We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s November Cook-Off, this Sunday, 22nd November, from 9:30 pm to 12:00 am IST. 2.5 hours, 5 problems.
Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.
Joining us on the problem setting panel are:
Setter: Sayantan shaanknight Jana, Nishant nishant403 Shah
Tester: Rahul amnesiac_dusk Dugar
Statement Verifier: Jakub Xellos Safin
Editorialist: Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh
Video Editorialists: Chirayu Chirayu Jain, Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Bharat Singla, Aryan Agarwala
Mandarin Translator: Qingchuan qingczha Zhang
Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI
Russian Translator: Fedor Mediocrity Korobeinikov
Bengali Translator: Mohammad solaimanope Solaiman
Hindi Translator: Akash devils_code Srivastava
Prizes: The top 10 Indian and top 10 Global participants will receive CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. Know more here.
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Good luck and have fun!
Gentle Reminder: Contest starts in ~150 minutes.
Unbalanced contest :(
Could have had a better difficulty gradient (C was much tougher than B, which made the contest speed forces), but other than that, nice contest.
speedchef*
Uh is it just me or did the contest length change to 3 hours?
Yeah
Ah, I reloaded the page a few minutes later and saw the announcement. I do find the addition of a problem during the contest to be rather sketchy though.
This is actually really bad management of codechef, no announcement whatsoever. Everywhere its still written 2.5 hour.
Div-1 was perfectly balanced as all things should be. Thanks for the round.
:P the Wikipedia page that was linked in the problem statement for Set Queries had the solution.
How to solve "Hiring Workers" ?
We can see that the lcm of all groups should be equal to x so we can first divide the number x into coprime factors such as x=(p1^c1)*(p2^c2)... where p1,p2.. are prime numbers now if k is greater than or equal to the the number of prime factors we assign the remaining groups as 1.
If k is less than the number of prime factors we can check by brute force as x cannot have more than 7 distinct prime factors and even if k is 6 we have to check 6^7 cases.
How in the world will someone know the upper cap is 7! You must be a genius to figure that out. Kudos.
Just multiply the smallest 8 prime numbers.
Thank you, that's really neat. I spent about 2 hours and I couldn't figure that out. I was trying to come up with a some greedy approach. This proves I'm dumb!
same I was using priority queue for 2 hours.
There's a way to do it using bitmask dp too (by iterating over submasks), in like P^2*3^P time or something (don't exactly remember the complexity), where P is the number of prime factors of X and P<=7.
Video editorials for 4 problems have been uploaded here. The other 3 videos will be uploaded over the next day or two.
For HIRINGWO can someone tell whether there was another approach other than brute force when $$$k$$$ was less than number of distinct prime factors? that was like $$$6^{8}$$$.
Also for KDIAMS do we make graph with diameter 2 only no?
"Also for KDIAMS do we make graph with diameter 2 only no" ==> you can also have a complete graph which will have diameter as 1.
oh that is the special case
In hiring workers problem, I find a pair of least sum and having LCM x and then added k-2(k-2 groups having only 1 worker) to sum of pair. what went wrong in my approach? Somebody please help
What is your answer for $$$(k, x) = (3, 30)$$$?
Nice problem set but too many observation related problems :(
https://youtu.be/nTAQi-7fd1E made a video on Hiring workers. Give it a watch if you are stuck.