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By iron_nicko, history, 16 months ago, In English

Question :

Find the minimum amount of Prefix-Strings
needed to make string B from the given list of strings A.

Input :

4
abc ka efgh k
efghkabc

Output: 3

Constraints:

1 <= N <= 100
1 <= |A| <= 100
1 <= |A[i]| <= 100
1 <= |B| <= 100
My Code

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By iron_nicko, history, 17 months ago, In English

This question confused me during the contest. I thought maybe if I go till $$$1e6$$$ I should be fine, but I got a TLE, no surprises. Then I optimized the code using two pointers, added in some memoization, and prime factors, and tried again with $$$1e6$$$, It failed no surprise. By this time I realized maybe if I tried the "normal" way till $$$1e4$$$ should work and I got accepted.

But "craziness" started after the contest when I tried to submit my optimized code with a limit of $$$1e4$$$, and to my surprise it passed and it was faster than the C++ submission! Curiously, I increased the limit to $$$1e5$$$ and it passed again but it was pretty close to a TLE.

Exhibit: 216349728

I tried to explain what I have done, but if somebody could help me point out how this code could run even till $$$1e5$$$ I'd appreciate it.

Explained Code: 216355374

Please excuse my English :}

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By iron_nicko, history, 17 months ago, In English

214876910

This is just unfair that my PyPy submission got TLE! Can this be reviewed?

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By iron_nicko, history, 23 months ago, In English

Hey, I know the contest was postponed, but I was trying to solve this question:

Question:

Consider the integer sequence A[], where the elements are first N natural numbers in order.

You are now given two integers, L and S. Determine whether there exists a subarray with length L and sum S after removing at most one element from A.

A subarray of an array is a non-empty sequence obtained by removing zero or more elements from the front of the array, and zero or more elements from the back of the array.
1 <= N <= 10^9
1 <= L <= N - 1

I came up with something like this:

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Test Cases with the answers:

3
5 3 11 # YES
5 3 5 # NO
5 3 6 # YES

My code seems to pass the initial test cases, but I'd like to know if this will work for all cases. Please let me know if this is correct.

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