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Round #15 + Platform changes
By csacademy, 8 years ago, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

We are happy to announce that we're going to host a new contest at csacademy.com. Round #15 will take place on Wednesday, 30/Nov/2016 16:00 (UTC). If you want to take part in this round you need to register before the contest begins. This contest will be a Div1 + Div2, with 7 tasks of varied difficulty that need to be solved in 2 hours and 30 minutes.

We are honoured to have josdas and bluemmb as problem setters.

Also many thanks to Yury_Bandarchuk for translating the problem statements in Russian.

Contest format:

  • You will have to solve 7 tasks in 2 hours and 30 minutes.
  • There will be full feedback throughout the entire contest.
  • Tasks will not have partial scoring, so you need to pass all test cases for a solution to count (ACM-ICPC-style).
  • Tasks will have dynamic scores. According to the number of users that solve a problem the score will vary between 100 and 1000.
  • Besides the score, each user will also get a penalty that is going to be used as a tie breaker.

About the penalty system:

  • Computed using the following formula: the minute of the last accepted solution + the penalty for each solved task. The penalty for a solved task is equal to log2 (no_of_submissions) * 5.
  • Solutions that don't compile or don't pass the example test cases are ignored.
  • Once you solve a task you can still resubmit. All the following solutions will be ignored for both the score and the penalty.

Platform changes since Round #14

New forum

In the right side of the navbar, next to the blog section, you can find a link to our forum:

... and it looks like this:

The forum is build as a single page app, so you don't need to refresh the page to see new changes (votes and new posts update in real time).

Geometry tool

You can find it in the Apps section, below the Graph Editor:

More languages added

During the contest we don't guarantee the time limits will be calibrated for languages other than C++ and Java.

We still recommend using an updated version of Google Chrome. If you find any bugs please email us at [email protected]

Don't forget to like us on Facebook, VK and follow us on Twitter.

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Wrong Date mentioned.

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Perl :D

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    Do you have any special compilation commands that you'll want?

    We have 0 to no experience with perl :)

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The geometry tool is very useful, thanks.

but I think it still need some improvements.

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    Yeah, it's still kinda buggy, but we decided to launch it anyway :P.

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In conclusion, we should expect a lot of geometry problems this round, I suppose.

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Something is very wrong, site is down? Can't log in or submit problems :(

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I cant log in either, and the site is very slow, pls fix it.

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Not able to login. Says "Invalid Token"

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Why I cannot login?

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Seems like introducing new features in the platform, didn't go well with the old ones!

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Have tried even with Google accaunt, didn't work..

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I cannot login too. I am using firefox.

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the bug not fixed yet :(

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can't login

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Can we get any feedback about this?

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It's been fixed now.

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    I was able to make a submission and now I am logged out and same errors again!

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    Submitting does not work for me.

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Site is again down :(

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Nothing happens when I click sign in... THis is after everyone is saying it is fixed?

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Seems like it's OK now.

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Can't submit! The button doesn't respond on clicking.

UPD: Oh, seems like it's been pushing my submissions in the queue without telling me...

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We are sorry for the inconvenience, everything should be ok now. We are not sure if the contest will be rated or not, but it will be prolonged by at least 15 minutes.

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Can't submit :/

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    Try refreshing the page, it should work now.

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Still not working?

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    It's working now. If you have any problems refresh the page, please.

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      about, csacademy, are all the tests applied to a submission, or it's like codeforces with pretests and final testing?

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        We don't have pretests, so if your solution passes then it's accepted.

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      I still cant submit (I refreshed the page, and close the browser), the site says that I'm not connected to the servers.

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        Try refreshing the page, it should work now.

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The site is down for me. Neither i'm able to compile or submit :(

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    Try refreshing.

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      Guys, come one.. I have tried to submit C problem for 20 mins..

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        It says, too many submissions, but I when I check them, only 4 of them are made(which I made about 40 mins ago)

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Workspace is nice for show-off, but not useful if it does not show meticulously in cases of high load if my code is getting submitted or not. Same code getting submitted multiple times due to site instability and not getting to know if it is getting submitted it or not until I check out my submissions 2-3 minutes later.

A simple file upload alternative mechanism should be in-place to submit code.

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    +1, I don't know how I took +8 on third problem

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    Did you accidentally press Ctrl+u? This hotkey submits the code.

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      Occam's razor: repeatedly clicking Submit is more likely than accidentally pressing a combination of keys located far from each other and from any other commonly used combination.

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        Yes, this is exactly what happens. After pressing submit, half of time nothing shows up(like it is submitting or running or not) — so it is highly likely that one will press Submit again.

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          Same, I was just lucky that my first submission got accepted :)

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Is it rated?

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In problem "Substring Restrictions", I use two pointer to get k such that s[i] = s[i + k] or s[i] = s[i — k]. I just choose minimum and maximum k and join(i, i + k) / join(i, i — k). Surprising, it passes. Is test case weak?

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    At the same time my right solution got TL12, until I ran bruteforce in case of small len in query.

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    If this is your solution, I can't understand why it passes the following testcase:

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Can someone discuss the approach for Base K Xor https://csacademy.com/contest/round-15/#task/base-k-xor/ ?

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Where can I find editorials, if available?

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I solved K based Xor using digit dp though it was not totally mainstream.

Nice problems :)

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