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Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Heidi the Cow is aghast: cracks in the northern Wall? Zombies gathering outside, forming groups, preparing their assault? This must not happen! Quickly, she fetches her HC2 (Handbook of Crazy Constructions) and looks for the right chapter: How to build...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. On the way to Rio de Janeiro Ostap kills time playing with a grasshopper he took with him in a special box. Ostap builds a line of length n such that some cells of this line are empty and some contain obstacles. Then, he places his grasshopper to one of...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Can you imagine our life if we removed all zeros from it? For sure we will have many problems. In this problem we will have a simple example if we removed all zeros from our life, it's the addition operation. Let's assume you are given this equation a ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Have you ever tasted Martian food? Well, you should. Their signature dish is served on a completely black plate with the radius of R, flat as a pancake. First, they put a perfectly circular portion of the Golden Honduras on the plate. It has the radiu...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The main city magazine offers its readers an opportunity to publish their ads. The format of the ad should be like this: There are space-separated non-empty words of lowercase and uppercase Latin letters. There are hyphen characters '-' in some words,...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Polycarp has a checkered sheet of paper of size n × m. Polycarp painted some of cells with black, the others remained white. Inspired by Malevich's "Black Square", Polycarp wants to paint minimum possible number of white cells with black so that all bla...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Perhaps many have heard that the World Biathlon Championship has finished. Although our hero Valera was not present at this spectacular event himself and only watched it on TV, it excited him so much that he decided to enroll in a biathlon section. Of ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Ann and Borya have n piles with candies and n is even number. There are ai candies in pile with number i. Ann likes numbers which are square of some integer and Borya doesn't like numbers which are square of any integer. During one move guys can select...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Yes, that's another problem with definition of "beautiful" numbers. Let's call a positive integer x beautiful if its decimal representation without leading zeroes contains even number of digits, and there exists a permutation of this representation whi...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Ivar the Boneless is a great leader. He is trying to capture Kattegat from Lagertha. The war has begun and wave after wave Ivar's warriors are falling in battle. Ivar has n warriors, he places them on a straight line in front of the main gate, in a way...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The king of ghosts is really disappointed when he sees that all the human beings on Planet Earth have stopped fearing the ghost race. He knows the reason for this. The existing ghost race has become really lazy and has stopped visiting Planet Earth to s...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. As the Formula One Grand Prix was approaching, the officials decided to make the races a little more interesting with a new set of rules. According to the new set of rules, each driver will be given a vehicle with different height and the driver with ma...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A triple of numbers is said to be poor when two of those numbers are equal but the other number is different from those two numbers. You will be given three integers A, B, and C. If this triple is poor, print `Yes`; otherwise, print `No`. Constraints ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Snuke's mother gave Snuke an undirected graph consisting of N vertices numbered 0 to N-1 and M edges. This graph was connected and contained no parallel edges or self-loops. One day, Snuke broke this graph. Fortunately, he remembered Q clues about the ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a string S of length N consisting of `A`, `B` and `C`, and an integer K which is between 1 and N (inclusive). Print the string S after lowercasing the K-th character in it. Constraints * 1 ≤ N ≤ 50 * 1 ≤ K ≤ N * S is a string of length N...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There is a grid with N rows and N columns of squares. Let (i,j) be the square at the i-th row from the top and the j-th column from the left. These squares have to be painted in one of the C colors from Color 1 to Color C. Initially, (i,j) is painted i...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are N integers written on a blackboard. The i-th integer is A_i. Takahashi will repeatedly perform the following operation on these numbers: * Select a pair of integers, A_i and A_j, that have the same parity (that is, both are even or both are ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Summer vacation ended at last and the second semester has begun. You, a Kyoto University student, came to university and heard a rumor that somebody will barricade the entrance of your classroom. The barricade will be built just before the start of the ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The new PIN is hard to remember. I was told that I shouldn't take notes, but I don't think I can remember them. Therefore, I decided to embed a numerical value in the text and make a note of the PIN. Here, the sum of all the numbers is the PIN. Create ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Japan achieved the second straight victory in the national baseball competition WBC !! A baseball tournament was held at Aizu Gakuen High School as baseball became more popular. In this tournament, a round-robin league match will be held and the ranking...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. problem The island where JOI lives has been invaded by zombies. JOI decided to escape to the shelter, which is set as the safest shelter on the island. The island where JOI lives consists of N towns from town 1 to town N, and the towns are connected b...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are a number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards. Hanafuda shuffling for Japanese card game 'Hanafuda' is one such example. The following is how to perform Hanafuda shuffling. There is a deck of n cards. Starting from the p-th card from the top of...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Floating-Point Numbers In this problem, we consider floating-point number formats, data representation formats to approximate real numbers on computers. Scientific notation is a method to express a number, frequently used for numbers too large or too ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Training is indispensable for achieving good results at ICPC. Rabbit wants to win at ICPC, so he decided to practice today as well. Today's training is to perform a very large number of calculations to improve the calculation power and raise awareness....
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Problem statement There is an unsigned $ 2 $ decimal integer $ X $ with $ N $ in digits including Leading-zeros. Output the largest non-negative integer that can be expressed in $ 2 $ base in $ N $ digits where the Hamming distance from $ X $ is $ D $....
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. problem Given the squares of $ R * C $. Each square is either an empty square or a square with a hole. The given square meets the following conditions. * The cells with holes are connected. (You can move a square with a hole in the cross direction to ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A binary heap which satisfies max-heap property is called max-heap. In a max-heap, for every node $i$ other than the root, $A[i] \leq A[parent(i)]$, that is, the value of a node is at most the value of its parent. The largest element in a max-heap is st...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Stack is a container of elements that are inserted and deleted according to LIFO (Last In First Out). For $n$ stack $S_i$ ($i = 0, 1, ..., n-1$), perform a sequence of the following operations. * push($t$, $x$): Insert an integer $x$ to $S_t$. * top($...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The king's birthday dinner was attended by k guests. The dinner was quite a success: every person has eaten several dishes (though the number of dishes was the same for every person) and every dish was served alongside with a new set of kitchen utensils...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. From "ftying rats" to urban saniwation workers - can synthetic biology tronsform how we think of pigeons? The upiquitous pigeon has long been viewed as vermin - spleading disease, scavenging through trush, and defecating in populous urban spases. Yet ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The legend of the foundation of Vectorland talks of two integers x and y. Centuries ago, the array king placed two markers at points |x| and |y| on the number line and conquered all the land in between (including the endpoints), which he declared to be ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Polycarp decided to relax on his weekend and visited to the performance of famous ropewalkers: Agafon, Boniface and Konrad. The rope is straight and infinite in both directions. At the beginning of the performance, Agafon, Boniface and Konrad are locat...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are n boxers, the weight of the i-th boxer is a_i. Each of them can change the weight by no more than 1 before the competition (the weight cannot become equal to zero, that is, it must remain positive). Weight is always an integer number. It is n...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Mike and Ann are sitting in the classroom. The lesson is boring, so they decided to play an interesting game. Fortunately, all they need to play this game is a string s and a number k (0 ≤ k < |s|). At the beginning of the game, players are given a sub...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Hyakugoku has just retired from being the resident deity of the South Black Snail Temple in order to pursue her dream of becoming a cartoonist. She spent six months in that temple just playing "Cat's Cradle" so now she wants to try a different game — "S...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. So the Beautiful Regional Contest (BeRC) has come to an end! n students took part in the contest. The final standings are already known: the participant in the i-th place solved p_i problems. Since the participants are primarily sorted by the number of ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Let's assume that we have a pair of numbers (a, b). We can get a new pair (a + b, b) or (a, a + b) from the given pair in a single step. Let the initial pair of numbers be (1,1). Your task is to find number k, that is, the least number of steps needed ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given an array a consisting of n integers numbered from 1 to n. Let's define the k-amazing number of the array as the minimum number that occurs in all of the subsegments of the array having length k (recall that a subsegment of a of length k i...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. After battling Shikamaru, Tayuya decided that her flute is too predictable, and replaced it with a guitar. The guitar has 6 strings and an infinite number of frets numbered from 1. Fretting the fret number j on the i-th string produces the note a_{i} + ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are n cards numbered 1, …, n. The card i has a red digit r_i and a blue digit b_i written on it. We arrange all n cards in random order from left to right, with all permutations of 1, …, n having the same probability. We then read all red digits ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You have two positive integers a and b. You can perform two kinds of operations: * a = ⌊ a/b ⌋ (replace a with the integer part of the division between a and b) * b=b+1 (increase b by 1) Find the minimum number of operations required to make ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The student council has a shared document file. Every day, some members of the student council write the sequence TMT (short for Towa Maji Tenshi) in it. However, one day, the members somehow entered the sequence into the document at the same time, cre...