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1917A - Least Product

Author: zidder
Preparation: _LeMur_
Editorial: zidder
Official solution: 238752794

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1917B - Erase First or Second Letter

Author: _LeMur_
Preparation: _LeMur_
Editorial: zidder
Official solution: 238752759

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1917C - Watering an Array

Author: IgorI
Preparation: IgorI
Editorial: IgorI
Official solution: 238743155

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1917D - Yet Another Inversions Problem

Author: IgorI
Preparation: IgorI
Editorial: IgorI
Official solution: 238743552

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1917E - Construct Matrix

Author: _LeMur_
Preparation: _LeMur_
Editorial: _LeMur_
Official solution: 238752669

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1917F - Construct Tree

Author: _LeMur_
Preparation: _LeMur_
Editorial: _LeMur_
Official solution: 238752543

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Разбор задач Codeforces Round 917 (Div. 2)
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Auto comment: topic has been updated by _LeMur_ (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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Just Missed C by implementation,and i thought i can solve problems that are implementation based easily...C proved i was wrong.

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Thank you for the fast editorial! Also between this and Pinely round I have a huge Christmas backlog to upsolve.

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Thanks for the fast editorial

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problem E is wangba.

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why bitsets

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Oh it was bitsets. I was thinking how to get the two sets in better that $$$n d^2$$$ complexity.

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Respect for the fast editorial.

Disrespect for a wrong number in contest's title

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C was really frustraing. Anyways, nice idea and observation.

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bitset in the author's solution,

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    I really don’t understand why after EVERY ROUND with a bitset in author’s solution, someone has to complain. Bitset is a very good optimization by at least a factor of 32, which is huge both in competitive programming and real life job programming: imagine google pages or apps loading 32 times slower! Bitset is also something quite easy to learn, a lot less advanced than (for instance) a segtree, so it appearing in a div2F or E should really not represent a problem. So why not use it when it is available and force contestants to know it as well?

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i dont know but somehow a is more tougher than b

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    actually a just have few logical cases thats it and we miss that. in B one the idea was great to just traverse the array add chraacter to set and increment count variable by set size everytime

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C's pretests are really weak, I did same thing with k instead of 2 * n +1; how this case couldn't create? Respect to authors but these are really unnecessary things for FST :(

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fst round lets gooo

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Overkilled and missed D by a few minutes.

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any countertest for C 238728699 please?

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    1
    8 10 10
    8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 1
    

    you can do 1st type of opearation on 1st 9 days, then 2nd type operation on 10th day. ans will be 7 in this case.

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who solve B with dp or something different from guide?

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      can you explain the intuition behind this solution?

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        simple observation of first and last test cases: in first — aaaaa all chr are same and ans is 5; in last -abcd.... all chr are unique and ans is 210;

        so we can assume that initial ans should be sum of 1,2,3..n, and we need to subtract some value when we have same characters: so first test case ans is 5 (15 — x) x is 10 here right, and for last is 210 — 0. and if you continue you could find this x calculating from similar chr in s

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    https://codeforces.com/contest/1917/submission/238697447

    Intuition:

    A string with all unique characters will have n(n+1)/2 distinct strings.

    If any of the character pair repeats then they will produce duplicate set of strings. A 5 length string can produce 2 4 length strings if the character pairs are unique, but if they are same then they will produce only, 1 4 length string.

    Try making a tree and you will see that on each level you are doing + 1 to the strings formed in previous level. But in case of repeating character you do + 0 to the strings formed in previous level.

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A more intuitive solution for B is to iterate over string and find number of distinct characters from 2nd position onwards. At every index, number of distinct strings of length (n-i+1) that can be made is number of distinct characters. Time complexity will be O(N) as set will have constant time complexity(max size is 26).

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Thank you for the fast editorial and Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating!

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E is nice.

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Let see if Specialist is in sight!!!

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Can anyone explain why this works for B?

    set<char> c;
    int ans = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
      c.insert(s[i]);
      ans += (int) c.size();
    }
    cout << ans << '\n';
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    Read the editorial, because the problem reduces to for each $$$j$$$ count all possible $$$s_i s_j s_{j+1} \ldots s_n$$$ where $$$i<j$$$

    and choices for $$$s_i$$$ are exactly the number of distinct characters in the prefix $$$s_1 \ldots s_{j-1}$$$

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    For a string of remaning suffix length l, you can take remove any (n-l-1) elements from (n-l) elements, so only one character is left , thus (l+1) length string with number of distinct character at starting

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    The idea is based on the fact that every new character encountered introduces new possibilities for generating distinct strings.

