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By FBI, history, 2 months ago, In English

2033A - Sakurako and Kosuke

Idea: FBI

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2033B - Sakurako and Water

Idea: FBI

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2033C - Sakurako's Field Trip

Idea: Vladosiya

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2033D - Kousuke's Assignment

Idea: FBI

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2033E - Sakurako, Kosuke, and the Permutation

Idea: FBI

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2033F - Kosuke's Sloth

Idea: FBI

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2033G - Sakurako and Chefir

Idea: Vladosiya

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By FBI, history, 2 months ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

I am pleased to invite you all to participate in Codeforces Round 981 (Div. 3), which will start on Oct/24/2024 17:35 (Moscow time).

The format of the event will be like any Div. 3 rounds:

  • 6-8 tasks;

  • ICPC rules with a penalty of 10 minutes for an incorrect submission;

  • 12-hour phase of open hacks after the end of the round (hacks do not give additional points)

  • after the end of the open hacking phase, all solutions will be tested on the updated set of tests, and the ratings recalculated

  • by default, only "trusted" participants are shown in the results table.

I encourage participants with a rating of 1600+ not to create new accounts but to participate unofficially.

Only trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. This is a forced measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as a trusted participant of the third division, you must:

  • take part in at least five rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
  • do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600 (or you are a newcomer/unrated), then the round will be rated for you.

Also, it will be a round with unrated register. If you already registered as rated participant you can change registration type here.

I would like to thank

Good luck!

Upd: Editorial is out.

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By FBI, history, 12 months ago, In English

Today, the problem G2 could be solved in an extravagant way, using randomized xor-hashing, I am not quite sure what is the chance that I will get hacked,so please feel free to either try and hack my solution, or write a comment describing approximated chance of my random getting hacked. (If you do come up with the approximation, i will edit the blog to include your statement)

Here`s the submission 238069601

UPD: My solution turned out to be the one that is the main one

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By FBI, history, 22 months ago, In English

So, the main reason why I am writing this blog is because I think that it may be useful for everybody who struggles with ideas but knows hoe to code well.

First trick

concerns every task of finding a minimum of the function among every continuous subsequence of the array if \begin{equation}f(l,r)\end{equation} is defined as \begin{equation} f(i, j) (1 ≤ i, j ≤ n)=q(i, j)^2 + g(i, j)^2\end{equation} And \begin{equation} g(l,r)=g(1,r)-g(1,l-1)\end{equation} \begin{equation} q(l,r)=q(1,r)-q(1,l-1)\end{equation} The way to solve this is by rewriting this formula into \begin{equation} f(i,j)=\sqrt{a^2+b^2}\end{equation} I think that if you learnt geometry in school, you certainly understand that this is eulers distance formula. Now, if we want to find the minimum among every pair, we just have to find the minimum distance between 2 points on the grid! And there actually exists an algorithm to compute this answer in O(n*logn) it is described here

One of the tasks that can be solved using this: 429D - Tricky Function

Second trick

Concerns tasks in which we need to compute maximum of the same function. By transferring every point to the grid, we can solve this task geometrically,there exists an algorithm that solves it in O(n*logn) time (convex hull trick) implementation and proof why it works

Third trick

(the last one i can remember while being in a hospital because of my heart problems)

Is to use binary prefix trie if we have to find k-th MEX of the array. Also, it can be used if we have to compute the answer while XOR-ing every element of an array with some X (I can`t find the problem, so if someone knows what I am talking about, give me the link to that problem)

Feel free to share some tricks in comments,to save this blog, to upvote it so other people also know these tricks and even maybe share their own trick knowledge, every trick written in comments will be added to this blog!

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By FBI, 2 years ago, In English

Last 2 or 3 contests solutions are being leaked in the internet,and because of that many "smart people",that have no clue how to solve something,are being carried up in the tournament table.Is this fair? I think no,but leave your opinion in comments.

edit: today A,B,C and D were leaked,so I think it affected almost every rated participant

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By FBI, history, 2 years ago, In English

Since 12.07.2021 I have been solving at least 1 problem a day,and now I don't know if I should keep going up until 730 days,or just give up?

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