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Focus on providing precise and accurate information in your answers. **Elapsed Time: 0.17 seconds** FINAL QUERY Final Query: CONTEXT: ########## File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 168 Context: ``` # 6.2 BASIC STRING PROCESSING SKILLS ## Steven & Felix 1. (a) Do you know how to store a string in your favorite programming language? (b) How to read a given text input line by line? (c) How to concatenate (combine) two strings into a larger one? (d) How to check if a string starts with ‘...’ to stop reading inputs? I love CS2333 Competitive Programming. I also love Algorithm. > Note: You must stop after reading this line as it starts with 7 dots after the first input block, there will be one loooooooooccccccoooooming line... 2. Suppose we have a user input string. We want to check if another string can be found in it. Report all the indexes where P appears in T or output -1 if P cannot be found in T. For example, if T = ‘I love CS2333 Competitive Programming. I also love Algorithm’ and P = ‘love’, then the output would be [2, 6]. If P = ‘book’, then the output is [-1]. - Do we need to implement a string matching algorithm (like Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) algorithm discussed in Section 6.4), or can we just use Library functions? 3. Suppose we want to do some simple analysis of the characters in T and also to transform each character into 1-byte ASCII codes. The required analysis could be: How many digits, vowels, special characters, and consonants (other lower/uppercase alphabets that are not vowels) are there in T? Can you also tell (How?) where is the ending of a string? 4. Next, we want to build this into an array of tokens. For this task, the delimiters of those tokens are an array of strings (like spaces, commas, semicolons, etc.). We can assume that the following strings form tokens: `{'I', 'love', 'CS2333', 'I', 'also', 'love', 'Algorithm'}`. - How to store an array of strings? 5. Next, let’s say we want to analyze the string lexicographically. - Note: If we want to analyze this string lexicographically and find the maximum lexicographic string, we can use the following approach: - `['also', 'competitive', 'CS2333', 'I', 'love', 'programming']`. (a) Which data structure best supports this word frequency counting problem? (b) The given list has one more item like the one that starts with ‘...’. The length of this list item is not constant. Count how many characters there are in the last item? (c) How to read a string when we do not know its length in advance? *Note: This is a text excerpt like the one used in our common dictionary.* ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # CONTENTS **Steven & Felix** | Topic | In This Book | |-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------| | Data Structures: Union-Find Disjoint Sets | Section 2.3.2 | | Graphs: Pruning, SCSC, Max Flow, Bipartite Graph | Sections 4.2.1, 4.4, 4.7.4 | | Probability, Random Games, Markov Process | Section 5.5, 5.9 | | String Processing: Suffix Tree/Array | Section 6.3 | | Advanced Topics: 0-1 Knapsack | Section 3.5 | **Table 1:** Not in IOI Syllabus [1] Yet We know that one cannot win a medal in IOI just by mastering the current versions of this book. While we believe that parts of the IOI syllabus have been included in this work, which should give you a respectable score in future IOIs — we are well aware that not every topic listed requires more problem-solving skills and creativity that we cannot teach via this book. So, keep practicing! ### Specific to the Teachers/Coaches This book is based on Steven's CS3233 - "Competitive Programming" course in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. It is contributed in its teaching using the following lesson plan (see Table 2). The PDF files (only the public versions) are also made available on the companion website of this book. This is also a brief introduction to the various exercises in this book in Appendix A. Fellow teachers/coaches are free to modify the lesson plan to suit your students’ needs. | Wk | Topic | In This Book | |----|-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------| | 01 | Introduction | Chapter 1 | | 02 | Data Structures & Libraries | Chapter 2 | | 03 | Graphs: Search, Divide & Conquer, Greedy | Chapter 3.2.3 | | 04 | Dynamic Programming | Basic Ideas | Section 3.3 | | 05 | Graph 2: DFS/BFS | Chapters 4.1 up to Section 4.3 | | 06 | Graph 3: Shortest Paths (DAG-Tree) | Section 4.4-4.5, 4.7-4.12 | | 07 | **Mid semester exam content** | | | 08 | Dynamic Programming 2 (More Techniques) | Section 6.5.3 | | 09 | Graphs 3 (Max Flow; Bipartite Graph) | Section 6.4.3, 4.7.4 | | 10 | Mathematics (Overview) | Chapter 5 | | 11 | Programming (Recursive Ideas, Suffix Array) | Chapter 6 | | 12 | Computational Geometry (Libraries) | Chapter 7 | | | **Final exam content** | All, including Chapter 8 | **Table 2:** Lesson Plan ## To All Readers Due to the diversity of this content, this book is not meant to be read once, but several times. There are sections where the problems provided can be tackled throughout the book, but certain chapters may be skipped if it's the solution is more crucial to that part of the text. The authors have structured the content assuming that the reader has the ability to review the concepts outlined in this book as they encounter increasingly intricate twists as we advance. Make sure to pay attention to detailed instructions as you work through the chapters. We will also be releasing additional content throughout and alongside the school students as IPC will be using this book to address more challenges after mastering this book. But before you assume anything, please check this book's table of contents to see what we mean by "basic." #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: # CONTENTS © Steven & Elias ## 3 Algorithms ### 3.1 Interesting Usages of Binary Search .......................... 47 ### 3.2 Geometry .................................................... 51 #### 3.2.1 Examples ................................................ 51 ### 3.3 Dynamic Programming ......................................... 53 #### 3.3.1 DP Illustration ......................................... 54 #### 3.3.2 Classical Examples ...................................... 66 #### 3.3.3 Non-Classical Examples .................................. 66 ### 3.6 Chapter Notes ............................................... 68 ## 4 Graph ### 4.1 Overview and Motivation ..................................... 71 ### 4.2 Graph Traversal ............................................. 71 #### 4.2.1 Depth First Search (DFS) ............................... 72 ##### 4.2.1.1 Breadth First Search (BFS) .......................... 74 #### 4.2.2 Finding Connected Components (in an Unrestricted Graph) .. 76 #### 4.2.3 Finding Full Labeling/Clustering the Connected Components .. 78 #### 4.2.4 Topological Sort of a Directed Acyclic Graph ............ 80 #### 4.2.5 Graph Edge Properties: Circuit & DFS Spanning Tree ........ 82 #### 4.2.6 Finding Articulation Points and Bridges (in an Undirected Graph) .. 84 #### 4.2.7 Finding Strongly Connected Components (in a Directed Graph) .. 88 ### 4.3 Minimum Spanning Tree ....................................... 90 #### 4.3.1 Overview and Motivation ................................ 90 #### 4.3.2 Kruskal's Algorithm ...................................... 91 #### 4.3.3 Prim's Algorithm ......................................... 93 #### 4.3.4 Other Applications ....................................... 96 ### 4.4 Single-Source Shortest Paths ................................ 97 #### 4.4.1 SSP on Unweighted Graph ................................ 98 #### 4.4.2 SSP on Weighted Graph .................................. 99 #### 4.4.3 SSP on Graph with Negative Weight Cycle ................ 100 ### 4.5 All-Pairs Shortest Paths ..................................... 101 #### 4.5.1 Overview and Motivation ................................ 101 #### 4.5.2 Floyd-Warshall's DP Solution ............................ 102 #### 4.5.3 Other Applications ....................................... 104 ### 4.6 Maximum Flow ................................................. 105 #### 4.6.1 Overview and Motivation .................................. 