Hello everyone!

As many of you already know, today is the day for Codeforces Round #127 missing which is really undesirable ;)

Original problems for you were created by tourist and Romka. We tried to emphasize the ideological component of the problems, thus we hope that you'll spend more time thinking than coding. Special thanks for helping in setting the contest go to Codeforces coordinator Gerald. We also thank Delinur for translating the problem statements and Alex_KPR for reviewing them.

We hope that this round won't be just a regular Codeforces round for you, but will bring you new experience and new knowledge. For the authors all problems are equally easy, yet we tried to arrange them in decreasing order of simplicity :)

Problems' point values in Division 1 are 1000-1000-1500-2000-2500. Problems' point values in Division 2 are 500-1000-2000-2000-2500.

Wish you success!

UPD: The contest is over, thanks all for participating. We hope you enjoyed it :)

In Division 1 rng_58 was a clear winner, solving all 5 problems in an hour and a half! No one else managed to solve all problems in two hours.

The winners in Division 1 are (full results):

1. rng_58

2. peter50216

3. liympanda

4. White_Bear

5. havaliza

In Division 2 every problem was solved by somebody, but nobody managed to solve all problems. The battle was very tough and the gaps were very small.

The winners in Division 2 are (full results):

1. Leewings

2. snow_lotus

3. 72VanVector_SevNTU

Congratulations to the winners!

UPD2: The editorial is available now.

Good afternoon, friends)

We introduce you Codeforces Round #126 (Div. 2). Please note, Codeforces Round #126 (Div. 2) will be only today and only today you will have unique opportunity to raise your rating in this competition (certainly, you will be able to solve problems virtually after round, but this doesn't change your rating). Also round will be unrated for participants from first division.

This round was prepared by students of Saratov State University: Nicolay Kuznetsov (NALP), Pavel Kholkin (HolkinPV), Igor Kudryashov (Igor_Kudryashov) and Gerald Agapov (Gerald). Also we thank creator of Codeforces Michael Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for amazing system, member of staff of Codeforces Mary Belova (Delinur) for great translation and Alexander Kuprin (Alex_KPR) for help in preparation of this round.

Note, today it is decided to use dynamic scoring system (Learn more about dynamic problem scoring).

Also problems will be placed in random order, it means they aren't sorted in increasing order of difficulty.

More right ideas and fine solutions to you.

UPD. Competition is over. Thanks for all who participated. We hope you enjoyed the participation, and round not passed in vain. Editorial will be posted soon. Congratulations to the winners:

1. Andreos

2. jma127

3. iensen

4. Spider-man

5. MrPapaya

Hello everyone!

There is yet another Codeforces round. Now it is the 5³-th one.
The round will run for both divisions by classic rules of Codeforces format.

Points are standard: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

Round was prepared by Ripatti , Alex_KPR , Gerald , Aksenov239 , RAD , Delinur .

Good luck!

UPD. Round is ended.
Winners of div1:
1. Petr
2. tourist
3. SergeyRogulenko
4. bmerry
5. UESTC_Nocturne

Winners of div2:
1. gflegar
2. mylyanyk.ivan
3. arbesfeld

Petr is only who solved all 5 problems in the first division. No one solved all 5 problems in the second division.

UPD. Editorial.

Hi all!

Today, June 12, when Russia celebrates Day of itself, Euro 2012 second round starts and I_love_natalia has a birthday, we present you Codeforces Round #124.

Contest was prepared by team Samara SAU Teddy Bears (craus, dalex, Hohol) and I_love_natalia. Also thanks to Alex_KPR and Codeforces team (Gerald, Delinur, MikeMirzayanov). We think that contest is very easy, and your task will be prove of refute this assertion :)

Scoring system is dynamic (Learn more about dynamic problem scoring).
Authors think that problems are sorted by difficulty in non-descending order.

Accepted solutions and successful hacks to you!

UPD. Contest is over, congratulations to the winners!

Div-1 (full results):

1. tourist — the only one who solved all problems!
   
2. RAVEman
   
3. aropan
   

Div-2 (full results):

1. bmerry
   
2. littlefriend
   
3. gstsclq
   

UPD 2. Tutorial is available.

A couple of days ago I wondered how many authors (except for me) write problems about programming languages. I was hoping to be not alone in my passion to this topic; but the reality exceeded all expectations. Of course, problems which feature programming languages are much scarcer than ones about computers, processors, microchips, parallel computing, databases and other IT things, but still much more frequent than ones about, say, dragons :-)

1. TopCoder

The early years of TopCoder presented the participants with several programming-languages-featuring problems.

Welcome, friends)

We are glad to introduce you regular Codeforces round #123 for Div.2 participants. Everyone can traditionally participate in it.

Problems are prepared by command of authors: Ivan Fefer (Fefer_Ivan), Igor Kudryashov (Igor_Kudryashov), Pavel Kholkin (HolkinPV) and Gerald Agapov (Gerald). Also thanks to Pavel Kunyavskiy (PavelKunyavskiy) and Alexander Kouprin (Alex_KPR) for their help. And traditionally thanks to Michael Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for Codeforces system and Mary Belova (Delinur) for translating problems.

