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Hello Codeforces!

On Aug/27/2022 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 134 (Rated for Div. 2) will start.

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This round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

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UPD: Editorial is out

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I hope this time it's going to be a good round

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Hope a balanced Edu round this time.

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Previous Edu was so bad with bad pset.. Hope this'll be better than before<3

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More like:

Educational Codeforces Round 134 [Rated for Div. 1]

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After seeing the comments about previous bad edu rounds, I'm a little bit afraid of participating in this round.

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New Specialist arriving.......

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      It may be mine new title.

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        It was a sarcastic comment.

        Hope you become specialist in today's round, all the best!

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          Not in a sarcastic way just bit confident that I would made this time but Whenever I am very close to becoming a specialist, my contest goes bad. I feel depressed and bad but I will not give up.

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About the work and study opportunities... why would anyone with these skills do a Master or internship if you are not even paid enough to live in the city? I mean, with the required skills, you can get a real job and get paid more.

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WAforces

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How to solve C ?

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    Video Solution for Problem C

    Hint
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    For minimum, for each $$$a_i$$$, we look for the smallest $$$b_j$$$ such that $$$b_j \geq a_i$$$. Note that $$$j \leq i$$$ (since it must always be valid to map $$$a_i$$$ to $$$b_j$$$). It's valid to map $$$a_i$$$ to $$$b_j$$$ because the elements between $$$a_j$$$ to $$$a_{i - 1}$$$ can be mapped to the elements $$$b_{j + 1}$$$ to $$$b_i$$$. Obviously, we can't map $$$a_i$$$ to anything smaller than $$$b_j$$$. So the minimum $$$d_i = b_j - a_i$$$, where $$$b_j$$$ is the smallest element in $$$b$$$ that's $$$\geq a_i$$$.

    Maximum is trickier. Consider the first index $$$i$$$ where $$$a_{i + 1} > b_i$$$. Now for each $$$j \leq i$$$, I claim there will always exist a valid mapping from $$$a_i$$$ to $$$b_i$$$. Proof: For $$$j < i$$$, we can simply map elements $$$a_i$$$ and below to $$$b_{i - 1}$$$ and below (since $$$i + 1$$$ is the first index where we can't do this) until we reach $$$a_j$$$, which we can map to $$$b_i$$$.

    Furthermore, $$$b_i$$$ is the maximum choice for $$$a_j$$$ because $$$a_{i + 1}$$$ and above cannot map to $$$b_i$$$ and below, so by pigeonhole principle, the elements from $$$b_{i + 1}$$$ and above can only be occupied by $$$a_{i + 1}$$$ and above. Therefore, $$$d_j = b_i - a_j$$$, where $$$i$$$ is the first index in which $$$a_{i + 1} > b_i$$$ and $$$j < i$$$. We can then treat $$$a_{i + 1}$$$ as the new start, and look for the next index of this property, and so on.

    My submission: https://codeforces.com/contest/1721/submission/169851465

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Who else thought that question B will get solved by BFS/Dijkstra's Algo?

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    i thought it was dp and wasted alot of time then noticed test cases and then i thought for like 20 mins and ficured out greedy and then made a mistake with a bracket and waste another 30 mins and finally figured it out.

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    That would have taken way too much running time

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    You never want to go up or left. Now, any path, that can be cunstructed moving only right or down, will take you n + m — 2 steps to get to (n, m). So, i don't think, that Dijkstra or BFS is intended

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    It was my first idea as well but a quick glance at the bounds should immediately tell you that it's too slow. Since there's no "sum of $$$N$$$ is at most" condition and you can have up to $$$10^6$$$ cells to calculate distances too, the total runtime can get up to $$$10^{10}$$$ which is way too high.

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I gave up on C ? can any one at least explain the problem?? Post Contest Obviously.

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What is wrong with my approach to problem C?

Approach : For Maximum : for each b[i] , find the largest j , such that a[j] <= b[i] , then mx[i] = b[j] — a[i]

For Minimum : find the leftmost j , such that b[j] >= a[i] , then mn[i] = b[j] — a[i]

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    contrary test: a = {1 1 1 5}, b = {4 4 5 6}. Following your logic, mx[1] = 4, but it's actually 5

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    for minimum can we use lower_bound function??