105 #### 4.6.2 Ford Fulkerson’s Method .................................. 107 #### 4.6.3 Edmonds-Karp's ......................................... 108 ### 4.7 Special Graphs ................................................ 110 #### 4.7.1 Directed Acyclic Graph ................................... 110 #### 4.7.2 Trees .................................................... 112 #### 4.7.3 Bipartite Graph .......................................... 114 ### 4.8 Chapter Notes ................................................ 121 ## 5 Mathematics ### 5.1 Overview and Motivation ...................................... 121 ### 5.2 Hard Job Mathematics Problems ............................... 121 ### 5.3 Basic Geometry Classes ....................................... 125 #### 5.3.1 Base Features ........................................... 125 #### 5.3.2 Bonus Features .......................................... 126 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # CONTENTS © Steven & Felix ## 5 Combinatorics 5.1 Fibonacci Numbers ............................................. 129 5.2 Binomial Coefficients .......................................... 132 5.3 Catalan Numbers ................................................ 134 5.4 Other Combinatorics ........................................... 144 ## 5.5 Number Theory 5.5.1 Prime Numbers .............................................. 133 5.5.2 Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) & Least Common Multiple (LCM) .... 135 5.5.3 Finding Prime Factors with Optimized Trial Divisions ......... 138 5.5.4 Working with Prime Factors .................................. 139 5.5.5 Functions Involving Prime Factors ............................. 143 5.5.6 Extended Euclid: Solving Linear Diophantine Equations ..... 142 5.5.7 Other Number Theoretic Problems .............................. 142 ## 5.6 Probability Theory 5.6.1 Cycle-Counting ................................................ 145 5.6.2 Storing Strings: Efficient Data Structure ...................... 148 5.6.3 Fredy’s Cycle-Finding Algorithm ................................ 148 ## 5.7 Game Theory 5.7.1 Decision Tree ................................................. 149 5.7.2 Numerical Insights to Speed-up the Solution ................. 149 5.7.3 Nash Equilibrium ............................................... 150 5.7.4 Power of a (Square) Matrix .................................... 147 5.7.5 The Idea of Efficient Exponentiation ......................... 147 5.7.6 Square Matrix Exponentiation ................................. 148 ## 5.10 Chapter Notes ................................................. 148 ## 6 String Processing 6.1 Overview and Motivation ........................................ 151 6.2 Base String Processing Skills .................................. 152 6.3 And String Processing Problems ................................ 152 ## 6.4 String Matching 6.4.1 Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) Algorithm ......................... 153 6.4.2 String Matching in a 2D Grid ................................ 155 ## 6.5 String Processing with Dynamic Programming .................. 157 6.5.1 String Alignment (Edit Distance) ........................... 158 6.5.2 Longest Common Subsequence ................................. 161 ## 6.6 Pillow 6.6.1 Suffic Tree/Array Applications ............................... 162 6.6.2 Suffic Tree ................................................... 163 6.6.3 Applications of Suffic Tree .................................. 164 6.6.4 Applications of Suffic Array .................................. 174 ## 6.7 Chapter Notes ................................................. 171 ## 7 (Computational) Geometry 7.1 Overview and Motivation ........................................ 175 7.2 Basic Geometric Objects with Libraries ......................... 176 7.2.1 2D Objects: Points .......................................... 177 7.2.2 1D Objects: Lines ............................................. 177 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: # 1.2 Tips to be Competitive © Steven & Felix Additionally, we have a few other rules of thumb that are useful in programming contests: - \(2^{30} \approx 10^9\) and \(2^{20} \approx 10^6\). - Max 32-bit signed integer: \(2^{31} - 1 = 2,147,483,647\) (for up to 9 decimal digits). - Max 64-bit signed integer: \(2^{63} - 1 = 9,223,372,036,854,775,807\) (for up to 19 decimal digits). Use `unsigned` if slightly higher positive number is needed (i.e., \(2^{63}\)). - If you need to store integers \( \geq 2^n \), you need to use the Big Integer technique (Section 5.3). - Program with nested loops of depth \(k\) retaining that factors have \(O(n^k)\) complexity. - If your program is recursive with a recursive call per and has \(O(1)\) complexity, let it stay inside \(O(n)\) complexity. But this is an upper bound. The actual complexity depends on what actions come after and whether some pruning are possible. - There are \(n!\) permutations and \(2^n\) subsets (or combinations) of \(n\) elements. - Dynamic Programming algorithms which fill in a 2D matrix in \(O(n \cdot m)\) complexity. - More details in Section 3 later. - The best time complexity of a comparison-based sorting algorithm is \(O(n \log n)\). - Most of the time, \(O(n^2)\) algorithms will be sufficient for most contest problems. - The largest input size for typical programming contest problems must be \(< 1M\). Because beyond that, the time needed to read the input (the \(O(1)\) routine) will be the bottleneck. ## Exercise 1.2.2 Please answer the following questions below using your current knowledge about algorithms and their complexities. After you have finished reading this task book or section, you may be barred from attempting this exercise again. 1. There are \(N\) webpages (\(N \leq 10^6\)). Each webpage has a different page rank \(r\). You want to pick the top \(10\) pages with highest page ranks. Which method is more feasible? 1. Load all \(N\) webpages' page rank to memory, sort (Section 2.1), and pick the top \(10\). 2. Use priority queue data structure (Heap) (Section 2.2). 2. Given a list \(L\) of up to \(10^6\) integers. You need to frequently ask the value of sum \(S_j = \sum_{i=1}^{j} L[i]\). Which data structure should you use? 1. Simple Array (Section 2.2.1). 2. Simple Prefix array that is pre-processed with Dynamic Programming (Section 2.2.1 & 3.5). 3. Balanced Binary Search Tree (Section 2.2.2). 4. Hash Table (Section 2.2.2). 5. Segment Tree (Section 2.3.3). 6. Fenwick Tree (Section 2.3.4). 7. Dynamic Segment Tree (Section 6.6). 8. Suffix Array (Section 6.6.4). 3. Given a set \(S\) of \(N\) points randomly scattered on 2D plane, \(N \geq 1000\). Find two points \(p\) that has the greatest Euclidean distance. Is \(O(N^2)\) comparison based algorithm that try all pairs possible? (a) Yes, such complete search is possible. (b) No, we must find another way. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 3 Context: architecture) and compression algorithm, computer science students might also find it useful. However, nothing prevents any people who is curious about BIOS technology to read this book and get benefit from it. Some prerequisite knowledge is needed to fully understand this book. It is not mandatory, but it will be very difficult to grasp some of the concepts without it. The most important knowledge is the understanding of x86 assembly language. Explanation of the disassembled code resulting from the BIOS binary and also the sample BIOS patches are presented in x86 assembly language. They are scattered throughout the book. Thus, it’s vital to know x86 assembly language, even with very modest familiarity. It’s also assumed that the reader have some familiarity with C programming language. The chapter that dwell on expansion ROM development along with the introductory chapter in BIOS related software development uses C language heavily for the example code. C is also used heavily in the section that covers IDA Pro scripts and plugin development. IDA Pro scripts have many similarities with C programming language. Familiarity with Windows Application Programming Interface (Win32API) is not a requirement, but is very useful to grasp the concept in the Optional section of chapter 3 that covers IDA Pro plugin development. THE ORGANIZATION The first part of the book lays the