marzipan's blog

By marzipan, 10 months ago, translation, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

I am happy to invite you to our Good Bye 2023, which will be held at Dec/30/2023 17:50 (Moscow time). The round will be rated for all the participants.

The tasks were created and prepared by 74TrAkToR, zwezdinv, OR_LOVe, marzipan, platelet.

We would like to thank everyone who helped us a lot with round preparation:

During the round you will need to solve 8 problems. You will have 2 hours to solve them.

Score distribution: 250—750—1250—1500—2000—2750—3750—(2750+1750)

We wish you good luck and high rating!!!

UPD https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/124060

UPD1:Tutorial was published

Announcement of Good Bye 2023
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i hope for a very good contest before 2024

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As a tester, I wish you have fun (and do not rage at the end of the year) Good luck!

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As a tester, I will not write any more rounds this year

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Thank you

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Lets hope aliens attack in 2024 and teach us how to P = NP before destroying us

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    I think they would give us a quantum computer instead

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    Why depend on aliens do it yourself instead of posting sh*t online

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    Let's hope aliens attack in 2024 and give us a better round than this one before destroying us

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Good Bye 2K23 and Welcome 2K24! Hope that the last round of this year will be more enjoyable :)

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Hoping to finally cross 2200!

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I hope it will be my last nice and impressive round in this year

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Wish everyone a happy new year 2024!!!

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goodbye 2023

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Hopefully 2024 will be good lol

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The contest name is so excellent that I simply couldn't resist participating in it:)

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So the final contest for the year 2023, hope for everyone to get positive delta

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Good Bye 2023..!! Wishing everyone a Happy New Year. and hope for a very good contest before 2024. Happy Coding.

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After bad performance on the last div 4, I hope to reach pupil in this contest

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I hope that this round will be lucky for all of us!!!

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bye 2023 , hi 2024 !

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I hope that this round will be lucky for all of us!!!

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Any idea about the difficulty of the contest ?? Like similar to div2 div3

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Why so many downvotes?

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    Did u practiced on some other platform before as i can See u were already good starting with your first contest

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as a tester, i can wish you only good luck

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Div 2??

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    Looking at the previous year contest it looks like it will be a Div 2

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Hoping to reach cyan before year end :)

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What will be the score distribution?

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Hi 2024 good bye almost prime 2023.

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What's the overall difficulty of the tasks?

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good bye! <3

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is the difficulty of the tasks similar to Div 2?

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    No it'll be div.1 + div.2

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    The first 6 problems are like Div.2 A-F. The last two are harder problems, like Div. 1 E and F.

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Goodbye 2023 and Hello 2024... I hope that this year will be an end to all your problems and difficulties and that this year will be a year full of joy and happiness for everyone. Happy New Year everyone 2024.

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looking forward to it

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hope to have fun at the last contest of the year

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i hope, i'll reach cyan in this contest

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Happy New Year everyone! Wishing happiness and joy for everyone in 2024, hope everyone gets positive delta in the last contest of the year!

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Hoping to end the year with + delta

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Wow so E is hard. Gotta lock in

also why only 2 hours

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    also why only 2 hours

    Relatively easy problems? That would be my guess

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I hope it will be a good end to this year. Good luck to everyone

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I am expecting to reach the pupil! Let's see what happens in the last contest of 2023!

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I promised last week that I won't play CF anymore before my final-exam. But...Hey guys,that's the last time in this year...

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Hope to have a better time in 2024!

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I need +70 or I lose the bet to pk_27. :(

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wow so many problems but i only wish to reach pupil after this round

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I hope to achieve a score of 1600 in the new year.

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marzipan did the score distribution for problem E and G changed ?

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hope i can solve 2 of this:(

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Hoping for a doable D

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bye 2023!

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I don't have courage to participate good bye and hello contest as I lost 200 rating last time.

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Based on the score distribution, can we expect that H1 is approximately as hard as F?

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Looks like a math-force.

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74TrAkToR for excellent coordination and useful advices. Bro, it is advice not advices. Advice is an irregular plural.

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As a participant, I hope everyone will be happy in 2024!

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May this contest help me in reach pupil

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Goodbye 2023!

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Always great to end the year with a contest!

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Why is the SCORE distribution changing every couple hours?

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At the end of the year, I want to have my best contest !!

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Hope it ends my slump. So the year enda on a Good note.

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as a participant, i say: Happy New Year!

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it's not sponsored by near?

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Sad to say....but this gonna be my last contest for this year:(

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i wish everyone good luck ;)

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Good Bye 2023!

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Good Bye 2023

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Goodbye 2023,Or as they say in China: "再见2023".

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The last round will be good for those who are trying hard for the whole year. Good luck to everyone.

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Chilling contest, chilling day.

