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1881A - Не пытайтесь посчитать

Идея: Vladosiya

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1881B - Три паутинки

Идея: Gornak40

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1881C - Идеальный квадрат

Идея: myav, MikeMirzayanov, Vladosiya

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1881D - Уравняй делением

Идея: myav

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1881E - Блоковая последовательность

Идея: MikeMirzayanov

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1881F - Минимальное максимальное расстояние

Идея: senjougaharin

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1881G - Аня и таинственная строка

Идея: Gornak40

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Разбор задач Codeforces Round 903 (Div. 3)
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I just have a question: Why is the algorithm for F correct? What's the intuition behind it?

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    Its like diameter of the tree and you want to get a point in the middle of it you can say as a centroid

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      Yes, I know, but we essentially don't care about which nodes are marked and which ones are not.

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        Assume the tree is rooted at a marked node. If you are at the deepest marked node on a branch and move further down that branch it will increase the distances to all marked nodes by 1 (meaning the value of that node will be greater than the marked node you came from). You can therefore remove any nodes past the deepest marked node on each branch. From this it follows that you have a tree where all the leaves are marked and at that point it's the standard algorithm for finding the largest distance from a leaf.

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          can't we do it with rerooting?

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            I actually did it with rerooting, with lazy segment tree. You can check out my submission 227869909 .

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              There is no need for a lazy segment tree to do the rerooting.

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              My rerooting with prefix and suffix sum. It is really a bit too more complicated, so I missed the first AK in div 3 (got AC after the contest 12min later, because of a little afraid of TLE by NodeJS). https://codeforces.net/contest/1881/submission/227927645

              The first DFS will calculate 3 kinds of values,

              • dp[u], the max length from u to a marked node under u's subtree

              • prefix[u][j], the max length from u to a marked node under u's [0,j] children's subtree

              • suffix[u][j], the max length from u to a marked node under u's [j,] children's subtree

              The second DFS is rerooting. For each u, its answer can be calculated by two parts,

              • dp[u], to nodes under u's subtree

              • out, to nodes not under u's subtree

              When rerooting from u to v, out is updated by 3 parts. All of them should increase 1 if necessary.

              • u's out

              • u itself

              • max(prefix[u][j-1], suffix[u][j+1]), with v is u's jth child

              Hope above can help you improve understanding of rerooting, even this problem is not the best application to be solved.

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    F can also be done in a similar fashion to Tree Distances

    Submission for Tree Distances

    Solution for CF: 227871270

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      Exactly! Problem F can be considered as the special case of this one. 227869702 Here's mine with a slightly different approach.

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      Can you please explain this part in your code

      		if(!distante.empty() && (distante.back()).second == vecin)
      		{
      			if(distante.size() >= 2)
      			{
      				int poz = distante.size() - 2;
      				dfs2(nod, vecin, max(dist, distante[poz].first) + 1);
      			}
      			else
      				dfs2(nod, vecin, dist + 1);
      		}
      		else
      			if(!distante.empty())	
      				dfs2(nod, vecin, max(distante.back().first, dist) + 1);
      			else
      				dfs2(nod, vecin, dist + 1);
      
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        Yes, this code is one of my older ones where I used Romanian names for various variables

        distance = distances, an array which stores for each vertex the maximum distances to leaves vecin = next node (literal translation is neighbor) nod = node

        Basically if you have at least two children, you don't want to visit the same path which gave you the best answer, I have a video where I explain this in more detail.

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      278260829

      can you please help why this solution of mine fails. I tried to implement the method explained in your video

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    I mean this finding longest chain is quite common(at least i saw some of them before in div 3) Also I first found out the longest chain trick here(hard problem): https://oj.uz/problem/view/CEOI21_newspapers

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"the author is lazy"

Pretty obvious from the way this editorial is written

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For problem 1881F - Minimum Maximum Distance , can someone please tell the proof why it is always true to consider the longest distance between the labelled vertex and then divide it by 2 then take ceil of it.

After considering some examples it becomes somehow convincing but not very intutive about why that condition will always be true.

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    Define $$$dist(i,j)$$$ as the distance between node $$$i$$$ and node $$$j$$$.

