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Exchange Rates Description: Now that the Loonie is hovering about par with the Greenback, you have decided to use your $1000 Canadian dollars entrance scholarship to engage in currency speculation. So you gaze into a crystal ball which predicts the closing exchange rate between Canadian and U.S. dollar...
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Exchange Students Description: Determine the minimum number of exchanges needed to arrange the students in the photographer’s preferred order, and find a suitable sequence of exchanges of this minimal length. The photographer only has time for at most $2\cdot 10^5$ exchanges. If more are needed, you on...
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Exciting Tournament Description: A group of players compete in a no-holds-barred tournament. Each player has a unique skill level (represented as an integer). In each game, two players play, and the player of higher skill level wins. The player of lower skill level is immediately eliminated from the t...
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Exhausting Errands Description: Dolly the delivery drone is out for a busy working day. It has to complete $n$ errands in a street where $\ell $ houses are lined up in a row, numbered in ascending order as $1, \dots , \ell $. The distance between adjacent houses is $1$. Each errand consists of pick...
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Exhaustive Experiment Description: The vacuum system contains a wall with possibly leaking components. The physicists have performed vacuum leak tests on some of these components by flushing them with helium gas and then noting down whether their mass spectrometer detected any spike in helium in the va...
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Exits in Excess Description: You own a disco called the Boogie Always Persists Club. The club is famous for its multiple interconnected rooms to twist and shout in. The rooms and the corridors between them form a maze-like structure and for added bonus you have made all the corridors one-way. However, ...
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Exoplanet Lighthouse Description: As humanity travels to extraterrestrial bodies, the need for human or robotic explorers to determine their location on the surface will be critical. Lighthouses offer a simple solution as line-of-sight navigational beacons. An important measurement for lighthouses is g...
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Exotic Fruit Description: Nicole wants to get into the market of exotic fruit. She is planning to sell up to $N$ fruits this year, but she hasn’t yet decided which kinds. She has seeds for $K$ different kinds, which she can plant any number of fruits of. However, planting fruits uses space, water,...
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Expanding Rods Description: When a thin rod of length $L$ is heated $n$ degrees, it expands to a new length $L’ = (1+n \cdot C) \cdot L$, where $C$ is the coefficient of heat expansion. When a thin rod is mounted on two solid walls and then heated, it expands and takes the shape of a circular segment,...
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Expected Earnings Description: Johan likes to play at the casino, but he wonders if a particular slot machine is worth playing on. If Johan wins a game on the machine, he gets $n$ Swedish kronor. He wins with the probability $p$. It costs $k$ kronor to play. Since Johan is not the sharpest tool in the sh...
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Expected Flight Delay Description: Once upon a time, there was a businesswoman named Grace who lived in New York City, New York and frequently traveled to Des Moines, Iowa on a regular daily flight for work. Unfortunately, there was one big problem: Flights from New York to Des Moines were notoriously ...
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Expecting Rain Description: The Bluewater Geocloud Organization (BGO) has recently developed brand new software able to predict with pinpoint precision at which second any particular cloud will start and stop raining, and with what intensity. There is, however, some uncertainty about how a cloud will m...
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Expeditious Cubing Description: Claire is competing in the most popular competition: speedsolving the $3\times 3\times 3$ Rubik’s cube, pictured on the right. Each contestant needs to solve the cube five times, each time with a different random scramble. After all solves are completed, the best and ...
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Exploding Batteries Description: Oops! The latest shipment of laptop batteries has a minor issue. Nothing major, just a slight tendency to explode when being pushed too hard, that’s all. Some of our customers keep pestering us about this tiny defect however, and the media just won’t give us a break. S...
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Exploding CPU Description: The well known hardware manufacturing company Processors for Professors is about to release a highly specialized CPU with exceptional functionality in, amongst other areas, number theory. It has, for example, an instruction PFACT that takes one parameter and returns all prime...
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Exploding CPU 2 Description: The well known hardware manufacturing company Processors for Professors is about to release a highly specialized CPU with exceptional functionality in, amongst other areas, number theory. It has, for example, an instruction PFACT that takes one parameter and returns all pri...
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Exploding Kittens Description: Today your friends are playing a game of Exploding Kittens. On a player’s turn, she must perform the following actions in order: * Draw a single card from the top of the deck. * If the drawn card is an “Exploding Kitten”, she must leave the game unless she has a “Defuse...