Score distribution is standard: 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500.

We wish you success and high rating!

Congratulations to winners:

1. bmerry
2. adrian.jaskolka
3. cheshire_cat
4. alexej
5. psw

UPD: the tutorial is here

The upcoming contest is brought to you by me. My name is Arthur, I'm a student of Chelyabinsk lyceum 31.

I am glad to thank Gerald for contest preparation management, Delinur for translation of statements, MikeMirzayanov for a really excellent system, dolphinigle for test-solving, proof-reading and much valuable advice, fdoer, grey_wind, Skird and alger95 for help in problem development.

There is nothing more to say yet. As you can see, contest will be held in two divisions separately. The scoring system will be standard (not dynamic), but scores for tasks may be unusual (see update of this post).

There won't be volume stories. I hope you will like the contest and its problemset and everything will be OK.

UPD: Scores for tasks:

Division 1: 500-1000-2000-2000-2500

Division 2: 500-1000-1500-2000-3000

UPD2:

Congrats to winners =)

Div1:

1. Petr
2. tourist
3. yeputons
4. peter50216
5. aram90

Div2:

1. lucien
2. tomasz.kociumaka
3. sjynoi

UPD3 some part of English editoral posted. You will find the remaining part of the editorial later

UPD4 English editoral was completed.

The first information letter

General information

In the first part of August 2012 Saratov State University runs an international student summer school in computer programming. The exact dates are 1-11 of August. Teams of three people and individual participants are invited to take part in it.

The school will take place in a picturesque place at one of Saratov resort centers on the Volga bank. The participants will be provided comfortable rooms for 2-4 people and meals three times a day. The resort center owns a beach and sport grounds.

It will be 10 training days. The school includes lectures by Saratov state university coaches, joint trainings, problems tutorials and topical workshops. The curriculum is designed for younger university students who aspire to achieve high results at programming competitions. Official language — Russian.

The fees are 16000 RUR (~ 510 USD) per a person. Moreover, each team or an individual participant should bring a laptop with the support of WI-FI.

All interested participants and teams should register at http://acm.sgu.ru/sazanka-2012/ till 15th June 2012. Don't postpone the registration, as the number of participants we can take is limited.

You can get additional information by e-mail mirzayanovmr[symbol-at]gmail.com. As since the official language of the school is Russian, the registration requires knowledge of Russian. Also it is recommended to view this page in Russian.

About Saratov State University

Saratov State University, regularly achieves significant advances in programming competitions. The following are the main achievements of the university in international competitions:

• 2002 ACM-ICPC World Finals silver medals, Europian Champions
• 2003 ACM-ICPC World Finals silver medals
• 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finals golden medals, Europian Champions, World Champions
• 2007 ACM-ICPC World Finals silver medals
• 2008 NEERC Champions
• 2009 ACM-ICPC World Finals golden medals
• 2010 ACM-ICPC World Finals silver medals
• 2011 ACM-ICPC World Finals silver medals

Mike Mirzayanov,
Saratov State University

Hello, dear Codeforces community!

I'm glad to present you the next Codeforces Round #121. The contest is brought to you by Ivan Smirnov (ifsmirnov) and Aleksandr Timin (AlTimin), the students of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In our first round we will offer you a good time in Berland: you will hold a demonstration, prevent the demonstration, deal with the most important problems of Berland (with both of them!) and much more.

We thank Gerald a lot for the invaluable help he gave as during the contest preparation. He is also the author of one task in the contest. We also thank Delinur for the English version of statements, Aksenov239 for proofreading the statements and MikeMirzayanov for an opportunity to hold a contest on this wonderful site.

As usual, the contest will be held in both divisions and the problemsets will overlap. The scoring will be published later.

We wish you good luck and hope that you enjoy the contest!

UPD1: The scoring is classic in both divisions — 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

UPD2: The contest authors apologize to the contesters for a possibility of misunderstanding of problem B div 1 (D div 2). The statement was fixed soon enough and the incorrect understanding of the problem didn't pass pretests, so the round is rated.

The contest is over; the editorial is here. I've mis-estimated the complexity of the problems — but how could I possibly guess who will arrive and finish everything in 40 minutes :-) Congratulations to the winners — the slowest and the most relaxed of them took under an hour to solve all the problems.

Today's round features Roco — a little-known esoteric language with a special approach to loops and subroutines. The programs written in it look a bit bulky, especially when compared to Befunge, but this is compensated by their relative simplicity and readability. Here is a program which calculates the sum of two given numbers:

iin [0]
iin [1]
add [2] [1] [0]
iout [2]
ac

There is little information about this language on the web — the only two sources known to me are the author's site and Progopedia article with commented sample programs.

There is also exactly one interpreter for Roco, written by its author. To run it, one has to have C++ installed (the author uses g++, and so do we), compile the interpreter source code into an executable file and run programs using command "roco program.roco". You can download the interpreter here.