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By cgy4ever, 6 years ago,

Update 1 : here are the reference solutions for this contest:

1. Div2-A: http://ideone.com/JP1Ksj
2. DIv2-B: http://ideone.com/udz3bN
3. Div2-C / Div1-A: http://ideone.com/KVobNb
4. Div2-D / Div1-B: http://ideone.com/7MQqOm
5. Div2-E / Div1-C: http://ideone.com/z3FsU2
6. Div1-D: http://ideone.com/Y7j21a
7. Div1-E: http://ideone.com/Orbacp

Note that for Div2-E / Div1-C, it is for the harder version: we need to handle '1' in the cycle.

510A - Fox And Snake

There are 2 different ways to solve this kind of task:

First one is to simulate the movement of the snake head, and you draw '#'s on the board. The code will look like:

head = (1, 1)
repeat:
repeat m-1 times: head move to right
repeat 2 times: head move down
repeat 2 times: head move down
repeat m-1 times: head move to left
repeat 2 times: head move down
repeat 2 times: head move down
until head is out of the board


Another way is to do some observation about the result, you can find this pattern:

(4k+1) / (4k+3) line: "#######"
(4k+2) line: ".......#"
(4k+0) line: "#......."


510B - Fox And Two Dots

This task is essentially ask if there is a cycle in an undirected graph: treat each cell as a node, and add an edge if two cells are neighborhood and have some color.

There are lots of ways to do this, for example:

1. Run dfs / bfs, if an edge lead you to a visited node, then there must be a cycle.

2. For each connected component, test if |#edges| = |#nodes| - 1, if not then there must be a cycle.

Let's first think about what S < T can tell us: suppose S = abcxyz and T = abcuv. Then we know that S < T if and only if x < u by the definition.

So we can transform the conditions name1 < name2, name2 < name3 ... into the order of letters.

Then the question become: do we have a permutation that satisfy those conditions. It is actually the classic topological order question.

One trick in this task is that, if we have something like xy < x then there is no solution. This is not covered in pretests. :)

This task equals to: what is the minimal sum of costs that we can select k cards, so their GCD is 1.

First observation is that: GCD(x1, x2, ..., xk) = 1 means that for any prime p, there exist i such that xi is not dividable by p. So we only care about what prime factors a number contain. (So for example, 12 -> {2, 3}, 6 -> {2, 3}, 9 -> {3]})

The second observation is: If x ≤ 109 then it has at most 9 prime factors.

So after we select one number, we only care about these 9 or less primes. Then this problem equals to set covering problem (SCP), it can be done by mask DP. It can run in about O(2^9 * n^2).

First finding is: if a + b is a prime, then one of them is an odd number, another is an even number. (that's why we set 2 ≤ xi)

Then we could find: every odd number have exactly 2 even number as neighborhood, and every even number have exactly 2 odd number as neighborhood. And that means we need |#even| = |#odd| to have a solution.

So it looks like bipartite graph matching, but every element matched 2 elements. And in fact it can be handled by maxflow: For each odd number, we add a node on the left side and link it from source with capacity equals to 2, and for each even number, we add a node on the right side and link it to sink with capacity equals to 2. And if sum of two numbers is a prime number, we link them with capacity equals to 1.

Then we solve the max flow, it have solution if and only if maxflow = 2 * |#even|.

We can construct the answer(cycles) from the matches.

Note: Actually this task is still solvable if we allow ai = 1. But you need some clever way to deal with it. We think it is too hard so we removed this case. What do you think about this decision?

512D - Fox And Travelling

We could find that some nodes cannot be visited. And more specific, if one node is in a cycle then it cannot be visited. So what about the structure of nodes that we can visit?

Let's first find a way to get all nodes that could be visited. We can deal with this by something like biconnected decomposition, but that is not easy to implement. In fact we can use this simple method: each time we pick one node that have at most 1 neighborhood and delete it. Repeat this process until we can't do it anymore.

We could find these nodes are actually belonging to these 2 kinds: 1. A tree. 2. Rooted tree. (that means, the root is attached to a cycle)

The rooted tree case is simple: we can solve it by tree DP. The state will be dp[i][j] = the way to remove j nodes in the subtree rooted at i.

