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By awoo, history, 3 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Nov/19/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 98 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 dlalswp25 6 205
2 Ormlis 6 207
3 Tlatoani 6 214
4 yokozuna57 6 232
5 peti1234 6 235

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 racsosabe 80:-17
2 Elo 33:-4
3 peti1234 24
4 AsunderSquall 26:-7
5 xiaofan7 25:-10
605 successful hacks and 888 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A Geothermal 0:01
B SSRS_ 0:04
C Valera_Grinenko 0:02
D SSRS_ 0:10
E Akulyat 0:38
F Suiseiseki 0:58
G rainboy 0:42

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By awoo, history, 3 years ago, translation, In English

1437A - Marketing Scheme

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1437B - Reverse Binary Strings

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1437C - Chef Monocarp

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution 1 (pikmike)
Solution 2 (pikmike)

1437D - Minimal Height Tree

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1437E - Make It Increasing

Idea: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1437F - Emotional Fishermen

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1437G - Death DBMS

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution 1 (pikmike)
Solution 2 (pikmike)

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By awoo, 3 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Oct/27/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 97 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 Um_nik 7 149
2 jiangly 7 193
3 hank55663 7 214
4 neal 7 231
5 uwi 7 250

205 successful hacks and 712 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A Drew_is_me 0:01
B Drew_is_me 0:03
C IgorI 0:03
D xb0nS 0:09
E vinfat 0:17
F SunshinePie 0:28
G tfg 0:13

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1418A - Buying Torches

Idea: vovuh

Tutorial
Solution (vovuh)

1418B - Negative Prefixes

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1418C - Mortal Kombat Tower

Idea: vovuh

Tutorial
Solution (vovuh)

1418D - Trash Problem

Idea: vovuh

Tutorial
Solution (vovuh)

1418E - Expected Damage

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1418F - Equal Product

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1418G - Three Occurrences

Idea: BledDest and Roms

Tutorial
Solution 1 (pikmike)
Solution 2 (pikmike)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Sep/14/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 95 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 dzh_loves_mjy 7 204
2 neal 7 231
3 WZYYN 7 250
4 noimi 7 357
5 Um_nik 7 384

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A Kirill22 0:01
B dzh_loves_mjy 0:04
C SSerxhs 0:05
D gleb.astashkin 0:17
E Pigbrain 0:19
F WZYYN 0:54
G OnlyG 0:16

UPD: Due to the issues with problems A and B the round is unrated.

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1400A - String Similarity

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1400B - RPG Protagonist

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1400C - Binary String Reconstruction

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1400D - Zigzags

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1400E - Clear the Multiset

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1400F - x-prime Substrings

Idea: BledDest and Roms

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1400G - Mercenaries

Idea: BledDest and Roms

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Aug/25/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 94 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 neal 7 179
2 tmwilliamlin168 7 210
3 jiangly 7 235
4 kmjp 7 236
5 LayCurse 7 245

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 orz 54:-1
2 anuragsingh804 31
3 Loveforever 20:-3
4 dapingguo8 16
5 celestialcoder 15

401 successful hacks and 778 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A neal 0:01
B jiangly 0:05
C gleb.astashkin 0:07
D balakrishnan 0:06
E lebowski998 0:04
F rainboy 0:43
G rainboy 0:19

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1398A - Bad Triangle

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1398B - Substring Removal Game

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1398C - Good Subarrays

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1398D - Colored Rectangles

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1398E - Two Types of Spells

Idea: Roms and BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1398F - Controversial Rounds

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1398G - Running Competition

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Aug/14/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 93 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 Um_nik 7 111
2 tmwilliamlin168 7 119
3 neal 7 144
4 Farhod 7 167
5 tribute_to_Ukraine_2022 7 178

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 Dorost 13:-6
2 dcordb 3
3 KnightKnight 4:-4

85 successful hacks and 696 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A MikMirzoyanov 0:01
B tamahom1 0:02
C IAKWF 0:02
D shinigami11 0:09
E dorijanlendvaj 0:20
F nikolapesic2802 0:08
G tfg 0:22

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1389A - LCM Problem

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1389B - Array Walk

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution 1 (pikmike)
Solution 2 (pikmike)

1389C - Good String

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1389D - Segment Intersections

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1389E - Calendar Ambiguity

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1389F - Bicolored Segments

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution 1 (Ne0n25)
Solution 2 (Ne0n25)

1389G - Directing Edges

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Jul/29/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 92 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Codeforces and Harbour.Space

Hey Codeforces!

We hope you’ve been doing well these past couples of weeks.

This week, we wanted to share a blog post about two of our students. As you might know, Harbour.Space has a unique approach to education — besides classwork and exams, we encourage our students to develop their skills with hands-on projects or even create their startups, so that they’re ready for the workforce when they graduate.

That’s exactly what Jonathan and Khaled, two of our Data Science students, did.

After working hard on their Machine Learning-based startup, they were selected by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) for a 5 Week Student Entrepreneurship Programme, and are now preparing to travel to Geneva in October. We summarized the story of how they went from data scientists to startup founders in this article.

We hope it inspires you to pursue your passions, and work collaboratively to improve the world for those around you.

Good luck on your round, and see you next time!

Read article→
Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 Um_nik 7 245
2 tribute_to_Ukraine_2022 7 255
3 244mhq 7 267
4 Egor 7 293
5 Farhod 7 364

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 Joney 20:-2
2 applese 19:-1
3 FelixArg 7:-2
4 liouzhou_101 10:-10
116 successful hacks and 492 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A noimi 0:00
B noimi 0:05
C Ari 0:04
D HanaYukii 0:17
E 244mhq 0:22
F nitixkrai 0:23
G MyK_00L 1:05

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1380A - Three Indices

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1380B - Universal Solution

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1380C - Create The Teams

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1380D - Berserk And Fireball

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1380E - Merging Towers

Idea: Roms and BledDest

Tutorial
Solution 1 (BledDest)
Solution 2 (pikmike)

1380F - Strange Addition

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution 1 (pikmike)
Solution 2 (Roms)

1380G - Circular Dungeon

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Jul/12/2020 17:45 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 91 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

UPD: The contest is delayed by 10 minutes.

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 Geothermal 7 341
2 natsugiri 7 362
3 LayCurse 7 387
4 GyojunYoun 7 415
5 tribute_to_Ukraine_2022 7 430

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 celestialcoder 15:-2
2 dapingguo8 9
3 kamer 6:-2
4 WiwiHo 3:-1
5 FelixArg 4:-3
48 successful hacks and 88 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A bekzhan29 0:01
B LUV 0:08
C atU 0:09
D duyenn_khong_ngu 0:32
E dorijanlendvaj 0:45
F bekzhan29 0:36
G Geothermal 0:59

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1373A - Donut Shops

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1373B - 01 Game

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1373C - Pluses and Minuses

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1373D - Maximum Sum on Even Positions

Idea: vovuh

Tutorial
Solution (vovuh)

1373E - Sum of Digits

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution 1 (BledDest)
Solution 2 (pikmike)

1373F - Network Coverage

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution 1 (adedalic)
Solution 2 (Ne0n25)

1373G - Pawns

Idea: Roms and BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Jun/25/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 90 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 Geothermal 7 130
2 ksun48 7 143
3 300iq 7 147
4 vepifanov 7 168
5 Radewoosh 7 175

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 EduPeres 40
2 Grey_Matter 39:-3
3 lx430621 26:-1
4 killa_vanilla 25:-5
5 checkingagain 17:-1
351 successful hacks and 375 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A Geothermal 0:01
B ksun48 0:01
C ksun48 0:03
D Noureldin 0:09
E Geothermal 0:22
F ElOrdyh 0:15
G dario2994 0:29

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1366A - Shovels and Swords

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1366B - Shuffle

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1366C - Palindromic Paths

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1366D - Two Divisors

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1366E - Two Arrays

Idea: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1366F - Jog Around The Graph

Idea: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1366G - Construct the String

Idea: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Jun/11/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 89 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Codeforces and Harbour.Space

Hey Codeforces!

A couple of weeks ago, we had the pleasure of hosting a webinar featuring Sergey Gordeichik, CIO of the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Director of the University’s Cybersecurity Programme.

In his talk, Sergey shared his expertise and insights on how AI is being used both positively and negatively during the COVID-19 global pandemic. He touched on topics such as the ethics of using this technology, and how it was implemented during each phase of the pandemic.

