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Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A tetromino is a figure formed by joining four squares edge to edge. We will refer to the following seven kinds of tetromino as I-, O-, T-, J-, L-, S- and Z-tetrominos, respectively: a60bcb8e9e8f22e3af51049eda063392.png Snuke has many tetrominos. The ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. YouKn0wWho has an integer sequence $a_1, a_2, \ldots a_n$. Now he will split the sequence $a$ into one or more consecutive subarrays so that each element of $a$ belongs to exactly one subarray. Let $k$ be the number of resulting subarrays, and $h_1, h_2...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given an array $d_1, d_2, \dots, d_n$ consisting of $n$ integer numbers. Your task is to split this array into three parts (some of which may be empty) in such a way that each element of the array belongs to exactly one of the three parts, and ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are n pearls in a row. Let's enumerate them with integers from 1 to n from the left to the right. The pearl number i has the type a_{i}. Let's call a sequence of consecutive pearls a segment. Let's call a segment good if it contains two pearls of...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Alice has a string consisting of characters 'A', 'B' and 'C'. Bob can use the following transitions on any substring of our string in any order any number of times: A $\rightarrow$ BC B $\rightarrow$ AC C $\rightarrow$ AB AAA $\rightarrow$ empty st...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. On the xy-plane, Snuke is going to travel from the point (x_s, y_s) to the point (x_t, y_t). He can move in arbitrary directions with speed 1. Here, we will consider him as a point without size. There are N circular barriers deployed on the plane. The c...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Write a function with the signature shown below: ```python def is_int_array(arr): return True ``` * returns `true / True` if every element in an array is an integer or a float with no decimals. * returns `true / True` if array is empty. * return...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Kolya got string s for his birthday, the string consists of small English letters. He immediately added k more characters to the right of the string. Then Borya came and said that the new string contained a tandem repeat of length l as a substring. How...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given an array of integers $a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_n$. Find the maximum possible value of $a_ia_ja_ka_la_t$ among all five indices $(i, j, k, l, t)$ ($i<j<k<l<t$). -----Input----- The input consists of multiple test cases. The first line contains a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Multiplication of Big Integers Given two integers $A$ and $B$, compute the product, $A \times B$. Input Two integers $A$ and $B$ separated by a space character are given in a line. Output Print the product in a line. Constraints * $-1 \times 10^{...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Find the number of palindromic numbers among the integers between A and B (inclusive). Here, a palindromic number is a positive integer whose string representation in base 10 (without leading zeros) reads the same forward and backward. -----Constraints...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Vasya likes everything infinite. Now he is studying the properties of a sequence s, such that its first element is equal to a (s_1 = a), and the difference between any two neighbouring elements is equal to c (s_{i} - s_{i} - 1 = c). In particular, Vasya...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Dr .: Peter. I did. Peter: See you again? What kind of silly invention is this time? Dr .: You invented the detector for that phantom elementary particle axion. Peter: Speaking of Axion, researchers such as the European Organization for Nuclear Resea...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Animation is one of methods for making movies and in Japan, it is popular to broadcast as a television program or perform as a movie. Many people, especially the young, love one. And here is an anime lover called Jack. We say he is an mysterious guy wit...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. ## Task Generate a sorted list of all possible IP addresses in a network. For a subnet that is not a valid IPv4 network return `None`. ## Examples ``` ipsubnet2list("192.168.1.0/31") == ["192.168.1.0", "192.168.1.1"] ipsubnet2list("213.256.46.160/28"...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a tree that consists of $n$ nodes. You should label each of its $n-1$ edges with an integer in such way that satisfies the following conditions: each integer must be greater than $0$; the product of all $n-1$ numbers should be equal to ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Yelisey has an array $a$ of $n$ integers. If $a$ has length strictly greater than $1$, then Yelisei can apply an operation called minimum extraction to it: First, Yelisei finds the minimal number $m$ in the array. If there are several identical minima...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The only difference between easy and hard versions is constraints. The BerTV channel every day broadcasts one episode of one of the $k$ TV shows. You know the schedule for the next $n$ days: a sequence of integers $a_1, a_2, \dots, a_n$ ($1 \le a_i \le...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. # Background My TV remote control has arrow buttons and an `OK` button. I can use these to move a "cursor" on a logical screen keyboard to type words... # Keyboard The screen "keyboard" layout looks like this #tvkb { width : 400px; borde...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Rick and Morty are playing their own version of Berzerk (which has nothing in common with the famous Berzerk game). This game needs a huge space, so they play it with a computer. In this game there are n objects numbered from 1 to n arranged in a circl...