foundation knowledge to do BIOS reverse engineering and Expansion ROM development. In this part, the reader is introduced with: a. Various bus protocols in use nowadays within the x86 platform, i.e. PCI, HyperTransport and PCI-Express. The focus is toward the relationship between BIOS code execution and the implementation of protocols. b. Reverse engineering tools and techniques needed to carry out the tasks in later chapter, mostly introduction to IDA Pro disassembler along with its advanced techniques. c. Crash course on advanced compiler tricks needed to develop firmware. The emphasis is in using GNU C compiler to develop a firmware framework. The second part of this book reveals the details of motherboard BIOS reverse engineering and modification. This includes indepth coverage of BIOS file structure, algorithms used within the BIOS, explanation of various BIOS specific tools from its corresponding vendor and explanation of tricks to perform BIOS modification. The third part of the book deals with the development of PCI expansion ROM. In this part, PCI Expansion ROM structure is explained thoroughly. Then, a systematic PCI expansion ROM development with GNU tools is presented. The fourth part of the book deals heavily with the security concerns within the BIOS. This part is biased toward possible implementation of rootkits within the BIOS and possible exploitation scenario that might be used by an attacker by exploiting the BIOS flaw. Computer security experts will find a lot of important information in this part. This part is the central theme in this book. It’s presented to improve the awareness against malicious code that can be injected into BIOS. The fifth part of the book deals with the application of BIOS technology outside of its traditional space, i.e. the PC. In this chapter, the reader is presented with various application of the BIOS technology in the emerging embedded x86 platform. In the end of this part, further application of the technology presented in this book is explained briefly. Some explanation regarding the OpenBIOS and Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is also presented. SOFTWARE TOOLS COMPATIBILITY This book mainly deals with reverse engineering tools running in windows operating system. However, in chapters that deal with PCI Expansion ROM development, an x86 Linux installation #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 9 Context: Part I The Basics Chapter 1 PC BIOS Technology PREVIEW This chapter is devoted to explaining the parts of a PC that make up the term basic input/output system (BIOS). These are not only motherboard BIOS, which most readers might already be accustomed to, but also expansion read-only memories (ROMs). The BIOS is one of the key parts of a PC. BIOS provides the necessary execution environment for the operating system. The approach that I take to explain this theme follows the logic of the execution of BIOS subsystems inside the PC. It is one of the fastest ways to gain a systematic understanding of BIOS technology. In this journey, you will encounter answers to common questions: Why is it there? Why does it have to be accomplished that way? The discussion starts with the most important BIOS, motherboard BIOS. On top of that, this chapter explains contemporary bus protocol technology, i.e., PCI Express, HyperTransport, and peripheral component interconnect (PCI). A profound knowledge of bus protocol technology is needed to be able to understand most contemporary BIOS code. 1.1. Motherboard BIOS Motherboard BIOS is the most widely known BIOS from all kinds of BIOS. This term refers to the machine code that resides in a dedicated ROM chip on the motherboard. Today, most of these ROM chips are the members of flash-ROM family. This name refers to a ROM chip programmed1 electrically in a short interval, i.e., the programming takes only a couple of seconds. There is a common misconception between the BIOS chip and the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip. The former is the chip that's used to store the BIOS code, i.e., the machine code that will be executed when the processor executes the BIOS, and the latter is the chip that's used to store the BIOS parameters, i.e., the parameters that someone sets when entering the BIOS, such as the computer date and the RAM timing. Actually, CMOS chip is a misleading name. It is true that the chip is built upon CMOS technology. However, the purpose of the chip is to store BIOS information with the help of a dedicated battery. In that respect, it should’ve been called non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) chip in order to represent the nature and purpose of the chip. Nonetheless, the CMOS chip term is used widely among PC users and hardware vendors. 1 Programmed in this context means being erased or written into. 1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 5 Context: Proposed Table of Contents Preface i Table of contents iv Part I The Basics Chapter 1 Introducing PC BIOS Technology 1 1.1. Motherboard BIOS 1 1.2. Expansion ROM 7 1.3. Other PC Firmware 9 1.4. Bus Protocols and Chipset Technology 9 1.4.1. System-Wide Addressing 9 1.4.2. PCI Bus Protocol 11 1.4.3. Propietary Inter-Chipset Protocol Technology 15 1.4.4. PCI-Express Bus Protocol 17 1.4.5. HyperTransport Bus Protocol 18 Chapter 2 Preliminary Reverse Code Engineering 19 2.1. Binary Scanning 19 2.2. Introducing IDA Pro 22 2.3. IDA Pro Scripting and Key Bindings 28 2.4. IDA Pro Plug-in Development (Optional) 37 Chapter 3 Preliminary BIOS-Related Software Development 48 3.1. BIOS-Related Software Development with Pure Assembler 48 3.2. BIOS-Related Software Development with GCC 53 Part II Motherboard BIOS Reverse Engineering Chapter 4 Getting Acquainted with the System 61 4.1. Hardware Peculiarities 61 4.2. BIOS Binary Structure 74 4.3. Software Peculiarities 77 4.4. BIOS Disassembling with IDA Pro 81 Chapter 5 BIOS Reverse Engineering 83 5.1. Award BIOS 83 5.1.1. Award BIOS File Structure 83 5.1.2. Award BIOS Tools 85 5.1.3. Award Bootblock BIOS Reverse Engineering 86 5.1.4. Award System BIOS Reverse Engineering 99 5.2. AMI BIOS 113 5.2.1. AMI BIOS File Structure 113 5.2.2. AMI BIOS Tools 115 5.2.3. AMI Bootblock BIOS Reverse Engineering 116 5.2.4. AMI System BIOS Reverse Engineering 129 Chapter 6 BIOS Modification 173 6.1. Tools of the Trade 173 6.2. Code Injection 174 6.3. Other Modifications 184 Part III Expansion ROM #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 250 Context: ``` # INDEX ## Steven & Felts - Peck's Theorem, 194 - Peck, George Alexander, 194 - Picks, 176 - Polygon, 188 - Cover, 191 - Collapsing, 190 - Inpolygon, 189 - Indenture, 188 - Isomorphism, 187 - Polynomial, 194 - Primes as a Matrix, 147 - Parts, Vaughan, 150 - Prime, Alphabet, 85 - Prime Factor City, 89 - Prime Factors - Number of Distinct, 138 - Sum of, 138 - Prime Numbers - General - Finding Small Prime Factors, 138 - Primality Testing, 133 - Prime Factor Basis, 137 - Working with Prime Factors, 137 - Probability Theory, 192 - Pythagorean Theorem, 184 - Pythagorean Triple, 184 ## Quadrilaterals, 185 ## Queen, 53 ### Range Minimum Query, 32 - Sequence, 122 - Spanning Tree, 108 - Single-Source Shortest Paths, 90 - Dijkstra's Algorithm, 93 - Negative Weight Cycle, 93 - Unweighted, 69 ### Sliding Window, 96 - Sort-The-Array, 159 ### Spatial Graphs, 107 - Spells, 163 - SIDO1 140 - Fulfilling, 112 - SP0I 140 - Spatial Array, 173 - Square, 82 - Stack, 27 - String Alignment, 160 - String Matching, 156 ## String Processing, 151 - String Searching, see String Matching, - Strongly Connected Components, 199 - Suffix Trees, 163 - Applications - Overlap (in) Construction, 168 - Longest Common Prefix, 171 - Longest Common Substring, 173 - Longest Repeated Substring, 165 - Suffix, The, 166 - Tajin, Robert Earle, 78, 81, 80 - Tarry, Sawyer, 80 - TopCoder, 32 - Topological Sort, 27 - Tree, 112 - Traveling Salesman Problem, 65 - Triangle, 133 ## Union-Find Disjoint Sets, 30 - USACO, 120 - UVA - UVA 100 - The 3n + 1 Problem, 123 - UVA 101 - The Blocks Problem, 17 - UVA 102 - Stacking Boxes, 44 - UVA 103 - Ecological Bin Packing, 44 - UVA 104 - Arable Land, 12 - UVA 105 - A Small Base Problem, 135 - UVA 106 - The Cake in the Pile, 124 - UVA 107 - A House in the Storm, 137 - UVA 108 - Maximum Subarray, 66 - UVA 109 - Maximum Sum of