Hello, codeforces!
Sorry for the long break, but the last weeks of holidays and the first weeks of academic year took my attention. I hope today's trick will make you forgive me. :P
I invented this trick a few years ago, but for sure I wasn't first, and some of you already know it. Let's consider the following interactive task. There are n (1 ≤ n ≤ 105) hidden integers ai, each of them from range [1, 1018]. You are allowed to ask at most 103000 queries. In one query you can choose two integers x and y (1 ≤ x ≤ n, 1 ≤ y ≤ 1018) and ask a question ''Is ax ≥ y?'' The task is to find the value of the greatest element in the hidden array. The checker isn't adaptive.
Unfortunately, this task is only theoretical, and you cannot solve it anywhere, but it'll turn out, that solution can be handy in many other, much more complicated problems.