### vovuh's blog

By vovuh, history, 2 years ago,

Suddendly, all ideas of this contest are mine. And I'm very sorry about one missing small test in the problem B. This is the biggest mistake I made during the preparation of this round.

1324A - Yet Another Tetris Problem

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1324B - Yet Another Palindrome Problem

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1324C - Frog Jumps

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1324D - Pair of Topics

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1324E - Sleeping Schedule

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1324F - Maximum White Subtree

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 » 2 years ago, # |   +12 Can someone suggest some basic dp problems like E (same or little higher difficulty) please.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +6 You can always look at the problemset and turn on the dp tag and sort by rating or number of solves in ascending order. I'd recommend looking around a rating of 1600-2000 for some basic (or a bit harder) dp tasks.
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +11
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +19 I'm aware of that feature but in practice, I found that most 1600-2000 problems tagged with dp don't have their intended solutions with dp. Rather they are some greedy problems which have in their editorials "This problem can be solved using dp also", which is not helpful when I'm unable to solve the problem. This is why I'm asking :)
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +15 I see. In that case, here are some USACO Gold problems I would recommend that aren't just greedy.
•  » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +4 Thanks very much
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +20 Good DP problems for all rating range.AtCoder Educational DP
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +6 I think this might be helpful. DP PROBLEMS AND TUTORIALS
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks.It really has good quality of DP problems
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_z_8CaSLPWekqhdCPmFohncHwz8TY2GoYou can go refer this if you know Hindi.
•  » » » 16 months ago, # ^ |   0 it is the best series available in youtube
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 DP is a good choice
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   +16 E: A different dynamic programming approach, with runtime O(n*h).Let dp(i,j) be the maximum number of good sleeping times if Vova slept the i to n times with the starting time j. Then, the value dp(1,0) will be the answer. Initially, all dp(i,j) = 0.Transitions (to be done from i = n to i = 1, with j being all possible values of time (0-h)):Let t1 = (j + a_i) % h and t2 = (j + a_i - 1) % hThen, dp(i,j) = max(good(t1) + dp(i+1, t1), good(t2) + dp(i+1, t2))
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 are all the cases covered in such? can you elaborate? thanks in advance
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 I think my solution will be clear to you. Just have a look, basic recursive function with memoization. https://ideone.com/i53rk9
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 can you explain your approach a little bit ??
•  » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Since, we know that we can either select 'a[i]' or 'a[i]-1'. So, I called the recursive function two times, one with 'a[i]' as sum and the other with 'a[i]-1' as sum and hence returns the maximum of that. Do the same for all i from 1 to n-1. It is just the same as calling 'fib(n-1)' and 'fib(n-2)' in fibonacci series. 2-d DP works because 'n' is in the range [1,2000] and every time we are doing 'sum%h' the range of value will be [0,h) and h ranges from [3,2000]. I recommend you to make a recursive tree of the given sample input (take the help from my code). This will help you to see the repeated calculation which I am storing in array(dp).
•  » » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/73769097Can you please see to my code . why my code fails for testcase 40
•  » » » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Your code fails for input when L contains 0 i.e, when L,R is [0,..]. This happens beacause at the time of calling you are passing sum as 0. For example try for input (1 44 0 14 23), the answer should be 0 as neither 23 nor 22 lies between L,R but your code gives 1. To remove this problem, you just need to call the recursive function two times : (1. index=1,sum=arr[0]) (2. index=1,sum=arr[0]-1). And finally returns maximum of 1 and 2. Hope it helps !!!
•  » » » » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks.
•  » » » » » » » » 23 months ago, # ^ |   0 Thank you so much man. I was completely frustrated as my code was not working but your comment was here to help me. :-)
•  » » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 What does the dp[i][j] state signify ?? Thanks
•  » » » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +1 dp[i][j] signifies the total number of good sleeps from index i to n.
•  » » » » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks
•  » » » » » » 23 months ago, # ^ |   0 Plzz can you explain about the state transitions.
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Hi I used similar approach getting WA on test 40 can u please help me https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/73656520
•  » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +1 Read the previous comment. Your code also behaves similar.
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Essentially, what my state is how many good sleeps Vovu can have by starting from this hour and disregarding the previous i-1. Now, we can only disregard the first 1,2,3,...n and starting hour can only be in 0,1,2,...,h-1 so we have n*h states which cover all possible cases.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 I did the same using memoization table.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Hey, i have solved question E. but i have done it in different way !! can you please explain, what you have done? i can't understand what you are trying to say !! please reply, i am right now focusing on DP.
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Well I don't get what exactly u didn't understand, so I am copying the main logic of my code which got AC in hopes you can get the algorithm I used: int n,h,l,r; int add(int t1, int t2){ int t = t1+t2; if(t>=h) t-=h; return t; } signed main() { cin>>n>>h>>l>>r; vector a(n); for(auto &i: a) cin>>i; vector> dp(n+1,vector(h,0)); for (int i=n-1; i>-1; --i){ for(int t=0; t
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 hmm, got it...you have done push dp and i have done it in reverse way.