Contiguous Subarray, 21 - UVA 110 - The Straight Line, 25 - UVA 111 - The Professor's Grading, 85 - UVA 112 - Intra-Processor Communication, 121 - UVA 113 - A New Font, 34 - UVA 114 - Symmetric Wrapping, 17 - UVA 115 - Ultimate Quiz, 89 - UVA 116 - Undead Hoard, 63 - UVA 117 - The Postal Worker Range Once, 118 ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 191 Context: # Chapter 7 ## (Computational) Geometry > Let no man ignorant of geometry enter here. > — Plato's Academy in Athens ### 7.1 Overview and Motivation (Computational) Geometry is yet another topic that frequently appears in programming contests. Almost all ICPC problems have at least one geometry problem. If you are lucky, it will ask for some geometry solution that you have learned before. Usually, you draw the geometrical object and then derive the solution from basic geometric formulas. However, many geometry problems are the complications that often require some complex algorithms. In 101, the extension of geometry-specific problems depends on the tasks decided by the Scientific Committee in their recent years (2000 and 2010). ICPC has tried to feature geometry problems. However, in other years, there exists one or two geometry-related problems per [10] compendium. We have observed that many contestants, especially ICPC contestants, are afraid to tackle geometry-related problems due to two logical reasons: 1. The solutions for geometry-related problems have lower probabilities of getting Accepted (AC) during contests compared to the solutions for other problem types in the same context, such as Dynamic Programming problems. This makes approaching geometry types of problems seem less worthwhile than spending precious minutes solving a geometry solution that has lower probability of acceptance. - There are actually really tricky 'special corner cases' in geometry problems, e.g., What if the lines are vertical (including parallel)? What if the point is on the segment? If the polygon is convex, etc. It is usually a good idea to tell your team’s geometry solution that it is just one case before you submit it to judges. - There is a possibility of having floating point precision errors that cause even a 'correct' solution to get a Wrong Answer (WA) response. 2. The contestants are not well prepared. - The contestants that forget some important basic formulas or unable to derive the necessary values from the basic ones. - Some contestants do not grasp useful well-written library functions and their attempts to code such functions lead to critical deadline issues and end up with (bad) bugs. In ICPC, the top teams usually find suitable parts of their hard copy material (which can bring them more points) combined with lots of geometry libraries and library functions. --- *We differentiate between basic geometry problems and the computational geometry ones. Geometry problems can sometimes be solved (and passed) geometrically. Computational geometry problems typically require more than an algorithm being capable to obtain the solution.* #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 77 Context: Part II Motherboard BIOS Reverse Engineering Chapter 4 Getting Acquainted With the System PREVIEW This chapter explains the big picture of the BIOS code execution mechanism. The BIOS does not execute code in the same way as most application software. The hardware and software intricacies, as well as the compatibility issues, inherited from the first-generation x86 processor complicate the mechanism. These intricacies and the x86 hardware architecture overall are explained thoroughly in this chapter. Note that the focus is on the motherboard, CPU, and system logic.1 4.1. Hardware Peculiarities When it comes to the BIOS, PC hardware has many peculiarities. This section dissects those peculiarities and looks at the effect of those peculiarities on BIOS code execution. 4.1.1. System Address Mapping and BIOS Chip Addressing The overall view of PC hardware architecture today is complex, especially for people who didn't grow up with DOS. What does modern-day hardware have to do with DOS? DOS has a strong bond with the BIOS and the rest of the hardware. This difficult relationship has been inherited for decades in the PC hardware architecture to maintain compatibility. DOS has many assumptions about the BIOS and the rest of the hardware that interact with it. Unlike a modern-day operating system, DOS allows the application software to interact directly with the hardware. Thus, many predefined address ranges have to be maintained in today's PC hardware as they worked in the DOS days. Currently, the bulk of these predefined address range tasks are handled by the motherboard chipset, along 1 System logic is another term for motherboard chipset. 1 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 165 Context: # 5.10 Chapter Notes Compared to the first edition of this book, this chapter has grown twice the size. However, we are aware that there are still many more mathematics problems and algorithms that have been discussed in this chapter. Here, we first state points for more advanced topics that you may be interested in exploring further by reading other books, see [3](http://projecteuler.net/), investigating mathematical topics in [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/) or Wikipedia, and do many more programming exercises related to mathematics problems like those in [http://projecteuler.net/](http://projecteuler.net/) [8]. - There are many more combinatorial problems and formulas that are not yet discussed: - Burnside's lemma - Cayley's Formula - Derangements - Stirling Numbers, etc. For an even faster prime testing function than the one presented here, see the non-deterministic Miller-Rabin's algorithm — which can be made deterministic for certain contexts. In this chapter, we have seen a quite effective method for finding the factors of an integer and lots of its usual functions. For a faster integer factorization, one can use the Pollard's rho algorithm that uses another cycle detection algorithm called Brent's cycle finding method. However, if the integer to be factored is a prime number, then it is still slow. That is the key idea of modern cryptography techniques. - There are other functions, hypotheses, and conjectures that cannot be discussed here, e.g.: - Carmichael's function - Riemann's hypothesis - Goldbach's conjecture - Riemann’s Little Theorem - twin prime conjecture - Chinese Remainder Theorem - Sprague-Grundy Theorem, etc. To compute the solution of a system of linear equations, one can use techniques like Gaussian elimination. As you can see, there are many topics about mathematics. This is not surprising since various mathematics problems have been investigated by people since many hundreds of years ago. Some of the results in this chapter, may differ as not all and only 1 or 2 will actually appear in a problem set. To do well in IPC, it is good to have at least one mathematician’s background in your IPC team in order to have those 1 or 2 mathematics problems solved. Mathematical proofs is crucial to getting some of those mathematical insights! Note that [Computational Geometry](https://www.example.com) is part of Mathematics, but since we have a special chapter for that, we reserve the discussions about geometry problems in Chapter 7. There are 25% (14 to 0 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. (Only 175 in the first edition, a 67% increase). There are 29 pages in this chapter. (Only 17 in the first edition, a 17% increase). #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 1 Context: # BIOS ## DISASSEMBLY NINJUTSU UNCOVERED ### Author: Darnawandi Salhun --- ## Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Understanding BIOS - What is BIOS? - Importance of BIOS 3. Disassembly Techniques - Tools required - Step-by-step guide 4. Practical Applications - Case studies - Common pitfalls 5. Conclusion --- ## 1. Introduction In the digital age, understanding BIOS is crucial for anyone interested in computer hardware and security. ## 2. Understanding BIOS ### What is BIOS? BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is a firmware that initializes hardware during the booting process. ### Importance of BIOS - Enables hardware communication - Facilitates boot process ## 3. Disassembly Techniques ### Tools required - Hex editor - Debugging software ### Step-by-step guide 1. Open the BIOS file in the hex editor. 