Then how to solve the unrooted tree case? The way to deal with that is to transform it into rooted case. We have 2 solution:

1. We select one unvisited node as the root by some rules: for example, we select one with minimal index. Then we just need to modify the DP a bit to adjust this additional condition.

2. We could find if the tree has n nodes and we visit k nodes in the end, then there will be max(1, n-k) ways to choose the root. That means if we choose every node as the root and sum up them, we will count this case exactly max(1, n-k) times. So we just do the rooted DP for from node n times, and divide max(1, n-k) for ans[k].

The overall complicity is O(n4), and it can be optimize into O(n3) if you like.

512E - Fox And Polygon

Triangulation of polygon is something hard to think about. So the first key observation is that, we can transform this task into operations on rooted trees!

One Triangulation of polygon can be mapping to one rooted tree. And the flip operation can be mapping to the rotation of trees. (It is the operation we used to balance our BST) You can find the mapping from above picture. The red lines indicate the edge that will be flipped and the nodes we rotated.

Then we should find a standard shape of the tree, and solve this task: how to rotate any tree into this standard shape?

My solution is to choose the balanced tree as standard shape. The way to do that is this: find the node that the index is the middle number, rotate it to the top(that what we did for splay tree), and do the same thing for each subtree.

It is easy to see it could work in O(nlogn) steps.

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 » 6 years ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   +144 There is much easier solution for problem E. Let's convert any triangulation to triangulation where all diagonals go from first vertex. Suppose there are 2 adjancted edges (including sides) going from first that are going to not adjancted vertices, say f and t. Then there is diagonal from f to t. We can replace this edge with edge going from 1 to something. On each step we add one new edge going from 1, so in at most N - 3 steps we will have our base triangulation
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +17 ...and running this on both the initial triangulation and the target traingulation can solve the problem: print the steps for [initial -> base] in order and the steps for [target -> base] in reverse order to get [initial -> base -> target] in at most 2N - 6 steps, which will always be at most 1994.
 » 6 years ago, # |   +67 Div1 B can be solved with map, that stores all posibles GCD.
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +9 Yeah , and it becomes much easier to code. Here is my solution if anyone needs help:http://codeforces.com/contest/512/submission/9686855
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +3 What is the complexity for this solution?
•  » » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 The complexity of the solution is O(N*(Max no of unique gcds possible)) and as pointed out here the max no be unique gcds can be assumed to be around 2000. http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/16147#comment-210808
•  » » » » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +1 sorry i am a little confusedit said that it is around 2000 bec it is the max number of divisors but this is for one number so Max no of unique gcds possible is N*2000 ?
•  » » » » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/16147#comment-210805Yeah you are right.
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 if i am not wrong map stores keys in sorted order.you are traversing the map +inserting into the map at the same time.is this a good idea??
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Can somebody tell what is maximum possible number of reachable GCD's for given limitations?
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   -8
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Damn, did the same, got WA. :(Can someone please tell why changing this (9694965 WA24): for (i64 i = 0; i < n; i++) { hepsi[ l[i] ] = c[i]; } to the following matters o.O (9695007 AC): hepsi[ 0 ] = 0; P.S. hepsi is my map.
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 I didn't actually look at the code, but at first glance, your first code seems like it will be incorrect if you have two cards with the same l[i], with the second one having a larger c[i], since then you overwrite the earlier better value.
•  » » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Oh, yeah, you are right. Thanks.
 » 6 years ago, # |   +31 I solve C in a strange way... I find that the answer can be divide into two different perfect matches (with no common edge) of the bipartite graph. So I find the first perfact match of the graph, then delete the edge in the first match, then find the second perfact match. After that I can get answer from edges of the two matches. It gets accepted. But I don't know why. I can't prove it is right and I still think there maybe some cases can make it wrong (I haven't find yet). 9690671
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +13
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Thanks. //Why give Sarkin downvotes? The link he gives is right and my code is actually wrong with that case.
 » 6 years ago, # |   +3 Actually, I implemented a much simpler solution for Problem B. I did a Dijkstra-like algorithm that stores the minimum cost of arriving at a certain GCD by using maps to store the costs.Suppose we're on node g with cost c and we want to use coupon i, then the destination node would be gcd(g, Li) and the future cost would be c + Ci. The answer will be the cost of getting to node 1, and in case there's no path to node 1, then it's impossible.
•  » » 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 I just solved this problem after a little help, and I don't even know how . this is my code. But I am confused how the inner loop is working. Since I am adding(in some cases) a new element to the map while iterating, how is it not TLEing? Does iteration on map create a copy of the map which it then iterates? Besides, when I am doing this adding separately , and then joining the two maps in the end, it gives wrong answer!
 » 6 years ago, # |   +3 Is there anyone can explain me a little bit more about the details of the solution to problem Div1-B, or is there any related code for it? Thank you guys!I solved it by the naive DP method (unfortunately I did the initial part wrong during the contest), but the solution mentioned in the editorial is interesting.
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +20 Here is my code: http://ideone.com/bxjvtX
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Thank you!
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 7 →   0 I got the iterative approach! :D Thanks anyways :P9705405 s = primes.size(); for(int mask = 0; mask < (1<
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Why can we get any number having the set of numbers which gcd of all numbers is 1?
•  » » » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 If you have two numbers a and b such that xa + yb = 1, with x and y being integers, then you can move to any point of the integer line.There is a very interesting lemma which states that what I said above is possible if a and b are coprime: Bézout's identity
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Aaah, feels good to be blue again ;)
 » 6 years ago, # |   +21 I'm glad that you didn't include the case a_i = 1 for div1C. It is a tricky case to deal with, and the problem is much cleaner without it.
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +43 Thanks for your feedback!I'll try to avoid tricky cases in the future!
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Div.2 B has simple and not too slow solution: delete all the letters which has less than 2 same neighbors (O(N*M)^2 ?), if any is left — there must be a cycle.
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Does it work for this input: 3 3 BAB AAA BAB 
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Em... Ou yes, it works: the central letter A will be deleted after some iterations, not immediately, but when the number of it's neighbors will decrease enough (example code: 9692376).
