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Codeforces Round #654 (Div. 2)
By physics0523, history, 4 years ago, In English

Codeforcesの皆さん、こんにちは!(Hello, Codeforces!)

I'm glad to invite you to my first contest, Codeforces Round 654 (Div. 2) which will be held on Jul/01/2020 16:35 (Moscow time) (notice earlier time than usual). All of the problems were mainly written and prepared by me. The round is rated if your rating is strictly less than 2100.

You will be given 6 problems (one problem has a subtask) and 2 hours to solve them. Please, read all the problems.

I would really like to thank:

The scoring distribution will be announced later.

Good luck, have fun and wish your high ratings :)

UPD: Scoring distribution : $$$500 - 1000 - 1250 - 1500 - (1500 + 1250) - 3000$$$

UPD: Editorial is out

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by physics0523 (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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Thanks for all of these frequent rounds!

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I hate Physics. Hopefully no problem related to physics!

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    Even though I love Physics , I still hope there will be no physics related problems. XD.

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    same here pal.XD

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    I think Physics problems would be easier than the problems in this round

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Good luck on your maiden round!

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As a tester, I can say that the problems are really interesting and hopefully you will enjoy solving them :)

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    I dont know why testers are commenting a lot just for upvotes!? The only thing you done is you participated in a contest few days before most of the people and i dont see anything special to upvote u!

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      The only thing you done is you participated in a contest few days before most of the people and i dont see anything special to upvote

      Nah this isn't the only special thing about testers.
      He also left one rated contest so that others can enjoy one round.

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      Down voted, it's not true about many testers, you can't even understand how hard being a good tester is.

      P.S. I feel personally attacked. =(

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        Oh my god! Ok i upvoted you becuase its the only thing you want :( and its you third time you are editing your comment to dont get downvote!

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          What is wrong with you, I want you to understand how important testers are, some of testers duties are :

          1. They should try submitting heuristics/wrong solutions, to make sure tests are strong enough.

          2. They should help problem setters to replace the problems if needed.

          3. They should write many different solutions for a single problem(if needed), to make sure unintended solutions that are wrong or are slow wont pass.

          4. Doing many other things to make sure tests are strong, problems are not spoiled, statements are clear, pretests are fine and etc.

          I saw that your comment has many upvotes, so it probably means many people don't know about testers, so I wrote this to show you how being a good tester is , not for upvotes.

          P.S. I enjoy editing my comments, you cant blame me for that.

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            Upvoted as i said

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            Agreed. A good contest is the result of hardwork and collaboration of all testers, problem setters and coordinators.

            I would like to thank all of you for making so many good contests for us.

            Hope to have fun in this contest too:)

            All the best to all!

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      As a tester, I can confirm that we do absolutely nothing in a grand conspiracy to gain contribution points by making meaningless confirmations on the contest announcement.

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        As a non-tester who would very much like to become one, how can I get in on this conspiracy?

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          Just pretend you're a tester in the comment section, then they'll add you to the tester list in the announcement.

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        I love it when people compose formal responses to jokes.

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    this is what all testers say about their rounds:))

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      Wait for the next Global round. :)
      For spoilers about tester comments of next Global join AC.

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    Scam

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    Proof of a conspiracy theory by testers to gain contribution.

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    Frequent comments like these is why nobody takes such comments seriously now!

    If you found the questions interesting, you are clearly lying and spamming for contribution. As simple as that.

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      Or maybe they simply should be banned of the tester position as they have a much different taste for problems than the CodeForces community does.

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    Did some comments disappear? I think I saw few other replies to this comment yesterday.

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      Yes, nima_oof_che_mamehaii's reply disappeared, and all of the replies to it with it.

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        Do you think this is intentional or some other bug in the Codeforces website?

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          Probably intentional.

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          Yes,It's intentional..After many negative vote some commment filter out.I think this feature added from past 2 contest ..I think it's a good initiative.

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      Yes. They tried to silence me revealing the secrets about the tester-contribution conspiracy.

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        Hi i forgot to reply your message when my comments was there. you replied me that you and lots of testers didnt do it! And im gonna say yes! I agree and i was saying some of them are doing it in every single contest and i was replied to tester i think that its not fair! I dont realy care about upvotes and downvites i just say something that i believe so im sory if any one get mad at me becuase if those comments but im saying that these kind of works are not cool :(

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          some of them are doing it in every single contest

          I agree with that, but I'm not one of them, I joke about those things sometimes, but I really don't mind.

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    Codeforces should have option of downvoting comment even after upvoting it.

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      You can still downvote the comment next to that one.

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I was master when I tested the round, I wouldn't have done it if I knew I would have missed such a great round :((

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What is the meaning of subtask? Does this mean a problem will have an easy and a hard version?

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Glad not seeing comment section filled with memes this time

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Good luck everyone. This community is insane lol

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    Here I was wondering why there were so many negative feedbacks until I saw the revision history XD

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      I just said I loved physics and people got offended, so had to change. I still don't know the reason

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        Its not necessarily that people are offended. They might not agree with your opinion and hence the negative feedback.

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頑張って皆！Good luck everyone!

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I love Japan and the Japanese so i'm excited for contest :D

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    High possibility of involving anime characters

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Hope , we will see Geometry related problem.

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Looking forward to this round!

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Physics is evrywhere :v

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My UI of codeforces has been shifted to left side and I'm unable to see users and search problems with specific rating, Is there anyone facing the same issue since morning?

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well all the testers can anyone just give slightest of hints as to what type of problemset is coming our way tommorrow

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    What do you think their replies would be ...other than "Some Interesting Problems".

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      but still it would be much better if we get to know type of problems.maybe tiniest of clues

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        "maybe tiniest of clues"

        Idk why.. but this sounds so-fuccin-funny..

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    Sure. I was a tester. I can tell you. The problems are interesting. Have fun!

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    I'll give you a hint for the next 100 rounds, I know, even better. You'll see greedy, constructive, more greedy, elementary math, guesswork, and greedy. You only have a chance at an actual cs problem if you can make it to the last problem, otherwise you'll write 20 lines of code since people on a platform called "code"forces do not enjoy coding.

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      Let me guess, F is your favourite problem in the contest?

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        I'm too dumb to get to it. But I saw by your comment you thought it wasn't great ig :(

        But i'd rather code 30m for boring problem (though it is probably not boring for me) than not code at all. So probably.

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      Highly disagree. There's a fair amount of regular coding at a regular software engineering job. There are tons of "put a twist on a standard CS algorithm"-type problems on Leetcode.

      This is the only place with such a high ratio of actual problem solving / lines of code. Let's keep it that way.

      This contest wasn't the best one, but not because the implementations happened to be short. There are plenty of other contests with problems with similarly short implementations but that were nonetheless elegant and delightful.

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      I agree not many problems related to Binary Search, Graphs Algorithm etc. nowadays....

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is it unrated?

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    It is rated if your rating is strictly less than 2100 !!

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    The answer is both a yes and a no.

    (Did you read the announcement?)

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Dude loves physics so much, he used it as his username, pretty sure some physics related questions,any ways good to have frequent rounds.

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    And if tourist were the problem setter you would expect problems themed around sightseeing tours.

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Add the scoring distribution. If you can solve all the problems in a moment, you'll achieve exactly 10000 pts!

Auto comment: topic has been updated by physics0523 (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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All the best and hoping for a great round!!

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Thank you for these frequent contests. we keep on learning and testing our skills it's really helpful

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Do we need to practice HC Verma or Irodov?

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    This Comment is Deleted Due to negative feed back, don't know why but my comments are getting down votes all the time, even though the content of my comments are genuine & accurate. From now on I decide to never give any suggestion to anybody on codeforces in the form of comments , because I may not be intelligent enough to give suggestions to most of you.

    thanks!

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      Dude, it is a pun on the problem setter username

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I have participated in the writer's contests on another platform (Hackerrank), and his problems are always well-prepared and fun to solve.

I believe this round is going to be great as well!

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    Do you have a link to his contest(s) there?

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      Check This.. it's writer is physics0523 .

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      Here is the link to his latest contest.
      Unfortunately problem statements are written only in Japanese, but the problems are like the ones from AtCoder Beginner Contest.

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A contest a day keeps the pressure away.

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what's the meaning of (1500 + 1250) in scoring distribution for 5th problem ? can't we just write 2750 instead? Thanks in advance !!!

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Hope these long queues will be solved as fast as possible. And we will have good contest.

And it is solved :) when i returned to submit the problem after writing comment, it was solved.

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I'm a beginner in CP and became PUPIL in last DIV 3 contest solving 4 problems. Hoping to do well in this contest too. But the problem I'm facing is I'm able to solve A, B in div 2 but on C I always get stuck. So any suggestions how to cover this gap between B and C?

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    I think the only thing you need , is "practice" .I also in your level & stuck on C.

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      Yes, I am practicing a lot. And when I see solutions of C then most of the time I find a new concept which I don't know and then I try to learn that from youtube or from somewhere else.

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2 hours remaining to start the round. But wrong division cases on Codeforces Round 653 (Div. 3) is not fixed yet. Some experts get their rating changed. Will it be fixed before the round starts?

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    Maybe they registered for div3 round before they became expert.So they were not out of competition.

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      Yes i know that. But as far i know mike fixes it manually at the time of rating change.

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    Who cares?! ))

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      Some expert may solve the round carelessly since the round is not rated for him. They might care about unwanted rating change.

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making the start 25m later would be perfect!

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Hope the contest will be as interesting as the score distribution .

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I hope in this round "in queue" will not be shown for longer time

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how can someone become a tester .... i want to experience being a tester

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Hlo Guys. I am new here. What is the meaning of score (1500 + 1250) of 5th question?

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Hope to become green

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I don't like this round at all...

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And why did Akari have to make the E1 problem difficult? She should have kept quiet. Damn these front bench kids!!

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No offense to the round writers, but problem B needs to be proofread by a native or advanced English speaker.

Edit: To clarify, I think the problems are interesting as always, but the phrasing and typos make the problem difficult to read for someone not familiar with the idea of the problem.

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    I was just going to say this. If there are going to be any rounds in English, it is best they are authored properly. FFS!!

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    Russian statement wasn't great either.

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Good-bye my rating!

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Very Bad round with 90% maths

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    If you call these problems math, show at least one round which isn't math

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      that's cause all cf rounds are too math based.

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    The first question was basic arithmetic, we can't complain. 2nd question required you to know sum of first n Natural numbers which was also not any tough maths. C was casework, D was pattern. Why are u complaining?

    (pls correct me if I'm wrong somewhere)

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Mathforces :(

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It seems like I am the only one who liked the contest. ??? Feel free to downvote if you disliked it. IMHO it is a balanced contest and it is not that MathForces as some of you think.

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    I don't feel like it's a mathforces round at all. For me it's just easy problems with many corner cases and very unlikeable implementation. In C 4 i got WAs and my AC code is just 7 if statements

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    For me it felt like mathhomeworkforces. I did not have any programming problem, it was all logic and E some formular.

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Interesting problems, but Im too bad for them(

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WTF is going on with this comment section? Round isn't over yet

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I hate this B why I can't solve it spent the whole time on it :(

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I'm curious how the testers easily understood problem B and didn't they feel D is too easy for div2D??

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this contest was difficult for me

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    Why, so that every time someone has a bad performance they can make the round unrated by uploading solutions?

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      No. That guy was livestreaming his solutions on youtube (from start ). But I'm honest and didn't visit the site and solved what i could myself.

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        I'm not saying that's what happened here. But I am saying that if you make a round unrated if there are cheaters, then every round will be unrated.

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    It was travisscott as it can be seen at 26:48.

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    That's why number of LOSERS solving problem E increased exponentially suddenly at a certain point of time!!

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      CF predictor shows -2 rating for me, damn if cheating happened like that, I'm happy with this rating xD

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      In the video, only A, B and C were solved (and there were also two failed submissions on D).

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    Due to actions of some of these people whole community suffers.Something should be done against them so that this is not repeated.

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What is the pretest 2 for D?

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ConstructiveForces

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Did I accidentally open Codechef today for the contest?

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    how would we know also are you blind?

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      Codeforces Rule #343: Ignore comments from unrated accounts

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        Codeforces Rule #434: Ignore comments from Master accounts registered 2 months ago

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        Irony is you are the one breaking that rule

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I feel bad for the problem writers because of the people who posted the solution to the contest on youtube.

On an unrelated note: is the contest going to be unrated?

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    Plagiarism is checked I guess. So all those who copied will be anyway disqualified

    Please look into it MikeMirzayanov physics0523

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      Even then, you still could've gotten the gist of the solution of the problem and simply rewrote the code with your own style. It's also extremely difficult (basically impossible) to check for plagiarism if you submit with another language.

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        Especially the first 3 problems were just math formulas which are very hard to be checked for plagiarism.

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      We found the cheater, too. If some users copied some solutions, the plagiarism checker will work.

      I think the contest will be still rated because sadly there are always some cheaters.

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        Even He cheated with youtube live.But got +543 ..Cheating is easy now :v And my some friend copy and change some variable , not caught by checker ! Is plagiarism jokes ?

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      Don't count on that. it's very easy to beat Plagiarism testing of codeforces.

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I don't know if this was intended or not, but I literally solved problem B using the samples without thinking in the main problem.