 » 2 years ago, # |   +9 Simpler way to solve C is to calculate the longest contiguous sequence of L's and then output it plus one.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Or you can find out farthest 2R's and print the difference in their positions. Edit : The editorial says the same . Sorry I hadn't read editorial before commenting here . XD
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Still though, there is no need to remember the whole array of distances between R's. Instead, it is enough to remember the max distance.
•  » » » » 19 months ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 or if by chance you did not observe the pattern like me ,you can binary search the value for d https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/96364535
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 This is what I did..but by seeing others solution I thought it was wrong lol
 » 2 years ago, # |   +4 Alternate solution to task E:Considering all times of the day modulo h, let dp[i][j] be the maximum number of good sleeping times assuming that Vova has slept the first i times and that the current time of day is j.Also, let's maintain boolean array pos[i][j] such that pos[i][j] is true IFF it is possible to end up at time j after sleeping i times.Now, transitions can be calculated by setting dp[i+1][(j+ai)%h] to max(dp[i+1][(j+ai)%h, dp[i][j] + ((j+ai)%h >= l && (j+ai)%h <= r ? 1 ; 0) and applying a similar transition for ai-1.Now, the answer is just the max dp[i][j] such that i = n.I noticed a comment denoting a similar solution although my submission was in-contest unlike the other comment.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 i thought exactly the same but mine seems doesn't work can you please help memy submissionThanks in advanceEDIT:Now it is working but why do we need to maintain a boolean array of possibilites?Shouldn't it be handled automatically by setting to zero the dp matrix initiallyplease explain.
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 During the contest, my intuition was thinking that not all (i,j) pairs would be possible during DP, so I included the boolean matrix as an extra precaution.I knew that the extra space wouldn't really matter and played it safe. IDK if it makes a difference but I wasn't worried in-contest because I wanted to make sure I just got the task right.
•  » » 12 months ago, # ^ |   0 Hey, zekigurbuz I almost did the same but, I am not understanding why by changing vector new_dp(H, INT_MIN); to vector new_dp=dp; in the below code, I was getting WA. As for updating dp[k] we need its value from the previous iteration, isn't it?? Codevector dp(H, INT_MIN); dp[0] = 0; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { vector new_dp(H, INT_MIN); for (int j = 0; j < H; j++) { for (int k : {(j + a[i] - 1) % H, (j + a[i]) % H}) new_dp[k] = max(new_dp[k], dp[j] + (k >= l && k <= r)); } dp = new_dp; } cout << *max_element(all(dp)) << endl;
 » 2 years ago, # |   +7 Can anyone suggest where can we study and practice rerooting question like F. Thanks in advance : )
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +17 You can solve the following problems using the rerooting idea:
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 Thank you ^_^
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +6 luciocf Can you tell how to solve the first one — Save Nagato!
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Do the same as said, in the above editorial !Instead of keeping the black and white count keep a multiset for each vertex storing the depth using each branch, now reroot for each vertex and then erasing the largest depth kept in the multiset,putting the largest depth into each children multiset and then finally erasing it from each children multiset & putting it back in afterwards in the vertex' multiset.Have a look here at my submission : https://dmoj.ca/src/1961273
•  » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 I am unable to see your solution. It is showing access denied
•  » » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 4 →   0 you can see my code : https://dmoj.ca/src/1961373. I think i write a similar structure to the solution given by vovuh.
•  » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 I am also unable to see your solution
•  » » » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +1
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +4 Yes I will dm you
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 ok will wait for your message
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Kindly post it here, it will help others too. TIA
•  » » 19 months ago, # ^ |   0 Akshay184 luciocf A subtree of a tree T is a tree S consisting of a node in T and all of its descendants in T. Can you please tell me whether this problem follows this standard definition? Because I dont see it following. Or may be I am wrong.
•  » » » 9 months ago, # ^ |   0 No, in this problem, a subtree means a connected subgraph of the tree. It does not include all its descendants.
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 What was the case that wasn’t included for B? I got hacked and I just wanted to know what the case was.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +2 I think your mistake is that you are keeping track of the last seen element rather than the first seen.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +2 I just know a bit of cpp so I'm unable to run your code, but I can tell you the test case on which most of the codes where hacked It was: 1 3 1 1 1, try running this and the output should be "YES"Incase you want the specific test case on which your code was hacked, you can check it at https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/73037905, you will be getting an option of view test (right under Hacked written in red text)
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Thank you, I'm new to CodeForces so I didn't know how to view the test that hacked my code.
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 To view the hack:Your Profile -> Submissions -> Hacked Submission -> # Button -> View HackYour Hacked Submission
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 @vovuh I tried to solve F using two DFS but kept failing test case 3 and I couldn't figure out why it fails on this test case. Can you help me point out my mistake? My submission is 73111564 and I've added comments to make it easy to read.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +1 the problem is on how you build the tree, i changed your buildTree method, check https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/73114269
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Oh, yeah, I definitely did not build tree correctly :). Thank you very much!
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   -8 In the 1324D — Pair of Topics's Tutorialat the beginning of the Tutorial is $i < j$ , but then turn into $j < i$can someone explain it ? plz.Edit ： i made a mistake , sorry
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 A can also be done by checking if difference of adjacent elements mod 2 equals 0 or not
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Why 6 downvotes?? :(
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +8 Codeforces community is kinda weird and specific to it's liking. Don't pay attention to upvotes or downvotes on your comments. Do check the FAQ on this to know more.
 » 2 years ago, # |   +2 Can somebody explain why the above solution for D works? Once we sort all Ci there is no track of their original indexes anymore.. so how is it correct?
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +7 The indexes don't matter. The condition i
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 Thanks got it now. The pairs will be unique anyways as per the above solution.
 » 2 years ago, # |   +3 When will the ratings get updated... Generally how much time it takes after the contest ends .?
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 What type of dp in problem E. Editorial said that is a standard dp problem, but i can't recognize that. Help me plz.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Its a simple include/exclude concept used in dp/recursion problems, like subset sum, Coin change etc.
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 thanks NoobCoder1998. That's also my question too.
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   +3 Question D can be solved in O(n) after sorting also using two pointers, which seems a bit efficient.Link to my solution
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 The sort itself takes O(nlogn)
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 I clearly said after the sort, it takes O(n). It is just an efficient way to do the same thing. Suppose the sorted array is given, my logic would take O(n), but the given would still take O(nlogn).
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 And yet, the solution still has a time complexity of O(NlogN)...
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Lol , If the array is sorted you say,its the same as saying that you would have done it in O(1) time if they gave you a table with sum of pairs which is O(n^2) or an array which is sorted(which is what you are asking). But O(1) doesnot matter because of the O(n^2) process , similarly , The very thing that your O(n) approach depends on an O(nlogn) process (doesnt matter if it is sorting) is what makes your solution O(nlogn) .
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can somebody explain palindrome problem? How does it check the palindrome by removing characters in between?
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +1 the question says we need a palindromic sub sequence of length greater than or equal to 3, So the easiest palindrome that can be formed by sub seq is of length 3 which has 1st and 3rd elements same, the 2nd element won't matter . Simply search for 2 same elements in the array but they should not be consecutive (so that you can insert any 1 element between the 2 similar elements).If the array has 2 same elements that don't occur together then the answer is "YES".
 » 2 years ago, # |   +8 The solution given by vovuh for E is giving WA on tc 2. Any suggestions on what could be wrong in it?
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 I copied the code from local directory, not from the polygon, the local code contained one bug which was fixed on polygon. You can realize what is this bug yourself (there is some kind of hint in the tutorial). And now you can copy and submit the correct solution but I don't know why do you need it.
 » 2 years ago, # |   +16 this contest be like:
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 » 2 years ago, # |   +3 Can anyone explain O(N) solution for problem B ??!
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 The only thing important is the indexes of repeated elements in the array. so what we could do was to store the min index and the max index where each element is in the array and then just check is the diff of min index and max index is greater than 1. If it is then we could include any element between these indices to make a palindrome of length 3.Link to my submission — https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/73029984P.S this is my first post so please ignore the informalities.
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks!
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 $O(N*LOG)$
•  » » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 Yes , im sorry . its n*log(n).
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 You can maintain an auxiliary array whose index will be the numbers present in the original array. That auxiliary array may be initialized by -1. So when you traverse the array if the corresponding index in aux array is -1 that means it is the first occurence of that number in the main array and you can replace -1 with that first index of that number. Now if you encounter that number again you can simply take the difference between current index and first index(stored in the aux array). if that difference is >1 then just print yes and return. Or if you cant find any such index print NO
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 $O(N)$ 73087070
 » 2 years ago, # |   +2 Perhaps I am very poor at parity-trick questions, but problem A is very non-intuitive to me, and I was very shocked to see the number of submissions, problems B,C,D were much more straightforward for me.I still don't think I understand problem A fully. The answer is "YES" only if all $a_i$ have the same parity (i.e. all $a_i$ are odd or all $a_i$ are even). That's because placing the block doesn't change the parity of the element and the −1 operation changes the parity of all elements in the array. OK, but this can prove that answer is "NO" when parity of any two numbers is different. But how do I prove that it has to be "YES" when all numbers have same parity?It's somehow very non-intuitive to me :(
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 The way Tetris(the game) works is the bottom most row gets cleared if there is a block present in every column. Since the block we can add spans 2 rows and 1 column, the height increases by 2 when we add it to a column. If the parity of each column is same then you can add those blocks to make the height of each column equal to, say, x. Therefore, you can clear the bottom-most row x times to get a fully empty board. Lets say your numbers are 1 3 5 9 3. Then you can add some number of blocks to each of the columns to get 9. After doing that, you can clear the whole board. Hope this helps :)
