.
long long n,x,y;
cin >> n >> x >> y;
vector<vector<long long>> v(n);
for(int i = 1;i < n; ++i) cin >> v[i];
vector<vector<long long>> rems(y, vector<long long> (x, 0)); //init a 2d array
ll ans = 0;
ll remx,remy;
ll curr,curr2;
for(int i = 0; i < n;++i){
remy = v[i]%y;
remx = v[i]%x;
rems[remy][remx]++;
curr = rems[remy][remx];
if(remx && remx!= (x- remx)){
curr2 = rems[remy][x-remx];
ans += (curr * curr2) - ((curr - 1) * (curr2)); // on simplification = curr2
}
else{
ans+= (curr * (curr - 1))/2 - ((curr - 1) * (curr -2)/2); //Nc2 - (N-1)C2
}
}
cout << ans << '\n';
I am unable to identify where am I going wrong? Exactly where is it taking so long? Specifically it gives TLE on test case 3. Also I don't wanna spoil the solution to me by reading tutorial.
If I'm unclear in any part of solution please do let me know. I'll try my best to explain again. Thanks!