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Shibuya Crossing Description: The Shibuya scramble crossing in Tokyo is infamous for being heavily used, resulting in people bumping into each other. The crossing can be modeled as a convex polygon, where the $n$ people about to cross initially stand at a point that is on the perimeter of the polyg...
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Ship Traffic Description: Ferries crossing the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco to Spain must carefully navigate to avoid the heavy ship traffic along the strait. Write a program to help ferry captains find the largest gaps in strait traffic for a safe crossing. Your program will use a simple model as fol...
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Shiritori Description: The Japanese game of Shiritori is the perfect 2-player game for a long car ride. The rules are simple: the first player picks any word to say, then the second player must choose a new word that begins with the last letter of the word that the first player just said. Then it is th...
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Shoot-out Description: This is back in the Wild West where everybody is fighting everybody. In particular, there are $n$ cowboys, each with a revolver. These are rather civilized cowboys, so they have decided to take turns firing their guns until only one is left standing. Each of them has a given prob...
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Shopaholic Description: Lindsay is a shopaholic. Whenever there is a discount of the kind where you can buy three items and only pay for two, she goes completely mad and feels a need to buy all items in the store. You have given up on curing her for this disease, but try to limit its effect on her wall...
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Shopping Description: You have just moved into a new apartment and have a long list of items you need to buy. Unfortunately, to buy this many items requires going to many different stores. You would like to minimize the amount of driving necessary to buy all the items you need. Your city is organized ...
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Shopping Bags Description: As usual, you forgot your reusable shopping bags at home. I guess you have to buy some paper bags. You only have two items on your shopping list, but you need to stock up on a certain quantity of each item since you are planing to throw a party. Each item has a size and the p...
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Shopping List Description: Kelly, being the great programmer that she is, is frequently thinking of “the next big thing” for apps. One morning Kelly thought of the brilliant idea to create a social network for grocery shopping lists. Kelly wants to make her social network connect people that buy the sa...
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Shopping List (Easy) Description: Kelly, being the great programmer that she is, is frequently thinking of “the next big thing” for apps. One morning Kelly thought of the brilliant idea to create a social network for grocery shopping lists. Kelly wants to make her social network connect people that buy...
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Shopping Malls Description: We want to create a smartphone application to help visitors of a shopping mall and you have to calculate the shortest path between pairs of locations in the mall. Given the current location of the visitor and his destination, the application will show the shortest walking pa...
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Shopping Plan Description: You have a list of items you need to buy today, and you know the locations (represented as points on a cartesian grid) of a few stores in the area. You also know which of these stores are selling each item on your list, and at what price each store sells it. Given the price o...
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Short Sell Description: Simone is learning to trade crypto currencies. Right now, she is looking into a new currency called CryptoKattis. A CryptoKattis can be used to improve your Kattis ranklist score without having to solve problems. Simone, unlike most competitive programmers, is very percepti...
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Shortest Composite Sum Description: Given a positive integer $N$, find a shortest sequence of composite numbers of length at least $2$ that sums to $N$. ## Input The first line contains an integer $N$ ($2 \le N \le 10^{18}$). It is guaranteed that $N$ can be written as the sum of at least $2$ composite ...
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Shortest Flight Path Description: Commercial flights are statistically quite safe (in terms of number of deaths per passenger-kilometer, only going to the moon is safer). But there are still reasons for precautions and safety regulations. An early such rule was the so-called “60-minute rule,” which req...
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Shortest Missing Subsequences Description: Given a string $s$ we say that string $t$ is a Subsequence of $s$ if $t$ can be obtained from $s$ by deleting zero or more characters of $s$. Note that $t$ is not necessarily a substring of $s$—that is, $t$ is not necessarily contiguous in $s$, but the...
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Shortlex Description: The set of all binary strings of finite length, denoted $\{ 0,1\} ^*$, plays an important role in computer science, and it is often useful to impose an ordering on the elements of this set. One option is standard lexicographic order (dictionary order with the convention that $...
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Shotcube Description: Namco Bandai’s video game ‘Tales of Graces’ introduces a puzzle minigame known as Shotcube. In this game, you have $9$ cubes placed on a $7$-by-$7$ square grid. The objective is to rearrange the cubes so that they all lie in a $3$-by-$3$ square. In the video game, this $3$-by-...
