### Akikaze's blog

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Model solutions are now available.
GreenGrape and I will write more about problem F, including an alternative data structures (still quite tight on time limit) ;)

## 1114A - Got Any Grapes?

Author: Akikaze, GreenGrape
Development: Akikaze, GreenGrape, neko_nyaa
Editorialist: Akikaze

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Solution (Akikaze)

## 1114B - Yet Another Array Partitioning Task

Author: xuanquang1999
Development: Akikaze, xuanquang1999
Editorialist: xuanquang1999, neko_nyaa

Tutorial
Solution (xuanquang1999)

## 1114C - Trailing Loves (or L'oeufs?)

Author: Akikaze
Development: Akikaze, majk, _kun_
Editorialist: Akikaze

Tutorial
Solution (Akikaze)

## 1114D - Flood Fill

Author: neko_nyaa
Development: Akikaze, neko_nyaa, _kun_
Editorialist: neko_nyaa, _kun_

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Solution 1 (_kun_)
Solution 2 (neko_nyaa)

## 1114E - Arithmetic Progression

Author: Akikaze
Development: Akikaze, GreenGrape
Editorialist: Akikaze, xuanquang1999

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Solution (Akikaze)

## 1114F - Please, another Queries on Array?

Author: Akikaze, _kun_
Development: Akikaze, GreenGrape, _kun_
Editorialist: Akikaze, GreenGrape, _kun_

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Solution 1a (_kun_)
Solution 1b (Akikaze) [literally kun's solution, yet shorter, and a bit uglier :P]
Solution 2 (GreenGrape)

