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Jury solution: 173498496

binary search: 173497901

classic: 173497940

Jury solution: 173498569

Jury solution: 173498668

Jury solution: 173498009
Jury solution: 173498327

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 » 2 months ago, # |   -27 What was the point of making B so hard ?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 O_o
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   +4 Not able to see Jury solution.You are not allowed to view the requested page
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +15 Fixed
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 For problem B, if we use binary search according to the editorial then there can be multiple answer as we are finding a segment but in problem it is said that the answer is unique. Please someone explain this issue...
•  » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Theoretically there is a unique answer (can be proven to be either an integer or exactly halfway between two integers) but the problem statement (requires accuracy to 6 decimal places) and the limited precision of floating point data types means there will be a segment of meeting points that all give an answer that is considered correct.
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   +18 Thanks for the super fast editorial. Link for Solution not working
 » 2 months ago, # |   +1 Can anyone explain the solution for D in a more clear and detailed way? Thanks!
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +31 for DSolution for D:Note pairs:$(a[0],b[n-1]),(a[1],b[n-2]),...,(a[n-1],b[0]).$In pair $(a[i],b[j])$,if the final position of $a[i]$ is determined,then $b[j]$'s position is also determined.For example,$a[i]$'s final position is $x$ in the $2^{rd}$ string,we can get $b[j]$'s position is $(n-x-1)$ in the $1^{st}$ string.Now let's check the answer.If $n$ is even,check if we can match each two pairs $(a[i_1],b[j_1])$,$(a[i_2],b[j_2])$ ,such that $a[i_1]==b[j_2],b[j_1]==a[i_2]$ or $a[i_1]==a[i_2],b[j_1]==b[j_2]$.In other words,each number of occurrences of pair $(min(a[i],b[j]),max(a[i],b[j]))$ must be even.If n is odd,Similiar to the method above but a bit different.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks for the wonderful solution!
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 small boss,fish more
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Basically, the character pairs (s1[0],s2[n-1]), (s1[1],s2[n-2]), ... (s1[i],s2[n-1-i]) are connected. If you try to fix one character of that pair at any position j of s1, the other character of the pair would have its position automatically fixed at n-1-j of s2.e.g. s1 = c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 s2 = d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 Say we do the operation with k = 2 s1 = d4 d5 c3 c4 c5 s2 = d1 d2 d3 c1 c2 Observation: (c1,d5), (c2,d4) are connected, like in a mirror, before and after the operation. They will always behave like a reflection, no matter how many times we perform the operation.After making this observation, we now have to check if we can make 2 equal strings. If we have two of the same character pair, we can always align them so that two indices have the same character in the two strings.say (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) are 2 same character pair.we can place them as suchx1 ... y2 x2 ... y1We first place x1 (y1 placed automatically). Then below x1 we place x2(y2 placed automatically above y1)Now we check if all character pairs are even in count, because we will pick 2 of those pairs and resolve 2 indices at a time.If we find a character pair occurring for odd times, that is supposed to be the middle character of an odd length string. In that case, we have to check if the pair consists of the same character. This is my submission
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 thks for your great explanation!
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Nice explanation brother :)
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Disappointed with B.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 same here
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   +22 Nice problemsBut their difficultyCredits: kigash
 » 2 months ago, # |   +24 So fast editorial :)
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 My binary search solution for problem B FST'd, giving WA on TC-14 173495467 I used that same solution as editorial, finding the intersection of segments. Any help?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 The problem is how the answer was printed, you should've used set precision before, not after printing the answer
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thank you!
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +4 When you try to cout a double variable: Spoiler What a sad sight...
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   -94 B has multiple solutions, one being implementation heavy, and the others being also implementation heavy. Hands down, this is the worst round I have seen excluding the plagiarized ones.upd: yep turns out my B solution was overcomplicated
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   -11 your comments are way better now keep it up
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +109 B is definitely not implementation heavy if you have the right approach. It's incredible that you would criticize the round when your solution for D is plagiarized.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   -86 Yep the leaker was bad and my choices were wrong tooI deeply apologize, please skip my submissions.upd: it's skipped
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 its extremely short (comparatively) , check my submission if you want to
 » 2 months ago, # |   +1 For B, just move everyone towards the person who takes maximum time, and then print (min+max)/2.173498541
•  » » 5 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 In problem B, in the second sample tc, why the answer can't be 1 or 3? Why is it unique? Total time taken would be 2 only in the case of 1 or 3.
