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By nickbelov, 5 months ago, In English

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Hear ye, hear ye!

Thank you to everyone for participating in the onsite and online mirror!

And a special congratulations to asiad for winning the onsite with 13 solves on a team of only size 1!

Here are the solutions:

106197A - Hinge Arch

Solution

106197B - Partition Addition

Solution

106197C - Divisor Lattice

Solution

106197D - Thomas Trade

Solution

106197E - Connected Squares

Solution

106197F - XOR Sorting

Solution

106197G - Subsequence MEX II

Solution

106197H - World Emperor

Solution

106197I - Grid Coloring

Solution

106197J - Lattice Triangles

Solution

106197K - Chain of Suspicion

Solution

106197L - Not a Magic Square

Solution

106197M - Cube Embedding

Solution

106197N - Solvable Problem

Solution

106197O - Stringmas

Solution
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By nickbelov, history, 5 months ago, In English

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Hear ye, hear ye!

We are excited to invite you to participate in the open mirror of the Rutgers Programming Contest Fall 2025, which will start Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST (UTC-5).

The problems were prepared and authored by jdurie, nickbelov, nadya271, and ScalarField.

The contest is a 5-hour long ICPC-style team contest consisting of 15 problems. Team sizes can be anywhere from 1 to 3 people. Teams of more than one person are kindly requested to only use one computer for the contest. At least one of the problems will be interactive, so please read the guide if you are unfamiliar with them.

The contest can be found here: https://mirror.codeforces.com/contests/106197

We would like to thank:

Good luck, and we hope you enjoy the problems!

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By nickbelov, history, 12 months ago, In English

Thank you to everyone for participating! Here are the solutions.

105813A - Thomas

Solution

105813B - Stone Jump

Solution

105813C - Maxwell's Tiles

Solution

105813D - Distributive Property

Solution

105813E - 1D Super Checkers Solitaire

Solution

105813F - Walkable Strings

Solution

105813G - K-Regular Array

Solution

105813H - Cubist Painting

Solution

105813I - Unfair Game

Solution

105813J - Another Expected Value Problem

Solution

105813K - Pointers

Solution

105813L - Permutation Recovery

Solution

105813M - Subsequence MEX

Solution

105813N - Ramen Packs

Solution

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By nickbelov, history, 12 months ago, In English

Once again, the legendary problem-setting team at RUCP (Rutgers Competitive Programming) is holding a contest. We are excited to invite you all to participate in the open mirror of the Spring 2025 Rutgers Programming Contest! The contest will start Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).

The Spring Contest is a 5-hour long ICPC-style team contest consisting of 14 problems. Team sizes can be anywhere from 1 to 3 people. Teams of more than one person are kindly requested to only use one computer for the contest.

This contest was authored by jdurie, nickbelov, ScalarField, jim, and bobbilyking. We would also like to thank our sponsors, the Rutgers University Department of Computer Science and Wegmans Food Markets. Wegmans orz.

The contest can be found at this link.

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By nickbelov, history, 17 months ago, In English

Thanks to everyone who competed and congratulations to kg3209, screenl and lcyxds for winning the onsite and congratulations to serichaoo and ikaurov for winning the open!

You can gain access to the tutorials and find the original problems by entering the contest here.

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By nickbelov, history, 17 months ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!!!

We (the Rutgers University Competitive Programming Club) are happy to invite you all to compete in the online mirror of our fall semester programming contest. It's a 5h ICPC style team contest on Sunday, Nov 17th, 1pm EST with a difficulty level somewhere between regional level and NAC.

The contest was authored by jdurie, nickbelov, ScalarField, jim and bobbilyking orz

You may sign up here !!!!!!!!!!!!

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