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      yep

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      Also possible to use the fact that arrays are sorted and maintain a pointer that only moves rightwards

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the first edu round that i finally did good and solve ABC unexpectedly :>

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How to solve D?

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    same question here

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    Solve for bits from most significant to least significant.

    For any bit b, iterate through a and store the prefix in a multiset. Set all bits to 0 except the bits you've already set, and of course, this current bit.

    Iterate through b and try to find the inverse prefix in the multiset and remove it. Set all bits to 1 except the bits you've already set, and of course, the current bit.

    (By inverse prefix, we mean the prefix that when xor'd with the key in the map will produce 1 on every bit. So to find an inverse prefix, take a prefix, and xor it with the 1-mask to get the actual prefix).

    If the multiset has nothing left after you're done, you can set this bit. Store the info that this bit is already set and move on.

    Probably my implementation will get hacked, but here it is: 169888210

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      My solution has a similar idea, but personally find it easier to understand:

      For each bit i from most to least significant: Sort a increasing and b decreasing. Compute the answer for the current state of a and b, lets call it k.

      If the ith bit of k is set, then set the final answers ith bit to 1.

      Otherwise set all ith bits in a and b to 0.

      This works, because you greedily only consider bits which are used in the final answer when sorting the arrays and disregard all other bits. This solution works in $$$O(32 \cdot n \log n)$$$

      code

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        Can you explain, why we have to sort arrays in such way?

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          You want to partition $$$a$$$ into 2 subsets:

          • all $$$a_j$$$ with the ith bit 1

          • all $$$a_j$$$ with the ith bit 0

          You do the same for b

          For the highest bit its easy to see that sorting will work to partition them into 2 subsets, because all $$$a_j$$$ with the ith bit 1 are strictly greater than $$$a_k$$$ with ith bit 0. So sorting a in increasing order will put all $$$a_j$$$ with ith bit 0 in the lower part and all $$$a_j$$$ with ith bit 1 in the higher part.

          In order to increase the xor you greedily match all $$$a_j$$$ with ith bit 1 with $$$b_j$$$ with ith bit 0 and vice versa.

          Now as you move down to the lower bits, you want to keep the matching of the previous assorted partitions (if they are part of the final answer), so you keep those bits as they were. Otherwise you erase them.

          So to answer your original question (i hope this clears it up a bit):

          Sorting a increasingly and b decreasingly matches the numbers with 0s at the ith bit in a with the numbers with 1s in the ith bit in b by putting the 0s of the 1s in each partition of a (and reversed in b).

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        great solution thank you

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D is annoying implementation, unless I'm missing something obvious

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    You are missing

    Something obvious
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    Really? The implementation is fairly straightforward (though somewhat long) if you use a set<pair<vector<int>, vector<int>>>

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      Right I see now, I used set<pair<int, int>> and overcomplicated everything

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In problem E Prefix Function Queries, Why am I get TLE on test 17 ? I used the concept of GFG problem. Its clearly in O(|s|+q*|t|).

Submission link

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    The issue is that while loop. Computing prefix function is amortized $$$\mathcal O(n)$$$, but when you have queries and can "rollback" some suffix of the string, you break the amortized analysis and devolve to $$$\mathcal O(nq)$$$.

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      Thanks. Then how to solve E?

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        To speed up the while loop, we note that the loop is just repeatedly jumping len = lps[len - 1] until we find a character that matches. Thus, we can compute a jump table jump[i][c] that marks the first index we jump to from index $$$i$$$ before reaching character $$$c$$$. This gives us a $$$\mathcal O((|s| + q|t|) \cdot \Sigma)$$$ solution where $$$\Sigma = 26$$$ is the alphabet size.

        Submission for reference

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    I'm in the same situation as you.169890422

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    This is far from "clearly" $$$O(|s| + q|t|)$$$.

            else // (pat[i] != pat[len])
            {
                if (len != 0)
                {
                    len = lps[len-1];
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                else // if (len == 0)
                {
                    lps[i] = 0;
                    i++;
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    Look at this code path. The len = lps[len - 1] line might happen many times as $$$i$$$ is not increased. The "vanilla" KMP will run in $$$O(|s|)$$$ because there is some amortized analysis saying it does. But now that you have all these different queries, it may happen that the parts of KMP that took a long time will happen every time.

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D is so obvious, but the memory limit and implementation is so fucking annoying.

