Hi everyone! I am glad to announce that Zalando CodeSprint on HackerRank is scheduled on June 4, 2016, 12:00 PM CEST. Contest duration is 24 hours, but don't be scared by that. There will be 8 problems to solve.
Sign up here: https://www.hackerrank.com/zalando-codesprint
The prizes are:
- Rank 1: Pebble Watch, 200 Euro gift voucher of your choice, Hackathon Hoodie
- Rank 2-5: 200 Euro gift voucher of your choice, Hackathon Hoodie
- Rank 6-20: Hackathon Hoodie
Could you explain what kind of problems it'll feature?
No exact information about problem types and their difficulty is available. Most probable format is 7 usual algorithmic challenges and 1 marathon-style challenge.
Sorry, was wrong. Actually 8 algorithmic challenges.
The hardest problem was literally this one: http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/10355
Sorry, I misread T.T
Did you look at the link? Are you sure sqrt-decomposition is shorter than it? BTW, copy-past treap implementation is easier than sqrt-decomposition
Can you share your idea?
Let the original array be v[].
Let p[] be a permutation such that p[i] is the original position of element i.
You can see that at any moment, p[] will consist of one or more interval of consecutive numbers. Then let a[] be the set of these intervals.
For each query, we have to cut at most 2 intervals in a[], then put them to the front.
Then after
queries, rebuilt the original array using a[].
If we do it like that, at any moment, a[] will have at most
intervals, and we can cut any intervals, put them to the front in 
is this contest going to be rated?
Unrated