Hello all! I have another contest to share with you all.

Abakoda was an initiative by NOI.PH (the Philippines' olympiad) to run a series of beginner-friendly weekly contests, which ultimately culminated in a long contest. Contestants were given a little under 10 days to solve 13 problems. We have decided to share these problems with the general Codeforces community.

Actually, these problems have been publicly available in the gym since December of last year (hence the "2023" Long Contest), but I forgot to make a blog post "advertising" it, so no one has really touched the problems in the public Gym :^( I hope you check out these problems though, I worked very hard on them! Towards the end of December, we will be running the 2024 Abakoda Long contest, so stay tuned for that!

I feel very strongly that good beginner contests are required in order to lower the barrier to competitive programming. And I'm once again quite proud of the set that I ended up writing! The problems should be approachable for beginners... but that said, I think there are a handful of problems that more experienced contestants might find interesting anyway ;)

The contest link is here: https://mirror.codeforces.com/gym/104887

Enjoy!

Thanks to kevinsogo for helping me set one of the problems. Art, this year, is by the wonderful rairay