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a string s consisting of the characters 0, 1, and ?. Let's call a string unstable if it consists of the characters 0 and 1 and any two adjacent characters are different (i. e. it has the form 010101... or 101010...). Let's call a string ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Vasya lives in a strange world. The year has n months and the i-th month has ai days. Vasya got a New Year present — the clock that shows not only the time, but also the date. The clock's face can display any number from 1 to d. It is guaranteed that a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The Little Elephant loves to play with color cards. He has n cards, each has exactly two colors (the color of the front side and the color of the back side). Initially, all the cards lay on the table with the front side up. In one move the Little Eleph...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Bob got a job as a system administrator in X corporation. His first task was to connect n servers with the help of m two-way direct connection so that it becomes possible to transmit data from one server to any other server via these connections. Each d...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Little Vitaly loves different algorithms. Today he has invented a new algorithm just for you. Vitaly's algorithm works with string s, consisting of characters "x" and "y", and uses two following operations at runtime: 1. Find two consecutive characte...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. When Valera has got some free time, he goes to the library to read some books. Today he's got t free minutes to read. That's why Valera took n books in the library and for each book he estimated the time he is going to need to read it. Let's number the ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Yaroslav has an array, consisting of (2·n - 1) integers. In a single operation Yaroslav can change the sign of exactly n elements in the array. In other words, in one operation Yaroslav can select exactly n array elements, and multiply each of them by -...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. After too much playing on paper, Iahub has switched to computer games. The game he plays is called "Block Towers". It is played in a rectangular grid with n rows and m columns (it contains n × m cells). The goal of the game is to build your own city. So...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Cucumber boy is fan of Kyubeat, a famous music game. Kyubeat has 16 panels for playing arranged in 4 × 4 table. When a panel lights up, he has to press that panel. Each panel has a timing to press (the preffered time when a player should press it), an...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. During the break, we decided to relax and play dominoes. Our box with Domino was empty, so we decided to borrow the teacher's dominoes. The teacher responded instantly at our request. He put nm dominoes on the table as an n × 2m rectangle so that each ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You've got array a[1], a[2], ..., a[n], consisting of n integers. Count the number of ways to split all the elements of the array into three contiguous parts so that the sum of elements in each part is the same. More formally, you need to find the num...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Uncle Fyodor, Matroskin the Cat and Sharic the Dog live their simple but happy lives in Prostokvashino. Sometimes they receive parcels from Uncle Fyodor’s parents and sometimes from anonymous benefactors, in which case it is hard to determine to which o...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. All cities of Lineland are located on the Ox coordinate axis. Thus, each city is associated with its position xi — a coordinate on the Ox axis. No two cities are located at a single point. Lineland residents love to send letters to each other. A person...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Recently, Duff has been practicing weight lifting. As a hard practice, Malek gave her a task. He gave her a sequence of weights. Weight of i-th of them is 2wi pounds. In each step, Duff can lift some of the remaining weights and throw them away. She doe...
