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Codeforces Round #497 by Skyglow
By SirShokoladina, history, 5 years ago, translation, In English

Hello, everyone!

We are a Death Metal band Skyglow. Recently we released our first album. And since we happen to be sport programmers, we decided to make a Codeforces round in honor of this!

The round will take place on Jul/13/2018 17:35 (Moscow time). There will be five problems for each division, three of them will coincide. The problems were made up by me and SirRembocodina, the contest was also prepared with the help of TeaPot, slavik, mingaleg and niyaznigmatul. Thanks to demon1999 and winger for testing, our coordinator BanRussiaAtIOI and, of course, MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

You can listen to the album by following the link:

It would be a great help if you repost us, even if you don't listen to this kind of music.

We will present an album on a CD to every contestant who expresses a wish. (If there are many of such, we will choose several of them with the best result in the round). Write me a private message.

Good luck on the contest!

UPD1. We will present an album on a CD to the top 10 contestants who would like to get one. Just send me a private message before the contest with your address, postal code and full name.

UPD2. Scoring distribution is as follows:
Div2: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500
Div1: 500-1000-1500-2250-2500

UPD3. We are still deciding if we should make this round rated or not. You can share your opinion about the round in the Mike's blog.

UPD4. We decided to sort the participants by the rating change. So the following users will receive a CD:
riela, +332
DongwonShin, +278
Erdenebayar, +176
DOlaBMOon, +148
Muhimin_Osim, +121
ciphereck, +117
Dotiros, +104
luismo, +94
MaxZubec, +72
whybee, +70

UPD5. Congratulations to winners!

Div1:

  1. yosupo
  2. Egor
  3. fateice
  4. Um_nik
  5. ksun48
  6. wxh010910
  7. zemen
  8. shpsi
  9. mareksom
  10. mmaxio

Div2:

  1. riela
  2. Kato_Megumi
  3. luis.trivelatto
  4. yukuai26
  5. _D41_
  6. gls1196
  7. TaoSama
  8. chenyuqi0215
  9. -0.5
  10. Rena_Takeda

UPD6. The editorial was published!

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  • Vote: I do not like it

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cool name!!! SKYGLOW

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I'm sorry, but I think our music is better.

BTW, we released a new album yesterday, here's an MV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5iP0S1z9w

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    — My music is hit! — No, your is shit!

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      I know, it's so shit that it hit 20M views in 1 day :D

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        So you came to PR on our contest? Sorry, I don't rate the quality of a song by the number of views, or else I end up listening to Justin Bieber.

        UPD: OK, now I see it is not even you, I am slowpoke. It's becuase you did not give the link in the beginning, so I thought you are really from a band.

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          You don't have to agree with me on how you rate songs or which song is better. I'm just saying that if there is a huge difference in the number of views, it suggests that one is more popular than the other :/ (aka more people think one is better)

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            First, if many people think it is better it doesn't mean it is better. Second, how can you know what they think, did you ask them? They didn't even hear my songs, lol, how would they compare?

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              You're right, our music might not be better than yours.

              I'll just leave my comment as my personal opinion.

              Good luck gaining popularity then, I'm sure you guys will get millions of album purchases, considering how "[your] music is hit"!!!

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                In this thread: two musicians that are better than me at programming and at music arguing with each other... Coming from drastically different genres: death metal vs. K-pop. There is only one way to settle this...

                You guys should start a rap battle!

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              SirRembocodina, if I were you, I would have simply ignored her comment :-) The more replies she gets, the more people will pay attention to her comment (and the more views she will get).

              It is your contest. You have worked hard to prepare it. You deserve more attention than anyone else.

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            1. different genres of music.
            2. the fact that you're comparing this 2 different songs means that you're *******.

            "I'm sorry, but I think our music is better."

            And by apologizing, you're not changing the fact that you just decided to boost your self-esteem by humiliating others. It's like saying sorry before you hit me. Sorry for my poor English.