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Write a function named sumDigits which takes a number as input and returns the sum of the absolute value of each of the number's decimal digits. For example: ```python sum_digits(10) # Returns 1 sum_digits(99) # Returns 18 sum_digits(-32) # Re...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You're continuing to enjoy your new piano, as described in Piano Kata, Part 1. You're also continuing the exercise where you start on the very first (leftmost, lowest in pitch) key on the 88-key keyboard, which (as shown below) is the note A, with the l...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A magic number is a number formed by concatenation of numbers 1, 14 and 144. We can use each of these numbers any number of times. Therefore 14144, 141414 and 1411 are magic numbers but 1444, 514 and 414 are not. You're given a number. Determine if it ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. We have a large square grid with H rows and W columns. Iroha is now standing in the top-left cell. She will repeat going right or down to the adjacent cell, until she reaches the bottom-right cell. However, she cannot enter the cells in the intersectio...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Vanya smashes potato in a vertical food processor. At each moment of time the height of the potato in the processor doesn't exceed h and the processor smashes k centimeters of potato each second. If there are less than k centimeters remaining, than duri...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. DZY loves planting, and he enjoys solving tree problems. DZY has a weighted tree (connected undirected graph without cycles) containing n nodes (they are numbered from 1 to n). He defines the function g(x, y) (1 ≀ x, y ≀ n) as the longest edge in the s...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Define a function that takes in two non-negative integers `$a$` and `$b$` and returns the last decimal digit of `$a^b$`. Note that `$a$` and `$b$` may be very large! For example, the last decimal digit of `$9^7$` is `$9$`, since `$9^7 = 4782969$`. The...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Polycarp calls an array dense if the greater of any two adjacent elements is not more than twice bigger than the smaller. More formally, for any $i$ ($1 \le i \le n-1$), this condition must be satisfied: $$\frac{\max(a[i], a[i+1])}{\min(a[i], a[i+1])} \...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Snuke loves flags. Snuke is placing N flags on a line. The i-th flag can be placed at either coordinate x_i or coordinate y_i. Snuke thinks that the flags look nicer when the smallest distance between two of them, d, is larger. Find the maximum possi...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Petya loves lucky numbers. Everybody knows that lucky numbers are positive integers whose decimal representation contains only the lucky digits 4 and 7. For example, numbers 47, 744, 4 are lucky and 5, 17, 467 are not. Petya has a number consisting of ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The Smart Beaver from ABBYY began to develop a new educational game for children. The rules of the game are fairly simple and are described below. The playing field is a sequence of n non-negative integers ai numbered from 1 to n. The goal of the game ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a string S of length N consisting of lowercase English letters, and an integer K. Print the string obtained by replacing every character in S that differs from the K-th character of S, with `*`. Constraints * 1 \leq K \leq N\leq 10 * S i...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Snuke is having another barbeque party. This time, he will make one serving of Skewer Meal. He has a stock of N Skewer Meal Packs. The i-th Skewer Meal Pack contains one skewer, A_i pieces of beef and B_i pieces of green pepper. All skewers in these p...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Sasha is a very happy guy, that's why he is always on the move. There are $n$ cities in the country where Sasha lives. They are all located on one straight line, and for convenience, they are numbered from $1$ to $n$ in increasing order. The distance be...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The string $t_1t_2 \dots t_k$ is good if each letter of this string belongs to at least one palindrome of length greater than 1. A palindrome is a string that reads the same backward as forward. For example, the strings A, BAB, ABBA, BAABBBAAB are pali...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. For given two lines s1 and s2, print "2" if they are parallel, "1" if they are orthogonal, or "0" otherwise. s1 crosses points p0 and p1, and s2 crosses points p2 and p3. Constraints * 1 ≀ q ≀ 1000 * -10000 ≀ xpi, ypi ≀ 10000 * p0 β‰  p1 and p2 β‰  p3. ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given some text $t$ and a set of $n$ strings $s_1, s_2, \dots, s_n$. In one step, you can choose any occurrence of any string $s_i$ in the text $t$ and color the corresponding characters of the text in red. For example, if $t={bababa}$ and $s_1...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Two players, A and B, play the game using cards with numbers from 0 to 9. First, the two arrange the given n cards face down in a horizontal row. After that, the two players turn their cards face up one by one from the left, and the owner of the card wi...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A railroad running from west to east in Atcoder Kingdom is now complete. There are N stations on the railroad, numbered 1 through N from west to east. Tomorrow, the opening ceremony of the railroad will take place. On this railroad, for each integer i s...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The development of a text editor is a hard problem. You need to implement an extra module for brackets coloring in text. Your editor consists of a line with infinite length and cursor, which points to the current character. Please note that it points t...