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By scipianus, 5 years ago, ,

474A - Keyboard

This is an implementation problem, therefore most of the solution fit in the time limit. We can even save the keyboard in 3 strings and make a brute force search for each character to find its position and then print the left/right neighbour.

474B - Worms

There are two solutions:

1. We can make partial sums (sumi = a1 + a2 + ... + ai) and then make a binary search for each query qi to find the result j with the properties sumj - 1 < qi and sumj ≥ qi. This solution has the complexity O(n + m·log(n))

2. We can precalculate the index of the pile for each worm and then answer for each query in O(1). This solution has the complexity O(n + m)

474C - Captain Marmot

For each 4 points we want to see if we can rotate them with 90 degrees such that we obtain a square. We can make a backtracking where we rotate each point 0, 1, 2 or 3 times and verify the figure obtained. If it's a square we update the minimal solution. Since we can rotate each point 0, 1, 2 or 3 times, for each regiment we have 44 configurations to check. So the final complexity is about O(n).

474D - Flowers

We can notate each string as a binary string, instead of red and white flowers. A string of this type is good only if every maximal contigous subsequence of "0" has the length divisible by k. We can make dynamic programming this way : nri = the number of good strings of length i. If the i-th character is "1" then we can have any character before and if the i-th character is "0" we must have another k - 1 "0" characters before, so nri = nri - 1 + nri - k for i ≥ k and nri = 1 for i < k. Then we compute the partial sums (sumi = nr1 + nr2 + ... + nri) and for each query the result will be sumb - suma - 1. This solution has the complexity O(maxVal + t), where maxVal is the maximum value of bi.

474E - Pillars

We have to find a substring i1, i2, ..., ik such that abs(hij - hij + 1) ≥ D for 1 ≤ j < k. Let's suppose that the values in h are smaller. We can make dynamic programming this way : besti = the maximal length of such a substring ending in the i-th position, besti = max(bestj) + 1 with j < i and hj ≥ D + hi or hj ≤ hi - D. So we can easily search this maximum in a data structure, such as an segment tree or Fenwick tree. But those data structure must have the size of O(maxH) which can be 109. For our constraints we mantain the idea described above, but instead of going at some specific position in the data structure based on a value, we would normalize the values in h and binary search the new index where we should go for an update or a query in the data structure. Therefore, the data structure will have the size O(n). The complexity of this solution is O(n·log(n)).

474F - Ant colony

For each subsequence [L, R] we must find how many queens we have. A value is "queen" only if is the GCD of (sL, sL + 1, ..., sR). Also, we must notice that the GCD of (sL, sL + 1, ..., sR) can be only the minimum value from (sL, sL + 1, ..., sR). So for each query we search in a data structure (a segment tree or a RMQ) the minimum value and the GCD of (sL, sL + 1, ..., sR) and if these two values are equal then we output the answer R - L + 1 - nrValues, where nrValues is the number of values in the subsequence equal to the GCD and the minimum value. The complexity of this solution is O(n·log(nlog(valMax) + t·log(nlog(valMax)), where valMax is the maximum value of si.