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    I did that for A. :) Sample test cases clearly showed (n+1)/2 if one notices carefully.

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Nice contest, easy D. I got pretest 9 failed for problem E1 anyone has a clue about that pretest

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How to solve D? Greed- fill diagonally then it's left and right diagonal and so on...is giving wrong

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    the idea is ok but when you reach the cell (n-1,n) have to finish with the cell(1,n) and so on (apply modulo when you reach n)

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    Try 1 3 6

    Your code will return 4 110 111 011

    while it should return as mentioned: 0 110 011 101

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Was C really just casework? (that's how I did it but..). I hate such questions, wastes time, and morale. Couldn't solve D due to it :(

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    My observation was that it's always optimal to put all the type 2 people first. The reasoning is that since they always take from the smaller pile, then the size of the pile they'll take from will be $$$x, x-1, x-2, ...$$$ (if $$$x$$$ is the original size of the smaller pile). The larger pile will never be taken by the type 2 people until its size is less than or equal to the size of the smaller pile, resulting the continuation of the sequence. Hence it's never better to put type 1 people first.

    The yes condition ends up being a+b >= n+m && min(a, b) >= m.

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      That's it? 1 line of code. I tried caseworking and failed miserably.

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        same here wasted lot of time

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I solved B completely based on the sample cases. I have no idea what does the problem say! I just make it work on samples, I do not know if I am gonna pass system tests or not.

anyways, thanks for the round authors and testers.

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can someone tell me why my E1 solution fails at pretest 9 ?

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How to solve E1 ? Can someone point me my mistakes ?

int n, k;
vector<int> a; /// size n || sorted
bool solve(int x)
{
    int res = 1;
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    {
        while (p + 1 < n && a[p + 1] <= x) p++;
        res = (1LL * res * (p - i + 1)) % k;
        if (res == 0) return false;
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    I think your mistake is in these lines

    for (int x = max(k, mx + 1); x <= n; ++x)
        res.push_back(x);

    You only need to iterate to mx. That's enough. So basically erase these lines

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      Yes, removing it give me AC, how stupid I was. Thansk for pointing out my mistakes

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In problem B, The picture in sample test case changed during the contest. Initially there were only 3 green ticks. At the end of the contest, there were 6. This created confusion.

Proof-

During contest-Link

When I saw after the contest-Link

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    Yes. The green ticks confused me (no matter how many they had). The clearest representation would be to group the pictures into 4 categories to show which ones are the same.

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Back to specialist, RIP rating -100 :(

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Understanding problem B's statement alone should be rewarded with +50 rating

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    gimme that rating, I understood the problem in one go. (cuz i read it too slow)

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I usually don't comment on the quality of rounds, but I think this round was really bad. A — C are just formulas and cases, and D is constructive. You literally could know zero algoritms, even not know binsearch and sorting, and still solve A — D, and this is really bad in my opinion.

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First time I solved 4th, Thanks physics0523, you also gave the overflow details in testcase, thanks for that too, Last time I wasn't able to solve due to overflow.

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I used floor((n-1)/2) + 1 as my answer but this failed on pretest 3. I wonder why? Even in the editorial, same solution is mentioned. I give (n-1)/2 + 1 it passes. Where is the mistake?

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    return type of floor is a double type. So if the returned value is large it will be printed in scientific notation (like 5e+008). where as when you do (n-1)/2 the result will remain an integer type and all its digits will be printed as normal integer.

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F: Think for 0.2 seconds and implement for 30 minutes. What an amazing problem.

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Weird template but ok

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Most Ad-hoc round I have ever given on CF.

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Problem B was written terribly and also sample explantions were really bad. I won't say that the round should be unrated but it was one of the worst rounds by far in terms of problem statements.

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    Misunderstood the problem and wasted a lot of time. RIP rating

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      RIP English first... The diagrams were so confusing I just guessed formulas and hoped to get one that works.

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    Totally agree. Things were terribly written in the problem B. Was the problem B made to check English and patience of people? One-liner formula was the answer after reading the worst problem statement.

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    Exactly. What the hell did the green ticks mean ? He could have simply showed the correct 4 out of 6 in green ticks if at all that's what the author wanted to show. I was scratching my head for 10 min over that.

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      yeah, ticks just messed up the statement further

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Boring contest

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I hope that someone will have a good proof that why it was optimal to start with type 2 People in Problem C ! I am not able to reason it out! why Starting with Type 1 people is not optimal !

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    My logic was that you can shove your unwanted cookies at type 1 at the end, and they'll eat anything.

    So, you should give your rarer cookies to type 2 people first

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    Its because type 1 people always chooses the cookie which is left MORE so they will never get angry if a cookie is left no matter v or c. Type 2 people choose the cookie which is left LESS so they will get angry if the cookie which is left less is finished. Attaching my code for your reference https://codeforces.net/contest/1371/submission/85648596.

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      i understand the idea ! But during the thought process I had in my mind that during all this If we feed all the TYPE 2 people first their will come a time where The ratio of cookies will reverse ! And That can happen quite some times during this procedure how to deal with it ?

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        Type 2 people are sadists they will try to eat up the cookies which are already less. So the number of both the cookies should at least be equal to the no of type2 ppl. The ratio won't reverse as type 2 will go on consuming the less cookies making it lesser.

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What was B? I didn't even go further after reading 4 lines. Highly unclear. Problems must be easy to understand but hard to solve. Seems this was reversed.

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      What cheating happened ?

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          Its a request to make the round unrated. Worst Problem statements, Lengthy, confusing Adhoc Problems, Round full of cheating. Though my rating is getting a +45, but I don't care, because the round was terrible.

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    B was like 5 lines of code wrapped in a ambiguous and confusing problem statement.

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For question E, I have a claim that the answers are consecutive if there exists any. Can I ask for a proof / disproof of this claim?

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    Suppose that $$$x$$$ is the smallest positive number where f(x) is greater than 0 (In other words, $$$x$$$ is the smallest possible amount of candies you need to start with so you can beat all the opponents).

    Suppose that $$$y$$$ is the smallest positive number such that if you start with Y candies, then at some point of time, You'll be able to fight at least $$$p$$$ opponents and win.