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 » 12 months ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   +49 Thanks for FAST editorial :)
 » 12 months ago, # |   +15 Problem E. Yeah, probability to fail finding 30 random elements is small, yet random_shuffle() (to randomize a permutation) can't manage to be random enough. Is there an explanation for that? It's so strange
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +8 A nice post about this(and other things concerning randomness): https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/61587
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 You should read the header file in your compiler.random_shuffle() uses rand(), and as a result, could fail as well along with rand() (though it took me a little more work to do so) :D
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I used  for (int i = 1; i <= queryRemaining; ++i) (i * max(n/queryRemaining, 1) - 1)%n + 1  instead of random and got AC. Here is my submission 49986673
 » 12 months ago, # |   +14 Ah... It's such a pity that I fail to submit my code of problem-F in the end. Just few seconds! I didn't think I should get a segment-tree template before, but now I realize it's really important especially for those people like me whose finger are frozen and type slowly.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Hmm...My fingers were also frozen,and so was my brain.I must have been crazy that I submitted the code to wrong problems twice
 » 12 months ago, # |   -6 Looks familiar, don't you think so?https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/largest-power-k-n-factorial-k-may-not-prime/Hey?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +33
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 » 12 months ago, # |   +13 I can't read the codes for problems C and D!
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 i cant read any one
 » 12 months ago, # |   +2
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 what would be the ans in test case in problem C:5 100?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 The number is (1, 20)100 so the answer is 0.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Since 20 has a trailing zero , shouldn't ans be 1?
•  » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +14 Don't mix up 10-ary numbers and 100-ary numbers.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 The answer would be 0. 5! is 120. 120 in base 100, would be (1)(20), where the 2 numbers in the brackets are the 2 digits in base 10. This is because 120 can be expressed as 1 * 1001 + 20 * 1000. Therefore there are no trailing zeroes.
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 How can we talk about changing the color of some squares in segment [l, r] if we don't know where our starting square is(Since the starting square is the only one whose component we may change)?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 you need to make a for, leaving each Ci as initial, not to receive TLE, we need an array to save the previous results dp[i][j][1].
 » 12 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +5 About B: I had similar idea during contest, but didn't code it because i couldn't prove it. Still don't know its proof. How to prove solution of B?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +9 Imagine the array where we remove all "irrelevant" elements that are not in the largest m * k elements. It is trivial to see that we can simply place the dividers for every m elements.Then just re-insert all the "irrelevant" elements back into their proper locations and we now have our complete answer.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 That is a very good way to imagine it. Thanks for sharing !
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Wow, thanks a lot for such a beautiful explanation.
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Could someone explain why this code is getting WA verdict at TC 10, 49727068 . It is the same approach as editorial and top users submissions.. I am unable to visualise the error.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 while(tmp2/ii > 0) { c2 += tmp2/ii; ii*=i;//when i was about 1e10, overflow here! } You should divide tmp2 in such a case.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 thank you so much.
 » 12 months ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 Isn't the answer for D n-1-ceil(LPS/2) ?? ( of course in the compressed one (for example 112553 -compress-> 1253 ) )
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 n-ceil(LPS/2), yes.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 But n-1-ceil(LPS/2) worked for the samples... :/No, my bug can't be in my LPS.Just dammit... I'm such a noob!!!
 » 12 months ago, # |   0
 » 12 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   +29 I'm sorry but, no. Quote from editorial of EFor simplicity, assumed that the sequence a is [0,  1,  2,  ...,  n  -  1]. Suppose that we randomly (and uniformly) select a subsequence S containing k elements from sequence a (when k is the number of ? query asked). Denote S  =  [s1,  s2,  ...,  sk].How exactly was I supposed to know that checker isn't adaptive? This isn't stated in statements, meaning that we can not just assume that we can query random elements. I've coded a solution, asking only ? i where i ≤ 30 just because non-adaptiveness wasn't stated in the problem statements. I'm almost sure at the moment that with adaptive checker this problem is basically unsolvable.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   -9 What prevented you from asking?
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +37 Because this is common sense for interactive problems to explicitly specify whether checker isn't adaptive in case it being true. (if it is relevant to the solution)
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +25 I guess it's our mistake to not write it in statements, however we indeed answered this question in clarifications to all interested.Also, I have a feeling that, at least on codeforces, we have an opposite situation: most of the interactive problems are not adaptive and when it is adaptive, it's written in statement (basically, since there is a need to specify hack format, it's mentioned, that jury can play differently).
•  » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 I think in most cases it's better not to write anything about interactor. Participants should be prepared for the worst case.
•  » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Worst case is that jury's own randomised solution also fails in adaptive interactions!
 » 12 months ago, # |   +177 smh problem A was obviously max flow, how did this contest even get accepted!? 49718487 :D
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +17 I try to say something more funny about this but i cant
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +46
•  » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 R.I.P
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   -15 If you are a RED CODER and contest is unrated for you that is how you approach easy implementation questions.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +34 Next time I should invite millions of friends for our grape party.
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Can someone help with problem C. I am getting a WA on pretest 10. 49731384
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +12 Seems like an overflow issue ff = ff * i.ff;What would happen if i.ff is something around 1e10 or so?
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Got it. Thanks. Correct submission 49736095.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 if(ff <= 0) break But won't this check for the overflow? I mean, if ff = ff * i.ff overflows wouldn't ff go less than 0?
•  » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 It is not "Guaranteed" to go less than zero. It actually may give you some value in long long range, with some behavior similar to modular arithmetic (though instead of 0~MAXIMUM, it can give you -2^63 to 2^63-1). It depends on what i.ff was.
•  » » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Oh! Thanks,
•  » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Seems like there are a bunch of codes with same issues.
