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1133A - Middle of the Contest

Idea: MikeMirzayanov

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1133B - Preparation for International Women's Day

Idea: MikeMirzayanov

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1133C - Balanced Team

Idea: MikeMirzayanov

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1133D - Zero Quantity Maximization

Idea: BledDest

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1133E - K Balanced Teams

Idea: MikeMirzayanov

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1133F1 - Spanning Tree with Maximum Degree

Idea: MikeMirzayanov

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1133F2 - Spanning Tree with One Fixed Degree

Idea: MikeMirzayanov

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 » 13 months ago, # |   +32 Explanation of f2 is copy-paste of f1, please fix it
 » 13 months ago, # |   +10 F2 tutorial is missing (F1 has been repeated). Also, The problem F1 really should've been ahead of the problem E (if you want to sort the problems according to their difficulties).
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 Vovuh , F2 tutorial is missing
 » 13 months ago, # |   +1 Can F2 be solved by finding articulation edges / bridges in the graph and as soon as we find bridge edge we merge them and after that we pick any random adjacent edges of vertex 1 so as to make its degree exactly d. and after make the whole tree connected using kruskal type algorithm? Here is my submission for reference of what i am talking. I am getting wrong answer on test 37. Pls tell if i am wrong. Thanks
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   +14 The idea for F2 is that if we remove vertex 1 then the graph will be K components and if K > D there is NO answer otherwise we should connect this K components with D edges after that we can choose any MST of the remaining graph.
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   +3 hope this test case will help you to understand why you are getting wa :) 7 8 4 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 7 6 5 4
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 The problem is that bridges tell us only that if that edge is removed,the graph will become disconnected, if u remove some set of edges which are not bridges it is still possible that the graph may become disconnected, that is why the above logic doesn't work.
 » 13 months ago, # |   +4 Turns out that my solution for D with maps having long double keys passed. I checked the test cases and would suggest the problem setters to do the same too. From what it appears, the cases seem weird. I've linked a screenshot regarding my concerns.
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0
 » 13 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 why does this solution gets TLE whereas this solution gets Accepted?
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +3 use pypy, it's faster than pypy3 in terms of basic numerical calculations.
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 In problem D. 'numenator' is a typo.
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 MikeMirzayanov you Have Mistakenly provide E question tutorial in F question. Can you please explain 1133F2 — Spanning Tree with One Fixed Degree solution idea.
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 "How to do transitions from dpi,j? The first transition is pretty intuitive: just skip the i-th (0-indexed) student. Then we can set dp[i+1][j+1]:=max(dp[i+1][j+1],dp[i,j])."i think it should be dp[i+1][j] as by skipping ith student we are not increasing size. MikeMirzayanov
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I think it's a typo. It should be dp[i+1][j+1] = max(dp[i+1][j+1],dp[i][j+1])
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 I also stumbled upon this, will wait for the clarification of right transition..
•  » » » 13 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +1 I'll will put the way I interpreted it.When you are in a given state (i , j) (where the students in [1,...,i] are the possible students you can use and 'j' is the maximum quantity of teams you can use) you have to take the best between pick or not the student 'i'.When you dont't pick student 'i' you will have to pick the solution for the case in which you have the students in [1,...,(i — 1)] as possible students to take and 'j' as the maximum quantity of teams you can use. This describe exactly what is in the state (i — 1 , j).When you pick student 'i' you have to see what is the best way to pick it. So you look at the states when you allow (j — 1) teams as maximum quantity of teams and students in [1,...,z] (with z <= i) as possible students (states of the form (z , j — 1) with z <= i). When you pick a state like that you could create a new team and put the maximum quantity of possible students (which are in [(z + 1),...,i]) in it to get a candidate for the state (i , j). But remember that you want the student 'i' to be in it. So you want to see only states (z , j — 1) (with z <= i) such that you could create a new team and put all students in [(z + 1),...,i] in it. With a good care this can be done in O(n*k): 51128813
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 I will fix F2 tutorial in a few hours. Please wait a bit.
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Fixed.
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 In D, why we should ensure numerator is non-negative?
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 We should treat fractions and as the same one.
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 @Vovuh How is ur editorial of F2 different from this? . Aren't they same?
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 In div2 D, Why does use of unordered_map gives a TLE but normal map works fine ? Solution 51071398 gives TLE with unordered_map but this 51071641 gets Accepted with map
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 unordered_map has O(1) complexity on average, but input can be engineered so that it take O(n) collisions for each access. Read more about it here.
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 How to do problem C using binary search?
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 Sort the array in ascending order. For every element in the array (let it be arr) find how many elements satisfy  ≥ arri and  ≤ arri + 5. Take maximum length of all such ranges. See this code for the implementation.
•  » » » 10 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thank You for bs solution I learned something this time>..but I tried to implement same algo but my solution is giving me TLE, can you please look into it and help>> thanks. https://codeforces.com/contest/1133/submission/55474924