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 » 5 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +24 Why the time complexity of pE is O(n·log(n)·log(n)) other than O(n·log(n))?
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 +1. Scan the array->O(n) For each element: Do the binary search->O(logn) Get the maximum element from segtree->O(logn)In total:O(n(logn+logn))=O(nlogn)
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   +1 I couldn't understand what we're looking with binary search. Can you elaborate?
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 That's what I thought since a segment tree with dynamic memory is perfect for the problem, but I guess the author's idea is simpler to come up with if you are not familiar with dynamic memory structures.
 » 5 years ago, # |   +10 in problem F nrVaues can be easily calculated in . Let's make pairs {number, occurrence in string}. Then we can do nrValue=upper_bound({x,r})-lower_bound({x,l}); So we don't even need to find min, only gcd.
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 But the gcd adds the additional log-factor to the complexity, no?
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +10 Actually I'm not sure since gcd(a1, a2, ..., an) works in not summary. Maybe you should not multiply but sum logs.
•  » » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 Oh, right, I didn't consider that it's not a very tight bound.
•  » » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   -17 i AM not sure
•  » » » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   +16 Oh, thank you! Can you also check this, this, this, this and this articles? I would be very grateful!
•  » » » » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   -10 sarcasm again?
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 First time to know that upper_bound can make binary search on pairs , Thanks
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 Can someone please explain why and how does it work in finding number of occurrences of x in the range [l,r]?
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 For E as well you don't need extra log factor — use segment tree without normalization. But those data structure must have the size of O(maxH) You can implement segment tree so that it will have a O(N) size, no matter what is the range of the input values.
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   +3 Could you explain to us this clearly because i can't imagine how to solve this problem ? i thought about nearly all the solution but got stuck on how to search in a segment tree whose maximum value should be 10^9 ?
 » 5 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +3 In C, it's faster to write (copy-paste) 4 cycles for(a[0] =0; a[0] < 4; a[0]++) than write a backtrack.Also, my solution to checking if the figure is a square was: try all permutations of vertices and check if they're the vertices of a square in that order on the perimeter. No cases whatsoever and you can be easily sure that it works :DAlso, E: compress A[i], A[i] - D, A[i] + D, take 2 Fenwick trees (for maximum of interval [0, i] and [j, ∞]) and do the standard LIS algorithm.
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 Can you explain why my C soln failed?Thanks in advance.
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 There are 2 main reasons: 1. Overflow (which I had :( ) -> hard to notice. 2. Wrong square checking.
 » 5 years ago, # |   -10 Just because n = 4 doesn't make the complexity of problem C linear . If the problem was generalized to a regular polygon with n ≤ 20 sides, this wouldn't be possible in linear time. The complexity is exponential , and in this case n is relatively small.
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   +15 Complexity of C problem is O(n*4^4)=O(256n)=O(n). For each quadruple we try every option.Evry point in this quadruple can be in 4 different position,that is 256 combinations.
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 And what would n be in the case and why was 4 raised to the power of 4?
•  » » » » 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 The complexity of C is O(4pn), where p is the number of moles in one regiment (number of sides of the polygon) and n is the number of regiments (number of queries). For the problem, p = 4 is a constant, so O(4pn) = O(44n) = O(n) because coefficients are not included in big-O notation.You have mistaken n for the number of moles in one regiment instead.
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 In problem E, editorial says: "we can easily search this maximum in a data structure, such as an segment tree or Fenwick tree"How to do this?
 » 5 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +3 Problem E can be solved using implicit segment tree 8119774
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 Do you know who find the maximum with Fenwick tree?
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 Can someone please tell me what's wrong with my solution for problem D. Here's the link > Link__ When K = 1, it is 2^Length ! __ For any Other K, it works like the Fibonacci sequence !Where am I going wrong ?
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   +11 sum[b]-sum[a-1] can be negative
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 Is it possible to solve pF without segment trees !if yes can someone provide few insights into it !
•  » » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 Sqrt-decomposition also works for given constraints.
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 Yes, of course. Thanks a ton allllekssssa!
•  » » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0  for(int i=1;i<=100000;i++){ if(i==1) dp[1][0]=1; else dp[i][0] =( dp[i-1][0]+ dp[i-1][1] )%mod; if( i==k) dp[i][1]=1; else dp[i][1] =((i-k>=0)?(dp[i-k][0]+dp[i-k][1]):0 )%mod; update(i,dp[i][0]+dp[i][1]); } where dp[i][0]: number of ways so that the i length string end with Red and dp[i][1] : number of ways so that the i length string end with whitethe above solution is giving WA? can you explain sol
•  » » » 3 years ago, # ^ |   0 Could you please explain what exactly a good sequence is?? I'm not able to get the question correctly.Thanks
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 Can you explain how to search maximum in Fenwik tree? I used treap in this task.
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 In A, it is not even necessary to store three different arrays, as it is assured you are still hitting the keyboard, and will never hit [q, a, z] when d = R, and never [p, ;, /] when d = L. Therefore just looping through each of the n <= 100 characters on one array containing the entire keyboard works, as well.On C, it is relatively easy to loop through the small number of vertices and find their rotations, but what criteria are there to calculate if the resulting figure is a square (I did not attempt solving for the reason, but I assumed tilted squares would be included)?
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 In C, for each possible rotation, I tried all permutations of the 4 points and checked if the lengths were equal, if the angles formed were 90 degrees and if the points were different from each other.
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 It might be easier to do the following: 1) calculate all 6 possible distances (or distance^2) 2) sort 3) square should have first four and last two distances equal
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 For the second approach to Problem B, the time complexity seems to be O(sum+m) where sum is the number of all worms. By "precalculate the index of the pile for each worm", I think the author means using an array (of maximum size, 10^6) to remember the pile each worm is in.
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 http://codeforces.com/contest/474/submission/8112838 This is my solution to 474B It shows wa on pretest 1. The code runs fine on my pc as well as ideone.com Can someone please help?? :(
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   +1 In some case there is no return in your function solve which will lead to unexcepted answer.Just change the loop condition (from
 » 5 years ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   +23 Problem : E -> http://codeforces.com/contest/474/submission/8122825In this, he assumed that his solution sequence will not have any index i,j such that abs(i-j) > 300. Its pure fluke because he tried it before, assuming abs(i-j) <= 800. Both got Accepted. Is there a logic or just weak test cases?I would also appreciate if someone can give detailed explanation of Problem:E or any link of tutorial because it's a new concept for me.Thanks.
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   +6 No logic, just a weak test set. Countertest: 100000 2 1 2 2 2 2 ... 2 2 2 3 
•  » » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   +3 Thanks! Well can you provide some helpful links for similar problems (easier ones to get me started) ?
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 Problem B i wrote the 1st solution and got time limit :| what's the problem?
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 4 →   +5 Well, it is too slow... :D It is O(m * n). For every x in your solution you may have to look up to n values so it's O((number of x's) * n) = O(m * n). For every x you have to search for the first b[i] >= x with binary search or use lower_bound from stl http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/lower_bound/ . Then it will be O(m * log(n)).
 » 5 years ago, # |   +3 someone give proper explanation of which data structure and its implementation for finding max in problem E..
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ |   0 st
 » 5 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 @sandyeep can u be more elaborate about the IMPLEMENTATION of st in the problem as the editorialist has not taken effort to explain his approach..
 » 5 years ago, # |   0 Why this code can pass the test data Your text to link here...
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 » 4 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 in 471b how is the complexity O(n+m) if we precalculate the index of the pile of each worm??can u elaborate somewhat ??
 » 4 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Any hint to get the rep of an element in a segment { l , r } !!
 » 4 years ago, # |   0 in the B i can't make it clear to me how have they used binary search?? anyone answer ASAP
•  » » 4 years ago, # ^ |   0
 » 3 years ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 For problem D, could someone further explain how to derive the formula nri  =  nri  -  1  +  nri  -  k for i  ≥  k? Thanks!EDIT: Get it now!If the i-th position is R, then there could be nri - 1 possibilities, if the i-th position is W, we have to have k Ws, taking the last k positions, therefore nri - k possibilities. Thus nri  =  nri  -  1  +  nri  -  k in total.
•  » » 3 years ago, # ^ |   0 For problem D Could you please explain .... why we have to do sumb - suma - 1.?
•  » » » 3 years ago, # ^ |   0 It's called a cumulative sum trick, you can google it for more info
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can someone explain what's wrong with my formulation for problem 474D Flowers, f[I]=f[I-1]+I/k
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# problem_F

