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By Everule, history, 4 years ago, In English

Disclaimer : I just want to highlight some simple techniques used to solve Ad-Hoc tasks.

In my opinion, these are all simple techniques, but a lot of these are used even in much harder problems. I hope these will be helpful to some people.

1: Eliminate obvious cases, and see if you can simplify the problem.

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2: Ignore unnecessary information, and use it to draw the problem in new ways.

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3: Making obvious lower and upper bounds, and proving they are constructible.

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4: Finding invariants

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5 : Define something that cannot change much.

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What's Ad-Hoc tasks?

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    An Ad-Hoc task is something that doesn't fit into any specific topic. These are questions whose solution you have to come up with completely by yourself.

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      Ad-Hoc seems like a abbreviation,is it?

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        Ad-Hoc is actually a Latin phrase, that means "to this"

        Google phrases it better :

        In English, it generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be adapted to other purposes.

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great post with perfect examples.

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omg thank you for this everule <3

I hope you reach LGM soon!

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Nice blog!

Suggestion: Try to include the abridged problem statement within the blog for uninterrupted readability.

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    I'm OK without the abridged problem statements, because part of the skill is reading the problem statement and understanding the core idea (and especially people who read this blog because they struggle with As and Bs can probably benefit from practicing this skill).

    I would say there's no reason to put the problem link in a spoiler block, though, since it's only 1 word/line anyway.

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      I just meant it in the sense that it's a little inconvenient to switch tabs repeatedly while reading a blog.

      And yes I agree that there was no reason to put it in the spoiler block, but I didn't point it out because it's not a big issue anyway.

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I think instead of "question", "problem" or "task" are more appropriate here.

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Thanks for sharing the resource. I will try to use these methods!

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Congrats on reaching red! That was fast! orz