    The answer lies between [x,y-1] inclusively.

    for any $$$z$$$ < $$$x$$$ has f(z) = 0, so divisible by p, so [0,X-1] is totally unacceptable answer

    anything greater than or equal to $$$y$$$ has f(z) = k * p, which is divisible by p , so [Y,infinity] is also unacceptable answer

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      actually, imo proving $$$f(z) = kp$$$ for $$$z \geq y$$$ is not trivial

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        But it's trivial to prove that $$$f(z) = kp$$$ for $$$z \ge 10^9$$$. Since, $$$f(z) = n!$$$ and given that $$$p \le n$$$, $$$f(z) \mod p = 0$$$

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    let $$$g(i)$$$ be the number of possible choices of $$$P[i]$$$ ($$$1$$$-indexed) for some $$$x$$$
    you can prove that $$$g(i)$$$ is the same for any valid prefix $$$[1, i - 1]$$$ of $$$P$$$
    obviously the number of permutations is the product of all $$$g(i)$$$
    you know that $$$g(n) \leq 1$$$ (since only 1 integer remains), $$$g(i) \geq g(i - 1) - 1$$$ (because you can still choose all the indices that were valid for the position $$$i - 1$$$, except $$$P[i - 1]$$$)
    so the values assumed by $$$g$$$ are consecutive, and if an $$$i$$$ such that $$$g(i) \geq p$$$ exists, a $$$j$$$ such that $$$g(j) = p$$$ also exists
    an $$$x$$$ isn't valid if there is some $$$i$$$ such that either $$$g(i) = 0$$$ or $$$g(i) = p$$$
    let $$$l$$$ be the maximum $$$x$$$ such that a $$$g(i) = 0$$$ exists, for $$$x' < x$$$, $$$g(i) = 0$$$
    let $$$r$$$ be the minimum $$$x$$$ such that a $$$g(i) = p$$$ exists; for $$$x' > x$$$, $$$g(i) \geq p$$$, so there is some $$$j$$$ such that $$$g(j) = p$$$
    so the only valid answers are in the interval $$$[l, r - 1]$$$
    these values are all valid because $$$l$$$ is maximum and $$$r$$$ is minimum

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    Proof by AC: 85713453 (find minimum value in easy O(N), binary search to find the max value that works, print every number in between).

    Will update with my "proof" later.

    Proof:

    • Claim: f(x) can be written as some factorial, lets call it X!, multiplied by some mumbers <=X.
    • You can see that this is true when you calculate $$$p_i$$$, the number of possible numbers to go in the $$$i$$$th spot, after you've determined the first $$$p_0$$$ to $$$p_{i-1}$$$. f(x) equals $$$p_0 \cdot p_1 \cdot \ldots \cdot p_{n-2} \cdot p_{n-1}$$$. $$$p_i$$$ is calclated by (the number of numbers in the array <= x+i) — i. $$$i$$$ increases by $$$1$$$ each iteration, and because that is the only way for $$$p_i$$$ to decrease, is impossible to decrease by more than $$$1$$$. There is $$$1$$$ possible number that can go in the last position because only $$$1$$$ number is left, so the $$$p_{n-1}$$$ must equal $$$1$$$.
    • Thus, say you found the position with the maximum number of possibilities had $$$X$$$ possibilities, f(x) = X! * {some numbers <= X} because all numbers between $$$1$$$ and $$$X$$$ inclusive must be represented in $$$p_0$$$ to $$$p_{n-1}$$$.
    • This is important because you can say that $$$f(x)$$$ is divisible by all primes $$$<= X$$$ and not divisible by any primes $$$> X$$$, where $$$X$$$ is the number of possibilities of the index with the most possibilities.
    • You can also show that the $$$X_a \le X_b$$$ for all $$$a < b$$$. This is because having a greater value of x in f(x) will never result in less possibilities for any position.
    • Thus, for all $$$f(a)$$$ and $$$f(b)$$$, where $$$a < b$$$, if $$$f(a)$$$ is divisible by $$$p$$$, then $$$f(b)$$$ must also be divisible by $$$p$$$. $$$X_a$$$ is $$$> p$$$, and since $$$X_b \ge X_a$$$, $$$X_b > p$$$ as well.
    • Starting from the minimum working $$$x$$$ (before of which $$$f(x)$$$ is all $$$0$$$), no value of $$$x$$$ after the first non-working $$$x$$$ can work, so the answer must be in the form of a continguous sequence of numbers.
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It is ironical that someone who has physics in his username loves math!!!

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physics0523 write code for problem F. then he write problem for his code

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Terrible legends to problems, most of the time was spent on understanding the statesment((

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A lot of Observational questions. If it hits , you could get AC in 5 mins, otherwise many kept scratching, like me.

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    Accurately put. That's exactly how it was. Hit the idea or hit the right youtube link. XD

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    I'm pretty bad at Observational questions. Is there any tag related to such problems? I want to solve them. Problem like problem C, I mean.

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Worst contest ever :/

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logic in Problem D is the same as this problem from recent div3 contest

https://codeforces.net/contest/1360/problem/G

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Can someone explain to me the solution to A? I used n / 2 with ceil.

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    ans = n / 2 + n % 2, because if n is odd, then we have 1 + (n — 1), 2 + (n — 2) ... n

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      or simply just (n+1)/2 as languages round down during division.

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    print each test-case output in newline.

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    Use ceil(n*1.0/2) it will work

    In your case, you are using n/2 which will be treated as int and to make it float multiply it with 1.0

    if n=5 your answer will be ceil(5/2)=ceil(2)=2
    but it should be 3 as ceil(5*1.0/2)=ceil(2.5)=3

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      n was declared as float. I used ceil(n/2.0).

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        float can't accurately represent all numbers up to 10^9. Needs to be double or done via integer maths.

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Question B was not clear. In the first sample test case,they should have clarified that the 4th and 5th picture are also same (they have different r thats why they should be different). Wasted more than 1 hour on it (I figured the formula in 2minutes) and could not touch C and D properly. Plz,clarify these things.Even on asking the jury ,it said only the last picture(for 1st sample test case) is not considered but actually the last 3 pictures were not considered in the answer.

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I hope Editorial has some brilliant solution for F. Otherwise it is one of the worst problems I've seen in a while.

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I guess it will be hard to believe the testers that comment "problems are very interesting" after this round:(

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Very good round!

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    I think that it is in a sarcastic way!

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Some of the shortest code for A-C that I've seen...

A: (n+1)/2

B: r >= n ? (n*(n-1)/2 + 1) : (r*(r+1)/2)

C: (a+b < n+m || min(a, b) < m) ? "No" : "Yes"

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    please can you explain the solution of B and C,

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      B: When $$$n > k$$$, then there are $$$k$$$ different patterns, one starting at each different day of the week. When $$$n \le k$$$, you only have the straight line pattern. So for $$$r \ge n$$$, you get $$$1+2+...+(n-1) + 1$$$. For $$$r < n$$$ there will never be enough days in the week for a straight line, so it's $$$1+2+...+r$$$.

      C: The observation was that it's always optimal to put all the type 2 people first. The reasoning is that since they always take from the smaller pile, then the size of the pile they'll take from will be $$$x,x−1,x−2,...$$$ (if $$$x$$$ is the original size of the smaller pile). The larger pile will never be taken by the type 2 people until its size is less than or equal to the size of the smaller pile, resulting the continuation of the sequence. Type 1 people always take from the larger pile, so you'll only fail if you run out of cookies. Hence it's never better to put type 1 people first. You also need to check if there are enough total cookies for all the guests.