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    First let us suppose all characters are distinct eg. abc then possible strings will be abc, bc, ac, c, b, a. See we have 1 occurrence of length 3, 2 occurrence of length 2 and 3 occurrence of length 3. So what we are doing is we are selecting the Substring from [0,i) and deleting it except one character which gives one occurrence. There are total i ways to select one character between [0,i) substring. Therefore, we need the count of distinct characters at every position of i and add it to our answer.

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Rare rare contest where system test cases are tricky. I can't remember the last time so many people got their submissions rejected. Unfortunately Problem $$$C$$$ test case $$$26$$$.

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https://codeforces.com/contest/1917/submission/238696258 Can anyone tell why my sol gives wrong answer

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    Look at the constraints !! It says $$$a_{i} \leq 10^9$$$. Suppose all $$$a_{i}$$$ have that upper bound value. Their multiplication will be $$$10^{900}$$$ which can't be represented as $$$long$$$. There will be overflow leading to unexpected behavior.

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I guess C was the toughest problem.

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"You are not allowed to view the requested page."

I got this message when I click on Official solutions: A, B, E, F

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The only reason I managed to solve B was pattern recognition. I coded a slow solution, and saw that the amount of possibilities that got added on with each new character of s were equal to the amount of unique characters encountered so far.

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solved D for the transpose matrix instead, it was a cool problem too :D

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    Can you give intuition behind it? i was thinking same in contest.

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      consider two rows, if the difference between the q values of both of them is more than 20, the one with the higher q value will have all of it's element greater than the other. now for each difference from 1 to 20, you pre-calculate the number of inversions the cases when the lower q is ahead of the higher one and vice versa. rest can be handled using segment/fenwick trees

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The submissions of problems A,B,E and F aren't puplic, Only C and D are (I guess it could have been submitted in the manager mode or something). _LeMur_

Nice contest, sadly I was busy so I managed only to attend the last hour :", (that is why I though of doing it in reverse).

I liked the problems F,E,D (in order)

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Div.2 E

Why for n, k:
6 6
solution:
1 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0

wrong?

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Great tutorial! Especially I loved the hints.

I have a question regarding my solution for problem C: Why it was enough for me to check for min(2 * n, d)?

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full code

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    You don't need 2*n (you don't even need n actually), the only thing you're interested in is if your first reset could be made more optimal by adding a bunch of stuff so you have a better alignment. Let's say at time 0 you have 5 index that have the same value (so you're score is 5), you only need to check for 2*(n-5) (potentially), because past that, you can make up the point difference by spamming rule 1->2 which will give you 1 point every 2 steps.

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For B, all final strings will be of the form of a single character and a suffix to the right, or just a suffix by itself. For the suffix case, just add n to your answer since there are n suffixes. For the other case, iterate over the suffix and count the #of characters to its left that aren't the same as the one immediately to its left and update the answer by that much to make sure we only consider unique strings.

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    My approach is a little bit different.

    Assuming the answer will always have at least two letters. Then it will be one character and a suffix to the right.

    So the answer would be for each suffix, add the number of distinct characters to its left.

    Lastly, we add the number of distinct letters for answer that only has one letter.

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Not being able to understand why 2*n works in Problem C.


What would happen in this case? when do we perform the first operation of type 2?: 4 10 10 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4
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actually crying about C, I had the entire solution up until the 2n+1 part which should be so obvious :(

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Can someone please explain why checking till the $$$(2*n + 1)$$$ th day is sufficient in Problem C?

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    first reset and use op1 and op2 operations for (2*n+1) days, max possible score of n can be achieved. We are trying to get maximum score from initial array of size n by applying op1 in (say x days) and get score y by using (x+1) days. So maximum score from initial array can be n, and this score can be achieved by simply using first op1 and then op2 for (2*n+1) days, so checking beyond (2*n+1) days to get maximum score from initial array by applying op1 is not helpful!

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Can somebody explain me, why we are performing first type2 operation in min(d , 2 * n) days?? why 2*n?

