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Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. As Famil Door’s birthday is coming, some of his friends (like Gabi) decided to buy a present for him. His friends are going to buy a string consisted of round brackets since Famil Door loves string of brackets of length n more than any other strings! T...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Niwel is a little golden bear. As everyone knows, bears live in forests, but Niwel got tired of seeing all the trees so he decided to move to the city. In the city, Niwel took on a job managing bears to deliver goods. The city that he lives in can be r...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The map of Berland is a rectangle of the size n Γ— m, which consists of cells of size 1 Γ— 1. Each cell is either land or water. The map is surrounded by the ocean. Lakes are the maximal regions of water cells, connected by sides, which are not connecte...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Hongcow is ruler of the world. As ruler of the world, he wants to make it easier for people to travel by road within their own countries. The world can be modeled as an undirected graph with n nodes and m edges. k of the nodes are home to the governmen...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Sam has been teaching Jon the Game of Stones to sharpen his mind and help him devise a strategy to fight the white walkers. The rules of this game are quite simple: * The game starts with n piles of stones indexed from 1 to n. The i-th pile contains...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. T is a complete binary tree consisting of n vertices. It means that exactly one vertex is a root, and each vertex is either a leaf (and doesn't have children) or an inner node (and has exactly two children). All leaves of a complete binary tree have the...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Pasha is participating in a contest on one well-known website. This time he wants to win the contest and will do anything to get to the first place! This contest consists of n problems, and Pasha solves ith problem in ai time units (his solutions are a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You may have heard of the pie rule before. It states that if two people wish to fairly share a slice of pie, one person should cut the slice in half, and the other person should choose who gets which slice. Alice and Bob have many slices of pie, and rat...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A one-dimensional Japanese crossword can be represented as a binary string of length x. An encoding of this crossword is an array a of size n, where n is the number of segments formed completely of 1's, and ai is the length of i-th segment. No two segme...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A newspaper is published in Walrusland. Its heading is s1, it consists of lowercase Latin letters. Fangy the little walrus wants to buy several such newspapers, cut out their headings, glue them one to another in order to get one big string. After that ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The Resistance is trying to take control over all planets in a particular solar system. This solar system is shaped like a tree. More precisely, some planets are connected by bidirectional hyperspace tunnels in such a way that there is a path between ev...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You work in a big office. It is a 9 floor building with an elevator that can accommodate up to 4 people. It is your responsibility to manage this elevator. Today you are late, so there are queues on some floors already. For each person you know the flo...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Given a string S of length N consisting of only lower-case English alphabets, you will be asked to process Q queries over it . In each query you will be given two lower case characters X and Y. Your task is to find out the number of such substrings of t...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Abhimanyu simply drew two triangles, as shown in the picture below: He says this, Amazing painting 1. Then he drew two more triangles, as shown in the picture below: He says this, Amazing painting 2. Similarly he defined Amazing painting 3, 4, 5, .....
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Jiva is a self driven car and is out on its very first drive. It aims to earn some revenue by serving as taxi driver. It starts its journey from a point and travels in a line for 100 Km. It picks and drops passenger on the way,but can accommodate a maxi...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Chester Bennington, being a skinny kid as we all know, is always bullied since he was a child. This time its just unacceptable. Mike Shinoda, the second vocalist to his band, tried to bully him. Chester was never a bright student and Mike, being a high ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Agon Packers and Movers specialize in moving large number luggages from one place to another. The luggages are packed by the Packers, and after they're done with the job, the Movers take over. First, the Packers put the packages they have packed in a ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a string of length N. Calculate the number of distinct substrings of S. Constraints * 1 \leq N \leq 500,000 * S consists of lowercase English letters. Input Input is given from Standard Input in the following format: S Output Prin...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Given is an integer S. Find a combination of six integers X_1,Y_1,X_2,Y_2,X_3, and Y_3 that satisfies all of the following conditions: * 0 \leq X_1,Y_1,X_2,Y_2,X_3,Y_3 \leq 10^9 * The area of the triangle in a two-dimensional plane whose vertices are (...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A serious incident happened at Taro's house, which loves steamed buns. One of the three steamed buns offered at the Buddhist altar in the Japanese-style room was gone. When Taro, who was aiming for a snack someday, started an investigation to find the c...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. To get on the Shinkansen, you need two tickets, a "ticket" and a "limited express ticket". These are separate tickets because some of the routes may not use the Shinkansen, but for routes that use only the Shinkansen, one ticket can be used as both a ti...