•  » » » 5 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 For x=2, time taken will be 1s. Answer will be unique because there's only one mid-point of a line segment (Imagine a situation when everyone is dressed up, clearly everyone should meet at the mid-point of the leftmost and rightmost person). If you move your meeting place away from mid-point, time of meeting can only increase.
•  » » » » 5 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 Oh sorry, I thought we have to compare sum of times taken.
 » 2 months ago, # |   +10 Solution for A (https://www.youtube.com/w[user:MikeMirzayanov]atch?v=gHxV9jwwJyk). Solution for C (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhZytayYfhk). Solution for D (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWYxr-IEwE0).These solutions were leaked on youtube and the name of the user is clearly visible so MikeMirzayanov please look into this.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +4 We can't change those kind of people. They are bane to CP. Let them be. And people who take advantage of them are actually losing, although it may increase their rating.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Yea that's true, in the long run they are losing, but as someone who is trying to push my rating with a goal and timeline to follow, these incidents can ruin all the fun, and they have been much more frequent in last few months, so its time that something is done about it.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +1 i just saw his code for problem d, which by the way can be sued to catch cheaters easily,because he used some weird value '10' which equals to 12592, although I don't try solving the problem and I don't know what he is doing with that value, its just weird to use that kind of representation of the number, does anyone know why would he do that, or if there are some use cases for such a representation?
 » 2 months ago, # |   +20 B is a great problem, but I think testers should have suggested to swap it with C. Very clever solutions
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Today's C requires finding easy greedy observation + Handling an edge case My O(n*10) 173499851
 » 2 months ago, # |   +7 I think that the problem writers should remind us or include a warning to use setpercision() in these type of problems, similar to how interactive problems say to use flush.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 They have mentioned it clearly at the end of output
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 They only mentioned the error margin, not that you had to use setpercision.
•  » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Indirectly it means the same.
•  » » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +13 It does not mean the same. The error margin is about the accepted accuracy of the answer, whereas the issue is about the programming language not displaying the answer to a sufficient precision by default.For example, one approach for solving B is to binary search for a point $y$ where the person who spends the most time to get to $y$ from a position $\leq y$ spends the exact same time as the person who spends the most time to get to this position from a position $\geq y$. However, checking for equality of floating-point numbers should be avoided (due to precision inaccuracies), so one would replace the equality check with a check for whether the difference is below some $\varepsilon$. This, however, means that the evaluated answer might differ from the correct answer by $\varepsilon$, so the specified error margin allows us to choose $\varepsilon$ such that this approach is guaranteed to be within the error margin. If the problem required a stricter error margin, then we would need a smaller $\varepsilon$ (and the maximum number of binary search iterations would increase).However, even in this approach, when the resulting variable stores the answer within the accepted error margin, the issue is that printing this variable directly in C++ using cout would still result in "Wrong Answer in Pretest 3", because the printed answer is not as precise as the actual value of the variable. It's especially troubling for those who realized that the answer can have at most one decimal place (in Problem B here), so they may never have considered that precision would be an issue. After all, printing a long long directly would print it to its complete 64-bit precision, so why shouldn't long double do the same? If one does not already know of this discrepancy between integer and floating-point printing, it is impossible to logically deduce this from the note in the problem statement about the error margin. It doesn't help that the given samples don't involve large answers, so they would match even without setting the precision.This is a language-specific issue that is completely independent of the concept of error margins, where one who completely understands the latter and considers it correctly in their solution can still be ignorant of the former, with nothing in the problem alerting them of this issue. Since this issue is not related to logical problem-solving reasoning skills, it would be justified to highlight this in problems with floating-point answers, especially if it's in a Div2B problem, which is supposed to be relatively accessible (should generally be solvable with pure reasoning alone, without requiring prior knowledge of specific topics).
•  » » » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Exactly bro
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 How is the value for problem B unique? For the given example: test case 3:- 1 4 0 0the optimal value here is 2.5 as per solution, but it can be 1,2,3,4 as well. Where am I wrong?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +3 You have to minimize maximum time, not total
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 U have to minimize the maximum possible cost. That is the actual question. I think u misread the question.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +13 You have to minimize maximum time of one person, not the total time. For example, if $x_0 = 2$, for the 1st person time will be 1 and for the 2nd person time will be 2, so the result will be max(1, 2) = 2, but if you choose 2.5, then both times will be 1.5, so the result will be 1.5, that is lower than 2.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Got it. I misunderstood the problem :(Thanks for clearing my doubt.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 In the fifth test of problem B, shouldn't the answer be equal to 2 ? can someone please explain?
