Wrong problem statement is now almost a regular incident .I hope this will be fixed soon.
And i don't know if anyone else feels this but problem statements are getting hard to understand for me. If its not my problem than i think this also should be fixed .
I totally agree with you. Last contest's problem no. C was very hard to understand.
Yes. And Problem B was also..203 in base 9, that caused me to think, how to get 203 in base. And I forgot to refresh my page for long time.
And finally I had to ask the admin about that(203 in base 9 ??).
So, guys whenever you have problem in understanding any part of the problem , instantly go to Ask a question, I m sure admins will be there to help you out! :D
Its getting frequent that problem statement of Codeforces is very tough to understand in English as a foreign language.
Please try to solve this problem quickly.
Thanks to Codeforces team.
Vasya bought the complete works of the famous poet berlyandskogo Petit in n vols. Volumes are numbered from 1 to n. Vasya decided to put them on one shelf, which was just n free places, numbered from 1 to n. He believes that to put the book just in order - not nice. Vasya wants to minimize the number of divisors of the arrangement - such positive integers i, that for at least one j (1 ≤ j ≤ n) holds: j mod i = 0, and at the same time p (j) mod i = 0, where p (j) - the volume number, which stands for the j-th place, and the mod - the taking of the remainder of the division. Naturally, one that can hold exactly one place and one place is exactly the same volume.
Help Basil - Find the balance with the lowest number of divisors.
It seems niether of them can be trusted. :P
But certainly google translate seemed better in this case.
BTW this was PROBLEM C.
I also like Codeforces, specially the little arrows. :)
The arrows are really cute.
I read round #46 statements. I read English statement first and only after I understand it, I checked Russian statement. Problem C is OK. Really.
What part of it you did not understand? Maybe we should discuss yours misunderstandings so we can prevent it from happening again?
A.
"The rules of the game are as follows: those who play for the first time, that is Vasya is the sleuth, he should investigate a "crime" and find out what is happening."
I didn't understand it. Really.
Ok, in this problem statement we can just skip it and still solve the problem.
B.
Well, i've got it, but I'm not sure that anybody can get it, the English there is even worse than mine.
The English for "цифра" is "digit", not "number",
The English for "строка" is "line", not "letter" ("Input: The first letter contains..."),
and so on.
(Besides, I can't find out from the problem statement,
if the test "AB CD" is valid,
but it's not a special feature of English statement.)
C.
Surprisingly, much better than previous statement.
I didn't like the phrase "it does not do to arrange the book simply according to their order", and I didn't find the phrase about the
shelf (it is present in Russian statement) but the statement still can be understood.
D, E.
Hmm, may be as I read these statements, I begin to understand
that special СodeForces Еnglish better...
Didn't discover any bugs in D and E :)
Thanks Codeforces Team
What exactly you found difficult in problem C? I can explain it for you so you will understand statements next time?
I know i couldn't answer your question properly but thats all i can say now.