.... is having weak pretests on not one, but TWO problems in today's Div2 round...
To all the people I hacked on A (including GM Hamed_Ghaffari), I'm sorry. It's such an unbelievably braindead hack. All I had to do to hack you guys was find a number just below a very very big power of 4 (288230376151711674 worked), and then the log functions output some form of overflowed garbage that made your solutions output a number that was twice as big as it should have been.
On C, somehow we had blatantly O(n^2) solutions getting unpunished, for example this one: 298315499
This works well for random tests (because the alternating 1's and -1's make the range of possible sums quite small, so just doing an unoptimised:
for (auto i : st1)
{
for (auto j : st2)
{
ans.insert(i + j + arr[pos]);
}
}
works... but it's very obvious how to make a countertest (just have lots of 1's, then 100000, then lots of -1's, then you have a nested loop that runs about 10^10 times, which will obviously TLE in any language)
It's just so sad when tests that are this obvious don't get added to the pretests.
The greatest Christmas present of all time was God's great sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ so that we may have eternal life.
Wait nvm I confused it with Easter. Okay then I'm gonna trust you that two weak pretests is the greatest Christmas gift of all time.
Read Luke 2:7-8.
Why were shepherds out on the fields looking after their flocks if he was in fact born on December 25th, in the middle of the cold winter?
Because Jesus Christ likely wasn't born in the winter. Christmas is only the time when we celebrate the birth of Christ. If I recall correctly, it took over the pagan holiday Saturnalia. This was a good thing because the Romans honored fake gods.
Well then the birth of Jesus wasn't in fact the greatest Christmas present of all time, since it didn't happen on Christmas? Just a small thought.
idk how but this is the most reddit-like comment I've ever seen