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. problem You are in charge of quality control at a machine manufacturing plant. This machine requires a power supply, a motor, and a cable as parts. The manufacturing plant has a power supply, b motors, and c cables, numbered from 1 to a, a + 1 to a + b...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. In order to participate in the Asian Regional Qualifiers of the International Collegiate Programming Contest held every year in Japan, we must break through the strict domestic qualifiers. Even though it is a university competition, multiple teams from...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Tax Rate Changed VAT (value-added tax) is a tax imposed at a certain rate proportional to the sale price. Our store uses the following rules to calculate the after-tax prices. * When the VAT rate is x%, for an item with the before-tax price of p yen,...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. We will define Ginkgo numbers and multiplication on Ginkgo numbers. A Ginkgo number is a pair <m, n> where m and n are integers. For example, <1, 1>, <-2, 1> and <-3,-1> are Ginkgo numbers. The multiplication on Ginkgo numbers is defined by <m, n> * <...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Background The site of Mr. A's house, which lives in a certain city, is surrounded by white walls. Feeling unsatisfied with the wall, Mr. A decided to invite the children in the neighborhood to paint the wall freely. Ask the children to choose their fa...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Everlasting Sa-Ga, a new, hot and very popular role-playing game, is out on October 19, 2008. Fans have been looking forward to a new title of Everlasting Sa-Ga. Little Jimmy is in trouble. He is a seven-year-old boy, and he obtained the Everlasting Sa...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. When Mr. Kay was browsing a certain SNS as usual, the problem that "there are people who can solve IQ150 or more" came to the timeline. Mr. Kay has an IQ of over 150, so he solved the problem in an instant without even looking at it. For him, he doesn't...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. JAG mock qualifying practice session The ACM-ICPC OB / OG Association (Japanese Alumni Group; JAG) has N questions in stock of questions to be asked in the mock contest, and each question is numbered with an integer from 1 to N. Difficulty evaluation a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Auction square1001 You were watching a certain auction. An auction is a transaction in which when there are a large number of buyers and the number of items is limited, the one with the highest price is given the right to buy. (From the 7th edition of...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. For a given array $a_1, a_2, a_3, ... , a_N$ of $N$ elements and an integer $L$, find the minimum of each possible sub-arrays with size $L$ and print them from the beginning. For example, for an array $\\{1, 7, 7, 4, 8, 1, 6\\}$ and $L = 3$, the possibl...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The Head Chef has received his id from the Association of Byteland . He wants to know the numerical rank of his number among the numbers that can be formed by the exact same digits ( i.e. among numbers having same number of 0's , 1's ... 9's as his id )...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Panic is rising in the committee for doggo standardization β€” the puppies of the new brood have been born multi-colored! In total there are 26 possible colors of puppies in the nature and they are denoted by letters from 'a' to 'z' inclusive. The commit...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A conglomerate consists of n companies. To make managing easier, their owners have decided to merge all companies into one. By law, it is only possible to merge two companies, so the owners plan to select two companies, merge them into one, and continue...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You went to the store, selling n types of chocolates. There are a_i chocolates of type i in stock. You have unlimited amount of cash (so you are not restricted by any prices) and want to buy as many chocolates as possible. However if you buy x_i chocol...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given two integers x and y (it is guaranteed that x > y). You may choose any prime integer p and subtract it any number of times from x. Is it possible to make x equal to y? Recall that a prime number is a positive integer that has exactly two ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given a permutation of length n. Recall that the permutation is an array consisting of n distinct integers from 1 to n in arbitrary order. For example, [2, 3, 1, 5, 4] is a permutation, but [1, 2, 2] is not a permutation (2 appears twice in the ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There is a very secret base in Potatoland where potato mash is made according to a special recipe. The neighbours from Porridgia decided to seize this recipe and to sell it to Pilauland. For this mission they have been preparing special agent Pearlo for...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A bracketed sequence is called correct (regular) if by inserting "+" and "1" you can get a well-formed mathematical expression from it. For example, sequences "(())()", "()" and "(()(()))" are correct, while ")(", "(()" and "(()))(" are not. The teache...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Given a permutation p of length n, find its subsequence s_1, s_2, …, s_k of length at least 2 such that: * |s_1-s_2|+|s_2-s_3|+…+|s_{k-1}-s_k| is as big as possible over all subsequences of p with length at least 2. * Among all such subsequences, ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Note that the only difference between String Transformation 1 and String Transformation 2 is in the move Koa does. In this version the letter y Koa selects must be strictly greater alphabetically than x (read statement for better understanding). You can...