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By JeevanJyot, 11 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 89, this Wednesday, 10th May, rated till $$$5$$$-stars coders (i.e. for users with rating $$$< 2200$$$).

Time: 8:00 PM — 10:00 PM IST

Note that the duration is $$$2$$$ hours. Read about the recent CodeChef changes here.

Joining us on the problem-setting panel are:

Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest.

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to Pro users.

We’re hiring! If you’d like to work at CodeChef as a Learning Content Creator, click here.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 13 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 77, this Wednesday, 15th February, rated till 5-stars Coders (ie. for users with rating $$$< 2200$$$).

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem-setting panel are:

Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest.

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to Pro users.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, history, 14 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 74, this Wednesday, 18th January, rated till 6-stars Coders (ie. for users with rating $$$< 2500$$$).

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are:

Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest.

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to Pro users.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, history, 15 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 73, this Wednesday, 11th January, rated till 6-stars (i.e. for users with rating $$$< 2500$$$)

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem-setting panel are:

Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest.

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to pro users.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 17 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 61, this Wednesday, 19th October, rated for Div 2, 3 & 4 Coders.

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem-setting panel are:

Additional Note about the Contest:

  • All the problems in the contest were authored by me (JeevanJyot). I hope you like the contest :)

Written editorials will be available for all users on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest.

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day once the contest ends, after which they will be available to pro users.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 18 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 60, this Wednesday, 12th October, rated for Div 2, 3 & 4 Coders.

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are:

Written editorials will be available for all users on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest.

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to pro users.

If you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 19 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 55, this Wednesday, 7th September, rated for Div 2, 3 & 4 Coders.

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are:

The written editorials will be available in the ‘Solutions’ tab of each problem once the contest ends

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to Pro users.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 20 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 51, this Wednesday, 10th August, rated for Div 2, 3 & 4 participants.

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are:

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas and are interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 20 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s July Long Challenge Two, starting this Friday, 22nd July, 3 PM IST onwards.

Please note, the contest is open for 3 days, i.e, from 22nd — 25th July. The Long Challenge Two will be rated for Div 3 & 4 coders.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 21 month(s) ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 45, this Wednesday, 29th June, rated for Div 2, 3 & 4 Coders.

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are:

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas and are interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 22 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s June Long Challenge One , starting this Friday, 10th June, 3 PM IST onwards.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef’s contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 23 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s April Long Challenge Two, starting this Friday, 22nd April, 3 PM IST onwards.

Please note, the contest is open for 3 days, i.e, from 22 — 25 April. The long Challenge One will be rated for Div 3 & 4 coders.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!

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By JeevanJyot, 2 years ago, In English

Henlo Codeforces!

We are very glad to invite you to the Codeforces Round 754 (Div. 2), which will be held on Nov/12/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). This round will be rated for participants with a rating less than $$$2100$$$. For higher rated participants, we challenge you to solve problem F ;)

All the problems were authored and prepared by Ashishgup, the_hyp0cr1t3, ExplodingFreeze and me. We have tried our best to create an interesting problemset with clear statements. Hope you enjoy the round :D

You will be given $$$6$$$ problems and $$$2$$$ hours to solve them.

We would like to thank:

Good luck!

Here's the scoring distribution of the round:

$$$500 - 1000 - 1500 - 2000 - 2500 - 3500$$$

UPD: Editorial is out

Also, congratulations to the winners.

Div 1 + 2:

  1. SSRS_

  2. Vercingetorix

  3. MatikaneTannhauser

  4. codinglunch

  5. hank55663

Div 2:

  1. MatikaneTannhauser

  2. codinglunch

  3. huyinghao0706

  4. QuietBeautifulThoughts

  5. MyBotDear

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By JeevanJyot, 3 years ago, In English

My friend the_hyp0cr1t3 and I came across this weird behaviour which we can't seem to explain.

The submissions 121761224 and 121761200 are identical, yet the former (submitted in C++17) gets accepted and the latter (submitted in C++14) gets WA on test 1.

After an hour of debugging, we managed to get it accepted in C++14 (121761314) with the following change in the code:

WA (C++14)
AC (C++14)

We would appreciate if someone could explain why something like a = b = c; and a = c; b = a; seem to produce different results.

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