Problem Difficulty

Правка en1, от solimm4sks, 2019-01-24 20:09:46

I have been noticing this for quite some time now, but I always just glossed over it. I figured it was nothing important so i didn't look into it, but now I'm wondering if anyone else noticed this or knows why this happens.

I have seen quite a few problems that seem to have a very high difficulty(sometimes same as Div2C / Div2D) even though they are Div2A. For example: https://mirror.codeforces.com/problemset/problem/518/A

This is a pretty easy problem and I just can't fathom why it would be the same difficulty (1600) as for example: https://mirror.codeforces.com/problemset/problem/570/C or even a Div2D!!: https://mirror.codeforces.com/problemset/problem/735/D

I have seen this happen more often for older contests, but I may be mistaken. I figured, maybe I could find a reasoning if I read more about how problem difficulties are calculated: https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/62865 but from this it seems like that you have to be an expert to have a >= 50% chance at solving the mentioned Div2A problem. What??

It doesn't really bother me all that much, I just wanted to share and am wondering if anyone stumbled upon such "high difficulty" problems and if you have any idea why their difficulty is so high.

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