NOMURA Programming Contest 2021(AtCoder Regular Contest 121) Announcement

3 years ago, # |

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Bruhhh... I just did some random shit for C XD
Can anyone explain their solution?

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lemme_sleeeep

3 years ago, # ^ |

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Can you elaborate the random shit that you used :)

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3 years ago, # ^ |

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Lmao

I iterated $$$n^2$$$ times and maintained a variable for the current parity. Each time I loop through the array I swapped any $$$a_{i} > a_{i + 1}$$$ if $$$i$$$ matched the current parity, if there was no such $$$i$$$ I just swapped the first $$${i}$$$ that matched the current parity and continued to the next iteration.

Submission

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rkguptagkp462

3 years ago, # ^ |

I was also trying to do the same, but it got TLE. can you elaborate on how did you chose any i, when it is not sorted and every ai > ai+1 does not match current parity.

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3 years ago, # ^ |

Oh I didn't explain that properly, I edited my comment.

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DankTank

3 years ago, # ^ |

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In the case you mentioned if you swap any index that matches current parity from the right it won't cause you TLE I guess.

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3 years ago, # ^ |

It won't.

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humbertoyusta

3 years ago, # ^ |

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I changed the first $$$i$$$ which matches parity and $$$a_i > a_{i+1}$$$.

If there is no such $$$i$$$, then swap the last $$$i$$$ which matches the parity.

I changed the last and not the first because if you swap the first, then some latter move may try to reverse that swap before looking at the elements at the right of the swap and fall into an infinite cycle.

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aopo

3 years ago, # ^ |

Can you give an example where it may TLE if we choose to swap first parity matching element?

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humbertoyusta

3 years ago, # ^ |

Try all permutations of size 3, if it passes all those tests, try all the permutations of size 4, it won't pass all of them.

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3 years ago, # |

My code for B is getting RE on 15 cases. Can somebody help please? I implemented simple two-pointer technique. My Code for B...

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3 years ago, # ^ |

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The following testcase seems to fail on your solution (expected 999999999900000, output 0): 2 100000 B 1000000000000000 A

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3 years ago, # ^ |

Thanks a lot, I had used INT_MAX for infinity as I thought #define int long long will take care. Learnt, a new thing today :')

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malifold

3 years ago, # ^ |

I believe the problem is line 360 (and similar line), you forget to check that the size is at least 2 when looking at rb[1].

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https://atcoder.jp/contests/arc121/submissions/22996626

3 years ago, # ^ |

I found my mistake, it was in the INT_MAX. By the way thanks for having a look

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lemme_sleeeep

3 years ago, # ^ |

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My Submission for B

I made 3 vectors (say $$$V_1$$$, $$$V_2$$$ and $$$V_3$$$) with the $$$a[i]$$$ values of the respective 3 colours and sorted all 3 of them. Then if all of them are of even size you obviously have 0 as your answer other wise I swapped the vectors such that my first two vectors, $$$V_1$$$ & $$$V_2$$$, are of odd size (we will have exactly two vectors with odd size currently).

Firstly I tried to have one pair in which an element is from $$$V_1$$$ and the other one is from $$$V_2$$$ and the rest will pair with someone having the same colour as their own. For this I iterated $$$V_1$$$ and checked for the first element in $$$V_2$$$ >= $$$V_1[i]$$$ and the first element $$$V_2$$$ < $$$V_1[i]$$$ (if it exists). All this while updating the best answer achieved till now.

Next I tried to have two pairs where one of them has elements form $$$V_1$$$ & $$$V_3$$$ and the other one has elements from $$$V_2$$$ & $$$V_3$$$. I did this by maintaining two prefix minimums which had the minimum cost of pairing an element of $$$V_3$$$ with an element of $$$V_1$$$ and similarly the minimum cost of pairing an element of $$$V_3$$$ with and element of $$$V_2$$$. I kept updating the best answer while making these prefix minimums.

Can someone point out if they did something which made the implementation even better :)

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coder_Aditya_404

3 years ago, # ^ |

same i did bruhh.. but with binary search, but dont know where my code is failing :(

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lemme_sleeeep

3 years ago, # ^ |

I did the required binary search task but simply calling lower_bound and handling it with iterator. Did you also do it that way ?

