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what is square-order tree DP?
By Sanat, history, 5 months ago, In English

I was practising a question from Atcoder abc287 f, while reading the editorial for this problem, I encountered something called "square-order tree DP" due to it, by doing a process, which seems O(n^3) at first glance is actually O(n^2) they had linked a blog about it, but it is in Japanese, and I wasn't able to find a relevant resource related to it, in English, if someone, can help me find a relevant resource, or explain why the process is O(n^2) it would be very helpful.

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"Sqrt Tree — Algorithms for Competitive Programming" https://cp-algorithms.com/data_structures/sqrt-tree.html This may help, although I understand nothing from this but I get it that it square roots the number of operations or something like that. Check it out

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    thanks for your effort, but it is unrelated to what I asked

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One of the first problems most people saw with this technique is probably https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/815/problem/C. Also, https://usaco.guide/adv/comb-sub has a brief explanation and a set of problems with using this.

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    Thanks!!! I read the reason, it is indeed very elegant why it is O(n^2), no heavy calculations and only simple reasoning to arrive at it

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If I understand it correctly, then an English resource is here (section 7).

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    Thanks!!!, it is very useful, I was looking for something like this, nice explanation, I also found some more interesting things related to it in comments of your blog.

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