We will hold AtCoder Regular Contest 124.
- Contest URL: https://atcoder.jp/contests/arc124
- Start Time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210725T2100&p1=248
- Duration: 120 minutes
- Number of Tasks: 6
- Writer: camypaper
- Tester: tatyam, maspy
- Rated range: — 2799
The point values will be 300-400-500-700-800-900.
We are looking forward to your participation!
I have a question. That is if I register for a contest and I don't participate in that contest(don't submit anything). is it impacts my rating? (the question is for both codeforces and atcoder).
Hope for a good contest.
I hope to become green in Atcoder.
Hope for a good contest!
Who's the problem setter of D?
(I'll knit his name on my death list.)
Why does using set gets TLE submission while simple sort works submission .Are sets slower? also, which 1 test case does this(C) fail on?
Hey, do you mind explaining your approach to B ?
Your C fails probably bc of int32 overflow of LCM. Btw LCM is usually calculated as a/gcd(a, b)*b for this reason but in this case only long long should help.
Thanks for the reply but I have used long long(#define int long long). The problem with my C is in the approach itself as pointed out in this comment https://codeforces.net/blog/entry/93165?#comment-820716
https://atcoder.jp/contests/arc124/submissions/24542794 Can anyone help me find what's wrong in my solution in problem B? It is passing 34 cases but failing in 7
I got similar results before accounting for duplicate items.
Can someone please explain the dp part in the editorial for E?
int n;
Problem C
Can anyone tell whats wrong in this code..it is passing 72/73 test cases..What is that one case which it is failing at?
It's a greedy strategy... it will make locally "correct", but globally wrong choices. Example:
The correct output is 2. Your program tries to save a common factor of 3 after the first two packs, but this dooms it to a worse final result. The test data was probably not very good if this approach was able to pass 72/73 test cases.
https://atcoder.jp/contests/arc124/submissions/24552411
Can you please check this one out what's wrong here? It passes 72/73 cases as well.
Brief explanation : I am storing all those primes that are divisors of all pairs' at least one number and updating answer for all permutations of those primes. According to the order of primes in each permutation, I am adding a number to the red bag if it has a prime divisor whose exponent is greater than the other pair member. Is there anything wrong with my logic or do I have a bug?
Correct output is 6. Your output is 3. Also, as you may realize, it would TLE on this input, since there are too many relevant primes:
How large would the number of divisors of a number be?
I used to assume it was at most $$$\sqrt n$$$.
It's about $$$O(\sqrt[3]{n})$$$
Could you explain how to achieve the $$$\mathcal{O}(N^{1/3})$$$ bound?
There's actually an exact formula. Number of divisors equals to the multiple of [power degrees of prime factors of the number + 1];
12 = 2^2 * 3^1 — > d(12) = (2+1)*(1+1) = 6
I suppose it can be proven that the maximum number of divisors will have numbers which have each prime multiplied exactly once (2*3*5*7...). The maximum number which we can get like that and won't exceed 10^9 consists of 10 primes so its number of divisors will be 2^10.
I think I had read somewhere that the number of divisors of a number n can be shown to be asymptotically less than n^eps where eps > 0, for all n > some N.
Therefore, I guess if we are truly exact then we are talking of a kind of "polynomial" of arbitrarily small degree. Maybe that would be kind of logn or (logn)^2 etc ( as it a function which grows slower than n^eps where eps > 0)
Anyway, I think the n^(1/3) bound isn't really a "real" tight bound. Instead, its just probably the best bound which works when dealing with numbers that are in the range we deal with, for our purposes
n < 1e9 or 1e18
C with $$$n \leq 50$$$ and TL = 4 sec is the best trolling I ever seen
LINK Can somebody tell me which cases are missing using above approach in problem B? I got 38xAC and 3xWA
Your code is not giving the correct answer for this test case —
3 1 1 2 3 3 1
Correct answer : 0
Your Answer : 1,2
I think your logic is flawed as you have not accounted for identical elements in the original array.
