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Coder-Strike 2014: Round 1
By Gerald, 11 years ago, translation, In English

Good Day!

Coder-Strike 2014: Round 1 will start very soon. If you want to participate, please register for the contest on page. The round was prepared by me, HolkinPV and Igor_Kudryashov. And we tried our best to make it really awesome.

The round will be usual rated round for the second division participants. The first division participants can take part too, but for them the round will be unrated.

If you have any additional questions, please, ask at comments.

Hope you enjoy the problems! Good luck!

UPD 1. Score distribution will be standard: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

UPD 2. The competition was delayed by 10 minutes. :]

UPD 3. Because of unusual room assignment Div.1 and Div.2 participants will be in the same rooms this round.

UPD 4. The contest has ended, hope you like the problems. Rating for Div.2 participants will be updated a bit later.

Announcement of Coder-Strike 2014 - Round 1
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Is contest like another contests at Codeforces? 5 problems, hacking and ... ?

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    "The round will be usual rated round for the second division participants." ..so i think yes :D

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      Yep, you're right! :]

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        11 years ago, # ^ |
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        Really easy contest... That was just about speed... And it didnt need neither programming skills nor theory knowledge (Except problem D)...

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Why it's not rated for Div1 contestants?

Edit: Just noticed that it's a tournament for high school students.

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    I think it is because this round is too easy for div1 coder... just like the div2 only contest

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And what about round 2 ?! rated for Div1 users or not ?!

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    11 years ago, # ^ |
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    I cannot tell you such an information right now for sure. Now I think that it will be rated for div1 participants with very low probability.

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As you know, one thing included in rating calculation is rank. In this round div1 and div2 compete together. The whole rank will be included for rating, or div2's separate rank will be included? If we register in this round and we don't submit any code, will our rate decrease? I hope you understood my questions! :D

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    11 years ago, # ^ |
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    Div.1 users can take part unofficially and they will not be rated. For official participiants and unofficial Div2 users rating calculation will be separated.

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      11 years ago, # ^ |
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      I see. Div1 users will have no part in others rating. They just compete unofficially. Thanks

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        Also, if you submit nothing, you will not be in the standings and your rating will not change (also, your position will not affect anyone else's rating).

        And div1-participants are in different rooms than the div2 ones, so that they can hack only other div1-participants.

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          11 years ago, # ^ |
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          very nice :D

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          users who submit nothing don't even affect rating of participants with negative score in final standings?

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            Yes. They are not in the standings.

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          11 years ago, # ^ |
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          hahaa see UPD 3 :P

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I have a more general question. What happens if we register for a contest and because of a bad happening (such as losing internet connection or ...) we won't submit any code? Will our rate decrease or it will be same as before?

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It only rate the schoolchildren in Moscow region, right? I was register and I saw "out of competition"

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    11 years ago, # ^ |
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    The round will be usual rated round for the second division participants.

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how long will it last?

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Again delay..

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    11 years ago, # ^ |
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    Nice Start!

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    First Time to see delay without any problems appears to us

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      Once the reason was, that official participants were having dinner that time :)

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        At the end of the day, what's more important than dinner?

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Oh~delay ten minutes. Is it because of the server?

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    No Error appear it seems like system used to make a 10 min delay even if no problem appear

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      This 10 minute delay is happening for every round! They should set a default 10 min delay :D

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        if that happens, then rounds will get delayed by 20 minutes! :D
        actually they should set a default advancement of 10 minutes, so that the round will start at regular time! :)

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    11 years ago, # ^ |
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    No, it is just to give some additional time for official participants.

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    I think it is because of a technical reason: Some people are having dinner :))

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      so please I need also 10 min extra to have a dinner :)

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      No, i was late :)

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First time div1 and div2 participants will be in same rooms! Looks very interesting! :)

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Total: 2279 Contestants: 103 Out of competition: 2176

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Can non russian participants win a t-shirt?

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How will div2 users be rated? The ranking is not separated. Will the mixed rank be putted in the rate calculation formula or first you will separate the ranks of two divisions and then you will calculate according to the new separated ranks?

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D = E

E = D

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What was the indended solution for D? I thought about some bipartite matching, but the number of edges was too high. I suppose that either this or a constructive solution should apply. Is anybody available to give a little hint? (Don't spoil it yet).

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    Topsort passed pretests.

    UPD: it passed full-tests.

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    This passes pretests : reverse the edges, then find topological sort of this new graph, and output it in reverse order.

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      But how is one able to topsort a graph which is not guaranteed to be a DAG? I suppose there is a slick trick involved in here. Am I right?