    Assume that there are $$$3$$$ labelled vertices $$$a,b,c$$$ and $$$(a,b)$$$ is the pair that creates longest distance from two labelled vertices. To find the node position that makes the minimum value of maximum distance to either $$$a$$$ or $$$b$$$, ofc we choose the node (call this node $$$d$$$) that resides in the middle of the path from $$$a$$$ to $$$b$$$ (since if without loss of generality we assume $$$dist(d,a) \leq dist(d,b)$$$, then $$$dist(d,b) = \bigg\lceil\frac{dist(a,b)}{2}\bigg\rceil$$$ is the maximum from both and this is the min value of $$$dist(d,b)$$$).

    Now, suppose $$$dist(d,c) > \max(dist(d,a),dist(d,b))$$$. Then, the longest distance from two labelled vertices must be the pair $$$(c,a)$$$ or $$$(c,b)$$$ (since $$$dist(d,c)+dist(d,b) > dist(d,a)+dist(d,b)$$$ and $$$dist(d,c)+dist(d,a) > dist(d,b)+dist(d,a)$$$) which results in contradiction.

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C was the coolest one and it's not even close

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    bruh I felt that G was much more interesting than all the problems(despite me tryping 11 attempts to AC G)

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Starters were bad(ABC) but the main course was good(DEF) but i am not able to understand the bill(editorial)

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    tru, i dont really enjoy ABC this round. DE was kinda meh for me. FG was quite interesting to play around with

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      can you explain to me why in E we are updating dp[i] as

      dp[i]=min(dp[i+1]+1,dp[i+a[i]+1]) and not as

      dp[i]=min(dp[i+1]+1,dp[i+a[i]+1+j]+j) for all j st i+a[i]+1+j<n indexing from 0.

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        Depends on how you define your DP. My design was that dp[i] = minimum removals I can have after considering all the values from [i, n — 1].

        Case 1: We don't take the current index.

        That means that we will need to remove this index. So, dp[i] = min(dp[i], dp[i + 1] + 1).

        Case 2: Take the current block.

        That means that we will need to remove all the values from [i, i + a[i] + 1]. So, dp[i] = min(dp[i], dp[i + a[i] + 1]). Need to make sure it is not out of bound. You can only end up at i + a[i] + 1, nowhere else.

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          I am saying that when you take the current block, it means you will take a[i] number of elements with you and then consider the next block. So I am saying that we pop some more values before taking the a[i] values and it can land us an even better solution. Thats y i am checking for all j possible

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            From the definition of my DP state, we know that dp[i] is the minimum removals after considering [i, n — 1] so that means that even if you check all j's, it has been it has been considered in dp[i+a[i]+1] already

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Task D

If we assumed 1s can calculate 10^8 times, but in the worst condition(all a are equal to 999983), it will judge near 2000(t)*10^4(n)*10^3 times. Would it TLE?

I am a novice and thank you for your generous advice and point out my mistakes.

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https://ideone.com/lyUPEZ

problem F c++ BFS code: why RTE on test 3 ???

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    Ok let me show some potential improvements of your code:

    Why you are wrong: You missed out the corner case (n=1) where deg[1]=0 meaning your "start" is undefined and therefore shows runtime error. Meanwhile, the solution is wrong(after I tested it with the fixed code).

    Data Structures used: You dont need to push the k values into a set instead use a boolean vector or smt. set requires O(nlogn) which means you will waste precious time if you are using set.

    Your code checks if the root is in the set and the adjacent elements as well, you can generalise it by putting it after int node=q.front(); q.pop(); if(bla bla bla) mdis.push_back(...). You can save some lines of code.

    You can try learning how to write functions such as function<void(int)> bfs=[&](int root){ code here}; this allows you to write the function inside your main fucntion where you dont need to pass all the arrays and stuff. You can access it inside the function. This should save you some implementation time as well.

    Your code is not very clean (for a guy like me), therefore hard to read. I saw some parts of the code that has strange spacing. I used to be a template monster with around 400 lines of templates, but I find it hard to debug if I write a code with lots of shortforms(for some reason). I recommend spending sometime either looking at other people's code and learning a neater way of writing it. I'm not pinelizing you, just giving some personal suggestions

    Neater and fixed code(although it is wrong): Sorry that I deleted the front part of your code.

    code is here: https://ideone.com/fN9WEY

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I lost the top 150 due to hacking task D :(

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Simple and insightful Video Editorials for A-E.