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Shovelling Snow Description: Note that this is an easier version of the problem shovelling. Anna, Bengt, Christian and Diana are four good friends living in a slightly desolate place called Sweden just north of Denmark. These four friends like to visit each other as often as possible. During the summe...
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Shovelling Snow Description: Anna, Bengt, Christian and Diana are four good friends living in a slightly desolate place called Sweden just north of Denmark. These four friends like to visit each other as often as possible. During the summers, going from any of the four friends’ houses to another is an ...
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Shrine Maintenance Description: A religious sect has holy sites with shrines placed around a circle of radius 1000. The circle is split into $N$ equal length arcs and the endpoints are numbered in order, 1 through $N$. The first figure shows a circle where $N$ is 12, with 12 gray tick marks like on a 1...
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Shuffle Description: You are listening to your music collection using the shuffle function to keep the music surprising. You assume that the shuffle algorithm of your music player makes a random permutation of the songs in the playlist and plays the songs in that order until all songs have been played....
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Shuffles Description: The most common technique for shuffling a deck of cards is called the Riffle or Dovetail shuffle. The deck is split into two stacks, which are then interleaved with each other. The deck can be split anywhere, and the two stacks can be interleaved in any way. For example, consider...
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Shuffling Along Description: Most of you have played card games (and if you haven’t, why not???) in which the deck of cards is randomized by shuffling it one or more times. A perfect shuffle  is a type of shuffle where the initial deck is divided exactly in half, and the two halves are perfectly inter...
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Sibice Description: Young Mirko threw matches all over the floor of his room. His mom did not like that and ordered him to put all the matches in a box. Mirko soon noticed that not all of the matches on the floor fit in the box, so he decided to take the matches that don’t fit and throw them in the ne...
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Sideways Sorting Description: We are so accustomed to reading strings from left to right, it can be a little difficult to think of strings that go right to left or even vertically. Here’s your chance to get some practice. ## Input Input consists of up to $100$ test cases. Each test case starts with a...
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Sierpiński Circumference Description: Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński (1882-1969) described the 2D geometric figure known as the Sierpiński triangle as part of his work on set theory in 1915. The triangle, which is really an infinite collection of points, can be constructed by the following algo...
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Siffrid's Digit Sum Description: Siffrid loves playing with numbers! Right now, she is playing with the integer $N$. She wonders how to create the smallest and largest number that have the same digit sum and number of digits as $N$. Can you help her? The digit sum of a number is defined as the sum of all...
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Siggi sement Description: Siggi works for the city, filling in potholes most days. One day he sees an unusually large hole in the road in the outskirts of Reykjavík. The residents there are quite impatient and want this fixed immediately. Siggi measures the hole and sees it is exactly $K$ units in size. H...
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Sightseeing Tour Description: The city executive board in Lund wants to construct a sightseeing tour by bus in Lund, so that tourists can see every corner of the beautiful city. They want to construct the tour so that every street in the city is visited exactly once. The bus should also start and end a...
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Sign Profile Description: Consider a polynomial $f(x)$ like the one plotted below. For sufficiently small (large negative magnitude) values of $x$, the function $f(x)$ has a negative value. As $x$ gets larger (more positive), $f(x)$ become positive, then negative again, then positive again. We ...
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Silueta Description: The main hero of this task, painter Vincent, spent a great deal of his youth travelling the world. Sights from numerous voyages have often been the inspiration for his, nowadays highly praised, works of art. On one occasion, Vincent found himself in a metropolis full of skyscrapers...
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Silver Star Stands Alone Description: One of standard units of length used in Solar system distance measurements is one astronomical unit, abbreviated as AU. It is also used in the following problem. The exploration probe is being assembled on Mars and it will be launched soon. The probe destination is an...
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Sim Description: This problem is an extension of another Kattis problem - backspace. In that problem, every time we see a character ‘<’, it actually means that the ‘Backspace’ key is pressed and we undo the last character that was just typed. The extension is as follows: Now, pressing a ‘<’ (the ‘...
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Similar Spacing Description: Finally, your dream of owning a restaurant chain has come true! You have consulted a marketing firm and received instructions on how to best place your restaurants in the city. The firm has identified potential restaurant sites along a single road, each of which can house ...