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•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thank you
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 My intuition for Problem C:I used stack to keep a track of non-decreasing substring possible along with their indices. Then I added all stack items to another string 'ans', and then added the rest of indices with a increase in their value by 1 (except for 9) and then sorted the 'ans' string to get the required string!
 » 2 months ago, # |   +20 Thx for fast editorial)
 » 2 months ago, # |   +20 thanks for fast editorial
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   +81 as a tester... and...they did add a new D but with the same score as E... and they didn't deal with B/C so uhh
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   -16 Brovko shnirelman Lankin listen to this guy in the future...
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +19 While taking part in the contest, I also felt like the subtask with all a_i being distinct for E (D in your screenshot) would have made the contest much better and less unbalanced.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 the idea about x + t and x-t wasnt at all hard to get though, and i got and coded it in 4 mins even being a pupil. (i got WA because of precision error still rather new)i think its much more simpler and faster than binary search Its rather easy to get it if you think how to convert this problem into a case where i can solve easily where there is no readying time
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +1 I am shocked by the massiveness of the d*** author put on the editorial of the D. Seems like he couldn't care lessUPD: he added example, but still no proves
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 I thought there was a real editorial for D a short while ago. Probably it got accidentally removed. Unless my memory is wrong
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +20 I'll fix it. Thanks for the honest feedback.UPD: Done
 » 2 months ago, # |   +1 I cannot make head or tail of the editorial for D.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 You can check out my comment https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/107261#comment-956152 and the comment below that :)
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +11 https://codeforces.com/contest/1730/submission/173497901 --> I understood the logic for B from the editorial but can any one tell me why have we done 2*t[i] and 2*x[i] in problem B ?? unable to figure it out :/
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +11 I used that fact from the second solution, that answer will be integer or integer+0.5, so to avoid working with doubles i multiplied all numbers by 2. You can do all calculations in doubles without multiplying by 2 but not forget about setprecision.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thank you !
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Can someone explain why in the editorial of E, we are considering only j1 and j2 positions of the divisor d and also how we are avoiding overcounting the segments ?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +1 There are two cases: when $d$ lies not righter than $i$(in $j_1$) and when $d$ lies righter than $i$(in $j_2$). If both positions lie in segment then we calculate it only in the first case(because of extra condition in the second case: $l > j_1$), otherwise in segment will be either $j_1$, either $j_2$ and there won't any other overcountings.Also, if there is another position $j_3$ of $d$, lying, for example, lefter than $j_1$, then any segment where this element will be the minimum will also contain a position $j_1$, so we will count it in the first case.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thank you!
 » 2 months ago, # |   +8 Does anyone have suggestions for resources to read about double and precision like that was used in problem B? Eventually, I got a working algorithm, but still failed some of the test cases because of precision. When I put the line std::cout << std::fixed << std::setprecision(10) << pos / 2.0 << "\n"; I successfully passed the test cases whereas just doing std::cout << double (pos) / 2 <<"\n"; failed. Here are the two submissions:Failed 173508008Accepted 173508382
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 when you use std :: cout without using setprecision, the output will be in scientific counting method, so the judgement can't judge the precision.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 The default output format for big floating point number is scientific notation which was actually accepted by the judge (not sure if this is intended). The problem is that the default precision is 6 digits, so instead of 4.0759558e7 which is 7 digits your code outputs 4.075960e7, so using either std::setprecision or std::fixed or both will fix the issue. BTW your code std::setprecision(10); won't work because it's the return value that plays the role not the function call.
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 Problem B tricked me so badly.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 B is easy if u are proactive.
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 can't i use binay seach on x_o for question B?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 yeah here's my bs solution: https://codeforces.com/contest/1730/submission/173490358 I don't really get the intended solution at all lmao
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 For problem B I did ternary search over the time selected for everyone to meet and it worked but I'm not sure why.Code
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Ternary works on binary search problems. However, ternary search takes more iterations since the search space reduce by n/3rd everytime, whereas in binary search it is n/2 everytime.Note: Binary search does not work on unimodal functions, so u have to proceed with Ternary search in that case. Please correct me if i am wrong. I am a forever learner.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 How can you prove that the start time function is Unimodal? Anyone can prove it? or generally apply binary search and ternary search, whichever works take that? Please let me know, i am curious about this. I gave a trial and error during contest and it passed for me. I could not prove it, however.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yeah, I guessed that the start time function was unimodal and passed, but couldn't prove it.