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    topological sort

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    Some Hint:

    Before we let an employee in, we let all of persons he owes money in then there will be no error ;)

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      but how this is possible for cyclic graphs (second example)?

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        Yes its error but your attempting to hack my hint ?! :D he should figure out that himself.

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          At least for every hint given by now, I took the second exemple from the statement (the length 3 cycle) and said: how can one use such logic on non DAG graphs? (Also mentioned this in my second post up here). Did this approaches also pass SysTests?

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            My version: it is possible to remove some edge from the cycle without loss for the final structure. So we made DAG.

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            My code Passed 6412544

            There can not be a cycle with 2 node ( Two persons cant both owe each other ).

            For cycles with more than 2 node its ok we can write the reverse cycle starts from anywhere.

            Ex for test2 lets start from node 1

            employe than 1 owes is 2
employe than 2 owes is 3
employe than 3 owes is 1 ( but we visit that so we step back)
print 3
print 2
print 1

            Thats one of answers. The solution i used at contest was based on the Topological Sort 6407870 but this one was easier to get.

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hacking error

What type of error it is?I am not able to post the image so I posted the link.

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    someone made a test, your program was unable to pass

    //link does not work

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      I used input as file , and it was not hacked by others too.

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    UPD :I corrected the link

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    i think it means that when u submitted the hack, another hack was already submitted and in queue before urs. so by the time ur hack was "popped" from queue, the solution was already hacked, therefore ur hack was discarded.

    EDIT: however, it looks like u have got points for successful hack of his solution 6409307! not really sure what happened here!

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      Thanks for answer.I thought the same.So I checked my room and refresh the site again and again but found that it is showing as correct solution.

      UPD : My point has been updated after the contest, they gave me it as successful hack.

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Is the contest rated for div2 contestant ???

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Is it possible to solve E using RE?

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When will the system testing take place?

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the ranks of div 2 participants depending on div 1 participants or not ?

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    Since the contest is only rated for div2, it's only logical that ratings of div1 participants wouldn't affect that of div2 ratings. Although I'm not sure.

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      I hope they will judge logically.

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      I also think so... :)

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      Yeah, this is what they just did, but since new rating depend of the rank and the expected rank, compete with div1 can only be good for us ;)

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6407031 6407103
i honestly dont know why users try to cheat even in unofficial contests!! -_-

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    How do you find same solutions?

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      i hacked one of them, and just ran into the other while checking some Failed System Test solutions. i recognized immediately when i saw n - (k+2) (i hacked first submission on same mistake).

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    Or this one 6411312 6406588

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      His solution was hacked because he wrote stupid "if" in code. ;)

      Sorry for my bad English.

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        but he wrote that purposefully to hack his "fake" account! look at the handles it is clear that one person use both accounts!!

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          Oh, I didn't noticed that. Then he had cheated.

          ____________________________________________ Sorry for my bad English.

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      Sorry for minus in contribution, didn't notice the difference between their handles :(

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    They are out-of-competition here because only Russian high school students are official competitors, but these guys (guy?) still get rated.

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      Because this contest was rated for div-2 participants

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can someone explain why no test case with output -1 was included for problem D?

is an output of -1 impossible to get and if that's the case why? Thanks.

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When rating of Div 2 participants will be updated ?

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oh my god, tourist use 23min to solve all the problems....

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    too long?

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      it's not enough for me to even read all the problems ...

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        First Note that he read problems in Russian his native language.
        Second almost he write solution while reading the problems.
        Third he is very fast in writing.
        Forth if you used all previous features you will solve problem "E" in 23 min.
        so you need a core I_7 mind to solve all of them in 23 min.

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Is there any editorial for this contest. Or can anybody who solved Problem D and E kindly explain the approach for solving those ?

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    editorial is here.
    for D, there is a much easier way than editorial. explanation is here.

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Can anyone help me with E??? It seemed not very difficult but both during the contest and after that I'm getting WA on test 13. It is a very long string and as a result I don't understand where I went wrong in my code. A very short hack would be appreciated. Thanks.

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    failed at testcase 26 during contest due to this bug, there's probably more bug in your code

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      Thanks a lot. Solved cases similar to that and know I'm getting WA on test 23!!! It's driving me crazy!!! I'd appreciate it if you take another look at my code. Thanks.

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        @a_1a@_.a
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        The substring between @ and . should be a non empty substring consisting only of letters and numbers.

        Your code check only one occurrence of _ after the first letter.

        So in a case like : a_@b_.c ... Your code count the substring b_ as a valid substring between @ and . ... while it is not !

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        Thanks both of you: zeulb and YellowNextYear. I noticed this condition but implemented it in my code wrongly.

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