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Simon Says Description: Simon says is a game where one player is Simon, and the rest have to do what he says, but only if he starts his command with the words “simon says”. If you fail to perform the command, you lose. If you perform the command when he didn’t start with those magic words, you also los...
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Simon Says Description: In the game “Simon Says” one person plays the role of Simon, who gives instructions to everyone else playing the game. The tricky part is that if Simon begins his instruction with “Simon says” then everyone else must follow the instruction (or they lose the game); if Simon gives...
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Simon the Spider Description: Simon the Spider ate many insects this summer and got fat. The threads of his web will soon be too thin to carry him and so he needs to reinforce them. Since fat spiders are also lazy, Simon wants to use as little material as possible — well, you know that spiders have to ...
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Simone Description: blue red blue green blue blue green The sequence stops. Now you repeat it. Consider the following generalization Simone of this classic game. In Simone, a sequence of lights of $K$ different colours will flash; the player must memorize this sequence and play it back. Simone...
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Simple Addition Description: Yup, yet another trivial problem. You just have to add two integers! Oh, not easy enough? Sure, let’s say that they’re positive as well. Now it should be trivial, right? ## Input The input consists of two lines, each containing a positive integer less than $10^{10\, 000}$...
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Simple Arithmetic Description: You are given three integers $a, b, c$ ($1 \le a, b, c \le 10^9$). Compute $a \cdot b / c$, with an absolute precision of $10^{-6}$. ## Input The first and only line of input contains the three integers $a, b, c$ separated by a single space. ## Output Output a single ...
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Simple Cron Spec Description: A Cron Spec is used by Linux to specify when to repeatedly execute a certain job. For this problem, consider a Simple Cron Spec that defines when a job needs to be run within a single day. A Simple Cron Spec has three space separated tokens: that specify at which hours/mi...
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Simple Factoring Description: Ms. Alice was working on making some factoring homework for her students last week, where the students get questions in the form of $ax^2+bx+c$, and must rewrite the expression in the form $(dx+ e)(fx + g)$, where $a,b,c,d,e,f,g$ are integers. She is done making the questi...
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Simple Polygon Description: Write a program that constructs a polygon from a given set of points in the plane. Each point of the set has to be a vertex of the polygon, and the polygon must not have any other vertices. No two line segments of the polygon may have any point in common, except for the midd...
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Simple Polygon Description: A polygon $P$ determined by points $p_1, p_2, \ldots , p_ n$ is a closed chain of line segments (called edges) $p_1 p_2, p_2 p_3, \ldots , p_ n p_1$ in the plane. Polygon $P$ is simple, if no two edges have any points in common, with the obvious exception of two cons...
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Simple Solitaire Description: There are many different varieties of solitaire (card games for one), but most require an area where you can lay out cards. Here’s one you can do by simply holding the deck in your hand. The game uses a standard $52$ card deck where each card has one of $4$ suits – spades...
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Simplicity Description: For a string of letters, define the Simplicity of the string to be the number of distinct letters in the string. For example, the string string has simplicity $6$, and the string letter has simplicity $4$. You like strings which have simplicity either $1$ or $2$. Your friend has given ...
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Simply Sudoku Description: Sudoku puzzles come in all different shapes and difficulty levels. Traditionally a Sudoku puzzle is a $9\times 9$ grid. Initially, some of the cells are filled in with numbers and some are empty. The goal is to fill in each cell with a number in the range $1$ – $9$ subject to...
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Single Cut of Failure Description: The Intrusion and Crime Prevention Company (ICPC) builds intrusion detection systems for homes and businesses. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (in a strange coincidence also known as ICPC) is considering hiring the company to secure the room that cont...
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Single source shortest path, negative weights Description: ## Input The input consists of several test cases. Each test case starts with a line with four non-negative integers, $1 \le n \le 1000$, $0 \le m \le 5000$, $1 \le q \le 100$ and $0 \le s < n$, separated by single spaces, where $n$ is...
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Single source shortest path, non-negative weights Description: ## Input The input consists of several test cases. Each test case starts with a line with four non-negative integers, $1 \le n \le 10\, 000$, $0 \le m \le 30\, 000$, $1 \le q \le 100$ and $0 \le s < n$, separated by single spaces, ...
