Thanks for participating!
2066D1 - Club of Young Aircraft Builders (easy version)
2066D2 - Club of Young Aircraft Builders (hard version)
Thanks for participating!
2066D1 - Club of Young Aircraft Builders (easy version)
2066D2 - Club of Young Aircraft Builders (hard version)
Hello again, Codeforces!
I am glad to invite you to Codeforces Round 1004 (Div. 1), Codeforces Round 1004 (Div. 2), at Feb/11/2025 17:35 (Moscow time).
In Division 1 you will be offered $$$6$$$ problems. In Division 2 you will be offered $$$7$$$ problems. One of the problems in Div.1 will be divided into 2 subtasks. Round duration is set to be 2 hours.
Also, both divisions contain at least one interactive problem(s), so be prepared for those! Guide for interactive problems
I would like to thank,
FairyWinx for dedicated coordination, a lot of problemset discussion, and suggesting one of the problems idea.
Our testers: Dart-Xeyter, teraqqq, RP-1, larush, Wansur, furt1ve, Iura_Shch, SomethingNew, Gabbasov, glllll, domovonok, Error_Yuan, Monogon, triple__a, evjeny_23, Blinov_Artemii, LeoPro, antontrygubO_o, A_G, N_z__, mainyutin for testing and providing feedback.
MikeMirzayanov, KAN for Polygon and Codeforces platforms.
As always, we hope you will like the problems. Have fun!
Score Distribution:
Div. 1: $$$750$$$ — $$$750$$$ — $$$1250$$$ — ($$$750$$$ + $$$1250$$$) — $$$2000$$$ — $$$3000$$$
Div. 2: $$$500$$$ — $$$1000$$$ — $$$1250$$$ — $$$1750$$$ — $$$1750$$$ — $$$2250$$$ — $$$3000$$$
UPD: Editorial
UPD2: We sincerely regret to inform you that we have discovered a bug in the interactor. A series of tests is currently underway to assess the full impact of this issue. Once we have the results, we will provide a detailed update. We deeply apologize for this incident and any inconvenience it may have caused.
UPD3: After the analysis, it was determined that this problem affected a small number of participants. There are no submissions that get AC with the correct interactor and erroneously received a non-AC verdict earlier. Therefore, the following decision was made:
If your solution worked with the old interactor, but does not work with the correct one and your rating has decreased, then the round will be unrated for you.
UPD4: Congratulations to the winners!
Div.1:
Also, special thanks and congratulations to rainboy for being one and only one solving problem F in division 1!
Div.2:
Big greetings, Codeforces!
I am happy to invite you to Codeforces Round 908 (Div. 1), Codeforces Round 908 (Div. 2), which will be held on Nov/07/2023 17:35 (Moscow time).
This round will be rated for everyone. In both divisions, you will be given 5 problems and 120 minutes to solve them. All problems were cooked by me (sevlll777).
The traditional thanks-list to everyone who took part in the creation of the round. Thanks,
74TrAkToR for incredible coordination!
gzchenben, Gary2005, SomethingNew, Sugar_fan, FairyWinx, EternalAlexander, RUSH_D_CAT, rsj, Kieray, CtrlAlt, Vladithur, nnv-nick, AndZhi, p_b_p_b, Adam_GS, tem_shett, 127.0.0.1, a.nasretdinov, Suiseiseki, Aokana, noimi, Psychotic_D for testing the round.
CtrlAlt for help with polishing the statements.
MikeMirzayanov for Polygon and Codeforces platforms.
I hope you will like the problemset and ideas hidden in the problems! It's guaranteed that statements are understandable, short, and, of course, ✨ stylish ✨.
Have fun!
Score Distribution:
Div. 1: $$$500$$$ — $$$1000$$$ — $$$1250$$$ — $$$2250$$$ — $$$2750$$$
Div. 2: $$$500$$$ — $$$750$$$ — $$$1500$$$ — $$$2000$$$ — $$$2250$$$
UPD: Editorial
UPD2: Congrats to the chAAAmpions!
Div.1:
Div.2:
I'm very very sorry to all Div2 participants for unclearness in statement of A, and not including notes in the statement of B, hope it didnt ruined a contest for you. Thank you all for participating, I hope you enjoyed non-empty subset of the problems! You can rate the problems of the round in the corresponding spoilers.
Thanks for joining the contest!