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. What's in a name? ..Or rather, what's a name in? For us, a particular string is where we are looking for a name. Task Test whether or not the string contains all of the letters which spell a given name, in order. The format A function passing two str...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Have you ever heard of the unit "β—‹β—‹ tsubo" that expresses the area of ​​land? Since ancient times, one samurai has said the area for making rice to eat in a day. There is a land of a [m] x b [m]. Enter a and b and create a program that outputs the tsub...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. [Haikus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English) are short poems in a three-line format, with 17 syllables arranged in a 5–7–5 pattern. Your task is to check if the supplied text is a haiku or not. ### About syllables [Syllables](https://en.w...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. # Task Let's consider a table consisting of `n` rows and `n` columns. The cell located at the intersection of the i-th row and the j-th column contains number i × j. The rows and columns are numbered starting from 1. You are given a positive integer ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. At the store, the salespeople want to make all prices round. In this problem, a number that is a power of $10$ is called a round number. For example, the numbers $10^0 = 1$, $10^1 = 10$, $10^2 = 100$ are round numbers, but $20$, $110$ and $256$ are not...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. An art exhibition will be held in JOI. At the art exhibition, various works of art from all over the country will be exhibited. N works of art were collected as candidates for the works of art to be exhibited. These works of art are numbered 1, 2, ...,...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a set of n elements indexed from 1 to n. The weight of i-th element is w_{i}. The weight of some subset of a given set is denoted as $W(S) =|S|\cdot \sum_{i \in S} w_{i}$. The weight of some partition R of a given set into k subsets is $W(...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are two bus stops denoted A and B, and there n buses that go from A to B every day. The shortest path from A to B takes t units of time but some buses might take longer paths. Moreover, buses are allowed to overtake each other during the route. A...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Rng is preparing a problem set for a qualification round of CODEFESTIVAL. He has N candidates of problems. The difficulty of the i-th candidate is D_i. There must be M problems in the problem set, and the difficulty of the i-th problem must be T_i. He...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The biggest event of the year – Cota 2 world championship "The Innernational" is right around the corner. $2^n$ teams will compete in a double-elimination format (please, carefully read problem statement even if you know what is it) to identify the cham...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Given are two strings s and t consisting of lowercase English letters. Determine if there exists an integer i satisfying the following condition, and find the minimum such i if it exists. - Let s' be the concatenation of 10^{100} copies of s. t is a su...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Write a program that will calculate the number of trailing zeros in a factorial of a given number. `N! = 1 * 2 * 3 * ... * N` Be careful `1000!` has 2568 digits... For more info, see: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Factorial.html ## Examples ```pyt...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. After the educational reform Polycarp studies only two subjects at school, Safety Studies and PE (Physical Education). During the long months of the fourth term, he received n marks in them. When teachers wrote a mark in the journal, they didn't write i...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Claire is a man-eater. She's a real man-eater. She's going around with dozens of guys. She's dating all the time. And one day she found some conflicts in her date schedule. D'oh! So she needs to pick some dates and give the others up. The dates are set...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Given the list of numbers, you are to sort them in non decreasing order. -----Input----- t – the number of numbers in list, then t lines follow [t <= 10^6]. Each line contains one integer: N [0 <= N <= 10^6] -----Output----- Output given numbers in ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Diameter of a Tree Given a tree T with non-negative weight, find the diameter of the tree. The diameter of a tree is the maximum distance between two nodes in a tree. Constraints * 1 ≀ n ≀ 100,000 * 0 ≀ wi ≀ 1,000 Input n s1 t1 w1 s2 t2 w2 : s...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are N people standing on the x-axis. Let the coordinate of Person i be x_i. For every i, x_i is an integer between 0 and 10^9 (inclusive). It is possible that more than one person is standing at the same coordinate. You will given M pieces of info...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. For a dynamic array $A = \\{a_0, a_1, ...\\}$ of integers, perform a sequence of the following operations: * pushBack($x$): add element $x$ at the end of $A$ * randomAccess($p$):print element $a_p$ * popBack(): delete the last element of $A$ $A$ is ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Read problems statements in Mandarin Chinese and Russian. Roman has no idea, why this problem is called Stone. He also has no idea on how to solve the followong problem: given array of N integers A and a number K. During a turn the maximal value over ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Ekiden competitions are held every year in Aizukuni. The country of Aiz is dotted with N towns, each numbered from 1 to N. Several towns are connected by roads that allow them to come and go directly to each other. You can also follow several roads betw...