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B was very irritating

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Can anybody tell me where's the solution?

thanks!

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    Or there's no solution until now?

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      I think solutions(if you mean tutorial/editorial) will be published after the open hacking.

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I would like to report that problem D of this round had already been discussed (main idea as well as code) on StackOverflow 1+ year back and I believe many have used this and would lead to an unfair advantage to them in today's round.

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Can someone explain an easy way to implement C ? I was doing it with sets but I am getting TLE on TC-5. My solution was to check for every ai if there exists a range of values bi ( l <= i <= r ) greater than or equal to ai and the smallest di would be b[l]-ai and largest di would be b[r]-ai.

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    Your idea is correct. You can optimize it with 2 pointers technique.

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Anyone care to explain their solution to D.

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Is my approach for E correct (didn't have time to code it):

First create a hash for each prefix of string so that we can efficiently compute hashes of substrings. Now for each prefix check whether it is a suffix of the original string in $$$O(N \log N)$$$, firstly just store hashes of prefixes in a map, then traverse all suffixes and try to match them to prefixes using map.

Now we for each $$$i$$$ traverse intervals $$$(i,i)$$$, $$$(i,i+1)$$$, $$$(i,i+2)$$$, ..., $$$(i,i+9)$$$ and update maximum prefix that ends at $$$i-1$$$ that is also a suffix of the original string using the previously computed value. Now all that is left is for each query, for each prefix of $$$t$$$ add the maximum value + its length if its hash exists in the original string.

Is this valid, seems good on sample checking by hand?

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can any one tell that why its giving tle on 3rd testcase in (B)

    private static long find(int[][] arr,int sx,int sy,int d){
        int n=arr.length;
        int m=arr[0].length;
        long one=0;
        long two=0;
        for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
            if(d>=distanceBetweenPoints(i, 0, sx, sy))one=imax*-1;
            if(d>=distanceBetweenPoints(i, m-1, sx, sy))two=imax*-1;
            two++;
            one++;
        }
        for(int j=0;j<m;j++){
            if(d>=distanceBetweenPoints(n-1, j, sx, sy))one=imax*-1;
            if(d>=distanceBetweenPoints(0, j, sx, sy))two=imax*-1;
            two++;
            one++;
        }
        if(one<0&&two<0)return -1;
        if(one<0)return two;
        if(two<0)return one;
        return min(one,two);
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Nooo, i saw timer was on 3 minutes, so i thought i have enough time to upwrite D, but it finished like 10 seconds after i continued writing code... Could've got to expert, if solved D :(

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    But nethertheless, great round! Thanks for nice edu!

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How to optimize D? I got TLE on test 4.

My algorithm : I maintained a vector of pair of vectors. Initially we have the pair of given 2 vectors. Now, from the highest bit to lowest bit, find if complementary number of bits are set in each pair of vectors. If yes, divide each vector into 2 vectors which can be paired with one another.

Submission link : 169890132

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    Make a check if the vectors are empty. In this case, don't push them into the set.

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      Thank you so much, how could I miss that :(

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        I missed that too at first (and probably a lot more people).

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      Thanks, man. I had the same idea and thought it was too slow, because of the TLE (and I can't seem to figure out how and why). You saved my day!

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      Strangely when I added this check into my code, my runtime only went from 1450ms to 1403ms: 169971754 vs 169857453. My solution checks for impossibility first before doing anything else though, so that might be it. Still, I'd expect the difference to be more substantial.

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        This is because you are using a set instead of a vector, and only one instance of empty arrays is inserted.

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          Oh shoot, thanks! Don’t know how that escaped me

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    Don't add pairs of empty vectors.

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    Instead of copying divisions to new vectors, you can simply rearrange and operate on indices similar to quick sort partitioning.

    Submission: https://codeforces.com/contest/1721/submission/169880265

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    I tried to solve it with the same idea. I also got TLE on test 4. I tried to make it better by using pairs of numbers that show a range on the first vectors. I am getting MLE on test 15. I have no idea why it is using so much memory. Can anyone help me understand why my code is using so much memory while it should use much less? (just a few vectors should not reach the max limit memory.)

    https://codeforces.com/contest/1721/submission/169912449

    edit: I got the problem. It was because I was pushing unnecessary pairs to my vector. just like pushing empty vectors.

