Number theory in problem setting

Revision en1, by neitoroxin, 2026-01-29 13:51:13

In the last few years, there have been significantly fewer problems involving mathematics and number theory. I don't understand why this is happening, as there always seemed to be plenty of mathematicians in the competitive programming community. Perhaps problem-setters think that problems involving numbers have trivial code, but sometimes, using number-theoretic methods, interesting and non-trivial optimizations can be achieved.

Tags math, problem setter, number theory

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