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Codeforces Round 914 (Div. 2)
By oursaco, 5 months ago, In English

Note the unusual time of the round.

Hello Codeforces!

lunchbox, Apple_Method, and I are pleased to invite you to participate in Codeforces Round 914 (Div. 2) on Dec/09/2023 19:05 (Moscow time). You will be given 2 hours to solve 6 problems (and one subtask).

The round will be rated for participants of Division 2 with a rating lower than 2100.

We promise the statements will be clear and concise, suitable for AdamantChicken2 to read wink wink.

Also, we would like to thank:

We hope you will enjoy the contest and receive positive delta!

Scoring distribution

$$$500 — 750 — 1000 — (1250 + 750) — 2750 — 3500$$$

UPD

The editorial has been posted!

Congratulations to our winners!

Div. 1 + 2
Div. 2

Congratulations for our first solvers!

Div. 1 + 2
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bad time for chinese programmers

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Happy to know that the statements will be clear and concise. Best of luck to all contestants!

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As a tester, I enjoyed these problems quite a bit! Hope you will too!

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    how to be a tester

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      you get a private message from a contest organizer asking you if you want to test a codeforces round

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orz

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As a tester,the problemset is phenomenal!Hope you enjoy it :)

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As a tester, I am not allowed to write anything about the problems which includes my opinion of the problems.

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As a tester, I upvoted the blog twice.

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lunchbox hard carry orz

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As a tester, these were some really fun problems.

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I'm a simple man, I see a lunchbox round, I register

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Being a tester, I hope you enjoy the problems!

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W time for PST

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I really wanted to participate in this round but it's too late for my schedule :/

It would be great if the round could be held at the regular time.

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The scoring seems to indicate a speedforces.

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Brooo i feel so happy when you promise us for the statements... And a nice choosing the TIME

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Upsolver's round

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I'm 27th

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Big score difference between D and E, speedforces vibes.

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Midnight for chinese

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Someone should notify AdamantChicken2 or any other google AI CP killers that there's gonna be a live codeforces round tommorow and some of us want to see AlphaCode2 compete LIVE, no BS.

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5 minutes after finish of LeetCode Biweekly Contest.

Gotta skip or will try to give both

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    Step 1 : Give Atcoder regular round . Use 30 min break for dinner.

    Step 2 : Speedrun Leetcode biweekly .

    Step 3 : Put on Umnik's playlist and start codeforces round 914.

    Update — Afterwards,watch livestream here to see who wins Hacker cup.

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Can anyone tell me what are [VIP],[upsolver+] beside the handles? I searched but couldn't find anything about it.

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    They're just a thing the authos added to the announcement, probably referencing some games.

    These probably refer to how the testers tested the contest but they don't have any deeper meaning.

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Why the time is unusual?

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    it's not that unusual, it's just that some snowflake kids complain even if the round is 30 minutes off these days.

    there was a time when there were rounds as late as 6pm UTC and maybe that was an unusual time.

    anything between 2pm UTC and 4pm UTC is part of the historical time range of the rounds.

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    Problem writers are in PST

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As a tester, I enjoyed solving the problems; they're all excellent problems! Problem [REDACTED] is very nice in particular!

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Will give the contest almost after one month.

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why?

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glhf everyone :)

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what does (1250+750) mean?

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oursaco orz

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the unusual time note was very helpful

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feels like that's going to be a shit round

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Could anyone please explain what it mean by "(and one subtask)" , cause I don't get it

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Bad time for south Asians. 4 am in the midnight awww

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Can someone please confirm whether "Kotlin Heroes: Practice 9 (release 2)" has been rated or not?

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    It is not rated because all the problems are from problemset.

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Good luck for everyone!

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If I have registered but not able to participate will my rating fall?

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    no it does not fall as long as you dont sumbit a solution

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I hope that AdamantChicken2 participates.

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I'm feeling sleepy now, maybe I should give up.

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i'm a beginner can anyone give me advice

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Bad Time for Bangladeshi Programmers.

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Bruh without Chinese it's only 3500 people

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Is that really div.2!!

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is it div 2 a, b ?

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C>D

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Cool problems, especially $$$C$$$(with idea that we must check only $$$K \leq 2$$$) and $$$D$$$.

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Cool problems and cool starting time

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A > C > B

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Found the error in D1 one second after contest ended. Nice!