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Explosion Exploit Description: You are contemplating your next move. You want to play an “Explosion” spell which deals $d$ units of damage randomly distributed across all minions. The damage is dealt one unit at a time to some remaining minion on the board. Each living minion (including your own) has t...
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Exponent Exchange Description: Alice and Bob are playing a cooperative game. They hold $b^ p$ dollars between them, for given integers $b$ and $p$. Alice initially holds $x$ dollars, and Bob holds $b^ p - x$ dollars. Alice and Bob want to consolidate their money, so one person holds all the mon...
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Exponentially Fun Problem Description: In your spare time, you’ve been at ETA building a machine with a function $S(X) = N$ that given a number $X$ outputs a number $N$, where $N$ is the sum of the prime factors of $X$ counted with multiplicity. For example, $S(12) = S(2 \cdot 2 \cdot 3) = 2 + ...
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Exponentiation Description: There are $n$ integer variables $x_1, x_2, \dots , x_n$. At the start, each variable is set to $2023$. You have to perform $m$ instructions of the following two types: * Operations, of the form “! $i$ $j$”, where $i \neq j$. This means that $x_i$ gets set to...
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Exponial Description: * Exponentiation: $42^{2016} = \underbrace{42 \cdot 42 \cdot \ldots \cdot 42}_{2016\text { times}}$. * Factorials: $2016! = 2016 \cdot 2015 \cdot \ldots \cdot 2 \cdot 1$. Exponentiation: $42^{2016} = \underbrace{42 \cdot 42 \cdot \ldots \cdot 42}_{2016\text ...
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Extensive Or Description: Consider a very large number $R$ in a compressed format. It is compressed as a binary string $s$, and an integer $k$. Start with the empty string, and append $s$ to it $k$ times to get the binary representation of $R$. The string $s$ is guaranteed to have a leading $1$. No...
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Eye of Sauron Description: Little Elrond is obsessed with the Lord of the Rings series. Between lectures he likes to doodle the central tower of the great fortress Barad-dûr in the margins of his notebook. Afterward, he always double checks his drawings to ensure they are accurate: with the Eye of Saur...
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FBI Universal Control Numbers Description: The FBI has recently changed its Universal Control Numbers (UCN) for identifying individuals who are in the FBI’s fingerprint database to an eight digit base $27$ value with a ninth check digit. The digits used are: ``` 0123456789ACDEFHJKLMNPRTVWX ``` Some l...
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FYI Description: In the United States of America, telephone numbers within an area code consist of seven digits: the prefix number is the first three digits and the line number is the last four digits. Traditionally, the $555$ prefix number has been used to provide directory information and assista...
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Facilities Description: It is time to build new restrooms for your bar. Restrooms are expensive, so you want to build as few as possible while ensuring that every guest has access to an unoccupied restroom without having to stand in line. Using discarded plastic cups you have collected the biometric da...
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Facility Locations Description: The HDWBP Inc. has $n$ clients and needs to service these clients by opening $k$ facilities. Each opened facility can serve any number of clients and each client must be served by an open facility. There are $m$ potential locations for these $k$ facilities. The c...
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Factor-Free Tree Description: A factor-free tree is a rooted binary tree where every node in the tree contains a positive integer value that is coprime with all of the values of its ancestors. Two positive integers are coprime if their greatest common divisor equals $1$. The inorder sequence of a root...
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Factor-Full Tree Description: Aivar is very good at number theory. In fact, it is the only thing he is good at, but this doesn’t stop him from achieving great things. However, if Aivar wants to solve any problem in life, he first needs to convert it to number theory. For example, consider a rooted tree wi...
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Factorial Power Description: Given integers $n$ and $m$, determine the largest $k$ for which $n^ k$ divides $m! = 1 \cdot 2 \cdots (m - 1) \cdot m$. ## Input The first and only line of input contains the integers $n$ and $m$ ($2 \le n, m \le 10^{14}$). ## Output Output the integer $k$ from ...
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Factors Description: The fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that every integer greater than 1 can be uniquely represented as a product of one or more primes. While unique, several arrangements of the prime factors may be possible. For example: Let $f(k)$ be the number of different arrangements o...
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Factovisors Description: The factorial function, $n!$ is defined thus for $n$ a non-negative integer: We say that $a$ divides $b$ if there exists an integer $k$ such that $k \cdot a = b$. ## Input The input to your program consists of several lines, each containing two non-negative integers, $n$...
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Factstone Benchmark Description: Amtel will use a new benchmark – the Factstone – to advertise the vastly improved capacity of its new chips. The Factstone rating is defined to be the largest integer $n$ such that $n!$ can be represented as an unsigned integer in a computer word. Given a year $1960 \l...
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Fading Wind Description: You’re competing in an outdoor paper airplane flying contest, and you want to predict how far your paper airplane will fly. Your design has a fixed factor $k$, such that if the airplane’s velocity is at least $k$, it will rise. If its velocity is less than $k$ it will descend. ...
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Fail Fast Description: A large software project has been written with many automated tests to help ensure quality. When a change is made to the source code, all of the automated tests are run in some sequence to help show that the code change has not broken some pre-existing functionality. The code cha...
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Fail Them All! Description: You are an instructor for an algorithms course, and your students have been saying mean things about you on social media. Those jerks! Being a vengeful and dishonest instructor, you are going to make them pay. You have given your students a True/False exam. For each questio...
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Failing Roads Description: There are $n$ towns in the kingdom of Failland. In the past, Failland used to have an excellent system of roads, connecting each town directly to each other, without any two roads crossing – they used a complicated system of bridges to ensure this. Recently, however, the ...
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Fair Bandwidth Sharing Description: Dreaming of revolutionizing the tech industry and making the world a better place, Ging has recently moved to Silicon Valley to found his own startup, Katbook. Katbook allows users to download cat pictures. Katbook is capable of transferring $t$ bits per second. There ...
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Fair Division Description: It’s your friend’s birthday, and you and some other people decided to buy him a copy of StarCraft II, because who wouldn’t want to have that? You agreed to divide the costs as fairly as possible. Since some of you have more money available than others, you also agreed that n...
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Fair Division Description: Fortunately, pirates in the 21st century can use a computer to avoid this lengthy process and constant nitpicking when the fraction $f$ does not exactly divide the loot at some step. You have been captured by the pirates and asked to come up with a suitable fraction $f$. ...
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Fair Divisions Description: Lily and Severus discovered very special magical plants that glowed in the dark in the field behind their favorite playground. The children greatly admired the plants and loved to sit in the field, watch the plants, and chat to each other. Until one day, a quarrel (something...
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Fair Fruitcake Fragmenting Description: Frida’s birthday is just coming up, and as her best friend, you obviously baked a cake for her. Since you know that Frida loves rotational symmetry, you thought to bake a cake that looks the same from above when rotated by $180^\circ $. Of course, you could have ...
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Fair Play Description: Together with your coworker, Larry, you are organizing the exciting Billiards and Pool Competition for your coworkers in your small company. You and Larry are usually on the same page, and surely he will approve of your latest idea. You even bought a nice prize for your coworkers...
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Fair Warning Description: On our planet, Jamcode IX, three Great Events occurred. They happened $26\, 000$, $11\, 000$ and $6\, 000$ slarboseconds ago. In $4\, 000$ slarboseconds, the amount of time since all of those events will be multiples of $5\, 000$ slarboseconds, the largest possible...
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Fair brewing Description: United Brewery was born through fusions and mergers of various small and local breweries that each produced their own particular kind of beer. The recipes of the smaller breweries were strongly loved by local fan bases, and the beers continued to be brewed at United Brewery. I...
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Fake Arithmetic Sequence Description: This problem has nothing to do with Arithmetic Sequence, but I thought it did, hence the name. You’re given a sequence $a$ of length $n$ containing only integers. Find the longest subsequence $b$ of $a$ such that for all $3 \leq i \leq length(b)$, $b[i] = b[i-...
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Fake Graph Theory Description: SoCCat challenges you to solve the following combinatorics problem: Given a graph $G$ with $4n$ vertices, along with two permutations $p$ and $q$, each with size $2n$ on the set $\{ 1, 2, \ldots , 2n\} $. Add the following $4n$ edges: * For each $i \in ...
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Fake It `Til You Make It Description: Fluttershy has been put in charge of a high-end boutique in Manehattan, and she needs to deal with the customers that come in. It is well-known that Fluttershy is, well, very shy. So shy, in fact, that the only time she feels comfortable dealing with a customer is...
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Fake News! Description: Excitement is rapidly increasing in anticipation of the concluding debate at the 0x7E4 Undemocratic Inclinational Unconvention, where the party’s candidate for the office of Student Assistant to the Old Chemistry Building Assistant Printer Service Technician’s Assistant will be ...