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 When parity of all numbers is same, in one step you can increment the minimum element by 2 and then decrease all elements by 1. So the overall effect is that minimum element got increased by 1 and rest all elements were decreased by 1. Now it's easy to see why after a finite number of steps all elements in the array will become equal.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 You are not alone.I spent much more time on A than B、C、D.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 I don't know it will help you this way or not but here's how I looked at it. Consider the cases when when all the adjacent numbers differ by an even counts(which means all the numbers have the same parity). Like 3 5 7 5 3 1 or 2 4 2 16 4. The only motto of the question is to make all numbers equal(Obviously, after that you can turn them all to zero).You start by adding +2 to the minimum number possible and then decrease the numbers till at least one of the numbers reaches to zero. Let's say p q r s t (numbers differs by an even count) and let's say t is the smallest number , you add +2 to t and let's say (for simplicity) t+2 is again the smallest number in the array so what happens if you actually perform operation 2nd described in the question — you subtract (t+2) to all numbers because t+2 is still the smallest number (so it's the first number that will be turned to zero) so the numbers become p-(t+2) q-(t+2) r-(t+2) s-(t+2) 0. Now you add +2 to zero and repeat the process and now it's easy to see that you can turn down them to same number if and if only they have same parity.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Thank you all for your attempts. I think I have a somewhat better understanding now.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 The solution provided for E is not running. I think the issue is that we are running inner loop from 0 to n which includes the case of dp(i,j) where j>i which is invalid. Please correct if I am wrong.
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 » 2 years ago, # |   0 IN PROBLEM A, The two processes are given in the problem. Does the process 2 has always to be performed whenever process 1 is performed or we can perform process 1 as many times as we want and then perform process 2. Can someone explain it please. Thanks in advance.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 I have an interesting approach to question D,Time complexity: O(n).You can define c[i] = a[i] — b[i],then sort them,finally while(l 0){ ans+=r-l; r--; } else { l++; } I think many people will use it to pass;
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Your approach is O(N Log N)$-$ sort function
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 oh,sorry I forgot it,haha!
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Hi! I solved Problem F but it throws TLE on Test case 42. Unable to understand why, can someone please help? https://codeforces.com/problemset/submission/1324/73134886
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Where can I practice tree dp problems like https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/problem/F. Thnaks!
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 there you go 1092 pF
 » 2 years ago, # |   +1 I never saw that kind of lengthy system testing. Did it happen like this before?
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can anyone explain Problem A.Tetris problem?
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Yes !! In this problem we can observe that if there all odd nor even numbers in the array then the ans is yes else it is no It is just simple observations nothing else
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   -8 Adding block of size 2x1 will not change the parity (eg. if a number is odd after adding 2 it will remain odd).So, in order to complete tertris we must have all elements of array of same parity either odd or even.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 After 100% it went to 91% .WTH
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 When will the ratings get updated ?
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 I did my first Problem E in life but after the contest myself. I'm happy. I used Memoization. This question was much like LIS to me.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 My F question uses two DFS, the complexity should be no problem, why is it TLE?73153261
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 6 →   0 I tried the same approach with question D as given in tutorial, still i am getting a wrong ans. Can someone please spot where i might have gone wrong? It goes wrong in test case 12. Thanks in advance./* arr[i]= a[i]-b[i]; ->as in the tutorialonly that arr is sorted in DESCENDING orderand i have used a 2-pointer technique */static int findPairs (Long arr[] , int n ) { int l = 0, r = n-1; int result = 0; while (l < r) { if (arr[l] + arr[r] > 0L) { result += (r - l); l++; } else r--; } return result; }
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 change the data type of result as long. Overflow is happening.
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +3 Wtf!!! Such a silly mistake. I wasted an hour almost to debug my solution. Thanks a lot
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 2 pointer is good approach ............
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can anyone help me in knowing https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/73161536 is giving a TLEI have been looking at it for a long time and unable to understand why.Thanks!
 » 2 years ago, # |   -18 I think problem E can be solved by greedy Did anyone solved it by greedy ? I have tried , but i failed
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +2 No, you can't solve E by greedy.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can someone help me find the error in my solution of E https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/73208155 It gives wrong answer verdict on test 40
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +1 Replace the line if(sleep>=l && sleep<=r) with if(sleep>=l && sleep<=r && i>0)This is because both l and r have lower limit 0 in the question. So you need to omit that case. See my solution for clarity.P.S — Assuming you don't have made any silly mistakes elsewhere.
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   +1 Thanks it worked.P.S I love pizza as well
 » 2 years ago, # |   -14 I am the first russian?
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Someone please explain me the rerooting technique used in problem F. I am unable to understand it's editorial. Please help.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 If you don't understand the editorial, just see others code, i think it is more straight forward, when you understand the code, then you can go back see if you can understand the editorial.
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 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Just solved E all by myself. I think it is an easier approach. my solution
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 someone plz drope solution for A by using eazy c++
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 here is my solution in c++
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thanks but i couldnot understand anything i prefer this one