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. Very soon Berland will hold a School Team Programming Olympiad. From each of the m Berland regions a team of two people is invited to participate in the olympiad. The qualifying contest to form teams was held and it was attended by n Berland students. T...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Sasha lives in a big happy family. At the Man's Day all the men of the family gather to celebrate it following their own traditions. There are n men in Sasha's family, so let's number them with integers from 1 to n. Each man has at most one father but ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Vasily has a number a, which he wants to turn into a number b. For this purpose, he can do two types of operations: * multiply the current number by 2 (that is, replace the number x by 2·x); * append the digit 1 to the right of current number (tha...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Santa Claus decided to disassemble his keyboard to clean it. After he returned all the keys back, he suddenly realized that some pairs of keys took each other's place! That is, Santa suspects that each key is either on its place, or on the place of anot...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Bear Limak examines a social network. Its main functionality is that two members can become friends (then they can talk with each other and share funny pictures). There are n members, numbered 1 through n. m pairs of members are friends. Of course, a m...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Zane the wizard had never loved anyone before, until he fell in love with a girl, whose name remains unknown to us. <image> The girl lives in house m of a village. There are n houses in that village, lining in a straight line from left to right: house...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. To stay woke and attentive during classes, Karen needs some coffee! <image> Karen, a coffee aficionado, wants to know the optimal temperature for brewing the perfect cup of coffee. Indeed, she has spent some time reading several recipe books, includin...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Leha somehow found an array consisting of n integers. Looking at it, he came up with a task. Two players play the game on the array. Players move one by one. The first player can choose for his move a subsegment of non-zero length with an odd sum of num...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given an array a. Some element of this array ai is a local minimum iff it is strictly less than both of its neighbours (that is, ai < ai - 1 and ai < ai + 1). Also the element can be called local maximum iff it is strictly greater than its neigh...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Ehab is interested in the bitwise-xor operation and the special graphs. Mahmoud gave him a problem that combines both. He has a complete graph consisting of n vertices numbered from 0 to n - 1. For all 0 ≤ u < v < n, vertex u and vertex v are connected ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a set of size m with integer elements between 0 and 2^{n}-1 inclusive. Let's build an undirected graph on these integers in the following way: connect two integers x and y with an edge if and only if x \& y = 0. Here \& is the [bitwise AND...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Joy and Rock decided to play a game. They have N cards numbered from 0 to N−1. Joy asks Rock to reverse the position of the cards, i.e., to change the order from say, 0,1,2,3 to 3,2,1,0. He further asks Rock to reverse the position of the cards N times,...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Joy is a short and lazy guy, he uses elevator to reach his flat. But unfortunately elevator is not working today and he became sad. Suddenly God came and made the stairs magical, such that he can jump on it in a magical way. Initially he can take 1 or 2...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Ben believes a lot in tarot cards. He believes that they are lucky for him. He even decides to wear clothes according to the color predicted by a draw of a card. This irritates his wife, because sometimes he wears the same color t-shirt continuously if ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. We have a string S of length N consisting of `R`, `G`, and `B`. Find the number of triples (i,~j,~k)~(1 \leq i < j < k \leq N) that satisfy both of the following conditions: * S_i \neq S_j, S_i \neq S_k, and S_j \neq S_k. * j - i \neq k - j. Constrai...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. AtCoder Mart sells 1000000 of each of the six items below: * Riceballs, priced at 100 yen (the currency of Japan) each * Sandwiches, priced at 101 yen each * Cookies, priced at 102 yen each * Cakes, priced at 103 yen each * Candies, priced at 104 yen e...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are N squares in a row. The squares are numbered 1, 2, ..., N from left to right. You have two pieces, initially placed on square A and B, respectively. You will be asked to process Q queries of the following kind, in the order received: * Given...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There is a tree with N vertices, numbered 1 through N. The i-th of the N-1 edges connects the vertices p_i and q_i. Among the sequences of distinct vertices v_1, v_2, ..., v_M that satisfy the following condition, find the maximum value of M. * For e...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The height of the student was measured at the medical examination. Create a program that takes height data as input, creates a frequency distribution, and outputs it. The frequency distribution is divided into 6 classes in 5 cm increments, and the numbe...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. problem There are the following games. N characters are lined up in a vertical row. The color of these characters is red, blue, or yellow, and in the initial state, four or more characters of the same color are not lined up in a row. The player can se...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are a student of University of Aizu. And you work part-time at a restaurant. Staffs of the restaurant are well trained to be delighted to provide more delicious products faster. The speed providing products particularly depends on skill of the sta...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Example Input 3 NNN NNN NNN Output Taro The input will be give Read the inputs from stdin solve the problem and write the answer to stdout (do not directly test on the sample inputs). Enclose your code within ```python delimiters.
