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Unable to understand why my output is wrong ;)
By Geekarka, history, 4 hours ago, In English

Hello all, I'm Geekarka and I got wrong answer on pretest 2 11th testcase in my 271612109 for the problem 1990B - Array Craft of Codeforces Round 960 (Div. 2). The testcase is 5 2 1 (n=5, x=2, y=1). My output is 1 1 -1 -1 -1. The correct answer is 1 1 -1 1 -1. I will be very grateful if someone helps me understand this. Thank you.

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you can check for your solution y=5

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it's logical error basically you are making array from index y to x as 1 and set remaining to -1 however this is a wrong idea I give you a example consider input n=11,x=7,y=6 the array will be [-1 -1 -1 -1 -1 1 1 -1 -1 -1 -1] the max prefix position will be 1 and max suffix position will be 11 because -1 is the maximum cumulative sum you can get from 1 to n or n to 1 which doesn't satisfice the input

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