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              What's wrong with comparing apples and oranges?

              I'm just stating my personal opinion, is there something wrong with that?

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                If you want to state your personal opinion you should say like that, i think:

                I like our music more than your's.

                But you doing this another way:

                I'm sorry, but I think our music is better.

                So it ended up with confrontation, because you say that somebody have bad tastes in music if he listens to Skyglow's album.

                And to be honest you've done this just to PR. Another way you could act is to say and not make any cconflict:

                we too released new album yesterday, listen to it [link]

                But you can't say anything without negativity or sarcasm.

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                  Did I ever say that people have bad tastes in music if they listen to Skyglow?

                  Yes, it seems like my comments sound a bit too sarcastic. I will definitely learn from you.

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        for a country with population estimated to be 50m, and 20m hits for a music video?

        The reason would be heat but (supposedly) not the beat (no offense).

        Edit: OP's profile mentioned Taiwan and was confusing. But still its hard to believe on an average every 2 out of 5 saw video out of musical interest.

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          Our group is actually from South Korea. And the audience isn't limited to one country.

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    You can get the best from both worlds by watching your video on mute while having SkyGlow playing in a separate tab!

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    Author is red, so his music is better.

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      Since correlation is that high, I'll try to convince Petr and tourist to start a new band:)

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        If you are able to convince them then the above comment would read as :
                           "Author is LGM ,so his music is AC"

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      Oh how the tables have turned.

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      tzuyu_chou is LGM so her music is better

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    You guys are all wrong, AMERICAN music is the BEST IN THE WORLD

    Let me give you a taste of what TRUE music is like in the land of the free and the home of the brave: youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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      when u already memorized the last 3 characters of the rick roll

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    Twice is best

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    Sorry to disturb，are you Ziyu Zhou herself？

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      Oh, you so naive darling, that is cf =)

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      Sorry to disturb，are you rorshach himself？=) PS: that Rorshach in Watchmen right?

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        I admit I'm just a naive pupil...Please go easy on me=）

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          I am kidding. I am just glad to find a person who has read Watchmen. I don't mean anything else. By the way I like Rorshach too.

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            Well, fine. I like Rorshach, and Watchmen is one of my favorite movie. Anyway, nice to meet you.（>_<）

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    I'm so shocked to see that 4 of the girls from Twice have CF accounts!

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      LMAO 0))0)), they're just fans of "TWICE"). Don't be shocked ))

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    BTW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0p1bmr0EmE is TOP! I and my sister are your huge fans now =)

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      It's good to see that our advertising plan, to a small extent, somehow worked!!!

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        If your purpose is to lower your contribution, Congratulations! Your plan worked out remarkably!

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          Thanks! I only planned to help advertise but I also got the benefit of having a low contribution. Perhaps I can beat I_LOVE_METSUKA :P

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            Lol it gets harder as your contribution gets lower.

            Also I just stopped trolling and actually trying to get better at CP instead.

            Hit me up when you have lower contribution than me tho. I will be CM at that moment.

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            Hey where did the downvoters go? I never said your jobs were done.

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            each your comment should have 1000 upvotes

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      Your comment gets upvotes )). It makes me laugh xD. If you would be green, I'm sure that your comment would get -100 ))

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I don't know why I get the feeling this contest will be nice! :)

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  Vote: I like it -27 Vote: I do not like it

why there is no verdict called Contest Overflow ?

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That sounds so cool!

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    Lol, sorry, I downvoted your comment accidentally, and now everyone is downvoting it. This is how CF community works.

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      Nevermind,we are not the creature live on "up-vote" XD.

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      it's because master votes are worth many multiple points (more than 5 at least), not because others have also downvoted

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Wow! This is cool, a death metal band is organizing a contest. I think this round is going to be great.

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I think it will be a musical contest....

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Is it rated???

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It happens that I'm a big Fan Of Death Metal !!!!! I'll listen your release, and I'll try not to miss the contest. I have to say that for the first time my two passions in life meet !!!

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it feels good to downvote every comment :)

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Oh so good contest about music :D

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    The problems won't be about music, actually. It will be a regular contest without particular theme, just with good problems :)

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Programmers, programmers everywhere...

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I don't know if it's a joke or not, but you guys might be the coolest people here on cf.

A death metal band? Damn

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I'm confused, is the music promoting the contest or the contest promoting the music? xD

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okay , I am really hyped now <3 , a contest by death metal guys, and by the way , I liked Sacred Self-Deceit , especially the start , will listen to others soon :) ,

However , please dont put any music related legend / stories , once I had a really bad experience with a topcoder problem with music analogies , it does not makes sense to people who never made music , or dont know any instrument..

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I don't usually listen to this kind, but I got to say I really LOVED the music you are using, wish you all the best :D

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Really nice album art !!! Good taste in music too. Best of luck for your band :) Hope this round will be an interesting one .

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Wow! How do you manage being a programming grandmaster and being in a band at the same time ?

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  Vote: I like it +194 Vote: I do not like it

Friday 13th looks like a perfect day for a contest from a metal band.

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my love for the album is based on my rating in this contest :"D

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I wish to not be sent a CD :)

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The album is just in my favorite style. :) Hope it will be very famous soon! :D And I think I can have a fun time during this contest!

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Authors music is as sharp as his coding skills.....

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?detaR tI sI

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I hope it is not a mathforces.

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    nor a hackforces...

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      This round sure did feel like hackforces after all...

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        but it's mathforces(div1b),interactiveforces(div1c) and datastructureforces(div1d)

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I hope we don't have to code lyrics

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Congratulations on your first album, Skyglow!

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a Chinese word "New Be" is able to describe this

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  Vote: I like it +32 Vote: I do not like it

MusicForces Round?

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if I bought your album, could I be expert?

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Wow, I personally prefer clean singing, but this songs are really good. The riffs in "Thousand Years of terror", "...And the circle closed" and "The limitless Fog" are just awesome. Hope the problems be as nice.

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By the way, both 500th Codeforces round and 50th educational round will be held quite soon. Sounds like a big anniversary for Codeforces. I wonder, whether it will be something special. Personally, i hope that there will be 500 T-shirts for top 500 participants xdxd. Or at least 100)

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    Codeforces did not give prizes for (Div. 2 only) contests. At least from the day I joined (1 year ago). But I hope they do.

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Are there programming contest related songs in the album?

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    Yes, of course, in fact every song from the album is a subtle metaphor about a programming contest

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Are there any hints in your album?)

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That's a preeeettty lucky day for a contest

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What about a competitive programming group.

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    Competitive programming interview questions? Are you applying for codeforces or something?

    Lol what did you just say? read up about algorithms, and data structure, then you can call stuff by their name, and have an actual chance of passing these interviews.

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      What's wrong with competitive programming :( But yeah that first post is advertising, it doesn't belong on this blog...

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i found my twin with down votes .. tzuyu_chou

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I was always interested in how do you choose amont all authors of the contest the one who will post the announcement. The one with lower contribution? Or simply by tossing the coin? How it is done generally and how it was done in this round?)

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    We chose the red one, of course, people love reds. But really, SirShokoladina worked on the contest the most.

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Can you guys please do a Despacito cover?

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I wish to have a CD. How can I get one ?

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by SirShokoladina (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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tzuyu_chou Honestly, it was really a smart way to advertise. I couldn't resist me from watching it. And it's good.

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    Wow, I might get a salary boost because of this! Thanks for letting me know.

    P.S. I learned this advertising trick from JYP. Go on forums and make sure your comments get either a lot of upvotes or a lot downvotes, as that will attract a lot of attention!

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Probably all Red coders will get the CD '_^

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Here is a challenge:

Compete in this contest, while listening to some death metal music :P

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    That actually improves your performance, Prog metal is much harder to listen to but it has the same effect (even better) if you get used to it (at least for me). So here's a harder challenge : try listening to some Dream Theater during the contest, see how much can you take. (start with Dance of Eternity)

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      I am also a prog fan, but never thought about it....

      it looks like you are a real PROGrammer :P

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      Does it work with Fates Warning as well?? You know I love Dream Theater too, but I prefer Fates Warning, Skyglow here has a lot of progressive too. For me Death-Metal works better, or in a more general sense Extreme-Metal. Is nice to find Metal Fanse here. By the way your nickname is a Masterpiece if you know what I mean.

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        It works with whatever you like. and sure, Powerslave is one of the best metal albums ever. Iron Maidens is a God to me.

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          Seventh Son Of The Seventh Son is my favorite Maiden album, I wish I could watch them play it alive someday

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    Actually I did, but not just Skyglow, there was som Emperor, Annihilator, Amorphis and some more stuff on the playlist. Although I have to add, the I only listen Metal while I'm not focusing on hard problems, you might guess that my playlist stopped at minute 27 when I AC problem C :P

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So cool, you guys!!!

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That actually quite nice. Didn't expect to actually enjoy it because I usually hate the screaming. The musical accompaniment kinda reminded me of the whole Touhou metal variation culture that I'm very fond of :)

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    Losing Humanity has some clean voices, for me is the best song of the album.

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Wow, if it comes to music, there are many well talented people on CF. budro, fast, it's your time to shine!

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What you'd say about sending CDs to people who solve only problems C and D, apart from the top10 criterion? SirShokoladina

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    Not many people would want to receive a CD. I don't want to waste CDs on people who don't want them. Besides we can only send 10 CDs. Also I want every contestant to be able to win a CD, not only reds and yellows.

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What's wrong with tourist's contribution ?

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Probably the first blog after Tourist's "Hello 2018" with this much appreciation.Hope the participation would see similar levels.

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This is the most use of odd time signatures I've seen since Meshuggah and perhaps Tool. Definitely feels like the songs are written by a red coder.

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    Ha-ha, thank you! Yellow, actually. I am glad someone marked this feature.

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Really liked the song "Losing Humanity".

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OMG! 1000 upvotes! Congratulations!!

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by SirShokoladina (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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Your album is an amazing for people who love listening metal! You helped me to update my playlist)

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I think this announcement has greatest Upvotes :)

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That's great you're gathering success as music band! I'd like to appreciate your work but I kind of hate music, so maybe you can record few minutes of complete silence, so I can actually enjoy one of your tracks?

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A CF on Friday the 13th, May the Gods be on our sides...

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I will try to become expert in this contest. :)

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Typing contest because of Div2-D

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C is like 1250 while D is like at least 2750.

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A,B,C,D all had some typing/explanation problems. what about D?

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unbalanced problemset

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problem A is simple but hard to read it Wrong Description (10 20 30 40 -> 20 30 40 10) ans = 3 not 2 Somebody submit solution late because of it and have low rank in problem A problem B is very difficult Why not call it CodeSpeed round ?

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    Yeah you r right i was confused too at first sight

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      I think it's very frustrating to get a lower rating because of unbalanced problems and wrong descriptions

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        Wrong description is truly embarrassing but unbalanced problems, is not the case always, so for someone really trying to work hard on problem solving will surely have a good time.

        A side note, I also see my rating going down in today's contest, but hell, loved the fifth question. Really enjoyed the contest.

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Problem statements are not clear and difficulty difference between C and D is huge.Lots of announcements.

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With 1 hour into the contest and no AC solution to D and E (Div.2), one thing can be said for sure that this round was just about fast solving A, B and C. Surely, this contest was way below my expectation, specially after the cool music theme and 1000+ upvotes on announcement :(

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    "All that glitters is not gold."

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    This is why I never vote on a contest announcement until I've seen the problems.

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Wake me up when someone solves D in div2 :P

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Sorry this contest put me on team K-Pop

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    Looking at how people are reacting to this contest, it is obvious that their main purpose of preparing this contest was to promote their music. Not that I could actually write any problems (much less prepare a contest), but they should've just not wasted 2 hours for many people.

    My advertising, on the other hand, only wastes a few seconds, as it just requires people to look at my comments and downvote them.

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Really bad problem set...

  1. Problem statements very unclear.

  2. A, B, C — very easy, thus typing speed checking contest.

  3. D, E are way out of league for Div2 users.

Solve problem D in Div2 and you'll be a CM.

Also I usually save my vote for the announcement and give my vote only after seeing the problem set. I give you a downvote SirShokoladina.

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    Or, Solve problem B in div1 and become Master.

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At least i tried

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    I solved A B C in 17 minutes and read statements of problem D. Now I can't still understand what D is saying.

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      Lucky you, I'm still at the first sentence in D

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You may be good at singing but you're definitely not good at preparing a contest.

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Too bad I already have up-voted your blog and I can't down-vote it now!

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Is it the first contest in history of CF which has had an announcement for an (wrong) announcement?

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    Yes, my bad this time. Sorry about it.

    See, BanRussiaAtIOI only learns to be a coordinator. Sorry for unclearness in some statements and disbalance in difficulties, we will work on it!

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      oh I'm sorry. Didn't wanna bother you. As long as so many rounds are coming one after the other, I'm grateful to you and CF. Mistakes are totally okay.(I guess).

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      I think the contest should be rated because mistakes happens in any contest and it was just a problem has mistake but all other problems were fine

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It is not normal when nearly 3000 people solve ABC so fast and so few people solve D or E. I believe that next time problemsetters will be more careful with tasks.

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Why would the round be extended for 10 minutes?

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    So we can finish with reading last two problems

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      maybe we have more time to hack!

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        maybe to decrease the difference between the number of submissions of C and D!

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        Maybe we have more time to get Unsuccessful hacking attempt back :(

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They focussed more on promoting their music instead of preparing problems for this round.

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Kind of the worst Codeforces Round, but, hey, at least you tried!

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The extension will only extend my suffering

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For Div. 2:

hack

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Much difference between expectation and reality..

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Solve [D]

Runtime error

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What's intended complexity for Div1B?

I had log(#divisors)*(#divisors) per query but with huge constant so didn't pass

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    still 5 mins remaining for the contest to end!

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    I have O(1) per query (more honest — O((2k)k * 2k) where k is number of dimensions, k = 3 for this problem).

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      Can you please explain your approach for the problem!

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        I would like if someone explain my approach to me, actually...

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    My solution is O(1) per query.

    Calculate A[i] = number of divisors in mask i for the venn diagram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram) of the divisors and do a bruteforce on the possible combinations of areas from it. Turns out there are 51 possible combinations of areas for it so you can just precalculate them and pass through them doing simple combinatory.

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A contest with announcement on every problem. Announcementforces round

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The div2 round is completely a garbage. The problem DE in nearly unsolvable, while ABC are div4 problems. The pretest contains only examples. I cannot complain more.

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This is the longest Announcement list I've seen so far!

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I think K-9 is cheating

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Disappointed.

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Almost O(N^2) solution passes for problem C! 40274533 Tried to hack it with this test and it still passed in 1.5s

    int N = 100000;
    cout<<N<<endl;
    for(int i = 0;i<N/2;i++)
        cout<<1<<" ";
    for(int j = N/2;j<N;j++) {
        cout<<2;
        if( j != N-1)
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That really doesn't make sense to give 2s for such a problem!

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    Passed the pretests doesnt mean it passes the system tests

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      I meant for this hack test it still passed in 1.5s that's why I'm saying 2s is too much for this problem cuz such solutions will pass

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        generally, pretests include small test cases and for these tests maybe 1.5s is expected for that hack.

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    Maybe pretest doesn't include this test case.

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Semi-rated?

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How to solve Div.1 C?

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That was pure shit!

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Very Hard C, D, E!

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The most difficult problemset of div1 I've ever seen!

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My logic in Div2 D.

Sort the 3 numbers A,B,C. Get all factors of A, B and C in a sorted order. For each factor of B[i] find number of factors of A less than or equal to B[i] and number of factors of C greater than or equal to B[i] using binary search.

Then multiply these two numbers and add to ans.

But got WA in test case 3. How can I modify this to get AC or this is a wrong logic (I am probably not counting all triplets) ?

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    this is rather wrong logic

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      For paving we have to make sure the corresponding dimension of the smaller parallelepiped divides the corresponding dimension of the bigger parallelepiped right? This is why I used factors and then to make sure a<=b<=c I used the binary search.

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        "the corresponding dimension of the smaller parallelepiped divides the corresponding dimension of the bigger parallelepiped"

        I think the problem is in this assumption. Since you can rotate the smaller parallelepiped, the numbers a <= b <= c don't necessarily divide A, B and C in that order, for example you could have: 'a' divides C, 'b' divides A and 'c' divides B. The statement in fact contains one example of this, saying that a 1x5x6 block can be divided into 1x3x5 parallelepipeds (1 divides 1, 3 divides 6, 5 divides 5).

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    Two clearest things to point out: your answer might consists of duplicate pairs, also not only divisors of B can be at the middle regarding numbers' absolute values.

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Not "the first" in everything turns out good, actually.

I appreciate your work (both music and CP, though I'm not a huge fan of Death Metal anyway xD); however this contest has some issues. Most known are D1B/D2D incomprehensibility and its spike over easier tasks (haven't read D1C and above, so I can't comment further xD).

Also, having a lot of additional announcements is something not so nice. You might consider simulating yourself in more varied perspectives so that you can have a wider overview of what being clear and what being vague ;)

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for div1B, what is the correct output for 6 10 15

it is 50, right? edit nvm I'm wrong its 51

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    My AC code gives 51. Now I'm scared.

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    it's 51, my bruteforce says

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    This gives 51:


    int brute(int a, int b, int c) {
	set<vector<int>> s;
	for (int i=1; i<=a; i++)
		for (int j=1; j<=b; j++)
			for (int k=1; k<=c; k++) {
				if (a%i == 0 && b%j == 0 && c%k == 0) {
					vector<int> v = {i, j, k};
					sort(v.begin(), v.end());
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    51 obviously

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Ok, something weird happened to me on C.

I had Idleness Limit Exceeded with one program. Then I added an assert to two places and got RTE, so the assert is obviously the reason for RTE. That's all well possible, but then I took the code with asserts, hardwired "choose random a and b initially" and a checker oracle "choose a random true answer" instead of I/O. And stresstested with tens of thousands of tests, various random and non-random N. The assert is never triggered.

Is there a bug in the checker? In my hardwired checker? Does my code fail on a strange corner case (specifically: on pretest 1)? Something else?

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    i saw your solution. it runs into an infinite loop on the sample

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      I know where I made a mistake after going though the sequence of expected answers now... It has nothing to do with any of my thoughts during the contest, I mentally reversed the inequalities in answers (answer 1: the correct number is smaller than the queried number).

      What a shitty mistake. The worst thing is that there was no way for me not to make that mistake — when I read x < a, my mind automatically goes to "meaning of random letters: the true number is on the left and the queried number is on the right" because it's the natural notation for me and that's precisely why I can't realise that's wrong too... if it wasn't a, b and x, y but something like qa, qb, I'd probably notice.

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        Yeah, I agree, I also made this mistake but luckily caught it when trying to run the samples by hand.

        I think it would have been better if x and a were replaced by words, for example "the x-value Vitya guessed", "the x-value Vasya is thinking of".

        (okay that doesn't sound that good, but I'm sure there is a better alternative.)

        EDIT: better alternative in comment by Xellos

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          +1

          I had to stop ~15 times for a second and think again what the condition means (which side/way it is).

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          v1, v2 and q1, q2 would be fine. Variable names being self-explanatory also means there's no need for a tl;dr explanation.

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        I agree. The notation was confusing :(

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    the interactor is determinate, so it gave you the same answer each time.

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How to solve div-2 D or E?

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ecnerwala are you guys streaming today?

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    No, we're busy after the contests on weekdays. We'll try to stream most of the weekend contests though!

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Let's start a really long discussion now. I was able to solve div 2 B using simple O(n) implementation here but looking at the round I am still not sure if it'll pass the system tests or not. I solved div 2 A after somehow understanding the problem but my solution got hacked. I still don't know why test case of "nz" should print "NO". My submission is here

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    Because there is no vowel after z

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    Good news for D2B — your greedy O(n) solution is correct! :D

    P/s: I solved B that way as well ;)

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      yay! finally something good happened in last 2 hours for me!

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Hello K-9 can you explain this?

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    We can wait for K-9 's response

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    I think that K-9 has two (or more) codeforces accounts, and he just register with all of them in the contest, and by chance he's in the same room with one of this accounts, so he hack himself 9 times :) you can observe that the solution of K-9 and the the solution of Eagle-EYe have the same header ;)

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    Funny，he's in the same room as mine. And I see how he hacked Eagle-EYe's. At first, I sympathize with Eagle-EYe's very much, until I view his code..= =

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I don't care if I get downvoted. This was one of the worst Div-2 contests I have participated in.

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Contest is hard and very bad.

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Is the title and the description of div2 D incorrect? I still didn't understand the problem.

Pave: cover (a piece of ground) with concrete, asphalt, stones, or bricks; lay paving over.

What does it mean to pave a parallelepiped?

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    The problem asked you to count the numbers of (a, b, c) (a <= b <= c), such that (a, b, c) are divisors of (A, B, C) or (A, C, B) or (B, A, C) or (B, C, A) or (C, A, B) or (C, B, A), respectively.

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      So parallelepipeds (A, B, C) is the same as (A, C, B) but rotated? [I think rotating (A, B, C), where (A != B; B != C; A != C) won't produce (A, C, B)] (1×5×6 can be divided into parallelepipeds 1×3×5) but this tells me I'm wrong.

      Or maybe its even more complicated than that?

      I was thinking about it a bit, but probably am just wrong or misunderstood sth.

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    just think of it as a 3d rectangle, a box. Then "to pave" means "to fill it" so it's full. You can fill a 3x3x3 box with 27 1x1x1 boxes, or with 3 1x3x3 boxes, or 3 3x1x3 boxes, etc. Note that, in the task, you can only use boxes AxBxC that are A <= B <= C, but rotation is allowed, so a 9x1x1 box can be filled with boxes of 1x1x3.

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Please make the round unrated for those who got "Idleness limit exceeded" in Problem C because of sending too many requests.

It was explicitly stated in the statement that sending too many requests leads to "Wrong Answer" and printing nothing or forgetting to flush the output leads to "Idleness limit exceeded".

It wasn't until almost the end of the contest that the correction was made.

Some contestants may have spent huge amount of time looking for errors in their code that matched the verdict("Idleness limit exceeded")and couldn't find any mistake related to I/O and therefore couldn't compete in the contest normally.

Please look into the issue.

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    Im afraid that you div1 public commenting by fake account. afraid of downvote :p ?

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      I don't see how downvotes matter? (other than it makes the comment hidden — which will also happen from the the fake account)

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      I think many share the same trouble during the contest so I don't want to make this only about myself.

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    It happened to me, but then again I could not have solved D anyway and A,B and C were done. So I can't complain. But I do consider that it would have been the case with Div 1 users.