We know not everyone had the chance to tune in during the webinar, so we thought you’d be interested in having a look at the slide deck of his presentation.

You can check it out here.

If this was interesting for you, let us know in the comments, and we’ll do our best to try and provide more content like this. Keep an eye out for the final two talks in our webinar series — they might be of interest to you :)

Finally, don’t forget that this July, Sergey is teaching a course on the Cybersecurity of Cloud, Big Data, and AI. The course will be 100% online, so be sure to check it out on our website if you’re interested. Here’s the link.

That’s all from us!

Good luck in the round, and we’ll see you soon!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 ksun48 7 188
2 saketh 7 264
3 hank55663 7 320
4 244mhq 6 109
5 Radewoosh 6 126

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 Hakiobo 70
2 napgod_pk 67:-12
3 Zaher 71:-21
4 VladProg 60
5 BohdanPastuschak 62:-26

1115 successful hacks and 2003 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A neal 0:00
B neal 0:02
C ksun48 0:05
D BohdanPastuschak 0:05
E ksun48 0:15
F kort0n 0:51
G rainboy 0:25

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1359A - Berland Poker

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution 1 (BledDest)
Solution 2 (BledDest)

1359B - New Theatre Square

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1359C - Mixing Water

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1359D - Yet Another Yet Another Task

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1359E - Modular Stability

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1359F - RC Kaboom Show

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On May/28/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 88 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Codeforces and Harbour.Space

Hey Codeforces!

As you may remember, we have a free webinar series starring our all-star faculty members who share valuable content and insiders’ knowledge that you don’t get to learn about in traditional classrooms.

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, May 28 at 12h (BCN) / 17h (BKK) to watch Sergey Gordeychik, CIO of the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, share his expertise and insights in his “Digital Lockdown: AI against COVID-19” session. Sergey will discuss how AI is being used both positively and negatively during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Tune in for some practical examples of how companies are using AI to innovate and disrupt during a time of crisis, exploring topics like Medical Imaging for CT analysis, diagnosis and mass surveillance.

By participating in this webinar you will get a certificate of participation, a special digital gift from Sergey, and stand a chance to win a FREE 3-week module at Harbour.Space University depending on the availability and prerequisites of the course.

See you tomorrow, and good luck on your round!

Reserve your spot now!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 244mhq 6 174
2 bmerry 6 219
3 dlalswp25 6 233
4 hepth 6 238
5 Volkov_Ivan 6 251

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 Hideki_Ryuga_L 37
2 KonaeAkira 19:-1
3 ujjwalsingh30 18:-1
4 veteran_ 14
5 hashlib 13
318 successful hacks and 469 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A andryusha_na_knopke 0:01
B thech0sen1 0:03
C IAKWF 0:11
D Kerim.K 0:06
E HeHere 0:06
F user202729_ 0:44

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1354A - Alarm Clock

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1354B - Ternary String

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1354C1 - Simple Polygon Embedding

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial

1354C2 - Not So Simple Polygon Embedding

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1354D - Multiset

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1354E - Graph Coloring

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1354F - Summoning Minions

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution 1 (BledDest)
Solution 2 (neal)
Solution 3 (pikmike)

1354G - Find a Gift

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On May/17/2020 12:20 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 87 (Rated for Div. 2) will start.

Please notice the unusual time.

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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Also thanks to Neal neal Wu for testing.

Good luck to all the participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Codeforces and Harbour.Space

Hi Codeforces!

We would like to invite you to a very special webinar called Digital Lockdown: AI against COVID-19, by Sergey Gordeychik, director of our Cyber Security programme.

Sergey is CIO of Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, and former CTO at Kaspersky.

During this webinar, Sergey will share his expertise and insights on how AI is being used both positively and negatively, during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Tune in for some practical examples of how companies are using AI to innovate and disrupt during a time of crisis, exploring topics like Medical Imaging for CT analysis, diagnosis and mass surveillance.

Join us on Thursday, May 28th at 12h (BCN) to gain knowledge and deepen your understanding about how we can use AI to solve both operational and societal problems.