 » 13 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 For problem D we can prevent precision error by using BigDecimal for example in java, the largest fraction is 1000000000 / 999999999 = 1.000000001000000001000000001, the numbers after the 1. well represent the rounding we will use inside the BigDecimal class, 51105537
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 In E. Why can't we just simply use two pointers. My idea is to sort this array then use two pointers as below a[n+1] = 2e9; for(int l = 1, r = 1; l <= r && r <= n+1;) { if(a[r] — a[l] <= 5) r++; else{ len[m++] = r-l; l = r; } } sort(len, len+m, greater()); for(int i = 0; i < k; ++i) ans += len[i]; But I get wrong answer on test 25. Can some one help me?
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 This example can help you: 10 1 11 9 8 7 6 5 5 5 5 5
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 Can Someone Explain me Problem B solution ? I am not able to understand it.
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 You have to count the number of (di, dj) pairs such that di + dj is divisible by k. In other words, (di + dj) % k == 0. If you expand the modulo, you get ((di % k) + (dj % k)) % k == 0. Note here that we don't care about the di and dj values themselves, we only care about di%k and dj%k. Another observation is that for ((di % k) + (dj % k)) % k == 0 to hold true, (di % k) + (dj % k) must equal k. So, for some di, dj%k must be equal to k-(di%k) for (di,dj) to be a valid pair. For example, if k = 3, values whose mod with 3 equals 1 can only pair with values whose mod with 3 equals 2.
•  » » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 please explainAnd for any other remainder i from 1 to ⌊k2⌋ the number of pairs of boxes is min(cnti,cntk−i−1).So, if we sum up all these values, the answer is this sum multiplied by two (because we have to print the number of boxes, not pairs).
 » 13 months ago, # | ← Rev. 7 →   0 DP in editorial for E is something different from its definition.In that solution we just skip intermediate students (i, i + cnt_i), but in this case dp[i + z][j + 1] (z = 1 ... cnt_i — 1) is not increased as it should be.Consider following example: n=3, k=1 a[] = 1 1 1Then editorial code outputs: dp[i][j]= 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 But by definition dp[1][1] = dp[2][1] = 1, because we form one team from these students.Can someone please explain what dp[i][j] really stands for?
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 Dp(i,j) means are are we considering ith student or not, if we consider ith student number of teams will increase by 1.
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 can E be solved using divide and conquer after sorting?
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 no the idea of E is that if i take a number i will avoid the binary search on all other numbers which the condition (less than five is met) but what if i didn't take this number and took two of the numbers which i avoided it might produce a better answer that's why you have to try every thing using dynamic programming a simple knapsack will do
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 Can anybody tell me why this solution got TLE my submission
•  » » 6 months ago, # ^ |   0 change int array to Integer array
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 Anyone know the name of the algorithm which is used to solve question B.
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 no algorithm , just logic . what i used is the face that (a[i] + a[j] ) % mod = (a[i] % mod + a[j] % mod ) % mod .store them in map and count answer for each pairs .
 » 13 months ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 the solution of e is very clever
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 Can someone explain why the maximum number of students is possible only when there are exactly k teams as written in the solution for E?
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 f2 is missing!
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 Can anyone explain in problem D,why we have to make the numerator non-negative and if numerator is zero, why we have to make the denominator non-negative? I am a newbie, Thanks in advance.
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 my solution for F1 https://codeforces.com/contest/1133/submission/51458164 is giving correct output on my computer but I am getting wrong answer on codeforces. I am not able to understand the reason. Can anyone help me out ?
•  » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 I saw your code and ran it on ideone. It works fine on ideone. So I submitted it just to be sure and got WA, just as you got. Then I noticed the size of the vector you allocated in the bfs function. It should be n+1. I got AC after changing it. https://codeforces.com/contest/1133/submission/51472660 This is the AC code. Only the size is changed, nothing else. It worked on your machine and ideone probably because it allowed out of bound call, and luckily there was no garbage value in that memory.
•  » » » 13 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yes I got it. Thanks !
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 In problem E, why can't we just loop k times, in each loop get the team with max members under the given condition, take the remaining students and continue till k teams are formed. My submission
 » 10 months ago, # |   0 Can any one help why my binary search solution isn't working? https://codeforces.com/contest/1133/submission/55474924
•  » » 10 months ago, # ^ |   0 When passing a vector to a function, you should pass it by reference, otherwise it may lead to TLE, just like it did for you (read more here). Also, in your binary search function, you do not define your variable "ans" when you create it, which can be problematic if you never set the value during your binary search.I would also suggest using standard C++ lower_bound or upper_bound functions when doing a binary search on a sorted array (or in your case, a vector). It might take some time and practice to learn how to use them but it will be really useful and you won't have to write your own binary searches when it is unnecessary.
•  » » » 10 months ago, # ^ |   +3 OMG, this silly mistake I was doing it whole time in many questions, thanks a lot for pointing out, just checked lower_bound function it's really helpful. all the three tips were helpful, BTW, can you help me with this dynamic programming question https://codeforces.com/contest/158/problem/E I am really stuck, not able to understand how to form the base cases (i,e. initial values of 2d array dp[][]). Thanks Again
•  » » » » 10 months ago, # ^ |   0 I can see that the editorial of that contest (link) has a few comments regarding this problem and you might find them helpful.
•  » » » » 10 months ago, # ^ |   0 Also, when you need help with a problem it is a good idea to ask for help by creating a separate blog for it, I have noticed that people tend to answer these more often than comments under blogs like this.