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    Include D as well :XD

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    B should be (r*(r+1)/2), isn't it? Typo?

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Any idea what does TC4 in E1 looks like?

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Problem B is absolute trash, super unclear, and boring.
Problem C isn't better. Author, can you tell me what the interesting idea or approach is behind this problem? As for me, it's just about understanding problem statements and implementing stupid case analysis.

You know, >75% of participants solve only A, B, and C. So for them it was a 100% shitty round.

P.S. please never invite AmShZ and noobiesAG as testers anymore, if they find this round "really interesting" and "such a great".

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    Solved A in 3 mins from then till now I am unable to cracks B's statement If B & C problems are like that how would anyone solve any on Div 2

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Even A,B,C Solution found on youtube after 1 hours+ . Link. Please notice .MikeMirzayanov ..Please find all the cheaters or and if not possible hope this contest will be unrated.I know to make a contest, authors made so hard work,, But It is unfair someone copy the solution and take positive rating before our eyes And someone go down for only cheaters and gain negative rating . .

**N.B: I was not submit any solution cause busy sometimes on the contest time.Now i feel good cause some problem statement was unclear too , specially B..the contest was worst overall.

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    It's impossible to catch cheaters. The first three problems are a simple formula so you can rewrite it however you want. In addition, many people were confused by the problem statement for B. Many questions were asked with disappointing responses. The problems were of really low quality so many people who usually solved the first 3 questions couldn't even solve 2! This would cause the cheaters to get a lot of positive rating change which is clearly unfair to the community. Thus, I think that we should make this round unrated.

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      Listen to the community: looking at the comments I can find only 2 which say that they enjoyed the contest (not including testers who apparently have a different taste of problems than we do). Clearly, the contest is disappointing to a lot of people. This can be shown by the contribution of this blog. 5 minutes ago it was at 713 and now it is 683. I think that this round should be unrated

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      Its correct.Cheaters solved a,b,c easily.and someone can't solved B with their hard work. So By result cheaters got positive rating and hard worker got negative rating . It's unfair (

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i solved e2 but i didn t understand problem b:))

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Wow, Problem F is really constructive. Are there any easy solutions to F? I tried to implement the Segment Tree, but it is too hard (at least in my case)

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B should have tag unreadbale instead of math.

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    The statement for B was very confusing.For the whole contest, I thought that every week that divides the total number of days given, results only in one pattern.

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So beneficial a round to SegTree-addicts.

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Thanks for writing the round OP. I hope you don't take the hate comments too personally. I especially liked problem E, thought it was a very neat way of combining primes factorization with sorting/arrays.

Hope you can release more rounds and/or problems like this one :)

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I solved A, B & C in under 30 mins but still, I would say the quality of problems especially B was not good. It was just observation, If you see it you solve it else keep getting more confused reading the statement.

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whats the need for 6 green ticks. Just show 4 diff figures. so confusing,

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Can someone hack this submission for E2? This shouldnt work as i only checked if the values were 0, p or 2p.

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Problem statement for B is not well written...maybe same for E1

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Increasing the difficulty of a contest just by making questions very big and confusing is just not done. It makes contest rubbish rather than difficult.

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We don't need that frequent contests with that trash problems. Improve the quality of the problems.

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A-B-C were one liners and completely math and observation based.I don't think math based problems are bad but I think at max 1 math based problem is enough for each contest. You shouldn't just be keeping the first 3 problems math based and then on top of that give an easy D problem.

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I don't like problem B

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Failed horribly and didn't learn a single thing from this contest.

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Wasted a lot of time on B :( and if the answer is 4 why were there only 3 green ticks in diagram ?

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Was I the only one who got a PDF statement for the 1371B - Magical Calendar during the contest?

I was kinda shocked seeing that O_o

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I got more confused by the green ticks than the language of B.

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    I was confused with parallel moves and didn't see the announcement for a while.

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      It is written parallel to the calender's sides so that was clear for me.

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The statement of question B was unclear and the figure made it even worse.

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I solved the 1st Q in 2 minutes.. 2nd Q in probably an hour and 3rd Q in 5-6 minutes.. The problem statement was very confusing physics0523

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The round was good. B could've been better.

To the incompetent motherfuckers who think the round was bad, go shove your green/grey/cyan/sexpert ratings up your asses. You are stupid and incompetent, just like me, but at least I am not bitching out here like you assholes. Accept you are pathetic and improve yourself. Your opinion doesn't even count as a div 2 rat, douchebags.

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    Hi. Which am i among "green/grey/cyan/sexpert"?

    I think people who complained about round quality (in discord servers, not only in CF comments) have logical and valid elaborations on why they think they are bad. I think they would be willing to discuss with you if you would ask them about which problems are good/why. I think it is not nice to call people "incompetent motherfuckers" if they are trying to engage in a rational discussion based on facts.

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      I don't want to engage in rational discussions with grey people. They tend to have different(read stupid) rationality.

      What are their points, huh? Too much math? Too much observation? This wasn't math. And observation isn't bad, it's good. These people don't know a dime about anything. They just performed shit, and started their stupid rant.

      I ask you, alright, tell me, what was bad in the round besides issues with B's statement?

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        this comment was garbage.

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          Hello

          1) The fact that someone leaked solutions isn't author's fault. I will wait till someone leaks solutions when you host the round to tell that the round was terrible because of cheating.

          2) It's weird to accuse round in being "purely math" if later you tell that you didn't even have a chance to spend time on C or D. E2 and F were purely algorithmic. The only point where I may agree is B's statement.

          3) Competitive programming isn't entirely about knowing algorithms, thinking problems are good. Also, if you say that this round is pure math, please tell which round isn't pure math.

          This round wasn't one of the worst on CF, and I hope you can recognize that

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        Listen You ASS****!,grey people like me perform bad in every round but dont rant afterwards .This round was genuinely bad.

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    Dude, you need to take some lessons on improving your language. Just as you have your opinion, so do others, who are "complaining". Atleast, they are not using such profane language.

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why ranting on the problem statement tho.. ? i also have hard time to understand it.. but the fact that a lot of people solve A-D under 1 hour, proving that the statement isn't that bad.. dont blame others just because you dont understand things.. what you need is practice..

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Editorial is out! Auto comment: topic has been updated by physics0523 (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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My first submission for problem A in C++ was

ceil(1.0 * n / 2) and got WA.
Does anyone have any idea what is wrong?

