Hi Codeforces!

Programming Club, IIT Indore and Euristica 2018 are proud to present our flagship event, Divide By Zero! The contest will take place on Saturday, 7th April at 9:35PM IST.

Prizes : Codeforces T-shirts for top 15 participants overall and top 15 participants in India.

Thanks to the following people for making the round possible :

• apoorv_kulsh, arnabsamanta, AakashHanda, Vicennial, kr_abhinav, 7dan, rohitranjan017 and myself for setting the problems.

• usaxena95 and killer_bee for their help with the problems.

• 300iq and demon1999 for testing the problems.

• vintage_Vlad_Makeev for coordinating throughout the round.

• fcspartakm and arsor for translating the problems.

• KAN for his invaluable help with the round.

• MikeMirzayanov for the amazing Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

There are 8 problems, and 2.5 hours to solve them. The points distribution will be updated later.

Euristica, sponsored by Arcesium is the inaugral Programming festival of IIT Indore. It comprised of 10 events this year, spanning across various domains like Competitive Programming, Application Development, Cyber Security and Machine Learning. For more information, visit www.euristica.in .

Hope you guys enjoy the contest! See you on the leaderboard!

UPD: The scoring distribution is 500-1000-1500-2000-2250-2500-3000-3500.

UPD 2: Do give your feedback here : https://goo.gl/forms/xbsdMxnkA3XsG4092. Would love to hear your feedback, since that would help us get better!

We hope you guys enjoyed the contest and found the problems interesting.

UPD 3: You can find the editorial here.

Here are the list of winners who won Tshirts. We will contact you guys soon. Congrats!

Overall Top 15:

1. jqdai0815

2. Benq

3. Syloviaely

4. ainta

5. ko_osaga

6. dotorya

7. Um_nik

8. uwi

9. izban

10. SpyCheese

11. dreamoon_love_AA

12. ilyakor

13. chemthan

14. JOHNKRAM

15. eddy1021

Top 15 in India:

1. gvaibhav21

2. pranjal.ssh

3. Baba

4. yashChandnani

5. teja349

6. jtnydv25

7. ajinkya1p3

8. polingy

9. hitman623

10. GT_18

11. Equinox

12. sinus_070

13. Shivram

14. abisheka

15. nishant_coder

Hi all!

Soon thousands of people will participate in Google Code Jam qualification round. There is a problem though: Code Jam website doesn't offer a good place to discuss the problems afterwards. There is an official Google group, but it is a poor place for discussion: not only is it premoderated, but they also reject/delete useful posts, like this one.

There is a solution: point people at Codeforces, the best place to discuss programming competitions! If we just start posting messages about Codeforces to the Google group, they will probably delete them. But there is something else that people (sometimes) read: your code. For many years, Code Jam allowed anyone to read any participant's code after the contest. While the current system doesn't support this yet, this is something that Code Jam team is willing to resolve. So, my idea is for as many people as possible to add a comment like this to every Code Jam submission:

// Discuss this problem on Codeforces: http://codeforces.com/

Or better, use a link to a post about the specific round. This way, those who try to learn by looking at other's code will find out about Codeforces, which is good.

Do you have any similar ideas?

Hello, Codeforces.

In this post we want to talk about the Codeforces and Polygon improvements, which were implemented recently.

Blogs (Codeforces)

Previously, Codeforces blog posts can either be published together with the translation, or both versions can be hidden in drafts. Now a blog post can be published or hidden in drafts separately from its translation. In case there is a published post, and its translation is hidden in drafts, or in the opposite case, you will see a corresponding warning about that. Also the logic of the Recent Actions was completely revised.

Talks (Codeforces)

Also added a new functional in the Talks. For some users, it was inconvenient if a talk with one person contains a lot of messages. The page Dialogues has been implemented. It contains all the dialogs, sorted by the time of the last message. For each dialog, only one row with the last message is shown. When you click the message the talk with this person will open. When you open talk with the person, all messages sent to you by the corresponding person automatically become read. The old-style talks page is also fully preserved.

Hello Codeforces!

On April 04, 17:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 41 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

This round will be rated for Div. 2. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

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

The problems were prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev and me.

We'd like to thank Mikhail awoo Piklayev and Ivan BledDest Androsov for the help in preparing the round.

Good luck to all participants!

UPD Editorial

UPD2

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

518 successful hacks and 491 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

And finally people who were the first to solve each problem:

Hello codeforces!

I'm glad to announce that codeforces round #473 for the second division will take place on Tuesday April 3rd 16:05 UTC. As usual, first division participants can take part out of competition.

I'm the problemsetter and the editorialist of this round. I'd like to thank mahmoudbadawy for creating the testdata and testing the round, FalseMirror, Livace, demon1999, and vintage_Vlad_Makeev for testing the round, KAN and Ahmad_Elsagheer for giving their great opinions and thoughts and helping in round preparation, arsor for helping translate the problems, and MikeMirzayanov for the great codeforces and polygon platforms.