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Hope no queueforces like yesterday

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    Usually that's only a problem in Div.3/4 and not in Div.1+2, but we'll see

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Happy new year in advance, everyone!

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I don't wanna go back to being a newbie, please :!!

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Good luck to everyone. This will be my first ranked contest

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Good luck!

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is this like a div2?

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It's a pity that it was postponed for 5 minutes(

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guys,what happened? why is it put off?

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Good luck for us!

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Good Luck!!

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1 refresh cost me 10 min... lol :)

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Hope the queue is not long today.

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is the contest postponed for severval minutes?

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Is the contest postponed for 10 minutes?

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Good Bye 2023+10minutes

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Hope I get some ratings :D

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Delayed ??

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Out of curiosity, are the delays due to registration issues again?

I'm pretty sure I registered ~45 mins ago, but when I reopened CF around 20 mins I wasn't registered (and had to register again).

EDIT: Managed to reproduce the issue, opening the list of registered friends causes me to be unregistered even without clicking the unregister button on that page.

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    I also opened my list of registered friends. Didn't happen to me though.

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    I registered and entered the contest. After clicking "submit" on problem A, I found that there are no submission logs, and the submit button disappeared. After that I tried to click "submit code", but it said that I was not registered for this contest. I have to wait until 15:00 UTC for additional registration before submitting my code.

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why 22:45

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good luck!

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Good bye 2023 :>

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April fool 2023? XD

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Looks like 2023 isn't quite ready to leave us yet

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The Last Ride of the Year...

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If I turn cyan today, it would be an actual "happy" new year :)

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How to get rid of "Checking if the site connection is secure"?

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Good bye 2023(((

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Aren't we 2018 now? T_T

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    I thought this problem was solved already back in 2018. But it still exists in 2023 but with different language :P

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    bro just lost from Nott'm Forest he lost track of time

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And yet another delay xD

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Delayforces

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Idk, but today I don't feel like giving contest X(

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one refresh cost me 5 more minutes

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why still late for 5 minutes

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Why 5 more minutes postponed

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Are you kidding me? -_-

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Delayforces!

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With the repeated delays, I am starting to doubt the quality of the problems.

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    I guess its more likely to be a problem with platform issues such as judge stability (i.e, high risk of a large queue).

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    Now, it looks like the concerns were spot on

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Good luck!

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What happened? Do the contest authors not want to say goodbye to 2023? Rescheduled again(

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Why delayed?

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Ig the contest will start untill 2024

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GoodBye 2023 typically

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20:05 No

20:15 No

20:20 No

20:23 XD

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I don't wanna use codeforces mirror but cloudflare keeps reloading the page when i verify :(

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What the he*ll bores?

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I wanna cry(

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Hope this is the last postponement...

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Why it always delay

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This is the most annoying thing that website can do

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why did the time got rescheduled ?

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    This is my first comment on codeForces, lmao

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stress

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why is the time changing? I can't get on to the contest

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Delay no more please

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Codeforces ..its not april month XD

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Can we get a Belated Good Bye 2023 :D

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Delayforces pls! :)

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Goodbye "Good Bye 2023"

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I was 10 minutes late and then to my surprise, I logged in 5 minutes earlier!

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Bruh why codeforces trolling?

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Delayforces

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delay until 2024?

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last contest of this year

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5 minutes delay takes away the time about 0.3% of this year

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    8% of remaining 2023 into a dust. Only 22h remaining in 2023 at last.

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Today’s contest is sponsored by SBI

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C'mon. Don't be angry. Let's focus on the contest.

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Delay it one more time and It will be welcome 2024

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Everytime i refresh got 5 min penalty

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April Fools Day Contest 2023

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As a tester, I think this round will be amazing

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Seems like it will keep on being rescheduled till its actual year end for Mike. X0

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22:50?(UTC+8)

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Why am I sweating in winters

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I could have played 1 more Valorant-ranked game.

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thank you sir for this amazing platform I wish this platform should be forever .

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welcome the coming of 2024!

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The delay was so long that contest become Hello 2024

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I was registered, but I can't submit because it says I'm not registered. Can someone please fix this ASAP?

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I was registered and now it is showing not registered and there is also not option for registration

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Good Bye 2023 with LOL contest ....registered for it but showing i am not...:)

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Ending 2023 with another mathforces round this is amazing

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the rooms are broken i cant find mine

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Thanks for the contest, Finally Cyan :)

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Worst D I have ever seen even though I solved it.

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Now I'm really curious about the intended solution of H. Because it's 100000000000% not my solution.

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    there is an already available solution for this question on google.

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Biggest Mathforces of the year

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Good Bye my rating... See you in the next year

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Now I'll become a purple coder again :)

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How much did 74Tr paid to Mike ?

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I guess problem H is not an original question

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I have a message for the author of D.

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Mathforces

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Sorry, guys. I was trying to report a streamer, but I didn't realize that my question would be visible to everyone.