•  » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +3 The problem is actually ternary search problem, i also used ternary search in a different way during the contest. https://codeforces.com/contest/1730/submission/173488400I can prove it verbally that if u take any position to the left or right of optimal position. Without loss of generality, let's say at the current optimal position x0, a person who has maximal start time value is to the right of x0, then if u take any point to the left of x0, it makes the maximum value more maximum. On the other hand if u go right, it makes to the someone to the left of x0 more maximum. So it is unimodal.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Is there a solution you wanted to cut that took O(NDlogN) in E, or why are the constraints high?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yes, there is a solution with D&C.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 My D&C solution 173840282 passed comfortably. This problem is pretty similar to 1609F - Interesting Sections. I could simply copy my old code and modify it a bit.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Other solution to C problem is using merge sort.The idea is increment elements of left array in merge if have an element of right array merged before the remaining left, but this increment can be performed once in all merges. Using an array of pairs with boolean flag to store if the element was incremented or not.solution: 173513587
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 I got WA on this submission during contest time.(https://codeforces.com/contest/1730/submission/173466205) But after using "printf" instead of "cout", my submission is accepted. This is link of accepted version. (https://codeforces.com/contest/1730/submission/173516968) I am unable to understand the reason .Can anyone please help me out?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 The reason for this is precision. I don't know what precision of printf is, but it's enough to accepted. The default precision of cout is 6, but u can change it with some functions. One way to do it is:cout << setprecision(20) << your_number;
 » 2 months ago, # |   +1 In the solution 1 of Problem B, The segment should be [xi−(T-ti),xi+(T−ti)].
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 B is really a very good problem.The author of B deserves kudos.
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 B would have been good if the answer fitted in a double or a float. That division by 2 just ruins what would have been a very good Bedit: ok, read other comments. I need to put a setprecision in my template
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Thank you for the fast editorial.I tried to reduce problem B as suggested in the second solution but I failed. I can't figure if I made wrong assumptions about the reduction or if my mistake comes from floating point operations.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 For proof of B,if xi <= y, xi + ti is not guaranteed less or equal to y, right? why the time needed is y — xi — ti then?
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Can someone explain the logic? why Problem B classic solution working here?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +1 We have 2 cases. Case-1 : First you will have to observe that if all t(i) are 0 then , ans will be simply (min(a[i..n]) + max(a[i...n]))/2. Here you find a distance from x(i) as |x(i) — x(0)|Case-2 : Now suppose if t(i) are non-zero.. then |x(i) — x(0)| + t(i) can either be (x(i) + t(i)) — x(0) or x(0) — (x(i) — t(i))... Thus this single coordinate can effectively be replaced by 2 coordinates (x(i) + t(i)) and (x(i) — t(i)) [Distance from co-ordinate y can be either x(0) — y or y — x(0) ]. Thus this problem can be reduced to type-1 with the above assumption.Unfortunately, I couldn't think the same during the contest :((
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 5 →   0 B’s problem itself is good (the difficulty is higher than normal B’s though), but what is “std::setprecision”? This is similar to mistakes like “printing Yes instead of the required YES”, or forgetting to use “std::endl” to flush the output for interactive problems.In the future should we add hints in the problem statement on those issues (or at least add test cases revealing such issues in the problem statement)? They are not related to algorithms/problem-solving at all. We might still should learn them, but I don't want to fail contests just for learning / remembering such boring things.Furthermore, (this might be aggressive), I also believe "int overflow" shouldn't be tested in contests (they are typically not related to algorithm/problem-solving either).