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    Checking to see if you can achieve the bits before creating the new pairs would probably help. In your solution you potentially waste a lot of time pushing pairs of vectors into things and then discarding them.

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I'm always stuck at DIV2D

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Shouldn't Problem B be m rows and n columns? M is Y-axis and N is X-axis.

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    $$$x$$$-axis is from up to down almost always in CP.

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    Please no

    I'd rather prefer they didn't use x for Y-axis coordinates

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God, I misinterpreted problem B and thought that robot is moving to a certain point that is given as part of the input... Wasted a lot of time due to this.

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Making a checker for F seems very interesting. Does anyone know how it was done?

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    It probably only does checking for the each 2-query that the sum of edge indices matches the value printed on the last 1-query.

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    To check if the removal of a vertex results in a smaller maximum matching, it is sufficient to check that there is no alternating path from an unmatched vertex to its matched side (it doesn't matter which maximum matching we use for this check). This can be rephrased into dynamic connectivity.

    Note that the checker doesn't need to be fully online, so there's lots of options for the problemsetter here. Whether the sum of edges is achievable is probably not tested, although there are some sums that are clearly not achievable, so there are at least some cases where a WA can be created this way.

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    It was kinda painful to implement.

    The interactor doesn't check everything, but it checks a lot. First of all, the fact that deleting a subset of vertices decreases the matching is checked using the following assumptions:

    • it is always possible to remove just one vertex, so if the participant removes more, then he gets WA;
    • suppose the participant has removed $$$k$$$ vertices. Then the matching should be decreased by $$$1$$$ with each deletion; but since deleting a vertex can reduce the matching at most by $$$1$$$, then it's enough to check that the matching in the resulting graph is reduced exactly by $$$k$$$. If it is so, then every operation has decreased the matching; if it is not, then the answer to some query was wrong. So, the interactor doesn't need to check the matching after each query, it checks the matching only in the end.

    Checking the sum of numbers in a matching is not perfect. You can, for example, print that the sum of edges is -1e18, and the interactor won't mind it. It relies on the fact that your solution doesn't know the moment when it has to process the query of type $$$2$$$ beforehand, so you can actually print some nonsense, but most probably you will get caught.

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I have submitted two solutions for problem B because the previous solution submitted was hackable and now that solution is hacked, so will my most recent submission counts? I am asking this because my rank has been dropped after getting the old solution of problem B getting hacked

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finally will make it to specialist :D

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Anyone want to try to hack 169846064? Basically, I took the naive approach of recomputing the prefix function each query and put a trie on top of it to reuse computations. I made a hack where it runs in 763 ms (as compared to the current 311 ms) but maybe someone knows how to make a better test.

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I think E is too easy and standard and there should be a harder "string suffix structures" problem for me to solve.

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Today's contest was really educational. But couldn't solve no more than two problem.

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Can anyone please tell me why my code is giving wrong answer for this test case Problem D

Testcase
Code

My idea is to start from the highest bit and try to pair a[i] and b[i] where the both bits are different

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This contest sucks. _HDH noob.

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Brute force can AC problem E because of the too small $$$|t|$$$. AC Submission.

That's too bad. I think problem E is really a bad problem.

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Bruh I knew how to solve D at 1h left but I got so many bugs it took me 1h past the contest to finally AC...

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Am I the only one who solved D with binary search?

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    I thought about doing that, but I ultimately decided against that. I assume you mean binary searching on the answer, right? I didn't do that b/c I don't think it's guaranteed that if a value x works, then all values below x work.

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      Yes, I did that. Actually, "if a value x works, then all values below x work" is an incorrect statement lol, but in the loop I checked can we make a number for a certain m which contains 1 in all bits where m contains 1. And seems like we can find out the asked number bit by bit

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    Seems that if you can check whether answer $$$x$$$ is valid, you can get the optimal answer directly. So binary search is unnecessary.

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Am I the only one who did E using Binary lifting and tree dp? all submissions seem way less complicated.

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Can anyone help me improve this solution. I am just trying to gp the array elements based on count of setbits.

