### Stepavly's blog

By Stepavly, 20 months ago, translation,

Hello, Codeforces!

UPD: Since the round seems a little more complicated than usual after testing, we extended the round length by 15 minutes.

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Hello! Codeforces Round #725 (Div. 3) will start at Jun/10/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be offered 7 problems with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. However, all of you who wish to take part and have a rating 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially. The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ICPC). Thus, during the round, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests, and after the round, it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks. I tried to make strong tests — just like you will be upset if many solutions fail after the contest is over.

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

Note that the penalty for the wrong submission in this round (and the following Div. 3 rounds) is 10 minutes.

Remember that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as trusted participants of the third division, you must:

• take part in at least two rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
• do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.

The problems for this round were invented by MikeMirzayanov, Supermagzzz and Stepavly.

Thanks to Fly_37, -is-this-fft-, A_Le_K, ALILILILILI-KHAN, ANZ, hocky, Lihwy, Sho, ASIXER, songsinger, OlegZubkov, AlexFetisov, darkkcyan, ivanzuki, kocko, Gassa for help with testing the round.

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for platforms and coordination of our work. Good luck!

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UPD: Editorial

• +227

By Stepavly, 21 month(s) ago, translation,

Can somebody explain how to solve such problem: given values $x$, $L$, $R$, $M$ ($0 \le L \le R \le M - 1$), find minimal $k \ge 0$ such that $L \le (x \cdot k) \mod M \le R$.

This problem appeared in NEERC19 (Golf time) as a subtask, but the editorial not so clearly explains the algorithm for that subtask.

• +33

By Stepavly, 21 month(s) ago, translation,

Unfortunately, due to Internet provider network issues, we have to postpone the round. The current plan, that the round is postponed by 24 hours, will start on 05.05.2021 17:35 (Московское время).

Hello, Codeforces!

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Hello! Codeforces Round #719 (Div. 3) will start at 05.05.2021 17:35 (Московское время). You will be offered 7 problems with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. However, all of you who wish to take part and have a rating 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially. The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ICPC). Thus, during the round, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests, and after the round, it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks. I tried to make strong tests — just like you will be upset if many solutions fail after the contest is over.

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

Note that the penalty for the wrong submission in this round (and the following Div. 3 rounds) is 10 minutes.

Remember that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as trusted participants of the third division, you must:

• take part in at least two rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
• do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.

The problems for this round were invented by MikeMirzayanov, Supermagzzz, Stepavly and Aris.

Thanks to Gassa, BledDest, Programmer, bugdone, ruban, RedAnt, songsinger and Gornak40 for help with testing the round.

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for platforms and coordination of our work. Good luck!

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Editorial is ready!

• +275

By Stepavly, 22 months ago, translation,

Hello, Codeforces!

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Hello! Codeforces Round #713 (Div. 3) will start at Apr/10/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be offered 7 problems with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. However, all of you who wish to take part and have a rating 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially. The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ICPC). Thus, during the round, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests, and after the round, it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks. I tried to make strong tests — just like you will be upset if many solutions fail after the contest is over.

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

Note that the penalty for the wrong submission in this round (and the following Div. 3 rounds) is 10 minutes.

Remember that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as trusted participants of the third division, you must:

• take part in at least two rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
• do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.

The problems for this round were invented by MikeMirzayanov, Supermagzzz, Stepavly and sodafago.

Thanks Gassa, darkkcyan, bfs.07, Tzak, songsinger, Mukundan314, iankury, drunya, sodafago, ChOmPs, Programmer, Khairy, IITianUG, Rox for helping with testing the round!

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for platforms and coordination of our work. Good luck!

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Editorial: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/89535

• +124

By Stepavly, 22 months ago, translation,

1506A - Strange Table

Problem author: sodafago

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1506B - Partial Replacement

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1506C - Double-ended Strings

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1506D - Epic Transformation

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1506E - Restoring the Permutation

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1506F - Triangular Paths

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov, Stepavly, Supermagzzz

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1506G - Maximize the Remaining String

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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• +65

By Stepavly, 23 months ago, translation,

1490A - Dense Array

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1490B - Balanced Remainders

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1490C - Sum of Cubes

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1490D - Permutation Transformation

