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As a tester, I really loved the problems! Don't miss an opportunity to take part in a contest written by the IOI 2023 Winner ;)

bashkort asafiul orz!!

hopefully +delta

5 problems round after a long time, will enjoy this round!

as a tester, the problems were great. Recommend participating.

Good luck to everyone participating!!! Also on a random note, what song have you been listening to lately?

I enjoy contests which have only 5 problems with no subtasks

As a tester, ahmet23 orz!..

Dominater069 orz

As a purple tester, round is very good!)

Thanks Codeforces for another contest!

As a tester orz

Codeforces contests help me overcome the exams period.

As not a tester, i didn't tested.

How to unregister for a contest ?

My first unrated Div 2! Excited!

hopefully reach cyan

orz sir

Thanks Codeforces

Good luck to all participants. Wishing you a positive delta!

Waiting....

Score distribution when?

I don't know when will be my "Promotion to CM" round!!

Hope no adhoc forces

Ormlis Orz

Score distribution gives speedforces vibes.

Really Hope the interactive problem Is D or E

Its been long time since we encountered Good Binary Search problem. Hoping to get one.

As a participant, I will participate and try the best for great problems today.

Rank 400 and Rank 2500 both solved same number of problem:)

Problem D:

The first line contains two integers $$$n$$$ ($$$1 \le n \le 500$$$) — the number of balls.

should be

The first line contains integer $$$n$$$ ($$$1 \le n \le 500$$$) — the number of balls.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SPEEDFORCES!

MAKE ACTUAL CONTESTS!!

Time limit for B was very strict... Am I the only one who had troubles with TL in B?

A: For each 0<=i<=n, there are at least ceil(i/k) ones on the prefix with length i, and ceil((n-i)/k) ones on the corresponding suffix, therefore ans>=ceil(i/k)+ceil((n-i)/k). We can solve the problem by brute force for 0<=i<=n.

B: Let's denote S[k]={1<=i<=n: a[i]==k}. For each integer k, we can get points from at most k lamps in S[k], because all lamps in S[k] will break simultaneously, and there we can turn on no more than k lamps in S[k] before they break. So we can classify lamps by a[i], and choose min(k,S[k].size()) lamps with maximum b[i], then we can get an upper bound of the answer. In fact, this answer is also a lower bound: If we turn on the chosen lamps by the non-decreasing order of a[i], because lamps with lower a[i] will break strictly before lamps with higher a[i], they will not make lamps with higher a[i] break before turned on, so we can get points from all chosen lamps. Therefore we can solve the problem in O(n).

C: By induction we can prove that the last element of a is 0.

So if b[n]=1, there's no solution. Otherwise we can construct a solution: First we let ans be an empty list. Then we read b[i] reversely: Let i be the largest index such that b[i]=1 and b[i+1]=0, we can assume there's an operation with p=i+1, so we append i+1 to ans and filp elements on [1, i]. If there's no such i, we end this process, append zeros to make ans.size()==n and reverse it as the answer.

D: Let [L1, R1], [L2, R2], ..., [Lm, Rm] be the ranges of indexes which has been moved in operations, then other indexes must form an increasing subsequence, and we must add a 0-ball in each [Li, Ri]. Therefore, we can solve an another problem: We can remove at most k subarrays from c[i] to make it increasing, minimize the number of elements removed. We can solve this problem by naive O(n^3) dp.

E: For any subset of {1, 2, ..., n}, we denote it S1 and it's complement S2, if sum(i in S1)(a[i])=sum(i in S2)(a[i]), then the second player can win the game: If the first player choose i in S1, the second player choose j in S2, and vice versa. We can see by this strategy sum(S1) will always be equal to sum(S2), so the first player has valid move in S1 --> sum(S1)>0 --> sum(S2)>0 --> the second player has valid move in S2. Therefore, the second always has valid move before the first player lose the game. If there're no such S1 with this property, the first player will always win: Assume for all subset S1 we have sum(S1)!=sum(S2) before a turn, and assume indexes chosen in this turn are i, j, WLOG assume a[i]>=a[j]. Then if there sum(S1)==sum(S2) after this turn, if i belong to S1, then we can assume j belong to S2(because a[i]>=a[j] before this turn, we have a[j]==0 after this turn, so move it from S1 to S2 will not change sum(S1)-sum(S2)), then we have sum(S1)==sum(S2) before this turn, which is a contradiction, so for all subset S1 we have sum(S1)!=sum(S2) after this turn. If the first player lose the game, when there's 2 positive elements in a[i], assume they are i1, i2, then we have a[i1]==a[i2] so that first player has no valid move in next turn. But in this case if we let S1={i1} then sum(S1)==a[i1]==a[i2]==sum(S2), which is a contradiction, so the first will always win the game.

I liked problem $$$D$$$. First, its obvious that the sequence of colors of those non-zero color balls on which we don't perform an operation must be an increasing sequence. After that its $$$O(n^3)$$$ dp.

OMG i solved the last problem of the round for the first time

what's funny is that i was writing the code like "ok i obviously wont finish in time, right"

Never give up!!! great round, although really speedforcish, luckily not for me

Cool problems! Really, for me, A, B, C are tasks where you have to think instead of looking at the tests and finding a correlation, like in the previous recent rounds.

Read B for a long time, more than half of the time thought ai is three states, ha ha ha ha

ADHOCforces

HELP in Problem C I was able to recognize that if last element was "1", then it was impossible thus "NO" is the ans. But was not able to get "b" array. Please guide.

what's the point of setting the memory limit for problem D to 256MB ?!

imo E is easier than D but I just need one more minute so submit it...