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Can anyone tell me if this works for F? I ran out of time to implement in contest.

First we build a directed graph $$$G$$$ whose vertices represent paths in the tree as follows:

For each vertex $$$u$$$ and number $$$0 \leq i \leq 20$$$ we construct a vertex corresponding to the path between $$$u$$$ and its $$$2^i-1$$$th ancestor along the path (LCA stuff). We draw directed edges from the "vertex" $$$[u, p^{2^i}(u))$$$ to vertices $$$[u, p^{2^{i-1}}(u))$$$ and $$$[p^{2^{i-1}}(u), p^{2^{i}-1}(u))$$$.

This directed graph $$$G$$$ has $$$\leq 20n$$$ vertices, each of which has at exactly two edges going outward. So the graph has at most $$$40n$$$ edges. Create another copy of such a graph, but now with edge directions reversed, call it $$$G'$$$. Finally consider the $$$1$$$-vertex paths in both graphs $$$G, G'$$$ and merge them (they are one single vertex now).

This new graph $$$G+G'$$$ has $$$\leq 40n$$$ vertices and $$$\leq 80n$$$ edges. Now for each of the $$$m$$$ conditions we do the following. Suppose that the condition is of the first kind, the second kind is analogous. Split the paths from $$$[a, c)$$$ and $$$(c, b]$$$ into at most $$$40$$$ vertices of $$$G$$$. Draw a directed edge from vertex $$$c$$$ to each of these $$$40$$$ vertices of $$$G$$$ (in the opposite direction if $$$G'$$$ were considered).

Now just check if the $$$G+G'$$$ graph has a topological sort. If it does, then the order of $$$1, 2, \dots, n$$$ in that is the answer, otherwise there is no answer at all. Time complexity of above is $$$\mathcal O((n+m)\log n)$$$

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    Yes, this ought to work.

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      ahghghgh thank you for confirming, after bricking C, D1, D2 I read F in last 30 min and figured this out but hands too slow ugugugughghh

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What? D1 is actually EJOI 2020 Day 1 Task "Exam" Subtask 6.

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datastructureforces

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C was cool, D1, D2 were also good, crossing 1800 barrier for the 1st time after so long from being stuck and lot of demotivation.

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I absolutely totally did not stare at $$$C$$$ for $$$30$$$ minutes with no ideas until I realised you can make it $$$0$$$ in $$$3$$$ trials.

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    I absolutely did not spend 20 minutes staring at my solution for C without realizing that it works.

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nice contest i enjoyed the problem thanks to authors. First time solved 4 problems

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C is such a troll problem with $$$K$$$ up to $$$10^9$$$, you could have taken it a step further and not include a case with $$$K = 3$$$ in the samples. Not a bad problem though.

D was okay, just hoping I don't get FSTed.

Looks like I didn't get FSTed after all. Is there an easier way to do D2?

What I did:
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    Yes there is an easier way, Let $$$R(i,x)$$$ denote the smallest index $$$j$$$ such that $$$j \ge i$$$ and $$$a[j] = x$$$, similarly $$$L(i,x)$$$ denotes the largest index $$$j$$$ such that $$$j \le i $$$ and $$$a[j] = x$$$.

    Now, the answer is "YES" iff for every element $$$i$$$,

    1) $$$Min(b[i],b[i+1]...b[R(i,b[i])] \ge b[i]$$$

    2) $$$Max(a[i],a[i+1]...a[R(i,b[i])] \le b[i]$$$

    OR

    1) $$$Min(b[i],b[i-1]...b[L(i,b[i])] \ge b[i]$$$

    2) $$$Max(a[i],a[i-1]...a[L(i,b[i])] \le b[i]$$$

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      Yeah, this looks like a more concise way to do it. Basically, in my solution I'm checking the same conditions, just in a more roundabout way (it was heavily influenced by my brute force solution of D1)

      I'm curious what is the authors intended solution (it might as well be the same as the one that you have proposed)

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    236555393 Though I'm not sure about the time complexity.

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      Hacked. But I think you can optimized it a bit and pass.

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        I was thinking it's time complexity to be $$$O(n^{2})$$$ in worst case.

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          Your solution solved my test case in about 6 seconds while most of the N^2 solution takes more than 1 minutes.