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Single source shortest path, safe path Description: Kattis needs to get somewhere as soon as possible. However, she also wants that the path that she takes to be safe too. She deems that paths that use not more than $\textbf{k}$ junctions to be safe paths. Given a map containing $\textbf{V}$ junctions with...
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Single source shortest path, time table Description: ## Input The input consists of several test cases. Each test case starts with a line with four non-negative integers, $1 \le n \le 10\, 000$, $0 \le m \le 20\, 000$, $1 \le q \le 100$ and $0 \le s < n$, separated by single spaces, where $n$ ...
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Sith Description: What follows is an Icelandic translation of the script for Revenge of the Sith using Google Translate. Obi-wan remarks that only a Sith deals in absolutes, but an absolute value can be defined as an operation that makes a value non-negative. An absolute value can be written as $|x|$ ...
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Six Degrees Description: For years and years, the ICT Senior Service Desk (ISSD) of the university has been confronted with a slow wired network that gives unexpected time-outs and seemingly random slow connection speeds. A new manager has been hired to solve these problems once and for all. The manage...
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Sjecista Description: Consider a convex polygon with $N$ vertices, with the additional property that no three diagonals intersect in a single point. Find the number of intersections between pairs of diagonals in such a polygon. The figure below shows one such polygon with 6 vertices. Note that a polygon ...
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Skakavac Description: A grasshopper is in a flower field. The field contains $N \cdot N$ flowers arranged in $N$ rows and $N$ columns. For each flower in the field, we know how many petals it has. The grasshopper is initially on the flower in row $R$ and column $C$. Its goal is to visit as...
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Skammstöfun Description: Before Hannes founded the startup company which focused on naming startup companies, a more primitive method of naming was used for companies, services and products. The entity which was to be named was simply described with words and an abbreviation was formed from the words. ...
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Skattareiknivel Description: Sigurjón was chosen employee of the month at Krabbaborgarar for twelve months in a row, and therefore got a big raise. However, Sigurjón knows that he will not directly receive all of his salary, first he must pay into a pension fund and a supplementary pension fund, and th...
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Skattaskrattar Description: When people earn wages they have to pay taxes on them to the government. To calculate how much they should pay, the wages are divided into tax brackets that the government announces, but in each bracket a certain percentage of the wages that fall into that bracket have to be...
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Skattmann Description: You just got paid, all numbers from $1$ to $n$ are now in your possession after a hard month. But unfortunately things aren’t quite so simple, because now you have to pay tax. You sit down across from the Skattmann, and the game begins. You may take one of the numbers from $1$ to...
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Skener Description: Having solved the match issue, Mirko faced another challenging problem. His mom ordered him to read an article about the newest couples on the Croatian show-biz scene in the “Moja Tajna” magazine. The article is written in a very small font size which Mirko cannot read. Luckily, Mir...
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Ski Description: It’s the holidays! There is a famous ski slope you would like to try this year. The slope, which runs $N$ meters long from west to east, has its height measured at 1-meter intervals from its beginning at the west, producing $N + 1$ height measurements $H(i)$, where $0 \le i \le N$. It...
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Ski Jumping Description: Ski jumping is one of the most popular winter sport competitions. In the chase of records, ski jumping hills become larger and larger. To ensure the safety of the competitors, landing speed and angle must not exceed critical margins defined by the FIS. Today, it’s your task to ...
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Ski Lifts Description: The only thing remaining from the old lift system are $n$ pylons situated at integer coordinates in the plane. You would like to put lifts in the form of line segments between some of these pylons. The line segments must satisfy the following constraints: * A line segment can on...
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Ski Resort Description: As an enterprising owner of a world-renowned ski resort in the US, you would like to increase your sales by stocking snack stands at key locations throughout your estate. The ski resort is built on a mountain. A ski lift can take a guest to the top of the mountain. From there they ...
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Skiing Description: As you know, the ACM ICPC is not the only major sporting event taking place in Russia this year. Several months ago, the 2014 Winter Olympics were held in Sochi, which is about 3 000 km from Ekaterinburg. In an increasing number of sports, it is not only the ability of the athletes...
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Skilaboð Description: ## Input The input begins with a line with a single integer $N$. Next there are $N$ lines with two integers each, $x_i$ and $y_i$, where the values in line $i$ denotes the location of person $i$, $|x_i|, |y_i| \leq 10^9$. Then there is a line with a single integer...
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Skocimis Description: Three kangaroos are playing in the desert. They are playing on a number line, each occupying a different integer. In a single move, one of the outer kangaroos jumps into the space between the other two. At no point may two kangaroos occupy the same position. Help them play as long...
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Skotleikur Description: Recently, Elvar has been playing the new shooter that everyone is playing; Medal of Valor: Contemporary Tactics 2. Elvar has finally played long enough to unlock access to his favourite gun, but whenever he uses it, he notices that it is not particularly good, and other players...
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Skrift Description: Bjarki is going to write an $n$-letter word. Bjarki hasn’t decided what word it will be, but he knows that it will consist of $m$ different letters where the $i$-th letter apppears $a_i$ times in the word and it takes $b_i$ milligrams of eraser to erase an instance of this l...
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Sky Islands Description: Alex wants to build a sky base consisting of $N$ sky islands, numbered $1, \ldots , N$. There are a total of $M$ bridges, directly connecting certain islands to others. Because she does not have an elytra (wings that enable players to fly) and cannot fly, she needs to make sure...
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Sky's the Limit Description: Unfortunately, all is not well in Eagleton: the citizens have a bit of an envy problem. Every day, one random citizen (the owner of house $i$, let’s say) emerges from their house and compares their house’s height to the heights of the two neighboring houses. If house $i...
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Skyline Description: In this problem, we assume that all buildings have a trapezoid shape when viewed from a distance. That is, vertical walls but a roof that may slope. Given the coordinates of the buildings, calculate how large part of each building that is visible to you (i.e. not covered by other b...
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Skák Description: Petra and Garðar are playing chess on an infinitely large chessboard. In this strange version of chess they each start with a million pieces in the game. The game isn’t over until one player removes all of their opponent’s pieces. As you might imagine this version of chess takes quite a ...
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Slalom Description: In spite of the scarcity of snowfall in Madrid, interest in winter sports is growing in the city, especially with regard to skiing. Many people spend several weekends or even full weeks improving their skills in the mountains. In this problem we deal with only one of the multiple alpin...
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Slalom 2 Description: You may select from $S$ pairs of skis, where the $j$-th pair has speed $s_{j}$. Your movement is governed by the following rule: if you select a pair of skis with speed $s_{j}$, you move with a constant downward velocity of $s_{j}$ metres per second. Additionally, at any time ...
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Slant Drilling Description: AcmeCorp is always looking to expand its drilling operations. Their latest target is a largely uninhabited area in the North of the country, known as Crossland. Since the pocket of oil is quite deep already, and new drill bits are expensive, Crossland’s oil company would li...
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Slatkisi Description: Mirko buys a lot of candy in the candy shop. He cannot always pay the exact amount so the shopkeeper and he have an agreement. He tells the shopkeeper the smallest bill he has, and she rounds his amount to the nearest number he can pay. For example, if the smallest bill Mirko has ...
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Sleeping on the Train Description: Antonio is sightseeing in Line Town. Part of his sightseeing involves taking the famous Line Train. The Line Train goes through $n$ stops conveniently numbered from $1$ to $n$. The path the Line Train takes involves starting at stop $1$, then going to every stop in ...
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Slicice Description: After their pool burst, Mirko and Slavko started collecting cards. In their neighbourhood, card collection is taken seriously and there are strict rules for the purchase and trading of cards. Purchasing cards is always done by two children together. Each of them gives half the req...
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Slide Count Description: In your programming class, you are given an assignment to analyze an integer array using a sliding window algorithm. Specifically, given $N$ integers $w_1, \ldots , w_ N$ and some constant $C$, the sliding window algorithm maintains start and end indices $s$ and $e$ such th...
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Sliding Blocks Description: Sliding Blocks is an interesting puzzle game which can be played on most mobile devices. In this game, you are given an $N \times M$ board with exactly one cell containing a block; all the other cells are empty. You can add a block to the board by sliding the new block f...
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Sliding Tiles Description: You have placed 25 lettered tiles in a nice, neat $5 \times 5$ grid like the first one below. You start to slide the tiles around one space at a time, either up, down, left or right. As you move a tile, it pushes along any tiles ahead of it. For example, if you push the M...