You'll be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

UPD : the scoring distribution will be 500-1000-1250-1750-2000-2500.

UPD : Editorial and bonus tasks.

Good luck and Have fun!

UPD congratulations to the winners!

Div.1:-

1. Um_nik
2. dotorya
3. kmjp
4. natsugiri
5. Lewin

Div.2:-

1. StopBullying
2. taeyeon_ss
3. Tsuare
4. readers2
5. ajinkya1p3

The contest is over; I hope you've enjoyed it :-) Editorial is here.

The 6th April Fools Day Contest will take place on Sunday April 1st. This is a joke competition in which solving the problem is often easier than figuring out what the actual task is.

This year I tried to make the problems less puzzling and more versatile. For example, almost all problems have a statement! And you won't need OEIS this time :-)

In this round you'll be given 7 weird problems and 2 hours to solve them. The contest will use ACM ICPC rules (no hacks, the standings are decided by the number of solved problems and penalty time earned on them), and it will be unrated. You can submit solutions in any language allowed by Codeforces. To get an idea of what the contest will look like, you can check out the contests of the past years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017.

As usual, to enjoy competing in this round you'll need a sense of humor compatible with mine! Good luck, and have fun!

Hi!

Tomorrow, on March 24-th, 2018 at 15:35 UTC we will host the second round of VK Cup 2018 — a programming tournament for Russian-speaking youth. 450 teams that were the best in the first round and the first wild-card round will compete tomorrow. The top 100 teams will advance to the third round directly and get a tournament t-shirt, while the others will have one more chance in the second wild-card round.

For English-speaking community as well as for those who haven't advanced to the second round or haven't participated in VK Cup 2018, we will host parallel Codeforces round for both divisions, as usual. Feel free to take part!

Please note that the tournament is for Russian-speaking people. If you don't speak Russian, you must not compete in the VK Cup round, register for the parallel round instead. Otherwise it is considered as a flagrant violation of rules and might be subject to disqualification and Codeforces ban. Please respect the organizers.

VK Cup 2018 Round 2 and the round for the first division will have six problems each, the second division round will have five of them.

The authors of the problems are cyand1317, skywalkert, Claris and me. Also many thanks to fcspartakm, Tommyr7 for their help in preparation and PavelKunyavskiy, winger, AlexFetisov, Errichto, vepifanov, immortalCO and qwerty787788 for testing the problems! Last but not least, huge thanks to vintage_Vlad_Makeev for his great help in coordinating and testing the round!

Good luck!

The editorial is published!

Congratulations to the winners!

VK Cup Round 2:

1. LHiC, V--o_o--V — solved all problems!
2. egor_bb, Nikitosh
3. -imc-, Golovanov399
4. AllCatsAreBeautiful, arsijo
5. aid

Div. 1:

1. Um_nik
2. Radewoosh
3. ikatanic
4. FizzyDavid
5. jqdai0815

Div. 2:

1. ltf0501
2. Hyperbolic
3. yongshiboshi
4. emengdeath
5. lmhoang

Less than 24 hours till the round?
And still no announcement?
How come, Mr. Grape?

Codeforces Round #471 will take part on Friday at 19:35 MSK. Note that the duration is a bit longer that usual.

The round will be rated for all division 2 participants. Division 1 is welcome aswell :)

My gratitude to Grisha (vintage_Vlad_Makeev) for round coordination, Ildar (300iq), Nikita (FalseMirror), Azat (ismagilov.code), Eugene (rek) and Oleg (xen) for testing and Mike (MikeMirzayanov) for awesome Codeforces and Polygon.

There will be six problems with the following scoring:
500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2500 — 3000

UPD. System testing is over. Editorial

Congratz to the winners!

Div. 2:

1. 08163268
2. heello
3. KNB.
4. flower
5. NotGuy
6. HarveySpecterGoiano
7. seo
8. JorreS
9. zhabo
10. Osama_Alkhodairy

Div. 1 (unofficial):

1. uwi
2. Taube
3. dreamoon_love_AA
4. mjhun
5. chemthan
6. Hasan0540
7. tfg
8. cerberus97
9. mixnuts
10. Lo_R_D

Hello Codeforces!

On March 22, 9:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 40 will start. This will be a special round, branded by VTB and the Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp.

This round is held in collaboration with Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp and supported by the premier and international bank VTB, based in Russia.

Over 100 participants from the India side of the boot camp will be competing as individuals in this special online round!

JSC VTB Bank was founded in 1990, and its subsidiary banks and financial organisations (VTB Group or the Group) are a leading Russian financial group, offering a wide range of financial and banking services and products in Russia, the CIS, and a number of countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. VTB Group has the most extensive international network among all Russian banks, including more than 30 banks and financial companies in more than 20 countries.

The round will contain 9 problems, and you will have 3 hours to solve them. Problem authors are GlebsHP, vovuh, awoo, Xahandd and me.

We wish all of the participants good luck! Hope all of you will find something interesting in this contest.

UPD: Editorial is here.

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

And finally people who were the first to solve each problem: