A person with a higher IQ is less likely to get demotivated because he will get better results with the same amount of preparation as a lower IQ person. Since most people will have a lower IQ than him, observing his progress relative to them would not demotivate him.

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funny how i could predict the nationality of the commenters before clicking the link

you seriously think that’s an insult?

You don’t seem to understand… NeverCompromise is the main, this is the alt.

I don't care about your redditor buzzwords, I am objectively superior to you with a max rating of ~2200 reached in about a year.

Most people on reddit are brainwashed NPCs who believe that their state-fed morality has some universal and objective basis. Observing average differences in traits with a genetic basis amongst populations, (particularly ones like IQ, which more or less define a person's worth in a society) would imply that populations are in fact, inherently unequal. This challenges their morality (which often involves some intrinsic equality of all humans), so they have a hiss-fit and downvote you to oblivion. I suspect this is why your comments above have been downvoted here on CF too.

do you happen to frequent /pol/ by any chance, my good sir?

Obvious one-liner "idea" conveyed through a wall of a text. Downvote.

I have to literally orz to spot them in the points table

Harry potter is one of the most famous series of all time

... and RCB is the most supported IPL team of all time. Popularity of some entity in the modern day only indicates the number of midwits the creators of said entity managed to brainwash through advertising.

Let's be honest, CP contests are degenerate perversions of the beautiful and holy experience of solving algorithmic problems.

i joined your simp club

then we will be together even in our failure uwu

come on babe, it will be cool if we have matching medals after i win gold next year

this is what happens when you spend all day learning useless things like binary search XD

codechef should add "powered by IIT-BHU" to their site

chinese do not train, chinese just EXIST

redditor detected, opinion rejected

you are just a blue, intelligence should not be very high on your priorities

who cares

AI waifus when?

90% of people have <120 IQ, these are sheep

you have been mentioned only for comic relief

If you reasonably expect everyone to immediately deduce that $$$60$$$ indicates that any valid solution with no redudant shops is accepted, then why would you expect people to question your sanity when they would be expected to deduce that any valid solution with no redundant shop will take no more than $$$\log_2(n)$$$ shops?

Secondly, sure, there are some math problems which are solved by fundamentally algorithmic processes but this particular problem has almost no algorithmic thinking involved. It is purely casework. You should realise by the general opinion on codeforces about such "if else math problems" that you don't have the support of many people on such problems.

As I said earlier, setting it to 60 was to signal that we wanted to accept any solution that doesn't use redundant stalls.

Then I suppose there was nothing wrong with your intention but you clearly failed to get this message across effectively (judging by the reaction to this problem).

A simpler way to do this would have been to give no hard upperbound on the number of shops, and just say: "Construct a sequence of shops such that alice buys exactly $$$k$$$ jewels and she buys atleast one jewel in every shop". Both versions might seem trivially equivalent to you, but lower rated people see the two versions in a very different light.

On an unrelated note, please stop putting pure math problems at anything other than A or B. This is a website for algorithmic problems.

Giving hints towards an incorrect solution is far worse. Especially, when so many problems on codeforces which have an upperbound on the number of elements in the required construction give a tight upperbound. Making people waste mental energy thinking about whether a problem gives them a tight or nonsensical upperbound doesn't seem like a very good problemsetting strategy to me.

The problem could have simply been: "Find the minimum number of shops needed to be opened, if a valid construction exists" or something of the sort which would have not helped in guessing the solution.

Also, giving the incorrect hint does not prevent people from guessing. Problems like this have appeared before and most people will get desensitized to such misdirection now. Every time they encounter a problem which asks them to construct something with an upperbound on the number of elements, they will simply mentally bruteforce through all the possible functions of $$$n$$$ that the size of construction can be (typically $$$O(1), O(\log{n}), O(\sqrt{n}), n/2$$$). This will not take anyone a significantly longer time to solve the problem, so I don't see anything positive about misdirection in problem statements.

I guess Um_nik should update "Problemsetters do not write random things in statements" because they do now.

thanks for the stroke

why not giving honorary mention to this epic comment??

It's "little", kindly refrain from using low-iq Instagram vocabulary on this site.

So 98% of my downvoters are less smart than me? Low rate users must be disallowed from downvoting high rate users!!!

we should ban him!

I was right 😎

Cheaters have a significant effect only on the ratings of hardstuck grey/green/cyans.

If one belongs to this category, he should think- Perhaps cheaters are a sign from God that competitive programming is not for me?

Useless question. Does the existence of someone smarter than you mean than you shouldn't do anything meaningful with your life?

Useless response. Yes.

How smart (in terms of raw intellect/mathematical ability, which I think correlate highly positively with CF rating) do you think one needs to generally be to do meaningful research?

I often feel like research in computer science is something I would find extremely enjoyable and want to pursue. But then I remind myself that I am vastly cognitively inferior to so many people in the same field (for example chinese high-school CPers) who could do anything I could do, in a better manner and in less time.

well, until mr satyam343 wakes up from his coma you can read the solution for G here

here

have you ever thought about changing your handle to cum_nik for the lulz?

This comment is not a substitute for professional legal advice. It does not create an attorney-client relationship, nor is it a solicitation to offer legal advice.