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All is well that ends well :( But It wasn't

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And the prize for the worst contest of 2023 goes to...

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Is H copied from somewhere or is it just easy? I dont remember the last time the last problem was solved so fast in a div1.

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how to solve E?

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    Build segtree on euler tour.

    Now we do a dfs, and when are at node $$$u$$$ and have traversed all nodes in its subtree, for each node $$$v$$$ in its subtree, store only those nodes $$$v$$$ such that no ancestor of $$$v$$$ in subtree of $$$u$$$ has the same color as $$$v$$$. How to "store" such a node $$$v$$$? Simply add $$$+1$$$ on $$$[tin_v, tout_v]$$$ in the segtree (when deleting it, we will just add $$$-1$$$ on the same range) . It is equivalent to only considering highest occuring color on all paths to prevent overcounting.

    For node $$$u$$$, we can now find the optimal path when we fix $$$u$$$ as the lca. This is simply the product of the two maximum values of $$$(1 + max(tin_c, tout_c))$$$ accross all children $$$c$$$ of $$$u$$$. The answer is the maximum of this value across all $$$u$$$.

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How D?

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    For larger n its this pattern. X on the left, X**2 on the right.

    10000011 100000220000121 10000101 100002020010201 10000110 100002200012100 10001001 100020021002001 10001010 100020201020100 10001100 100022001210000 10010001 100200120020001 10010100 100202102010000 10011000 100220121000000 10100001 102010020200001 10100010 102010202000100 10100100 102012020010000 10110000 102212100000000 11000001 121000022000001 11000010 121000220000100 11000100 121002200010000 11001000 121022001000000 11010000 121220100000000

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    Or you can simply construct these:

    1690000
    9610000
    1060900
    9060100
    1006009
    9006001
    1960000
    
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      might be simple question, but how do I know for sure these are perfect squares? Did you brute force for small n and guess the pattern? or is there some kind of proof for this?

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        Observing the answers for <=7 will be enough

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        A0..n..0B^2 = (A*10^n+B)^2 = (A*10^n)^2 + 2(A*10^n)(B) + B^2

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        Notice that $$$(10^k+3)^2=10^{2k}+6\times 10^k+9=10000\ldots60000\ldots9$$$ and $$$(3*10^k+1)^2=9\times 10^{2k}+6\times 10^k+1=90000\ldots60000\ldots1$$$.

        So, the answer for something line $$$n=11$$$ can be:

        • $$$90000600001 = ((3\times10^5+1)\times 10^0)^2$$$
        • $$$90006000100 = ((3\times10^4+1)\times 10^1)^2$$$
        • $$$90060010000 = ((3\times10^3+1)\times 10^2)^2$$$
        • $$$90601000000 = ((3\times10^2+1)\times 10^3)^2$$$
        • $$$96100000000 = ((3\times10^1+1)\times 10^4)^2$$$
        • $$$10000600009 = ((10^5+3)\times 10^0)^2$$$
        • $$$10006000900 = ((10^4+3)\times 10^1)^2$$$
        • $$$10060090000 = ((10^3+3)\times 10^2)^2$$$
        • $$$10609000000 = ((10^2+3)\times 10^3)^2$$$
        • $$$16900000000 = ((10^1+3)\times 10^4)^2$$$
        • $$$19600000000 = (14\times 10^4)^2$$$ (a special case)
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        you can try observation. I think its hard in this case, but possible.

        I bruteforced for n<=9 and solved it by finding the pattern that way.

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    Jokes of assumption

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H: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1859668 ?

$$$\prod_{j=1}^r\,\frac{q^{j-1}\,\left(q^{m-j+1}-1\right)\,\left(q^{n-j+1}-1\right)}{\left(q^j-1\right)}\,$$$
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      The most down-to-earth formula I found (and implemented) is here, at the bottom of page 19 (or 26 in PDF numeration): Thesis of Geoffrey Critzer

      $$$ f (n, p, k) = \frac{\left((p^n - 1) (p^n - p) \cdots (p^n - p^{k - 1})\right)^2}{(p^k - 1) (p^k - p) \cdots (p^k - p^{k - 1})} $$$

      Along with how to infer it in the few pages above (which can be skipped in contest time).

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        btw, i wondered for a while how to deal with "divided by zero" is issue. It seems that the constraint does not imply $$$p^k \not\equiv 1 \mod 998244353$$$?

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          Interesting, I just assumed the values are "good".

          Perhaps system tests will say otherwise :) .

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            i asked the authors for clarification during contest, and was responded "no comments" as expected xD

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              That may mean they (will?) add such tests before system testing phase. Especially if the author solution avoids such divisions. Would explain the wait, too.

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          It might not be an issue at all (and I think most contestants, myself included, kinda lucked out here).