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Could anyone explain why my solution of C is giving TLE when it should clearly run in O(nlogn) Submission:169910737

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Can someone tell what is wrong with my code

Question C — Min-Max Array Transformation (Div 2)

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#define ll long long 
using namespace std;
const int N = 1e5 + 5;
const int INF = 1e9;
const ll modulo = 1e9+7;
int main(){
	ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
	cin.tie(NULL);

	int t;
	cin>>t;

	while(t--){
		int n;
		cin>>n;
		int maxVal = INT_MIN,minVal = INT_MAX;
		int arr[n],b[n];
		for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
			cin>>arr[i];
		}
		int noPossible = false;
		for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
			cin>>b[i];
		}
		
		int maxd[n],mind[n];
		
		int k = n;
		for(int i=n-1;i>=0;i--){
			auto idx = lower_bound(b,b+k,arr[i]) - b;
			mind[i] = b[idx] - arr[i];
			maxd[i] = b[k-1] - arr[i];
			if(idx>=k){
				noPossible = true;
				break;
			}
			if(idx==k-1 or b[k-1] == b[idx]){
				k--;
			}
			
		}
		if(noPossible){
			memset(mind,0,sizeof(mind));
			memset(maxd,0,sizeof(maxd));
		}
		for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
			cout<<mind[i]<<" ";
		}
		cout<<endl;
		for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
			cout<<maxd[i]<<" ";
		}
		cout<<endl;
	}


	//set for precision
	// cout << fixed;
 //    cout << setprecision(12);
	return 0;
}

Submission Id — https://codeforces.com/contest/1721/submission/169917249

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    Here is a counter-example:

    3
    1 2 3
    1 3 4
    

    The maximum difference for $$$a_1$$$ should be 0. To see why, observe that $$$a_2 = 2$$$ cannot be mapped to $$$b_1 = 1$$$ (since $$$2 > 1$$$), which means that {$$$a_2, a_3$$$} must map to {$$$b_2, b_3$$$}. By the pigeonhole principle, this means $$$a_1$$$ can't map to {$$$b_2, b_3$$$}. Therefore, $$$a_1$$$ must be mapped to $$$b_1$$$ no matter what, so both the minimum and maximum $$$d_1$$$ are equal to $$$0$$$.

    The error in your code is how you compute the maximum. Greedily picking the largest possible $$$k$$$, which only decrements if idx==k-1 or b[k-1] == b[idx] is insufficient. My approach, instead, was to find the next index $$$k$$$ for which $$$a_{k + 1} > b_k$$$, which means indices $$$\leq k$$$ cannot be mapped to $$$b_{k + 1}$$$ or above, but they can be mapped to $$$b_k$$$ instead, to yield the maximum possible difference.

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    Hope you can understand my submission easily ,and will find your mistake. 169935846

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is this problem D? image link

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To not keep you waiting, the ratings are updated preliminarily. Tomorrow I will remove cheaters and update the ratings again!

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Can anyone explain problem D?

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    The third test-case provides a nice hint. If my explanation is too long, feel free to skip to the end for the algorithm steps.

    Suppose the answer is $$$x$$$. Consider the leftmost 1 bit (MSB) of $$$x$$$. Let's say it's at position $$$k$$$. Elements of $$$a_i$$$ with a 0 in bit $$$k$$$ would be paired with a $$$b_i$$$ that has 1 in bit $$$k$$$, and vice versa. This means, if you were to sort $$$a$$$ according to bit $$$k$$$ only (ignoring all higher bit positions), and if you were to reverse-sort $$$b$$$ according to bit $$$k$$$ only, then the bitwise XOR of $$$a_i$$$ and $$$b_i$$$ will always yield a 1 in bit $$$k$$$.

    Okay, so it's easy to find the first $$$1$$$ in $$$x$$$, but how do we find the next $$$1$$$? Let's say that the second 1 from the left in $$$x$$$ is at bit position $$$k'$$$. This time, it's not enough to look only at bit $$$k'$$$ to pair $$$0$$$s in $$$a$$$ with $$$1$$$s in $$$b$$$ and vice versa, because we also need to make sure the relationship in bit $$$k$$$ is preserved.