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I completely agree that setprecision should've been specified in the problem description.Regarding int overflow, it's generally not an issue of the problemsetter deliberately trying to test for int overflow, but more that large values are needed to ensure that inefficient solutions do not pass the time limit. For example, you would often see values having a maximum of $10^9$, and you may need to multiply such values, so this would trigger an int overflow, but if the problemsetter were to reduce the maximum to $10^4$ (no overflow on multiplication), this would allow the programmer to say, build an array of size $10^4$ to indicate which values are present (which might simplify the problems significantly). So a large maximum is needed to ensure that the solution must be efficient, but this might result in int overflow as a consequence (thus requiring 64+ bits like long long). Therefore, this does become a matter of algorithm/problem-solving skill (that your solution can't exploit the size of the values).I do agree that int overflow should not be an issue for Div2 A or arguably even for B, but beyond that, I think it's reasonable to require that the algorithm must be efficient enough that it should not depend significantly on the size of the values, so int overflow is something that one needs to be aware of.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 D: "interesting"E: "5s, what's the f**k"In the end I got a solution of $O(\sum d(a_i)\log n)$ but I think it's too slow.After the contest, my friend told me he passed E with $O(\sum d(a_i)\log n)$.The story tells me, lower_bound is so fast.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Why setprecision(6) fail on B? Took me 20 mins just to debug it lol
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 setprecision(6) means 'Round off to 6 significant figures'It includes the integer part of a real number.Try to use it with fixed
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +1 The checker told me wrong answer 36th numbers differ - expected: '40759558.0000000', found: '40759600.0000000', error = '0.0000010' The error is exactly 10-6 xD. Change to precision 9 got AC though.
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 explanation of editotial B:1.Why the object(in other words, the pair) is unordered? That is because we can easily reverse a pair. for example, if we want to reverse a pair {c1,c2} initial:{a1,a2},{b1,b2},{c1,c2},{d1,d2}reverse a prephix to set {c1,c2} to the the top:{c2,c1},{b2,b1},{a2,a1}reverse the first pair:{c1,c2},{b2,b1},{a2,a1},{d1,d2}reverse a prephix to set {c1,c2} to its initial position:{a1,a2},{b1,b2},{c2,c1},{d1,d2}We can see that each pair remains their position, and {c1,c2} has been reversed.2.Why can we sort the objects to a palindrome if a palindrome exists? That is because here is a method to arbitrarily sort the objects. Suppose you have a sequence like this:{a,a},{b,a},{b,a},{c,d},{c,d}Its palindrome may be this:{b,a},{c,d},{a,a},{c,d},{b,a}First we reverse the phephix to move {b,a} to the beginning:{b,a},{a,a},{b,a},{c,d},{c,d}Second we reverse the whole sequence to move {b,a} to the end:{c,d},{c,d},{b,a},{a,a},{b,a}Then we have made the last position equal, repeate the work on tht next position till the whole positions equal.
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Has anyone tried finding the position X0 in problem B using Ternary Search? I tried but I am not able to find why I am getting wrong answer in the third test :( , Here's my submission 173457434 , Update : I had not applied setprecision(10) and because of which I was getting marginal error :-| ; Idk weird solution
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +1 Yeah I solved it with ternary search 173480072I think this was the most straightforward solution as you just ternary search on X_0 and check the maximum time for each person
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yes , I also felt this approach was correct but I didn't knew that the condition (r-l)>1e-8 wouldn't satisfy the precision constraints :(
•  » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +1 You can use for which does a fixed number of iterations.But you got WA because of the precision of output, not ternary search.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 why my B always wrong on test 3 in two ways, maybe some details fault, but I can't find. Can anyone remind
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 maybe you multipled two number ranged 1e8? i found my code overflowed one spot and it was also wrong on test 3
•  » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 did you cout a double?
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 As a participant that solved B in less than 10 lines in 7 minutes, I suggest it would be better if the positions are even numbers.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 I have a greedy solution for B. For the persons whose times are below the maximum t,you can just let them gather towards the person whose time is the maximum.If one person meets the person with the maximum dressing time,he stops.It is obviously the optimum choice. Then sort the position,the mid point of the maximum and the minimum is the answer.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Another intuition for binary search solution in problem B:-We want to minimize $max(t_{i}+|x_{0}-x_{i}|)$, so thinking about this graphically, the graphs of each of the terms $t_{i}+|x_{0}-x_{i}|$ will be a shifted 'V' graph in the X-Y plane,take the fifth example in the first test case, the graph will be like:- If the image isn't visible above please visit this link https://postimg.cc/7bQM0WJJSo we see that the curve for the maxima of all these group of graphs will again be a V shaped graph, and it will have a unique minimum value, further we can deduce that this minimum value will either occur at an integer value or a decimal terminating in .5.Now the minima can be obtained by binary search on the variable x
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 what is the reason behind multiplication by 2 for every T and X in B editorial solution ?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 The first observation is that the solution to the problem will either be a non-negative integer or some integer+0.5The second observation is that author wants to work with integers only. Since the only decimal value involved in the solution is 0.5, they choose to multiply each number by two so that the new answer will be two times the actual answer.The author can cleverly check at the end that if the new answer is odd, then the actual answer will be (new answer)/2 + 0.5 other it will be (new answer).