•  » » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yeah. A lot of my friends got wrong answers on Pretest 7 and 10. if long long is changed to unsigned long long pretest 7 will pass.
•  » » » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 I got the same issue...even tried doing this with boost libraries but codeforces does not allow it
 » 12 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 why i cant read solution , when opening its written ~~~~~~~ _kun_
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 OMG! the fastest tutorial ever! thank you for this <3
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 How to prove B ?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 You have to choose m * k max. Let's write them somewhere, and if you have a segment from l to r and there are any m maxima in it that you wrote out, then the segment can be finished, so you will have m maxima in the first (k — 1) segment from those that you wrote out. And you will have a segment of length greater than or equal to m, since you have not chosen the remaining m peaks.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Take k=2 and think about it, I guess everything will be clear then
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 You just take M*K largest numbers. Obviously if we can use them for constructing subarrays they will provide the best result. Let's sort them by positions in the list. take the first M numbers and call their union "the 1st subarray", then the next M numbers, call them "the 2nd subarray" and so on. We constructed K subarrays which give the best result for this problem. There is nothing contradictory in this construction, each subarray has at least M elements and there are no upper bounds on the sizes of subarrays. So they're valid and this solution works.
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Can Someone please explain why I was getting WA verdict. 49729282 Thanks in advance. :)
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Got it...Simple Overflow issue. AC SOL
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 am I the only one who is seeing Submission link:Source code in plain text ~~~~~~~~~~??????????????
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 no i am too
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 ok then I guess they are trying their very best to sort this out
 » 12 months ago, # |   +14 Prob E:I've got WA on first 2 submission 49735490, 49734969Then after some minor changes I've got AC 49736359. I guess that even with little probability, it could still f- you up after all :
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +8 Thanks. ;)Just realized, I haven't worked with HNA's Informatics Team ever before.Maybe in the near future. ;)
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +11 Well that day could be nearer than you think ;)
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 » 12 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 For me it was really hard tasks. I suppose they(expect A) must be for Div.1.
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 » 12 months ago, # |   +5 i love fast editorials <3
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 » 12 months ago, # |   +4 For D, I use the same dp state, dp[l][r][0/1]. But I get wa on 8 :( This is my code: https://codeforces.com/contest/1114/submission/49737924
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 For F problem we should precompute inverses of primes <300 ( mod 10^9+7) and then use it to multiply our answer by (p-1)/p, am i right?
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 I am not getting the cause of difference between the output of the same code when submitted on codeforces and on ideone..?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 @Akikaze @GreenGrape Can anyone tell why this solution is getting WA verdict? Offline it gives correct output for same test case and on other online compilers(ideone) also it works fine. Why it does not work on Codeforces?
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Can't understand the second solution for problem D.
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 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Thanks. First D solution was helpful to me. How intuitive and pretty it is!
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 » 12 months ago, # |   0 1114B I can't understand (division[i] = ind[(i+1)*m — 1];) of M.xuanquang1999 solution....any explanation ?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 ind store the indices of m * k largest elements in the array a, sorted in increasing order. This array is 0-indexed.division[i] store the ending indices of the i-th array. This array is also 0-indexed.Since we need m elements for each subarray, division[i] is the value of the (i + 1) * m elements in ind. So, division[i] = ind[(i+1)*m - 1] (-1 because ind is 0-indexed).
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks..I got it
 » 12 months ago, # | ← Rev. 5 →   +14 Please _kun_, may you explain to me the following cases in the first solution of D:For dp[l][r][0], dose your code take in consideration dp[l][r - 1][0] and dp[l][r - 1][1]?I see that your code, for calculating d[l][r][0] takes in consideration just dp[l + 1][r][0] and dp[l + 1][r][1]!And also this is hold for dp[l][r][1] where I see that your code doesn't take in cosideration dp[l + 1][r][0] and dp[l + 1][r][1]!And when I took those states in consideration, my submission failed on test 8, where my answer is smaller than judg's answer. So, please where is the wrong?UPD: now I know why my submission was wrong, and corrected it. But still don't know the proof behind those states being negligible!
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +6 hi~ would you like to explain why it is wrong? I have the same problem with you. I keep on getting WA on pretest 8.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 4 →   +16 Hi,while calculating dp[l][r][0] and taking dp[l][r - 1][0] in consediration, we shouldn't add just 1 if a[l]! = a[r], we should add 2, because we need one turn to flood all the segment [l, r] with color a[r], then another turn to flood this segment with color a[l] (because that is what we are calculating).Why we should flood the segment with color a[r] firstly? why not just flood it with a[l]?The answer: the start point of all process should be still in segment [l, r - 1] to not clash with the fact that we cannot change the starting point.And this case is the same while calculating dp[l][r][1] taking in consediration dp[l + 1][r][1].
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 How do we deal with the situation where the starting point doesn't lie inside the segment [l,r]?In this solution aren't we now concerned with the starting point?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 The states are simple: note that in every moment the component containing a starting cell forms a segment and has its color equal to one of the ends of this segment.And then there are few transitions between
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Can you explain why it is unnecessary to consider dp[l][r - 1][0] and dp[l][r - 1][1] for calculating dp[l][r][0], please? Just because they need more transition?
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +15 Note, that I've written in "forward dp"-style, that is, I update the next states using the current one.And if the current state is [l;r] and some color c, then extending to [l - 1;r] will make the segment having color[l - 1].And we can add the transition to [l - 1;r], color[r], by saying "go to state [l - 1, r], color[l - 1] first and then recolor again.But this is not necessary: there is no need to recolor to stay in the same segment, it's easy to see that it's not optimal (formally, not better than not doing this) ;)
•  » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thank you!!! I can understand it now.I also tried to prove dp[l][r][0] + 2 ≥ dp[l][r][1] + 1, which comes from dp[l - 1][r][0] = dp[l][r][0] + [s[l - 1] ≠ s[l]] + [s[l - 1] ≠ s[r]] and dp[l - 1][r][1] = dp[l][r][0] + [s[l - 1] ≠ s[l]].I guess |dp[l][r][0] - dp[l][r][1]| ≤ 1 is always true, and this submission(49850235) shows it is always true. But I don't know how to prove this.With dp[l][r][0] + 2 ≥ dp[l][r][1] + 1, it means two transitions are always worse than those with one transition, so dp[l][r - 1][0 / 1] needs two transitions to reach dp[l][r][0] and therefore is worse than dp[l + 1][r][0 / 1].This is not intuitive :( I think your explanation is better!! :D
•  » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +3 |dp[l][r][0] - dp[l][r][1]| <= 1 is always true.Suppose we can color [l,r] with color c_l in x steps. Then we can color [l,r] with c_r in x + 1 steps by first coloring to c_l in x steps then 1 more step to change color to c_r. Therefore the larger one is at most 1 more step than the smaller one.
 » 12 months ago, # |   +43 My solution to problem F has complexity N*log(N) + Q*(log(N)+P) where P = 62 is the number of primes. Here's what I did : We need basically the product of values in the range l to r and for each prime, we need to check whether that prime exist in the range l to r. Product of values can be done in log(N) using segtree or bit. Now I created another segtree where each node has a bitset, which tells whether ith prime occured or not in the range. So we just have to do OR of all the bitsets. So operations on bitset is now almost O(1) (more precisely O(P/32)). But still my soln got tle due to heavy modulo operations. To reduce the number of modulo operations, I took the discrete log of all the values. Now the problem changes to range addition and range sum. The solution is very fast after taking discrete logarithm. Here's my submission : 49740935
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +5 You can use long long instead of bitset<62>.How did you choose the base of the discrete log? Just some brute force?
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 You find a primitive root in O(sqrt(MOD) * log(MOD)) or faster (or bruteforce and copy+paste it). Any primitive root is good enough.
•  » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 The method that I understood from Wikipedia page is cpp codeint primitive_root(int n){ int x = phi(n); vector primes = factorize(x); for(int m = 2; ; m++){ if(__gcd(m, n) != 1) continue; bool ok = true; for(int p : primes){ if(fexp(m, x / p, n) == 1){ ok = false; break; } } if(ok) return m; } } But I can't see why this is O(sqrt(MOD) * log(MOD)). It looks like O(sqrt(MOD) + log^2(MOD)*R) where R is the root.
•  » » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +8 That's kind of the method that I was talking about. The specific details of implementation change the complexity of the second check (in some code, people actually do O(sqrt) loop to look through every divisor of phi(n)).As for why I ignored R, R will be very low. The are phi(phi(N)) primitive roots of N. This number is really large and if you calculate the probability that a random number is a primitive root it's large enough that with a few tries it'll find one.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +8 Thanks for sharing — nice trick! But still my soln got tle due to heavy modulo operations. For your initial solution, do you have an implementation which will be N*log(N)? As far as I can tell, it has additional log(N) factor because you need to do exponentiation to apply "multiply on a segment" update — for example, in tr[nd] = (tr[nd] * pwr(lz[nd], e - s + 1, mod)) % mod; line in your code (49718093) — so it is not just "heavy modulo operations". For a few minutes I tried to find some workaround to shave off that log(N), but I didn't succeed.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Hmmm. You are right. The soln was getting tle because of the additional log(N) factor because of exponentiation and the previous soln was not N*log(N), rather N*log^2(N). But since the editorial soln has a complexity of log^2(N), I believe the solution got tle because of heavy modulo operation. I also couldn't remove the log(N) factor by any means. Thanks for noticing it!
 » 12 months ago, # |   +9 For D how do we prove that when we are flooding [L, R], minimum would be when we either color it with cL or cR. Why not with anything in between?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +11 In a turn, you always change the color of the connected component containing the starting square. So you have to change it to the color of the left or right component to be able to "merge" them.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Makes sense, thanks!
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 how to solve if starting square is not fixed?
•  » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 can anybody confirm that 49761228 will be the solution for above case.
•  » » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 If it's possible to change the color of any component in a turn then it becomes problem K from 2008 Moscow Subregional. I don't know any solution better than O(n^3) for this problem.Your code gets WA in case 13 10 2 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 1 8 9 10 3 The answer is 10.
•  » » » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Ohh, thanks a lot.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 4 →   +13 Because of the start point being unchangable, so, wherever you start the process, the first time the interval will be flooded with the same color, this color will be one of the two ends' color.So, if the minimum number of turns for reaching the same color the first time is x, any other turns to any other color will be added to x making the answer bigger.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 I meant Say we have 1 2 2 3 Then we can also change it optimally to 2 2 2 2 ( 2 moves ) But it will never be better than changing to L or R. Can be equal though.Edit: this state can't be reached
•  » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +6 It's not possible to achieve [2, 2, 2, 2] from [1, 2, 2, 3].
•  » » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Ok, I reread the question and realized it now :(Thanks both of you for your help!
•  » » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +13 With 2 moves, I think, but it's possible in 3 moves:By selecting index 1 as starting index (1-indexed):[1, 2, 2, 3] -> [2, 2, 2, 3] -> [3, 3, 3, 3] -> [2, 2, 2, 2].
•  » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 I am still finding it difficult to understand the problem statement. [1, 2, 2, 3] -> [2, 2, 2, 3] -> [2,2,2,2]In above case, the connected component of 3 is just 3 itself and the starting connected component is at position 4(1-based indexing) and then we change this starting component to 2. Kindly help in my wrong undertanding.
•  » » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 In the first step, you decided that the starting point of the process is position 1 (1-based indexed), and according to the problem's statement, one cannot change this position along the whole process, so you cannot change it to position 4 in the next step.
•  » » » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 So, that means if I select index 2 as the starting position then [1,2,2,3] -> [1,3,3,3] So, after this, I won't be able to change the configuration further because this is the last configuration. Right?
•  » » » » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 [1, 2, 2, 3]  - »» [1, 3, 3, 3]  - »» [1, 1, 1, 1]  - »» [2, 2, 2, 2]  - »» and so on...So, you can always change the segment that the starting point lies in.
•  » » » » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Aah Sorry my mistakeThanx brother
•  » » » » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Not bad. Welcome brother!
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 KEK
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 LOL
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Can somebody explain the idea and logic behind Problem B using Nth_element concept as mentioned in editorial
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 problem C is just WoW! learned so many things! Thank you for such a beautiful problem <3
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yeah, but indeed it is a bit straightforward if you know this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%27s_formula But still a good one for Problem C!
 » 12 months ago, # |   +8 pE : doing binary search on rank of an element requires only log( n ) = 20 queries
