Hii Codeforces!
We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 83, aka International Coding Marathon, in collaboration with Technex '23, IIT (BHU), this Wednesday, 29th March, rated for all divisions.
Time : 8:00 PM — 10:30 PM IST
Note that the duration is 2.5 hours. Read about the recent CodeChef changes here.
Joining us on the problem setting panel are
- Contest admin: Jatin rivalq Garg.
- Setters: Piyush piyush_pransukhka Pransukhka, Kushagra koderkushy Goel, Kartik Gokussjz Malik, Pranav pd_codes Dev, Jatin rivalq Garg, Devashish raideva Rai, Vansh vansh_s Sardana.
- Tester: Yash yash_daga Daga
- Statement Verifier: Kanhaiya notsoloud1 Mohan.
- Editorialist: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh.
- Video Editorialists: Madhav jhamadhav Jha, Suraj jhasuraj01 Jha, Jwala jwalapc
ICM is the flagship CP event of Byte the Bits, the set of programming events organized under Technex, the annual techno-management fest of the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi.
Prizes
Note: Prizes are only for Indian participants (combined ranklist for divisions 1 and 2).
- Winner: $$$10,000$$$ INR
- $$$1^{st}$$$ runner up: $$$6,000$$$ INR
- $$$2^{nd}$$$ runner up: $$$4,000$$$ INR
- Top $$$25$$$ contestants: Goodies and coupons
Please fill out this form to avail them.
Some of our previous rounds:
Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest.
The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to Pro users.
Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.
Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!
As admin and one of the setter, I can assure you problems are really good, Its worth to spend your 2.5 hours of day.
May I ask how the difficulty is roughly divided?
It will be like usual starters, for div 2 and 1 all of the problems will be common to have common ranklist for prizes.
Nice to see CodeChef become independent from shitacademy. Hopefully it can find new sponsors and regain its past glory soon.
Great!
From now on, it would be helpful if you could announce whether it will be rated up to Div.1 as soon as possible.
Sure, we'll try to do that.
Just to set the right expectation — even though some of the Starters will be rated for all, for now they will not be of the same standards that Cook-Offs and Lunchtimes were. As mentioned here, it will be less challenging for the highest rated participants. But we do hope and believe it'll still be a good experience! :)
Again Trouble ??
Cannot get access to the site.
Nice contest! What's the intended solution for Mex Segments ?
Let F(M, L) = Number of subarrays whose mex is >= M and length is <= L. Answer to a query [M1, M2], [L1, L2] is F(M1, L2) — F(M1, L1 — 1) — (F(M2 + 1, L2) — F(M2 + 1, L1 — 1))
Computing F(M, L): F(M, L) is the same as "How many subarrays of length at most L completely contain the minimal range whose MEX is M". Let's say the minimal range is [l_M, r_M) (prefix minimum and maximum on the sequence of positions of values in p). The number of subarrays counted in F(M, L) whose length is r — l is 1. length r — l + 1 is 2, then 3 and so on until say k when the closer of the boundaries of the permutation is touched. Then it remains k until the length touches the other boundary and then reduces one by one until 1 when the length equals n. F(M, L) is the sum of a prefix of this sequence which can be carefully computed in O(1).
https://discuss.codechef.com/t/mexseg-editorial/105656
Hints — https://www.codechef.com/problems/MEXSEG?tab=hints
Fun run with good problems. Will be fun to upsolve the remaining ones!
Cool problems. Enjoyed the contest.
Please don't add a problem after the start of contest. Although it was after 5 minutes only but still.
CodeChef please address the problem of plagiarism during contests ?? All it took me is to look at some random submissions and I could easily make out the similarity in the code!!
No, we do not plan on doing anything about plag during the contest. We only penalize them after the contest, and it takes many days. You can see the updates till last week's contest here, where about 1000 participants were caught.
Thank you for the clarification!! Your efforts are much appreciated !!
Weak Tests for XOR_ORDER problem.
My solution just checking for
a > b > cora < b < cand giving -1 for all other case passes.Can someone hack?
Just printing
-1works lol.Not Weak Tests but Incorrect Checker.
No wonder it got so many AC submissions in such less time.
If they will re-judge almost everyone will fail.
Beauty Sum is another usage of my blog!
Can problem Saber Slays be solved only using segment trees without any dp. just keeping track of the minimum start time and corresponding ending time and maximum value for ranges of nodes of segment tree. then there will be few cases for merging. my merge function is of something this sort:
// if maximum of both range same then answer will be max+1 or if any of the range start with max+1//
Can someone check this as I don't know why i am getting wrong answer?
In XOR_ORDER, the checker had an issue due to which some WA solutions have gotten an AC. This has been fixed for Practice. Since most affected participants did not use this 'loop hole' intentionally, we believe it is not fair to rejudge the submissions now, and are leaving it as it is. Apologies for the error.
Its definitely fair to rejudge the submissions as either they just tried something random or they were just guessing the solution so it is not fair for someone who tried to think and code the correct solution.
It is not like system testing on CF, since the rules of CF and CC are inherently different. CC has full feedback, and the participants know this. Hence when someone gets an AC, there is no need to think more about it and try to fix any issues which the pretests might not have caught, which they would do in a CF contest.
Yes, the current announcement is unfair towards people who coded the correct solution during the contest, but that does not make it fair to turn an AC into a WA post-contest for a person who would have gotten an AC in the next try, if they had gotten a WA during the contest. It is a case of lesser of the two evils.
Nice Problemset!