Hello, Codeforces!
I'm pleased to invite you to open up the new year with Codeforces Round 996 (Div. 2) on Jan/12/2025 17:35 (Moscow time)! You will assist Florida Man through his whimsical adventures with $$$6$$$ tasks in the span of $$$2$$$ hours. The score distribution is as follows:
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The problems were written and prepared by me, innocentkitten. However, this round would not have been possible without:
maomao90 for coordinating the round and carrying me in general;
Alexdat2000 for translating the problems to Russian;
all of our testers: Anonymous_Noob, chromate00, Error_Yuan, HappyPacMan, Hyperbolic, ishaandas1, _istil, LMeyling, mohit458, NayemVai, priyanshu.p, raztun, sevlll777;
MikeMirzayanov for the Codeforces and Polygon platforms;
and You, for participating!
We hope you find that the problems are interesting, and that you earn your desired rating gains! or losses, if you somehow want that
UPD 1: The editorial is up! Hope you enjoyed the contest!
UPD 2: Congrats to the top 5!
Div. 1 + 2
Div. 2
First clears
A. aryan12, 00:00
B. ankan.2526, 00:03 (Div. 1 + 2: arvindf232, 00:03)
C. Sunflower233, 00:11 (Div. 1 + 2: DE_aemmprty, 00:07)
D. suharius, 00:32 (Div. 1 + 2: Survivor_winner, 00:18)
E. myheartwaing, 01:50 (Div. 1 + 2: tute7627, 00:37)
F. N/A (Div. 1 + 2: maspy, 01:04)