          That's why I think your solution might pass if you can somehow optimized it.

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    I did something similar for D2. It barely passed in time lol

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Was that for only me initially the diagram for problem A was incorrect?

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couldn't solve c

even though found case work k >= 3, k == 1, k == 2

too unfortunate

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A is miles harder than B and C for me lol (and maybe even D1 but i didnt have enough time)

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Wow A was unusually difficult to understand and implement.

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Weak pretest on A

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Congratulations to the authors for this great round :))

As usual, here is my advice about the problems (not correlated to my performance)

A
B
C
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F

I think the only downside of this round is that the gap between D2 and E was quite high but I don't know if that's a really big deal as usually E don't get that many ACs anyway.

Looking forward to compete in another of your rounds :)

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I couldn't do problem A, what a shame.

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    ‘Think of rising higher. Let it be your only thought. Even if your object be not attained, the thought itself will have raised you.’ — Thirukural

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    in last div-3 I couldn't solve $$$C$$$ sometimes these things happen

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Not sure you feel the same. But for me, B > A and C > D. lol

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    Can you give me an edge case for this solution why it is not working B

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      In general, I will write a data generator and a brutal force baseline solution to test it. I did that sometimes in the contest (like for the C today), not a good way but the last resort to self-debug.

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how to solve c when k = 2?

i tried to take every element of a with the nearest abs(a[i] — a[j]) but it gave wa

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    Just check all pairs. if you have $$$f = abs(a[i] - b[j])$$$, you current answer must be $$$answer = min(answer, f, \text{first_el_greater}(f) - f, f - \text{last_el_less}(f))$$$. The last two can be calculated using binary_search = std::lower_bound. So $$$O(n^2 \log n)$$$

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      oh thanks alot i tried to do this in one of my submissions but i was only looking for the adj elements thanks

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    maybe you can get a zero if any difference already exists

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      i already handled this by setting the default answer to be min absolute value

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    make a binary search back in array for that (a[i]-a[j]) to find best move in next run.

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    before it, sort(a),then try every s=(a[i]-a[j]), after it, look for minimize(a[i]-s). every step should update answer.

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    brute force every possible |Ai — Aj| think of bs

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AdamantChicken2 didn't participate :(

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I have to say it is a little late for me, but I outdo myself. Unbelievable!!!!

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You changed the order of picture of problem A and didn't send a notification. Is it because it's not statement?

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    Additionally, I feel that the description of the new way of movement of the knight in statement A is inappropriate.

    I think we should write statement even someone who doesn't know how the knight in the original chess moves can understand how the knight moves with that statement alone.

    I think the current statement is open to misunderstanding.

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    I left the contest for this reason.. After some min i refreshed and saw the change (:

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oursaco https://ejoi2020.ge/static/assets/Day1/Problems/Exam.pdf Problem D is a subgroup of this task

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amazing problems! but E and F is too hard for div. 2 (

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Nice problemset

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is there a hack phase ?

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Solved D1+D2 just 5 seconds after final :'(((

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E is a really standard problem

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    Can you give a slight hint?

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      Solve it offline and do a dfs.

      When you are in vertex v try to have a segment tree maintaining the distances of other vertices from v.

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Anyone plz give the idea of A

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why my solution for B gets wrong

https://codeforces.com/contest/1904/submission/236570576

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Couldn’t solve A pajn. Nice problemset tho

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Can someone hack this $$$O(n^2)$$$ solution for D2? https://codeforces.com/contest/1904/submission/236575342

I feel like it shouldn't work.

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Spoiler
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This failed on system testing Submission can anyone tell me what is the mistake? n^2logn solutions were not meant to pass for this problem or something else ?

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    just changing $$$j$$$ from $$$i+1$$$ to $$$n$$$ instead of $$$0$$$ to $$$n$$$ in case $$$k=2$$$. your code runs in 1400 ms. 236577461

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      Bruh :) this small mistake took me from Rank 1700 to 2800, Thanks!!

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System testing completed for this contest? Any idea anyone?

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236573136 I believe that my D1 solution shouldn't work in D2 (tl) on max test like this:

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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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But it gets accepted with 187/4000ms

can someone try to hack it with

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200000

200000 199999...

200000 200000... pls? I have some kind of problem with hacking.