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given an array of n integers a_1,a_2,...,a_n. You have to create an array of n integers b_1,b_2,...,b_n such that: * The array b is a rearrangement of the array a, that is, it contains the same values and each value appears the same number ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A string b is a subsequence of a string a if b can be obtained from a by deletion of several (possibly, zero or all) characters. For example, "xy" is a subsequence of "xzyw" and "xy", but not "yx". You are given a string a. Your task is to reorder the ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Note that the memory limit is unusual. You are given an integer n and two sequences a_1, a_2, ..., a_n and b_1, b_2, ..., b_n. Let's call a set of integers S such that S βŠ† \{1, 2, 3, ..., n\} strange, if, for every element i of S, the following condit...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. What joy! Petya's parents went on a business trip for the whole year and the playful kid is left all by himself. Petya got absolutely happy. He jumped on the bed and threw pillows all day long, until... Today Petya opened the cupboard and found a scar...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. <image> William really likes the cellular automaton called "Game of Life" so he decided to make his own version. For simplicity, William decided to define his cellular automaton on an array containing n cells, with each cell either being alive or dead....
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The Smart Beaver from ABBYY decided to have a day off. But doing nothing the whole day turned out to be too boring, and he decided to play a game with pebbles. Initially, the Beaver has n pebbles. He arranges them in a equal rows, each row has b pebbles...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Qwerty the Ranger took up a government job and arrived on planet Mars. He should stay in the secret lab and conduct some experiments on bacteria that have funny and abnormal properties. The job isn't difficult, but the salary is high. At the beginning ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The Little Elephant loves numbers. He has a positive integer x. The Little Elephant wants to find the number of positive integers d, such that d is the divisor of x, and x and d have at least one common (the same) digit in their decimal representation...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Iahub is a big fan of tourists. He wants to become a tourist himself, so he planned a trip. There are n destinations on a straight road that Iahub wants to visit. Iahub starts the excursion from kilometer 0. The n destinations are described by a non-neg...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Fox Ciel wants to write a task for a programming contest. The task is: "You are given a simple undirected graph with n vertexes. Each its edge has unit length. You should calculate the number of shortest paths between vertex 1 and vertex 2." Same with ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The hero of the Cut the Rope game is a little monster named Om Nom. He loves candies. And what a coincidence! He also is the hero of today's problem. <image> One day, Om Nom visited his friend Evan. Evan has n candies of two types (fruit drops and car...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Student Valera is an undergraduate student at the University. His end of term exams are approaching and he is to pass exactly n exams. Valera is a smart guy, so he will be able to pass any exam he takes on his first try. Besides, he can take several exa...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Ohana Matsumae is trying to clean a room, which is divided up into an n by n grid of squares. Each square is initially either clean or dirty. Ohana can sweep her broom over columns of the grid. Her broom is very strange: if she sweeps over a clean squar...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Kefa decided to make some money doing business on the Internet for exactly n days. He knows that on the i-th day (1 ≀ i ≀ n) he makes ai money. Kefa loves progress, that's why he wants to know the length of the maximum non-decreasing subsegment in seque...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. One day student Vasya was sitting on a lecture and mentioned a string s1s2... sn, consisting of letters "a", "b" and "c" that was written on his desk. As the lecture was boring, Vasya decided to complete the picture by composing a graph G with the follo...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Every summer Vitya comes to visit his grandmother in the countryside. This summer, he got a huge wart. Every grandma knows that one should treat warts when the moon goes down. Thus, Vitya has to catch the moment when the moon is down. Moon cycle lasts ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Vasya has an array a consisting of positive integer numbers. Vasya wants to divide this array into two non-empty consecutive parts (the prefix and the suffix) so that the sum of all elements in the first part equals to the sum of elements in the second ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Petya learned a new programming language CALPAS. A program in this language always takes one non-negative integer and returns one non-negative integer as well. In the language, there are only three commands: apply a bitwise operation AND, OR or XOR wit...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given an undirected graph with n vertices. There are no edge-simple cycles with the even length in it. In other words, there are no cycles of even length that pass each edge at most once. Let's enumerate vertices from 1 to n. You have to answe...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are n cities and m roads in Berland. Each road connects a pair of cities. The roads in Berland are one-way. What is the minimum number of new roads that need to be built to make all the cities reachable from the capital? New roads will also be o...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are N cities numbered 1 through N, and M bidirectional roads numbered 1 through M. Road i connects City A_i and City B_i. Snuke can perform the following operation zero or more times: * Choose two distinct cities that are not directly connected ...
