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Röknet Description: In every computer a logical network can be found. These networks are used to evaluate boolean expressions and thus create the basis for more complex calculations that the computer performs. Logical networks consist of different objects that can up to two inputs and up to one output....
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Röðun Description: One of the popular tasks in computer science is the problem of sorting. Given a list of sortable items, for example numbers or strings, with the goal being to order them in either increasing or decreasing order. In this problem the task is to sort a list of contestants’ names in incr...
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Röðunarrugl Description: ## Input The first line of the input contains a single integer $n$ satisfying $1 \leq n \leq 10^5$, the number of items to rearrange. Next there is a line with $n$ integers $k_1, k_2, \dots , k_ n$ satisfying $1 \leq k_ i \leq n$. The value $k_ i$ is the place the ...
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RúnaHeimur Description: In a sliding puzzle, an image has been divided into $n$ rows and $m$ columns. Thus in total the image has been segmented into $n \cdot m$ cells. The cells are often marked with numbers from $1$ to $n \cdot m$ from left to right. The initial state is then, for example, ``` 1...
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Rúnnfræði Description: Dagur is working on the homework he was assigned in the statistics course he is taking. Dagur is however not sure whether he should be rounding his answers or truncating them. If his answer were $123.456$ then he could round to the next hundredth and get $123.46$. If he however t...
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S-Nim Description: Arthur and his sister Carol have been playing a game called Nim for some time now. Nim is played as follows: * The starting position has a number of heaps, all containing some, not necessarily equal, number of beads. * The players take turns chosing a heap and removing a ...
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S10 Description: On Suðurlandsbraut, it can prove difficult to find a parking spot, as many people have business with the companies residing there. A large portion of the parking spots are explicitly marked for the customers of these companies and are for short term parking only. Therefore they may onl...
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SETI Description: For some years, quite a lot of work has been put into listening to electromagnetic radio signals received from space, in order to understand what civilizations in distant galaxies might be trying to tell us. One signal source that has been of particular interest to the scientists at U...
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SG Coin Description: There is a new cryptocurrency called SG coin. Alice purchases an item from Bob and pays in SG coin. The transaction is recorded in a blockchain. A blockchain is a chain of blocks where each block contains the hash value of the previous block, a transaction string, a token, and the ...
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SMIL Description: Siffermaskinen i Lund (SMIL, “The Number Machine in Lund”) was a first-generation computer built at Lund University, in operation from 1956 to 1970. It was based on the computer architecture developed by John von Neumann at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton. Your task is...
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SMS Typing Description: When typing SMS messages on a mobile phone, each of the ten digit buttons represent several alphabetic characters. On my phone (an ancient Ericsson T65, in case anyone was wondering), I have the following mapping (1 is used for space, and 0 for some common non-alphabetic symbols...
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Sabor Description: A land far, far away has N Members of Parliament (MP). They had a turbulent and passionate debate on the law on amendments to the law on a new referendum on referendums. From Monday to Friday, all MPs joyfully came to work and argued all day. A diligent news reporter photographed MPs at...
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Sacred Texts Description: You are a respected dwarven archaeologist. Your job consists of scouring ruins and reading ancient texts. Recently while under an expedition your team had uncovered sacred texts you believe belong to the Great Circles. Each dwarven rune consists of one or more characters. These ...
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Safari Zones Description: The researchers at the Safari Zone are trying to introduce Midnight Lycanrocs into their preserve. However, due to their aggressive tendencies, the researchers need to find out how much space to allocate for the Lycanrocs. So far, the researchers have determined that Lycanrocs vi...
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Safe Houses Description: Anyone knows that the best place to learn the art of espionage is at the Manhattan Academy of Private Spies (MAPS). Scattered across Manhattan are a number of safe houses, which are used by MAPS when conducting drills. During a drill, each spy-in-training is required to travel ...
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Safe Passage Description: A group of friends snuck away from their school campus, but now they must return from the main campus gate to their dorm while remaining undetected by the many teachers who patrol the campus. Fortunately, they have an invisibility cloak, but it is only large enough to cover tw...
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Safe Racing Description: Tomorrow is racing day. There will be yet another grand prix in yet another country. Beside the safety car, there are various other security measures in order to make sure that everybody is as safe as possible. Among these safety measures are the track marshals: special race of...
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Safest Taxi Description: Consider a town whose road network forms an $N \times M$ grid, where adjacent intersections are connected by roads. All roads are bi-directional. Each direction has an associated number - the time needed to travel from one end-point to another. Each direction of each road consists...
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Safety in Numbers Description: There are $N$ contestants in a reality TV show. Each contestant is assigned a point value by the judges and receives votes from the audience. The point value given by the judges and the audience’s votes are combined to form a final score for the contestant, in the fol...
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Sailing Friends Description: A common saying goes that if you like sailing, it is much better to have a friend with a boat rather than being the friend with a boat.1 Being mathematically inclined, you have realized that this property applies recursively – it is much better to be the friend of a friend...
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Saint John Festival Description: Porto’s Festa de São João is one of Europe’s liveliest street festivals. Its peak is the night of 23rd to 24th of June, with dancing parties from Ribeira to Foz all night long. Time to celebrate, with friends, relatives, neighbours or simply with other people in street...
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Salt Description: Given an array $a$ of length $n$, find the minimum nonnegative integer $s$ such that for some $L \geq 0$, $a_i = (L + i) \operatorname {XOR} s$ for all $ 0 \leq i \leq n-1$. The existence of at least one such $s$ is guaranteed by the input. ## Input The input consists of 2 lines, th...
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Same Digits (Easy) Description: Two positive integers, $x$ and $y$, are called digit-preserving if their product, $xy$, contains exactly the same digits as $x$ and $y$ contain together, including repetitions. For example, if $x = 807$ and $y = 984$, then their product, $794088$, contains $\textrm{o...
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Same Digits (Hard) Description: Two positive integers, $x$ and $y$, are called digit-preserving if their product, $xy$, contains exactly the same digits as $x$ and $y$ contain together, including repetitions. For example, if $x = 807$ and $y = 984$, then their product, $794088$, contains $\textrm{o...
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Samhverfudulritun Description: Sigga has been following the progress on quantum computers. She feels a bit threatened since they might break RSA encryption, which is based on primes, and is widely used to encrypt messages on the internet today. If this encryption system hasn’t been replaced when the fi...
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Samlokur Description: Atli is a big fan of sandwiches. The last few years he has developed a very specific taste in sandwiches. The store Atli usually goes to to buy sandwiches has closed down for the next $k$ days due to COVID. This worries Atli since he has to get his daily sandwiches. He has $n$...
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Sammaeining Description: Sammi’s favorite number is $7$. He is so infatuated by it that everything he does revolves around the number $7$. Sammi is also a Hackintosh confectionary enthusiast. Sammi recently got a box of Hackintosh confectioneries with $n$ pieces. Each piece was labeled with a unique n...
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San Description: Anica is having peculiar dream. She is dreaming about an infinite board. On that board, an infinite table consisting of infinite rows and infinite columns containing infinite numbers is drawn. Interestingly, each number in the table appears a finite number of times. The table is of ex...
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Sand Art Description: At art shows, it is very common to have booths where children can create their very own sand art. This art is typically made by taking a jar or bottle and filling it with layers of different colors of sand. Instead of a bottle, this year a new container is being used for decoratin...
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Sandwich Art Description: Zig, the alien, has received one-too-many odd looks for eating a PBPB (Peanut Butter Pickle on Baguette) sandwich. Zig has decided to consult you, a 100% real human being, to help him make his next sandwich and better pretend to be human. Zig has already started making his nex...
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Sanic Description: Sanic Hegehog likes to go fast. While Sanic can run, he especially enjoys curling himself up into a ball and rolling really fast downhill through loops. Sanic tries and fails to count the number of rotations he makes while spinning through a loop: spinning so fast makes him dizzy and...
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Sannvirði Description: Dröfn Karen loves the new game show, Sannvirði, in the television programme schedule. What she enjoys the most is seeing how happy the winner is once they receive the prize. She is thrilled to watch each episode. Each episode begins with the game show host displaying some item y...
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Santa Klas Description: Santa Klas is in trouble! The ACM (Aerodynamic Christmas Machines) has called you in to be their subject matter expert for the current situation. Santa Klas recently got himself a new bunch of reindeers, that would boost his speed even more while travelling across the sky. The ...
