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By Sereja, 12 years ago, translation, In English

Hello everyone!

Codeforces Round #156 will take place on Sunday, December 16th at 19:30 MSK. This is my second Codeforces round and I hope not the last.

I'd like to thank Steps09, Seyaua, sdya and Gerald for helping me to prepare the round. Special thanks to Delinur for translation of all problem statements into English.

Problems’ point values are standart: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

I strongly recommend you to read ALL the problems.

Gl & hf ! :)

Contest is over, I hope it was interesting for you :)

Congratulations to div1 winners:
1). YuukaKazami
2). al13n
3). rng_58
4). Bigsophie
5). KADR

and div2 winners:
1). ShadowSong
2). ynbpdy072
3). jiaobu

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By Sereja, 12 years ago, translation, In English

Sorry for my poor English, this blog will be corrected soon.

214A - System of Equations

Solution for this problem — just go through the possible pairs of numbers and check them for correctness. We can do that in any way.

214B - Hometask

Nuber is divisible by 2,3,5 only if sum of the digits is divisible by 3 and last digit is 0, so if we havent 0 in our set answer is -1, otherwise solution exists(we can return 0 as solution). A further solution — analysis of the cases.
Lets sort all didgits in nonincreasing order. If sum of all digits is divisible by 3 — answer is our set of digits(without spaces ofcourse :) ). If modulo equals 1 — we must delete minimum digit from out set with modulo after division by 3 equals 1, if we haven't such we must delete 2 minimal digits with modulo after division by 3 equals 2. If we have modulo equals 2 — we have identical case.
Also we must remember that we cannot use leading zeros. In case when we have more then one 0 and no another digit we must print only one zero.

213A - Game

Solution — Greedy.
Lets our computers settled on circle, and moves (1->2, 2->3, 3->1) will be steps "forward", and moves (1->3,3->2,2->1) will steps "back".

Note that "back" moves is not optimal, as we can make two moves "forward" that is identical in time. We will look over all starts. Further, we will go by circle while we not complited all game. For every level we will remember number ne[i] — count of another level that "direct" need for it. We will complited levels with ne[i]=0 and update all ne[i] that we must. It can be implemented with O(n^3) time.

213B - Numbers

Solution — dynamic programming.
Look over for length of the number that we will build. Further, we will use DP f(len,i) — how many numbers with length len we can make with digits i..9.
Recount:
- f(len,0) = sum(f(len-i,1)*C(len-1,i), i=a[0]..len);
- f(len,j) = sum(f(len-i,j+1)*C(len,i), i=a[j]..len), 0<j<9;
- f(len,9) = 1, если len>=a[9], 0 если len<a[9].
C(n,k) — binomial coefficient.

213C - Relay Race

Solution — dynamic programming.
Note, that we can make 2 pathes form cell (1,1) to cell (n,n).
Note, that after each move our cells will be located on the same diagonal.
We will solve the problem with DP f(d,i1,i2), d — diagonal number, i1 — 1st coordinate 1st path, i2 — 1st coordinate 2nd path. It is clear that we can calculate 2nd coordinate when we know number of the diagonal and 1st coordinate. Recount — obvious, we make all 4 transition, and if pathes are intersected in temporary point, we add value of the cell only one, otherwise we add both values of the cells. We can imlement this solution with O(n^2) memory if we will rewrite array of DP after increasing of diagonal number. Also we must remember that answer can be lower then 0.

213D - Stars

I present solution as few pictures:
https://get.google.com/albumarchive/pwa/115317317397602031319/Solutions131

Implementation.
We have only one difficult moment — how to count coordinates? We can calculate them from regular pentagon, all that you need, you can read there.