By participating in this 1hour webinar you will get a certificate of participation, a special digital gift from Sergey, and have the chance to win a FREE 3-week module at Harbour.Space University, depending on the availability and prerequisites of the course.

Reserve your spot now!

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 square1001 8 294
2 Anadi 8 305
3 tfg 8 681
4 244mhq 7 192
5 xay_naive 7 248

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 qwscaln 29:-2
2 Ankit 5
3 lvao-x 3:-1
4 the_redback 3:-1
5 WICK_ED 2:-1
142 successful hacks and 828 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A fedoseev.timofey 0:02
B Ashishgup 0:03
C1 hitman623 0:04
C2 square1001 0:15
D Not-Afraid 0:10
E autumn_eel 0:17
F squarepants 0:47
G riantkb 0:37

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1342A - Road To Zero

Idea: BledDest and adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (Roms)

1342B - Binary Period

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1342C - Yet Another Counting Problem

Idea: BledDest and adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1342D - Multiple Testcases

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1342E - Placing Rooks

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1342F - Make It Ascending

Idea: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On 26.04.2020 17:35 (Московское время) Educational Codeforces Round 86 (рейтинговый для Див. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Special thanks to Mikhail darnley Dvorkin for helping in round preparation!

Good luck to all the participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Codeforces and Harbour.Space

Hi Codeforces!

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Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 DreamLolita 6 211
2 KrK 6 235
3 Sugar_fan 6 259
4 krijgertje 6 268
5 Temotoloraia 6 272

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 liouzhou_101 81:-35
2 j_peters 29:-16
3 eR6 18:-19
4 tonyli00000 14:-15
5 phyzzmat 8:-7
281 successful hacks and 925 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A sevlll777 0:00
B Aerosmith 0:02
C DreamLolita 0:03
D xb0nS 0:14
E AaParsa 0:17
F chemthan 1:07

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

1334A - Level Statistics

Idea: awoo

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1334B - Middle Class

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1334C - Circle of Monsters

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1334D - Minimum Euler Cycle

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1334E - Divisor Paths

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (pikmike)

1334F - Strange Function

Idea: Roms и BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1334G - Substring Search

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

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By awoo, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Apr/10/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 85 (Rated for Div. 2) 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 the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Codeforces and Harbour.Space

Hey Codeforces,

What a crazy month it’s been!

We hope you and your loved ones are taking care of one another and catching up on everything you didn’t have time for on your normal schedules.

We’ve temporarily closed our physical campus and moved our classes online. It’s not as bad as it sounds though — we’ve always known the future is digital, so we were already preparing for this moment. Either way, we’re back.

SPECIAL PRIZE FOR EDU ROUND 85

This digital transformation opens the door to some pretty awesome new opportunities that allow us to get closer to our community, no matter where in the world they are.

That’s why we have a special prize for the next Educational Round, a space in a course of your choice from our Computer Science or Data Science Programs. You’ll be able to study online with us for 1, 2 or 3 weeks under some of the best Data and Computer Scientists in the world, with all fees on us.

The prize will be for the top 3 users who have confirmed their desire to participate in this competition. To sign up for it, leave us your handle in the form below.

Enrollment in the course you will participate in will depend upon the availability of the course, as well as the prerequisites required for that course.

We hope this provides you with extra incentive for the round, and we’re looking forward to seeing some of you soon!

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On a different note, we’re happy to announce that we’re offering full scholarships for the most talented high school students who want to study in our Computer Science or Data Science Bachelor’s programs at our university.

At the moment, we have two types of scholarships available:

The Full Scholarship. For the best of the best — all tuition costs are covered by the university. Just show up and show us what you’ve got.

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Looking forward to seeing you kick some ass in the next Educational Round, and stay safe!

Best, Harbour.Space University

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 jqdai0815 7 153
2 jiangly 7 195
3 amnesiac_dusk 7 244
4 risujiroh 7 290
5 bmerry 7 310

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 greencis 174:-53
2 Java 94:-8
3 hackVerly 55:-2
4 mosemAlanfgar 55:-10
5 TheScrasse 40
2405 successful hacks and 1303 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A IQOver20 0:02
B arknave 0:02
C Siberian 0:03
D sevlll777 0:16
E LJC00118 0:19
F IceWiz 0:31
G Cirno_9baka 0:25

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