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TLX Special Open Contest — April Fools 2024!
By hocky, 8 months ago, In English 
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Hello everyone!

We're very happy to announce and invite you to TLX Special Open Contest (TSOC) — April Fools 2024!

Having a break from the past 3 years, and here I am, a sudden comeback on the April Fools' contest 🤡

We strongly encourage you to read all the problems!

Go Go Go Go

P.S: We would like to thank fushar a lot lot lot as an organizer who worked hard to prepare the TLX platform <3~!

UPD: Contest is over!

Congratulations to the top 5:

  1. SanguineChameleon

  2. CDuongg

  3. thenymphsofdelphi

  4. Morphymorphymorphy

  5. Berted

Congratulations to our first solvers:

Problems I like:

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  • C:

  • D:

  • E:

  • F:

  • G:

  • H:

  • I:

  • J:

  • K:

  • L:

Problems I hate the most:

Editorial is available in the contest!

Thank you for participating!

You can now upsolve the problems here.

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8 months ago, # |
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OMG FINALLY A TLX CONTEST!! 😱 😱 😱

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8 months ago, # |
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bump

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8 months ago, # |
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Welcome back! Excited for the coding pranks and algorithmic mischief

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8 months ago, # |
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April Fools is at 1st April but the contest date is 2nd April.

My question : is this also the part of the April fools joke?

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8 months ago, # |
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OMG a TROC? Oh nevermind...

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8 months ago, # |
  Vote: I like it +3 Vote: I do not like it

Bump. This comes from a troll master in my country

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8 months ago, # |
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Friendly bump!! The contest will start in about 2 hours!!!!!! Good luck everyone!!!!!

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8 months ago, # |
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In problem H, after finding $$$A = 111 \, 111 \, 111 \bmod{M}$$$, we can check every multiple of $$$111 \, 111 \, 111 - A$$$ and hope that one number will not includes any $$$0$$$ in it (which happens to be $$$869 \, 265\, 265$$$).

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