Many thanks to cannor147 and geranazavr555 for the help with the translation into English.
1259A - Happy Birthday, Polycarp!
Problem Writer: MikeMirzayanov
Editorial
1259B - Make Them Odd
Problem Writer: MikeMirzayanov
Editorial
1259C - As Simple as One and Two
Problem Writer: MikeMirzayanov
Editorial
1259D - Let's Play the Words?
Problem Writer: MikeMirzayanov
Editorial
1259E - Two Fairs
Problem Writer: MikeMirzayanov
Editorial
1259F - Beautiful Rectangle
Problem Writer: MikeMirzayanov
Editorial
1259G - Tree Elimination
Problem Writers: Endagorion
Editorial
1276E - Four Stones
Problem Writers: Endagorion
Editorial
1276F - Asterisk Substrings
Problem Writers: voidmax
Editorial
I didn't get it in DIV 1 A
it is important to delete the middle letters in the last two paragraphs to avoid appearing a new occurrence after a line is collapsed
can anyone provide some testcaseFor instance: tttwoooneee. If you delete the letter t that is standing before w, after deletion you still get "two".
thanks, i missed that
My solution to Div.2 E :
1) Perform DFS starting at Vertex a. This DFS function returns when reached at Vertex b.
2) Perform DFS starting at Vertex b. This DFS function returns when reached at Vertex a.
3) When each function saves the visited vertex, there is the vertex that only the first function visited, the vertex that only the second function visited, and the vertex at which both functions visited.
4) Multiply the number of vertices only the first function visited by the number of vertices only the second function visited, and it's the answer.
For example, on this graph, the answer is 5 x 6 = 30.
Code : 67127301
thanks man, easier than the editorial
Do we have to always consider that cities a and b are connected by some road? Can they be diconnected?
The problem specifies "It is guaranteed that from any city you can pass to any other by roads."
Thanks...
Is the highlighted path valid ? from 2 to A to 1 to B to 3 ?
In your example, the pair (2, 3) will not count towards the solution. The problem states that for a pair (U, V) to count towards the solution, every way to get from city U to city V or from V to U must go through A and B. If there exists a path between them that does NOT go through both A and B, then it does not count towards the solution.
In your example, there exists a path from 2 to 3 that does NOT go through A and B, thus it does not count towards the solution.
The only "valid" pairs in your example would be (X1, Y) and (X2, Y). Answer = 2;
Thanks ,understood!
I really liked this contest, I wish I had participated live.
Here's my solution for Div2-E using BFS. Uses very similar approach to what is mentioned in the editorial. 66995096
I found your solution more intuitive than editorial's solution. Here is DFS based implementation of your idea. 67419480
VERY nice editorial MikeMirzayanov
nice handle.
Div2 D
5th paragraph, 1st line "In fact, the set of words of kind n10 has no more than n10"
Shouldn't it be "In fact, the set of words of kind n01 has no more than n10"?
In the editorial for the problem G:
In the problem 1277D - Let's Play the Words?, how come the solution to the last sample testcase is given as 1 2
01 -> 10
001 -> 100
And so:
10
0001
100
00001
can anyone give me a testcase that broke my code?
I have a question about div1 E.
How do you perform operations to make $$$\Delta$$$ decrease to $$$\frac{3}{4}\Delta$$$ for stones located at 0, 1, 99999, 100000 according to your alogrithm?
In the editorial of question D: Let's Play The Words? Why do we need to reverse $$$n_{01} - n_{10} - 1$$$ strings and not $$$(n_{01} - n_{10}) / 2$$$. Also, can anyone give hints on how to prove that the problem is equivalent to "the Euler traversal of a directed graph with 2 nodes"? Thanks!
It's probably a mistake.
In the code below you have this:
int ans = max(0, (int(max(s01.size(), s10.size())) - int(min(s01.size(), s10.size()))) / 2);
That is equivalent to $$$(n_{01}-n_{10})/2$$$.
can anyone help me in problem B I am getting WA on tc 2 https://codeforces.net/contest/1277/submission/81699789 thanks
In Two Fairs, I am not able to understand what exactly (alpha u ,beta u) represents.Can someone clarify? Any help will be appreciated thanks :)
For those confused with the editorial for div2 E, I think there is a much easier approach with a similar idea.
build an adjacency list that removes the vertex A from the graph(i.e., don't include edges to/from A) and then calculate the number of vertices connected to B(by performing dfs, starting from B). Let the number be x.
similarly, build an adj list without B and count the number of vertices connected to A. Let the number be y.
Now, the answer is simply (n-x-1)*(n-y-1). This is because (n-x-1) is the number of vertices that cant reach B if A is not present(we subtracted 1 to exclude A). This means that to connect these vertices to B, a path should exist only via A.
A similar conclusion can be made for the (n-y-1) vertices. Thus answer will be (n-x-1)*(n-y-1).
Here is my submission.
Why is the answer of sample test 1(test case 2) is 0 what about the path 1->2->3->4
upd: My bad understood now