1872B - The Corridor or There and Back Again
1872D - Plus Minus Permutation
Hello Codeforces! Codeforces Round 895 (Div. 3) will start at Sep/07/2023 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be offered 7 problems with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. However, all of you who wish to take part and have a rating of 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially.
The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ICPC). Thus, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests during the round, and after the round, it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks.
You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours and 15 minutes to solve them.
Note that the penalty for wrong submission in this round is 10 minutes.
Remember, that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as a trusted participant of the third division, you must:
Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.
Problems have been created and prepared by: Alexdat2000, FairyWinx, sevlll777, Vladosiya, и MikeMirzayanov.
We would also like to thank:
Good luck!
UPD: Editorial
Hello Codeforces!
I am happy to invite you to Codeforces Round 860 (Div. 2), which will be held on Mar/26/2023 17:35 (Moscow time).
This round will be rated for participants with rating lower than 2100. Participants with a higher rating are invited to participate in the round unofficially.
You will be given 6 problems and 120 minutes to solve them. All problems were authored and prepared by me.
The traditional thanks-list to everyone who took part in the creation of the round:
🤴 DishonoredRighteous for coordinating the round
🐞 gyh20 for black-red testing of the round
😈 feecIe6418, iakovlev.zakhar, Dart-Xeyter, Adam_GS, ShuiLaoshi, golikovnik, Gary2005 for red testing of the round
🐫 NemanjaSo2005, Alexdat2000, Kon567889, tem_shett for orange testing of the round
👾 SlavicG, Psychotic_D for purple testing of the round
🐳 C2A, Masha237, ayhan23, Dhru008, Brahma_tet for blue testing of the round
👽 Lord_David for green testing of the round
🦄 mejiamejia for help with testers for the round
🤡 sevlll777 for the problem, without which the round would be unbalanced, and the problems that were not included in the final problemset
🎅 MikeMirzayanov for the amazing Codeforces and Polygon platforms
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I sincerely hope that you will find the problems interesting and you will enjoy solving them. Good luck!
Score Distribution:
500 — 750 — 1250 — 1750 — 2250 — 3000
UPD: Editorial
UPD2: Congrats CHAMPIONS!
Unofficially:
Officially:
First AC:
A: nifek
B: p0tato
C: p0tato
D: aryan12
E: NaughtyMorzh
F: zihouzhong
Thank you all for participating, I hope you enjoyed the problems! You can rate the problems of the round in the corresponding spoilers.
1798F - Gifts from Grandfather Ahmed
Thank you for participating, we hope you enjoyed the problems! We kindly ask you to rate each of the round's problems in the corresponding spoiler in order to improve the quality of future contests.
You can also check video editorials of problems B and C on competitive__programmer Youtube channel.
All problems were prepared by Alexdat2000 with the help of coauthors.
1634A - Reverse and Concatenate
Idea: sevlll777
1634B - Fortune Telling
Idea: crazyilian and antontrygubO_o
1634C - OKEA
Idea: sevlll777
1634D - Finding Zero
Idea: sevlll777
1634E - Fair Share
Idea: sevlll777
1634F - Fibonacci Additions
Idea: Mangooste
Hi!
Today I was surfing Wikipedia and came across this article — Palindromic prime
This article says that the largest known palindromic prime is $$$10^{474500}$$$ + $$$999 * 10^{237249} + 1$$$.
Well it is easy to see that this number is palindrome, but... why is it prime?
I don't find any proof, and I am really curios — how to proof that this number is prime, when number is quite big?
DISCLAIMER: sorry for my poor english, hope you can understand this text :)
Hello!
Firstly: Codeforces is a beautiful platform, sure.
In my mind hacks became useless. Why? Ok, see:
Many easy problems (D1AB/D2ABCD) are "multitest" problems. It is really hard to hack them, because pretests are very strong. But what if I want to hack some hard problems? Hm, i tried to hack some hard problems, but in div2 rooms are very small, and i discovered that there were only 2-3 people who solved some hard problems.
Anyway, i saw that EvenImage in one of his screencasts was very annoyed about it too.
But if i will try to hack D2B for example, i would find roughly 10 people, and the chance of succes hack is very small, so it is useless to spend time on it.
So, it is really hard to hack someone, and we can see that the quantity of hacks is very small in some previous rounds!
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What is my solution? Ok, lets make rooms bigger from 40 to 80.
What you think about it? Share your opinion in comments.