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. There is a string S consisting of digits `1`, `2`, ..., `9`. Lunlun, the Dachshund, will take out three consecutive digits from S, treat them as a single integer X and bring it to her master. (She cannot rearrange the digits.) The master's favorite num...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There are three positive integers A, B and C written on a blackboard. E869120 performs the following operation K times: * Choose one integer written on the blackboard and let the chosen integer be n. Replace the chosen integer with 2n. What is the l...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Snuke has N dogs and M monkeys. He wants them to line up in a row. As a Japanese saying goes, these dogs and monkeys are on bad terms. ("ken'en no naka", literally "the relationship of dogs and monkeys", means a relationship of mutual hatred.) Snuke is...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Dolphin resides in two-dimensional Cartesian plane, with the positive x-axis pointing right and the positive y-axis pointing up. Currently, he is located at the point (sx,sy). In each second, he can move up, down, left or right by a distance of 1. Here,...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. There is a game that uses numbers called "Fizz Buzz". In this game, multiple players count the numbers one by one, starting with 1, and each player says only one number after the previous player. At that time, you must say "Fizz" if it is divisible by 3...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Chief Judge's log, stardate 48642.5. We have decided to make a problem from elementary number theory. The problem looks like finding all prime factors of a positive integer, but it is not. A positive integer whose remainder divided by 7 is either 1 or ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Do you know "sed," a tool provided with Unix? Its most popular use is to substitute every occurrence of a string contained in the input string (actually each input line) with another string Ξ². More precisely, it proceeds as follows. 1. Within the inpu...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Osaki Osaki English text is not available in this practice contest. The Yamanote Line is a circular railway line laid in the 23 wards of Tokyo. The total route distance is 34.5km, and one lap takes about one hour. There are 29 stations in total. The ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Open Binary and Object Group organizes a programming contest every year. Mr. Hex belongs to this group and joins the judge team of the contest. This year, he created a geometric problem with its solution for the contest. The problem required a set of po...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The Quarkgo Empire Expeditionary Force is an evil organization that plans to invade the Earth. In keeping with the tradition of the invaders, they continued to send monsters at a pace of one every week, targeting the area around Tokyo in Japan. However,...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. In 20XX AD, a school competition was held. The tournament has finally left only the final competition. You are one of the athletes in the competition. The competition you participate in is to compete for the time it takes to destroy all the blue object...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Problem statement You and AOR Ika are preparing for a graph problem in competitive programming. Generating input cases is AOR Ika-chan's job. The input case for that problem is a directed graph of the $ N $ vertices. The vertices are numbered from $ 1 ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A: Information Search problem The posting list is a list in which there is a correspondence between the search term and the appearing document ID. For example * Hokkaido: 1, 2, 4, 9 * Sightseeing: 1, 3, 4, 7 And so on. From the above posting list...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. For a dictionary $M$ that stores elements formed by a pair of a string key and an integer value, perform a sequence of the following operations. Note that each key in $M$ must be unique. * insert($key$, $x$): Insert an element formed by a pair of $key$...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Given two binary strings, A (of length 10) and B (of length 5), output 1 if B is a substring of A and 0 otherwise. Input The first line contains the number of test cases n. This is followed by n lines each consisting of pairs of binary strings A a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Given an array of n non-negative integers: A1, A2, …, AN. Your mission is finding a pair of integers Au, Av (1 ≀ u < v ≀ N) such that (Au and Av) is as large as possible. And is a bit-wise operation which is corresponding to & in C++ and Java. Β  Inpu...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. This is an interactive problem. Natasha is going to fly to Mars. Finally, Natasha sat in the rocket. She flies, flies... but gets bored. She wishes to arrive to Mars already! So she decides to find something to occupy herself. She couldn't think of any...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Petya loves lucky numbers. We all know that lucky numbers are the positive integers whose decimal representations contain only the lucky digits 4 and 7. For example, numbers 47, 744, 4 are lucky and 5, 17, 467 are not. Petya and his friend Vasya play a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The letters shop showcase is a string s, consisting of n lowercase Latin letters. As the name tells, letters are sold in the shop. Letters are sold one by one from the leftmost to the rightmost. Any customer can only buy some prefix of letters from the...