213E - Two Permutations

For given two permutation we will make two another by next transformation: New_A[A[i]] = i, where New_A — news permutation, A — given permutation. Lets we get two permutation A and B. Now our problem is next: how many sub-arrays of length n are equals to firs permutation. Two arrays will be equal if after swaping every element with its number in sorted array obtained arrays will be element-wise equal.
Further solution hashes, but we will use not only modulo 2^64, we will use some big modulos, but they must be smaller then 2^32-1.
Lets step[i] = 1000003^i.
Lets F(A) = num[1]*step[1] + num[2]*step[2] + ... + num[n]*step[n], where num[i] — number of the element A[i] in sorted array.
If we will compare arrays, we can use this function. But it can be very big, so we will count it by modulos.
So now our problem is to calculate F function to every subarray. Lets look what will change after adding/deleting some elent from set: some element from num array willnot change, and some will become grater after adding, and become lower after deleting. So we must use some interval-tree to recount our F function. We need to know sum of step[i] on some interval of added numbers and count of elements on some interval. Uses this information we can simply recount out function. Also we must remember that after adding element with coeficinet step[i], where i>n and deleting some previos element our function will become grater that we need. So we will multiple hash of first array by 1000003 to avoid this issue.

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By Sereja, 12 years ago, translation, In English

Hello everybody!

Welcome all to Codeforces Round #131, which will be held on Monday, 30th of July at 19:30 MSK. I am (Sergey Nagin) an author of the problems. This will be my First Codeforces round and I hope it won't be the last one :).

I would like to thank Mike Mirzayanov(MikeMirzayanov) who made this contest possible, Roman Furko(Furko) and Gerald Agapov(Gerald) for helping to prepare this round and Maria Belova(Delinur) for the translation of problem statements into English. I hope that problems will be interesting for you.

Good luck!

Problems’ point values in Division 1 are 1000-1000-1500-2000-2500. Problems’ point values in Division 2 are 500-1000-2000-2000-2500.

I strongly recommend you to read ALL the problems.

The contest is over! Congratulations' to winners!

First division:
1 place: Egor
2 place: Petr
3 place: tourist
Second division:
1 place: antimatter
2 place: c175353
3 place: takaramono

I hope, that problems were interesting for you.

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By Sereja, 12 years ago, translation, In English

Hello!
I think it is time to create this post. If you know the team of any country(possibly preliminary), please write it in the comments.