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 In div 1. E, can't you find the root of the second tree, splay it to the root and recursively solve left and right subtrees? It's the same idea but without transforming to a canonical shape as you say and the complexity is still O(n lg n).
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 How can you guarantee that the second tree has a depth of O(lgn)? It could be a chain also.
 » 6 years ago, # |   +34 "Note: Actually this task is still solvable if we allow ai = 1. But you need some clever way to deal with it. We think it is too hard so we removed this case. What do you think about this decision?"Great decison! I don't like dealing with special cases when I already worked out the main idea.
 » 6 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I wanna ask something, is there any possibility that the output of my IDE (I use Codeblocks) is different from the online judge?, here is the screenshot(using the same code but the output is different) here is the link of the screenshot :Screenshot
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Yes there is a possibility, as Codeblocks that you are using as an IDE use MingGW as its compiler and in Codeforces the compilation is done through g++/gcc compilers. And Codeblocks presumes many things, like if you use #include in codeblocks, it will run the program without giving any error, which is not so in g++/gcc compilers. Similarly, codeblocks doesn't handle the cases of overflows correctly. So its better to use ideone if you use Windows machine, or you switch to a linux machine. :)
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 I solved Div1.B by just searching the answer. At first I got TLE, but when I removed some elements that will never be choosed, I got AC. It is hard to estimate the time complexity but it works :). My solution: 9694518
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 your solution seems interesting!! can you explain your solution a little bit ??
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Is it always the case that in lexicographical ordering, shorter words come before longer ones assuming all else is equal? The div1a example "xy < x equals no solution" seems to imply so, but I couldn't find any sources stating that this is always the case, so I was wondering if it's possible for the empty space to be lexicographically larger than any letters, or if anyone has a source saying otherwise?
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 From the problem statement:Lexicographical order is defined in following way. When we compare s and t, first we find the leftmost position with differing characters: si ≠ ti. If there is no such position (i. e. s is a prefix of t or vice versa) the shortest string is less. Otherwise, we compare characters si and ti according to their order in alphabet.
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Reading the problem statement — the secret to staying in division 1 :)Thanks!
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Can anybody explain how to solve 512B - Fox And Jumping by mask DP?
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Here is code of cgy4ever: ideone.com/bxjvtX
 » 6 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 What's test 12 for 512A - Fox And Names?! I can't see full test. It's a huge test and shows "..."! I try all of the special test cases mentioned in this post but my code still shows "Impossible" instead of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" (the answer for the test 12). Here's my submission: 9688819
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +1 Your code gives "Imposible" in this case: 3 a ba bb If there are multiple edges from 'a' to 'b', your code will add indeg['b'-'a'] more than 1, but minus only 1 when checking edges from 'a' to 'b'.
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 OMG! Thanks for your answer and great test case!
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 For problem C, my solution is just using the binary-match. Use the Hungarian Algorithm, and add an additional condition: match[cur] != i, to restrict two points be circle. Like this: http://codeforces.com/contest/512/submission/9708200
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +1 Maybe you should try this case: http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/16147#comment-210864
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Yeah, my solution is wrong, although it passed the system test. Thanks.
 » 6 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +8 The solution for Div1. D is not clear for me. I get the idea of finding all vertices that can never be reached, and then making trees and rooted trees, however I can't seem to get how do we compute the dp[i][j], even only for rooted trees. Could some kind soul help me on that?
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +13 Let's suppose we had a rooted tree. Suppose {w_i} is the set of children of i. Then the recurrence is where all the k_i are greater than or equal to 0. As a base case dp[i][j] = 0 if j is bigger than the size of the subtree rooted at i, and dp[i][0] = 1.To actually write this in code, let define an intermediate dp2[i][j][k], meaning we're computing dp[i][j], but we've already computed k of the children. Then, with some appropriate base case once k is equal to the number of children.Actually, my implementation was quite messy, so maybe there's a cleaner way to do this, though this is the basic idea. EDIT: Actually, there's also a special case when j=size of subtree of i, in this case, it's the number of topological sorts of the tree. I did this as a special case, though the idea is the same.
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +8 "EDIT: Actually, there's also a special case when j=size of subtree of i, in this case, it's the number of topological sorts of the tree. I did this as a special case, though the idea is the same." - dp[i][sz[i]] = dp[i][sz[i] - 1]:))
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +29 Lewin already gives a detailed explaination.Here is my code: http://ideone.com/zHeV5hSee the dfs function for the calculation. It is not that complicated: dpValue dfs(int cur, int from) { dpValue ret; ret.x[0] = 1; for(int i = 0; i < e[cur].size(); i++) { int t = e[cur][i]; if(t == from) continue; ret = combine(ret, dfs(t, cur)); } for(int i = 0; i < MAXN; i++) if(ret.x[i] == 0) { ret.x[i] = ret.x[i-1]; break; } return ret; } where: dpValue combine(dpValue A, dpValue B) { dpValue ret; for(int i = 0; i < MAXN; i++) for(int j = 0; i+j < MAXN; j++) { ret.x[i+j] += ((A.x[i] * B.x[j]) % mod) * C(i+j, i); ret.x[i+j] %= mod; } return ret; } 