2. Identify key sections of the code. 3. Modify and save the changes. ## 4. Practical Applications ### Case studies - Study of BIOS vulnerabilities. - Analyzing successful disassemblies. ### Common pitfalls - Not backing up original BIOS. - Overlooking compatibility issues. ## 5. Conclusion Understanding BIOS disassembly can empower you to enhance system performance and security. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: ``` # CONTENTS © Steven & Felix ## 7.2 2D Objects ### 7.2.1 2D Objects: Circles ............................ 181 ### 7.2.2 2D Objects: Triangles .......................... 183 ### 7.2.3 2D Objects: Quadrilaterals ...................... 185 ### 7.2.4 2D Objects: Spheres ............................ 186 ### 7.2.5 2D Objects: Others ............................. 187 ### 7.3 Polygons with Interior Points ..................... 188 #### 7.3.1 Polygon Representation ........................ 188 #### 7.3.2 Perimeter of a Polygon ........................ 189 #### 7.3.3 Area of a Polygon ............................. 189 #### 7.3.4 Checking if a Point is Inside a Polygon ....... 190 #### 7.3.5 Cutting a Polygon with a Straight Line ........ 190 #### 7.3.6 Finding the Convex Hull of a Set of Points ...... 191 #### 7.3.7 Polygon and Couple Revisited ................... 191 ### 7.4 Divide and Conquer Revisited ...................... 191 ### 7.5 Chapter Notes ..................................... 195 ## 8 More Advanced Topics ................................. 197 ### 8.1 Overview and Motivation ........................... 197 ### 8.2 Problem Decomposition ............................ 197 #### 8.2.1 Two Components: Binary Search the Answer and Other .. 199 #### 8.2.2 Two Components: SSSP and DP .................. 199 #### 8.2.3 Two Components: Involving Graphs .............. 200 #### 8.2.4 Two Components: Involving Mathematics ......... 200 #### 8.2.5 Three Components: Puzzle Factors, DP, Binary Search .. 201 #### 8.2.6 Three Components: Complete Search, Binary Search, Greedy 203 ### 8.3 More Advanced Search Techniques ................... 203 #### 8.3.1 Informed Search A* ............................ 203 #### 8.3.2 Depth Limited Search .......................... 204 #### 8.3.3 Iterative Deepening A* (IDA*) ................. 204 ### 8.4 Advanced Dynamic Programming Techniques ........... 205 #### 8.4.1 Emerging Techniques: DP + Instructions ........ 206 #### 8.4.2 Classic Forward/Backwards Propagation Problem .. 206 #### 8.4.3 Compilation of Common DP Stats ................ 207 #### 8.4.4 MILP/ILP: Better Data Representation! .......... 208 #### 8.4.5 "If You Don't Drop One Parameter, Remove!" from Others! 209 #### 8.4.6 Your Parameter Values Go Negative? Use Offset Techniques! 210 ### 8.5 Chapter Notes ..................................... 211 ## A Hints/Brief Solutions ................................. 213 ## B stlunt ............................................... 225 ## C Credits .............................................. 227 ## D Plan for the Third Edition .......................... 228 Bibliography ............................................... 229 ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 139 Context: # 5.2 AD HOC MATHEMATICS PROBLEMS © Steven & Felix ## Mathematical Simulations (Bruno Brez) 1. UVA 00100 - The 1 - 3 Problem (just follow the description, note that j can be ≤ c) 2. UVA 00101 - Adversarial Puzzles (similar to UVa 100) 3. UVA 00102 - Perpetual ICT division 4. UVA 00103 - Connections, Revisited (traverse from e to w, find the pattern) 5. UVA 00104 - Simple Queries (as asked) 6. UVA 00106 - Stupid (just find out all symmetric properties of S) 7. UVA 00107 - Railway Nights (short input – e.g., maxsize is < 4 * c) 8. UVA 00108 - Pedestrian Sample (investigating estimations problems) 9. UVA 00109 - Money Average (sample averages, shouldn’t have too many) 10. UVA 00110 - Small Pass (input is too small, less than 5) 11. UVA 00111 - Randall’s Method (use balloted variable technique) 12. UVA 00112 - Statical Indices (similar to UVa 103) 13. UVA 00113 - Getting Statistical (just follow the name of the answer to be safe) 14. UVA 00114 - Simple Super Similar (similar to UVa 1036) 15. UVA 00115 - Looping Back (just find boundaries) 16. UVA 00116 - Simple Counting (square numbers, divisibility check, etc.) ## Plotting Patterns in Puzzles 1. UVA 10103 - Scene and the Odd Numbers (derive the short formula) 2. UVA 10104 - Simple evaluation (derive the required formula) 3. UVA 10105 - Constructs and Scenarios (building puzzles) 4. UVA 10106 - Lively and Suspicious (range.. which round number?) 5. UVA 10107 - The Stock with Tn1 & Tn2 (arithmetic reference) 6. UVA 10108 - Nasty Siblings (nums in [0..10]* has 8 digits) 7. UVA 10109 - List of Larger Primes (among nth primes) 8. UVA 10110 - T1: Knocking: Merge Formally? (there are only two different cases) 9. UVA 10111 - Gliding for Approx. (a simple GUI) 10. UVA 10112 - Directed loops (emphasizing minimization) 11. UVA 10113 - Simple Problem Simplification 12. UVA 10114 - Fabiana: Sequentialization (diverse simplifications) 13. UVA 10115 - Directory and Mines (prepare for symmetry and flip) 14. UVA 10116 - The Variable Matrix Planning (again 10! solutions) 15. UVA 10117 - The Infinite Version(s) of T (simple formula costs) 16. UVA 10118 - Can You Solve It? (the reverse of UVA 204) ## Grid 1. UVA 00100 - Counting Counter - (small, path pattern) 2. UVA 00101 - Bee Breeding (math, grid, similar to UVa 1013) 3. UVA 00102 - Slope Patterns (math, grid, similar to UVa 1013) 4. UVA 00103 - Permutation Triangle (investigating triangular AP series) 5. UVA 00104 - The Magic 2 (math) 6. UVA 00105 - A Trick on a Chart (using simple limits) 7. UVA 00106 - Can You Solve It? (the reverse of UVA 204) --- *Note: An area can be generated by a formula where the shape falls can be described as: V(x, y) = ϕ + P1*(y/x) + P2*(x^2) + P3*(y^2); where: P1...P3 are constants based on the bounding limits.* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 35 Context: 1.4 Chapter Notes ================= This and subsequent chapters are supported by many text books (see Figure 1.4 in the previous page) and internet resources. Here are some additional references: * To improve your typing skill as mentioned in Tip 1, you may want to play lots of typing games that are available online. * Tip 2 is an adaptation from the introduction text on USACO training gateway [29]. * More details about Tip 3 can be found in many CS books, e.g., Chapter 1.5, [1] or [3]. * Online resources for Tip 3 include: * http://www.openfecdance.com and http://www.asci.com/tech/stl/ for C++ STL * http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/docs/api for Java API. * For more insights to better testing (Tip 5), a little note in software engineering books may be worth trying. * There are many other Online Judges apart from those mentioned in Tip 6, e.g., * POJ: http://poj.org * TJO: http://acm.tju.edu.cn/toj/ * ZOJ: http://acm.zju.edu.cn/onlinejudge/ * UVA: http://uva.onlinejudge.org/ * For a note regarding team contest (Tip 7), refer to: In this chapter, we have introduced the world of competitive programming to you. However, you cannot say that you are a competitive programmer if you can only solve Ad Hoc problems in every programming contest. Therefore, we hope that you only read the material and practice regularly, and having the core chapters of this book, substantially. Once you have finished reading this book, re-read it one more time. On the second round, attempt the various written exercises and the 1118 programming exercises as many as possible. There are 149 UVa ( + 11 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. (Only 34 in the first edition, a 371% increase). There are 19 pages in this chapter. (Only 13 in the first edition, a 469% increase). #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 295 Context: # INDEX | Page | Item | |------|---------------------------| | 5 | Aclestis | | 5 | Analytic geometry | | 5 | Angle between circles | | 5 | Area | | 5 | Asymptote | | 5 | Auxiliary circle | | 5 | Axis | | 5 | Center | | 5 | Central conic | | 5 | Circle | | 5 | Conic | | 5 | Conoid | | 5 | Conjugate axis | | 5 | Cylinder | | 5 | Degenerate conic | | 5 | Diameter | | | | | | **Direction cosine** | 240, 248 | | | **Directive** | 114, 141, 169 | | | **Discriminant** | 136 | | | **Distance** | 16, 75, 145, 248, 362 | | | **Division of lines** | 233, 249 | | | **Duplication of the cube** | 219 | | | **Excentric angle** | 115, 140 | | | **Eccentricity** | 15, 116 | | | **Equation of a circle** | 26, 91 | | | **Equation of an ellipse**| 27, 140 | | | **Equation of a hyperbola** | 18, 76 | | | **Equation of a tangent** | 96, 124, 150, 179 | | | **Equation of second degree** | 76 | | | **Exponential curvature** | 211, 261, 268 | | | **Focal width** | 111, 142, 170 | | | **Focus** | 11, 14, 147 | | | **Function** | 84 | | | **Geometric locus** | 8, 13, 83, 212 | | 229 | | #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: # Preface This book is a must-have for every competitive programmer to master during their middle phase of their programming career if they wish to take a leap forward from being just another ordinary coder to being among one of the top programmers in the world. Typical readers of this book would be: 1. University students who are competing in the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) and Regional Contests (including the World Finals). 