i was trying to solve this problem and i got tle on test 12
why ?
https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/939/submission/277938020
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i was trying to solve this problem and i got tle on test 12
why ?
https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/939/submission/277938020
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There are two likely cases here:
Your binary search never terminates
You used more than 7 query (I think this is likely since you're doing ternary search wrong)
You have in your code
while(l <= r)
. This loop will never end.