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Hoping for a contest with less math soon

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    Agreed. But CF is famous for its math tasks, and many people like that?

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    one should enjoy maths problems .

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      If only your target is to learn math deeply. I enjoy programming and involvement of mathematic observation but pure hard math annoy me because I dont know much.

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        then when will you learn new and hard things ?

        hope you know many red coders are either imo medalists or won some medals in prestigious maths competition !

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          But point is we newbie public are not medalist :p we want to learn data structure, graph, string and various algorithm. Many of us not willing to compete in IMO.

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Although div1B was way harder than ussual, I really liked it, actually, thanks.

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Why does this solution doesn't work for E? I first guessed the value for x, once I get that, I guess for value of y. I don't think this will exceed 600 requests. What am I missing here? anyone?

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    You should probably put your code in a spoiler tag before the downvotes come (also it's neater)

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      I tried to do that, the dropdown just doesn't appear. It's like the drop-down to select spoiler is hidden behind the text box.

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    "this suggest we got x right" — but it doesn't mean that.

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      I mean, if the response is random for the case when more than one condition satisfies, then it fails with probability — 1/1024. What if I increase the threshold for cnt2?

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    The interactor can just keep printing out '2', indicating that your y value is less than the target, and you'll never find the correct x value. When you input '2' while searching for x value, you don't change your outputted query at all, and the interactor is free to keep outputting '2' regardless of the correctness of your x value.

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      Thanks, my mistake. I assumed that in case of multiple conditions is true, the interactor's output is random.

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Very unbalanced contest. C solved by 3000, D by 21? Was it difficult to predict when making problem set...

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    Wait for the system test and you will find out that the number of solutions for C is far smaller

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      How do you predict this "far"? Not much hacks on it, I predict only less than 10% to fail systests.

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I don't get people that just write "stupid contest" without any extra explanation ("I did poorly" isn't a good explanation). Maybe you think problems were way too hard, or e.g. 3 of 5 problems were on a similar topic, or the statement was bad — but then write it and maybe the next contest will be better.

My complain: remember guys that "either ... or ..." means "xor", not "or".

How to solve E? It seems to be extremely hard.

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    where is "either ... or ..."

    EDIT: ok, makes sense

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      It was in the initial statement of C in the description of the response 3. I was confused about it, asked a question and they removed the word "either".

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      It was in the statement in the beginning. We are deeply sorry... Someone changed it that way and we did not check.

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        Keep "deeply sorry" for bigger issues :D that one was a detail. Cheers.

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        Also, I recommend reading emails from Polygon about every commit in your problems. I always do that and then I can't miss a bad change in the statement.

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          Well, I saw it, but I did not pay much attention. Someone just clarified a statement a bit, but made this mistake.

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    Also, I enjoyed the first 35 seconds of the first song in your album. Then the actual song begins :D

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      35 seconds < : A,B,C

      35 seconds > : D,E

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    My complaint would be that a, b and x, y are very random names for "correct numbers" and "queried numbers", which led to me misreading the problem statement of C (on every re-reading too). There's nothing I can do to avoid making that mistake again, either.

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    What is not good in this round:

    • Unbalanced difficulty (B is much harder than it should)

    • Issue with problem statement in A (the phrase "the number that Vasya wants to maximize equals 2" confused some contestants, and the fact that ranks of contestants depend mostly on speed of solving A worsen the issue)

    • Issue with problem statement and annoucement on B.

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i don't understand , why some complain of hard contest , rather than thinking whether it is hard / easy one should think on problem and how to solve it . if not solved wait for the editorials and learn the things where you are missing .

hard and unique problems will only teach you something.

MikeMirzayanov

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    It won't be an issue if the points were not based on time. The real problem is that a difference of few points causes a huge difference in ranks.

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    In that case, what's the point of having problems Div2.A~C? Why don't we host a contest full of Div1.E problems and make the contestants learn much more and much faster?

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