# include <bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std; int x, t, i, j, n, l, k; int main() { cin >> t; for(i=1; i<=t; i++){ cin >> n; int a[n]; for(j=0; j<n; j++) cin >> a[j]; l=0; k=a[0]%2; for(j=1; j<n; j++) if (a[j]%2!=k) {cout <<" NO " << endl; l=1; break; } if (l!=1) cout << "YES"<< endl;

}

return 0; }

 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Why is this code of 1324D — Pair of Topics getting TLE? Idea of code in short :- BIT / Fenwick tree is implemented using unordered_map (C++) to query smaller values, of type (b[ j ] — a[ j ]), than (a[ i ] — b[ i ]) for all j < i.Any suggestions to optimize this code using the same idea?
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what's wrong in my code(failed on test case 4)

# include <stdlib.h>

int main() { int T,n,i,j; scanf("%d",&T); while(T--) { scanf("%d",&n); int arr = (int)malloc(sizeof(int)*n); for(i=0;i<n;i++) scanf("%d",&arr[i]); for(i=0;i<n/2;i++) { for(j=n-1;j>i+1;j--) { if(arr[i] == arr[j] && j-i >1) { printf("YES\n"); break; } } if(arr[i] == arr[j]&& j-i >1) break;

}
if(i==n/2 && j== n/2)
printf("NO\n");
free(arr);
arr = NULL;

}
return 0;

