Hello, Codeforces!

We are happy to invite you to TheForces Round #44 (DIV3.5-Forces), which will take place on Aug/22/2025 17:35 (Moscow time)

You will have 135 minutes to solve 8 problems.

One of the problems may be interactive. So, please refer to the guide on interactive problems if you are unfamiliar with them.

Note: Some problems have occurred in OCPC Fall 2024 (https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/130557) and the testing phase of Codeforces Round #1040. If you have participated in it, you should not participate in this contest.

The round is TheForces rated! After the round you can find your rating changes here.

Prizes: The participant in the $$$i$$$th place will receive $$$2^{3-i}$$$ dollars $$$(1 \leq i \leq 3)$$$ as a prize. In addition, we will randomly select $$$\lfloor \frac{p}{30} \rfloor$$$ lucky participants and give each of them $$$1$$$ dollar as a prize, where $$$p$$$ is the number of participants. Please actively participate :)

For more details about TheForces prize, read the above spoiler and join TheForces!

• The problems are authored by wuhudsm, am_I_Newbie, Davy_D._Kaosar, Muhammad-Ahmad.

• We would like to thank our army of testers:

Ming_Xu, xksark ,wakanda-forever, simplelife, catologistics, rnishu12, Sultan404, sanju77, grecil, Messi10TheGOAT, frostcat

• Also we want to thank You for participating in our round.

In other exciting news:

• We've just launched our official Telegram channel! We invite you to join us there as well, so we can expand our community and conquer Telegram alongside Codeforces and Discord! 💪

Discord Server ($$$2500+$$$ members)

TheForces website

Contests' archive

UPD $$$1$$$: Editorial

UPD $$$2$$$: Congrats for the winners!

1. potato167

2. turkhuu622

3. -firefly-

And a lucky user

nikhileswar1026

(pls DM wuhudsm for your prizes :) )