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    ceil is not that accurate with large numbers..here it can go upto 10 power 9....so better to use (n+1)/2 instead of ceil...i also got one penalty in it as i also used ceil in the first go

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      it is not that it is not accurate but you have to typecast you can look my submission

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        i looked at your solution.... the only difference was that i wrote as follows: cout<<ceil(1.0*n/2)<<endl; ans your was like: cout<<ceil(n*1.0/2)<<endl; so what is the difference b/w the two your got ac but mine showed wa

        edit: i got my mistake..i directly printed the ceil(1.0*n/2) value instead of storing it in a long long variable.

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    maybe because it is printing something like 1.06657e+06.

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How do people made formula for B? What made you think that way ?

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    As long as you have more tasks than days in the week you can make a different shape by starting on each day of the week. So you have 1 option for a 1 day week, 2 options for 2 day week etc. Therefore you just need the sum of increasing integers which is a well known (or easily findable) equation (n*(n-1))/2.

    Once you get to the same number of days as tasks the only option is a single flat line that will be the same shape for any number of extra days. So you just add 1 to the above result.

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in my opinion data structures and algorithm problems have completely vanished in recent rounds and even E problems are coming adhoc and greedy type.

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I thought of D as filling largest diagonals. Any flaw in this logic?

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    testcase
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    your answer

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    correct answer

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      How did you come up with this pattern? It doesn't seem that obvious. Did you print out all the combinations and then see?

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        I tried to reach $$$0$$$ with $$$k$$$ multiple of $$$n$$$, by putting $$$k/n$$$ ones on each row and on each column. It turned out that it's possible.

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    N=5 , K=10
    Your Solution
    11100 01100 00110 00011 00001
    Your Answer = 4+4 = 8.

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Glad I didn't upvote this round before the contest.

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please do not convert codeforces into hackerearth. codeforces is authentic site for CP.

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@MikeMirzayanov I would like to thank you for this wonderful platform. I understand that you want to bring the maximum amount of rounds as possible and people complain if rounds happen after many days. But, I think the community will agree that we would benefit more from lesser rounds which are higher in quality as compared many rounds with a high variation in quality.

TLDR: please value quality of contests rather than quantity.

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    I think this is a tester problem, not a Mike problem. Codeforce needs a consistent set of testers who are not afraid of weeding out bad problems and/or contests. If contest writers keep asking their friends to test rounds and the friends are too afraid of criticizing the writer, we have shitty questions.

    I don't see why we can't have many rounds of high quality.

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      There were complaints by testers about the round. For example, after I complained about the explanation for sample 1 of Asterism being wrong, it took about 2 weeks(maybe more, I don't remember) to be fixed. After Monogon complained about parallel moves in B not being explained, nothing was done. I also complained about the quality of C and F.

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        Wow, didn't know that. Thank you for letting me know about the complaints.

        With that said, there should be a veto process where testers can block questions from being used in a contest if there are unresolved issues with them. Otherwise, testing will just become a ceremonious event that no longer improves the problems.

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For me only problem B's statement had a problem, and even that one was pretty minor. I'm sorry that this one issue colored people's perception of the rest of the contest. In fact the problem setter did a great job of setting appropriate difficulties (see the gradual decline in number of accepted solutions, with no severe drops), and made quite original problems.

My advice for problem B's statement would be to state clearly that the weeklength is constant for each shape (i.e, you cannot say week 1 has $$$4$$$ days and week 2 has $$$2$$$ days). However staring at the first example resolves that immediately.

There are many bitter Dunning-Kruger-afflicted people in the comments. You did a good job.

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    Oh okay. So now according to this person, every person who found problem B difficult to understand is an overconfident incompetent asshole who overestimates their ability. Right. Good going. I wonder how in almost any other Div2 contest there are no such people complaining about the initial few problems.

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      Nope, I didn't say that. In fact I shared how I found that statement difficult to understand. But I'm not responding by saying "worst contest ever" because I have > 1 ounce of perspective. I tried to share a way that the setter could improve the statement and a way that contestants could bypass the difficulty (look at the given examples).

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Absolutely shitty round! I felt like I was participating in a math competition. This round should be made unrated because of the cheating and the low quality problems. Period.

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    Just because you could not solve the problems? Grow up, dude.

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      Because I found that the problems were basically about observation and I have my right to comment about the standard of the contest. And if you read the comments above, you will find out that other people also found this round below standard. And I solved 2 problems and for your kind information , I commented not because I couldn't solve but because the round was absolutely the worst round in codeforces history.

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        I agree the second and third problems were sub-standard. But not every contest can be great. Some contests here and there are bound to be average. And that is no reason for demanding the round to be unrated.

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    Worst contest ever

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Worst Problem statement for B in the history of codeforces. There was only 4 or 5 line solution of B if you clearly understand it.Codeforces problems are known to be easy to understand and tough to figure out the solution but this was exact opposite case. I solved A and C but it took it more than 1.5 hour to understand problem B. I wish i could also figure out the solution by looking at the sample test cases just like others did. * sigh *

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    also E2 can be solved in 5 lines

    Solution

    honestly I didn't like the problems, they were too observation based.

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Can people who are demanding the contest to be unrated shut up? By your logic, all I have to do to make the Global Round scheduled in a few days unrated is to upload a YouTube video during the contest. If it goes like this, then theoretically every Codeforces Round will be unrated from now on if even one person is willing to ruin the spirit of competition.

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    But not only was there cheating in this competition, the problem statements were bad and the problems were of low quality. Although the cheater only solved 3 problems (thank goodness), that still gives almost all cheaters a positive rating change as those who legitimately tried solving the problems had much difficulty in even understanding B! This is unfair for those who didn't cheat and due to the type of the problems, catching the cheaters is basically impossible. With all those factors above combined, I think it is reasonable to request the round be unrated.

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      I don't think any contest has ever been unrated because the problems were low quality (unless ofcourse when there is some issues with the problem or the judge).

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        I don't think you've ever taken into consideration that in this contest, there are both cheaters and low quality problems. This causes cheaters to have a high positive rating change while those who play fair have negative rating change. Clearly, this is unfair to those who don't cheat and, if the contest remains rated, is basically telling everyone "Hey, do you want a positive rating change? Go Google the answers for this round or post them yourself!". This is probably not what you or I want and so, for this reason, the round should remain unrated.

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          I have never cheated and will never cheat and I will get a huge positive delta change and become CM. The statement is clear for all problems. Maybe B took time to understand because of the nature of the problem that cannot easily be written in a short statement. Though, the image clarified it as much as possible.

          Edit: The number of people who actually cheated would be considerably low according to the amount of participants. No need to make round unrated except in critical situations. I am not defending because of my rating increase, but I am defending because there is no a major reason for making this contest unrated by any means.