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    Doing the first type2 operation can get at most n points. By doing opration(1,2) n times(2n times operations), you can get n points, too. So if you doing the first type2 operation on (2n+1)th day, why not doing 1+n*(1,2) instead?

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FST on C ..... [sad]

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could someone help to find why my code have TEL?https://codeforces.com/contest/1917/submission/238891629

I use a set instead of log(k) pointers to find numbers, it should have a complexity of O(A*n*log(k)+k*log(k)).

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in C problem if we take t=10^3 and n=2^103 then the total time complexity will be tc->10^3 * 2*10^3 * 2*10^3 ie O(t*n*(min(d,2*n))) ie finally tc->4*10^9 so how it is not giving tle as according to me 2sec->2*1e8 operations

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    "It is guaranteed that the sum of $$$n$$$ over all test cases doesn't exceed $$$2000$$$"

    You can't have $$$1000$$$ test cases each with $$$n = 2000$$$ as the sum of $$$n$$$ over all test cases would be greater than $$$2000$$$.

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For the bonus part of problem E (n is odd). We can solve the problem as follows := First we note that if we have found a construction for k , then by inverting every bit we get another valid construction for k'= n ^ 2 — k.Let us handle odd k , for k >= n and k <= 2n — 1 . we can easily find solution for k = n , for k = n + 2 , we can place 1s at (1,1) ; (1,2) ; (1,3) ; (2,1) ; (3,1) and place rest of them on the diagonal i.e. a[i][i] = 1 for i >= 4. Now by filling 2 × 2 squares , we can get the solution for all odd k in [n, 2n — 1]. For even k <= (n-1)^2 , the problem reduces to the original problem E. Also note we can't have even k > n * (n — 1). For k in [(n-1)^2 + 1 , n * (n — 1)] we can reduce the problem to odd k' = n^2 — k. and we have already solved that. Similarly odds > 2n , can be solved by interting bits for k' = n^2 — k.

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My screencast & editorial. Only problems A, B, C, but it's more than nothing.

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void solve()
{
    int n,k,d;
    cin>>n>>k>>d;
    vector<int>a(n),v(k);
    int score=0;
    for(int &i:a)cin>>i;
    for(int &i:v)cin>>i;
    for(int i=0;i<min(2*n,d);i++)
    {int cnt=0;
        for(int j=0;j<n;j++)
        {
            if(a[j]==j+1)cnt++;
        }
        score=max(score,cnt+(d-(i+1))/2);
        for(int l=0;l<v[i%k];l++) // ik as well 
        {
            a[l]++;
        }

    }
    cout<<score<<endl;

} 

here why we did a[l]++ we have to set it zero na then increment it ? pls help

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    it's type one operation
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In the editorial of C it was said we need to wait for atmax 2n days if 2n < d.Can someone explain this because i think atmax n days would be sufficient. Is there anything which i am missing ? 238724490

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Problem C
For all who are confused regarding why we are iterating 2*n times instead n times, you can try this test case.

5 6 7
0 1 2 3 4
1 1 1 1 1 5

if you will iterate only n times, then you will get maxscore=3. But correct answer is 4.
In order to get correct answer you have to iterate more than n times

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D is hard to write code

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Can someone help with C. 238738762

I know that can be solved by $$$ O(n^2) $$$, but can be there other solutions than authors?

I used $$$ dp[i] $$$ like when $$$ a[i]==i $$$ and $$$ dp2[i] $$$ when $$$ (a[i]==i+1) $$$.

My solution is $$$ O(n*log2(k)+k*log2(k)+n^2) $$$

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Can anyone give an example where min(d,n+2) fails and min(d,2*n+2) will pass and proof for 2*n

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    here you go
    8 11 12
    2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8

    correct answer should be 7 but if you will iterate only till n+2, then you will get 5 as result which is wrong.

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My solution for problem D is exactly $$$\mathcal O(n \log n \log V)$$$, which is the same as the tutorial. But it gets TLE on test 6, can anyone tell me why? thanks!

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Can anyone explain in C why it is required to iterate up to 2*n???

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    Because after 2*n , We can't gain more than value of 'n' from type one operation . But we can gain more than 'n' from type two and one alternatively . So its optimal to not choose operation 1 after 2*n onwards . So we stop when it reaches 2*n .

