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Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. Programming Contest 2023（AtCoder Beginner Contest 331） Announcement
By atcoder_official, history, 6 months ago, In English

We will hold Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. Programming Contest 2023（AtCoder Beginner Contest 331）.

We are looking forward to your participation!

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Atcoder beginner contests are really great.

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I hope I can get better grades than before......

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D with 450 points… seems scary

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Guess the order of difficulty among A,B,C,D :)

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Good luck to everyone!

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D is more scary than E……

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我是菜狗

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    me too

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    Maybe you should use English instead of Chinese that this is a English website.

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      I just want to express my powerless feeling. QAQ

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        You just want to make Chinese think you are vegetable(:)

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      how did you make your contribution into a negative number?

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D seems pretty complex and difficult...

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Problem F is exactly same as this.

Solution can be found online anywhere, one of the solution is — Solution

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What is mistake in F https://atcoder.jp/contests/abc331/submissions/48142191

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$$$D$$$ is such a heavy implementation problem ,I took a lot of time in it to solve ,like finding stupid bugs and typos killed a lot of time of mine, then went to $$$E$$$ just to find that it's just a submission bait which I speed ran implementation in last 4 mnts but missed out by fucking 3 seconds , such a stupid performance in the end which could have been a far better contest if I executed implementation well fuck!!

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Lol I got nervous and solved B by DP, turns out it has better time complexity and almost O(1) space

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    my solution was $$$O(N^3)$$$ and you did it speaks of bad contest giving style where you overkill an easy problem and kill time , best thing of Atcoder Beginner Contests is that they help you increase speed and improve implementation skills

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      because I got nervous personally easier for me to think dp than brute force or greedy

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    I solved B by DFS.

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I think only problem D and G were smart anyone agree?

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Atcoder please do not directly copy the CSES problem.

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D should definitely be worth more points than E

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    I think this too

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      How did you solve E?

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        my approach
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          E is like E in last Atcoder beginner contest, just add one point:

          Enumerate the main dish and find the most expensive side dish, then update the answer.

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          I have solved it using segment tree with update. https://atcoder.jp/contests/abc331/submissions/48142030

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        hint: The answer is among the L+1 largest pairs.

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        I just use simple multiset idea for every element in B make a multiset of elements of A that are not allowed for that B, then from a global multiset of all the values in A remove those from it. Do this for every element in B and take cur + end element of multiset.

        One thing to take care: Don't do this is B has all the elements of A, then it should be skipped as it can't be paired

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        I think it's very easy idea maybe

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          This work and not TLE because L <= min(1e5, N*M-1)

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          What? Three almost SAME ideas?

          And I can explain that complexity of using just normal set is $$$O(L \log M)$$$.

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Instead of enumerating solve B in O(n)

low iq
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Why so many Gs (and Ex when there was Ex) are math?

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    Is it just me or most of them are about finding the expected number?

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      why expected value questions are asked most frequently, i am just bad at probability..

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    +1, adding Centroid Decomp, HLD, CHT or flows sometimes would be good at G.

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    cause math so good

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Problem F was copied from CSES. Even the title. 😒

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Problem A was the hardest TBH.

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Here is my screencast (just typing)

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Problem F can be passed by force.

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no sense between the title and problem statement on problem B.

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Can someone provide a better explanation for G. The editorial is too tough to understand.

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