    Essentially, bit $$$k$$$ partitions $$$a$$$ and $$$b$$$ into two (where the $$$0$$$-partition in $$$a$$$ has the same size as the $$$1$$$-partition in $$$b$$$ and vice versa) and then within each partition pair, we need to make sure bit $$$k'$$$ achieves a similar partition. It follows that if we

    (a) sort $$$a$$$ according to bit $$$k$$$ and reverse-sort $$$b$$$ according to bit $$$k$$$ as mentioned before,

    (b) for the partition in $$$a$$$ that has the same bit $$$k$$$, we sort these elements according to bit $$$k'$$$, while for the corresponding partition in $$$b$$$ with the opposite bit $$$k$$$, we reverse-sort these elements according to bit $$$k'$$$

    Then the bitwise XOR between $$$a$$$ and $$$b$$$ should now have both bit $$$k$$$ and bit $$$k'$$$ yielding $$$1$$$s. This partition idea may sound complicated to implement, until you realize that this is basically how numbers are sorted anyway! Sort by the most significant bit first, and then for those with the same MSB, we sort by the second most significant bit, and so on. It's just plain sorting! The only difference is that we skip the bit positions in which we're not able to form such pairs (i.e., some partition formed by $$$a$$$ does not have the same size as the corresponding partition formed by $$$b$$$), where $$$x$$$ will have 0 in such bit positions. But if we ignore these bit positions, then a sorted $$$a$$$ will map perfectly to a reverse-sorted $$$b$$$.

    This leads to the following algorithm:

    1. Sort $$$a$$$ and reverse-sort $$$b$$$ (this automatically prioritizes the leftmost bit position)
    2. For each bit position $$$k$$$, from leftmost to rightmost, check if the bits in position $$$k$$$ for ALL elements in $$$a$$$ are the opposite of the corresponding elements in $$$b$$$.
    • If yes, we set the answer's bit $$$k$$$ to 1, because any arrangement of $$$a$$$ and $$$b$$$ that preserves this ordering of bit $$$k$$$ in their elements will produce a 1 in the bit $$$k$$$ of the answer.
    • If no (at least one element of $$$a$$$ has the same bit $$$k$$$ as the corresponding element in $$$b$$$), then we clear bit $$$k$$$ to 0 for ALL elements of $$$a$$$ and $$$b$$$. Now we sort $$$a$$$ and reverse-sort $$$b$$$ again (does not have an impact on bit positions more significant than $$$k$$$, position $$$k$$$ itself is irrelevant, so the rearrangement considers $$$k - 1$$$ onwards)

    My submission: https://codeforces.com/contest/1721/submission/169955540

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In my opinion ,Rounds Created by awoo always contains intresting problems. Thanks a lot, keep creating.

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Educational rounds — more like negative delta rounds :(

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got JUST enough for specialist ^_^ Lets gooo

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    Dammn! at the border you're... Congrats for becoming unrated for upcoming Div4 LOL.

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Ohhh this was nice contest.

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hope you will make contest again.

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in que 1 we can directly take character array of 4 size and sort them. then just see how many times elements changing

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    Alternatively, we can just enter each of the four characters into a set. The answer is the size of the set minus 1. 169957444

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Hello. Can anyone help me understand why this solution WA2. Thank you!

https://codeforces.com/contest/1721/submission/169843966

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    I haven't examined the code itself, but it seems you're calculating maximum incorrectly. Consider the following test-case:

    3
    1 2 3
    1 3 4
    

    The maximum difference for $$$a_1$$$ should be 0. To see why, observe that $$$a_2 = 2$$$ cannot be mapped to $$$b_1 = 1$$$ (since $$$2 > 1$$$), which means that {$$$a_2, a_3$$$} must map to {$$$b_2, b_3$$$}. By the pigeonhole principle, this means $$$a_1$$$ can't map to {$$$b_2, b_3$$$}. Therefore, $$$a_1$$$ must be mapped to $$$b_1$$$ no matter what, so both the minimum and maximum $$$d_1$$$ are equal to $$$0$$$.

    I'm not sure what you were trying to do for maximum, but my approach was to find the next index $$$k$$$ for which $$$a_{k + 1} > b_k$$$, which means indices $$$\leq k$$$ cannot be mapped to $$$b_{k + 1}$$$ or above, but they can be mapped to $$$b_k$$$ instead, to yield the maximum possible difference. 169851465

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Come on why do Edu Round editorials take so long

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can anyone tell me why i get WA on test 2, please tell me how to correst it, and thanks a lot.

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my record

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    I didn't understand your program code, but here is a counter-test:

    2
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    1 2
    

    The minimum values for $$$d_1$$$ and $$$d_2$$$ are both 0, since either of them can be mapped to $$$b_1 = 1$$$. You can find the minimum $$$d_i$$$ by simply looking for the smallest $$$b_j$$$ such that $$$b_j \geq a_i$$$.

