Hello all coders and programming enthusiasts!

I want to invite all of you to participate in the last Qualification Round of India Hacks 2016, which is organized by HackerEarth.

This is the third and the last one qualification round. If you missed or didn't qualify in the two previous rounds, this is the last change to advance to the semifinals.

Qualification Round 3 takes place on January 17, 04:30 PM CET (click to check your timezone). Top 1000 participants with non-zero score will advance to the main contest.

The prizes in India Hacks are quite nice, including a trip to San Francisco, many tech gadgets and a lot of goodies for top 50 participants. If you want to grab any of them, or you just like to compete agains a lot of other programmers and you haven't qualified to the main contest yet, reserve a time slot for this round!

I'm a tester of the problem set and a conductor of the contest. There will be 5 problems in the contest and you'll have 3 hours to solve all of them. In addition, a partial scoring system will be used in all of them, which means that you'll get points for each correctly solved test file in any problem.

Big thanks to Baba, subway, aditya1495 and hellgeek for creating the problems, to belowthebelt for technical assistance and to I_love_Tanya_Romanova and Errichto for proofreading and solving the problems, and for all their suggestions.

Since this is the last qualification round, problems won't be very hard, so if you're going to participate, you may assume that submission time might be a big factor in the final standings.

Have fun and good luck to all of you.

See you on the leaderboard, hopefully at the top of it :)

UPDATE:

The contest is over and all submissions and editorials are public now, check them out if you want. Special congratulations to Kostroma for being the one who solved all the problems first and to all 15 participants who managed to complete the whole problem set during the contest.