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Priyanshu14_

3 years ago, # ^ |

I did exact same as yours

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coder_Aditya_404

3 years ago, # ^ |

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no, i did BS with while loop.

but i think the case u might have missed is, if for a element x[i] u found lower bound as y[j] from other array. then u should check y[j-1] also because at last we have to take min(abs(x[i]-y[j]), x[i]-y[j-1]) as our target is to minimise this difference not to find lower_bound.

I also missed this, i guess my code also failed because of this only.

Hope this help ;)

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dhruv7888

3 years ago, # ^ |

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I went through this submission of someone and now I have a doubt , isn't it possible that the element of vector V3 which is responsible for having minimum answer for an element from vector V2 is also responsible for having minimum answer for an element from vector V1 , If possible then in that case wont this solution fail ?

NEVERMIND , I understood its impossible to have such a case

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Sportsman

3 years ago, # ^ |

Why is it impossible??

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dhruv7888

3 years ago, # ^ |

There are 2 cases , Suppose X is from V1 , Y is from V2 , and Z is from V3 , then if X<Y<Z then always (Y-X)<(Z-X)+(Z-Y) , Now if X<Z<Y , then (Z-X)+(Y-Z)=Y-X , and Y-X is already calculated

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Makise_Kurisu

3 years ago, # |

+24

Am I the only one who felt like B's implementation was cancer? Can anyone share their neat implementation?

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3 years ago, # ^ |

My implementation gave runtime error on 15 cases. Can you share yours?

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3 years ago, # ^ |

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Maybe you forgot one case.

We check the freq of the colors, one color allways has even freq. If the two other colors also have even freq, ans=0. Else ans is minimum of

cheapest pair of the two odd colors, or

sum of cheapest two pairs with first even color and odd color, and second even color and odd color.

submission which is, well, cancer

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3 years ago, # ^ |

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Nah man, I had checked all the cases. Using INT_MAX gave me RE as the constraint was upto 10^15. I had a misconception that INT_MAX will change itself according to the data type. I was wrong :(. By the way, thanks a lot

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waltz47

3 years ago, # ^ |

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"Sum of cheapest two pairs with first even color and odd color, and second even color and odd color." How are you sure that the same dog (with even color) will not be matched with the other dogs with odd color?

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3 years ago, # ^ |

Well, this is the complecated looking part in the code, you actually have to construct the two cheapest pairs with not the same even dog.

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rkguptagkp462

3 years ago, # ^ |

Submission

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3 years ago, # ^ |

lol, that is at least double cancer ;)

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Rudro25

3 years ago, # ^ |

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I find min difference of between B & G , B & R and R & G separately. Then we have to deal just for 1G & 1R or 1G & 1B or 1B & 1R.

Idea

Supose think there have one R and one G ,, other already vanish like RR , GG or BB. then we have 2 option..
1. try min dif between any R array value and any G array value
2. here we take one R with B and one G with another B as if value difference is minimum.
and take the min value between 1 and 2 as answer.

Solution

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
#define      mxx                 1e18
#define      SORT(v)             sort(v.begin(),v.end())
#define      B                   begin()
#define      E                   end()
#define      V                   vector
#define      F                   first
#define      ll                  long long
#define      S                   second
#define      PSB                 push_back
#define      MP                  make_pair
#define      InTheNameOfGod      ios::sync_with_stdio(0);cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0);

void solve(){
   ll n,a;
   char ch;
   cin>>n;
   V<ll> bb,rr,gg;
   for(ll i=0;i<n+n;i++){
    cin>>a>>ch;
    if(ch=='R') rr.PSB(a);
    else if(ch=='B') bb.PSB(a);
    else gg.PSB(a);
   }
   SORT(rr); SORT(gg); SORT(bb);
   if(rr.size()%2==0 && gg.size()%2==0){
    cout<<0<<endl;
    return;
   }