          By repeatedly factoring, you can see that $$$f(n, p, k)$$$ is

          $$$ \displaystyle \frac{(p^n - 1)^2 (p^{n - 1} - 1)^2 \cdots (p^{n - k + 1})^2}{(p - 1) (p^2 - 1) \cdots (p^k - 1)} $$$

          multiplied by some nonzero constant (everything happens in the field of numbers modulo $$$998\,244\,353$$$).

          I claim that one of two things is true: either there are no zeros or there are strictly more zeros in the numerator than in the denominator. Let $$$r$$$ be the smallest positive number such that $$$p^r = 1$$$. It's a well-known fact in number theory that if $$$p^m = 1$$$, then $$$r \mid m$$$.

          In the denominator, the first time a zero appears is the term $$$p^r - 1$$$. By that time, we have had all exponents $$$n - r + 1, \ldots, n$$$ in the numerator. That is $$$r$$$ consecutive values, one of them is divisible by $$$r$$$. Since the terms in the numerator are squared, it means that we have two zeros in the numerator among the first $$$r$$$ terms. Repeat the same argument for all blocks $$$[tr + 1, (t + 1)r]$$$ in the denominator, and the claim follows.

          Since there are more zeros in the numerator, if you go back to the integers you can see that the entire thing is a multiple of $$$998\,244\,353$$$.

          If you had a "typical" solution (e.g. incrementing $$$k$$$ and adding terms to the formula) and your code doesn't throw an error when calculating the inverse, then you could just pretend that no division by zero ever occurs and your solution would still be correct. Even if you had a different solution using some similar formula (maybe with additional pointless terms cancelling out), you can probably show that it is correct using a similar argument.

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            Thanks for your clarification! That's a cool proof.

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Was this contest made from the rejected problems of Good Bye 2013? :)

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I tried submitting C last minute but it lagged. Really annoying.

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WTF H1 & H2???????

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ruined my last cp contest of year

I hate game problem so much like it's unreal

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Does anyone use the same method as me in problem D?

Violent enumeration of numbers $$$1 \sim 575000$$$ squared, calculate the answer for $$$n \le 12$$$, and find that the number of answers for $$$n=11,12$$$ has exceeded $$$99$$$. Simply add an even number of zeros after these numbers.

Submission link

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    I did that as well, D feels more like an April first question than a div2. D

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    I used the fact that 31, 13 and 14 work for $$$n = 3$$$ and extended it with zeros, explained by the following example for $$$n = 7$$$:

    $$$1300, 1030, 1003, 3100, 3010, 3001, 1400$$$ (all squared)

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    violent enumeration lol

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      truly the best translation of 'brute force'

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Anyone else lose time trying to find the n = 7 case for D? I was stuck for 30 minutes until I brute-forced it...

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Problem H: Link (page 20)

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how tf do u do B

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    i returned lcm ,but if lcm<=b then multiply lcm by lowest prime factor of a/b and return. it worked for me hope it passes system tests

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      prove?

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        The smallest divisor of n is one. Next is a prime number p. Next may be other prime number q, or p^2. In first case a = n/q, b = n/p. gcd(a,b)=n/(pq) and lcm(a,b)=ab/gcd(a,b)=n. In second case a = n/p^2, b = n/p. lcm(a,b)=n/p=b. p = b / a, n = b * p.

        As you can see, b/a is a prime number in second case. It is unnecessary to check it.

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will it be unrated because of H.

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OMG H1&H2, doesn't any testers noticed the task is already exist?

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Can you guys tell me which topics or questions I need to work on to build intuition for problems like problem B

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The moon is beatiful, isn't it? But this contest is ...

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Did H leak?

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What is this D????

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How to solve B? Here is my code, it is getting wrong answer in 2nd test case......

void solve() { ll a, b; cin >> a >> b; if(a == 1) cout << b*b << '\n'; else if(a%2 == 0 || b%2 == 0) cout << b*2 << '\n'; else { bool f = 0; for(ll i = 3; i <= a; i+=2) { if(b%i == 0 && (b*i)%a == 0) { f = 1; cout << b*i << '\n'; break; } } if(!f) cout << a*b << '\n'; } }

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First 4 problems were really really bad. Bad problems for Good Bye 2023!

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very good guessforces, I have a good 2023!

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Squeezed H2 using $$$O(n\log^2n)$$$ FFT using AtCoder Library's implementation.

Hope that it doesn't FST.

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Pretest and problem statement for A were very bad, seems like a FORCED problem.

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Why in hell someone need to verify if I'm a human or not when only 15s is remaining in the contest?

How frustating it is to not being able to submit because of verfication?

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    THIS. THIS HAPPENED TO ME. I could not submit my code for C b/c of this. I am malding rn

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      Couldn't submit D. An already frustating contest wasn't frustating enough at the end of the year.