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Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
In the rush of modern life, people often forget how beautiful the world is. The time to enjoy those around them is so little that some even stand in queues to several rooms at the same time in the clinic, running from one queue to another.
(Cultural note: standing in huge and disor... | Step 1: The problem is asking to calculate all possible positions of the Smart Beaver in the line in the increasing order.
Step 2: We can go through the queue of beavers from the Smart Beaver's number and calculate the possible positions of the Smart Beaver in the line, taking into account instances where the beaver ... | 2600ad3e51c6371dc5cee21892268fe04a533912d52d97b144d0334a8e4972c2_1_1 | bcd288c898330c9b17435cb0d8b8ffbe9a48ec264c1a7f478bd3a3f10b28c636 |
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Bearland has n cities, numbered 1 through n. Cities are connected via bidirectional roads. Each road connects two distinct cities. No two roads connect the same pair of cities.
Bear Limak was once in a city a and he wanted to go to a city b. There was no direct connection so he dec... | Step 1:
To solve this problem, we need to find two paths (v1, ..., vn) and (u1, ..., un) that satisfy the given conditions:
1. There is no direct connection between a and b, and no direct connection between c and d.
2. The paths should visit each city exactly once.
3. The paths should generate at most 2n-2 roads.
Ste... | 6edcccdb2f852f70e04b11d2a37c0b5ff6a782e4d03d396925d3520e4a570646_1_1 | 65769d3a02c579daacd070bc2ef9e2dff7603a1771adac94a75dd457bc82e768 |
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In some country live wizards. They love playing with numbers.
The blackboard has two numbers written on it — a and b. The order of the numbers is not important. Let's consider a ≤ b for the sake of definiteness. The players can cast one of the two spells in turns:
* Replace b w... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to understand the rules of the game and the conditions for winning.
Step 2: We can start by implementing a function to check if a player can make a move, given the current state of the game.
Step 3: We also need to consider the conditions for winning and implement a strategy fo... | dfa8bd867925689e2957b8b44165c04eea1fceced2afe4da7a9c87e2b43ea5ff_1_1 | 481d67d4274603d463deabc879a1fcf91ba3e7454d26cf7ac7b68e7e8d4828b0 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Some days ago, I learned the concept of LCM (least common multiple). I've played with it for several times and I want to make a big number with it.
But I also don't want to use many numbers, so I'll choose three positive integers (they don't have to be distinct) which are not great... | Step 1: The concept of LCM (least common multiple) involves finding the smallest common multiple of given numbers.
Step 2: We need to find the maximum possible LCM of three positive integers that are not greater than n.
Step 3: We need to consider different scenarios based on the value of n and the divisibility prop... | 1d1f9264daf210ae31c58be6a76db5cea1f7e417c784376e9cb232c0d915ceca_1_1 | 316d8face34cbebdf71a2e963bf0345887b868f96ccaeead16908bd69ad924f7 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
You've got array A, consisting of n integers and a positive integer k. Array A is indexed by integers from 1 to n.
You need to permute the array elements so that value
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Input
Th... | Step 1: The problem requires finding the minimum possible value of the sum given an array and a positive integer k.
Step 2: We need to calculate the minimum possible sum based on the permutation of elements in the array.
Step 3: We can start by processing the input, sorting the array, and then use dynamic programmi... | ed669794edde8af40c1aea53b32e748c92f6755a671d3ce26f573709bd7ea923_1_1 | 11757576e081d4d16b474a8d3c3086689b39fe4478df3bbdc4d1d9fc9853f9cb |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Consider an infinite triangle made up of layers. Let's number the layers, starting from one, from the top of the triangle (from top to bottom). The k-th layer of the triangle contains k points, numbered from left to right. Each point of an infinite triangle is described by a pair of... | Step 1: The problem involves calculating the minimum cost to traverse all given points in an infinite triangle. We need to understand how to move from one point to another, considering the directed edges and their activation conditions.
Step 2: We need to implement a function to take a sequence of points and calculat... | aa87fd2622d7cb3b203245a62d5ec36dadf03c3d679d78ca1ddf09fd213491ae_1_1 | 598c8fc99598161a6ae94243f0800d4f7ca01d13dfc0da835a0a3fcf6568bbec |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Two little greedy bears have found two pieces of cheese in the forest of weight a and b grams, correspondingly. The bears are so greedy that they are ready to fight for the larger piece. That's where the fox comes in and starts the dialog: "Little bears, wait a little, I want to mak... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the minimum number of operations required to make two given integers equal.
Step 2: We can calculate the greatest common divisor (GCD) of the two numbers and then divide both numbers by the square of the GCD to get the remaining value.
Step 3: After reducing the numbers... | 95efa6dd8e5acba366042ce9912e611bb92cd0ecdff580d6151858d314c2cc33_1_1 | d1c8358bc2c52404f42150c30f3b601c75ee1e59e9dc4a6aa7aa419ddd05ebf8 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
You are given a set of points on a straight line. Each point has a color assigned to it. For point a, its neighbors are the points which don't have any other points between them and a. Each point has at most two neighbors - one from the left and one from the right.
You perform a se... | Step 1: This problem involves performing a series of operations on a set of points according to specific rules.
Step 2: To solve this, we need to determine the number of operations we can perform on the given set of points until there are no more points to delete.
Step 3: We have to maintain and update the points a... | dd5831333a9037b5e3d1a9d4f4085b18a6b967c553886a438b51b1c84435e80b_1_1 | a00f27e1f0e78a3aa5dde6ccee9a1922352d65e863a8dcb6bdd5633f8aee72b7 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
There are n armchairs, numbered from 1 to n from left to right. Some armchairs are occupied by people (at most one person per armchair), others are not. The number of occupied armchairs is not greater than n/2.
For some reason, you would like to tell people to move from their armch... | Step 1: The problem requires minimizing the total time it takes for all initially occupied armchairs to be unoccupied. Therefore, we need to find the optimal sequencing for the people to move to make it so that every seat that was initially occupied must be free.
Step 2: We can achieve this through dynamic programmin... | 7e884e08615a9e35ced0bdd599029b2396290f2e76e11a61857e85fb0b1c8a56_1_1 | c0fd31b355708ff7a943e773a15c8f413665093e18f5400181716d53a9398475 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
The year of 2012 is coming...
According to an ancient choradrican legend in this very year, in 2012, Diablo and his brothers Mephisto and Baal will escape from hell, and innumerable hordes of demons will enslave the human world. But seven brave heroes have already gathered on the t... | Step 1: This problem is about dividing heroes into three teams to fight three megabosses at the same time.
Step 2: We need to consider not only the minimum difference in the experience between two heroes who will receive the maximum and minimum number of experience points,
Step 3: but also the maximal total amount... | 77f42beb40fa8e19f24b1c753191f0ae9b7b84ed01cd9ec292de40d60a6a1baf_1_1 | 238e3aebb52dd719b451259920443ad0770f3e6dd64b7280ad58ea4cf281afa2 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Programmer Vasya is studying a new programming language &K*. The &K* language resembles the languages of the C family in its syntax. However, it is more powerful, which is why the rules of the actual C-like languages are unapplicable to it. To fully understand the statement, please ... | Step 1: The input specifies a number of operators and their types, and we need to process each operator to determine the resulting type.
Step 2: We can use a dictionary to store the defined types and their corresponding levels of dereference and pointer-definition.
Step 3: We need to handle both the 'typedef' and 't... | 9bb66f6bc4b353d3dab3406d94d594d47e55d4bf1967cab39839fd9636e0c83f_1_1 | ee1fc84fd073ffe575cb68b59f912a12cddd064b9948c374fa752eb65373c1e6 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
We have caught N sardines. The deliciousness and fragrantness of the i-th sardine is A_i and B_i, respectively.
We will choose one or more of these sardines and put them into a cooler. However, two sardines on bad terms cannot be chosen at the same time.
The i-th and j-th sardines... | Step 1: The problem requires us to find the number of ways to choose a set of sardines to put into the cooler. Sardines can be chosen if their deliciousness and fragrantness satisfy a certain condition.
Step 2: We can iterate through the sardines and check their properties and calculate the number of valid sets of sa... | 9abe7d5454ea873670d2c24bf54ebf2b96de94b220ad84fe0838cfce29c8967e_1_1 | d381e2a5a1c2b0eacc2783dab38a0fbd909803effc61ece764e48bb448967deb |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
There are N slimes standing on a number line. The i-th slime from the left is at position x_i.
It is guaruanteed that 1 \leq x_1 < x_2 < \ldots < x_N \leq 10^{9}.
Niwango will perform N-1 operations. The i-th operation consists of the following procedures:
* Choose an integer k b... | Step 1: The problem describes the movement of slimes on a number line and requires calculating the total distance traveled by the slimes multiplied by (N-1)! modulo (10^{9}+7).