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a permutation of n numbers p1, p2, ..., pn. We perform k operations of the following type: choose uniformly at random two indices l and r (l ≀ r) and reverse the order of the elements pl, pl + 1, ..., pr. Your task is to find the expected ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Snuke has an empty sequence a. He will perform N operations on this sequence. In the i-th operation, he chooses an integer j satisfying 1 \leq j \leq i, and insert j at position j in a (the beginning is position 1). You are given a sequence b of leng...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. In some country live wizards. They love to ride trolleybuses. A city in this country has a trolleybus depot with n trolleybuses. Every day the trolleybuses leave the depot, one by one and go to the final station. The final station is at a distance of d...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Heidi found out that the Daleks have created a network of bidirectional Time Corridors connecting different destinations (at different times!). She suspects that they are planning another invasion on the entire Space and Time. In order to counter the in...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Once upon a time in the thicket of the mushroom forest lived mushroom gnomes. They were famous among their neighbors for their magic mushrooms. Their magic nature made it possible that between every two neighboring mushrooms every minute grew another mu...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A team of three programmers is going to play a contest. The contest consists of $n$ problems, numbered from $1$ to $n$. Each problem is printed on a separate sheet of paper. The participants have decided to divide the problem statements into three parts...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are going out for a walk, when you suddenly encounter a monster. Fortunately, you have N katana (swords), Katana 1, Katana 2, …, Katana N, and can perform the following two kinds of attacks in any order: - Wield one of the katana you have. When you...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The king Copa often has been reported about the Codeforces site, which is rapidly getting more and more popular among the brightest minds of the humanity, who are using it for training and competing. Recently Copa understood that to conquer the world he...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. problem You are looking for a constellation in a picture of the starry sky. The photo always contains exactly one figure with the same shape, orientation, and size as the constellation you are looking for. However, there is a possibility that extra sta...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. ##Task: You have to write a function **pattern** which creates the following pattern upto n number of rows. *If the Argument is 0 or a Negative Integer then it should return "" i.e. empty string.* ##Pattern: (n) (n)(n-1) (n)(n-1)(n-2) ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Vasya decided to write an anonymous letter cutting the letters out of a newspaper heading. He knows heading s1 and text s2 that he wants to send. Vasya can use every single heading letter no more than once. Vasya doesn't have to cut the spaces out of th...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A programming contest will be held at White Tiger University this year as well. There are several questions in the contest, each of which is assigned a score according to the difficulty level. The executive committee decided to calculate the score for ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Find the sum of the weights of edges of the Minimum-Cost Arborescence with the root r for a given weighted directed graph G = (V, E). Constraints * 1 ≀ |V| ≀ 100 * 0 ≀ |E| ≀ 1,000 * 0 ≀ wi ≀ 10,000 * G has arborescence(s) with the root r Input |V| ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Create a function that takes in the sum and age difference of two people, calculates their individual ages, and returns a pair of values (oldest age first) if those exist or `null/None` if: * `sum < 0` * `difference < 0` * Either of the calculated ages...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You need to play around with the provided string (s). Move consonants forward 9 places through the alphabet. If they pass 'z', start again at 'a'. Move vowels back 5 places through the alphabet. If they pass 'a', start again at 'z'. For our Polish fri...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. For given two segments s1 and s2, print "1" if they are intersect, "0" otherwise. s1 is formed by end points p0 and p1, and s2 is formed by end points p2 and p3. Constraints * 1 ≀ q ≀ 1000 * -10000 ≀ xpi, ypi ≀ 10000 * p0 β‰  p1 and p2 β‰  p3. Input Th...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Depth-first search (DFS) follows the strategy to search ”deeper” in the graph whenever possible. In DFS, edges are recursively explored out of the most recently discovered vertex $v$ that still has unexplored edges leaving it. When all of $v$'s edges ha...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Byteburg Senate elections are coming. Usually "United Byteland", the ruling Byteland party, takes all the seats in the Senate to ensure stability and sustainable development. But this year there is one opposition candidate in one of the constituencies. ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Your job is to write a function that takes a string and a maximum number of characters per line and then inserts line breaks as necessary so that no line in the resulting string is longer than the specified limit. If possible, line breaks should not sp...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The country Treeland consists of n cities, some pairs of them are connected with unidirectional roads. Overall there are n - 1 roads in the country. We know that if we don't take the direction of the roads into consideration, we can get from any city to...