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COMPFEST 14 Preliminary — Editorial
By Pyqe, history, 2 years ago, In English

1725A. Accumulation of Dominoes

Author: Pyqe
Developer: nandonathaniel
Editorialist: Pyqe

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1725B. Basketball Together

Author: FerdiHS
Developer: muhammadhasan01
Editorialist: Pyqe

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1725C. Circular Mirror

Author: Pyqe
Developer: steven.novaryo
Editorialist: steven.novaryo

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1725D. Deducing Sortability

Author: Pyqe
Developer: TakeMe, Pyqe
Editorialist: Pyqe

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1725E. Electrical Efficiency

Author: steven.novaryo
Developer: steven.novaryo
Editorialist: rama_pang

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1725F. Field Photography

Author: Pyqe
Developer: Pyqe
Editorialist: Pyqe

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1725G. Garage

Author: Nyse
Developer: Nyse
Editorialist: Pyqe

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1725H. Hot Black Hot White

Author: Pyqe
Developer: steven.novaryo
Editorialist: steven.novaryo

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1725I. Imitating the Key Tree

Author: Pyqe
Developer: Pyqe
Editorialist: Pyqe

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1725J. Journey

Author: gansixeneh
Developer: gansixeneh, steven.novaryo
Editorialist: rama_pang

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1725K. Kingdom of Criticism

Author: Pyqe
Developer: Pyqe
Editorialist: rama_pang

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1725L. Lemper Cooking Competition

Author: Pyqe
Developer: steven.novaryo
Editorialist: rama_pang

Tutorial

1725M. Moving Both Hands

Author: Pyqe
Developer: Pyqe
Editorialist: rama_pang

Tutorial
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Fast tutorial. Thanks. Btw there is two pointers solution in B. Adding two pointers tag would be great I guess.

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How can you get 4 + (n * 4 — 3) / 3 just by 4 + 4a?

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i did'nt got solution for problem m anyone pls help

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    Run shortest path algorithm.

    Change the direction of all edges.

    Run shortest path algorithm.

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      more detailed? pls

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        You wanna find a point x that has min minway(1, x) + minway(p, x). Also, we change the direction of all edges, so now, minway(1, x) + minway(p, x) = minway(1, x) + minway(x, p'), where p' is a new point for p, that shows, that p' is p in graph with reversed edges. We can see, that every point on the shortest way from 1 to p' has min sum of that 2 ways.

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          I don't know where my code is wrong. Can you help me find out the details? thank you 171057638

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          minway(1, x) + minway(p, x) = minway(1, x) + minway(x, p') how it is equal i am not getting. can u please explain

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            p' is a point in graph with reversed edges, so, we can not to go from p to x, we can go from x to x' and it costs 0, and then you can go from x' to p' with reversed egdes with new nodes

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For E, what's the intended way to build the auxiliary tree? We used small to large merging but that was O(n*log(n)*log(A)*map) which seems sus

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    It is actually possible to build all sparse trees simultaneously using small-to-large, but the time complexity is worse. The intended solution uses an algorithm that runs in $$$O(|S| \log N)$$$ for each set $$$S$$$. The algorithm is as follows:

    1. Sort the vertices in $$$S$$$ based on their euler tour traversal order.
    2. All extra vertices in the sparse tree can found as the $$$\text{LCA}$$$ of every pair of vertices in $$$S$$$ that are adjacent in the sorted order.
    3. Once all required vertices are found, we can find the edges by iterating the vertices (including the extra ones) in euler tour traversal order and maintaining a stack.

    You can optimise it further to make the total time complexity $$$O(N(\log N + \log \max(A)))$$$. But the time limit is not that tight that even the small-to-large solution is able to pass.

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      Ah thanks, that's really cool. Haven't really seen many problems with this "auxiliary tree" idea, so its nice to learn good techniques for it.

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On the third task O() calculates in wrong way, min(Cntpair, m) = O(n), so O(n logn), or wthether we check case, where min(CntPair, m) = m, so in that way it'll be better if we say that it's O((n + min(n, m)) * logN) or something like that

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L had weak testcases, we submitted L very late and only realized after the contest we forgot to check whether every element of the prefix sum was non negative and it passed

the submission 170883681

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Problem: 1725B - Basketball Together

Solution: 170864702

In this block of code:

int Temp = a[i];
while(Temp <= D)
{
    Temp += a[i];
}

when I set n = 1, D = 10^9, and a[i] = 1; in theory it should run in 10^9 steps, which will give a TLE verdict. But when I use "Custom Invocation" to test it, I found that it only ran in 500ms, which is way below the time limit. Why did it happen? Is it because of the codeforces judging machines, or is there something that I'm missing?

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    It probably just runs that fast. The hot path only includes an add, a compare, and a conditional jump, which is < 3 cycles with branch prediction. Computers run at a few GHZ, so 500ms sounds right.

    The $$$10^8$$$ things/second heuristic is just a heuristic for usualish groups of operations, you can do better if u have a fast loop body (especially if the compiler avx-ifies, which might be happening here).

    To see exactly what is happening u can try putting it in https://godbolt.org/ with the correct compiler version/flags.

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Our team enjoy solving this problemset. Especially for Problem L. We didn't think it could be done using prefix sum. Very nice problem

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why 1 and 4 cannot be expressed as $$$(b^2−a^2)$$$

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    we can write (b^2-a^2) as(b-a)*(b+a) // proof for 1 can not be expressed in terms of b^2-a^2 so the min positive value of a we can take is 1 and for b its 2 as (b>a) as stated in the problem so, (b-a)=1; (b+a)=3; and their multiplication would give us 3 as the min value which can be expressed in terms of b^2-a^2; and one more conclusion can be drawn is that after three all odd numbers can be expressed in the form of b^2-a^2 (because we can express every odd number (lets say a)as 1*a; and a can always be represented as a sum of 2 consecutive numbers which are always odd **** lest take a=4 ,b=5; b-a=1; b+a=9; 9*1=9; that is odd)

    // proof for 4 cannot be expressed in terms of b^2-a^2 to make equation even we have to make (b-a) even first so in order to make that even min value of a we can take is 1 and for b is 3 so, (b-a)=2; (b+a)=4; and their multiplication will give us 8 that is the minimum even value we can achieve and from here we can draw one more conclusion that all the even values will be multiples of 4 as no matter what we take values of a and b whenever (b-a) is even (b+a) would also be even (because to make the diffrence of 2 numbers even their parity should be same and if we add same parity numbers then result is even) so that would make the result divisble by 4

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      Thank U

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      why we only considering the case where b= a+1 and b = a+2 ? what if b = a+k and k > 2

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For those curious about the $$$O(1)$$$ formula for problem G (Garage):

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Isn't F's TL too tight?

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I think problem J has insufficient tests. In particular, I found solutions (including mine) that get AC, but give an incorrect answer to the following simple test:

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1 2 1
2 3 50
2 4 50
1 5 1
5 6 1000
6 7 1
6 8 1

As far as I understand, the correct answer here should be 106.

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I try to solve this problem M. Moving Both Hands ,but it always gives me WA , please anyone help me, i'am stuck in this problem about 2 weeks and can't figure out why my code is wrong?

Here is mycode,I used dijkstra twice for each direction of the graph.

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    You need to make sure que is a heap before running dijkstra for the second time. 173757547

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      great thanks to you, I really ashamed from myself to stuck in this problem for long time becasue of this trivial coding line heapify(que)

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