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Can anyone help me to understand why in the B problem I didn't pass the pre-test 1. My output is 21 but according to the log my answer is 17. Can't understand.Thanks for help.Test: #1, time: 155 ms., memory: 0 KB, exit code: 0, checker exit code: 1, verdict: WRONG_ANSWER Input 9 2 3 5 2 5 2 4 1 1 3 2 Output 21 5 7 Checker Log wrong answer the sum of beauty in contestant's partition does not match with contestant's answer: expected sum = 21, found 17
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Ok np, I've figured it out
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 xuanquang1999, What does od{x} represent in the proof of problem E?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 It is a formating error. What I supposed to write is .
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yeah, I didn't see that formatting error at first. It's now fixed. ;)
 » 12 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Who can tell me about problem A that why there are '>=' in the tutorial but '>' in the solution?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Well never mind, it's my mistake = =
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 in problem D, i found a lot of accepted solution (tutorial's solution included) that give the answer of 5 for the test :8 5 2 6 2 4 3 4 5. However I think the correst answer is 4. Can anyone explain this for me?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +3 hi~ in the problem statement, you need to change the component containing the start one to any other color every turn. I think you want to change 6 first and then 3. But this operation is forbidden.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 May I ask you a question? if each turn we can choose a connected block arbitrarily,then how to solve the problem?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 oh my mistake. Thank you
 » 12 months ago, # |   +31 In problem F we have several ways to maintain the segment products with per query/modification. Here is my approach: Suppose we have 2 structure T1 and T2 which can maintain the prefix product and allows us to modify one place of the array with (Obviously both segment tree and fenwick tree can do it.) We will just discuss about how to handle the modification with r = n and the query with l = 1 (Other modification could be splitted into twice this kind of modification). Then the contribution of a modification on position l for a query on position r (l ≤ r) will be xr - l + 1 = xr / xl - 1. So we can maintain with T1 and with T2. Then Arr / Br will be the result of query(r). Here is my implementation with fenwick tree.Another way is to maintain the discrete logarithm of the product, then the multiplication will be converted to addition modulo P - 1. But we need to calculate the discrete logarithm of 1, 2, ..., 300.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Nice approach. Thanks!
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Can anyone explain the approach to calculate xi in C? Thanks a lot!
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 This can be done using Legendre's formula. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%27s_formula
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 I got it. Thx. :)
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Can someone please help me in my C problem49735519
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +1 number b can be prime. And b * b can be > long long MAX. now=pow(k,i) in function calci is wrong
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks a lot !
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 For D it says "To find the longest palindrome subsequence, we can make a reversed copy of the array and find LCS of it with the original array."Sometimes strings will have multiple LCS's: some are palindromes and some are not. (For example the string "CABCA" and its reverse "ACBAC" have "ACA" as a palindromic LCS and "ABC" as a non-palindromic LCS).How does one modify the LCS algorithm to always return a palindrome?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 For every non-palindrome LCS, its reverse is also a LCS. In your case, CBA is also a valid LCS. Then you can just find half of any LCS then mirror it.I'll put a link because it's faster than explaining. It even uses your example (lul).In fact you can use an average LCS tracing without modification. Just make sure you go the topmost or bottommost route in the DP table. You'll end up with some arbitrary LCS if you choose some random valid trace path.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Why does tracing the topmost or bottommost path in the DP table yield the palindrome LCS?
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 xuanquang1999 I can't understand why .
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +13 Let D(S) the GCD of all difference between consecutive elements in S = {s1, s2, ..., sk}. In other word, .Then:You should check out the article about Mobius inversion in the editorial (especially the first example in the article) to understand this better.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Oh, I didn't notice that I should turn the formula into . Thanks a lot!
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 If the rest of problem D remains unchanged, and each operation can choose a connected block arbitrarily to change its color,then how to solve the problem?
 » 12 months ago, # |   -8 Auto comment: topic has been updated by Akikaze (previous revision, new revision, compare).
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 For D: "Alternatively, we can also use the first solution on the compressed array, without needing the third parameter." Can someone explain how to do it without the third parameter?
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +1 After compressing, let dp(l, r) be the minimum number of moves needed to make interval [l, r] into a single component. The answer is just dp(1, m), where m is the size of the compressed array. The base case is dp(x, x) = 0 for each x,The key here is that after turning interval [l, r] into a single component, all the interval will always have the same color as either element l or r had initially. This gives the transition dp(l, r) = min(1 + dp(l + 1, r), 1 + dp(l, r - 1)), the former if our final step is including the l-th element into our component and the latter if it's including r. (By the observation one of those is always the last step). The exception is the case where the elements l and r are equal, in which case the answer is 1 + dp(l + 1, r - 1), because we only need one move to include both l and r into our component.
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Alright I got it, thank you!
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 hi can you please explain how monochromising the segment to its ending colors always take minimum operation,and how you got this DP recurrence idea ,my second question is bit stupid but i would be very thankful if you could answer that also.
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 49765798 Can someone tell me why is the memory limit exceeded? (Problem D)
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Overflow issues.The value of j might exceed maxn.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Because #define int long long .
•  » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks!! This was indeed the problem. But why does it lead to MLE?
•  » » » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +13 Long long uses twice the amount of memory int does. Your solution with ints used ~190MB and memory limit is 256MB.You can use sizeof(int) and sizeof(long long) on your pc or in custom invocation to check this.
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 In problem B, why are we making the divisions array of size k-1 ?
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 My submisstion using rand() passed just fine... I've yet to see one where I have to use mt19937 generator instead of normal one... 49774343