Step 2: First, we need to understand how the slimes move based on the given input.
Step 3: Then, we can calculate the total distance travele... | 12cf6af444f0e1ce694beb5cef0697742a733d5cd69961334756002c0457ca03_1_1 | 56807dc5b1d1e298fea7a3596852dc5e9463cce4ad21e863085bd64fb53a4d4f |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Another programming contest is over. You got hold of the contest's final results table. The table has the following data. For each team we are shown two numbers: the number of problems and the total penalty time. However, for no team we are shown its final place.
You know the rules... | Step 1: The task here is to count the number of teams that shared the k-th place in a contest based on the number of problems solved and total penalty time.
Step 2: We need to read the input and organize the data appropriately to perform the counting.
Step 3: To solve the problem, we can sort the teams based on the ... | eec8fbfba480fe50e2f907db34da9316a866f2f965b70f258afd6c1ffb961243_1_1 | ec9668a58557ed4fb344b1f2fd4197bf2fb4b390e1635c64214d113cfd6f4414 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
In one of the games Arkady is fond of the game process happens on a rectangular field. In the game process Arkady can buy extensions for his field, each extension enlarges one of the field sizes in a particular number of times. Formally, there are n extensions, the i-th of them mult... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the minimum number of extensions needed to enlarge the field so that a rectangle of size a x b can be placed on it.
Step 2: We need to consider the sizes of the field, the target rectangle, and the available extensions to determine the minimum number of extensions requir... | 03b69276b413619881bfea3709c45b1ce7ffb0b265c3db4e637356e36b9461fd_1_1 | cc39c6987c5b0dc5de0db6452670ed49f9e34bbce5681886517edc349be69449 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Julia is going to cook a chicken in the kitchen of her dormitory. To save energy, the stove in the kitchen automatically turns off after k minutes after turning on.
During cooking, Julia goes to the kitchen every d minutes and turns on the stove if it is turned off. While the cooke... | Step 1: The given problem involves finding the total time of cooking a chicken on a stove that automatically turns off after a certain number of minutes.
Step 2: We need to consider the intervals during which the stove is on and off, and calculate the total cooking time accordingly.
Step 3: The total time will dep... | 5506fd729e090cfbc940c6613f588b938ad3070e38a91cae0ea94a927f8397d4_1_1 | dac22c4848dc38e3525685e9c5aaea1f3e1b606d2e001c582947e32f57c1c5b7 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Recall that MEX of an array is a minimum non-negative integer that does not belong to the array. Examples:
* for the array [0, 0, 1, 0, 2] MEX equals to 3 because numbers 0, 1 and 2 are presented in the array and 3 is the minimum non-negative integer not presented in the array;
... | Step 1: The problem requires us to find the maximum possible MEX of an array after each query operation.
Step 2: We are given an empty array and a positive integer x, as well as a series of queries to append elements to the array.
Step 3: We can perform operations that either increase or decrease any element of the ... | ef084f51845aba96c115699d91e7efdebb6b61308f4f2599b30fdd9663d0fd08_1_1 | 2a9ffdd1a65c8e71d7ad41abca63ede824f638a2fe0b3246d6d36c9c7b29b7ee |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Mr. A loves sweets, but recently his wife has told him to go on a diet. One day, when Mr. A went out from his home to the city hall, his wife recommended that he go by bicycle. There, Mr. A reluctantly went out on a bicycle, but Mr. A, who likes sweets, came up with the idea of st... | Step 1: The problem describes a scenario where Mr. A has to travel from his home to the city hall, but he is tempted to stop at cake shops and eat cake along the way, which affects the calories burned.
Step 2: We need to find the minimum net calories burned taking into account the calories consumed while riding a bi... | 58eee9a3300f1bb2b5de0b2ce16532639d7ed36033984180b64633fa59d14bfc_1_1 | 2c68b63b293be1e367b8fead423084e8c996bc91488b83b117615b1bfe48f527 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
The only difference between problems C1 and C2 is that all values in input of problem C1 are distinct (this condition may be false for problem C2).
You are given a sequence a consisting of n integers.
You are making a sequence of moves. During each move you must take either the le... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to determine the maximum number of elements in a strictly increasing sequence we can obtain.
Step 2: We can use a recursive approach to consider all possible sequences and choose the longest strictly increasing sequence.
Step 3: In each step, we have two choices: take the leftm... | e9419da4df430a20f13270f253bb2e492dc203e77613ae3e8fb944f542295387_1_1 | 5c19eda800ff179006c6bb9dea83f2dba5f8b6afbaab36845f2f79ae90edbbd4 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Traveling around the universe Benny saw some strange numbers. These numbers are called Universal numbers.
Benny asks you to help her to calculate the number of Universal numbers on some segments.
First of all, you are given 15 numbers called remsi.
The number is Universal if and... | Step 1: The problem requires finding the number of universal numbers given a range A to B and the criteria for a number to be a universal number.
Step 2: A universal number must have at least two adjacent digits that form a prime number, and all prefixes of the number must have a certain remainder when divided by the... | 62c52293718a7ecc7748ba1cca8cf47d3433524e2939cf7266e836da71e1e229_1_1 | 3539753787d3942ed429bde02f223d306c51385f9ac8a621604ea0d55a37931a |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Egor is a famous Russian singer, rapper, actor and blogger, and finally he decided to give a concert in the sunny Republic of Dagestan.
There are n cities in the republic, some of them are connected by m directed roads without any additional conditions. In other words, road system ... | Step 1: The problem requires finding a schedule for the cities of the republic, such that a safe path of the shortest length from city 1 to city n does not exist, or the shortest path's length is maximized.
Step 2: We will need to represent the road system as a directed graph and color the cities black or white based... | 1685e33cec1e73dac585d8ac2be10517b88d75ab14f105c4a1f2f9339c699400_1_1 | 2e87ee0fcf3b4e904fe0f3786f225a955a2317d164b9d0e42e272630f11228ab |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
SaMer has written the greatest test case of all time for one of his problems. For a given array of integers, the problem asks to find the minimum number of groups the array can be divided into, such that the product of any pair of integers in the same group is a perfect square.
Ea... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to work through the given algorithm step by step to understand the logic and its implementation.
Step 2: After understanding the algorithm, we can then write the code and implement each step to generate the required output.
Step 3: The use of defaultdict from the collections mo... | 10f962fdfbe203fe9d6c1737fee4293996de643bb9e96a49592314b6b8ab695f_1_1 | 46ae824eb8a3ec24961893ef7a59d6066aeda174b193f271d38d31091ba63e2d |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Two integer sequences existed initially — one of them was strictly increasing, and the other one — strictly decreasing.
Strictly increasing sequence is a sequence of integers [x_1 < x_2 < ... < x_k]. And strictly decreasing sequence is a sequence of integers [y_1 > y_2 > ... > y_l]... | Step 1: The problem requires us to identify two initial sequences (one strictly increasing and the other strictly decreasing) that result from merging and shuffling the given sequence 'a'.
Step 2: We can start by initializing the necessary variables to store the merged sequence and identifying unique elements in the ... | cddab8186e5c3169f3471fa9a17d3d9b365d040cce1d7ce9f07e5954fed75452_1_1 | 49bc69eb1f5d0b26981a4efcfb7011fcff08a2d528042135d92251696e757496 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
The subsequence is a sequence that can be derived from another sequence by deleting some elements without changing the order of the remaining elements.
You are given an integer n.
You have to find a sequence s consisting of digits \{1, 3, 7\} such that it has exactly n subsequenc... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find a sequence s consisting of digits {1, 3, 7} such that it has exactly n subsequences equal to 1337.
Step 2: We can approach this problem by selecting the characters in the sequence s that contribute to the 1337 subsequences and calculating the remaining characters to fulf... | 5a89c2d8cf768ce4f5186949da5b07aa863604e199beae33a27cb260ebc00cad_1_1 | 842fd93f7ff5805e5ac855f48fb4b76799b0c55332ee3e73338e62709dc5b4ae |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
For her birthday Alice received an interesting gift from her friends – The Light Square. The Light Square game is played on an N × N lightbulbs square board with a magical lightbulb bar of size N × 1 that has magical properties. At the start of the game some lights on the square boa... | Step 1: The given problem requires us to transform a square board into another pattern using a magical bar.
Step 2: The board is represented by strings of 1's and 0's, and the magical bar has specific properties when placed on a row or column of the board.
Step 3: We need to determine the number of times the magical... | fab9cefd8dfccccd8b7937ec2b4e3f1bcc18deabc153e0e969dadda9047cf59a_1_1 | 2af798a118743b15ee2269acd6be346decd4d6bff9d9641f1e1e820e94a163a8 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
Polycarpus analyzes a string called abracadabra. This string is constructed using the following algorithm:
* On the first step the string consists of a single character "a".