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Why is my code for incorrect? I feel like it closely resembles the intended idea. It's prob D. Please help me My code

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For F, It's always better to re-construct the tree like this.

Tree

It's related to tree diameter (I guess there's no formal proof but this blog will help Blog)

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Can anyone please explain how does D solution works? Can't able understand how counting frequency of prime divisors gives our answer.

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    Let's use two ideas:

    1) Every number can be represented as a product of prime numbers (= prime divisors). This is known as factorization.

    2) If two numbers are equal, they have the same set of prime divisors.

    So, the operation in the problem allows you to "take" one prime divisor from a[i] and "give" it to a[j].

    If, after doing this operation several times, we can rearrange the divisors so that every number in the array has the same set of divisors, then the answer is YES.

    To check that this is possible, we can simply count the number of occurrences of each divisor in the products.

    For example, consider test case 4:

    4

    30 50 27 20

    30 = 2 * 3 * 5

    50 = 2 * 5 * 5

    27 = 3 * 3 * 3

    20 = 2 * 2 * 5

    We have four occurrences of "5", four occurrences of "3" and four occurrences of "2". By doing the operation several times, we can turn each number into 2*3*5.

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Only AC 1 problem... f**k me

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If someone prefers video explanations or interested in knowing how to think in a live contest or reach to a particular solution.
Here is my live Screencast of solving problems [A -> E] (with detailed commentary in Hindi language).

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Can G solved with sqrt-decomposition?, I'm getting WA2 Code

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    I think it shoud be fine, WA means your code has some errors not TLE. But im pretty sure if your code has a large constant factor with sqrt-decomposition, your code might TLE

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      Yup I know, I just wanted tye TLE verdict not the WA one to make sure that my idea is correct.

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        Erm i also got many wa2(you can see from my submissions) I had many WA2 because I even pushed l into my valid answers when s[l-2]==s[l] but actually its invalid. If l is in the set meaning s[l]==s[l+2]. So check if your program has valid answers correctly. Also similarly for r with r+1 and r+2. r-1 with r+1.

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          It's TLE now, the solution was right but I forgot a case $$$(i+1,i-1)$$$ when jumping by $$$sqrt$$$ size 228099350

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            Yeah I also missed the cases and kept on getting wa for like 10 times

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the editorial is short and to the point!!

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Problem F solutions are based on the tree diameter, It takes some greedy proofs but in the end you can convert the problem to a direct tree diameter problem. Here's a blog

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What does question C mean? please help me

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    erm C is actually straightforward. Turning 90 degrees clockwise is not hard to understand. One operation actually just mean that you turn one cell's values to the next alphabet (a->b).

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Any one Feels that this contest was not for Div.3 ?

It seems to be Harder :(

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How do I solve 1881G - Anya and the Mysterious String with Segment tree using Lazy propogation? This is what I've done 227967016, I haven't used Lazy propogation and it's TLE. Thank you in advance.

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    I guess its pretty obvious but let me just repeat the obervations:

    1. You only need to keep track of palindromes of size 2 and 3 only. pairs exist like this: (i,i+2), (i,i+1). Now since we do +x to every element in a range, we need to do range add(I used fenwick tree but lazy segment tree is also fine).

    2. Hence we can store possible elements that has pairs (i,i+1), (i,i+2). Note : We store i not i+1, or i+2.

    3. We only need to update (l-1,l) (l-1,l+1), (l-2,l), (r-1,r+1), (r,r+1) and (r,r+2) since the elements in range [l,r] is not changed.

    4. Store the indexes in a set, binary search to find if right end<=r

    Now you have finished the problem~~~

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Why this code doesn't work for problem D?

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Could someone explain me the E? How to think the dp which from right to left

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    Let us say we have block: 2 3 4 5 2 1 1

    We can see that if we choose a[0], we continue with array 5 2 1 1

    Meaning, its possible to make it into smaller subtasks: use dynammic programming.