}

 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 4 →   0 someone plz drope solution for D by using eazy c++
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 can someone please explain that in pair of topics why -c[i] is not working,why **-c[i]+1 **.
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 where does my code goes wrong for PROBLEM E link of solution:-solution here....thank in advance:)
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 14 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 6 15 15the checker is saying this is a palindrome. can anyone explain how? this is test 5,1st problem
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 as you can see number 6 occurs 2 times => 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 6 so you can choose any number of those 6 {7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14} 6
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 thanks a lot. got it. I didn't know that I can delete elements between two 6's
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Is there any other DP solving for E problem?(thanks in advance)
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 I did D in some different manner and got wrong answer on test 6 . can anyone find where i am doing mistakemy submission : 73524489
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 can anyone please help me uderstanding the editorial of problem D; we have to contruct the Ci array Now if ci+cj is greater than zero atleast one will be positive so as to ci+cj to be positive. I don't understand this part of the editorial---- "Now ci>0 and we need to calculate the number of such j that ci+cj>0 and j
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can anyone explains why my solution for the Problem-F is giving TLE. According to me its complexiety should be O(2*(n+v)) in worst case?vector mv[200005];int a[200005];int dfs(int x,int p){ int newcost=0; for(int i=0;i0) newcost+=mv[x][i].second; } else { mv[x][i].second=dfs(mv[x][i].first,x); if(mv[x][i].second>0) newcost+=mv[x][i].second; } if(a[x]) newcost++; else newcost--; return newcost;}void solve(){ int n; cin>>n; int flag=0; for(int i=1;i<=n;i++) { cin>>a[i]; if(a[i]==1) flag=1; } for(int i=0;i>u>>v; mv[u].push_back(mp(v,-2)); mv[v].pb(mp(u,-2)); } if(flag==0) { for(int i=0;i0) newcost+=mv[i][j].second; } if(a[i]) newcost++; else newcost--; cout<
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 This gives TLE : * Used Arrays A,B,C and 2 loops to input A and B and form C * Sorted C * This finally used lowerbound thing https://pastebin.com/icGaeuH8This doesn't give TLE : * Used vectors A,B,C and 3 loops to input these * Sorted *Lower bount thing https://pastebin.com/9fajyGEiCan anyone help me out ?
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   -8 Tutorial Question E :loop 1: i=0;i i is number of sleeps -> j is number of sleeps he goes one hour earlierSo j <= i for all j Thus, j<=i rather than j<=n.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 can anybody explain to me that in problem d -c[i]+1 logic? I didn't get it
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 I hope you got c[i] + c[j] > 0. Now for this inequality , either c[i] must be positive , or c[j] or both. So we consider c[i] to be positive for all cases. Now c[j] has to be greater then -c[i] atleast to be 0 or positive. However c[i]+c[j] > 0 and not equal to zero and thus c[j] >= -c[i]+1.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 the problem is nothing we have to remove the duplicacy therefore we have neglected the negative terms...
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 can someone please explain me problem D. I am not getting after sorting how we implement it.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 I finally figure it out. Help this can help you.After we sort it, we make the $c$ list sort from smallest to biggest. Because we are using the lower_bound() function, which imply we only find the $c[j]$ is smaller than $c[i]$. That's why we could skip $c[i] <= 0$.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 For problem D, I still can't understand why we can skip it when c[i]<=0? Can someone help me?
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   0 We sort c: c[i-1] <= c[i]We need c[i] + c[j] > 0 (j < i). So, if c[i] <= 0 with all j = 0..i-1 we can't get c[i] + c[j] > 0 :)
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Thanks! I can understand it now.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Question (B) says that we can solve it by $O(n^2)$ or by $O(n)$. I cannot understand the writer's explanation of how we will do it in $O(n)$. Can anyone please provide code for the same. Thank you.
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Try this 74688485
•  » » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 10/10 Mr. Specialist a14789654. Thank you very much!
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 int problem E am getting WA on test 40 can anyone help please my code : code
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 can some explain how can we use binary search in C i saw it in its tags
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 In problem D, doesn't sorting the c[] array mean losing information about i < j?