Name Country Nickname on Codeforces
Vardanyan Armen Armenia
Mamikonyan Tigran Armenia tikfiz
Davtyan Robert Armenia
Harutyunyan Hrayr Armenia
Gennady Korotkevich Belarus tourist
Adam Bardashevich Belarus subscriber
Sergey Kulik Belarus CherryTree
Vladislav Podtelkin Belarus vlad107
Floris Kint Belgium FKint
Victor Lecomte Belgium vlecomte
Benoît Vernier Belgium TheCamel
Hannes Vandecasteele Belgium
Andrej Ivanis Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daniel Ferizovic Bosnia and Herzegovina dani93.f
Ishak Numanagic Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aleksandar Kelecevic Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yordan Chaparov Bulgaria dancho
Rumen Hristov Bulgaria exod40
Georgi Georgiev Bulgaria gogokefakefa
Hristo Venev Bulgaria mustrumr
Marcos Kawakami Brazil marcoskwkm
Caíque Lira Brazil caiquelira
Renato Ferreira Brazil Renato_Ferreira
André Amaral de Sousa Brazil
Chao Li China chnlich
YuQing Ai China scottai1
Peilin Zhong China zpl2
Yuzhou Gu China sevenkplus
Yuri Alcantara Olivero Cuba
Stepan Simsa Czech republic simsa.st
Ondrej Hubsch Czech republic ondrah
??? Czech republic
??? Czech republic
Yousef Salamaе Egypt Yousef_Salama
??? Egypt
??? Egypt
??? Egypt
Jules Pondard France Artix
Simon Mauras France Simon
Auguste Olivry France auguste42
Gabriel Barrutia France
Tornike Mandzulashvili Georgia TMandzu
Jimmy Skhirtladze Georgia jskhirtladze
Nikoloz Svanidze Georgia svanidz1
Nikoloz Nadiradze Georgia nikanick11
Chan Pak Hei Hong Kong AlanC
Yik Wai Pay Hong Kong jasonyik
Lee Chun Yin Sampson Hong Kong Sampson
Tsang Chun Chi Hong Kong
Nathan Azaria Indonesia nathanajah
Jonathan Irvin Gunawan Indonesia jonathanirvings
Cakra Wisnu Wardhana Indonesia semicfly
Muhammad Aji Muharrom Indonesia imiro
Seyed Hamed Valizadeh Iran havaliza
Saeed Ilchi Iran mR.ilchi
Alireza Farhadi Iran LGM
MohammadReza Maleki Iran mruxim
Gabriele Farina Italy (unofficial) obag
Giada Franz Italy (unofficial) Giada
Davide Pallotti Italy (unofficial) davidepallotti
Sebastiano Tronto Italy (unofficial)
Matteo Almanza Italy matteojug
Federico Glaudo Italy dario2994
Giuliano Gregori Italy
Luca Versari Italy veluca93
Shogo Murai Japan semiexp
Kazumi Kasaura Japan Hujiwara
Ikumi Hide Japan EnumerativeCombinatorics
Kohji Liu Japan hogloid
Vyacheslav Kim Kazakhstan imslavko
Madi Khamitbekov Kazakhstan Kh.Madi
Aman Sariyev Kazakhstan Aman
Dauren Muratov Kazakhstan DaurenMuratov
Azamat Ahmedov Kyrgyzstan Ahmedov
Shakarim Kalandarov Kyrgyzstan mukt
Alibek Taalaybek Kyrgyzstan alibek_1
Nursultan Aldayarov Kyrgyzstan
Aleksejs Popovs Latvia popoffka
Marks Zeldes Latvia
Nikita Larka Latvia JustN
Ojars Vilmars Ratnieks Latvia OVR
Saul Gutierrez Мexico sggutier
Saul de Nova Мexico
Edgar Santiago Мexico
Freddy Roman Мexico frcepeda
Luka Bulatovic Montenegro MudoBog
Lazar Radinovic Montenegro clzola
Kosta Pavlovic Montenegro
Petar Djerkovic Montenegro
Egor Suvorov Russia yeputons
Maxim Akhmedov Russia Zlobober
Oleg Ivanov Russia tigvarts
Alex Gordeev Russia Copymaster
Boris Grubic Serbia borisgrubic
Ivan Stosic Serbia ivan100sic
Demjan Grubic Serbia Demjan
Andrej Ivaskovic Serbia
Ranald Lam Singapore
Hubert Teo Singapore
Bernard Teo Singapore
Gan Wei Liang Singapore
Darío Nieuwenhuis Spain dirbaio
David Balaghi Spain Sorington
Pol Olivella Spain farell94
Darío de la Fuente Spain dariofg
Marten Wiman Sweden
Simon Lindholm Sweden
Johan Sannemo Sweden jsannemo
Anton Grensjo Sweden
Cheng-Min Chiang Taiwan bobogei81123
Liang-Chieh Chen Taiwan JamesQAQ
Shih-Wei Liu Taiwan
Ting-Yuan Cheng Taiwan
Abdukodir Kurbonzoda Tajikistan abdukodir
Jamshed Haitov Tajikistan Jamik
Behruz Murotov Tajikistan BEHA
Khayyom Odinaev Tajikistan GameR
Yusuf Hakan Kalayci Turkey t0nyukuk
Omer Eren Turkey reink
Alperen Yakut Turkey ayakut
Abdullah Alperen Turkey abdullah_alperen
Ahmet Hudayberdyyev Turkmenistan turkmen
??? Turkmenistan
??? Turkmenistan
??? Turkmenistan
Sergii Nagin Ukraine Sereja
Roman Rubanenko Ukraine Rubanenko
Vitaliy Herasymiv Ukraine witua
Roman Furko Ukraine Furko
Johnny Ho United States (USA) random.johnnyh
Scott Wu United States (USA) scott_wu
Daniel Ziegler United States (USA) ziedaniel1
Mitchell Lee United States (USA) mitchell
David Morán Venezuela
Luis Arguello Venezuela
Fernando Valarino Venezuela
Jesus Soto Venezuela
Nguyen Viet Dung Vietnam RetiredKid
Nguyen Huu Thanh Vietnam giongto35
Vu Dinh Quang Dat Vietnam darknsux
Nguyen Tuan Anh Vietnam con_nha_ngheo

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