* On the k-th step Polycarpus concatenates two copies of the string obtained on the (k - 1)-th step, w... | Step 1: The problem description describes the construction of a string according to a specific algorithm.
Step 2: Polycarpus wants to find the length of the longest common substring of two non-empty substrings from the string he constructed.
Step 3: We can start by defining a function to compare substrings and find ... | cb136a0ad7be5ada38e281d0644d6e226b956a756e39d2fd659bdc86bf4d342d_1_1 | 2b903f527c632d1b7ad1832e0c94532d19b041ca36bb3cb4b876b775c573cc44 |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
One quite ordinary day Valera went to school (there's nowhere else he should go on a week day). In a maths lesson his favorite teacher Ms. Evans told students about divisors. Despite the fact that Valera loved math, he didn't find this particular topic interesting. Even more, it see... | Step 1: The problem is asking us to find the count of numbers in a given interval [a, b] that are divisible by the smallest prime divisor k.
Step 2: The solution seems to involve finding the number of integers in the interval [1, c] that are divisible by k, but not by any number between 2 and k - 1.
Step 3: We can u... | 516b2780cbf64c18258c2844002230d0870bc572a937d12449428afbc07f0b81_1_1 | 3bf2c0cf532ce89fb7f9f07cafc78e07cb18e5d85254a2f8ef865a3de70abeca |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
The secret services of Armin, an otherwise peace-loving country, have decided to perform a surgical strike in the war-torn city of Tashka. Tashka is under enemy control and the objective of the strike is to gain control over the city.
The mission is subdivided into the following st... | Step 1: The problem requires calculating the minimum time units after dropping agents to land the helicopter such all groups are able to reach the town hall.
Step 2: We need to determine the time it takes for each group of agents to travel from the agent drop-off point to each enemy base, then to the ammunition stor... | 741a89667f4dd8b7a396a9e5b9ed9a6ae001867ea7358d06c439e17e783e9833_1_1 | 6bf2ddf1298e29efc1c666880206dbde147236a6fdcbfb30580c64c10e9e2861 |
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There are N points on an XY plane. In one turn, you can select a set of collinear points on the plane and remove them. Your goal is to remove all the points in the least number of turns. Given the coordinates of the points, calculate two things:
The minimum number of turns (T) need... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to calculate the minimum number of turns needed to remove all the points and the number of ways to do so.
Step 2: We need to first identify the collinear points on the plane and remove them in the least number of turns.
Step 3: To do this, we can use a recursive approach to f... | 19bddff4652bb4caee9efa75aba79dd020c885c186acc2d4a3af61e1fddea547_1_1 | 84ce067b9caabfe4b62d174894fee15b095350d704f9ec7e755708d3efae4fda |
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Dora loves adventures quite a lot. During some journey she encountered an amazing city, which is formed by n streets along the Eastern direction and m streets across the Southern direction. Naturally, this city has nm intersections. At any intersection of i-th Eastern street and j-t... | Step 1: The problem requires reassigning heights to the skyscrapers such that the maximum height is minimized, and the relative order of the buildings is maintained.
Step 2: A function needs to be created to reassign heights at each intersection based on the existing heights and comparative orders.
Step 3: We need t... | 6a39f5137b570e8d2ce72a808a25b419cace2bef1609bd8bf498b8e077fa69e1_1_1 | ba11dd674ab0e3688f137ddf5cf8ca9d7213f3b5a7b463c0662fdd880f8dbe6c |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
A colored stripe is represented by a horizontal row of n square cells, each cell is pained one of k colors. Your task is to repaint the minimum number of cells so that no two neighbouring cells are of the same color. You can use any color from 1 to k to repaint the cells.
Input
Th... | Step 1: The problem requires us to minimize the number of repaintings so that no neighboring cells have the same color.
Step 2: We can iterate through the cells of the stripe and check if the current cell has the same color as the previous cell.
Step 3: If so, we increment the number of repaintings and change the ... | 02d2b461b48852e87d3fdb3d1fac639f8c4c3a91cd393c480921537c015ce74e_1_1 | b346e3aa4c17c16a8c1f635b3f9cfe53061173ec076b9c1eb2ab74709608cf3c |
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Celebrating the new year, many people post videos of falling dominoes; Here's a list of them: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=New+Years+Dominos
User ainta, who lives in a 2D world, is going to post a video as well.
There are n dominoes on a 2D Cartesian plane. i-th do... | Step 1: The problem requires finding the minimum cost for each plan when dominoes are pushed such that another domino falls in a sequence.
Step 2: To solve this problem, we need to determine the dominoes that will be affected by pushing a specific domino. The key is to calculate the right boundary (r) after a domino ... | d5dbcc92f709889f3ce9bcce92feeccd6676785583488aa4113103cb420eddf0_1_1 | e9937b304604d2026f24f7b659e07f2b82eacc0df9146b44310cd59e22e0e2e9 |
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Vladimir wants to modernize partitions in his office. To make the office more comfortable he decided to remove a partition and plant several bamboos in a row. He thinks it would be nice if there are n bamboos in a row, and the i-th from the left is ai meters high.
Vladimir has jus... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we first need to understand the problem and break down the requirements.
Step 2: We can start by defining a function to calculate the change in lengths of bamboos over time, as they grow.
Step 3: We then need to consider the requirement on the total length of bamboo parts that can be c... | 71431ca80c13439efb2067fce36c532ad699cf4360130909b7c36c17e9106558_1_1 | bc1e0ea78d771abbb474acbffcabb057e63810512841d20664d0300b40b56ad3 |
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In a medieval kingdom, the economic crisis is raging. Milk drops fall, Economic indicators are deteriorating every day, money from the treasury disappear. To remedy the situation, King Charles Sunnyface decided make his n sons-princes marry the brides with as big dowry as possible.
... | Step 1: The problem involves pairing princes with princesses to maximize the total dowry.
Step 2: We can use a variation of the greedy algorithm to solve this problem.
Step 3: We need to sort the princesses based on the dowry they offer and then pair them with the princes in a way that maximizes the total dowry.
Ste... | ec15f391982ff095bbfeb19797911ce2a5ae2d7584b3c704f064fde782fc0635_1_1 | aef572a5f78d8828a0a7d5e0ff4484b5bba9be626b8b4b08347c86164906867d |
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Vasya has found a piece of paper with an array written on it. The array consists of n integers a1, a2, ..., an. Vasya noticed that the following condition holds for the array ai ≤ ai + 1 ≤ 2·ai for any positive integer i (i < n).
Vasya wants to add either a "+" or a "-" before each... | Step 1: The problem requires us to find a sequence of signs '+' and '-' to add to the given array such that the value of the resulting expression meets the specified limits.
Step 2: We need to process the array to add signs to each element, ensuring that the sum satisfies the range condition.
Step 3: To solve this p... | 5e73e44d19b359fe55545a83c3b2b0958ffb9c5fac0d8ac5a5905a3028b44964_1_1 | c5b2266c2e72d713b3e37bca9cf13dd12483e8400f690123440ae90ab18daa7a |
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A star map in Berland is a checked field n × m squares. In each square there is or there is not a star. The favourite constellation of all Berland's astronomers is the constellation of the Cross. This constellation can be formed by any 5 stars so, that for some integer x (radius of ... | Step 1: The problem requires finding a constellation of stars by checking a given star map and identifying the coordinates of the required constellation based on a particular index k.
Step 2: We can define a function compute to iterate through the star map and check for constellations based on the specified condition... | 13b99d201b1b77c6b5fccbc2a575ea9c8d26f6c25e763b348ab9a68dcaf88336_1_1 | 9fcf9ecc643eee19875b2f51ad38e2db2c263ec8fc866222fb9be590bf59a1b8 |
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Arpit thought AB De-villiers could do anything no matter what it is, however his brother didn’t believe him . To make his brother believe him he contacted AB and gave him a problem in which he gave him a two strings where the second string was the reverse of the first. He asked him ... | Step 1: The given problem requires finding the longest substring which is a common prefix of the given string and its reverse.
Step 2: This can be solved using the concept of the longest prefix suffix (lps) array.
Step 3: We can calculate the lps array for the string and then return the value at the last index of t... | fb0809bdc65c5a9f20c22569bc61125850bd1a0b8d0794249aa1394422bbf05d_1_1 | 56c0e4542961880a00c3b6d20a9fe12b681771e36d2b553e53fe55a394abc625 |
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One day Polycarpus got hold of two non-empty strings s and t, consisting of lowercase Latin letters. Polycarpus is quite good with strings, so he immediately wondered, how many different pairs of "x y" are there, such that x is a substring of string s, y is a subsequence of string t... | Step 1: The problem requires us to count the number of different pairs "x y" such that x is a substring of string s, y is a subsequence of string t, and the content of x and y is the same.
Step 2: To solve this problem, we can use dynamic programming to count the number of pairs that satisfy the given conditions.