2. Secondary (or High School) Students who are competing in the annual International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) [1] (including the National Team). 3. Coaches who are responsible for mentoring the participants [2]. 4. Anyone who loves solving problems through competitive programming. There are numerous programming contests for those who are no longer eligible for ICPC like TopCoder Open, Google CodeJam, International Problem Solving Contest (IPSC), etc. ## Prerequisites This book is not written for novice programmers. When we wrote this book, we set it for readers who have basic knowledge in basic programming methodologies, familiar with at least one programming language (C, C++ or Java, preferably), and have passed basic data structures and algorithms courses typically taught in the first year of Computer Science university curriculum. ## Specific to the ACM ICPC Contestants We must stress that you cannot probably win the ACM ICPC regional just by mastering the theories written in this book. While these are fundamental ideas, you will also need practice. We have included a lot of materials in this book, and we encourage you to work with this book as a companion for problem-solving practice. Below are some links that can be useful for future ICPC contestants. ## Specific to the IOI Contestants Same preface as above but with this additional Table 1. This table shows a list of topics that are currently covered in the IOI syllabus [3]. You can skip these items until you enter the national team (or your country's ACM ICPC team). However, learning them in advance may be beneficial as some harder tasks in IOI may require some of these knowledge. | L-R: Daniel | Mr Cheong | Raymond | Steven | Zhan Xiong | Dr Roland | Chuang | | |--------------|-----------|---------|--------|------------|-----------|--------|---| #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 200 Context: ```markdown # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES ### © Steven & Felix 1. A triangle with base \( b \) and height \( h \) has area \( A = 0.5 \times b \times h \). 2. A triangle with three sides \( a, b, c \) has perimeter \( p = a + b + c \) and semi-perimeter \( s = 0.5 \times p \). 3. A triangle with 3 sides, \( a, b, c \) and semi-perimeter \( s \) has area \( A = \sqrt{s \times (s - a) \times (s - b) \times (s - c)} \). This formula is called the Heron's Formula. ### Exercise 7.2.4.1 Let \( a, b, c \) and a triangle be \( 28, 24, \) and \( 25 \). Can we compute the area of this triangle with Heron's formula as shown above without exceeding any overflow (assuming that we use 64-bit integers)? What should we do to avoid this issue? 4. A triangle with \( a \) and \( s \) and semi-perimeter \( s \) has inscribed circle (incircle) with radius \( r = \frac{A}{s} \). The center of the incircle is the meeting point between the triangle's perpendicular bisectors. 5. A triangle with sides \( a, b, c \) and area \( A \) has a circumscribed circle (circumcircle) with radius \( R = \frac{abc}{4A} \). The center of the circumcircle is the meeting point between the triangle's perpendicular bisectors. ### Figure 7.5: Incircle and Circumcircle of a Triangle 6. To check if three segments of length \( a, b, c \) can form a triangle, we can simply check these triangle inequalities: \( a + b > c, \quad a + c > b, \quad b + c > a \). 7. If the result is false, then the three line segments do not make a triangle. 8. When working with a triangle, we should consider Trigonometry—a study about the relationships between triangle angles and sides. 9. By the Law of Cosines (a.k.a., the Cosine Formula or the Cosine Rule), it is assumed that any general triangle (that relates its sides to the cosine of one of its angles) can be used. ### Exercise 7.2.4.2 Rewrite the Cosine Formula for the other two angles as well. 10. In Trigonometry, the Law of Sines (a.k.a. the Sine Formula or the Sine Rule) is commonly applied. It states that the ratios of the sides to their respective angles are equivalent, as shown in Figure 7.4. 11. The Pythagorean theorem specializes the Law of Cosines. Pythagorean theorem (a, b, c) means \( c^2 = a^2 + b^2 \) where \( c \) represents the hypotenuse. The Law of Cosines reduces to the Pythagorean theorem when discussing right triangles, and the Law of Sines is used in finding the Euclidean distance between two points known earlier. ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 247 Context: IndexA*,203ACM,1Adelson-Velskii,Georgii,38All-PairsShortestPaths,96FindingNegativeCycle,99MinimaxandMaximin,99PrintingShortestPaths,98TransitiveClosure,99AlternatingPathAlgorithm,116Array,22ArticulationPoints,77Backtracking,40BackusNaurForm,153Bayer,Rudolf,38BellmanFord’s,93Bellman,Richard,93Bellman,RichardErnest,95BigInteger,seeJavaBigIntegerClassBinaryIndexedTree,35BinarySearch,47BinarySearchtheAnswer,49,197BinarySearchTree,26BinomialCoefficients,130Bioinformatics,seeStringProcessingBipartiteGraph,114Check,76MaxCardinalityBipartiteMatching,114MaxIndependentSet,115MinPathCover,116MinVertexCover,115BisectionMethod,48,195Bitmask,23,65,205bitset,134BreadthFirstSearch,72,76,90,102Bridges,77BruteForce,39CatalanNumbers,131Catalan,Eug`eneCharles,128CCWTest,180ChinesePostman/RouteInspectionProblem,205Cipher,153Circles,181CoinChange,51,64Combinatorics,129CompetitiveProgramming,1CompleteGraph,206CompleteSearch,39ComputationalGeometry,seeGeometryConnectedComponents,73ConvexHull,191CrossProduct,180CutEdge,seeBridgesCutVertex,seeArticulationPointsCycle-Finding,143DataStructures,21DecisionTree,145Decomposition,197DepthFirstSearch,71DepthLimitedSearch,159,204Deque,26Dijkstra’s,91Dijkstra,EdsgerWybe,91,95DiophantusofAlexandria,132,141DirectAddressingTable,27DirectedAcyclicGraph,107CountingPathsin,108GeneralGraphtoDAG,109LongestPaths,108MinPathCover,116ShortestPaths,108DivideandConquer,47,148,195DivisorsNumberof,138Sumof,139DPonTree,110DynamicProgramming,55,108,160,205EditDistance,160EdmondsKarp’s,102Edmonds,JackR.,95,102EratosthenesofCyrene,132,133EuclidAlgorithm,135ExtendedEuclid,141EuclidofAlexandria,135,187Euler’sPhi,139Euler,Leonhard,132,139EulerianGraph,113,205EulerianGraphCheck,113PrintingEulerTour,114231 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 245 Context: # Bibliography [1] Ahmed Shamsul Arefin. *Art of Programming Contest* (from Steven's old Website). Cyndaloh Prokhorov (Available Online), 2006. [2] Frank Carrano. *Data Abstraction & Problem Solving with C++. * Pearson, 5th edition, 2006. [3] Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. *Introduction to Algorithms*. MIT Press, 3rd edition, 2009. [4] Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos Papadimitriou, and Umesh Vazirani. *Algorithms*. McGraw Hill, 2008. [5] Mark de Berg, Marc Van Kreveld, Mark O. Schrijver, and Otfried Cheong. *Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications*. Springer, 2nd edition, 2000. [6] Jack Edmonds. Paths, trees, and flowers. *Canadian Journal on Math.*, 17(4): 449–467, 1965. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/321323](https://www.jstor.org/stable/321323). [7] Project Euler. *Project Euler*. [http://projecteuler.net](http://projecteuler.net). [8] Peter M. Furst, A New Data Structure for Cumulative Frequency Tables. *Software: Practice and Experience*, 24(3): 327–336, 1994. [9] Michael Forke. *101 Syllabi*. [http://people.kth.se/~michael/forke-2009.pdf](http://people.kth.se/~michael/forke-2009.pdf). [10] Mihail Fulekar. The difficulty of programming contests increases. In *International Conference on Programming contests*, 2010. [11] Felix Hallim. Roland Hock Chuan Yap, and Yongzheng Wu. A Max-Plus-Based Maximum-Flow Algorithm for Large Small-World Network Graphs. In *IDCS*, 2011. [12] Steven Hallim and Felix Hallim. Competitive Programming in National University of Singapore. Edventures Fall 2010, Chereshtel & Collaborative Learning Initiative Symposium CLS at ACM ICPC World Finals 2010, Hainan, China, 2010. [13] Steven Hallim, Roland Hock Chuan Yap, and Fakl Hallim. Engineering SLG for the Law Abiding Citizen: A Building Block for Constructing Programs, pages 342–347, 2010. [14] TopCoder Inc. *Algorithm Tutorials*. [http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static](http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static). #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 28 Context: Chapter 2 Preliminary Reverse Code Engineering PREVIEW This chapter introduces software reverse engineering1 techniques by using IDA Pro disassembler. Techniques used in IDA Pro to carry out reverse code engineering of a flat binary file are presented. BIOS binary flashed into the BIOS chip is a flat binary file.2 That's why these techniques are important to master. The IDA Pro advanced techniques presented include scripting and plugin development. By becoming acquainted with these techniques, you will able to carry out reverse code engineering in platforms other than x86. 2.1. Binary Scanning The first step in reverse code engineering is not always firing up the disassembler and dumping the binary file to be analyzed into it, unless you already know the structure of the target binary file. Doing a preliminary assessment on the binary file itself is recommended for a foreign binary file. I call this preliminary assessment binary scanning, i.e., opening up the binary file within a hex editor and examining the content of the binary with it. For an experienced reverse code engineer, sometimes this step is more efficient rather than firing up the disassembler. If the engineer knows intimately the machine architecture where the binary file was running, he or she would be able to recognize key structures within the binary file without firing up a disassembler. This is sometimes encountered when an engineer is analyzing firmware. Even a world-class disassembler like IDA Pro seldom has an autoanalysis feature for most firmware used in the computing world. I will present an example for such a case. Start by opening an Award BIOS binary file with Hex Workshop version 4.23. Open a BIOS binary file for the Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 motherboard. The result is shown in figure 2.1. 1 Software reverse engineering is also known as reverse code engineering. It is sometimes abbreviated as RCE. 2 A flat binary file is a file that contains only the raw executable code (possibly with self-contained data) in it. It has no header of any form, unlike an executable file that runs within an operating system. The latter adheres to some form of file format and has a header so that it can be recognized and handled correctly by the operating system. 1 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 29 Context: # 1.3 Getting Started: The Ad Hoc Problems We will kick this chapter by saying to start with the first problem type in ICPCs and IOIs: the Ad Hoc problems. According to [USACO, 29](#), Ad Hoc problems are problems that cannot be classified anywhere else, where each problem description and its corresponding solution are "unique". Ad Hoc problems also always appear in programming contests. Using a benchmark of total problems, there must be L2 and L3 Ad Hoc problems in ICPCs. If the problem is easy, it will usually be the first problem selected by the teams in a programming contest. But there exist Ad Hoc problems that are complicated to solve and some teams will probably not understand the last hour. Assuming a 16-team contest, your team is likely in the lower half (rank 11 to 16) in 2002 and 2003, the cases I was yet for the competition directly which is used by only 6 teams. If you are at the top, you will encounter difficulty due to the other teams’ successes. “Easy” Ad Hoc problems are like problems in a PCMP. The easiest of all Ad Hoc tasks have been formulated in this context. Each category is like a puzzle you must solve. Each category still contains a lot of problems so we highlighted into an attractive first step by selecting simple Ad Hoc problems in each category. There are problems that require the minimum incentive like "try" to solve problems from each category before reading the next section. The categories: 1. **(Super) Easy** - You should try these problems "AC" in under 7 minutes each! - If you are just starting competitive programming, we strongly recommend that you start your journey by solving some problems from this category. 2. **Game (Card)** - There exist Ad Hoc problems involving game parameters. The first game type is related to cards. Usually, you will need to parse the string input to extract cards (suits such as Diamonds (D), Clubs (C), Hearts (H), and Spades (S), e.g., Q♣). This includes the basic counting: `2 ≤ C ≤ 5`, `2 ≤ D ≤ 5`, `DA ≤ 10`, `DA ≤ 12`, `C2 ≤ 13`, `C3 ≤ 14`, ..., `SA ≤ 14`. 3. **Game (Chess)** - Another popular area of game problems that appears in programming contest problems are chess games. Some forms of Tic Tac Toe (listed in this section), Shogi, and chess variants share some identifying characteristics with games played across multiple games before. 4. **Game (Others)** - Other card and board games, there are many other popular problems outside of chess games that tend to filter into programming contest problems. The TO-Do: Road-Paper-Stones, Graduate-Students, BINGO, Burning, and more variants are some notable examples. Once you've seen these, you will find that these problems are indeed super easy. - To assist other arrangements, A ≤ 2. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 167 Context: # Chapter 6 The Human Genome has approximately 3.3 Gig base-pairs — Human Genome Project ## 6.1 Overview and Motivation In this chapter, we present one more topic that is tested in ICPC—although not as frequent as graph and mathematics problems—namely, string processing. String processing is common in the research field of bioinformatics. However, as the strings that researchers deal with are usually extremely large, efficient data structures and algorithms are necessary. Some of these problems are presented as contest problems in ICPC. By mastering the content of this chapter, ICPC contestants will have a better chance at tackling these string processing problems. String processing tasks also appear in IOI, but usually they do not involve restricting data structures or requiring the use of syllabus [I/O] restrictions. Additionally, the input and output format are usually quite simple. The problems in this text tend to combine input/output formatting commonly found in ICPC problems. IOI tasks that require string processing are usually still solvable using the problem-solving paradigms mentioned in Chapter 5. It is straining for most contestants to learn string algorithms as this chapter except Section 6.5 that is concerned with DP. However, we believe that it may be advantageous for IOI contestants to learn some of the more advanced materials outside of their syllabus. ## 6.2 Basic String Processing Skills We begin this chapter by listing several basic string processing skills that every competitive programmer must master. In this section, we give a series of mini tasks that you should solve one after another without skipping. You can use your favorite programming language (C, C++, or Java). Try your best to come up with the subtask, unless default implementations can be found. 