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April Fools Day Contest 2022
By Agnimandur, history, 14 months ago, In English

With Nickolas not writing a contest this year, magnus.hegdahl and I have decided to take up this sacred duty :). We would like to invite everyone on Codeforces to the April Fools Day Contest 2022. Special thanks to BucketPotato for volunteering to test this contest!

The 10th April Fools Day Contest will take place on Apr/01/2022 17:35 (Moscow time). This is a joke competition in which solving the problem is often easier than figuring out what the actual task is.

In this round you'll be given several 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, unless the problem says otherwise. 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, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.

Good luck, and have fun!

UPD: There will be 8 problems. There will be only be an interactive problem if the Collatz Conjecture is true...

UPD: Thanks to everyone who participated! I hoped you enjoyed thinking over the problemset. The editorial is available, complete with solution code and hints. Special congratulations to the winners.

Rank Username Score
1 Sylviasilvia 7 (330)
2 MarbIue 7 (339)
3 xyf007 7 (341)
4 Tyyyyyy 7 (345)
5 Flamire 7 (345)
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14 months ago, # |
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as a tester, give me contribution.

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Guess there will be 'Is it rated? — 3'

upd: OK now it really appears in Problem D!!!

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UPDATE: The contest will be hosted on the Codeforces contest page! Everyone can register here.

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Is it rated?

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Isitrated?

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This will be my first April fool Day contest :) Really excited

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There will be only be an interactive problem if the Collatz Conjecture is true.

WHAT THE HECK

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14 months ago, # |
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Sorry i'm not familiar with c++, can anyone tell me what this code will output?

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int p[15]={73,115,32,105,116,32,114,97,116,101,100,63};
	for(int i=0;i<12;i++) printf("%c",p[i]);

	return 0;
}
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    14 months ago, # ^ |
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    mutsuki orz
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    14 months ago, # ^ |
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    Or this:

    #include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

int f(int x) {
    return 5*5179*68111 + (3*61576747*x)/2.0 - (17137*25819*x*x)/2.0;
}
int main()
{
	int p[]={f(0),f(1),f(2),0};
	printf("%s",&p);

	return 0;
}
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    14 months ago, # ^ |
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    code art

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don't forget to check the unusual timing

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Hallo Codeforces.I'm Tobi and this is my first April Fool's contest. And I don't know if it has a rating or not? Please give me your answer!And have a fun at the April Fool's contest.Good luck :).

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My first unrated April Fools contest as an expert :p

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    14 months ago, # ^ |
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    haha, this is so fun!!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I cannot stop laughing :DDDDDDDDD please eat your cat

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Looking forward to it :)

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I'm a boy, it's a joke!

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tonight, who can carry me?

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The Collatz Conjecture is true... )))

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Imagine the contest being unrated a April fool Joke itself

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Is it OK to participate in a team? It would be more enjoyable.

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This will be my first April Fool Day contest. Really (EXCITED).٩ (◕‿◕｡) ۶

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Announcement: This competition will be rated! just go all out!

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What is Collatz Conjecture?

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There will be only be an interactive problem if the Collatz Conjecture is true...

Is there a typo or does the first be have a meaning?

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    14 months ago, # ^ |
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    There's probably a hint for the hardest problem, hidden somewhere in this sentence.

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just imagine there is no contest :(

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"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." Is this also a joke?

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Is it a rated one?

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Is there any time penalty for wrong submission ? If answer is yes , then how much ?

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contset is rated or unrated for div 2

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Where can I see the question form so I can code it?

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codeforce is giving wrong output on code whereas rest other compilers giving right answer

1st image

This screenshot is of other compiler of same code(all other online compilers are also giving same output)

2nd image

Here is code can you run on your compiler check 152301548

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Collatz Conjecture isn't true...

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    I proved Collatz Conjecture yesterday lol UPD: really simple thing

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Okk I have been successfully made fool

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DON'T CLICK THE TUTORIAL, I regretted doing that.

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    my internet speed is slow, so i had time to close rickroll)

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I figured that E involves finding "minotaur" in the grid but no idea why it fails on test 6 :(

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It's a funny round! :)

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Can someone tell me why does this 152408291 fail on H it compiles both on pascal and C++

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    Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 [2017/10/03] for x86_64                                                                                                                                                           Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others                                                                                                                                                               Target OS: Linux for x86-64                                                                                                                                                                                          Compiling program.cpp                                                                                                                                                                                                program.cpp(5,5) Warning: Comment level 2 found                                                                                                                                                                      program.cpp(8,7) Fatal: Syntax error, "BEGIN" expected but "end of file" found                                                                                                                                       Fatal: Compilation aborted
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      Weird, it's compiling just fine on custom invocation.

      is it because of the version difference?

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How on earth are you supposed to figure out that C involves finding the sum of the array?

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In case you're getting WA on test 3 for problem D and don't know why:

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Those who got AC in Problem B and Problem D were interactively running the binary search! :)

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wait wtf? is it really rated?

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To not keep you waiting, the ratings are updated preliminarily. In a few days, I will remove cheaters and update the ratings again!

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H was pretty cool.

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Did anyone come with something else?