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Slika Description: Mirko has just installed a brand new drawing program. The program supports $K$ different colours, denoted by integers from 1 to $K$. All drawing is performed on a canvas with dimensions $N\times N$. In the beginning, all cells are white (denoted by 1). The upper left cell of the...
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Slikar Description: The evil emperor Cactus has in his possession the Magic Keg and has flooded the Enchanted Forest! The Painter and the three little hedgehogs now have to return to the Beaver’s den where they will be safe from the water as quickly as possible! The map of the Enchanted Forest consists of...
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Slikar Description: Josip is a strange painter. He wants to paint a picture consisting of $N \times N$ pixels, where $N$ is a power of two ($1, 2, 4, 8, 16$ etc.). Each pixel will be either black or white. Josip already has an idea of how each pixel will be coloured. This would be no problem i...
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Slim Cut Description: Consider a weighted, undirected graph $G(V,E;w)$. A cut is a partition of the vertices into two non-empty subsets $S$ and $\overline S$. Let us define the slimness of the cut $\{ S, \overline S\} $ to be In other words, the sliminess of the cut is the maximum weight among all edg...
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Slippery Floor Description: Despite his lack of skating ability, Tom always seems to find himself on an outdoor rink with his friends. Due to his poor skills Tom is unable to steer himself on skates and is only able to push himself in one of the cardinal directions (North, South, East, and West) when h...
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Slom Description: Little Marin spent all his day generating test data for COCI. He simply couldn’t make it work, so he had a nervous breakdown and can’t even see clearly anymore. Every time he blinks while reading, the letters in a word get mixed up so that the letters from the second half of the word ...
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Slon Description: A student called Slon is very mischievous in school. He is always bored in class and he is always making a mess. The teacher wanted to calm him down and “tame” him, so he has given him a difficult mathematical problem. The teacher gives Slon an arithmetic expression $A$, the integer $P$ ...
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Slow Leak Description: You are an avid cyclist and bike every day between your home and school. Usually, your ride is uneventful and you bike along the shortest path between home and school. After school this afternoon you realized you have a slow leak in your bike tire—the tire can hold some air, but ...
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Sly Students Description: Students in a boring class want to be able to write notes to each other while removing the threat of the teacher knowing what they are saying if the teacher happens to get hold of a note. Therefore, the students have created a simple way to encode their messages. The encoding ...
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Small Schedule Description: Everybody is into cloud computing these days, so quite a few different business models are being experimented with. You are trying a very simple one: you sell time on your machines in one of two batches called slots. A customer can buy one second of CPU time or $Q$ secon...
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Smallest Calculated Value Description: Given three integers and the arithmetic operators ($+$, $-$, $*$, $/$), determine the smallest non-negative integer possible without changing the order of the initial integers. Order of the operators is without their normal precedence, just left-to-right. Note: in...
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Smallest Multiple Description: Given a set of numbers, find the smallest number that is a multiple of every number in the set. ## Input Input consists of up to 500 test cases, one per line. Each test case contains at least one but no more than 1000 space-separated integers, each in the range $[1, 2^{31}-...
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Smart Password Validation Description: People often make errors when entering passwords for one of their many accounts. This is becoming more of a problem with the rather lengthy passwords that many online portals require (the more characters in the password, the more chance there is of making a typing...
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Smart Phone Description: You have a very smart phone. Here is the user experience when entering a word: * You decide on the word you want to write. * You start typing it. * At some point, three suggestions appear. The list of suggestions never changes after it has first been presented, even if y...
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Smooth Array Description: Any array can be made $K_ S$-smooth by changing its elements. In each change one element may be modified to any integer between $0$ and $S$, inclusive. You want to make all of your arrays smooth, but you don’t want to make any more changes than necessary. So the question is: W...
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Smooth Monkey Description: Unfortunately, having three heads consumes a lot of energy, so the monkey drinks one millilitre (ml) of smoothie per meter she walks. Note that this is completely continuous, so for example after walking $\frac{\sqrt {2} + \pi }{3}$ meters she has consumed $\frac{\sqrt {2} ...
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Smoothed Gardens Description: The Flathead Fancy Landscaping Company’s customers are too high-class to have gardens with straight edges so Joe P. Flathead, the owner, has come up with a way to smooth out the contours. He puts a stake in each corner of a triangular plot and drops a loop of rope around t...
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