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 thank you ,can you please tell me what it the reason for running the loop while(r-l>1)and not while(r>=l)?
•  » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Again (r-l)>1 or (r-l)>=2 is equivalent to (r'-l')>=1 where r' and l' will be actual r and l when divided by 2. Note that it is sufficient to bring r' and l' gap to 1 because mid in this case will be (l'+r')/2 + 0.5 which will be only decimal solutionIn case you are still confused, you can have a look at my submission: 173562573.
•  » » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 thanks
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Any video solution for problem E?
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 I am so Angry i submitted this solution a thousand times but i did not set precision.https://codeforces.com/contest/1730/submission/173553138
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 I tried solving B using double ans=(Min+Max)/2; got wrong answer on testcase 3 Submission link : https://codeforces.com/contest/1730/submission/173555196but tried doing the same with int ans=(Min+Max)/2; cout<
•  » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 Try to read checker comment in submission details.wrong answer 36th numbers differ - expected: '40759558.0000000', found: '40759600.0000000', error = '0.0000010'When ans is too big,std::cout<
 » 2 months ago, # |   +1 Hi, Brovko! In the solution (1) of problem B's editorial, the segment will $[x_i−(T-t_i), x_i+(T−t_i)]$. You have written $[x_i−(T+t_i), x_i+(T−t_i)]$.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks, fixed.
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2 months ago, # |
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For QC why is this thing showing TLE>I have used only one loop with complexity of time as O(n).

define ll long long

using namespace std; int main(){ int t; cin>>t; while(t--){ char str[200002]; cin>>str; ll arr[200002]; for(ll i=0;i<strlen(str);i++){ arr[i]=(str[i]-'0'); } ll poke=arr[strlen(str)-1]; for(ll i=strlen(str)-1;i>0;i--){ if(poke<arr[i-1]){ if(arr[i-1]+1>9){ arr[i-1]=9; } else{ arr[i-1]=arr[i-1]+1; }

}
else{
poke=arr[i-1];
}

} sort(arr,arr+strlen(str)); for(ll i=0;i<strlen(str);i++){ cout<<arr[i]; } cout<<endl;

} }

•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 for(ll i=0;i
•  » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 Want to express more powerfully?Use Markdown
•  » » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 how to use markdown??
•  » » » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 If you're Chinese,just read this.If not,you can use search engines
•  » » » » » 6 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 Na I am not chinese
•  » » » » » » 6 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 So after searching did you know how to use md(MardDown) now?
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Can someone explain what exactly does set precision do in B. As only the average of the extremes is to be taken, at max a single decimal point would be there. Hence if the sum of the extremes is even I just do integer division and if it is odd I just do the same and add 0.5 in cout. But I got WA in test case 3, but adding set precision passed all test cases. I then just printed .5 as a string in the case of odd and I passed all.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +1 If you add $0.5$ to int, you get double. If you print a double without setprecision, you may get a big error. For example, 1234567.5 is printed as 1.23457e+006.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Oh so the problem is related to printing and not actual values, thanks that makes sense.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Which classical problem is being referred to with regards to B?Could somebody provide a link?
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +8 It's pretty easy.If you have $n$ fixed points $p_i$, and you want to choose some $x$ to minimize:$max(|p_i - x|)$It's pretty obvious that for fixed $x$ answer will be either $|x - p_1|$ or $|p_n - x|$.Then we just want to minimize $max(|x - p_1|, |p_n - x|)$.I think you can already see that $x = (p_1 + p_n) / 2$ minimizes the answer.
 » 2 months ago, # |   +1 Nice contest,tks！(To me, Problem E & F is far easier than D ...)
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 tell me where I'm wrong my approach to problem B: low = l and high = r; I will use binary search to find where the and l and r will come closer, I mean I will try to find out where the max time left to the point is nearly equal to max time right to the point. #include using namespace std; int main(){ int tt; cin>>tt; while(tt--){ int n; cin>>n; vector x(n), t(n); for(int i = 0; i>x[i]; } for(int j = 0; j>t[j]; } long double l = 0, r = 1e9 + 5; while(abs(r-l)>0.000000001){ long double mid = (l+r)/2.00; long double suml, sumr; suml = sumr = 0.000; for(int i = 0; i=mid){ sumr = max(sumr, t[i] + x[i] - mid); } } if(sumr
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 looks correct to me
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 bhoomikacherry I didn't use setprecision... I guess, after set precision, it will work.