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1490E - Accidental Victory

Problem authors: Stepavly, Supermagzzz

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1490F - Equalize the Array

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1490G - Old Floppy Drive

Problem authors: Stepavly, Supermagzzz, MikeMirzayanov, sodafago

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• +87

By Stepavly, 2 years ago, translation,

1475A - Odd Divisor

Problem authors: Stepavly, Supermagzzz

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1475B - New Year's Number

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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1475C - Ball in Berland

Problem authors: Stepavly, Supermagzzz

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1475D - Cleaning the Phone

Problem authors: Stepavly, Supermagzzz

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1475E - Advertising Agency

Problem authors: Stepavly, Supermagzzz

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1475F - Unusual Matrix

Problem authors: Stepavly, Supermagzzz

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1475G - Strange Beauty

Problem author: MikeMirzayanov

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• +127

By Stepavly, history, 2 years ago, translation,

Happy New Year, Codeforces!

UPD: We have received such different opinions about the order of problems, that we cannot be completely sure about it. We recommend you to read all the problems and do not strongly hope that the difficulty for you necessarily coincides with the order in the round.

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Hello! Codeforces Round #693 (Div. 3) will start at Jan/04/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be offered 7 problems with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. However, all of you who wish to take part and have a rating 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially. The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ICPC). Thus, during the round, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests, and after the round it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks. We tried to make strong tests — just like you will be upset if many solutions fail after the contest is over.

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

Note that the penalty for the wrong submission in this round (and the following Div. 3 rounds) is 10 minutes.

Remember that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as trusted participants of the third division, you must:

• take part in at least two rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
• do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.

The problems for this round were invented by MikeMirzayanov and prepared by Supermagzzz and Stepavly

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for platforms and coordination of our work. Thanks to darkkcyan, Aris, Mukundan314, PrideBlack, Nemo, pashka, Rox for help in round preparation and testing the round.

Good luck!

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UPD: Editorial

• +413

By Stepavly, 2 years ago, translation,

All problems were created by MikeMirzayanov and developed by me (Stepavly) and Supermagzzz.

1462A - Favorite Sequence

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1462B - Last Year's Substring

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1462C - Unique Number

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1462D - Add to Neighbour and Remove

Problem authors: MikeMirzayanov, Supermagzzz, Stepavly.

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1462E1 - Close Tuples (easy version)

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1462E2 - Close Tuples (hard version)

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1462F - The Treasure of The Segments

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• +127

By Stepavly, history, 3 years ago, translation,

Hello, Codeforces!

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Hello! Codeforces Round #650 (Div. 3) will start at Jun/16/2020 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be offered 6 problems (one of them will have subtasks) with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. However, all of you who wish to take part and have a rating 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially. The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ACM-ICPC). Thus, during the round, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests, and after the round it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks. We tried to make strong tests — just like you will be upset if many solutions fail after the contest is over.

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

Note that the penalty for the wrong submission in this round (and the following Div. 3 rounds) is 10 minutes.

Remember that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as trusted participants of the third division, you must:

• take part in at least two rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
• do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.

The problems for this round were invented by MikeMirzayanov, me and Supermagzzz and prepared by me and Supermagzzz.

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for platforms and coordination of our work. Thanks to harlequen, manta1130, lynmisakura, Gassa, Rox, antontrygubO_o, armoking, JustasLe, iankury, Sho, bugdone, Khairy for help in round preparation and testing the round.

Good luck!

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• +384

By Stepavly, 3 years ago, translation,

All problems were invented by MikeMirzayanov and developed by me, Stepavly, and Supermagzzz.

1360A - Minimal Square

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1360B - Honest Coach

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1360C - Similar Pairs

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1360D - Buying Shovels

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1360E - Polygon

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1360F - Spy-string

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1360G - A/B Matrix

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1360H - Binary Median

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• +89

By Stepavly, history, 3 years ago, translation,

1282A - Temporarily unavailable

Idea: MikeMirzayanov Preparation: MikeMirzayanov

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Idea: MikeMirzayanov, unreal.eugene Preparation: Supermagzzz

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1282C - Petya and Exam

Idea: AdvancerMan Preparation: Supermagzzz

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1282D - Enchanted Artifact

Idea: unreal.eugene Preparation: unreal.eugene

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1282E - The Cake Is a Lie

Idea: MikeMirzayanov, AdvancerMan Preparation: AdvancerMan

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