Ste... | aea98e1d7d4e266a65f98495f333fc9fb380447d4dc636bbd5ef05087d867cd3_1_1 | 362923b495a2844d504b0ae929ada9051891bffd46eb3cf8ddba692ef30b2caf |
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This is the easy version of the problem. The difference between the versions is the constraint on n and the required number of operations. You can make hacks only if all versions of the problem are solved.
There are two binary strings a and b of length n (a binary string is a strin... | Step 1:
The solution provided is a lengthy Python 2 code and is not a direct solution to the given problem statement. The given problem statement provides details about transforming the string "a" into string "b" using a specific set of operations on the binary strings.
A correct solution should involve parsing the i... | 1f6b3451f9e7fecf879fa59b2a9aaae3626a91663a6c5db2c2d8a539f20ff721_1_1 | aef503d8c8cee78e41e979a23fedc4c859828ff921ca5e264593457bdabd2bdb |
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John Doe has a list of all Fibonacci numbers modulo 1013. This list is infinite, it starts with numbers 0 and 1. Each number in the list, apart from the first two, is a sum of previous two modulo 1013. That is, John's list is made from the Fibonacci numbers' list by replacing each n... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the first occurrence of a given number in the Fibonacci sequence modulo 1013.
Step 2: We can start by implementing the function to calculate the Fibonacci numbers modulo 1013.
Step 3: We also need a function to find the first occurrence of the given number in the list.
... | 9755b234e4cdbeaaadafb5fbc23d1d39b7f0a2252d0042b793acc17547f1b7a3_1_1 | ea17073846e255943e835050aa8292d72acd1e6cdcc164886902674447661aae |
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Game "Minesweeper 1D" is played on a line of squares, the line's height is 1 square, the line's width is n squares. Some of the squares contain bombs. If a square doesn't contain a bomb, then it contains a number from 0 to 2 — the total number of bombs in adjacent squares.
For exam... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we can use dynamic programming to keep track of the possible ways to fill the remaining cells and get a correct field.
Step 2: We can iterate through the given sequence of characters and update the count of possible ways based on the current character and the previous possible ways coun... | 6df4d3ab5c2a39719fa7dc00b2153bb9ad26f8b49a6a822cdf7c96d85abb8a18_1_1 | 7539a46472172d2968241d469e4a9299b19185d5bfcbd30b13705d780ec6fe0b |
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Petya has n integers: 1, 2, 3, ..., n. He wants to split these integers in two non-empty groups in such a way that the absolute difference of sums of integers in each group is as small as possible.
Help Petya to split the integers. Each of n integers should be exactly in one group... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the smallest possible absolute difference of sums of integers in two non-empty groups.
Step 2: One approach to solve this problem is by determining how to divide the integers into two groups with the smallest absolute difference of sums.
Step 3: We can determine the sum... | f664ee322a9a2dda37ba51e4d4858b4ffcfa175a77926a6bcee90094c2e2f861_1_1 | 0ab83da61d60a496cc7e2ce2fd0375e6e5f4334a0b80fd7e3fa996d6b8517fa5 |
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You've got two rectangular tables with sizes na × ma and nb × mb cells. The tables consist of zeroes and ones. We will consider the rows and columns of both tables indexed starting from 1. Then we will define the element of the first table, located at the intersection of the i-th ro... | Step 1: The problem requires finding the shift with the maximum overlap factor among all possible shifts for two given tables.
Step 2: We iterate through all possible shifts and find the overlap factor for each shift.
Step 3: We keep track of the maximum overlap factor and return the shift that produced this value.
... | 0ab1770473a980bfeb90cfeec65c26d25242f05d5b8dbb02748e8c225d51eccf_1_1 | f0507ae0fc0d62bc168d2fcc6ad73e22a7486f2c3df2bf588cc2748e102f487d |
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Arnie the Worm has finished eating an apple house yet again and decided to move. He made up his mind on the plan, the way the rooms are located and how they are joined by corridors. He numbered all the rooms from 1 to n. All the corridors are bidirectional.
Arnie wants the new hous... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the lexicographically smallest path that is strictly greater than the previous path.
Step 2: We need to traverse the old path and create the new path in the lexicographically smallest manner possible.
Step 3: We also need to keep track of the visited rooms and edges to ... | 9791afbfad471b0a8225107713ac668bf3107027c59c6980457d44c559ca411e_1_1 | 9b4497aba99c13d1da959e87d8434044b2d87ae5dca635cedae78c6c1b91f400 |
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You are given a string s, consisting of lowercase English letters, and the integer m.
One should choose some symbols from the given string so that any contiguous subsegment of length m has at least one selected symbol. Note that here we choose positions of symbols, not the symbols ... | Step 1: The problem concerns finding the lexicographically smallest string that can be obtained by selecting symbols from the given string.
Step 2: We need to carefully choose the positions of symbols from the string such that any subsegment of a specific length has at least one selected symbol.
Step 3: After formin... | da106eece3e5076f25382ef656b9f5194ea96f54e0f1242f9f01370c25a40bd5_1_1 | 0e5e4964e84f8a57dfcf8215ca56858844206241ae870ee684d1f154aed32247 |
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There are n warriors in a row. The power of the i-th warrior is a_i. All powers are pairwise distinct.
You have two types of spells which you may cast:
1. Fireball: you spend x mana and destroy exactly k consecutive warriors;
2. Berserk: you spend y mana, choose two consecut... | Step 1: The problem is asking for the minimum amount of mana to transform the sequence of warrior powers from a given initial sequence to a target sequence.
Step 2: To find the minimum cost, we need to consider the cost of both types of spells: Fireball and Berserk.
Step 3: We also need to consider the constraints, ... | dfdc0a08a84ef6ecb13332b03eeb8a894280670132fe15c1e31314a62acf6381_1_1 | f5b8f8b2981697b4afdd781f3e46c034507a798735522ba2867423bc889e8141 |
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The Hedgehog recently remembered one of his favorite childhood activities, — solving puzzles, and got into it with new vigor. He would sit day in, day out with his friend buried into thousands of tiny pieces of the picture, looking for the required items one by one.
Soon the Hedgeh... | Step 1: The problem requires a function to calculate the number of good puzzles that can be made from a given picture and the puzzle with the minimal piece size.
Step 2: The solution checks for valid pieces by testing all possible pair combinations based on the possible elements. The function uses nested loops to it... | 91c944c8392adb4faa022c9a17f6309f360c159ba151c5cca0a5723d47a55598_1_1 | 116839ce891a59b287ff6d040b7784eb46f94eb1d19d1fe411e0a4431b321eca |
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King Kala the Fighter has an army of N soldiers. Each soldier is either a BanVeer or a TalwarBaaz. There are M soldiers in the army who are TalwarBaaz. The King forms a strategy. For each battle, he doesn’t have the resources to send his army in groups of more than K soldiers. Now, ... | Step 1: To solve the given problem, we need to implement a function to calculate the number of ways a group can be formed that wins the battle.
Step 2: To do this, we need to calculate the combinations of forming groups with at least one TalwarBaaz soldier, while ensuring the total size of the group does not exceed ... | 6f3c96facc53c8d4e2b7057c27e27109fac14aca859b516fb2dcff8a1a82401b_1_1 | f3b380d1ab054809d19f7613a5ab8dbf9e646cff323f85a090127e2397fdb9dd |
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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 following constraints:
* You can m... | Step 1: The problem involves finding the number of paths from the upper-left cell to the bottom-right cell with the XOR sum equal to a given value.
Step 2: We can approach this problem using dynamic programming and backtracking.
Step 3: We also need to calculate the XOR sum while traversing the grid and track the nu... | b04dcd660c1665387c669e3d66766480cef1f5bdaa414663917f881622fa6660_1_1 | abfb2c5b8cbc39dda6a00526d0ac6e0d92da79e94061c0f9159d558a54242e67 |
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I am a pipe tie craftsman. As long as you get the joints and pipes that connect the pipes, you can connect any pipe. Every day, my master gives me pipes and joints, which I connect and give to my master. But if you have too many pipes, you can't connect them all in one day. Even in ... | Step 1: The problem requires us to calculate the maximum amount of salary that can be paid given the number of pipes.
Step 2: For each dataset, we need to consider the length of pipes and joints, and how to connect the pipes in order to maximize the amount of salary.
Step 3: We also need to consider how the number o... | 630278606f3feecae7b581009eabdb7d9cd5e01df45769370c612e5c7e916150_1_1 | 29db9e09cef90b7776182ccddc353879c804702dd45ceb7b1157a79eb3e174be |
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Alice and Bob are playing a fun game of tree tag.
The game is played on a tree of n vertices numbered from 1 to n. Recall that a tree on n vertices is an undirected, connected graph with n-1 edges.