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   +8 I've expected this solution and didn't intend to kill it.Imagine a sequence from 0 to 106 - 1, its mean and median will be both 500000, and the standard deviation would be 288675.Now, imagine a list of 107 random integers generated by your algorithm. A source code might be as of following: Source code#include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include using namespace std; const int ITERATIONS = 1e7; int newrand() { return (rand() * rand()); } int main() { srand(time(NULL)); vector List; double sum = 0; for (int i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) { int a = newrand() % 1000000; List.push_back(a); sum += a; } sort(List.begin(), List.end()); double mean = sum / ITERATIONS; double median = ((ITERATIONS % 2 == 1) ? List[ITERATIONS / 2] : ((double)(List[ITERATIONS/2-1] + List[ITERATIONS/2-0]) / 2)); double variance = 0; for (int i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) { variance += (mean - List[i]) * (mean - List[i]) / ITERATIONS; } double sd = sqrt(variance); cout << "Mean: " << mean << endl; cout << "Median: " << median << endl; cout << "Variance: " << variance << endl; cout << "Standard deviation: " << sd << endl; } And the output: ResultMean: 499174 Median: 498780 Variance: 8.34123e+010 Standard deviation: 288812 Pretty close to the perfect distribution.
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 I loved problem B and D
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 B is a tricky problem.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Can you explain this line Suppose squares [L, R] are flooded, then they are either of color cL or cR I m not getting it
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 5 →   0 say , [L,R] flooded , no matter with which color....ok?if we take L-1 then new segment [L-1,R] will be flooded with the color[L-1]else we take R+1 then new segment [L,R+1] will be flooded with the color[R+1]so , no matter which one is our new segment ([L-1,R] or [L,R+1]) we always can say that our new segment [l,r] is flooded with the color[l] or color[r]
 » 12 months ago, # |   0 Can you please explain me, why this works on Python, but not on PyPy.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +1 Literal String Formatting was added in Python version 3.6.Since Codeforces uses PyPy3.5 v6.0 you get a SyntaxError on line 48 and 70.
 » 11 months ago, # |   +8 I must say that as a new programmer, the way you're written problem A and B is so clean and nice and I love it.Most other programmers use complicated code that I feel like sometimes is there for no other reason than to show off.. I have no problem with complicated code as long as it gets explained, the weird thing is that even tutorials use complicated code that doesn't get explained..I haven't tried other problems but I will try to do them by myself.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 I still think that this E is wrong .-.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 In the 1st editorial of problem D why are we always making L-R as either CL or CR can't we change the color to some other color in that Range such that the cost of operations will become minimum.
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Hello, I have a question on problem F.This submission is getting MLE. I think I can reduce the memory with state reduction(node.cumulfactors is removable if I change the logic a bit) but it still requires at least 200MB. My original submission is using almost 500MB while some other participants are passing this problem with less than 50MB of memory usage.Let me say the main question. The bitmasking(to reduce memory) is mentioned on tutorial and I studied but I still cannot understand how bitmasked information can contain number of prime divisors applied so far. I think bitmasking can store only the information about the used prime divisors, not total number of each used divisors.Can anyone explain? Thank you.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 You don't need the quantity of each prime factor.You can read the formula again, the Euler totient of the range product is in fact the range product itself, multiplied by for each distinct prime factor p appearing on the range product.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 How can I multiply into result since the result is represented in mod 109 + 7?
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +6 Multiply the sum product by p - 1 first. then multiply the result by the modular inverse modulo 109 + 7 of p.Since the constraints guaranteed , the modular inverse of p is simply pφ(mod) - 1, or p109 + 5, modulo 109 + 7.
•  » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +8 Oh my god, extending Euler theorem lead the way to prove! Thank you!
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Imho, two problems from this contest for me seems very similar to these one: Similar to problem C, oh not similar, they are actually equal, just different constraints, but solution is the same. Similar to problem F, not so similar, but if you know solution to this one, you will easily solve F.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 The problem similar to F looks familiar — I found it on one Vietnamese National ICPC and take the core idea from this. However, later on thanks to _kun_'s suggestions, I increased the constraints and get rid of the multiple segment trees approach. Without that straightforward solution, it'll be quite tricky and require sufficient math backgrounds to surpass.About C, I have seen many others pointing the same thing. Honestly, I haven't heard of any of those references, and none of my partners told me as well. ;)
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Could you please elaborate on how to solve the second task?
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +3 Calculate the exponential of each prime in a seperate segment tree.
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 And how to do queries 0?Why does it say in the statement that P ≤ 109 and in example it's P = 109 + 7?
•  » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 As X <= 100, there are 25 primes up to 100. Store 25 seg trees for each prime, i-th denotes exponential of i-th prime in segment l_r. So when comes query multiply x, we just factorize x and add in segment l_r to every prime that took place in factorization. Division is the same, now we just do not add, we subtract. Calculating answer is to bruteforce all 25 primes and calculate product of primes powered to the sum of its segment tree in l_r.
•  » » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 Nice (:I thought that involving fast power would lead to TLE due to that log factor, but i tried and it passed in 800ms. Thanks anyway.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Why my code for F has different results on codeforces and my PC?....pleasehttps://codeforces.com/contest/1114/submission/49812712 on my PC,the results is right , but when I submit my code the output is weird... thx
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 better code for understanding problem D https://codeforces.com/contest/1114/submission/49815297
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Problem A：My submissions were not passed until I had submited six times,I am so sad!
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 can someone explain what do we have to do in second part of second question??pleaseee
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Have a look to this comment — https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/65136?#comment-491791 After you have found m*k elements sum, all you need to do is traverse original array again(unsorted/input array) and print out index+1(or index if 1-indexed base arr.) if you found m elements — This step has to be done k-1 times.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Auto comment: topic has been updated by Akikaze (previous revision, new revision, compare).
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 Hey neko_nyaa.Can you please elaborate your solution of question D and explain the reason behind finding the longest palindromic subsequence and also the reason behind the following line of code: cout << n — (dp[n][n] + 1)/2 << '\n';Thanks in advance!
