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USACO 2019-2020 Third Contest
By xiaowuc1, 5 years ago, In English

Hi all,

The third contest of the 2019-2020 USACO season will be running from February 21st to February 24th. Good luck to everyone! Please wait until the contest is over for everyone before discussing problems here.

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Excited for USACO as always! Wish everyone good luck :)

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Do you have an exact time when we can discuss this contest?

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    5 years ago, # ^ |
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    4pm UTC (11am EST) on Tuesday, if I calculated correctly.

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Has the contest finiished so that we can discuss the problems?

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How to solve all problems in platinum?

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Notes:

What's the answer for N=1 in DELEG (Plat)?

O(knlogn) requires a bit of optimization to pass for HELP (Plat)?

Plat sols:

DELEG
TRIANGLES
HELP

Trash 2:28 AK Screencast

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    'Trash'

    The video is private I think

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      I think that a lot of people AKed much faster than I did, for example you can look at 300iq's screencast where he AKs in 1:23

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    "What's the answer for N=1 in DELEG (Plat)?"

    Clearly it should be INT_MAX :D

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    For DELEG: For the root, you can simply ignore the circumstance of dp[root] = 0 if you pick a leave as root.

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How to solve problem HELP(gold)?

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    Answer = ∑ ( 2^(n-1-the number of the segments which cover l[i] ) )

    Use segment tree you can pass in O(nlogn).

    But I don't how to solve HELP in Plat with this Idea.

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I think problem P1 is particularly similar to China's NOIP2018 D1T3.

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Will 710.4 be enough to pass gold?

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    Im guessing cutoff is not going to be like 750+, since 2 of the problems were kind of hard. But honestly, it seems like contestants are getting smarter nowadays so it is quite difficult to predict.

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      I think this month's cutoff was similar to last month's difficulty so I'm crossing my fingers that cutoff will be the same.

      By the way, how many days does it usually take for the results to come out?

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When will USACO be releasing results?

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