Initially, Alice is located at vertex a, and Bob at vertex b. They take turns alter... | Step 1: The solution uses a depth-first search (DFS) algorithm to find the distance traveled to reach the farthest node from a given starting node. It then uses this information to determine the winner of the game based on the strategies of both Alice and Bob.
Step 2: The code first processes the input, constructs a ... | 330b2c98365d653c5786f41eac14a87cf6ad4d20ff0a1e1265f870cb6a465924_1_1 | 30695b4a97cf7f3c646aa8bd915edecffb28984408ff95f858b2cacf25388fb3 |
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Vasya is an active Internet user. One day he came across an Internet resource he liked, so he wrote its address in the notebook. We know that the address of the written resource has format:
<protocol>://<domain>.ru[/<context>]
where:
* <protocol> can equal either "http" (withou... | Step 1:
The given problem requires restoring a possible address from a string that does not contain punctuation marks and may not include the '/<context>' part. We can achieve this by identifying the position of the protocol and domain parts in the string to reconstruct the address.
We should start iterating through t... | eecb3d84ba9c8797545f39f97e83a20d46a8962fe12a9267de53dffabf0ed31e_1_1 | 15bcdd440338317ce707809a84c8ebb9435baa718786be8967c5cad68745585e |
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Pashmak has fallen in love with an attractive girl called Parmida since one year ago...
Today, Pashmak set up a meeting with his partner in a romantic garden. Unfortunately, Pashmak has forgotten where the garden is. But he remembers that the garden looks like a square with sides p... | Step 1: The problem gives us the position of two trees and asks us to find the positions of the other two trees to form a square.
Step 2: We know that a square has four corners, so we'll need to calculate the positions of the other two corners.
Step 3: We can accomplish this by considering the possible configuration... | fc6bb059f29f698433bc715b90aa3a12ad52fb34a8df417956bee3fa08d9439c_1_1 | 6e9c6f253682bc0e756c7914b169f2d206a56f2e38dcbf969b1ca61613fc4a93 |
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Jesse and Walter recently got a into a problem. They need to check if a compound can be converted to the other one.
A compound is decoded into a binary strings of 0s and 1s. They have 2 binary strings. First string contains characters
'0', '1' and '?', whereas second contains '0' an... | Step 1: The problem requires us to implement a solution to calculate the minimum number of steps needed to convert the 1st compound to the 2nd compound.
Step 2: We need to iterate through the characters in the compounds and calculate the number of transformation steps required based on different conditions.
Step 3: ... | b62ed38b52bdddd6cb3ba69106c56d4ed66f44e7e067ec5e9e6a4a21a1f43a12_1_1 | 4300e9c0cfec88a9d0e1de45e96d2b8d3bbbc591ffb80ba3c6cd75754da48853 |
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Carousel Boutique is busy again! Rarity has decided to visit the pony ball and she surely needs a new dress, because going out in the same dress several times is a sign of bad manners. First of all, she needs a dress pattern, which she is going to cut out from the rectangular piece ... | Step 1: The problem involves finding the number of ways to cut out a dress pattern from a rectangular piece of multicolored fabric that satisfies specific conditions.
Step 2: We need to implement a solution to count the number of ways to cut out a dress pattern while considering the color of the scraps and the angles... | 39a6283ff3cf0f73d8167520ec40fe157349da720d3cb71ee6c4237378b18280_1_1 | 5a91c714b859f19a5f08bc4afa698a846ef5527f92c7ca6b979adfeb3de49ad1 |
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Ilya is working for the company that constructs robots. Ilya writes programs for entertainment robots, and his current project is "Bob", a new-generation game robot. Ilya's boss wants to know his progress so far. Especially he is interested if Bob is better at playing different game... | Step 1: The main goal is to determine the number of points each robot will have after all the games.
Step 2: We need to take into account the rules of the game (how the numbers interact and determine the winner).
Step 3: We will need to use the function to score the games and update the scores accordingly to predict... | c5a3850eeb9ff63d5c36fb8bf2afab1730166a16bba8cad71b9c4edca13a46b1_1_1 | 9dde476e9344c532084df94624b01ae0f437de272432472691aae2bbc6be9c0b |
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Link to Russian translation of the problem.
Kevin has an array A of N integers, but he doesn't like it - he only likes an array if all its neighboring elements are different (e.g. he likes the array [2,4,2,5,3,2,4], but not [1,2,3,3,4]).
Kevin can reverse any contiguous subarray o... | Step 1: The problem requires transforming an array into an array where all neighboring elements are different.
Step 2: We can approach this problem by identifying the number of reversals needed to transform the array.
Step 3: We'll need to track the occurrences of elements and their neighboring elements to determine... | 346aef6909f5ac4646290c49548029e6f140dfe6e8d9dc6fa5a2722423fecd6d_1_1 | 5b570f39cb9f8d8c132e2a743d791851246dc5f2e13e388fb318d63ef9dd4682 |
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There are N holes in a two-dimensional plane. The coordinates of the i-th hole are (x_i,y_i).
Let R=10^{10^{10^{10}}}. Ringo performs the following operation:
* Randomly choose a point from the interior of a circle of radius R centered at the origin, and put Snuke there. Snuke wil... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we will calculate the probability that Snuke falls into each hole using the given input data and the provided conditions for operations.
Step 2: We will use the angles and distances from each point to calculate the probability for each hole.
Step 3: Math functions, specifically atan2, ... | c8f1c46100eada18ebcd6e86f1bac57c79fd773d1f8b3215c8d16d1f3f22b452_1_1 | c44039146a21985237a9d4015a6011f21c341bc57bda300f5a821cd2c2695669 |
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A prime number n (11, 19, 23, etc.) that divides by 4 and has 3 has an interesting property. The results of calculating the remainder of the square of a natural number (1, 2, ..., n -1) of 1 or more and less than n divided by n are the same, so they are different from each other. Th... | Step 1: The problem requires us to calculate the frequency of occurrences of the difference between the squares of the remainder when the input number n is prime and satisfies certain conditions.
Step 2: We can use a function to calculate the remainder of the square of numbers from 1 to n - 1 divided by n.
Step 3: T... | 7aa5f8cf78e6baf10a7b822078a9be7f672b62570bd4634bb51d8207a882a1d4_1_1 | 6c5e76c519f2d17509e66fd7990f0bf197ce610afe759ff397e44b931a08a72f |
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Codefortia is a small island country located somewhere in the West Pacific. It consists of n settlements connected by m bidirectional gravel roads. Curiously enough, the beliefs of the inhabitants require the time needed to pass each road to be equal either to a or b seconds. It's g... | Step 1: The problem deals with finding the minimum possible time required to travel between the king's residence and the parliament house after some roads are abandoned.
Step 2: To solve this problem, we need to take into consideration the weights of the gravel roads, the number of settlements, and the time needed to... | 65ae3185557b60173b934bbe62f1d9ebd2ca11e6975b4d20f088f95de8c1551d_1_1 | 73eb8a6f1c222d97c1d657c3390082795e7d344c7182b6026d286d24fb0659c0 |
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You are playing another computer game, and now you have to slay n monsters. These monsters are standing in a circle, numbered clockwise from 1 to n. Initially, the i-th monster has a_i health.
You may shoot the monsters to kill them. Each shot requires exactly one bullet and decrea... | Step 1: The problem presents a situation where monsters must be slain, and their explosions cause damage to the next monster in the circle. The goal is to find the minimum number of bullets required to kill all the monsters.
Step 2: To solve this problem, we need to calculate the health of each monster and the damage... | 47b8b0fce046a42527b91d53415235dd1ce98ee8e1a445f94e9ac44dc90a46d4_1_1 | fc4a0124a253fec1295474d11d35c15275a5eb148db787d50c57d508f7cfa688 |
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A superhero fights with a monster. The battle consists of rounds, each of which lasts exactly n minutes. After a round ends, the next round starts immediately. This is repeated over and over again.
Each round has the same scenario. It is described by a sequence of n numbers: d_1, d... | Step 1: The main goal of this problem is to determine the positive integer k, representing the first minute after which the monster dies.
Step 2: The first step is to take the input values and represent them clearly. We also need to calculate the cumulative value of the sequence of integers as it represents the monst... | 7d2113db12c42be9455314c15192644162a721439d10756a13b70568cde125df_1_1 | e5bdfea2b00dc91876d5ef0d312b96a0566eb7cd287e69e46f8c04e778ece2df |
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There is a deck of n cards. The i-th card has a number a_i on the front and a number b_i on the back. Every integer between 1 and 2n appears exactly once on the cards.
A deck is called sorted if the front values are in increasing order and the back values are in decreasing order. T... | Step 1:
The problem involves sorting a deck of cards with specific front and back values while allowing card flips. We can start by parsing the input to fetch the deck details such as the front and back values of each card. We need to store these values and perform calculations based on the sorted deck requirements.