Did you purchase intellectual property rights from ChatGPT before posting this comment? You should consult OpenAI ToS on how to credit stuff properly.

does quant job help in getting a gf?

what is your secret behind developing a skill issue?

tell your teacher to stop using reddit

The "😊" emojis are doing a very poor job of hiding the fact that the based ddos'ers triggered you. Stop being a redditor on cf.

they will force you to say "thala for a reason" exactly 7777777 times, because 7777777 = ((7) + (7) + (7) + (7) + (7) + (7) + (7))/(7) = 7 => thala for a reason

My mortal enemy, NeverCompromise managed to achieve this with the blessings of lord Sparky_Master_WCH1226 (negative contribution be upon him).

based and genshinphobia-pilled

it means that you become the girlfriend

lis05 for not getting a gf yet

Nominated by: WeaponizedAutist

adamant

Nominated by: WeaponizedAutist

gm when?

I want a grandmaster cp'er gf who helps me cheat in contests too :(

early-morning-dreams gm when???

have you ever practiced in a pyramid???

listen to this before sleeping everyday

Hey girl, are you my largest subtree? Because I have some queries that need to be deep inside of you.

> lucky
> div. 3
> it is like saying "paralympians are lucky because they can participate at paralympiads"

Work hard bro one day you got 7* coder codechef, legendary grandmaster on codeforces your cp skill beat Sundar Pichai and you become next CEO in google.

Why dont you make some videos on harder topics that don't have any video explanations? It looks like you have the time to put effort into your videos and the skill to teach harder topics (judging by your rating). What is the point of making videos which have already been made before by 1e6 people?

Lets hope aliens attack in 2024 and teach us how to P = NP before destroying us

why did you give the poor crocodile a spinal deformity just because of a few bad contests?

sorry babe

you are like a less funny early-morning-dreams

Are you ripped? Are you popular?

the average IQ of girls who look for these things in potential partners probably hovers in the unrated-newbie range

I am interested to know how much BCCI and the Illuminati pay the codedrills problemsetting team to push their cricket propaganda through problem statements and corrupt the minds of innocent cp'ers.

"consider"

The "individual interests and personalities" of the average zoomer are:

• watching tiktok/instagram reels
• watching youtube
• watching anime
• playing genshin

So yes, I believe we must force zoomers to do math/cp.

sad time for indian programmers

Feedback:

• Task 1: Meh
• Task 2: Meh
• Task 3: Cute task, enjoyed it.
• Task 4: A bit standard, but ok. Perhaps this should have had slightly less points?
• Task 5: Again, a bit standard but a decent educational problem.

Overall, problems were good quality and educational, kind of like old style cf problems. The contest would have been more enjoyable if either task 1 or task 2 was replaced by a harder problem.

Edit: Also, the tests for task 3 might be a bit weak. My first submission had a very critical bug (which was not dependent on n) but it passed all test cases of the first 3 subtasks and 13/15 test cases of the last subtask.

Thanks for the highly detailed explanation with amazing formatting, pictures, example problems and sample implementation!

Has the most wondrous form of communication known as electronic mail not been discovered in the middle east yet?

Do you really think the best way to request the organizers to reschedule is by posting a propaganda blog on codeforces?

dont be racist against leetcode dummies

It would be better if it didn't exist. It requires 0 thinking and tedious implementation.

I agree, people always freak out when I tell them I'm addicted to cp

Good round, huge improvement over the last one.

as american as it gets

Be careful, you are going into BallBreaker territory

Inshallah of course not brother.

Wowww sirrrr orz orz orz you are so consistent at solving DIV-2 A 😍 !😍 !!😍 !😍 !

I am sure this must be because you are orz orz orz orz geniosity at JEE MAINS 😱 😱 😱 !!! (toughest exam in da world !!)

Anyone who doesn't reach gm quickly shouldn't ever be depressed about his cp performance, as he won't become a great cp'er anyways. Hope I helped you.

dude im not your stepbro and you're not a girl

pulling the two nodes apart will take O(shortest path length) time my fellow spammer

i identify as cyan

I do not talk to people who remind me of my skill issue.

I am so glad I'm high on sugar right now, as it makes this conversation funny, rather than frustating.

CM rating range is 1900-2100, and there's a secret technique that you'll learn more about when you reach master: Taking the average of two numbers. Using this secret technique on the numbers 1900 and 2100, we arrive at the oh-so-mysterious value of 2000.

2200s are significantly more difficult even than 2100s

kek

If someone finds (his rating + 200) rated problems significantly hard even with unlimited time and no pressure, then he is overrated.

when I was Expert

dude that was till like yesterday

2200 problems in practice aren't hard for real cm lol

I can't understand why some people try to get an estimate of their contest-taking ability (rating) through the difficulties of problems they solve in practice.

Both skills are very different and this blog is stupid. Nevertheless, I do find it funny how bigSchrodinger is still living rent-free in the blog author's mind.

Funny of you to think I have any knowledge of relationships.

It would be kinda funny if he gets dumped for breaking cf rules.

The reason I suggested an official poll which allows only div-1 users is because some people probably care about this enough to create a lot of fake accounts and skew the vote count of simple like button polls.

In the future, for the regular rounds, we'll stick to the duration of 2 hours more diligently.

before making such significant decisions you should at least hold an official poll (for div-1 users only) so that you have a more accurate measure of how many people prefer shorter rounds

come on man, isn't jesus like a mini-boss in islam too?

If one can identify as female, is one also allowed to identify as a high school student?

You are probably the most qualified person here to answer that question