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    I used the fact that const is a valid keyword in both C++ and Free Pascal. Then mixed different types of comments (* *), /* */ and // for this weird solution:

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    I did the same thing, but for some reason my code didn't work, does anyone have an idea why?152412785

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    I tried to use the fact that you can start a C program with (*a);, which looks like the start of a pascal comment.

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    This compiles with gcc, but this is NOT valid C++.

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is the +179 rating i got an april fools joke? i thought it was unrated

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Why it's rated?

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In my opinion this April Fools contest was the funniest one than ever :) :) :)

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Problem C: I converted "Pōja Verdon" from Unicode (the non-ASCII ō makes me think this problem has to do with Unicode) to binary using this service and got 01010000 101001101 01101010 01100001 00100000 01010110 01100101 01110010 01100100 01101111 01101110. Using the same service, I converted the binary to ASCII and got P¦µ0+2¹27·.

Then I thought the problem was about finding a prime that is divisible by $$$\mu_0 + 2^1 \times 27$$$ :')

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    and then my second attempt was to realize that $$$3979$$$ (the constraint in the problem) was tourist's highest rating (and Codeforces highest ever rating). Then I thought the problem was given $$$N$$$ ratings, find something. Then I guessed the something was to print the team rating of those $$$N$$$ ratings :')

    Completely off-track :')

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      I also tried calculating the team rating; the first translation of the title I found was "their number", and seeing the constraints I thought that would just be a way of saying "their rating", which could mean "their team rating".

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    Problem B: I remembered this blog, then I web scraped the ratings of all the users and I printed the rating of the previous user in the standings :D
    152344694

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There will be only be an interactive problem if the Collatz Conjecture is true

There is not any interactive problem, so Collatz Conjecture is not true

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    there was no "if and only if" :D

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      saying "There will only be an interactive problem if the Collatz Conjecture is true" is equivalent to saying "the Collatz Conjecture is not true if there are no interactive problems" because it is the original statement's contrapositive :) Contraposition

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As we see, it is rated :D

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Guess: at the end of the day Mike will send the "we caught you cheating" message to every participant and undo the rating changes.

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1 April is a very good day with very good jokes and contests)))

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Why is it rated????????????????????????????

blue again

it is not funny mikkie

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    You just had to solve Mikkie's sequence to remain pink. LOL.

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      but this task is too hart how can i solve it? i dont now anything about cf rating changes

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    i think , we will be back in our prev rating.

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Wait till you see the rating changes today

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I think is it just prank !!
We will get our older rating after some amount of time :)
So... chillleeexxx !!

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Thanks for your April Fools Day's joke, Codeforces! This may be my best standing forever(the 45th). Besides, Rating changing really give me a surprises(Though I know it's a joke). This kind of problems is really interesting, I solved ABCDEH. This make me very happy. Thanks!

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It is Unrated. But they increased our Rating.. Good way to fool Us lol

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    they decreased my rating, could have made me specialist for few mins. Not fair.

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Don't do such stuff codeforces, what if someone has a weak heart.

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Thanks for making me enjoy being pupil for a day or something idk

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Just now I dropped 229 rating.....

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    What a pity,hh.On April Fool's day, we can never think of what will happen the next second

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      Or we can speak in chinese hhhh

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Guys..it is unrated right??then why rating has been changed??

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Rated. lol, Proved me a big fool.

prediction: the ratings will back to normal again soon.

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wuhu!! Expert!!! happy!!

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Is it rated or being rated is an April Fool??

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What just happened !!! Surely some sort of prank

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I am satisfied with my new rating so make this contest rated

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Sir please sir MikeMirazayanov please give me back my rating bro sir

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    Next round rated for Div.1 is on April 1, 2023, see you there ;)

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people who's rating decreased:-"NO WAYYYY MAN!"
people who's rating increased :-"OH YEAHHHH!"

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is there a problem with codeforces now? in the contest the site is very slow and now the contest became rated and many people loss about -200 in a joke contest?MikeMirzayanov

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1/April is a good day to fuck the rate for people Say that the contest is unrated and make every one join for fun after that make the contest rated :(

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Despite the fact that the announcement states that it will be unrated, the rating for this round was still counted. Is this an April Fool's joke?

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"Unrated round"

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It was the first time I gave such a contest, but it was interesting and I liked it very much =D

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in previous contest i have become specialist for the first time and now i have become again april fool for a day. Jaane ke jid na kro..

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Can someone explain to me why this contest is rated ? Because I read that it is unrated

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Commenting before I lose expert.

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they make us april fool my making it rated .lol

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    meanwhile i gained 179 lmao. its cool and all but some people lost their ratings. i hope this is an april fools joke

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      ya apparently it's a joke I'm just trolling :)

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    Oh wooooow

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      Mike Mirzayanov just smacked the S out of me

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Thank you very much for the free points <3:

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I think it is a April Fool Joke that it is rated,isn't it? Our rating points didn't changed in fact,yes?

I just read the problems and solved the first problem and went to sleep! But today I found that I have lost 100 points! It is a Joke!

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Very Good Contest Thank you for greating it

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i'll never participate in April fools contest again.

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When will the editorial be released?

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