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Автор k790alex, 9 лет назад, По-английски

Hi,

Tomorrow is the Latin America Regional Contest, there is an online mirror prepared in UVA, you can see your local time here.

Good luck to all participants.

Update: Here are the live-scoreboard:

Latin America

Carribean

UPDATE 2:

Final results:

Mexico and Central America

Caribbean

Secret IO: http://maratona.ime.usp.br/resultados15/

UPDATE 3 Brief editorial in Spanish: http://caloventorendos.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/regional-latinoamerica-2015-solucionario.html

UPDATE 4 Detailed editorial in Spanish: https://chococontest.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/solucionario-regional-south-america-2015/

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For those of you interested, you can now try the problemset at UVA (problems are numbered from 13003 to 13014). Also, since I haven't found any editorial yet, it would be awesome if we could all share ideas about our solutions (pretty much what happened last year at http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/14650).

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    Don't have the time to write a full editorial, but some hints for each problem:

    • A: either greedy or digit DP works
    • B: bipartite matching from parents to possible genes
    • C: circular line sweep
    • D: implementation
    • E: any connected component of the graph has only two possible states. Then use knapsack DP to find best possibility.
    • F: point in polygon test by ray drawing. Do a line sweep and use a data structure to keep how many edges you will cross if you trace a ray at height Y.
    • G: function is convex so ternary search works
    • H: ad-hoc, look at the possible faces on each side of a cube
    • I: ...yeah
    • J: hardest problem of the set (again). Both teams in Brazil printed the values using brute force and found the pattern, but finding it legitimately is quite difficult. Try to find a bijection between every possible just a bit sorted sequence of length n and every possible permutation of the integers from 1 to n.
    • K: find a DP relation, then optimize the time to do the transition by using a logarithmic data structure to find minimum in an interval (segtree, bit, etc)
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      Codeforces really needs a mobile compatible website... u.u

      I'll edit the formatting when I get to a PC.

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      As helpful as always ffao, thanks! By the way, secret test data has been released and can be found here.

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      Nice solution to J in the editorial! Since it didn't explain the DP solution I was referring to (it also needs some bijection magic, sorry), here it is:

      Take any just a bit sorted sequence with n elements and using exactly k different integers, for example "2 1 3 2" and list the positions in which 1 appears, let this list be L1 = {2}, then similarly get L2 = {1, 4} and L3 = {3}.

      Now concatenate these lists in reverse order (that is, L3 then L2 then L1) to get the new sequence (3, 1, 4, 2).

      This new sequence is a permutation of the integers from 1 to n, in which pi > pi + 1 for exactly k - 1 values of i. Doing the reverse procedure, you can see every just a bit sorted sequence is equivalent to one permutation like this.

      But the number of permutations with n elements such that pi > pi + 1 for k values of i is easy to count using DP. To construct the recurrence relation, note that adding n to a permutation of length n - 1 always creates a new spot in which pi > pi + 1, except if you place it in a position where that condition was already true or at the end of the sequence. This gives us:

      A(n, k) = (n - k) * A(n - 1, k - 1) + (k + 1) * A(n - 1, k)

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      On problem K my relation is to check all the possibilities of shop on the current level, is that correct?

      I guess this is the relation but if i use memo on this relation i'll get Runtime Error on a big case and WA on an avarage case.

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      Hi ffao,

      I thought of using ternary search to solve problem C and found that it is also mentioned in the editorial. Can you elaborate more on how to use Circular Line Sweep to solve the problem?

      Thanks

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    This editorial has just been published. It's in spanish tho.

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I do like when people log errors to the browser, lol!!!

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