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Try solving this problem: given a starting square, find the fewest number of turns possible. Example: 7 4 5 2 1 3 5 4 Choose square 4 (with color 1) as starting square The answer is 4 turns. SolutionConsider the subarrays expanding to the left and right sides of the starting square. In this case left side = 2 5 4, right side = 3 5 4. The number of moves you need is |L| + |R| - LCS(L, R)You want to find the maximum LCS across all starting squares. This gives an O(N3) solution.Notice that "LCS expanding from a center" is simply a palindrome subsequence. You want the longest LCS, so you can simply find the longest palindrome. Now you have an O(N2) solution
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 neko_nyaa I do not have a problem finding the long palindromic subsequence but can you please tell that why are we actually finding it and also why after finding it|L| + |R| - LCS(L, R)is providing us the answer.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Problem C:r=min(floor(xi/yi)) where i=1 to mWhy does it work? any proof?
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Basically you are checking if given set of prime frequencies of 'b' exists in the same prime set frequencies of n. If "yes" increase result by 1, and decrease all the frequencies of prime factors of n by the corresponding freq. of b prime factors. Repeat the process, until you dont found such, then return result. This is similar to finding min(floor(xi/yi)) where i=1 to m.Idea is basically to check if (n!%b == 0) repeatedly (by doing n!/=b), so we just check prime factors of b and their frequencies in prime factorization of n!.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 my solution on F is exactly same with the Tutorial but i get TLE,what's the problem of my code ?
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   0 Problem F , Is it many time-complexity difference recursive power function and bottom-up power function? First, I used recursive power function. but got TLE. so, i saw another people's codes, they used bottom-up power function. i fixed my power function, and i got accepted.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 In fact recursive function is somewhat (significant enough) slower than normal function. You can compare between 49740091 {non-recursive} and 49863959 {recursive}.Still, the calculations can be quite faster if all integers are stored in int and casted into long only before multiplication.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Can someone tell the explanation of first proposition in Problem C?
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Let say that x=n! is some number with zeroes in the end.Trim all those zeroes and call new number y.Then, x = y*(b^r), — here b and r is from editorial and r is number of zeroes in the end, because b^r is 1 and r zeroes in the end similarly to decimal numbers.Fundamental theorem of arithmetic says that there is unique factorization of any number.Thus, x has b^r in factorization.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 in F problem you have missing powers for primes in place where you proving that answer is n*product.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Can you please specify the error location?
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 sorry, I'm wrong. I thought ai are primes, thus, they should have powers. but in text it's values from array.
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 In the tutorial of Problem C: Initially, denote xi = 0. **** Repeatedly do the following: add to xi, then divide n by pi. The loop ends when n is zero. When i want to find each xi,why do this?
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 In n! exactly numbers are divisible by pk but some of them are also divisible by pk + 1 and so on. If you consider how many times you will count numbers that is divisible exactly by pk you'll see that they are included in all with j up to k. So, you'll count p exactly k times for this numbers. And using property that floor(n/p^k) = floor(floor(n/p)/p) you get repeated division by p.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thx！I have solved it!
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 in problem D, how to find the partitions??
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 in problem B, how to find partions??
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 consider largest m*k numbers. mark them with 1 in some additional array. pick first m numbers and assign them to first segment. pick second m numbers and assign them to second segment. and so on. you'll get exactly k segments — obviously. none of segments can be smaller than m, because they all of them contain at least m numbers. all you need to do now is to cover gaps. you can do that by joining gaps to any segment nearby. other easier way to make partitions: just make cut each time when you reach m numbers in segment, and then reset counter of numbers you picking (marked ones) to zero.
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Getting a strange compilation error("Compiled file is too large [53650389 bytes], but maximal allowed size is 33554432 bytes") in problem F. How to overcome it ?? My code https://ideone.com/5ijuXg
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 This was a really great contest by talented authors ! I learnt a lot solving problems of this contest. I actually found the B more challenging than the C. D was a very nice DP. I noticed the editorial used a 'forward-dp'. I tried understanding the transition and writing a 'backward-dp' so that I can understand it wel E was a good interactive problem. F was a really good question. First, noticing that you do not need to know the exponent of each prime in the product, just their list. And then maintaining a product segment tree and a bitmask OR tree. Amazing !Here are my solutions :)
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Can anybody elaborate explanation of Problem C? Thanks!
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Hello. I have a question about problem DI made a testcase below5 5 6 5 7 5I think the answer is 2 ( [5 6 5 7 5] -> [5 5 5 7 5] -> [5 5 5 5 5] )but, the output of both solution is 3.Please anybody correct me
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 All transformation must include one cell being chosen as the starting cell.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +8 Oh. I miss that condition.Thank you!
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Can I have one more question??I just read problem D one more time.But, I don't understand wellMy question is hereIn testcase [5 6 5 6 5], output is 2In testcase [5 6 5 7 5], output is 3What difference??
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Testcase 1Like you might guess, the optimal solution starts with choosing the 3rd cell as the initial cell.Then the process goes as following: xx 5 6 5 6 5 -> 5 6 6 6 5 (change the color of the component (segment [3, 3]) to 6) -> 5 5 5 5 5 (change the color of the component (segment [2, 4]) to 5) -> Problem solved in 2 steps.  Testcase 2Again, we can still choose the 3rd cell as the initial cell.Then the process goes as following: xx 5 6 5 7 5 -> 5 6 6 7 5 (change the color of the component (segment [3, 3]) to 6) -> 5 7 7 7 5 (change the color of the component (segment [2, 3]) to 7) -> 5 5 5 5 5 (change the color of the component (segment [2, 4]) to 5) -> Problem solved in 3 steps. Keep in mind that, each time you change the color of the initial cell, you change the color of all reachable cells having the same color as it as well.
•  » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +8 Thank you!I appreciate your kind explanation
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Akikaze you wrote in problem E's editorial: d will be calculated as greatest common divisors of all difference between all consecutive elements, provided all elements found (yes, including the max one) is kept into a list sorted by increasing order. Won't the probability of success be higher if we obtain the numbers and rather than taking the gcd of only the difference of consecutive elements take the gcd of absolute difference between all pairs of them ?