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Dice Stamp Dice stamp At a local fair, you found a game store you've never seen before. This is a game in which N 6-sided dice are dropped and rolled on the board. More precisely, N buttons are tied to N dice on a one-to-one basis, and pressing the bu...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. D: Indecision-Indecision- problem Ebi-chan has been addicted to gal games lately, and her goal now is to capture two heroines at the same time. Ebi-chan can use several events to increase her liking from the heroine, but only one heroine can be selec...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. C: Shuttle Run Story University H has a unique physical fitness test program, aiming to grow the mindset of students. Among the items in the program, shuttle run is well-known as especially eccentric one. Surprisingly, there are yokans (sweet beans je...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Problem statement Modulo is very good at drawing trees. Over the years, Modulo has drawn a picture of a tree with $ N $ vertices. The vertices of this tree are numbered from $ 1 $ to $ N $, and the vertices $ a_i $ and $ b_i $$ (1 \ leq i \ leq N-1) $...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Write a program which manipulates a weighted rooted tree $T$ with the following operations: * $add(v,w)$: add $w$ to the edge which connects node $v$ and its parent * $getSum(u)$: report the sum of weights of all edges from the root to node $u$ The...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There is a rectangular grid of size n × m. Each cell has a number written on it; the number on the cell (i, j) is a_{i, j}. Your task is to calculate the number of paths from the upper-left cell (1, 1) to the bottom-right cell (n, m) meeting the followi...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Vasya owns three big integers — a, l, r. Let's define a partition of x such a sequence of strings s_1, s_2, ..., s_k that s_1 + s_2 + ... + s_k = x, where + is a concatanation of strings. s_i is the i-th element of the partition. For example, number 123...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given an undirected graph consisting of n vertices. A number is written on each vertex; the number on vertex i is a_i. Initially there are no edges in the graph. You may add some edges to this graph, but you have to pay for them. The cost of ad...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given array a_1, a_2, ..., a_n. Find the subsegment a_l, a_{l+1}, ..., a_r (1 ≤ l ≤ r ≤ n) with maximum arithmetic mean (1)/(r - l + 1)∑_{i=l}^{r}{a_i} (in floating-point numbers, i.e. without any rounding). If there are many such subsegments f...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a rooted tree with vertices numerated from 1 to n. A tree is a connected graph without cycles. A rooted tree has a special vertex named root. Ancestors of the vertex i are all vertices on the path from the root to the vertex i, except the...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. This problem is same as the next one, but has smaller constraints. It was a Sunday morning when the three friends Selena, Shiro and Katie decided to have a trip to the nearby power station (do not try this at home). After arriving at the power station,...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Melody Pond was stolen from her parents as a newborn baby by Madame Kovarian, to become a weapon of the Silence in their crusade against the Doctor. Madame Kovarian changed Melody's name to River Song, giving her a new identity that allowed her to kill ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are on the island which can be represented as a n × m table. The rows are numbered from 1 to n and the columns are numbered from 1 to m. There are k treasures on the island, the i-th of them is located at the position (r_i, c_i). Initially you stan...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Alice became interested in periods of integer numbers. We say positive X integer number is periodic with length L if there exists positive integer number P with L digits such that X can be written as PPPP…P. For example: X = 123123123 is periodic numbe...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given two positive integers a and b. In one move you can increase a by 1 (replace a with a+1). Your task is to find the minimum number of moves you need to do in order to make a divisible by b. It is possible, that you have to make 0 moves, as a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Phoenix has n coins with weights 2^1, 2^2, ..., 2^n. He knows that n is even. He wants to split the coins into two piles such that each pile has exactly n/2 coins and the difference of weights between the two piles is minimized. Formally, let a denote ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Let's define a function f(x) (x is a positive integer) as follows: write all digits of the decimal representation of x backwards, then get rid of the leading zeroes. For example, f(321) = 123, f(120) = 21, f(1000000) = 1, f(111) = 111. Let's define ano...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The only difference between the two versions is that this version asks the minimal possible answer. Homer likes arrays a lot. Today he is painting an array a_1, a_2, ..., a_n with two kinds of colors, white and black. A painting assignment for a_1, a_2...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Polycarp found a rectangular table consisting of n rows and m columns. He noticed that each cell of the table has its number, obtained by the following algorithm "by columns": * cells are numbered starting from one; * cells are numbered from left...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A sequence (b_1, b_2, …, b_k) is called strange, if the absolute difference between any pair of its elements is greater than or equal to the maximum element in the sequence. Formally speaking, it's strange if for every pair (i, j) with 1 ≤ i<j ≤ k, we h...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Each of you probably has your personal experience of riding public transportation and buying tickets. After a person buys a ticket (which traditionally has an even number of digits), he usually checks whether the ticket is lucky. Let us remind you that ...