... | 7a5868f96c9895795942e66f60f5bc965a88dd4dce230b1c728e3637dafb111e_1_1 | 29f5ee14c4d7e2d189442471e26b1a2fe49557e1b957a629bf490e38d2caabd4 |
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There are n piles of pebbles on the table, the i-th pile contains ai pebbles. Your task is to paint each pebble using one of the k given colors so that for each color c and any two piles i and j the difference between the number of pebbles of color c in pile i and number of pebbles ... | Step 1: The problem requires us to paint each pebble in a way that for each color and any two piles, the difference between the number of pebbles of that color in each pile is at most one.
Step 2: We need to check if it is possible to paint the pebbles satisfying the given condition.
Step 3: If it is possible, we ne... | 7fdbaa64cfca23db5a55349d72ba9b644f050355734aec8b64a0026ff957e0d0_1_1 | f656b7300fa7b64711d80b0b9584216b3203fd7c55e6cec889824c009d097d87 |
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Amr loves Chemistry, and specially doing experiments. He is preparing for a new interesting experiment.
Amr has n different types of chemicals. Each chemical i has an initial volume of ai liters. For this experiment, Amr has to mix all the chemicals together, but all the chemicals ... | Step 1: The problem requires finding the minimum number of operations to make all chemical volumes equal.
Step 2: We can start by comparing the binary representation of each chemical and determine the longest common prefix.
Step 3: Once we have the longest common prefix, we can calculate the minimum number of operat... | e8c3c7b6a62f4e4bd4749f62fead8a3ef5f19fc1d6215a692b4f32662a77d392_1_1 | 6e6693dfdc556bde153a7778ff698a75afc98556e9256e8f90bd8eb8a7794a84 |
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Finally! Vasya have come of age and that means he can finally get a passport! To do it, he needs to visit the passport office, but it's not that simple. There's only one receptionist at the passport office and people can queue up long before it actually opens. Vasya wants to visit t... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to determine the best time for Vasya to arrive at the passport office to minimize his wait time.
Step 2: We can start by reading the input values, including the working start and end times of the receptionist, the time spent per visitor, the number of visitors, and the arrival t... | a9d1023317986ceddfea6144421655a86bd641ad6aac9d2bd9f939d37e2a087b_1_1 | bef65989fdde8b46ddf64501e60572a6e15f0e29d6a9cf409b2a7f034e43578b |
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Consider a football tournament where n teams participate. Each team has two football kits: for home games, and for away games. The kit for home games of the i-th team has color xi and the kit for away games of this team has color yi (xi ≠ yi).
In the tournament, each team plays exa... | Step 1: This problem requires us to calculate how many games each team plays in its home and away kits.
Step 2: We need to iterate through the teams and keep track of the number of games played in home and away kits.
Step 3: The team plays in their home kit when the colors of their home and away kits are different, ... | 44d4406cdf433c6783ef98e5384bf2c1832d85bcc00921b19904fdf78000d281_1_1 | 7246b391fa28b22dfbf433394d996e5ddfc6da828bd71ac4217dcbf1c4d26456 |
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Vasya has an array of integers of length n.
Vasya performs the following operations on the array: on each step he finds the longest segment of consecutive equal integers (the leftmost, if there are several such segments) and removes it. For example, if Vasya's array is [13, 13, 7, ... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the number of operations Vasya should make until the array becomes empty.
Step 2: We can start by trying to understand the operations that Vasya performs on the array. Then, we can implement a way to simulate these operations.
Step 3: The approach should involve identif... | af3158831669b5ce6254884b4af81ff2d9492931889fc3e78847d351fe97dc88_1_1 | 21e76cd2fb8b0bebec5140b83a383d627cbbd6d94aa65a3f06bcd5720d195734 |
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You have a long list of tasks that you need to do today. To accomplish task i you need Mi minutes, and the deadline for this task is Di. You need not complete a task at a stretch. You can complete a part of it, switch to another task, and then switch back.
You've realized that it m... | Step 1: We need to find an optimal schedule for completing the tasks such that the maximum amount by which a task's completion time overshoots its deadline is minimized.
Step 2: We can iterate through the list of tasks and incrementally add each task to the schedule to find the maximum overshoot for each scheduling s... | 7d60aa3ce9932058b0eac61c9ed499f3e171ffe427066af16b28d3a3c46a90b6_1_1 | 5a7338de102b13fb8e688ab880f410f38345c7ecab57270a444d22cc56f419d7 |
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Ziota found a video game called "Monster Invaders".
Similar to every other shooting RPG game, "Monster Invaders" involves killing monsters and bosses with guns.
For the sake of simplicity, we only consider two different types of monsters and three different types of guns.
Namely,... | Step 1: We need to calculate the minimum time required to finish the game, taking into account the various reload times and movement times.
Step 2: In this case, it can be beneficial to use dynamic programming to keep track of the minimum time at each level and then transition to the next level.
Step 3: We may need ... | 04c0ceb7766215919bf83feddcbcbac17f0cf0cb786d6af57b5b56af26ea2190_1_1 | 2616c682fa09a3f806086963875d721ed93e733a288e46061b91c87e3aa86d9e |
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Let's play a new board game ``Life Line''.
The number of the players is greater than 1 and less than 10.
In this game, the board is a regular triangle in which many small regular triangles are arranged (See Figure l). The edges of each small triangle are of the same length.
<imag... | Step 1: The input consists of multiple data items, separated by the presence of two zeros in a line.
Step 2: For each data item, the size of the game board and the identification number of the current player are given.
Step 3: The state of the vertices on the board is also provided as an N x N matrix of integers rep... | 45209f657873c8c0d18d8f51ca1fbd0c0c349142baa498fa822415c895ed0a21_1_1 | 841af358f7c6761d70ae04997629ebeaece6580e9bce472ee36a1506dfc1d39f |
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You are given three integers a, b and x. Your task is to construct a binary string s of length n = a + b such that there are exactly a zeroes, exactly b ones and exactly x indices i (where 1 ≤ i < n) such that s_i ≠ s_{i + 1}. It is guaranteed that the answer always exists.
For exa... | Step 1: The task is to generate a binary string with a and b zero and one characters, respectively, and x unlikable pairs in the binary string.
Step 2: We can solve this problem through the following steps:
Step 3: 1. If x is even, we can distribute the x unlikable pairs evenly by using '10' or '01' depending on whe... | 3954dc6d7be0174158708e443b862f119114ab93ab62016ddb5a31b8ad4ce3bc_1_1 | 9a5d641e745bde266c289ba61a612cf9b21d8a417278a9f18d1b60717a540165 |
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There are n water tanks in a row, i-th of them contains a_i liters of water. The tanks are numbered from 1 to n from left to right.
You can perform the following operation: choose some subsegment [l, r] (1≤ l ≤ r ≤ n), and redistribute water in tanks l, l+1, ..., r evenly. In other... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the lexicographically smallest sequence of volumes of water that can be achieved.
Step 2: We will calculate the initial volumes of water in the water tanks and then apply the operation for subsegments [l, r] to redistribute the water evenly.
Step 3: We will use a stack ... | f60a56ef03a445d4a071d2a0c0387a18ecf418528fc93a7597003959f5d5e083_1_1 | 5e357273dcf664fe35b34d72f4207401493b3e272732c1b81f5594df81ee5451 |
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You are given a tube which is reflective inside represented as two non-coinciding, but parallel to Ox lines. Each line has some special integer points — positions of sensors on sides of the tube.
You are going to emit a laser ray in the tube. To do so, you have to choose two intege... | Step 1: The problem describes a laser ray being emitted in a tube with reflective sides, and the goal is to calculate the maximum number of sensors that can register the laser ray.
Step 2: To solve this problem, we need to implement a function that calculates the maximum number of sensors registered by the laser ray ... | ea8eea4b872d5a18e180a576301dcf71d03e3118eb814beef476ae8530deba8c_1_1 | d23ee5d1df7de43380e811146b56e93b7e4ae4692e3cc726083234b89b1dd7d7 |
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Everybody in Russia uses Gregorian calendar. In this calendar there are 31 days in January, 28 or 29 days in February (depending on whether the year is leap or not), 31 days in March, 30 days in April, 31 days in May, 30 in June, 31 in July, 31 in August, 30 in September, 31 in Octo... | Step 1: The first step is to understand the problem and the rules for determining leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
Step 2: Next, we need to check if the given integers could represent the durations of n consecutive months according to the Gregorian calendar.
Step 3: We'll need to come up with an algorithm to ha... | 6b8b8d7786872be7f98db522faeb6b2ae1ad1ee50748b0cc1f275392cc26aeb1_1_1 | d5bb82e50d309683aa40d5165c4ac4a76af84503b8a22d1a148232d400d5b514 |
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Bob is a farmer. He has a large pasture with many sheep. Recently, he has lost some of them due to wolf attacks. He thus decided to place some shepherd dogs in such a way that all his sheep are protected.