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            Yes. Maybe you are good at reading and you aren't confused by the problem statements but it appears that most users were confused by the problem statements. The images for B completely threw me off. What were the tick marks supposed to mean? In addition, the problem themselves (ignoring the wording as of now) were not too good. Problems A-D were simply just observations. With a great math background and knowledge of I/O, operators, if statements, and for loops, you could solve all the problems. The nature of the problems being Ad-Hoc caused many users to perform worse than they usually do. In addition, many people watched the YouTube video and cheated. When I looked at it (a minute after the contest), the video had 600 views, meaning 600 cheaters who stole the positive delta of others. This shouldn't be encouraged, and to show our determination to prevent cheating, this round should be unrated.

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              I looked after the contest too and it was just 301 views at that time, I'm guessing the number of people that actually used the info from the video would be even lower.

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              So, that means, everytime someone uploads a video during a contest would make the contest unrated? Then all contests should be unrated then. I heard there are a lot of cheating groups. Usually, the cheaters are noobs. Newbies-Specialists and sometimes Experts. But, I have rarely seen a cheater CM+. So, it is not a big deal. Already hundreds cheat every round not only this round. You said 600 viewed the video, doesn't mean 600 cheated. Lets say only half cheated which is 300. Which is nothing compared to the amount of people. Ad-hoc problems are really okay. Who said they are not allowed? Ad-hoc are the most common problem types in most platforms. So you cannot really complain about that.

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                Yes. I'm not saying Ad-Hoc isn't allowed but it's the fact that the cheaters are going to win that's disturbing the community. If we don't do any action (it's hard to do much other than make the contest unrated), we are silently encouraging the growth of cheaters. I'm sure you don't want that, right?

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                  And if we made the round unrated, then all other incoming rounds will also be unrated! We will encourage cheaters! Plus, most of the noob cheaters got their solutions skipped. Maybe a few passed like only 50 passed. This is nothing. Like literally nothing. Not to mention that one of the educational rounds A,B,C,D were copy-pastable from internet(and I saw the sources myself) and the round remained rated.

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                  I think that you, along with the OP both are making this mistake. You are simply arguing that we shouldn't make the contest unrated because of cheaters and we shouldn't make the contest unrated because of bad problems. The thing is that you haven't argued for why we shouldn't make the contest unrated because of cheaters and bad problems.

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                  And I don't see why you didn't mention that you solved B in 13 minutes and couldn't solve C/D.

                  Problems you can't solve aren't necessarily bad. Yes, A-C was basically one liners today, and D was an easy implementation. That might make the problems easier, not bad.

                  And what you are trying to establish will result in Codeforces becoming a very welcoming for cheaters and toxic people. If you can't solve anything other than A, just upload A on YouTube and bam, it gets unrated.

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                  Problem D solved by 4k participants is bad, change my mind:) Anyway I agree with you, but for some reason my comment written earlier, than whole topic, was downvoted(

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    I totally agree with you. Making contest unrated will give strength to the idea that, to make round unrated just upload some solutions on Youtube or any other platform during contest. It is totally unfair for majority of contestant who have solved problems fairly.

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Thanks for the contest, I think it would be better if it was Div 3 contest.

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    "I think it would be better if it was Div 3 contest." what's the reason for ?

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      problems(A, B and C) are math and logic problems, problem D is an implementation problem

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Loved the problemset! Thank you for an interesting round :orz:

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Worst Contest i have ever given

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I felt the problemset was a bit Intimidating at first but after giving some thought to every problem, they seemed getting very simple. Really liked this problem set very much as solving the problems felt very very satisfying.

Will be waiting for many more rounds from physics0523 :)

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    Agreed, so simple problems so difficult statements. I cannot understand why people like this contest, it has so little value. Really, what can anyone learn from it?

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Can someone help me find out what is the issue in my code for problem D — matrix

my idea is to fill diagonally. first we fill from 0,0 to n,n. Then we fill two other diagonal which are n-1 lengh and parallel to first diagonal. this way we can keep feeling matrix diagoannly.

package codeforce.div2.r654;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class ProblemD {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try (Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in)) {
      int t = sc.nextInt();
      for (int tt = 0; tt < t; tt++) {
        int n = sc.nextInt();
        long k = sc.nextInt();
        int[][] matrix = new int[n][n];
        int length = n;
        int startx = 0;
        int starty = 0;
        int turn = 0;

        for(int i = 0; i < length && k > 0; i++) {
          matrix[startx++][starty++] = 1;
          k--;
        }
        length--;
        while(length > 0 && k > 0) {
          startx = 0;
          starty = turn + 1;

          for(int i = 0; i < length && k > 0; i++) {
            matrix[startx++][starty++] = 1;
            k--;
          }
          
          startx = turn + 1;
          starty = 0;

          for(int i = 0; i < length && k > 0; i++) {
            matrix[startx++][starty++] = 1;
            k--;
          }
          
          turn++;
          length --;
        }

        for(int[] a : matrix) {
          for (int b : a) {
            System.out.print(b + " ");
          }
          System.out.println();
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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    Next time use spoiler or link option Please.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiPIWx88o_8 OMG. Is this the first time this has happened?

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When I checked travisscott's video with solutions(it was right after the round), it had had about 400 views. Сonsidering that not everyone cheated, we can assume that ~300 participants cheated. The round has 14401 rated participants, so it doesn't affect to overall rating changes enough to make this round unrated.

UPD: ok, who downvotes me, ask yourselves: how does these cheaters hurt me? Why do I care about their rating, when they'll lose it in sequent rounds? And finally, what benefits they have from their cheating if they could become only low-rated cyan? So, realize that you overestimate the harm of this situation, cheaters are bastards and cheating is a really important problem on cf, but unrated round won't help to fix it.

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Someone please explain the solution for D

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    keep adding 1's along diagonals

    Eg for 4,5 u get 1000 1100 0010 0001

    4,6 1000 1100 0110 0001

    4,8 1001 1100 0110 0011

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      Can you please explain the 3rd case(4,8)

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        see at 4,7 u get 1000 1100 0110 0011

        only column 4 and row 1 has sum=1 rest all have sum=2 so next 1 will go at 1,4 similarily u can extend other diagonals.

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This is not the first time people raising the bad statement issue where isaf27 was the coordinator. Remember Codeforces Round #637 — Thanks, Ivan Belonogov!? I am no one to judge him.I hope he will be more careful about the problem statement in his future coordination.

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In A Nutshell this round was bad and we know that this could've been better because everyone around have given so many interesting contests all we could do is ask for more consistency and some better and interesting problems.

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for me, e was way too good than d. don't know why I always got stuck with such kind of problem. I am too noob at it.

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I solved the 1st Q in 2 minutes.. 2nd Q in probably an hour and 3rd Q in 5-6 minutes.. The problem statement was very confusing physics0523

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Codeforces is getting shittier everyday, It was a lot better in older days.