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    see we know that after doing our first op2(if it is optimal),we need to repeat op1 and op2 for the rest of the days. But our score can be atmost n for the first op2.This is because we have n integers,so n positions can have ai=i atmost. So, n can be the max score from out first op2.Now,we know after doing our first op2 we will add (d-i)/2 to our score.if 2*n days have occured,this means if we directly start from repeating op1 and op2 we will get our score as 2*n/2=n and dont need to check for first op2 anymore.As after 2*n days we will always get an answer greater than n which cant be acheived anyhow by the most optimal score of first op2.so after 2*n days our most optimal approach will be to repeat 1st and 2nd operation .

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for C , why cant we stop the loop for checking it by brute force just when the count (arr[i]==i) is more than possible(arr[i]<i)?

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giving an WA

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Can someone share how to solve B using DP?

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For bonus part of C, you can refer to my solution. Time Complexity: $$$O(n\;log(d)\;log(k) + n\;log(n))$$$.

https://codeforces.com/contest/1917/submission/238793642

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    hi , for C, if we want to add to score on the first day , isnt it the best option if we have elements with arr[i]==i more than elements with arr[i]<i?, 238793450 if i remove line 38 it will pass , can you help me? thanks

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C got you

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I was getting (WA) on test case 26 for Problem C

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I solved C with going till $$$max(min(n,d),k)$$$ and it passed. You can try to hack, submission id: 238742923

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https://codeforces.com/contest/1917/submission/238804436 can someone help with reducing the time complexity of this code for the E problem since the time limit exceeds in 2nd test case

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Problem B. Erase First or Second Letter ***** in second pretest ababa i am getting 10 strings please correct if i am wrong-->

ababa,baba,aaba,bba,aba,ba,aa,ab,b,a

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"This array is non-increasing and adding 1 to any of its suffixes keeps it non-increasing ". Isn't performing the first operation will increase its prefixes rather than its suffixes?

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For Problem C.

How come the answer for this test case is 1 and not 3 ?

  • 3 2 2
  • 0 1 2
  • 1 1

on the first day you will perform operation 1 and increase to make the array as 1 2 3 and on the second day, since all 3 numbers are equal to it's index, we will get answer as 3 and knock everything down to 0.

The answer should be 3 right ? please someone help me out here, I am attaching the link to my code as well : My code

Because in my opinion the answer must be mp[x]-(days-x-1)/2 where mp will store the number of terms with difference i+1-arr[i] if positive.

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A Silly mistake in C ruined my contest

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For C, if the waiting days >= 2n + 2, we can get n scores at most by way 1, but we must get n + 1 at least by way 2, so waiting days <= 2n + 1.

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Great contest, in problem C when I try n times and get WA on test 3, I have a lucky guess 2*n and get AC :)

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I have a 2n proof for C.

The min ans if we do reset at the begin is floor((d-1)/2).

The max ans if we wait after 2n op is n+floor((d-2n-1)/2)<=n+floor((d-1)/2)-n=floor((d-1)/2).

So we only try waiting at most 2n op.

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great see by the way !!!

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Can some explain why number of inversion in $$$[x, 2x, 4x, ..., 2^mx, y, 2y, 4y, ..., 2^my]$$$ depends on $$$\log_{2}\frac{y}{x}$$$?

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    Is it something like $$$x > y$$$ -> $$$x <= 2^m * y$$$ -> $$$m >= \log_{2}\frac{y}{x}$$$ but how does it affect the entire array ?

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FOR THOSE WHO ARE CONFUSED WHY AUTHOR CHOOSED 2*N RATHER THAN N SUPPOSE WE ARE GIVEN A TEST CASE

9 12 12

9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9

SO FOR FIRST 11 DAYS WE WOULD APPLY OPERATION 1 AND THEN ON LAST DAY WE APPLY OPERATION 2 SO WE GET SCORE OF 8. BUT BY CHANGING ARRAY INTIALLY TO 0 AND APPLYING OPERATION 1 AND AGAIN OPERATION 2 WE GET ANSWER 6.

Now consider if case was for 18 days. We would get 9 by using second technique and 8 using first technique.

I hope it clears.

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I did D as given in the tutorial, but I counted inversions using merge sort logic and it gave me TLE. Whereas it passed when I counted using fenwick tree logic. Both methods are O(nlogn) right?

