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Codeforces Round #102
By goryinyich, 13 years ago, In English

Hi there!

I'm the author of today's CF round.

During the round you'll again assist far away kingdom citizens in solving their everyday problems.

I want to thank Artem Rakhov for invaluable help during the round preparation, Maria Belova for translation of the problems, Mikhail Mirzayanov for excellent CF system and all participants for not leaving this event without your attention.

More AC verdicts and high rating to all of you! gl & hf

UPD: Round is finished. Congratulations to winners and awardees in both divisions!

Div-1
3. Egor
6. Coder
8. neal
9. WXYZ
10. whhone

Div-2
2. songlj

UPD: Round editorial is published. Russian version will appear soon.
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Thanks for preparing this round! Good luck to all the participants :-)
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Hi Sergei!

Thank you for your round. This event help me to rest and relax of boring examinations. I suppose that the problems is good and I'll get enjoy of this round.
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    And to practise english a little bit :)
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Thanks for the preparation! It's your efforts that will give us a meanful night (in my nation) !
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    orz npc                                                                                                        langren...
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+5 mins. Why? :) The contest is running away from us D:
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Maybe the contest is scared :)) Anyway,good luck everybody :D
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A very mathematical round. Thanks just as much.
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A and C are implementation problems.
Have seen B before and D is based on known idea which was used in IPSC 2010 task K.

I expected more from this author.
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Am I the only one who wrote the complicated DP for problem C (div 1)?
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    ... which wasn't quite right? You are not the only one.
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      I compared the maximum number of T-shape thing with tourist's solution. All my answer was correct. I hope my printing the board was correct too :(

      Edit: final test passed :D

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      Разве не работал перебор?

      Вроде простая динамика, ну немного более техническая, чем обычно.

      Why not DP?
      It was a rather simple one, though a bit more technical than usual.
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    Am I the only one who wrote the compilacated code for problem C (div 1) and didn't even pass pretest? :( http://codeforces.net/contest/142/submission/1040136

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    I wrote the complicated DP too..
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      and my solution is fast enough to solve n=m=9
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        My solution is fast enough to run all 81 possible test case in 1s :)

        May be the limit should have been min(m,n) <= 9, max(m,n) <= 20 ?

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          My DP solution is a little bit special. It will get TLE when max(m,n)<=20.  
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Very fast System testing today.Its making up for the 5 mins delay in the start of the round.
I liked this round....Was logical and mathematical one...........:)
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Can someone please point out why my solution to problem A (div2) in Python kept getting runtime error on pretest 1, even though it ran fine on my side. I had to re implement the exact same solution in C++ to get it AC. Darn! Here is the code: #
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    Ghm. Maybe I misunderstand something, but sys.exit(1) looks strange. Return code 1 means runtime error in any programming language.
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      Ah damn. I think you are right. What a silly oversight.

      Thanks.

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wow! Greatest contest i've ever seen! I think this was a record for Div 2 to have ~2000 registered people! Thanks Codeforces
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Editorial please
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i realize a useful "cut case" technique which sometimes works (like problem C this time) by reading others' codes...=D

  1.         // "useful" technique XD
  2.         if (clock() - start > 2.7*CLOCKS_PER_SEC) return;

(this technique was once used by my team in an acm-icpc regional contest too.)
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    You can improve this even more.

    clock() function and floating-point comparison aren't the fastest operations.

    We usually use something like

    1. const int MAX_ITER = 80000000;
    2. int curIter;

    4. void solve(int x, int y){
    5. ...
    6.     if(curIter > MAX_ITER)
    7.         return;
    8.     curIter++;
    9. ...
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      in the regional contest experience i mentioned above, we used exactly the method you suggested: count number of iterations in the searching function
      this worked well since our machine was (theoretically) identical to the judge machine
      (e.g., we found that 1,000,000 iterations ~= 1 second, the number of test cases <= 10, and there is 10 second time limit, so it should be save to set MAX_ITER = 1000000)

      while this method is also practical. however, in Codeforces/SRM/...etc contest, it may be a bit less convenient to "estimate" MAX_ITER, since the environment setting is a bit different. 
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      It seems to me that it's greater to use clock(), but not as mentioned above, but somehow like this:

      const int ITER = 1000;

      const float MAX_TIME = 2.8;
      int iter = 0;

      ...
      if (!(++iter % ITER))

        if ((float)clock() / CLOCKS_PER_SEC > MAX_TIME)

          return;

      ...


      It's better because we don't know, how much iterations our algorithm can do in time-limit; in my variant it will work exactly MAX_TIME (+/- EPS), and won't slow much because we check time only each ITERth iteration.

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        When iterations where answer exists work immediately, and time-limit cut-off need only for last iteration where no answer exist, there is no need for any optimization.
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Can you please post the tutorial for this round?!
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this submission shouldn't have passed it was missing a case and I added it here

here a test case:

12 5
20 10
8 9

the output should be -1, but it outputs

5 7
2 3
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