The pasture is a rectangle consisting of R × C cells. Each cell is either emp... | Step 1: The problem is asking us to place dogs on a pasture in such a way that no wolf can reach any sheep, or determine if it is impossible to protect all sheep.
Step 2: We should start by checking each cell in the pasture and find locations where sheep are adjacent to wolves.
Step 3: If there are wolves adjacent t... | 49ec45fa3917daf481e86e973eb10308503563b90e9ed727fe7844ccbd640f06_1_1 | 3f2fe514a8dd656b1092c4c0a72a5982d1301236c1f126ed72e75dc47e584021 |
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A new set of desks just arrived, and it's about time! Things were getting quite cramped in the office. You've been put in charge of creating a new seating chart for the engineers. The desks are numbered, and you sent out a survey to the engineering team asking each engineer the numb... | Step 1: The problem requires creating a new seating chart for the engineers with certain constraints, and counting the number of possible valid seating arrangements.
Step 2: We can approach the problem by considering the available desks and the engineer's current and desired desk numbers.
Step 3: Then we can iterate... | 2ec10ed3ca0ea0e5973b1b6353ce70858a0eb8581bfb38ec68e21748d26493b6_1_1 | 2be80404773cbd88d9a146bcdc63ddd9e4b7323b63029b792b1129a7c4caf8e5 |
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You are the head of a large enterprise. n people work at you, and n is odd (i. e. n is not divisible by 2).
You have to distribute salaries to your employees. Initially, you have s dollars for it, and the i-th employee should get a salary from l_i to r_i dollars. You have to distri... | Step 1: The problem requires we distribute salary to employees in such a way that the median salary is maximum possible.
Step 2: We can use a binary search approach to solve the problem. We need to sort the salaries and determine the maximum median salary.
Step 3: To find the maximum median salary, we can define a f... | 923f5766676d64ccedd09cf5014fc712ba55ec0b01ab4d5028a123b3991b2651_1_1 | 58536653243d518498627796b9fd48de0b57c2de30af79954cd859658daa99cf |
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One day Vasya came up to the blackboard and wrote out n distinct integers from 1 to n in some order in a circle. Then he drew arcs to join the pairs of integers (a, b) (a ≠ b), that are either each other's immediate neighbors in the circle, or there is number c, such that a and с ar... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to determine the order of numbers in the circle based on the given pairs of integers that were connected by the arcs.
Step 2: We can create a graph to represent connected pairs of integers and then try to find a suitable sequence of n distinct integers from 1 to n.
Step 3: We a... | 4dedd3d2cf9632f6f3455202df871dc49e08c9eb3c05ce304913fd3441573da5_1_1 | 22b74f1515b5d659762e4bb4c2aaa0768d25627a216d4eb19ff2c934a33df051 |
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Piegirl is buying stickers for a project. Stickers come on sheets, and each sheet of stickers contains exactly n stickers. Each sticker has exactly one character printed on it, so a sheet of stickers can be described by a string of length n. Piegirl wants to create a string s using ... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the minimum number of sheets Piegirl needs to buy to create the given string s. We also need to provide a string describing a possible sheet of stickers Piegirl should buy. The number of sheets depends on the count of unique characters in the string and the total number o... | 954ac91ad146e1fe3ad169f3596a3f388960637356cb7c0ab1b14d7cc2130fa2_1_1 | 2599be87488887bdc3786a780e709dd17f6a4506303e1540a81cfb11258ed49f |
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Insurgents accidentally got hold of the plan of a top secret research polygon created on a distant planet for the needs of the Galaxy Empire. The insurgents suppose that this polygon is developing new deadly weapon. The polygon consists of n missile silos connected by bidirectional ... | Step 1: This problem involves calculating the average danger of an operation based on the mathematical average of the dangers corresponding to all possible ways of choosing a set S.
Step 2: We can solve this problem by first reading the input data and then performing the necessary computations to calculate the averag... | cf3fd2f0cf363b51c9ef433927bdede74a548089d71d1ba9d337bd63b88ebd60_1_1 | 0d14ad869734fcd29251fd5b786c3a9ab1563f7e4b3e01f59b8bba460de5f2d9 |
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There are N cards. The i-th card has an integer A_i written on it. For any two cards, the integers on those cards are different.
Using these cards, Takahashi and Aoki will play the following game:
* Aoki chooses an integer x.
* Starting from Takahashi, the two players alternately ... | Step 1: The code implements the process of the game where Takahashi and Aoki choose cards based on a given integer x.
Step 2: The task is to find the sum of the integers written on the cards that Takahashi will take for each candidate x provided by Aoki.
Step 3: The code processes the input and calculates the sum of... | db71119944eb43b11f6af1b93d87a37baef6ebcc00ff7823834c60594b51bd7e_1_1 | 3f9f7c8592eb5038584b81b6ee4f8ce6d667a049f27b34ad55345b99c88b702a |
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Bridge Construction Planning
There is a city consisting of many small islands, and the citizens live in these islands. Citizens feel inconvenience in requiring ferry rides between these islands. The city mayor decided to build bridges connecting all the islands.
The city has two c... | Step 1: This problem seems to be related to solving a minimum spanning tree.
Step 2: We need to consider the constraints on the proposals when accepting them to form a plan with the lowest budget.
Step 3: We might need to use a graph representation to solve this problem and need algorithms like Prim's or Kruskal's t... | 173b7278d1ee853736baf549cce1c9f213d4b2fd0fd918ea3a129c7e06ed2024_1_1 | a4c5e66cda3867852f317e855174f85594c3ab412d13447573c153aec1865e85 |
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You are given an array consisting of n integers a_1, a_2, ... , a_n and an integer x. It is guaranteed that for every i, 1 ≤ a_i ≤ x.
Let's denote a function f(l, r) which erases all values such that l ≤ a_i ≤ r from the array a and returns the resulting array. For example, if a = ... | Step 1: The goal is to calculate the number of pairs (l, r) such that f(l, r) is sorted in non-descending order.
Step 2: To solve this, we need to find and keep track of the maximum and minimum values for each element within the range [1, x].
Step 3: We then iterate through the constraints to determine the valid pai... | 623b4f3e62e5fed8319eae2fda693da4ab4a6943dbd270ceb7b7c346f0c37616_1_1 | 2d6284a0129b8a46df5743a3bab27685f22daedb985f8acb5f3c2c59100a18cb |
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Natasha's favourite numbers are n and 1, and Sasha's favourite numbers are m and -1. One day Natasha and Sasha met and wrote down every possible array of length n+m such that some n of its elements are equal to 1 and another m elements are equal to -1. For each such array they count... | Step 1: The problem requires calculating the sum of maximal prefix sums for each possible array of length n+m, where n elements are equal to 1 and m elements are equal to -1.
Step 2: To do this, we must determine the maximal prefix sum for each array, and sum these prefix sums while considering the modulo of 99824485... | de72784cf5cb0378ca6acfcca8121a8179c5b9e245f7e801fc44f54ae5ccfeb5_1_1 | 394d1f977ba54e8e7ec5fa71ebb82892abd0bc7b2103d2fa4ea348028669e92a |
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Bob is playing a game of Spaceship Solitaire. The goal of this game is to build a spaceship. In order to do this, he first needs to accumulate enough resources for the construction. There are n types of resources, numbered 1 through n. Bob needs at least a_i pieces of the i-th resou... | Step 1: The problem is to process the updates and keep track of the minimum number of turns needed to finish the game. To solve this problem, we need to keep track of resources and milestones, and update the minimum number of turns accordingly. We also need to consider the optimal strategy for producing resources to m... | c0e9f4cbd0f5568b374b796e4475e0559b14b6d58d827a331d5656a2eb6583b4_1_1 | d9494eae4507f1b793d0fafe025d2a4cb657e618c6710b5dcddb31d1151645b7 |
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Sereja has an n × m rectangular table a, each cell of the table contains a zero or a number one. Sereja wants his table to meet the following requirement: each connected component of the same values forms a rectangle with sides parallel to the sides of the table. Rectangles should b... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to first read the input which includes the dimensions of the table, the maximum number of cells that can be changed, and the initial values in the table.
Step 2: The goal is to determine if Sereja can change the values of certain cells in the table so that each connected compon... | acad84ca09d2d2983e43832a28c64e23a84f394e3d8941678da61a6d38166ec8_1_1 | de15a78b3d0bfcff2a8e4baef1b80caac72db7772ee1c3cbfcd629b7e6d9afd3 |
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Polycarp is a beginner programmer. He is studying how to use a command line.
Polycarp faced the following problem. There are n files in a directory and he needs to delete some of them. Polycarp wants to run a single delete command with filename pattern as an argument. All the files... | Step 1: The problem requires us to find a pattern that matches files to be deleted and only them.