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Saskatchewan Description: The province of Saskatchewan is surveyed in sections. A section is a square mile of land. Grid roads delimit sections; there is one north-south and one east-west road exactly every mile. (Complications arise because of the curvature of the earth but you can disregard these and...
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Satisfaction Guaranteed Description: Consider a very simple programming language, with only three types of statements: ``` if <boolean expression> then <statement list> fi if <boolean expression> then <statement list> else <statement list> fi checkpoint ``` All keywords are required to consist of all l...
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Saturn Bees Description: The Saturn bee (Apis saturnii) is quite an interesting species. To begin with, they build their hives in the shape of a ring. More precisely, a beehive is a hexagonal grid, which we represent as a graph where walls are edges and wall joins are vertices. If we flatten each hexag...
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Sauna Description: Kaisa and her friends are going to the sauna! Now they have to pick the temperature. Each of them has their own temperature preferences as an inclusive range of acceptable values. Can you help them find the temperatures that everyone is happy with? Since there might be a large number o...
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Saunas Description: However, problems often occur when there is company. The most important thing when one uses a sauna is that the temperature is set correctly. A Finn can be really fussy about a sauna’s temperature. Different Finns have different maximum temperatures that they tolerate. If the temper...
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Savez Description: There are eight planets and one planetoid in the Solar system. It is not a well known fact that there is a secret planet S4 inhabited by small creatures similar to bears, their codename being Lodas. Although this fact is well hidden from the public, the association Savez sent a team ...
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Saving Daylight Description: The shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere is the winter solstice, around December 22, which marks the beginning of winter. This day is not really any shorter, of course, because it still has 24 hours. But it has the fewest hours of daylight of any day. On the ...
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Saving For Retirement Description: Alice is saving for her retirement. She hasn’t really decided how much she wants to save, but when she retires, she wants to have strictly more money than Bob will have when he retires. Bob is $B$ years old. He plans to retire when he becomes $B_ r$ years old. He sav...
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Saving Princess Peach Description: Mario is trying to save his beloved Princess Peach! However, in order to do that, Mario must jump over many obstacles in order to save Princess Peach. Thus, he makes a grand plan to infiltrate Bowser’s castle. But first, he needs to practice. His brother Luigi makes a ...
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Saving the Universe Description: The urban legend goes that if you go to the Google homepage and search for "Google", the universe will implode. We have a secret to share... It is true! Please don’t try it, or tell anyone. All right, maybe not. We are just kidding. The same is not true for a universe far ...
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Scaffolding Description: As a construction worker, you want to build a bamboo scaffold for an upcoming festival. There are specific requirements for the final scaffold, which will be part of a vertical, $2$-dimensional grid. $N+1$ vertical long bamboos are already established, so there are $N$ colu...
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Scaling Recipe Description: You’ve got a recipe which specifies a number of ingredients, the amount of each ingredient you will need, and the number of portions it produces. But, the number of portions you need is not the same as the number of portions specified in the recipe! How can you scale it? ##...
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Scaling Recipes Description: Some recipes are specifically written to ease the task of scaling. These recipes are developed using “Baker’s percentages.” Each ingredient is listed not only by weight (in grams), but also as a percentage relative to the “main ingredient.” The main ingredient will always h...
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Scenery Description: You have decided to spend a day of your trip to Rapid City taking photographs of the South Dakota Badlands, which are renowned for their spectacular and unusual land formations. You are an amateur photographer, yet very particular about lighting conditions. After some careful rese...
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Schedule Description: The Institute for Creative Product Combinations (ICPC) tries to find unusual and innovative ways to unite seemingly unrelated products or technologies, opening up new markets and creating new jobs. (For instance, their most recent success was the “hairbachi,” a hair-dryer with a h...
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Scholar's Lawn Description: Famously at Cambridge, and often copied at other schools, is the tradition of the “Scholar’s Lawn” – an area of grass where Fellows of the school, or other distinguished entities, can walk, but regular students cannot. So, if a student spies a Fellow walking across campus, and ...
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School Spirit Description: As the coach of your university’s ICPC teams, you encourage your students to solve as many Kattis problems as possible. This has numerous benefits — for example, it helps improve students’ competitive programming skills, and it also creates a strong sense of school spirit. Th...