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_LeMur_

In the Solution of "1917D — Yet Another Inversions Problem", there are some mistakes:

  • Incorrect : "By multiplying this number by k" (line 3)
  • Correct : "By multiplying this number by n"

  • Incorrect : if 2x<y<4x, ... = m(m+1)/2 − (m−1) inversions
  • Correct : if 2x<y<4x, ... = m(m+1)/2 − (m) inversions

Similarly, correction needed in "if 4x<y<8x"

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I love writing complexity O as follows

$$$\displaystyle\mathcal{O}(n)$$$

like flamestorm and mesanu (Writers of Div.4) Did 😄

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hello everyone, is there a site that tells you how many greedy problems and how many DFS problems have you solved?

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Could someone provide a comprehensive breakdown of the DP formulation used to address 1917F - Construct Tree?

While I managed to reach a similar conclusion as outlined in the editorial, focusing on finding subsets whose sums and their complements sum to specific values, particularly ignoring the largest element, the critical aspect of formulating the DP remains elusive to me. In my opinion, the editorial lacks sufficient detail in explaining it.

Upon examining tourist's solution 238702895, $$$dp[i][j]$$$ seems to represent whether there exists a subset of sum $$$i$$$ such that ignoring it allows obtaining a sum of $$$j$$$ (the maximum element obviously is never being considered). However, the intuition and the exact process behind filling the DP table are unclear to me.

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    Let consider diameter consisting of the vertices $$$v_1$$$, $$$v_2$$$, $$$\ldots$$$, $$$v_k$$$ (let's consider that $$$v_i$$$ and $$$v_{i + 1}$$$ are connected for each $$$1 \leq i \leq k - 1$$$) and some vertex in the diameter (let's denote it $$$v'$$$). Now the state of dp will be the following two lengths: $$$dist(v_1, v')$$$ and $$$dist(v_k, v')$$$, we want to find all possible pairs $$$(x, y)$$$ such that we can construct diameter which will have some vertex $$$v'$$$ on it, such that $$$dist(v_1, v') = x$$$ and $$$dist(v_k, v') = y$$$.

    In tourist's solution, the same thing is done. So he tries to find all pairs $$$(x, y)$$$ without using the length of the largest one. And then just checking if there exists one pair $$$(x', y')$$$ such that both $$$x' + l_n \leq d$$$ and $$$y' + l_n \leq d$$$ (because only in this case we can construct tree, we will create edges for all remaining lengths incident to the same vertex $$$v'$$$ in our case).

    I hope, it's already more clear for you :)

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      Got it! Your clarification was indeed helpful. The phrase "taking a diameter of length $$$k$$$ and listing its nodes" in the editorial momentarily made me question the solution's direction.

      Framing the DP thinking about any partition of size two for any diameter could potentially simplify comprehension.

      Specifically, identifying the node in between those two partitioned subsets as the one where we connect all non-used edges could add clarity to the explanation. To elaborate further, your example of length $$$k$$$.

      Hence, in understanding the solution, $$$dp(x, y)$$$ represents the possibility of forming two disjoint subsets with specific sums $$$x$$$ and $$$y$$$, utilizing the given set elements (excluding the greatest one).

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min(2*n+1,d), because the maximum score can only be n. so, floor(d/2)=score ; floor(d/2)=n ; d=2*n+1 ; this means to achieve the max. score we should only check up till min(2*n+1,d) as above this value, the max. score (n) is already explored in the previous days which means exploring above this value is redundant.

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I ended up writing a solution to C that runs in O(nlogk + klogk) if anyone is curious (Bonus 2). Could also be modified to solve Bonus 1 as well.

Solution: https://codeforces.com/contest/1917/submission/238896629

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The problem C is so great, love from fst :)

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Somehow during the contest I thought I must do better than O(n^2) in C, and so I missed it despite figuring out the solution a long time ago. But can someone help me with solving it in better than O(n^2)?

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_LeMur_

F solution without bitset

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C is illusion, B is truth, though both are nice problems!

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problem D is very cool and educational

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Problem D is terrible. I just modified the inversion counting algorithm and passed. I can't see any reason to use a segment tree.

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In problem C , Can anyone explain how only in 2*n times we get the break point. I am unable to thnink.

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Can anyone explain how to solve Problem B? Tutorial isn't helpful.