•  » » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 ohhh, thank you! it worked
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   0 Hello Brovko, can you please tell one thing for question B, what made you not to think in direction of DP. How you will describe your intuition for this? Is B at all solvable by DP if not considering it's time constraint and input size in consideration.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 When I saw that you need to minimize the time, I immediately thought about binary search. I don't know how to solve it by DP. To calculate DP, you should use previous values to calculate next values. But how would you do it in this problem? In which order you would calculate some values?
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Thank you Brovko, I got the point. More than happy , that you replied to my question because I do not expect very much from high rated coders in replying again as I am gray. Again thank you, Brovko
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Can anyone tell why my answer is wrong for 1st testcase. https://codeforces.com/contest/1730/submission/173617360
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 For the test case of 1 0 3 Your output is 0.083248376846, when it should be simply 0. Maybe your approach messes up for $n = 1$?
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 for problem B i am getting WA on testcase 3. someone plz help me to find my mistake. my code: 173624038
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Spoilercout << fixed << setprecision(10) << ans << endl; you answer getting AC after the change : 173628301
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 s2 += (char)min(s[i]+ 1 — '0', 9); s2 += (char)min(int(s[i]) + 1, int('9')); here s2 and s are strings USING THE first one i am getting empty string and using the second one i am getting correct answer . WHY ? is this happening
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Anyone solved D? I got an idea but don't no how to achieve and implement it. THe idea is we have to make string a => palindrome and string b palindrome then swap n/2 len pref and suf. The complex part is here on how to make them palindrome using the given operations. I found D as implementation heavy
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   0 For problem C,I have a simpler solution,it used more time but easy to understand  string s; cin >> s; int n = s.size(); vector a(n); vector mn(n + 1, 9); for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { a[i] = int(s[i] - '0'); } for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) { mn[i] = min(mn[i + 1], a[i]); } priority_queue, greater>q; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { if (a[i] == mn[i]) { q.push(a[i]); } else { q.push(min(a[i] + 1, 9)); } } while (!q.empty()) { cout << q.top(); q.pop(); } cout << endl; 
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Can Someone Explain Classic Solution Problem B. After reading the editorial and going through comments i still cannot understand :(? Why taking the average of maximum and minimum coordinate give us optimal point?
•  » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 forget average.....we can minimize the time by placing the x0 point at the centre of the minimum and the maximum number....by this way only max and min both will take same amount of time and this time will be the maximum time taken by any person....because they are at the extreme points on the axis...one at start and one at end.....and now how to put the point at centre....??x0= min + (max — min)/2;OR x0= (min + max)/2; //// which is also called as average.....
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   0 Brovko, I think in editorial of 1730B - Meeting on the Line in 2nd part(i.e classic part): ** and the two we want to replace him with — y−xi+ti and y−xi−ti ** . In 1st equation sign of y should be positive i.e (y-xi+ti). Sorry if I am disturbing you by pinging again and again but I think it can be very confusing for beginner sometimes. Although it is a very small mistake i think. I can be wrong also.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 It's a dash, not a minus
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Ok , Brovko I took it the other way. Sorry for disturbing you.
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Can someone provide the solution of C in a better way or can you explain it in a better way?
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Can anyone explain D.
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 Problem CEasy solutionFor this problem we can apply an observation. We need to make the string as small as possible. So our target is to take all the small digits to the left side of the ans string so that we can make it so small possible. But as we are taking the digits left most side so we will have to shift digits before the small one. But if we shift any digit then it increases by 1. So we need to trace the indices whose value will be increased by 1.Example: 8428We know that this string will be small if we can place the smallest digit to the left. So we will try to print digits 0 to 9 sequentially. But for this string we don't have any 0 or 1. So obviously we should take 2 to the left. But wait! 2 is in the second position ; so if we want to place 2 in front then we can take all the digits before 2 to the right side of 2. So after first pass our string will look like this 4289 (first value increases by 1 and it is placed to end of the string) 2589 One thing to note down ; we place the increased digit in such a position so that it is placed in its appropriate position. But the interesting fact is that we don't need to place the digit and code for it at all.Just for visualisation you can place them at the appropriate position. See in the above first pass ; we placed 9 at the end of the string so that we don't need to increase 9 further. Again we placed (4+1) after 2 so that in future we don't need to increase this again. It means we need to place the increased digit in its place.This process will go on. It is hard to make you understand the concept of this code. You need to visualise my concept by your own.Here goes my code Idea at a glance - Will count number of appearances of any digit and store their indices  - Will print from 0 to 9 according to its count  - If have shifted any smaller digit before the present one (let current digit is d) then obviously we will print the (d+1)th digit. Because to put the smaller digit before this one we had to shift the current one. 