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why problem A is so hard

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    I think the given picture made it so hard

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    I don't think it was that hard but I really started lauging when I understood I have fallen into the well set airhead trap...

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Didnt particularly like the contest, too structure heavy for me. A-D were easy and E was annoying. C also had a stupid corner that wasnt in the samples and A had the wrong picture. F also looks annoying but ill check edi to see if its cool.

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    Why do you look at pictures?)

    I usually don't look at samples.

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      My sol was bugged so i thought i misunderstood the problem, it ended up making me understand the problem less.

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    what was the corner case on C?

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Can someone hack my D1? 236559856

Pretests were damn weak it seems.

Testcase — 

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4 3 2 1 1
3 3 3 2 2
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5 solves for the first time in a div 2

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Why doesnt work? C

    if (k == 2)
    {
        sort(fullrng(arr));
        i64 m = numeric_limits<i64>::max();
        
        update_min(m, *std::min_element(fullrng(arr)));

        for (int i = 1; i < arr.size(); ++i)
            update_min(m, arr[i] - arr[i - 1]);

        for (int i = 0; i < arr.size(); ++i)
        {
            for (int j = i + 1; j < arr.size(); ++j)
            {
                auto d = arr[j] - arr[i];
                auto lbnd = lower_bound(fullrng(arr), d);
                update_min(m, abs(d - *lbnd));
                if (++lbnd < arr.end())
                    update_min(m, abs(d - *lbnd));
            }
        }

        solved(m);
    }
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    got it, if element not present lower bound returns element that greater

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Surprisingly good contest! Good job!

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Not sure why everyone thought B was that easy, I solved it but it took longer than A and C.

if they didn't mess up the photos in A I would have solved it faster, I stared at the wrong picture for 10 minutes wondering if I became so stupid to not understand an A problem after not solving problems for more than 2 months

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    Maybe B wasn't that easy but you just needed one observation to solve it

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      Can you give me an edge case for this solution why it is not working B

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Great contest! Lost some ratings tho...

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Why does my submission https://codeforces.com/contest/1904/submission/236601220 pass tests? It fails when the difference between two elements is exactly an element in the array. Example:

Input:

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1 2

Output:

troll

Expected Output:

0
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    Seems like missing test cases.

    If k is 2 and there exist three elements a, b, c in the list such that a + b = c, the answer should be 0.

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      Exactly ...

      BTW, how did hack it? I tried to but couldn't find an option anywhere.

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        I heard that it is only open to people with rating 1900+

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          Can you give me an edge case for this solution why it is not working B

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            You can try this case

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1 1 1 1 3 6

            The correct answer will be 

            5 5 5 5 5 5
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              thanks for the testcase

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Its over boyos !!

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[Rant] Instead of submitting the code for D2, by mistake, I resubmitted the code in D1, getting my first skipped verdict.

When people see "Skipped", resubmission is not the first thing that comes to their mind. So it would be better if there is a "Resubmitted" verdict.

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I often observe that I am not able to solve problems like B which involve the use of an algorithm in which the answer of a next element is either dependent or is made equal to the answer of the previous element by some means...

is this literally a type of problems ? Like after doing problems of which rating range I'll be comfortable in doing such problems ?

I remember some more times when I was not able to solve div 2 B just because of this..

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@MikeMirzayanov I have been recently alleged for copying the code as my code was found coinciding to ER_HORIZON_XACS/236530851 and mine was spacedate_xacs/236532464. I know copying code or such coincidence are violation of rules and I have also read the terms and conditions before registering for the round. I am really sorry for such coincidence but this has happened because the account ER_HORIZON_XACS is my cousin brother and we both used same code snippet(made before the contest) for our practice and while round we mistakenly used same snippet too for solving the round questions. I assure you we have made the code differently for the contest round we have only shared the snippet. We are sorry for not caring about the snippet. If possible please return our ratings. I assure we will never do this type of violation again. I also assure we will also use different snippet for solving problems. Please if possible return our ratings.

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    Yeah we both have shared the code snippet for coding practice and mistakenly used it while contest. We are sorry for that we will not do it again. Please return our ratings.

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    Bruh both codes are basically the same, the only thing you change are variables. And I think that this account is clearly your alt.

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Can anyone help me in a OA? I'll pay

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good problem C and D :D

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hmm

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