Applying
std::random_shuffle
1000 times makes my fake solution to C pass...I don't know if the time complexity of my algorithm is correct. Is there anyone can tell me?
Can anyone explain dp part? That's the most important part in the editorial for E
In B-XOR Matching 2
Why is it sufficient for checking for only n distinct values of X. Shouldn't it be $$$n^2$$$ for different values across a^b where a , b = arrays(a,b) which could be at max $$$n^2$$$
Think it in this way that a[0] can map with b[0] to ..... b[n-1] so we will have n different values of xor (a[0]^b[k]) and hence we need to check for only n possible values because the xor for every pair in each matching needs to be same
Here is my submission
Can someone explain how to get the formula $$$ f(n) = g(n) - 2 \sum^{n-1}_{0} g(i)C(n-i-1) $$$ in problem F?
To get $$$f(n)$$$ you need to subtract from $$$g(n)$$$ all the cases where they met before $$$n$$$. Suppose the LAST time they met before meeting again at $$$n$$$ is after moving right $$$i$$$ times.
Then, both of the animals should move $$$n - i$$$ times right. During this phase the camel should always be strictly faster than the cat (or vice versa). This is known to be $$$C(n -i - 1)$$$. See the lattice paths interpretation of Catalan number: catalan
Thanks!! I get it.
Can u explain dp part in the editorial for E ?
Were you able to find the dp for E? Please share if you could find it
I do not have it. In the editorial for E, they just said to use dp to solve without explaining how to use dp ~~~~~
In problem E we have to find the number of ways to select exactly 1 ball from each cell for all sequences C such that
Please note that we have to consider every ball different from while selecting but we have to consider them identical while transferring ( Since only number of balls transferred matters to us) .
After performing the given operations let's say an index i contains x balls. Some of it (possibly 0) must be in index i-1 originallly. So when we are selecting a ball from this index we can either select a ball that was originally present in index i-1 or a ball that was originally present in ith position.
We can find answer for sequences C such that min(C)=0 by finding
Count(Minimum in C is atleast 0)- Count (Minimum in C is atleast 1)
For position j, 0 represents that the ball we will select for 0th position was originally at 0th position and 1 represents that the ball we will select for 0th position was originally at last position.
For dp(i,j,k) there are 2 transitions dp(i+1,j,0) and dp(i+1,j,1).
If k==0 this means the ball we are going to select for position i was originally in place i and if we are going to transition to dp(i+1,j,0) that means the ball that we are going to select for position i+1 was originally in position i+1. So we don't have to worry about it. Now number of ways to select a ball for this position A(i)-C(i). Since we have to consider every C(i) we can add A(i)-0+A(i)-1+A(i)-2.......... which will result in an Arithmetic Progression.
Similary we can count for each transition very easily.
Final answer that we will return is dp[n][1][1]+dp[n][0][0]. dp[n][0][1] is a wasted state because we initially assumed that the ball that we are selecting for position 0 was originally at position 0. But dp[n][0][1] represents the number of ways such that the ball that we are selecting for position n was intially at position n-1 which contradicts our original assumption.
The final answer will be FIND_ANSWER(0)-FIND_ANSWER(1). where FIND_ANSWER(m) gives answer for all sequences C such that minimum in C is atleast m.
You can refer to semiexp's code for help.
Thank you for your help
can you explain more about dp transform
The main problem in writing dp for this probem was the circular nature of array. Since the last element will have an effect on first one and the first one will have a effect on last one as well. So we will initially assume what the last position will be doing. If j=0 then it means the ball selected for position 0 was initially present in 0 else if j=1 then it means the ball selected for position 0 was initially present in 1
For each i and j there are four possible transition :-
So first 0 in this transition tells us that ball selected for position i was initially in i and the second 0 tells us that the ball selected for position i+1 was originally in i+1. So we don't have to worry about the ball selected for i+1 in this state.
