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By dyps, 10 years ago, In English

Hello Coders,

The November edition of 101 Hack is here. This time we have 5 interesting challenges lined up for you. The contest commences on 29th Nov 2014 at 13:30 UTC, and will run for 2 hours. You can sign up for the contest here.

The problem statements will be available in English, Russian and Chinese.

The problem statements will be available in English, Russian and Chinese.
Top 10 on leaderboard get cool HackerRank T Shirts
Books for individual challenge-leaderboard toppers

Problem Setter
Sergey Kulik

Problem Testers
dyps
wanbo
Gerald

Please try all problems, Editorials will be available at the end of contest.

GL&HF

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Sorry but I can't stand that bold HackerRank T Shirts.

I placed in top 10 3 times yet received the prize only once. I used to think Indian contest organizers never sent away the prizes they were supposed to do (there was a time when I won some money, they even emailed me for my contact and bank account details). Then the first time I got a t-shirt from HackerRank (which was delivered quite fast after the contest), my lost faith was restored a bit.

But now, it has gone from bad to worse.

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    Hi @flashmt,

    can you please mail your details to dheeraj@hackerrank.com and hackers@hackerrank.com ? We will process any pending t-shirt shipments to you immediately.

    Extremely sorry for causing any inconvenience.

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    I see that the previous t-shirt shipments were not processed. I will be sending out a form asap.

    I am extremely sorry!

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    I have sent the t-shirt link to you. Please check.

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      I have received it. Thanks for your quick response.

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    Hackerrank is not so bad in giving prizes. At least, I wrote a complaint and they solved the issue fast. But Codechef never sends a t-shirt for me. I have won 2 t-shirts and have written to them 3 times and I still haven't received a t-shirt :D Therefore, I agree that the fact about Indian contests and prizes is true generally.

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      Same here, i received all the hackerrank t-shirts but still did not received couple of from codechef.

      For codechef, each prize mail includes "contact us if you have any prizes which did not received" but i never managed get respond from codechef :(.

      I think they are just sending mails automatically and that's it :)

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I already mentioned it in the other thread and mailed hackers@hackerrank.com about it (I know it's been read, I have mail tracking): it overlaps again, with COCI this time. In fact, Hackerrank contests overlap so much that it has to be intentional.

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    Hi Xellos,

    extremely sorry about this. We assure you that it was never intentional. We will try our best to make sure that the contest doesn't not clash going forward. We have a list of problem setter whose opinion we ask before we set a time for a given contest, COCI was missed out.

    It was never intentional. Infact, you can see that we are not clashing any more with SRMs for the past 2-3 months.

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what does unrooted labeled tree mean? on the fourth task;

i mean how one does define two different trees?

Thnx;