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Fake Scoreboard Description: As you know, after the award ceremony of SWERC it is customary to publish a complete scoreboard with detailed information on the submissions and verdicts received. However, due to the buggy contest management system, most of the relevant data are not being recorded today. C...
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Fake Snowflake Description: Alexander is a climate change denier and wants to prove to Joshua that the Earth is not getting warmer at all. Alexander argues that it has already snowed several times in November, which suggests that the temperature is dropping. Joshua, who mostly stays indoors, hasn’t not...
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Faktor Description: The impact factor of a scientific journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science journals. For this task we are using a simplified formula for calculating the impact factor: Rounding is always performed upwards. For example the impa...
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Falcon Dive Description: “Our high speed camera failed at the most inappropriate moment,” said the director of the ZOO. “This sequence with the falcon hurtling towards the ground at $250\, \mathrm{km}/\mathrm{h}$ is absolutely stunning. I had hopes that we could use the last frame as a promotion pictur...
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Falling Apart Description: After acquiring a new integer and showing it off to other couples at a cocktail party, Alice and Bob headed home for a good night of sleep. As their integer was quite large, they were forced to carry it together. Then, on the Boole Boulevard, right by the Bayes Bay, disaster ...
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Falling Apples Description: * The obstacles do not move. * Whenever there is an empty cell immediately below an apple, the apple moves into the empty cell. The obstacles do not move. Whenever there is an empty cell immediately below an apple, the apple moves into the empty cell. Print out the f...
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Falling Mugs Description: Susan is making high-speed videos of falling coffee mugs. When analyzing the videos she wants to know how big the mugs are, but unfortunately they all got destroyed during filming. Susan knows some physics though, so she has figured out how far they moved between different vid...
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Falling Snow Description: In the cold and remote areas of northern Sweden, a young boy named Anton lives. Being born to a family of pistvakts (an occupation that involves drinking moonshine called “bäverhojt”, hunting bears and occasionally handling safety in the mountains), he has been handed the resp...
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Falling Snow Description: Princess Kaguya is running through the snowy mountains! However, since it has been snowing quite hard, the terrain is very rough, and thus she would like to plan around it. Kaguya has created a mental image of what the snow was like some time ago, which may include snow suspended...
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False Sanctum Description: Kivotos is in deep trouble. Familiar yet different monsters had made their appearance all over Kivotos, guarding what seems to be False Sanctums. The students plan to destroy these sanctums as fast as possible to stop the monster raid. The hacker group of the Millenium Science S...
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False Sanctum: Act 2 Description: At the other side of Kivotos, the Trinity General School detected an abnormally high number of monsters in the school’s underground system. While many students are trying their best to fend off the monsters, Mika charges in to the center of the anomaly, hoping to find ...
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False Sense of Security Description: Freddy discovered a new procedure to grow much bigger cauliflowers. He wants to share this finding with his fellow gardener Tommy but he does not want anyone to steal the procedure. So the two gardeners agreed upon using a simple encryption technique proposed by M. ...
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Familiar Digit Description: A digit is called familiar to an array of positive integers if that digit appears in every elements of the array. For example, an array $[14, 1470, 161240, 111000444]$ has $2$ familiar digits: $1$ and $4$. Also note that, $0$ is not a familiar digit because $0$ doesn’t appea...
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Family DAG Description: In a perfect world, your family tree would form a complete binary tree, with you at the root. You would have two different parents who were distinct from yourself. You would have four distinct grandparents who were distinct from your parents and yourself, and so on. Of course, ...
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Family Fares Description: After a long time apart, your family will gather next year for a reunion in an idyllic village in the centre of the country. Since everybody lives apart, most will need to travel by train. You are in charge of finding the best deal on tickets. Everyone must take an optimal ro...
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Family Visits Description: You are a college student living on your own. However, your doting family still likes to visit you, and they often stop by to check on your room at night before going to dinner. Your family will be worried if they find a mess in your room. Therefore you make an effort to ensu...
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Famous Pagoda Description: In order to build a staircase to a famous pagoda on top of a mountain, the local authority has identified $N$ positions along the mountain slope $a_1, a_2, \ldots , a_ N$ where $a_ i$ is the height of the $i$-th position and $a_ i \leq a_{i+1}$ for all $0<i<N$. The c...