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It is encouraging to be able to solve more questions, but in long term, it dampens the learning process. We already got Div 4 to encourage newer participants, and Div 3 too. The previous Div 2 have been easier. Having one liner and implementation for C and D really does not help much since A and B are usually these. It will be better if C and D introduce us to a new concept or difficult one.

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As a participant who usually solves A — D in Div. 2 contests, I agree that there should be some data structure problems. I think it would be fine to have some problems just be ad hoc, but I correctly applying data structures is also a very important. Here, only F was a data structure problem.

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When will the ratings update?

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Remember those days when codeforces rounds' had some good or even normal level data structure, dynamic programming, algorithm related problems in problems D, E and sometimes in C? Well, judging by the recent rounds, it seems these type of problems are almost completely vanished in problem (A-E). You don't actually need any knowledge of any algorithm, just some adhoc skill will work. Hell, I can't remember the last time i needed to use any dp in recent rounds.

To be honest I think it's terribly wrong. It inspires especially those people who are obsessed with rating. They would rather practice adhoc tasks than learning any new algo/ds at all. From real life experience, I know some people who think they are good just because they have good rating on CF. But I'm quite sure, their performance will be pretty bad even if they are given some normal algo/ds/dp tasks. (I don't mean they're bad, they just don't practice other than adhocs. Some of them can't even write a recursive dp solution to be honest, but they're purple on CF.)

I just wish the problem set was more diverse as it was rather than solving some adhoc tasks almost in every rounds.

Sorry for my excellent English. My real account is blue-purple.

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    Some of them can't even write a recursive dp solution to be honest, but they're purple on CF

    lol, do you really think that if somebody can consistently solve DE level adhoc problems, they can't figure out how to write recursive dp? Also today's round had 2 non-adhoc problems (F was pure data structure problem without any ideas), which is normal amount imho.

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      First of all, I didn't say that they can't figure out how to write recursive dp. Ofcourse they can. They're smart people. I said that they can't write it because they don't practice this type of problems. But surely it's not applicable for everyone.

      I said it about those people who have started CP in the recent couple of years. (that includes me too.) They depend more on Codeforces than any other platforms (atcoder is a good one too though.) for practice. They usually verify their progress usually by their rating. And it's not good when someone thinks "Oh! I actually don't need to be much skilled on algo/ds to be purple. I just have to practice lots of adhoc problems." Believe me or not, I know some people who think like that. I wish you could see my surroundings. Don't you agree they should practice algorithms & data structures too where actually these are the basis of programming?

      And 2 non-adhoc problems out of 7? Really?? Are you honestly satisfied with this kind of diversity in the problem set? Where (A-E1) are nothing than just a bunch of adhoc problems?

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        I actually don't need to be much skilled on algo/ds to be purple.
        If you can't solve even one problem solved by most people your rating will heavily fall down. So if you can't solve dp problems, you won't be able to be stable purple because dp is frequent enough to appear on rounds.
        And 2 non-adhoc problems out of 7?
        AB (or ABC in 6 problem rounds) don't contain any ds\algo in most contests anyway (it's beginner level problems), so it's like 2 problems out of 4 that isn't adhoc.

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when will the ratings be updated !!!!!!.

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Lesson of the Day- Don't use translator to translate problem statements.

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I stayed up to witness me becoming purple.I go to bed now,wake me up when rating updated.

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physics0523 why is the ratings updates slow?

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Most of the comments here are about Video Solutions on Youtube ! LOL It will be appreciated if someone solves till F or Upsolves it and then Uploads a video tutorial ! for problems, i suggest no new channel now guys ! Try to explain hard problems through videos

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If this contest becomes unrated then every time someone's contest is going bad, they will have the option to make a video and make the contest unrated. We should rather catch cheaters.

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worst round ever!!

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Why ratings are not getting updated? Hope this contest does not become unrated, otherwise each time someone will get make the contest unrated. Rather catch the culprit and make sure this does not get repeated in the future.

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Don't forget to report this video

Can't find appropriate option lol
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Check out the video editorials:

E1. Asterism

D. Grid-00100

C. A cookie for you

B. Magical Calendar

A. Magical Sticks

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I was hoping to participate in today's contest but decided against it after reading problem A. Even though I guessed what the problem was asking, there were gaps and potential for error. I was worried that if problem A had multiple issues in the writeup, then further problems could be even more problematic to understand.

Specifically, take this from Problem A: "Two sticks, that were used in the operation disappear from his set and the new connected stick appears in his set and can be used for the next connections."

It sounded to me that once you connect two sticks to get a new stick, you can continue repeating the combining process with this new stick until you're left with no two sticks of the same size. Of course that would be a harder problem for a Div 2A, and the last example proves otherwise. But the point is that the problem statement was ambiguous and clearly there was a language barrier.

Just as we have testers testing the accuracy of a solution, there should be proof readers — native speakers of the language who are focused on ensuring the brevity and accuracy of the problem statement. Problem writers do a difficult job of thinking up new problems (also remember that this was physics0523's first time as an author, he will only get better with time) and should be focused on that more than anything. I'm certain they could use the help in terms of problem writing, especially if the language in question is not their native language. This will help the problem writer grow their communication skillset as well.

Also, perhaps there can be more standardization in the difficulty of problems. A Div II problem B from one author should more-or-less match up to a Div II problem B by a different author.

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    It sounded to me that once you connect two sticks to get a new stick, you can continue repeating the combining process with this new stick until you're left with no two sticks of the same size.

    Yes, you can, but you must maximize count of stick equal size, so that is wrong tactic. (If this repetition could somehow affect the answer, then please give a specific case)

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      Oops, I stand corrected then — your point is valid and it was my oversight in making the claim about problem A.

      Based on past experience, I would still advocate for the concept of proof readers to improve the overall experience.

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So guys didn't perform well on this contest. Stop complaining and keep training until you get your desired rating. Good luck yall

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This person should get his/her punishment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiPIWx88o_8

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    He got +543 instead of got banned. xD

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      I mean... 500 + 43... That's just sad for him, the best time for getting huge rating increases, and he just only got +43

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Why do you have to make questions which has nothing to do with coding skills at least till question D?We just have to apply mathematics derive a formula and write a 5-6 line code. This is not a Codeforces standard I fell in love with.

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can anyone please explain Statment of B, i am not getting it clearly

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    Try to read the clarifications also. The statement wasn't clear.

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The problem statements were very bad. Worst experience. :)

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I see a lot of hate in the comments for the problem setter. I did find the problem statement B to be very confusing but the contest was good. Agreed that if you didn't stumble upon that one important intuition/observation it would have been hard to solve it. Then again this is a skill that needs to be attained and a great skill to have in your repertoire. Thanks physics0523 please continue setting awesome problems.

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