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 For the sleeping schedule problem, there seems to be a logical problem as in the first and the second transition. For the ith time you go to sleep, you can't go to sleep earlier more than i times or you can go to sleep early at most i times & the code or the tutorial doesn't address that.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Hi, I am not able to figure out the error in my logic for the problem E. Start with range [0, 0] and keep updating the range by adding ai-1 to the left border of range and ai to right border of the range. So, basically the range tells you the possible sleeping times after i_th time. At each i, check if there is any intersection with [l, r]. If yes, then good sleeping time++. Following is the code- bool check(int a, int b, int l, int r){ if(max(a,l)<= min(b,r)) return true; if(bl && b>n>>h>>l>>r; int a=0, b=0, ans=0; vi q(n); loop(i,0,n){ cin>>q[i]; a += q[i]-1;a %= h; b += q[i]; b %= h; if(check(a, b, l, r))ans++; } cout<
•  » » 21 month(s) ago, # ^ |   0
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Also, what does this even mean? The subtree of the tree is the connected subgraph of the given tree. I feel the english is bad and it should be: A subtree of the tree is a connected subgraph of the given tree.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 can somebody explain why in problem F the dp[v] = a[v] + max(0,dp[to]) as in subtree all nodes are included so it should be dp[v] = a[v] + dp[to] why we are taking max over 0 . can somebody explain 1st testcase how for node 1 ans is 2.
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 3 →   0 In E can anyone please point the mistake in dp equation : if(j>i) dp[i][j]=0; if(j==0) dp[i][j]=dp[i-1][j]+is((sum[i]-j)%h,l,r); else dp[i][j]=max(dp[i-1][j],dp[i-1][j-1])+is((sum[i]-j)%h,l,r); Logic is that one can sleep j times in first i sleeps only if he either sleeps early j times in first i-1 sleeps and not sleeps earlier in ith sleep or if he sleeps early j-1 times in first i-1 sleeps and sleeps early this time. where dp[i][j] : maximum number of good sleeping times in first i sleeps, in which j were slept earlier sum[i] : sum of sleeping times till first i sleeps is(s,l,r) : returns true if s belongs in range [l,r] And final answer is maximum in array dp[n][1:n] If the logic is correct kindly help me debug my submission 78897404
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 solved.. it may be an interesting task to find out bug in this solution. Spoilerthere should be an else if instead of if in the second line of logic code mentioned.
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 The approach used in solving problem D- is it any algorithm or has it any name? I find the way really cool.
 » 2 years ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Sorry to bother you vovuh, but it seems like problem B is broken. Validator is crashing and solutions are not being evaluated. "Denial of Judgment" is being shown on evaluator
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can someone tell me why am I getting time exceed error? Q 1324D Pair of Topics I have done sorting by both ways i.e quick sort and also using heap. Still, I am getting this error.Please Help!The code is written below.import heapqdef countGreater(arr, n, k): l = 0 r = n — 1 leftGreater = n while l <= r: m = int(l + (r — l) / 2) if arr[m] > k: leftGreater = m r = m — 1 else: l = m + 1 return n — leftGreaterN = int(input()) l1 = list(map(int, input().split())) l2 = list(map(int, input().split())) diff1 = []for i in range(N): diff1.append(l1[i]-l2[i])diff = [] heapq.heapify(diff1)for i in range(N): diff.append(heapq.heappop(diff1))count = 0for i in range(N): if diff[i] > 0 : a = countGreater(diff[0:i], i, -diff[i]) count = count + a print(count)
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can anyone tell me why this submission is going wrong on TC 12 for problem D? Submission Link. Its very odd, I see that the Editorial solution isn't too far off from my method (It uses binsearch while I use a ptr method).
 » 2 years ago, # |   0 Can anyone explain me why he took max(0,dp[child]) everywhere?
•  » » 2 years ago, # ^ |   0 Assuming you're talking about problem F, we don't want to add $dp[child]<0$ to $dp[parent]$ since we want to maximize $dp[parent]$.
•  » » » 19 months ago, # ^ |   0 mphillotry A subtree of a tree T is a tree S consisting of a node in T and all of its descendants in T. But doesnt the condition max(0, dp[child]) violate the above standard definition? Please reply.
•  » » » » 19 months ago, # ^ |   0 The tree is unrooted therefore descendants don't make sense in this context. The editorial only fixes the tree on some root to help solving the problem.Perhaps it wasn't the best choice to call them subtrees as confusions like yours may result, but the problem statement does give its own definition of a "subtree": the subtree of the tree is the connected subgraph of the given tree.
•  » » » » » 19 months ago, # ^ |   0 mphillotry Got it. Thank you so much.
 » 23 months ago, # |   0 found an easier O(n) solution for problem D using two pointers, code here
 » 22 months ago, # |   0 In problem D, Why should i need -c[i]+1?can i solve it without adding 1?
 » 22 months ago, # | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Why does this solution for Problem F get timed out ..The Time complexity is O(n).. I guess its just traversing the tree 3 times... (https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/86646387)
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22 months ago, # |
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Problem D: Using Policy based Data Structure:

# include<ext/pb_ds/tree_policy.hpp>

using namespace std; using namespace __gnu_pbds;

typedef tree<pair<int, int>, null_type, less<pair<int, int>>, rb_tree_tag, tree_order_statistics_node_update> PBDS;

# define inf 1000000000

int main() { int n; cin >> n;

int a[n];
int b[n];

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
cin >> a[i];
}

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
cin >> b[i];
}

int c[n];

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
c[i] = a[i] - b[i];
}

PBDS S;

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
answer += (S.size() - S.order_of_key(make_pair(-c[i], 1000000000)));
S.insert(make_pair(c[i], i));
}

return 0;

}

 » 22 months ago, # |   0 can any one please tell me why we canot calculate problem e as some function of previously calculated values
 » 21 month(s) ago, # |   0 I understood the solution for the Problem D explained in the editorial, but I have one issue with the solution ( or the logic with which I tried to solve first but couldn't get AC).What I did,After sorting :__> take the element from the beginning of c[] one by one__> if c[i] < 0, then search for position having value >=( -c[i]+1 ) from the very next element in c[] ( i.e lower_bound(c.begin() + i+1, c.end(), -c[i] + 1)-c.begin()),__> if c[i] >= 0, then search for position of value >=( c[i]+1) from the very next element in the c[] ( i.e lower_bound(c.begin() + i+1, c.end(), c[i] + 1)-c.begin()).__> then add (n-j) in answer. But doing so gives me WA. I couldn't understand why my logic is not correct, tried but still can't.Link of submitted code
 » 20 months ago, # |   0 can some one explain me the concept behind problem a??
•  » » 20 months ago, # ^ |   0 In this problem, just assume it to be a tetris game and we have unlimited (2*1) blocks with height 2 and width 1, and we have to clear everything on the board, it gets cleared when a full row is completed, so for clearing everything we must have already existing columns w same parity only then they all can have same height and all the rows can be deleted.
 » 20 months ago, # |   0 If someone comes across this, can you please tell why is this solution failing at case 50.
 » 20 months ago, # |   0 Thanks
 » 20 months ago, # |   0 Can someone tell me the problem in this code please? https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/93547535 In this code I tried to make palindrome of length 3 if number of elements is odd and 4 if number of elements is even. for example if n=5 and elements are 1 2 3 2 1 then 2 3 2 is palindrome so true. if n=6 and elements are 1 1 2 2 1 1 then 1 2 2 1 is palindrome so true. Thanks.
 » 20 months ago, # |   0 Can someone explain why [1234] is considered palindrome in Problem B? Typo?1324B - Yet Another Palindrome Problem
 » 9 months ago, # |   0 https://codeforces.com/contest/1324/submission/127460583I have a doubt in problem D , I have used binary index tree and coordinate compresion to keep track of elements a[ i ]-b[ j ] for all elements before index j during traversal of array (see link for more detail ) . Can Someone tell me why this submission is giving TLE . The comlextiy should be O( nlog(n) + n( 2 log(n) ) ~ O( nlog(n) ) Acc to me
•  » » 9 months ago, # ^ |   0 Resolved .. Error was :- c++ stl unorderd_map can have O(n^2) time complexity . Using map ( ordered map ) solved the problem because it's worst time complexity in O(logn)
 » 8 months ago, # |   0 F. Maximum White SubtreeShowing Time limit exceeded on test 39 **** #include using namespace std; const int N = 200000 + 1; int dp[N]; void dfs1(int cur, int par, vector gr[], vector a) { dp[cur] = a[cur-1] == 1 ? 1 : -1; for (auto x : gr[cur]) { if (x != par) { dfs1(x, cur, gr, a); dp[cur] += max(0 , dp[x]); } } } void dfs2(int cur, int par, vector gr[], vector& ans) { ans[cur-1]= dp[cur]; for (auto x : gr[cur]) { if (x != par) { dp[cur] -= max(0 ,dp[x]); dp[x] += max(0 , dp[cur]); dfs2(x, cur, gr ,ans); dp[x] -= max(0 , dp[cur]); dp[cur] += max(0 ,dp[x]); } } } int main() { memset(dp , 0, sizeof(dp)); int n; cin >> n; vector a(n); for(int i=0; i< n; i++) { int x; cin >> x; a[i]= x; } vector gr[n + 1]; for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { int x, y; cin >> x >> y; gr[x].push_back(y); gr[y].push_back(x); } dfs1(1, 0, gr , a); vector ans(n); dfs2(1, 0, gr , ans ); for(int i =0 ; i < n; i++) cout << ans[i]<<" "; }
 » 4 months ago, # |   0 143249821 Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong for problem E. I'm getting WA on testcase 2. The dp state is dp(i,j) — max number of good times when the i'th time person sleeps at time j. If he sleeps at time j, previously he must have slept at either (j-arr[i]) or (h+j-arr[i]) time. Likewise i'm finding the max time for val (arr[i]-1). Thanks!
 » 2 months ago, # |   0 Can someone suggest dp problems for beginner ? PLease !