   ll lr=rr.size(),lg=gg.size(),lb=bb.size();
   ///////
   ll mn=mxx,mn1=mxx,mn2=mxx;
       //mn store min difference between gg and rr array
       for(ll i=0;i<lr;i++){
        if(gg.size()==0) break;
        auto it= lower_bound(gg.B,gg.E,rr[i]);
        if(it==gg.E) break;
        ll big=*it;
        mn=min(mn,big-rr[i]);
       }
       for(ll i=0;i<lg;i++){
        if(rr.size()==0) break;
        auto it= lower_bound(rr.B,rr.E,gg[i]);
        if(it==rr.E) break;
        ll big=*it;
        mn=min(mn,big-gg[i]);
       }
       //mn1 store min difference between gg and bb array
       for(ll i=0;i<lb;i++){
        if(gg.size()==0) break;
        auto it= lower_bound(gg.B,gg.E,bb[i]);
        if(it==gg.E) break;
        ll big=*it;
        mn1=min(mn1,big-bb[i]);
       }
       for(ll i=0;i<lg;i++){
        if(bb.size()==0) break;
        auto it= lower_bound(bb.B,bb.E,gg[i]);
        if(it==bb.E) break;
        ll big=*it;
        mn1=min(mn1,big-gg[i]);
       }
       //mn2 store min difference between bb and rr array
       for(ll i=0;i<lb;i++){
        if(rr.size()==0) break;
        auto it= lower_bound(rr.B,rr.E,bb[i]);
        if(it==rr.E) break;
        ll big=*it;
        mn2=min(mn2,big-bb[i]);
       }
       for(ll i=0;i<lr;i++){
        if(bb.size()==0) break;
        auto it= lower_bound(bb.B,bb.E,rr[i]);
        if(it==bb.E) break;
        ll big=*it;
        mn2=min(mn2,big-rr[i]);
       }
       ///////


   if(lr%2 && lg%2){
      cout<<min(mn,mn1+mn2)<<endl;
   }
   else if(lr%2 && lb%2){
     cout<<min(mn2,mn+mn1)<<endl;
   }
   else{ //g&b
      cout<<min(mn1,mn+mn2)<<endl;
   }
   
   


   //cout << fixed << setprecision(10);
}
/*-----*/
//signed main(){
int main(){
   InTheNameOfGod

   ll Test=1;
   //cin>>Test;
   while(Test--){
     solve();
    }
  return 0;
}

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Ritwin

3 years ago, # ^ |

My solution is here

Let $$$b_i$$$ store all $$$a_j$$$ with $$$c_j = i$$$ (with R = 0, G = 1, and B = 2)

If all $$$b_i$$$ are even, we can pair dogs within the same color and have to left over, so the answer is $$$0$$$.

Otherwise, there are two indices $$$i$$$ and $$$j$$$, with $$$b_i$$$ and $$$b_j$$$ even. We can try combining two dogs from $$$b_i$$$ and $$$b_j$$$ (with two pointers or binary search). Let $$$k$$$ be the other index that's not $$$i$$$ or $$$j$$$. Notice that combining two dogs from $$$i$$$ and $$$k$$$ and then two more from $$$j$$$ and $$$k$$$ might be better. So you can just try the best ones from $$$i$$$ and $$$j$$$, and the answer is the minimum of this sum and the previous answer.

Also, there are no edge cases, you can prove that.

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abdelrahman001

3 years ago, # ^ |

Code

We will end with one of 2 cases, all colors are even or 2 of them are odd.

The first case has answer 0, but the second has one of two cases to find the minimum answer, you can try to match each element from any of the two odd sets with the nearest one to it in the other set or you can take two elements from the even set and try to match them with the nearest two from the odd sets.

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Ritwin

3 years ago, # ^ |

I felt that B was a pretty nice, Atcoder-quality problem. But they didn't have the other case in the samples, which probably screwed a lot of people over.

For me, A was like cancer. Here's my wack implementation. Those whole 50 minutes were like "Why doesn't this work... Why does it work now?"

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https://atcoder.jp/contests/arc121/submissions/22994246

3 years ago, # ^ |

Mee toooo

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coder_Aditya_404

3 years ago, # ^ |

This legend really writes the neat code, worth to go through it.

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Talaodi

3 years ago, # |

solved B, but failed to solve A, and wasted the whole contest. does anyone have a similar experience?

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jyoti360

3 years ago, # |

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What was the hand_01.txt test case for problem A

UPD : Hello camypaper sir, please give me that test file.

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3 years ago, # ^ |

Try: 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 the answer should be 1.

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jyoti360

3 years ago, # ^ |

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But sir, mine is also giving 1 as you said and expected.
Submission Link — Click_1
Test here — Link — Click_2
lungualex00 give me the exact test case : hand_01.txt please.

