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What are your tricks and tips for National Olympiads?
By tourist1331, history, 19 hours ago, In English

I’m not looking for "use fastio" or "use long long" advice—everyone knows that. I want the real magic.

I mean do you have tips like "in those type of problems you should think that" .

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remove 1331 from your handle.

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    no

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interactive problem = binary search

Geometry = skip

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    i almost got on the ioi team because of a geometry problem (where the only geometry was "reflect a point across a line") so if the geometry is simple it's actually a pretty good way to get a lot of points that most people will skip

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      Correct me if i´m wrong (I am not very good at this codeforces thing) but wouldn´t you just multiply the given point (X and Y) by -1 to get the inversed point across the line y=x? I´m unsure on given constraints and input formats but it seems rather simple for a question that could qualify IOI teams.

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