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Moamen has an array of $n$ distinct integers. He wants to sort that array in non-decreasing order by doing the following operations in order exactly once: Split the array into exactly $k$ non-empty subarrays such that each element belongs to exactly on...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Implement a method that accepts 3 integer values a, b, c. The method should return true if a triangle can be built with the sides of given length and false in any other case. (In this case, all triangles must have surface greater than 0 to be accepted)...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Polycarp and his friends want to visit a new restaurant. The restaurant has $n$ tables arranged along a straight line. People are already sitting at some tables. The tables are numbered from $1$ to $n$ in the order from left to right. The state of the r...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. John is developing a system to report fuel usage but needs help with the coding. First, he needs you to write a function that, given the actual consumption (in l/100 km) and remaining amount of petrol (in l), will give you how many kilometers you'll be...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Write function RemoveExclamationMarks which removes all exclamation marks from a given string. Write your solution by modifying this code: ```python def remove_exclamation_marks(s): ``` Your solution should implemented in the function "remove_excla...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. On a weekend, Qingshan suggests that she and her friend Daniel go hiking. Unfortunately, they are busy high school students, so they can only go hiking on scratch paper. A permutation $p$ is written from left to right on the paper. First Qingshan choos...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given $n$ words, each of which consists of lowercase alphabet letters. Each word contains at least one vowel. You are going to choose some of the given words and make as many beautiful lyrics as possible. Each lyric consists of two lines. Each ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Two coordinates (a1, a2) and (b1, b2) on a two-dimensional grid of r Γ— c are given. The cost of moving from a cell (e, f) to one of the cells (e + 1, f), (e-1, f), (e, f + 1), (e, f-1) is 1. And. You can also move between (e, c-1) and (e, 0), and betwee...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Problem Find the area of ​​a regular N / K polygon inscribed in a circle with a radius of 1. However, a regular N / K polygon is defined as "the outermost figure that takes N points on the circumference at equal intervals and connects each point every...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Adding tip to a restaurant bill in a graceful way can be tricky, thats why you need make a function for it. The function will receive the restaurant bill (always a positive number) as an argument. You need to 1) **add at least 15%** in tip, 2) round th...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. # A History Lesson Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Soviet Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov. The first playable version was completed on June 6, 1984. Pajitnov derived its name from combining the Greek numeri...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Find places where a string P is found within a text T. Print all indices of T where P found. The indices of T start with 0. Constraints * 1 ≀ length of T ≀ 1000 * 1 ≀ length of P ≀ 1000 * The input consists of alphabetical characters and digits Input...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. We know that prime numbers are positive integers that have exactly two distinct positive divisors. Similarly, we'll call a positive integer t Π’-prime, if t has exactly three distinct positive divisors. You are given an array of n positive integers. For...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Carl is a beginner magician. He has a blue, b violet and c orange magic spheres. In one move he can transform two spheres of the same color into one sphere of any other color. To make a spell that has never been seen before, he needs at least x blue, y ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Lindsey Buckingham told Stevie Nicks "Go your own way". Nicks is now sad and wants to go away as quickly as possible, but she lives in a 2D hexagonal world. Consider a hexagonal tiling of the plane as on the picture below. [Image] Nicks wishes to go ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Tanya wants to go on a journey across the cities of Berland. There are $n$ cities situated along the main railroad line of Berland, and these cities are numbered from $1$ to $n$. Tanya plans her journey as follows. First of all, she will choose some c...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are n wizards. They are numbered from 1 to n, and the i-th wizard has the magical power ri (1 ≀ i ≀ n). Now they are confronting a powerful wizard, whose enemy's magical power is S. n Wizards are good at fighting together, especially two people. W...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The crowdedness of the discotheque would never stop our friends from having fun, but a bit more spaciousness won't hurt, will it? The discotheque can be seen as an infinite xy-plane, in which there are a total of n dancers. Once someone starts moving a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Sereja has a bracket sequence s_1, s_2, ..., s_{n}, or, in other words, a string s of length n, consisting of characters "(" and ")". Sereja needs to answer m queries, each of them is described by two integers l_{i}, r_{i} (1 ≀ l_{i} ≀ r_{i} ≀ n). The ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given three integers A, B and C. Find the minimum number of operations required to make A, B and C all equal by repeatedly performing the following two kinds of operations in any order: - Choose two among A, B and C, then increase both by 1. -...