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qilin02811

3 years ago, # ^ |

I think the ac code of A here can be easier to comprehend,bro: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/8P9CdMdf4K/

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3 years ago, # ^ |

I don't have the testcase; I personally bypassed hand_01.txt using the example already provided. I saw in you code that you handle n=3 differently, which is odd as it shouldn't represent a special handling. The idea in the first place was not to consider the same pair of points twice (once for x-diff and once for y-diff). However, try to work with 4 1 1 2 2 3 3 5 5 which should be answered with 3.

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Atcoder TestCases DropBox Link

3 years ago, # ^ |

I guess it is that the pair with biggest x-diff also has biggest y-diff

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ayush2hack

3 years ago, # ^ |

I guess there must be more similar test cases , cause I too got WA on just 1 test case and had to write a completely different code for AC. lol!

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samarth5611

3 years ago, # ^ |

Here are all the test cases of Atcoder, ARC 121 tests are also updated

Hope this may Help u jyoti360

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kshitij_sodani

3 years ago, # |

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Does anybody has any idea why this code tles in 2000ms in problem E on exactly one test file while this code passes in 20ms (just some small constant optimizations)? .It cost me 30 minutes of penalty

edit:found the mistake

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feecIe6418

3 years ago, # |

+15

What a dumbhead I am, my D's solution is equivalent to the standard one if all $$$a_i>0$$$, and is wrong otherwise. But my stress test data generator only generated data with $$$a_i>0$$$ so I couldn't find the mistake!

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3 years ago, # |

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D has a nice idea but it really seems to be harder than standard-ish E.

D: If we choose which elements to use as part of a pair, then we should pair the first with last etc. That's because if $$$a \le b \le c \le d$$$, then $$$c+d,b+d \le b+c,a+d \le a+c,a+b$$$ — it gives us the tightest intervals [min,max] not just by max-min, but in each value separately. How to deal with $$$k$$$ unpaired elements? Just add $$$k$$$ elements equal to $$$0$$$, then everything is paired. We can bruteforce for each possible $$$k$$$.

E: Inclusion-exclusion DP. For each $$$k$$$, we're looking for the number of subsets of $$$k$$$ vertices which violate the given condition, while ignoring the condition on the remaining $$$N-k$$$. Merging DP for subtrees is convolution-like and when we have a subtree of $$$v$$$ with size $$$s_v$$$, where we put $$$k$$$ of its descendants into the subset, then there are $$$s_v-1-k$$$ values we can't use for $$$a_v$$$ in the permutation if we put $$$v$$$ in the subset too.

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Ritwin

3 years ago, # ^ |

And then there's LayCurse who goes and finishes D in 8 minutes.

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3 years ago, # ^ |

With that kind of short solution, I'm not surprised. It's the kind of problem where you can see it right away or stay stuck for 2 hours, even at high level.

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rivalq

3 years ago, # ^ |

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The idea of adding k zeroes explains why unpaired elements will form a contiguous subarray.

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3 years ago, # ^ |

Hi Xellos, I understand that we need to take (a, d) and (b, c). Then could you pls explain how to compute the final answer ? Also when you mention k, k can be only max of 3 right ? as we only 4 elements form a two pair ?

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3 years ago, # ^ |

The final answer is computed by bruteforce, $$$k$$$ can be up to $$$N$$$. Remember that $$$O(N^2)$$$ is enough.

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3 years ago, # ^ |

To reiterate on the solution, First sort the array. Then for each possible K (where n-K is even and K being the number of unpaired elements), you will select the 1st n-K elements and then pair them as above (1st with (n-K)th, 2nd with (n-K-1)th and so on), then compute the minumum and maximum among both the last K elements and the 1st ((n-K) / 2) pairs. Then print K where the difference is minimum ? Here we take the 1st (n-K) elemnts to form a pair as if we take any other element, either the minimum will be lesser or the maximum will be greater and hence the difference will not be lesser. Is this correct ?

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3 years ago, # ^ |

I don't see you using the part "just add $$$k$$$ elements equal to $$$0$$$" from my original comment.

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3 years ago, # ^ |

Ah! ok!, so instead of selecting the 1st n-k elements and making pairs, you add k zeros in the beginning ?

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sudipandatta

3 years ago, # |

My C solution fails with 1 WA in small case 1. Can anyone help me debug? I tried all permutations up to size 10. It does the job within N*N.

My Code

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