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Here's an interesting solution I found for E, not sure if it's new. Implementation here, featuring enough spaghetti to feed a family of five for a week.

We do some precomputation first. Use a map<int, int> m, where values are hashes of a substring of $$$S$$$, and the corresponding value is the maximal number $$$i$$$ such that the length $$$i$$$ prefix and suffix of $$$S$$$ are the same. To calculate this, we iterate $$$i$$$ independently of the substring, and check if the prefix and suffix have the same hashes in $$$O(1)$$$ time. If so, we add update m on substrings $$$S[i+1..i+1+j]$$$ (technically their hash values). As we'll see later, we only care about $$$j \leq 10$$$, so this takes $$$O(|S|\log |S|)$$$ time which is fast enough (we can use an unordered_map or gp_hash_table as well but time is not an issue). Note that if we double-check our hash equality by directly comparing the substrings, we TLE on TC 36 which is all a's, since comparing strings/generating substrings is linear in the length of the string so our program runs in $$$O(|s|^2)$$$ in that case.

We consider every $$$|S|+i$$$ more or less independently (I will use uppercase letters). Let $$$T_i=T[1..i]$$$ denote the length $$$i$$$ prefix of $$$T$$$. Suppose we have some prefix string $$$x$$$ of $$$S+T_i$$$ that's also a suffix string. There are three possibilities:

(1): Both the prefix and suffix strings lie in both $$$S$$$ and $$$T_i$$$. In this case, we can break $$$x$$$ up into $$$x_1,x_2,x_3$$$ (in that order) defined as follows: $$$x_1$$$ is the portion of the suffix string lying in $$$S$$$, $$$x_3$$$ is the portion of the prefix string lying in $$$T_i$$$, and $$$x_2$$$ is the remainder of $$$x$$$. To check if any $$$x$$$ of this type work, we iterate over $$$|x_3|:=j$$$, checking if the length-$$$j$$$ prefix and suffix of $$$T_i$$$ are the same. If so, then $$$x$$$ works if and only if the rightmost occurrence of $$$x_2$$$ in $$$S$$$ is as far right as it can be (i.e. occupies starting position $$$|S|-|x_2|$$$). In this case, the length-$$$|x_1|$$$ suffix of $$$S$$$ is also $$$x_1$$$, so we can use our precomputed m. There are at most $$$10$$$ values for $$$|x_3|$$$, so iterating over them is fast.

(2): The prefix string lies entirely in $$$S$$$, but the suffix string does not lie entirely in $$$T_i$$$. This is more or less a simpler version of (1). We split $$$x$$$ into $$$x_1,x_2$$$ such that $$$x_2$$$ is the portion of the suffix string lying in $$$T_i$$$, and $$$x_1$$$ is the remainder. Since $$$x_2$$$ must be $$$T_i$$$ by definition, $$$T_i$$$ must appear in $$$S$$$ as a substring. Further, $$$x_1$$$ must also be the suffix string of $$$S$$$ when this happens. We can use m for this as well. Note that there's only one possible value for $$$x_2$$$.

(3): The suffix string lies entirely in $$$T_i$$$. If $$$|S|>=i$$$, then that means the prefix string lies entirely in $$$S$$$. There's at most $$$10$$$ values for $$$x$$$, so we can iterate $$$j$$$ from $$$1$$$ to $$$i$$$ (inclusive) and check if $$$S[1..j]=T_i[i-j+1...i]$$$. Otherwise, we have to join $$$S$$$ and $$$T_i$$$, since the prefix string could partially lie in $$$T_i$$$ as well, but the actual check is the same. Since this case only occurs when $$$|S|\leq 10$$$, joining $$$S$$$ and $$$T_i$$$ is quick (if you join $$$S$$$ and $$$T_i$$$ no matter what, you should TLE). Either way, you iterate through at most $$$10$$$ possible values for $$$x$$$. Ignore the comment at the top lol

To find the final answer, we iterate through all $$$O(1)$$$ cases and update our maximum value each time. The final time complexity should be $$$O((|s|+q)\log |s|)$$$ which works if you're not being stupid.

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by awoo (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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Can someone find out why on earth this code got RE? thks in advance.

Code (C++)

Edit: solved. (found that sort got an infinite loop. :( )