Step 2: To solve this,
Step 3: We need to check if there is a pattern that matches files to be deleted and only them.
Step 4: We can loop through the filenames and use the '?' pattern to exclude filenames that should n... | 695549fac72abbc504c64186995b076318316621ca53ea96e803f597302965e4_1_1 | 67d649c5feea54eec91346aa3674c23a351ae907b532dc62c420f62cd0a4a6da |
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Recently Vladik discovered a new entertainment — coding bots for social networks. He would like to use machine learning in his bots so now he want to prepare some learning data for them.
At first, he need to download t chats. Vladik coded a script which should have downloaded the c... | Step 1: The problem requires us to recover sender information from a series of messages.
Step 2: We need to create a model to recover the sender information for each message in the chat.
Step 3: The model should ensure that each neighboring message has different senders and that no sender mentions themselves in thei... | 4b95df51a7131b6b77ca98ef12ebc7c045155562ceac1ce8edc680c1f297f0f3_1_1 | d54cfb42f138f71f452f2b6b9c26100f7ce5f061cf4c4931a153ce19eda7b163 |
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In this problem is used an extremely simplified version of HTML table markup. Please use the statement as a formal document and read it carefully.
A string is a bHTML table, if it satisfies the grammar:
TABLE ::= <table>ROWS</table>
ROWS ::= ROW | ROW RO... | Step 1: The problem requires parsing a string that represents a bHTML table and finding the number of cells in each table.
Step 2: We should break down the string and iterate through its components to understand the structure of the tables and the number of cells.
Step 3: Finally, we should output the sizes of all t... | b9e4c8e7682fb4763dbb7e6bc630331a0154ca50d58cdda15bdad7084882fa98_1_1 | cc6c6b46ef7d53b28b9a4e832fe7c67f7747bfc2ed54acf5ad6fd63824343d31 |
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Little Fajlu and Laal Baadshah are extremely good, and passionate Age of Empires 2 players. They're crazy about the game, and the passion they display for the game, if displayed for their semester exams - will make them top the university, even. But well, that's them.
Laal Baadshah... | Step 1: The given problem requires us to calculate the power of the largest army that Little Fajlu, a player in the Age of Empires 2 game, can manage to get, given the state of his current economy and the increase in power each unit will give him. We also need to calculate how much power Laal Baadshah will need to def... | 95cf7d240042c4de35064a3e0f93613a8a23ed5df89a9697d4288b6614b9bfeb_1_1 | 920e19e34c256adbebf8784a7f69dad2dea1c408db39897efa434cfdd68f2b44 |
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Ms. Iyo Kiffa-Australis has a balance and only two kinds of weights to measure a dose of medicine.
For example, to measure 200mg of aspirin using 300mg weights and 700mg weights, she can put one 700mg weight on the side of the medicine and three 300mg weights on the opposite side (... | Step 1: The solution uses a brute force method to find the minimum combination of weights to measure a given amount of medicine.
Step 2: The algorithm iterates through all possible combinations of the weights to find the one that comes closest to the required amount of medicine.
Step 3: It then calculates the numbe... | ef6613e7182dd7c80b9515d361788a3e39394a32a00531c0f7d7cb39805ae14e_1_1 | 856d29eb112fcd260d18c78d52ac25b38dd23d3c072cea021fcd2b290d5ed4e3 |
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Akash singh is a student of Mathematics at Geekland University. These days he is busy with his girlfriend Jassi. On the other hand, Jassi don't like mathematics that much. One day, Jassi decided to find all the strings of length N (comprising only of characters from '0' to '9') havi... | Step 1: The problem requires finding the number of strings of length N, composed only of characters from '0' to '9', having an odd number of zeroes.
Step 2: We need to build a solution that calculates the number of such strings for a given length of the string while satisfying the given constraints.
Step 3: The prob... | 12af26eac2493c44db9afb363ac4d8cd37ba2357f4ec432461214ebd390ca9df_1_1 | 26d0418b52f027793aaef3df573866eddedabc21ea365a39a586992e13352413 |
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Many cats are kept at the pastry specialty store Stray Cats. The number of cats was so large that the staff at this store, Nozomi, had trouble feeding. Even if you put food in several places, the cats are greedy and will go to the nearest food, and many cats will concentrate in one ... | Step 1: The problem involves finding the minimum number of cats in the feeding bowl where the most cats are gathered.
Step 2: We need to first read the input, which contains the positions of each group of cats and the positions of bait boxes.
Step 3: We then calculate the distance between each group of cats and th... | 1a66c64c3c00ad8fa5422b96c0f6105be6905822e4a931237685816d445dae73_1_1 | 5cbd7afa6ed168afa4985620b4cfa50ef00148084d1c1e8755c3ad62b614947c |
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This is an easy version of the problem. In this version, all numbers in the given array are distinct and the constraints on n are less than in the hard version of the problem.
You are given an array a of n integers (there are no equals elements in the array). You can perform the fo... | Step 1: The task needs a function that finds the minimum total number of operations needed to sort an array following two given operations.
Step 2: We need to loop through the different test cases and handle each one separately.
Step 3: The operations for each test case involve moving elements in the array to the be... | d07afe1142f790263e59c02c43211da947a15811607e3e5662e731382e591127_1_1 | fb88a9c4f390b2893918800d6bd73c488e02fdaee70ca708009503b54cf68185 |
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You are given a set Y of n distinct positive integers y1, y2, ..., yn.
Set X of n distinct positive integers x1, x2, ..., xn is said to generate set Y if one can transform X to Y by applying some number of the following two operation to integers in X:
1. Take any integer xi and ... | Step 1: The problem requires us to find a set X of distinct integers that can generate the given set Y and has the minimum possible maximum element.
Step 2: We should start by understanding the operations permitted (multiply by two or multiply by two and add one) on the integers in X to transform into integers in Y.
... | 12a079f0383b3c995210516c0198989b9844fcabd06937ecc83853c177f2d3e1_1_1 | 8c087d464db0634bf17612d147cd7c776e7df4062a9d4a42de7761b96bc7f185 |
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Natasha is going to fly on a rocket to Mars and return to Earth. Also, on the way to Mars, she will land on n - 2 intermediate planets. Formally: we number all the planets from 1 to n. 1 is Earth, n is Mars. Natasha will make exactly n flights: 1 → 2 → … n → 1.
Flight from x to y c... | Step 1: The problem involves calculating the minimum mass of fuel needed to be loaded into the rocket for a trip to Mars and back to Earth with intermediate landings on planets.
Step 2: An important consideration is the take-off and landing coefficients for each planet, which determine how much weight can be lifted o... | 6bb4f1d458da0430fa7b8ac38b859663694b8a4560eecf4993696a726ba88c3e_1_1 | 807f04e5224aca8243f491ed48234a5fdcd44d71c927fada425bca432dfee5cd |
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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. Even one opposition member can... | Step 1: The problem describes a situation where the goal is to prevent the election of the opposition candidate by canceling the election results at the minimal possible number of polling stations.
Step 2: To achieve this, we need to calculate the sum of votes cast for each candidate at all polling stations and then ... | 99da79b51ebfd5cd436cfb9e3c56c843b599e48a7d6dc4e074f63dde75665ba0_1_1 | a967bf54ebb9f81ce7b721b22c3258bfa179b83fc9d06ecc8b1b645b02c2e914 |
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Drazil has many friends. Some of them are happy and some of them are unhappy. Drazil wants to make all his friends become happy. So he invented the following plan.
There are n boys and m girls among his friends. Let's number them from 0 to n - 1 and 0 to m - 1 separately. In i-th d... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to check if Drazil can use the plan to make all his friends happy.
Step 2: We should start by parsing the input to obtain the necessary information.
Step 3: Then, we can define a function to convert the list of happy boys/girls to a binary string representation of their states.... | 1f7a02db764572ee61db0ce31eb49a5e8e05df6af07e80fca39d751c5c9f1661_1_1 | b92378539dff8d55fc57795f5354e199b9a434b160a6beb50785ecfd81731e9a |
Coding | codecontest | Write Python code to solve the task.
You are given an integer n from 1 to 10^{18} without leading zeroes.
In one move you can swap any two adjacent digits in the given number in such a way that the resulting number will not contain leading zeroes. In other words, after each move the number you have cannot contain any ... | Step 1: To solve this problem, we need to find the minimum number of moves required to obtain a number that is divisible by 25 by swapping adjacent digits.
Step 2: We must also handle the case when it is impossible to obtain a number divisible by 25.
Step 3: We will use a loop to iterate through the digits of the in... | ea4194ed891bdfe70b64e43ba915ef91fa412b57ae298d42db46bd9c608195a2_1_1 | 09ec3714303bef69cacfc5814632c4ea76501320bf6e2eab7a8c806e667b0658 |
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