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[Screencast] Somehow getting top 3 in Codeforces Round 888 (Div. 3)!!!
By Joshc, history, 10 months ago, In English

I've somehow managed to get 3rd place in the Div3, a new career high!!! If I had done F and G in the correct order, I would've saved 19 penalty, rip (although my rank wouldn't have improved).

Anyway, to celebrate, I've posted my screencast / explanations here. Hopefully people enjoy!

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Congratulations! I hope one day I'll also be top 5 in div. 3 too.

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Wow, Congratulations!

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Congrats Josh, your speed is just mindblowing!

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Awesome. Congrats!

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congrats!

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congrats! just curious how did you solve F? I used a binary trie but a lot of my friends are telling me that sorting works.

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    It reduces to finding two elements with the minimum XOR. I also used a binary trie, but you can abuse the property that the two elements with the minimum XOR must be adjacent elements in the sorted array.

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Yo, check out this dude Joshc He's like a coding genius, crushing it on Leetcode with a ranking in the top 0.01%! Can you believe he's solved a mind-blowing 1545 problems?!

And guess what? He's totally hooking people up on YouTube, showing them how to rock coding like a boss! Make sure you hit that subscribe button for Youtube Joshua Chen 'cause this guy's gonna blow your mind with his coding skills!

Inspired by Joshua chen :)

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bruh wdym somehow, you were #1 on leetcode smh

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Since Golovanov399 FSTed, you are in top 3!

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    Wow! Time to update blog title now, I guess :)

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    One day I'll learn not to assign a huge number to an int variable, but not today

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      RIP, but thanks for doing that :) Python superiority!

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

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Congratulations!

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