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Both approaches literally yield the same value. This is due to the nature of Euclidean algorithm in finding GCD.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Can you provide any proof or references maybe ? I was thinking for some case like when the elements are a+d, a+2d, a+5d, taking adjacent elements' difference will yield d and 3d only whereas taking all pairs will yield d, 3d and 4d. I know the elements in the second list will be linear combinations of elements in the first list. So, is that somehow the reason that they don't add much value or what ?
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 You can refer to the Euclidean algorithm here.The Euclidean algorithm is based on the principle that the greatest common divisor of two numbers does not change if the larger number is replaced by its difference with the smaller number.Thus, the linear combinations of a set of number yield the same GCD as that set alone.
•  » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks.
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Problem D: I used the approach mentioned in the first solution. However, I also 'compressed' the initial array as mentioned in the start of second solution. This results in Wrong Answer on test 45 and goes away if I remove the 'compression'. If anyone can explain the reason behind it, I would appreciate it. Wrong Answer: 49897219 AC: 49926722
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 the problem C gives correct answer in geeks-ide (link is given below) for the 7th test case but wrong answer in codeforces not sure why::https://ide.geeksforgeeks.org/NY6e3NArcOhttps://codeforces.com/contest/1114/submission/500594937th test case input : 1000000000000000000 97expected output: 10416666666666661 (i am getting this in geeks ide)wrong output in codeforces: 10416666666666639 (not sure why )
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 This is one of the tests specifically designed to counter solutions with poor overflow handle.Take a look at this part of your code: while( mul <= n ) { ncnt += (n/mul) ; mul *= i ; if( mul < 0 ) break ; } mul might even breach the limit of int64.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 i wrote a break condition when mul < 0 (which does not capture all cases of overflow) but the same input gives different output on geeksforgeeks ide and codeforces not sure why, thanks Akikaze for looking into my code
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 In problem C, i have found some incorrectly index from editorial:The process of finding p1, p2, ..., pn, y1, y2, ..., ym can be done by normal prime factorization of the value b.the pi is the prime factor of b. So, the last boundary index. it's should be pm not pn.however, it's not importance more. if you have understood in idea.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks for noticing, it's fixed now. ;)
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 Please help me in understanding question D. Testcase: 8 4 5 2 2 1 3 5 5Why is the answer for this 4? I think it should be 5. Where am I wrong? My procedure if I take starting square as 5: 4 5 2 2 1 3 5 5 4 2 2 2 1 3 5 5 //Step 1, 4 4 4 4 1 3 5 5 //Step 2, 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 5 //Step 3, 3 3 3 3 3 3 5 5 //Step 4, 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 //Step 5,I didn't understand the explanation they gave in the question. Explanation: In the second example, a possible way to achieve an optimal answer is to pick square with index 5 as the starting square and then perform recoloring into colors 2,3,5,4 in that order.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 You're taking the 2nd element (with color 5), not the 5th element.The most optimal way is as following: 4 5 2 2 1 3 5 5 4 5 2 2 2 3 5 5 // step 1 4 5 3 3 3 3 5 5 // step 2 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 // step 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 // step 4 
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Oh thanks I got it. I thought we have to stick to a connected component but seems like we can switch between them.
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 No, we still have to stick into one connected component. As you can see all segments I performed color change included the 5th element (yet with different color).
•  » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Oh thanks a lot. I got it.
 » 11 months ago, # |   0 For problem 'D', the claim, "Suppose squares [L, R] are flooded, then they are either of color cL or cR", I've been trying for some time to prove this claim using Mathematical Induction, but I'm unable to do it, and although it seems somewhat intuitive, it'd be great if someone can provide a proof for it. Thanks! _kun_ neko_nyaa
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 The claim is pretty much self-explanatory.If [L, R] is already connected at the initial state, then the claim is obviously true.Let's denote the starting cell's index as i (L ≤ i ≤ R).If [L, R] are flooded, then before the last flooding there exists two components [L, x] and [x + 1, R] (L ≤ x < R). Consider the two cases: [L, x] is not flooded~--- which means x < i. To make the entire range [L, R] flooded, since we can only access the component containing the i-th cell, we must change the color of that segment into the color of [L, x]. Such segment was completely untouched at first, thus the target color will obviously be cL. [x + 1, R] is not flooded~--- which means i ≤ x. Using similar explanation, we can see that the color of the segment containing the initial cell must be changed into cR.
•  » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   0 Sorry, I couldn't understand the proof properly. "Let's denote the starting cell's index as i", What is starting cell here?Also, suppose the segment contained within [L, R] is: 1 2 2 3 3 3 4. Here we can do: 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 ---> 1 3 3 3 3 3 4 ---> 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 ---> 3 3 3 3 3 3 3, which is also optimal, and the resulting color is not 1 or 4. If this segment contained within [L, R] was surrounded with lots of 3's on either side, then shouldn't we solve [L, R] this way, where we do not flood [L, R] with neither CL or CR? Or am I completely missing out on some point here?
•  » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +1 Yes, you are missing out on some point. Please read the problem statement carefully.The statement clearly says pick any square at the start of the game. Then you can only change the component containing that square. Thus, your 3rd move is not valid.I see a lot of people have trouble with this. Maybe I should've highlighted something. I apologize for this.
•  » » » » » 11 months ago, # ^ |   +8 Sorry, my bad. Thanks for explaining! :)
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I got TLE in problem D while submitting the code in java and it got accepted when I submitted the same solution in c++. Here are links to my codes. Java solution :- http://codeforces.com/contest/1114/submission/50130092 c++ solution :- http://codeforces.com/contest/1114/submission/50134737 Please help!
 » 11 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 For problem D Flood fill: The output of the following input should be 3 but the solution given above is giving output 4.7 4 3 4 1 4 2 4
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Ok I think the answer should be 3 could anyone please confirm.
•  » » 11 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I got it I am wrong
 » 5 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Soln got accepted when i did 2 changes in tutorial's soln 1. I think we don't need to include Max in List, after sorting bcoz rest of the element would decide the value of d soln without including -- got accepeted 2. We only need series from 0 to +1000000000 bcoz numbers in AP can be possible from 0 to +100... not from -100... to 100... it got accepted using series from 0 to 100... correct me, if i'm wrong -- it would help me & other understanding the concept more better
•  » » 5 months ago, # ^ |   0 Yeah, you can exclude Max from that part. The probability to get incorrect answer would be increased a little bit, but still insignificant to cause an issue for normal upsolving. ;)