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 I didn't do the contest but when I do questions afterwards I solved B but I don't know why my solution could solve B... It seems like calculating the slope could still be used in this question lol. (p.s. I actually feel C so hard. I can't solve it even though I could solve D :( )
 » 2 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Brovko just one final question on the problem B after a long time(I asked you some questions earlier). Why binary search would take nlogn in problem B. Shouldn't it be nlogT, where T = 10^8. And will not it give TLE. As nlogn works for n <= 10^5. From this blog Your text to link here.... Why sir shnirelman code is not giving TLE. Sorry again but this one is really confusing me.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   +10 $nlogT$ is not $nlogn$In 1 second the system can run about $10^8$ operations$nlogT$ with $n = 10^5$ and $T = 10^8$ is $2.7*10^6$ so it's good
•  » » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 5 →   0 tezk , Why nlogT is not nlogn ?. Because at the end we are dealing with logT and we will take into consideration nlogT or NlogN combined and then check if it is exceeding 10^8 ? Like sir from this blog Time complexity analysis. The limit for NlogN is ok if N <= 10^5. This one is really confusing. Can you explain in some clear way if you can , it will be really helpful.Because for time complexity I always refer this Time complexity analysis. So how should I think during using it.
•  » » » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 $nlogn$ is 1-variable, but $nlogT$ is 2, they are differentThe link you give me only tackle 1-variable problem, and the point of that post is to give a rough estimation on what time complexity that might pass. When the problem beomes more complicated (2, 3 main variables, ...) you need to calculate the time complexity out yourself.btw, yes the complexity of that solution is $nlogT$, not $nlogn$
•  » » » » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 tezk, if I am correct and understood your point coreectly it is like : from my given post link above if I give N = 10^6 in NlogN , putting value will give : 2 × 10^7 and codeforces system process 10^8 operations per second, **so N = 10^6 will work because it is not exceeding 10^8 operations **. Right??And similarly the problem B time complexity will be also NlogT which will give value 2.7 × 10^6. So it will also work fine as it is also less than 10^8. And time limit of the problem is 2 seconds.Am I thinking right in this direction for understanding time complexity?? Will not bother you again and again. Sorey
•  » » » » » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 Yes you are right.
•  » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yes, it's $nlogT$ but $log T$ is very small. Even if $T$ was $10^{18}$, $log T$ would be $60$.
 » 7 weeks ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 Problem B: a/c to editorial ---- average extremes if the all dressing times are zero is not working here can u pls explain ? or am i interpreting it wrong? consider x=[1, 2, 7, 8, 9] t=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0] here the optimal point is (1+9)/2 = 5abs(5-1)+abs(5-2)+abs(5-7)+abs(5-8)+abs(5-9)=16optimal point acc to me is = 7 abs(7-1)+abs(7-2)+abs(7-7)+abs(7-8)+abs(7-9)=14
•  » » 7 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 ok i got my answer...
 » 7 weeks ago, # |   0 Easy explanation for B ...(binary search)get the max time of all the people on the left side of mid ...and max of all the people on the right side of mid...now if maxL > maxR that means you have to move to left side....i.e. end=mid;or if maxL < maxR that means you have to move to right side....i.e. start=mid;or if maxL == max R ...then mid is the answer...break the loop....my Solution
 » 6 weeks ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 Does C really have an annoyingly simple(interesting) solution? Brovko #define nfs ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);cin.tie(NULL);cout.tie(NULL); #define test int t;cin>>t;while(t--) #define outl(n) cout<<(n)<<'\n'; #define rf(i,b,a) for(int (i) = (a)-1; (i) >= (b); --(i)) int main(void){ nfs test { string s;cin>>s; char mn='9'; rf(i,0,s.length()) if(s[i]<=mn)mn=s[i]; else s[i]=min(char(s[i]+1),'9'); sort(s.begin(),s.end()); outl(s) } return 0; } 
•  » » 6 weeks ago, # ^ |   0 Yes. The idea of this solution is similar to the editorial but it has simpler implementation.