    We can see that if we want the minimum value for dp[0], we need to find dp[0+a[0]+1]=dp[3]

    But we know, we cannot choose a block of 5. Hence, dp[3]=dp[4]+1.

    Then we can see that either dp[i]=min(dp[i+1]+1,dp[i+a[i]+1])

    Does that make sense? Ill explain further if that is not clear enough

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      i have a small question i used to solve dp by thinking bottom up and extending the problem (for example the subset sum problem [(Previous SUM)(Extended Number)] and now i can solve it by checking the previous state) however in this problem i failed to find a bottom up solution :(

      you should start with the whole problem then break it down (Top Down Approach)

      the question: are there certain problems which can be solved by only one of the 2 approaches?

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        I actually understand dp as a breakingdown of subtasks, where you have the dp states as the stuff you need to record down for that each subtask.

        Tbh, I actually dont really think in the form of top down or bottom up? I would just think how the subtask can come from. The number of states of the dp would be determined by yourself, so its all good as long as you define it right.

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I feel it was really a nice contest for anyone starting out on cp in the sense that it offers a good mix of adhoc and dsa

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Имеется вопрос. Как я понимаю, на этом раунде задачи сразу проверяются на всех тестах. Тогда почему через день после раунда вердикт задачи B с "Полного решения" поменялся на "Неверный ответ на тесте 18"? Типа добавили новые тесты на некоторые задачи?

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f can be solved using dp Let define d(v) as the max distance from vertex v to a labeled vertex in its subtree and define g(v) as the max distance from vertex v to a labeled vertex which is not in the subtree of v then d(v)=max(d(child of v)+1), g(v)=max(g(parent of v)+1,d(sibling of v) + 2) then f(v)=max(d(v),g(v))

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F is similar to

The only change is to fix the end points of the diameter as RED nodes.

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I did rerooting for F, would've gotten top 100 or something but I had to have a typo that I didn't see

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I have two nicer(?) solutions than the official ones.

B: Suppose everything has length $$$l$$$ in the end. Then $$$l \mid A$$$, $$$l \mid B$$$, $$$l \mid C$$$ (proof: run the splitting apart in reverse). This is also sufficient, and uses $$$\frac{A}{l} + \frac{B}{l} + \frac{C}{l} - 3$$$ operations. The number of operations is minimised when $$$l$$$ is maximum, so $$$l := \gcd(A, B, C)$$$; to solve the problem just check if the minimum is at most 3. 228383697

(I saw a lot of people at the top of unofficial standings iterating over $$$(A + B + C) / l$$$ and testing each of them using this condition; it's quite strange to me that they didn't use GCD instead...)

G: There is no need for Fenwick trees or segment trees, you can check palindromes using just the difference array (and maintain bad positions using std::set as in the tutorial). 228383431

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Problem G with sets and vectors is also possible submission

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Can anybody can tell me whether my solution in F can use when it have the edge-weight?Can it be called DP?228766385

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Is it possible to solve F with centroid decomposition? I had TLe attempts

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Can someone explain what does this mean ~ Notice that palindromes do not appear or disappear inside a segment, but they can appear or disappear at its boundaries

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Problem F: for anyone wondering about the intuition behind the solution, here's a short rundown of the logic, based on the dfs algorithm for finding the diameter of a tree.

Assuming k>=2 (otherwise the solution is trivial):

-> Assume A and B to be the two marked nodes that are the furthest away from one another in the tree. The first observation we need to make is that the maximum path from any and all nodes in the tree to a marked node will always lead to A or B, i.e. either A or B (or both) will be the furthest marked nodes from any node in the tree. This can be visualized by rooting the tree on an arbitrary node on the path from A to B.

-> Now we will consider all nodes at once and using the assumption that each node's maximum distance path will lead to A or B, whichever is furthermost from said node, we can observe that the minimum distance maximum path cannot start from a node outside the path from A to B, because it would be larger than that of a node on that path.

