Time complexity

Revision en3, by EternalFire, 2018-10-13 11:00:44

Hi,

so far I have known that the time complexity for concatenating two strings is O(n). So

while (a.length() < b.length()) a = "0" + a;

is O(n^2). But it still passed the TL: http://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/1066/submission/44198754

I am wondering why it passed. Could anyone help me?

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