How I calculate nrValues efficiently .

I got TLE for this calculation .

 » 2 years ago, # |   0 D: why k=1 is not special??
 » 17 months ago, # |   0 Can anybody please explain editorial of problem E-pillars broadly?
 » 14 months ago, # |   0 for Problem D.nr[i] = nr[i-1] + nr[i-k], if i >= k...nr[i] = nr[i-1], i < k..
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 what do we need to calculate in problem D? I'm not getting what even the examples are indicating! Can anyone help?
•  » » 9 months ago, # ^ |   0 may be you got the solution. actually here between a and b we have to calculate the numbers of combination so he can eat the rose. we take simple examplen=1 and k=1 possibilities= R,W only two // he can eat only in the group of k so may be he it 0 for white type or 1n=2 and k=1 possibilities=RR,RW,WR,WW only four // same here n=3 and k=1 possibilities=RRR,RRW,RWR,WRR,WWR,WRW,RWW,WWW only eightso in test case if inputs are a and b then we have to give all the sum between a and binput t=1 k=1 a=1 b=1 then we have to give answer all sum between 1 and 1 means only for length 1. answer=2 now i am taking another example so you can easily understand n=1 and k=3 possibilities=R only 1 // we can eat white flowers only in the group of k means here 3n=2 and k=3 possibilities= RR only 1 // we can eat white flowers only in the group of k means here 3n=3 and k=3 possibilities=RRR,WWW only 2 // we can eat white flowers only in the group of k means here 3n=4 and k=3 possibilities=RRRR,RWWW,WWWR only 3 // we can eat white flowers only in the group of k means here 3n=5 and k=3 possibilities=RRRRR,RRWWW,RWWWR,WWWRR, only 4 // we can eat white flowers only in the group of k means here 3input t=5 k=3 a=1 b=1 answer=1a=2 b=2 answer=1a=1 b=2 answer=2 // we have to give all the sum between 1 and 2 means all possibilitiesa=1 b=5 answer=11 //n=1->1, n=2->1, n=3->2, n=4->3, n=5->4
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Hello please someone here helpmeout in finding mistake in my code of Problem D I am getting wrong answers on some of the outputs[submission:51238549]
 » 8 months ago, # |   0 Can anyone explain me the problem statement of the problem D.Flowers.
 » 7 months ago, # |   0 Used DP to solve problem D.....Still I'm getting TLE.....can anyone help please?
 » 6 months ago, # |   0 I cannot figure out what is wrong in my solution for 474E Pillars. I have used 2BIT for prefix and suffix max queries. It would be very helpful if someone can find out where the problem is. My submission: https://codeforces.com/contest/474/submission/59685511
 » 6 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Was anyone successful using method 1 (Binary Search) to solve 474B Worms. I am stuck with TLE.
•  » » 6 months ago, # ^ |   0 Figured it out. Apparently i cannot delete comments on codeforces. Sorry