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Your favourite problems?
By -is-this-fft-, history, 7 years ago, In English

Title says it all. What are some of your favourite problems in competitive programming?

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Codeforces 200A,2B,154C,506D,274E

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problem D of good bye 2016

706E (only problem I found throughout my contest life which could be solved with linked list)

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https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/cisco-icode-round-2/challenges/sherlock-and-subarray

Couldnt solve it during the contest. Solved it a year after the contest was held after learning segment tree. Felt like a boss.

http://codeforces.net/problemset/problem/675/D

Everybody solved this question using set. I did it using segment tree. Felt like a boss again.

https://www.codechef.com/SNCKPB17/problems/SNGRAPH

Learnt about the concept of reverse DSU after failing to solve ABROADS on codechef and applied it to this problem during contest time.

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773D - Perishable Roads, 793E - Problem of offices

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https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/8294486/dashboard#s=p2

problem "C. Pony Express" from GCJ 2017 round 1B

https://csacademy.com/contest/archive/task/point-in-kgon

problem E from CSA round 34

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Why so less comments? Symmetree

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I really liked thinking and enjoyed solving 1814D - Balancing Weapons.

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Probably https://oj.uz/problem/view/BOI18_genetics

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https://codeforces.net/problemset/problem/1780/D I love interactive problems

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