How many ways are there to select a ball for position i? a(i)-c(i) (since these are the numbers of balls left in this position after operation).
So for c atleast 0 this will be a[i]-0+a[i]-1+a[i]-2+.....a[i]-a[i] which will be equal to a[i]*(a[i]+1)-a[i]*(a[i]+1)/2.
for c atleast 1 this will be a[i]-1+a[i]-2+a[i]-3 which will be equal to a[i]*(a[i])-a[i]*(a[i]+1)/2.
So dp[i+1][j][0]+=dp[i][j][0]*(a[i]*(a[i]+1-m)-a[i]*(a[i]+1)/2) % MOD ( you can read my previous comment to understand what m is.)
Second 1 tell us that ball selected for position i+1 was originally in i.
So how many ways are there to do this ? (a[i]-c[i])*c[i]. a[i]-c[i] ways to select the ball for ith position and c[i] ways to select balls for position i+1.
For c atleast 0, a[i]*(0+1+...a[i])-0*0-1*1-2*2......a[i]*a[i] =a[i]*(a[i]+1)(a[i])/2-a[i]*(a[i]+1)(2*a[i]+1)/6.
For c atleast 1 it will be same.
We have already selected ball for position i. And the ball for position i+1 was originally in i+1.
How many ways to select ? 1
For c atleast 0, (a[i]+1) For c atleast 1, a[i]
First 1 tells us that the ball for this position was originally present in i-1. We must have already selected it. Second 1 tells us that the ball for position i+1 was originally present in i .
How many ways are there to select it? c[i]
For c atleast 0, a[i]*(a[i]+1)/2 For c atleast 1, a[i]*(a[i]+1)/2
I got it. Thank you very much for the clear explanation
thank youu very muchh !!!
I am getting WA in problem B in three testcases.After so much trying i still cant figure out whats wrong .Please help me out.Here is my Submission
remove duplicate numbers in rslt
Can someone explain, how did we prove that N+M-K+2*max(R,B) is the minimum(for problem D: Yet Another Sorting Problem) from the below argument:
Here, it is possible to prove that f ( i ) ≤ f ( i + 1 ) holds where f ( i ) = i + N + M − K i + 2 max ( R i , B i ) . From this, we can state that we need at least N + M − K 0 + 2 max ( R 0 , B 0 ) operations.
clyring
Why tag me
Thought that you could have helped seeing the other comments on this page.
Sorry for the tag. Removed it now.
This proves a lower bound since if the original list is sorted after $$$j$$$ operations, then
since there are exactly $$$N + M$$$ components each of size $$$1$$$ in that case. But since $$$f$$$ is increasing and obviously $$$j \geq 0$$$ it must further hold that $$$j = f(j) \geq f(0) = N+M-K_0+2 \max(R_0,B_0)$$$. The editorial then continues by describing a specific strategy that achieves this lower bound and must therefore be optimal.
Thanks for your reply.
I might not have been clear with my doubt. The doubt was that how did the editorial claim that N+M-K+2*max(R,B) steps were needed at any point.
After going through your comment, I went through the greedy strategy mentioned and it seems that the strategy helps to break open the the claim.
Thanks again, clyring. If not for you I would have given up on this problem.
For people who come later with the same confusion, the minimum steps can be rewritten as (N+M-(K-max(R,B))) + max(R,B). The second term max(R,B) is the number of steps required to join a pure red or pure blue component to another red/blue component(not necessarily pure). We do so because for swaps to occur a component must have both a red and blue node.
By doing so, we decrease the number of components by max(R,B). Now, K(final)=K(initial)-max(R,B). And since in a single step we can decrease the number of components just by one we need at least N+M-K(final) steps to have the sorted array.
I think Problem C — LCM of GCDs, lacks of perfect test cases.
This is my submission:
For the following test case, my solution is supposed to get WA.
5
3 2
1 6
1 2
1 6
3 2
My output is 1 where the answer should be 2.