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Science! Description: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Aperture Science. Astronauts, War Heroes, Olympians — you’re here because we want the best, and you are it. That said, it’s time to make some science. Now, I want each of you to stand on one of these buttons. Well done, we’re making great progres...
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Scientific Grading Description: You recently started working as a TA (teaching assistant) for your university’s Scientific Computing class. Today, Professor introduced the scientific notation, where numbers are written in the form $m \times 10^ n$ with a real number $m$ (the significand) and an int...
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Score! Description: Kathy is in charge of statistics for the girl’s basketball team at her high school. She meticulously records each basket made and the time it occurred. Her record book for a game might begin as follows: ``` H 2 0:13 A 2 0:19 H 1 0:52 H 1 0:52 A ...
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Scrabble Flash Description: Players of this game have noticed that it is much easier to find another word that is similar to the current word than to find another word that is less similar. These players believe they have come up with a formula to estimate the amount of time it takes to find the next w...
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Screamers in the Storm Description: On Mars, though its atmosphere is very thin, winds can blow with unexpected force. The effect can grow even stronger in narrow and deep canyons close to the equator. The floor of one of these canyons is extremely flat and it is used for transport because its steep wa...
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Scrolling Sign Description: Electric scrolling signs are often used for advertising. A given sign displays exactly $k$ characters. When the sign is switched on, all of the character positions are initially empty (showing spaces). In each time interval, all of the characters on the sign are shifted to t...
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Sculpture Description: Imagine a box, made of copper plate. Imagine a second one, intersecting the first one, and several others, intersecting each other (or not). That is how the sculptor Oto Boxing constructs his sculptures. In fact he does not construct that much, he only makes the design; the actua...
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Secret Chamber at Mount Rushmore Description: In 1982, the famous archaeologist S. Dakota Jones secretly visited the monument and found that the chamber actually was completed, but it was kept confidential. This seemed suspicious and after some poking around, she found a hidden vault and some documents...
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Secret Message Description: Jack and Jill developed a special encryption method, so they can enjoy conversations without worrrying about eavesdroppers. Here is how: let $L$ be the length of the original message, and $M$ be the smallest square number greater than or equal to $L$. Add $(M - L)$ asterisks...
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Secret Santa Description: Christmas comes sooner every year. In fact, in one oft-forgotten corner of the world, gift-giving has already started in the form of a Secret Santa syndicate. Everybody in the small town of Haircombe is going to put their name into a hat. This hat will be given a hearty shuffle, ...
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Secret Santa Cycles Description: Tina is organizing Secret Santa at work. Secret Santa is a game where everyone is assigned to give a gift to another person, in secret. On the last day before Christmas, everyone opens their present. The opening ceremony is organized in the following way: Tina picks a ...
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Secret Sequence Description: There is a secret sequence of zeros and ones of length $n$, and you want to know the number of ones in the sequence. You are allowed to ask queries by giving four integers $0 \leq a \leq b \leq c \leq d \leq n$. The answer to the query will be $-1$ if the sum of the numbers...
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Secure Doors Description: You need to write a simple software auditor for tracking employees entering and exiting your building using their access cards (each card uniquely identifies the employee holding the card). Your software needs to look at the access log and determine if there are any anomalies....
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Security Badge Description: The contract for the lock system, however, was put out to the lowest bidder, who clearly misunderstood the intention. Instead of each lock storing a list of permitted ID numbers, instead each lock stores exactly two numbers, a lower and upper bound, and permits passage to ba...
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Segment Drawing Description: You’re given some points, paired with an equal number of line segments. All points are strictly above the x-axis. Each line segment lies completely on the x-axis. None of the line segments share any common points. You would like to draw some new line segments – one for each ...
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Segment Monitoring Description: After successfully conquering all city-states in Kattago, the super-feline kingdom of Katen and its leader Kattis seek better control over their conquered city-states, particularly in the state of Segby. Segby consists of a single long line. Recently, rumors of rebellion...
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Select Group Description: Playing the popularity game is all about getting yourself into the right groups. If you are on the football team and the honor roll, this might impress some people. If you are in the AV club, chess club, and academic probation, perhaps not so much. For this problem, develop a ...
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Self-Assembly Description: Automatic Chemical Manufacturing is experimenting with a process called self-assembly. In this process, molecules with natural affinity for each other are mixed together in a solution and allowed to spontaneously assemble themselves into larger structures. But there is one pr...