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are a coach of a group consisting of n students. The i-th student has programming skill a_i. All students have distinct programming skills. You want to divide them into teams in such a way that: * No two students i and j such that |a_i - a_j| = 1...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. In this task Anna and Maria play a game with a very unpleasant rival. Anna and Maria are in the opposite squares of a chessboard (8 Γ— 8): Anna is in the upper right corner, and Maria is in the lower left one. Apart from them, the board has several statu...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A positive integer is called composite if it can be represented as a product of two positive integers, both greater than 1. For example, the following numbers are composite: 6, 4, 120, 27. The following numbers aren't: 1, 2, 3, 17, 97. Alice is given a...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Pay attention to the non-standard memory limit in this problem. In order to cut off efficient solutions from inefficient ones in this problem, the time limit is rather strict. Prefer to use compiled statically typed languages (e.g. C++). If you use Pyt...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Patrick likes to play baseball, but sometimes he will spend so many hours hitting home runs that his mind starts to get foggy! Patrick is sure that his scores across n sessions follow the identity permutation (ie. in the first game he scores 1 point, in...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given an array of n integers a_1, a_2, ..., a_n, and a set b of k distinct integers from 1 to n. In one operation, you may choose two integers i and x (1 ≀ i ≀ n, x can be any integer) and assign a_i := x. This operation can be done only if i d...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. A Pythagorean triple is a triple of integer numbers (a, b, c) such that it is possible to form a right triangle with the lengths of the first cathetus, the second cathetus and the hypotenuse equal to a, b and c, respectively. An example of the Pythagore...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are an upcoming movie director, and you have just released your first movie. You have also launched a simple review site with two buttons to press β€” upvote and downvote. However, the site is not so simple on the inside. There are two servers, each ...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given two integers l and r, where l < r. We will add 1 to l until the result is equal to r. Thus, there will be exactly r-l additions performed. For each such addition, let's look at the number of digits that will be changed after it. For examp...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. One day Vasya painted a Cartesian coordinate system on a piece of paper and marked some set of points (x1, y1), (x2, y2), ..., (xn, yn). Let's define neighbors for some fixed point from the given set (x, y): * point (x', y') is (x, y)'s right neighb...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Each year in the castle of Dwarven King there is a competition in growing mushrooms among the dwarves. The competition is one of the most prestigious ones, and the winner gets a wooden salad bowl. This year's event brought together the best mushroom gro...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The Smart Beaver from ABBYY came up with another splendid problem for the ABBYY Cup participants! This time the Beaver invites the contest participants to check out a problem on sorting documents by their subjects. Let's describe the problem: You've go...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. You are given three positive integers x, y, n. Your task is to find the nearest fraction to fraction <image> whose denominator is no more than n. Formally, you should find such pair of integers a, b (1 ≀ b ≀ n; 0 ≀ a) that the value <image> is as mini...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem β€” is a relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right-angled triangle. In terms of areas, it states: In any right-angled triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side o...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Jeff's friends know full well that the boy likes to get sequences and arrays for his birthday. Thus, Jeff got sequence p1, p2, ..., pn for his birthday. Jeff hates inversions in sequences. An inversion in sequence a1, a2, ..., an is a pair of indexes i...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. The employees of the F company have lots of ways to entertain themselves. Today they invited a famous magician who shows a trick with plastic cups and a marble. The point is to trick the spectator's attention. Initially, the spectator stands in front o...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. DZY loves collecting special strings which only contain lowercase letters. For each lowercase letter c DZY knows its value wc. For each special string s = s1s2... s|s| (|s| is the length of the string) he represents its value with a function f(s), where...
Solve the programming task below in a Python markdown code block. Little X used to play a card game called "24 Game", but recently he has found it too easy. So he invented a new game. Initially you have a sequence of n integers: 1, 2, ..., n. In a single step, you can pick two of them, let's denote them a and b, eras...