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Can Div1 C be solved without maxflow, using Kuhn's algotithm? I tried to split each number into two vertices, but had problems with a table with 2 foxes. Is it impossible and how can it be proved?
 » 6 years ago, # |   +8 >>Triangulation of polygon is something hard to think about. So the first key observation is that, we can transform this task into operations on rooted trees!Lol nope, for this case triangulations are much simpler
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   +8 Haha you are right.When I saw your solution passed all test cases within 2000 operations I know there are much more simple way to solve this task than I thought. :P
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Can someone please explain me what is written in tutorial for DIV 1-B.i get that we have to find minimum cost subset with gcd=1.But,i am unable to understand the next few lines in the tutorial about prime numbers.help!!
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 An example: suppose you choose a 12, then you know for other numbers: there must a number that can not be dividable by 2 (otherwise the gcd will be dividable by 2), and there must a number that can not be dividable by 3 (otherwise the gcd will be dividable by 3) -- what's more, if we meet these 2 conditions, then gcd must be 1.
•  » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 "So after we select one number, we only care about these 9 or less primes. Then this problem equals to set covering problem (SCP), it can be done by mask DP. It can run in about O(2^9 * n^2)." Can you explain this part, please?
•  » » » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Still the example above, if you select 12, then state will be: dp[do we have a number which can not be dividable by 2][do we have a number which can not be dividable by 3], this is 22, we have at most 9 prime factors, so we have at most 29 states.
•  » » » » » 6 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 Why we can select one number? What happens if we chose not optimal number?For example 4 2 4 5 7 1 1 1 1000000000 We select 7, and have one prime number: 7...
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Maybe it is a bit late, but I guess this is still helpful: here are the reference solutions for this contest: Div2-A: http://ideone.com/JP1Ksj DIv2-B: http://ideone.com/udz3bN Div2-C / Div1-A: http://ideone.com/KVobNb Div2-D / Div1-B: http://ideone.com/7MQqOm Div2-E / Div1-C: http://ideone.com/z3FsU2 Div1-D: http://ideone.com/Y7j21a Div1-E: http://ideone.com/Orbacp Note that for Div2-E / Div1-C, it is for the harder version: we need to handle '1' in the cycle.
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 Hi,I am trying to figure out how Div2-C task should be solved. Unfortunately I am stuck at test number 16, my solution always fails on it. Can I obtain full test input somehow?Thanks.
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Doubt in Div2 D. Can anybody explain to me how did we come up the fact that GCD(x1, x2, ...., xk) = 1 will ensure that we can move to every cell in the infinite tape?
•  » » 6 years ago, # ^ |   0 if GCD(x1, x2, .. , xk) == G, it means that G — is minimum number that can be presented as linear combination of x1,...xk. So, if G == 1, then we can move by +-1 to any cell.
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 Sorry for bad English.I found that the test case not strong enough.My Solution : http://codeforces.com/contest/510/submission/10173150 get accepted even though it's wrong for this test case. 5 ab bc cd db baI hoping for test case update, thank you.
 » 6 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 For Div1 C. is there any solution without using maximum flow?
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 For Div 2 Question C, Is there a way to solve this using dfs using adjacency list as the data structure for the graph? I am not able to come up with a solution where adjacency list is being used, as i am having issues in how to keep track of order of characters.
•  » » 3 years ago, # ^ |   0 I tried to: https://pastebin.com/LHY3RiAZMemory Limit Exceeded on Test Case 12 though.
•  » » » 2 months ago, # ^ |   0 I did it using adjacency list here is my solution. I found topological sort and later verified if it is a valid sort. https://codeforces.com/contest/510/submission/99424347
 » 6 years ago, # |   0 In Prblm DIV2:C the answer should be impossible when xy < x for all y ?? but I am getting accepted even when my solution is not working for y = null(x < x) ??
 » 4 years ago, # |   0 Can anyone tell me what is wrong in my solution http://codeforces.com/contest/510/submission/19968471 for Fox And Names.
 » 4 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 May you please explain this part of solution for D? SpoilerFirst observation is that: GCD(x1, x2, ..., xk) = 1 means that for any prime p, there exist i such that xi is not dividable by p. So we only care about what prime factors a number contain. (So for example, 12 -> {2, 3}, 6 -> {2, 3}, 9 -> {3]}) The second observation is: If x ≤ 1e9 then it has at most 9 prime factors.Why in worst case there is only 9 prime factors??!
 » 4 years ago, # |   0 Can I ask in Div 2 510E,why we have "every odd number have exactly 2 even number as neighborhood, and every even number have exactly 2 odd number as neighborhood"?
 » 3 years ago, # |   0 For 510C — Fox And Names / 512A — Fox And Names, I wrote a dfs for cycle checking, and a dfs for topological sorting. Values were stored in an adjacency matrix.The edge case x > xy was also handled.My solution: https://pastebin.com/LHY3RiAZWhy does this exceed memory limit in test case 12?I don't see how this solution uses that much memory.
 » 3 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I think harder version for Div1C can be solved via Hopcroft-Karp bipartite matching.Nodes in the bipartite graph will be formed from the given numbers-if two indices x and y, a[x] + a[y] is a prime, then node (x, y) will exist.Thus, we have pairs (xi, yi) on both sides of bipartite graph. Create edge between pair p on left side and pair q on right side if a[p.second] + a[q.first] is a prime and p.second != q.first.Run Hopcroft-Karp algorithm on this new graph, and we can find answer from this.
 » 20 months ago, # |   0 Problem 510C https://codeforces.com/contest/510/submission/54084118 I got wrong answer on test 23. Can somebody explain why?
 » 13 months ago, # |   0 In div1 B, can somebody please explain to me why does the naive DP of f(i, gcd) isn't giving TLE? How to prove that total number of gcd will not exceed the limit?
 » 6 months ago, # |   0 Can anyone tell me why I am getting W.A. in test case 12 of problem B?My code : https://pastebin.com/0Rfx6QFGThanks in advance