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Self-Similar Strings Description: An object is sometimes called ‘self-similar’ if there are parts of it that are repeated in other places within the same object. Fractals are self-similar mathematical objects, where the similarities occur at different sizes. Here, we’ll consider ‘self-similar strings.’ We...
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Selling Land Description: As you may know, the country of Absurdistan is full of abnormalities. For example, the whole country can be divided into unit squares that are either grass or swamp. Also, the country is famous for its incapable bureaucrats. If you want to buy a piece of land (called a parcel)...
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Selling Spatulas Description: You have finally realized your life-long dream: you opened your own chain of retail stores specializing in hard-to-find spatulas. Being your own boss is great – but you have to make all the decisions, like when your stores should be open. Being somewhat methodical, you dec...
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Semafori Description: Luka is driving his truck along a long straight road with many traffic lights. For each traffic light he knows how long the red and green lights will be on (the cycle repeating endlessly). When Luka starts his journey, all traffic lights are red and just started their cycle. Luka...
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Semi-prime H-numbers Description: This problem is based on an exercise of David Hilbert, who pedagogically suggested that one study the theory of $4n+1$ numbers. Here, we do only a bit of that. An H-number is a positive number which is one more than a multiple of four: $1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21,...$ are th...
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Send More Money Description: You may have seen puzzles, sometimes called cryptarithmetic puzzles, or simply cryptarithms, that look like this: The goal of this kind of puzzle is to replace each letter with a (base-$10$) digit so that the resulting arithmetic equality holds. Here are the rules: * A gi...
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Sensor Network Description: Samantha is a researcher working on the Amazon Carbon-dioxide Measurement (ACM) project. In this project, a wireless sensor network in the Amazon rainforest gathers environmental information. The Amazon rainforest stores an amount of carbon equivalent to a decade of global f...
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Sensor Network Description: In response to a request by the SWERC 2010 problem-setting team, a sensor network has just been installed in the headquarters. The organizing committee has put in the problem-setters the disproportionate fear of suffering a leak of classified information about the problems. ...
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Sentry Robots Description: We need to guard a set of points of interest using sentry robots that can not move or turn. We can position a sentry at any position facing either north, south, east or west. Once a sentry is settled, it guards the points of interest that are infront of it. If two or more poi...
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Sequence Description: A sequence of positive integers $(x_1,\ldots ,x_ m)$ is good if $x_1 = 1$ and for each $1 < j \leq m$ we have either $x_ j=x_{j-1}+1$ or $x_ j=x_ k\cdot x_ l$ for some $k$ and $l$ with $0< k\leq l< j$. For instance, the sequences $(1,1)$ and $(1,2)$ are both good, ...
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Sequence Guessing Description: You are tasked with creating a secret sequence of integers that is difficult to guess. The sequence is subject to the following constraints: * The first number in the sequence must be $0$. * The last number in the sequence must be $100\, 000$. * Each number in the sequence must b...
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Sequence Reduction Description: We are given a sequence $a_1$, $\dots $, $a_ n$. We can manipulate this sequence using the operation $\text {reduce}(i)$, which replaces elements $a_ i$ and $a_{i+1}$ with a single element $\max (a_ i , a_{i+1})$, resulting in a new shorter sequence. The cost of ...
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Sequential Manufacturing Description: A certain manufacturing process consists of $N$ different machines, through which raw material pass in order until it becomes the manufactured goods. The $i$’th machine takes $T_ i$ seconds to process a good when input. A good moves automatically through the syste...
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Sequential Yahtzee Description: Danny has a hand-held game of Yahtzee that he likes to play (how 90’s!). The object of Yahztee is to score points by placing the result of rolls of $5$ dice into one of $13$ categories. The categories are listed below, along with how you score points for each category: ...
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Server Description: You are in charge of a server that needs to run some submitted tasks on a first-come, first-served basis. Each day, you can dedicate the server to run these tasks for at most $T$ minutes. Given the time each task takes, you want to know how many of them will be finished today. ...
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Set! Description: To make a set, you must select three cards for which all $4$ characteristics are either the same or pairwise different. For instance, $3$ cards where the first shows $2$ striped red ovals, the second shows $3$ striped green squiggles, and the third shows $1$ striped purple...