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Fancy Antiques Description: You are hosting a fancy party for fancy friends. And, like any fancy party, you need to buy some fancy antiques to put up around the venue (your house). There is a set of $n$ fancy antiques that you need to buy. And there is a set of $m$ fancy antique shops in the city....
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Fancy Fence Description: As laser fences are rather expensive, Lökas can only afford to upgrade $K$ of the fence posts to laser fence posts. If a set of posts are upgraded, the lasers will protect all the onions lying strictly within the convex hull of the selected fence posts. This may not be all ...
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Fancy Fence (easy) Description: Oskar really loves onions. Unfortunately, the onions he loves belong to the local vegetable farmer, Lökas Tomatcek. Since Oskar is very cheap, he simply steals Lökas’ onions from the large, convex, onion field. For obvious reasons, Lökas does not approve of this. Rather ...
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Fantastic Problem Description: Andrew, the world-renowned problem writer, has finally decided to retire. However, he first wishes to put out one final masterpiece to seal his legacy and amaze competitors the world over. As you’re his favorite pupil, he’s asked you to help him proofread it before he sub...
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Fantasy Draft Description: In fantasy hockey, there are $n$ team owners that each selects $k$ hockey players. To determine which owner gets which players, the owners hold a draft. The draft proceeds as follows: the first owner may select any player, then the second owner can select any player except ...
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Farey Sequence Length Description: Given a positive integer, $N$, the sequence of all fractions $a / b$ with $0 \le a \le b$, $1 \le b \le N$ and $a$ and $b$ relatively prime, listed in increasing order, is called the Farey Sequence of order $N$. For example, the Farey Sequence of order $6$ is: Fo...
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Farey Sums Description: Given a positive integer, $N$, the sequence of all fractions $a / b$ with $0 \le a \le b$, $1 \le b \le N$, and $a$ and $b$ relatively prime, listed in increasing order, is called the Farey Sequence of order $N$. For example, the Farey Sequence of order $6$ is: If the denominators...
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Farmer's Field Description: Taeko Okajima is helping her relatives with their safflower field. She needs your help eliminating weeds from the safflower field. Her field is arranged in a $1$ dimensional line of units, where each unit is either a safflower crop, empty space, or weed, denoted by $C$, ...
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Farming Mars Description: It has been ten years since the miserable day that you won a one-way ticket to Mars on a game show. Your colony’s attempt at terraforming Mars has faced nothing but hardship during that time. The latest disaster: a complete failure of the potato crop. You will have to start pl...
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Fast Food Prizes Description: Around regional contest time, the Canadian branch of a popular fast food restaurant usually runs a game to promote its business. Certain food items provide stickers, and certain collection of different stickers can be converted to cash prizes. If a prize requires sticker t...
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Fast Fourier Transform Description: You are given two polynomials. You should simply print their product. This time you have to do it fast though. ## Input The first line of input contains two positive integers $n, m$, the number of coefficients in each polynomial. The next two lines contain one poly...
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Faster Than Light Description: Faster Than Light (FTL) is a space-based top-down strategy game by Subset Games. You control a ship which belongs to the Galactic Federation and have to fight a ship of the Rebel Faction. The enemies’ spaceship is represented by a set of axis-aligned non-intersecting ...
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Fastest Available Route Description: Your GPS has been directing you to an unknown destination for the past several hours. You are curious about where it will take you to, and how long the remaining drive will be. You try to look at the display of your GPS to find out. The screen of your GPS can be modele...
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Fastest Speedrun Description: The classic video game “Prince of Python” comprises $n$ levels, numbered from $1$ to $n$. You are going to speedrun this game by finishing all of the levels as fast as possible, and you can beat them in any order that you want. You enter each level equipped with one of $n...
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Faucet Flow Description: The faucet is above location $x=0$, and the dividers are located at $x=-1, -3, -5, \ldots , \text {left}_ x$ and $1, 3, 5, \ldots , \text {right}_ x$. The dividers are attached perpendicular to the floor and sides of the aquarium, and have various heights. The aquarium’s le...
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Faulty Robot Description: As part of a CS course, Alice just finished programming her robot to explore a graph having $n$ nodes, labeled $1, 2, \ldots , n$, and $m$ directed edges. Initially the robot starts at node $1$. While nodes may have several outgoing edges, Alice programmed the robot so that any n...
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Faulty Sprinklers Description: Bob’s green thumb has recently gotten him a job as a gardener at a local park. Along with caring for all the plants in the garden, he was also given the responsibility of completely redesigning the park with all new equipment and green spaces. Unfortunately for Bob, he’s...