Can someone explain to me how D is solved by $$$O(n^3)$$$ dp? I know that the non-zero color balls which we don't perform an operation form an increasing sequence, but I never thought about $$$O(n^3)$$$ dp.

Also, maybe someone can give me a little E idea?

Why my O(n^3) dp solution for problem D got TLE? 208344465

Although my solution of E is wrong, why did I get penalties because I got WA/RE on pretest 2 which's a sample?

My O(nlogn) Python solution for problem B gave me TL. Could someone help me identify how I could have made it pass?

Why I got RTE on Main Test 5? 208322908 Can anyone please explain? I can't find the error.

My feedback: a round is susually concidered unbalanced when you can get 2300 performance while only solving ABCD. This round, you could get 2300 performance for solving ABC.

When will the Editorial for contest will be released ?

Not able to solve D, waiting for the approach in editorial.

Thank you for rejudging my submission for QD multiple times :)

I got a bunch of TLEs and then finally ACed with 1965ms :)))))

(BTW, is it my problem or is my solution not intended? The time limit seems a bit strict for O(n^3))

Although the first 4 problems are not fun to solve... but problem E is beautiful!

I'm really happy with how I did in this contest, but I honestly had no idea that an O(N^3) solution for D would pass. I've been using C++ and Python interchangeably, but I guess I've been using Python for too long if I thought that would be too slow :)

Thanks to the writer and testers.

I like the tasks but half of problem D was figuring out what the statement is trying to say

Can any one please help during contest on second question submission it is showing error exit code: -1073741819 (STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION), checker exit code: 0, verdict: RUNTIME_ERROR

Your text to link here... please helpe??

Enjoyed all the problems.

Ratings updated preliminary, it will be recalculated after removing the cheaters.

from collections import defaultdict from collections import Counter from itertools import combinations from itertools import permutations import heapq import math import bisect

def presum(arr): d = [] sum1 = 0 n = len(arr) for i in range(0,n): sum1 += arr[i] d.append(sum1)

return d

def factorial(mod):

p = 1
d = [1]
for i in range(1,10**5 + 1):
    p = p * i
    p = p % mod
    d.append(p)

return d

def lst1(): return list(map(int,input().split()))

def map1(): return map(int,input().split())

def int1(): return int(input())

t = int1()

while t!=0:

n = int1()

dict1 = defaultdict(list)

for i in range(0,n):
    a,b = map1()
    dict1[a].append(b)

for i in dict1.keys():
    dict1[i].sort()



e = sorted(dict1.keys())

dict2 = defaultdict(int)

on = 0
sum1 = 0
d = []
"""
for i in e :

    while len(dict1[i]) > 0 and on < i :
       print("i :",i)
       print("Dict2[",on,"]:",dict2[on])

       print("On :",on)
       x = dict1[i].pop()
       print("x :",x)
       sum1 += x
       print("Sum1",sum1)
       d.append(x)
       print("D:",d)
       on += 1
       print("On :",on)
       dict2[i] += 1
       print("Dict2[",i,"] :",dict2[i])
       print("Dict2[",on,"]:",dict2[on])
       on -= dict2[on]
       print("On :",on)
       print("Dict2[on] : ",dict2[on])
       dict2[on] = 0
       print("dict2[on]:",dict2[on])
       print()
    if on == i:
       on -= dict2[on]
       print("ON : I :",on)
       dict2[on] = 0

print(d)
print(sum1)

"""

for i in e:

    while len(dict1[i]) > 0:


       x = dict1[i].pop()
       sum1 += x
       d.append(x)
       on += 1
       dict2[i] += 1

       if on == i:
         val = dict2[on]
         on -= val
         dict2[on + val] = 0
         break
       else :
         val = dict2[on]
         on -= val
         dict2[on + val] = 0


print(sum1)








t = t - 1

B)Lamps I solved this in the contest in PyPy 3 interpreter which is supposed to be faster than Python 3.8 interpreter and after the contest was over i just changed the interpreter to Python 3.8 and It was Accepted . This Solution gave Time Limited Exceeded on testcase 3 on PyPy 3 and Accepted Verdit on Python 3.8 . I Cant Understand why this happened but my solution was correct during the contest

isn't the 6th example in the A wrong?

Why doesn't this round have 12 hours hacking phase, or am I misunderstanding something?

My solution gave TLE on Test Case 3 on Pypy 3 interpreter during the contest and gave the Accepted Verdict on Python 3.8 when I upsolved the contest.I didnt even change a single word when sumbitting on Pyth3.8 Pls tell me the issue

Thanks! Loved E a lot!

C was fun. Good problems. Enjoyed it

Problem D be like :

... so the ball is a male

The presets in B are weakly designed, can't even catch a simple runtime.

Can someone please explain why this submission gives RE on test 5 of problem B? I looked at some previous comments and this happened when they used "=" sign in comparator, but I have not done that also.

Thank you to everyone who helped with this round! I found C, D, and E all very enjoyable (maybe E is a bit easier than normal but that is not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion, since it's not easy enough to decrease the fun i had :P )

emm,I am told that the solution conflicts with others, in what way should I prove that this is a coincidence?

Dear MikeMirzayanov I recieved a mail regarding my solution for 1839C - Insert Zero and Invert Prefix which is 208330178 , is similar to some other people . I sincerely request to please reconsider , as I made the intuition and solution completely myself on pen and paper . The Xor trick in this question is something I was very happy to crack and once u get the intuition , the code was quite simple . I have been doing codeforces for quite a long time , I enjoy giving more and more contests and this is definetly a mere coincidence and the problem code was quite straight forward. Also u can see my previous submissions to many problems , it can clearly been seen that it is my my own code with similar intuition to others. Please dont skip my solutions as my happiness was at peak solving the 3rd question in this contest.