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Setnja Description: In an infinite binary tree: * Each node has exactly two children – a left and a right child. * If a node is labeled with the integer $X$, then its left child is labeled $2X$ and its right child $2X+1$. * The root of the tree is labeled 1. Each node has exactly two childr...
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Settlers of Catan Description: The popular board game “Settlers of Catan” starts by creating a random board. This board consists of hexagonal resource tiles containing five different resources: clay, lumber, wool, grain, and ore. For simplicity, we will denote these by the numbers 1 to 5. Random board...
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Seven Kingdoms Description: Jon Dayne is the ruler of a huge country called Seven Kingdoms. He has two sisters, Arya and Sansa, and wants to give some cities of Seven Kingdoms to them. He will rule the remaining cities or if no city remains, goes to the Wall, a colossal fortification along the northern...
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Seven Up Description: The one-player game of Seven Up is played with a standard deck of 52 cards - each card has one of thirteen possible faces which we denote by A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, J, Q, and K. There are exactly four cards of each face. Initially, seven cards are dealt face down in positions ...
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Seven Wonders Description: For example, if a player plays $3$ Tablet cards, $2$ Compass cards and $1$ Gear card, she gets $3^2 + 2^2 + 1^2 + 7 = 21$ points. It might be tedious to calculate how many scientific points a player gets by the end of each game. Therefore, you are here to help write a program for th...
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Shadow Line Description: You have a point light source at the origin in the 2D plane. To the right there is an infinitely tall wall. There are some opaque vertical line segments between the light source and the wall. As a result, each line segment casts a shadow onto the wall. All of these shadows over...
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Shakespeare, who? Description: You would like to write a very special poem for your friend. You know a list of $n$ words that your friend likes. We will call these words beautiful words. You want every line of your poem to begin and end with a beautiful word. Any given line must use the same beauti...
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Shandy Description: A shandy is a 50:50 mixture of beer (or cider) and lemonade (or some other nonalcoholic lemon- or lime-flavoured beverage, possibly carbonated.) This results in a drink of lower alcohol per volume that still retains the experience of having a beer. Shandies are popular around the wo...
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Shares Description: You are a successful business man who uses to invest some money in the shares market. As a successful man you manage a network of well prepared spies assistants that can assure you the values of the shares for the next day. Each day you have a capital that you can spend in the marke...
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Sharing Candies Description: Taking care of cats is not easy. You need to constantly keep them happy, and make sure that you treat all your kitties equally. One day, you come back from work, and realize that your $n$ cats are eagerly waiting for candies. You have $n$ boxes of candies with $c_ i$ candi...
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Shattered Cake Description: A rectangular cake is transported via a truck to a restaurant. On the way to the destination, the truck hits a pothole, which shatters the cake into $N$ perfectly rectangular pieces of width $w_ i$ and length $l_ i$, for $1\leqslant i\leqslant N$. At the destination, the da...
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She Talks to Angel Description: Fluttershy’s relationship with her pet bunny Angel has hit the skids. Zecora has brewed a solution—literally—that will help them solve their problem and understand each other better. Zecora realized that the problem is each one’s lack of appreciation for the difficultie...
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She's All Yak Description: The Fetlock Fete is a traditional Ponyville promenade: a large party where partners perform in several dances! Yona was invited by Sandbar to this year’s Fetlock Fete, and, naturally, she wants him to see her best side. To this end, she hopes to carefully choose which of the dan...
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Sheba's Amoebas Description: After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Sheba Arriba has raised enough money for her mail-order biology supply company. “Sheba’s Amoebas” can ship Petri dishes already populated with a colony of those tiny one-celled organisms. However, Sheba needs to be able to verify the...
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Sheep Pen Description: David and Martin retired from their jobs and became shepherds. After each winter they need to rebuild the sheep pen. Each year they have a different collection of straight fence segments of various lengths. Naturally, they want to build a sheep pen that covers the largest area. T...
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Sheldon Numbers Description: According to Sheldon Cooper, the best number is $73$. In his own words, “The best number is $73$. $73$ is the $21$st prime number. Its mirror, $37$, is the $12$th, and its mirror, $21$, is the product of multiplying $7$ and $3$. In binary, $73$ is a palindrome: $1001001$, which bac...
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