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Feeding the Herrings Description: Zookeper Willy is feeding herrings today. He is feeding them to seals, as they are their preferred food. There are three separate pools in which the seals live. The ZOO is a modern institution and it demands their employees to keep track of feeding habits of animals. T...
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Feistel Fun Description: A Feistel network, named after IBM researcher Horst Feistel (1915–1990), is an important structure often used in the design of symmetric-key ciphers known as block ciphers. A block cipher encrypts binary data in (relatively large) fixed-length chunks called blocks. For a bl...
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Fence Bowling Description: Olav is spending an evening on his own, practicing in the bowling hall. Annoyingly, the side-rails in his lane are stuck in the active position, so if the ball goes out of bounds, then it simply bounces back in. This seems unfair to Olav, so he decide that any throw that does...
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Fence Fee Description: The National Crop Protection Commission (NCPC) is dedicated to supporting local farmers by offering subsidies that are proportional to the area of their crop fields. Each farmer can have several crop fields, each uniquely shaped but geometrically defined as a polygon, bounded by ...
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Fence Orthogonality Description: Evil bunnies are eating Freddy’s vegetables. In order to stop them, he decided to build a fence enclosing all vegetables in his garden. Freddy wants the fence to be as cheap (i.e., short) as possible, but for technical reasons, he can only build rectangular fences. For ...
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Fences Make Good Neighbors Description: The King of Gletrian has a large estate that he wishes to divide up into triangular parcels which he then plans to give to deserving (that is, wealthy) followers. The estate is a convex polygon and already has fences around its borders, so the only cost now will ...
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Fencing Lessons Description: Donald’s garden has $N$ trees and $M$ poles that he has erected in strategic locations on integer meter coordinates. He wants to start breeding squirrels on top of these poles. Unfortunately there are lots of dangerous predators in the area, so if he leaves the poles un...
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Fend Off Titan Description: You are a righteous knight in a kingdom with $N$ villages with $M$ bidirectional roads. The villages are labeled from $1$ to $N$ while the roads are labeled from $1$ to $M$. The $i$-th road connects two different villages $A_ i$ and $B_ i$ with a length of $W_ i$. No two roa...
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Fenwick Tree Description: A Fenwick Tree (also known as a Binary Indexed Tree) is a data structure on an array which enables fast ($O(\log n)$) updates and prefix sum queries on the underlying data. For this problem, implement a Fenwick Tree to support operations of two types: (a) increment an element in ...
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Ferry Loading Description: Before bridges were common, ferries were used to transport cars across rivers. River ferries, unlike their larger cousins, run on a guide line and are powered by the river’s current. Two lanes of cars drive onto the ferry from one end, the ferry crosses the river, and the car...
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Ferry Loading Description: A ferry is being loaded with cars, and there’s a long line of cars queued up to enter the ferry. Since the time between the ferry’s departures is very long, it’s important that as many cars as possible can board the ferry. The shipping company, Crappy Shippers Inc., has latel...
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Ferry Loading III Description: Before bridges were common, ferries were used to transport cars across rivers. River ferries, unlike their larger cousins, run on a guide line and are powered by the river’s current. Cars drive onto the ferry from one end, the ferry crosses the river, and the cars exit fr...
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Ferry Loading IV Description: Before bridges were common, ferries were used to transport cars across rivers. River ferries, unlike their larger cousins, run on a guide line and are powered by the river’s current. Cars drive onto the ferry from one end, the ferry crosses the river, and the cars exit fro...
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Ferry Loading V Description: Before bridges were common, ferries were used to transport vehicles across rivers. River ferries, unlike their larger cousins, run on a guide line and are powered by the river’s current. Two lanes of vehicles drive onto the ferry from one end, the ferry crosses the river, a...
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Ferskasta Jarmið Description: Bjarki worries a lot about his social media performance. He cares deeply about being hip and cool in the eyes of the current youth. After much research and extensive measurements, he has determined two main factors deciding how much attention a given meme will get on socia...
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Fiat Description: “Your wish is my command.” ­–Genie (Aladdin). The king of Rectangle Land has just received a royal gift, a stairstep-shaped piece of wood with $N$ steps, from the neighboring kingdom of Stairstep-Shaped Piece of Wood With $N$ Steps Land. The king accepted the gift out of courtesy, but h...
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