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By atcoder_official, history, 8 months ago, In English

We will hold TOYOTA SYSTEMS Programming Contest 2023(AtCoder Beginner Contest 330).

We are looking forward to your participation!

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Good luck for everybody!

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omg it's the first time i found that there's a discuss of atcoder

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good luck

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is there any penalty for wrong submissions in atcoder contests?

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    Yes. 5 minutes will be added to your time. (But only if you end up solving that question. Wrong submissions on problems, that you don't solve, won't give you any penalties).

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Who the f*%k set today's G? :(

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    How you solved F? what was the check function in binary search?

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Problems D and E are easier than problems B and C.

Can't understand problem statement of B. How to solve?

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    First,find the minimum value of right hand side then find value of x accordingly.

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    if A-i < L, print L

    if A-i > R, print R

    if A-i is in range [L, R], print A-i

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Can anyone help with F? I used binary search + two pointers to check, but got 3 WAs in main test, thanks a lot

https://atcoder.jp/contests/abc330/submissions/47936272

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    I am in the same situation, have you resolved it?

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    If I understand correctly, you're considering the interval can start at some $$$a_i$$$ and finish at $$$a_i + x$$$, but you may be missing the cases where it can finish at some $$$a_i$$$ and start at $$$a_i - x$$$.

    To handle this I used a copy of the array with the reversed sign, and then you can take the min between both cases. Code

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    I have solved this problem, you can try this data: 5 5 3 2 2 1 2 4 0 1 0 2

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@atcoder_official Code in editorial for problem-F is not formatted.

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My code is failing at only testcase for E — Mex and Update. Not able to figure it out.

Please help. link to submission

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Is $$$F$$$ solvable through binary search?

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      Can you explain the check function, please? I have been tried to understand others' code, but failed to do it.

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        Sure my check function handles x and y coordinates separately. I try to find the minimum moves required for all x and y to end in windows of size mid and then if the sum of both coordinates is less than k that's good'

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Could anyone tell me the meaning of symbol γ?

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    The symbol γ in the editorial of F.

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When I run my $$$\mathcal{O}(n \log^2 X)$$$ solution for F on GCC C++, it runs in ~600ms. However, if I run it on clang C++, it runs in ~190ms. Even funnier, if we change a max function call to if-elses, it TLEs on GCC C++.

what the f-

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Solution of Problem C

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    precalculate all squares of num till 4e6 and store them in vec. iterate for all possible x values (<=sqrt(d)) . Then rem=d-x*x. find min possible y less than rem using binary search in vec for y and update ans. Link

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Today's B is fun. In fact, Y is unuseful here, we just need let the $$$X_i$$$ smaller (

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It was such a pain debugging G because the small samples didn't cover all cases and the big sample was too large to print anything out. Anyways it was a good problem to learn how not to make your code a mess.

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How my desperate solution of F passed all test cases?

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    Wow that's a really smart solution. Considering only the $$$x$$$-cordinate ($$$x,y$$$ are independent), I think the intuition here is that you examine all the possible problematic pairs that create the $$$\max_{i}X_{i}-\min_{i}X_{i}$$$ difference.

    Assuming you sort $$$X$$$, at first you look at $$$X_{1}$$$ and $$$X_{N}$$$ (which are the min, max). No matter how you choose the optimal square with side $$$\ell$$$, it will be inside $$$[X_{1},X_{N}]$$$ so you will always just have make $$$X_{1}$$$ bigger to match the left side of the square and $$$X_{N}$$$ smaller to match the right side of the square, in total $$$X_{N}-X_{1}-\ell$$$ times.

    After you handle $$$X_{1},X_{N}$$$ change them so they fit the square. Now the min/max pair that will be problematic is $$$X_{2},X_{N-1}$$$, so you continue using the same logic if it is actually problematic, i.e if $$$X_{N-1}-X_{2} >\ell$$$ (notice that if $$$X_{N-1}-X_{2}>\ell$$$ you can also be sure that the square will lie inside $$$[X_{2},X_{N-1}]$$$). Also you don't really have to stop the loop since any pair afterwards will still have a smaller difference than $$$\ell$$$.

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Can anyone help with C? I used two pointers , but got WAs in main test, thanks a lot

https://atcoder.jp/contests/abc330/submissions/47945670

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How to solve C

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Hints are cool, but I think something happened to the code formatting in the English editorial of F :Clueless:

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The task_C's constraints is wrong, but I didn't notice about that during the contest. I think it's $$$1 \leq D \leq 2 \times 10^{18}$$$. I hope the wirters will read this comment and fix it.

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Can anyone give Test case where it fail's problem E https://atcoder.jp/contests/abc330/submissions/47972996

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