-> This confines the possible candidates for the node(s) which give the minimum maximum distance on the path from A to B. If we conceptually flatten this path to a line, we can see that the answer has to be given by the node(s) at its center, because they represent the minimum of the function max(distance to A, distance to B) on that line. Thus, the answer has to be (distance from A to B)/2, meaning the length of the maximum path from the node at the center of the path to either A or B (which are equidistant). In case the length is an odd number, then the center node will be slightly skewed towards A or B, increasing the length of the path by 1, hence the need to round the number d/2 up.

-> The problem is now reduced to finding the two furthermost marked nodes on the tree and halving their distance, which can be solved with a simple tweak of the standard tree diameter algorithm mentioned above.

My implementation: 232911915 Hope this helps!

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can anyone explain me, in the second problem why did he minus 1 after dividing rest both numbers with minimum number??? I don't catch the idea behind that.

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G can also be solved only with segment tree. In each node we keep track of the first two characters in the interval as well as the last two (or just one character if its a leaf). Then when we merge two intervals we just keep check if a palindrome is formed at the edges. Updates can also be handled very simply by just applying the shift operation to the characters we keep track of. AC with this idea: https://codeforces.net/contest/1881/submission/240931303

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how is the time complexity O(2e5⋅n⋅m) of problem a? thanks in advance .

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b/a−1+c/a−1≤3 question no B . what's the reason behind this logic? someone pls help me to understand

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can you explain to me why in E we are updating dp[i] as

dp[i]=min(dp[i+1]+1,dp[i+a[i]+1]) and not as

dp[i]=min(dp[i+1]+1,dp[i+a[i]+1+j]+j) for all j st i+a[i]+1+j<n indexing from 0

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Can somebody help me with Problem F where the code fails on Test3. I did it with rerooting. This problem is almost similar to CSES Tree Distances I.
Here's my code : `

Code

` The ht function calculates maximum height to reach marked vertex in subtree under node i. The dist function calculates the maximum distance using 1 + max(parent_ans, max height from other children.

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why my solution is giving TLE?

int solve(){ int n; cin>>n; vector v(n); input_arr(v); unsigned int x=1; sort(v.begin(),v.end()); for (int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++) { x*=v[i];

}
if(x==1 || v[0]==v[n-1]){

    cout<<"YES\n";
    return 1;

}



int y=1;
int temp=2;
unsigned int curr=b_expo(y,n);
while (curr<x)
{
    y*=temp;
    curr=b_expo(y,n);

}
if(curr==x){
    cout<<"YES\n";
    return 1;
}
while (curr>x)
{
    y--;
    curr=b_expo(y,n);
    /* code */
}
if(curr==x){
    cout<<"YES\n";
    return 1;
}

cout<<"NO\n";


return 1;

}

int32_t main() {

int t;
t=1; // for single test case.
cin>>t;
////

while (t--)
{
    solve();

}
return 0;

}

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WHY MY SOLUTION IS GIVING TLE? D. Divide and Equalize int solve(){ int n; cin>>n; vector v(n); input_arr(v); unsigned int x=1; sort(v.begin(),v.end()); for (int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++) { x*=v[i];

}
if(x==1 || v[0]==v[n-1]){

    cout<<"YES\n";
    return 1;

}



int y=1;
int temp=2;
unsigned int curr=b_expo(y,n);
while (curr<x)
{
    y*=temp;
    curr=b_expo(y,n);

}
if(curr==x){
    cout<<"YES\n";
    return 1;
}
while (curr>x)
{
    y--;
    curr=b_expo(y,n);
    /* code */
}
if(curr==x){
    cout<<"YES\n";
    return 1;
}

cout<<"NO\n";


return 1;

}

int32_t main() {

int t;
t=1; // for single test case.
cin>>t;
////

while (t--)
{
    solve();

}
return 0;

}

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can some body explain d part

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For problem F, can someone tell me why my submission gets TLE on test case 44?

My solution is O(n)(it only does 2 Depth First Searches) and it is a variation of the solution for Tree Distances. That is, for each vertex we calculate the maximum distance to a marked vertex along each of its neighbor connections. This can be easily calculated in a sort of dynamic programming way based on its neighbors' information. Obviously the max distance of a particular vertex to any marked vertex is the max of the values obtained from all of its neighbor directions. Now we know the max distance for each vertex and the problem is basically solved.