Greetings to you all!

A crisis is an opportunity in disguise! It's time for us to use the time we have at our hands. As we wait for things to get better, let's make the best use of this opportunity.

The CodeChef March Cook-off is coming up. And not forgetting about our Birthday Surprise, you stand to win Laddus, with double the chances. This signature serving from the CodeKitchen which promises a dose of eventful coding action.

So get ready for a delicious CookOff.

The problem statements of the contest will be available in English, Hindi, Bengali, Russian, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. Also if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in the CodeChef's contests, you can share them here: https://www.codechef.com/problemsetting/new-ideas.

The setter and tester panel for this round consists of following people :

• Setters : TheFallenOne (Hasin Rayhan Dewan Dhruboo), imAnik (Anik Sarker)

• Tester : raja1999 (Raja Vardhan Reddy)

• Editorialist : tmwilliamlin168 (William Lin)

• Statement Verifier: Xellos (Jakub Safin)

• Admin : teja349 (Teja Vardhan Reddy)

• Mandarin Translator: qingczha (Qingchuan Zhang)

• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI Songuku95 (Nguyen Duy Khanh)

• Russian Translator: Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinikov)

• Bengali Translator: solaimanope (Mohammad Solaiman)

• Hindi Translator: devils_code (Akash Srivastava)

I hope you will participate with your fellow programmers and enjoy the contest problems.

Contest Details:

• Time: 22nd March 2020 (2130 hrs) to 23rd March (00:00hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone.

• Contest link: http://www.codechef.com/COOK116

• Registration: You just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those who are interested and do not have a CodeChef handle, are requested to register in order to participate.
• Prizes: Top 10 Indian and top 10 Global school students from ranklist will receive certificates and CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. Know more here. Good Luck!
  Hope to see you participating!!
  Happy Programming!!

Hello Everyone!

I am honored to invite you all to August Circuits '19, an exciting contest with 8 amazing problems (7 algorithmic problems and 1 approximation problem). The contest will start on August 24, 15:30 UTC and will run for 7 days.

This time, the problems were prepared by me and imAnik (Anik Sarker). Thanks to Arpa (AmirReza PoorAkhavan) for testing the problems and helping us prepare the problems.

To make the challenge more interesting, problems added to the contest in this order:

• Day 0: Easy, Easy-Medium, Approximation.
• Day 1: Medium, Medium.
• Day 4: Medium-Hard, Medium-Hard.
• Day 6: Hard

As usual, there will be some nice prizes for the top five competitors:

• First place: $100 Amazon gift card + HE t-shirt.
• Second place: $75 Amazon gift card + HE t-shirt.
• Third place: $50 Amazon gift card + HE t-shirt.
• Fourth place: HE t-shirt.
• Fifth place: HE t-shirt.

Hope to see you at the scoreboard!

Good Luck & Have Fun.

Update 1 : Contest has ended. Now you can discuss the solutions. Editorials are ready. We have asked the hackerearth team to upload them. Please be patient.

Update 2 : As it's taking some time to upload the editorial to hackerearth, I am uploading it here. Please have a look and feel free to describe your approach.