1. Given a string consisting of alphabet characters [A-Za-z], digits [0-9], space, and period ('.'), write a program to read that text file line-by-line and encounter a long string first. When two lines are combined, give one possible solution that has the least word of the longest line that is spaced from the first of the current line. There can be up to 30 different strings to look up from various files. A subtask can be learned as follows: - **Input:** The sample input file `file.txt` is shown on the next page: After question 1 (a) and before task 2. #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 296 Context: ``` # INDEX | PAGE | | |------|-----------------------| | 290 | | | | **Higher plane curves** | 217 | | | **Hyperbola** | 116, 167 | | | **Hyperbolic paraboloid** | 372 | | | **Hyperbola** | 21, 272 | | | **Hypocycloid** | 236 | | | **Involute** | 18 | | | **Intercept** | 44, 69, 150, 218 | | | **Interval** | 44 | | | **Lemniscate** | 922 | | | **Lines** | 1, 8, 18, 24, 35, 66, 69, 83, 175 | | | **Locus** | 1, 2, 3, 33, 36, 275 | | | **Logarithmic curve** | 320 | | | **spiral** | - | - **Mid point**: 23, 132, 154, 184 - **Normal**: 60, 109, 154, 170 - **Normal equation**: 68, 70, 247 1. **Oblique coordinates**: 1, 6, 14, 242 2. **Octant**: 25, 206 3. **Ordinal**: 5, 6, 105, 106, 257 4. **Origin**: - 5. **Parabola**: 10, 115, 170 6. **Parallels**: 24, 34, 114, 175 7. **Parameter equation**: 63, 258, 260 8. **Parametric**: 37, 64, 200 9. **Point**: 387, 394, 396 10. **Point locating**: 4 11. **Polar coordinates**: 14, 204 - **Quadrant**: 55 - **Quadratic equation**: 63 | | **Radian** | 365 | |---|-----------------------|-----| | | **Radial axis** | - | | | **Radius vector** | - | | | **Real axis** | 159 | | | **Rectangular coordinates** | 172 | | | **Rotation of axes** | 112 | | | **Slopes** | 1, 3, 5, 16, 36, 50, 200, 328 | - **Sigma**: 18, 31, 62, 112, 167, 178 - **Sphere**: 236, 265 - **Spherical coordinates**: 261, 258 - **Spiral**: 61 - **Subnormal**: 134 - **Subtangent**: 134 - **Symmetric equations**: 246, 249, 257 - **Symmetry**: 87 | | **Tubes** | 314 | |---|-----------------------|-----| | | **Tangent** | 90, 123, 124 | | | **Trace** | 129, 150, 172 | | | **Transform** | 263, 317 | | | **Transformed function** | 263, 317 | | | **Transfusion** | - | | | **Trursive axis** | - | | | **Trisection equation** | 23, 41 | | | **Two-point** | - | - **Variable**: 64, 500 - **Vertical angle**: 117, 142, 190 ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 209 Context: Chapter 6 BIOS Modification PREVIEW This chapter delves into the principles and mechanics of BIOS modification. It puts together all of the technology that you learned in previous chapters into a proof of concept. Here I demystify the systematic BIOS modification process that only a few have conquered. I focus on Award BIOS modification. 6.1. Tools of the Trade You are only as good as your tools. This principle also holds true in the realm of BIOS modification. Thus, start by becoming acquainted with the modification tools. The tools needed to conduct an Award BIOS modification are as follows: 1. Disassembler: IDA Pro disassembler. A disassembler is used to comprehend the BIOS binary routine to find the right place to carry out the modification. The IDA Pro freeware version is available as a free download at http://www.dirfile.com/ida_pro_freeware_version.htm. 2. Hex editor: Hex Workshop version 4.23. The most beneficial feature of Hex Workshop is its capability to calculate checksums for the selected range of file that you open inside of it. You will use this tool to edit the BIOS binary. However, you can use another hex editor for the binary editing purposes. 3. Assembler: FASMW.1 FASMW is freeware and available for download at http://flatassembler.net in the download section. 4. Modbin. There are two types of modbin, modbin6 for Award BIOS version 6.00PG and modbin 4.50.xx for Award BIOS version 4.5xPG. You need this tool to look at the Award BIOS components and to modify the system BIOS. You can download it at http://www.biosmods.com in the download section. This tool also used to ensure that the checksum of the modified BIOS is corrected after the modification. Modbin is not needed if you don't want to do modification to the system BIOS. In this chapter, you need modbin because you are going to modify the system BIOS. 5. Cbrom. This tool is used to view the information about the components inside an Award BIOS binary. It's also used to add and remove components from the Award BIOS binary. Cbrom is available freely at http://www.biosmods.com in the download section. Note that there are many versions of Cbrom. I can't say exactly which one you should be using. Try the latest version if you are modifying Award BIOS version 6.00PG; otherwise, try an older version. Cbrom is not needed if you 1 The windows version of FASM. 1 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 2 Context: Preface BIOS DISASSEMBLY NINJUTSU UNCOVERED – THE BOOK For many years, there has been a myth among computer enthusiasts and practitioners that PC BIOS (Basic Input Output System) modification is a kind of black art and only a handful of people can do it or only the motherboard vendor can carry out such a task. On the contrary, this book will prove that with the right tools and approach, anyone can understand and modify the BIOS to suit their needs without the existence of its source code. It can be achieved by using a systematic approach to BIOS reverse engineering and modification. An advanced level of this modification technique is injecting a custom code to the BIOS binary. There are many reasons to carry out BIOS reverse engineering and modification, from the fun of doing it to achieve higher clock speed in overclocking scenario, patching certain bug, injecting a custom security code into the BIOS, up to commercial interest in the embedded x86 BIOS market. The emergence of embedded x86 platform as consumer electronic products such as TV set-top boxes, telecom-related appliances and embedded x86 kiosks have raised the interest in BIOS reverse engineering and modification. In the coming years, these techniques will become even more important as the state of the art bus protocols have delegate a lot of their initialization task to the firmware, i.e. the BIOS. Thus, by understanding the techniques, one can dig the relevant firmware codes and understand the implementation of those protocols within the BIOS binary. The main purpose of the BIOS is to initialize the system into execution environment suitable for the operating system. This task is getting more complex over the years, since x86 hardware evolves quite significantly. It’s one of the most dynamic computing platform on earth. Introduction of new chipsets happens once in 3 or at least 6 month. This event introduces a new code base for the silicon support routine within the BIOS. Nevertheless, the overall architecture of the BIOS is changing very slowly and the basic principle of the code inside the BIOS is preserved over generations of its code. However, there has been a quite significant change in the BIOS scene in the last few years, with the introduction of EFI (extensible Firmware Interface) by several major hardware vendors and with the growth in OpenBIOS project. With these advances in BIOS technology, it’s even getting more important to know systematically what lays within the BIOS. In this book, the term BIOS has a much broader meaning than only motherboard BIOS, which is familiar to most of the reader. It also means the expansion ROM. The latter term is the official term used to refer to the firmware in the expansion cards within the PC, be it ISA, PCI or PCI Express. So, what can you expect after reading this book? Understanding the BIOS will open a new frontier. You will be able to grasp how exactly the PC hardware works in its lowest level. Understanding contemporary BIOS will reveal the implementation of the latest bus protocol technology, i.e. HyperTransport and PCI-Express. In the software engineering front, you will be able to appreciate the application of compression technology in the BIOS. The most important of all, you will be able to carry out reverse engineering using advanced techniques and tools. You will be able to use the powerful IDA Pro disassembler efficiently. Some reader with advanced knowledge in hardware and software might even want to “borrow” some of the algorithm within the BIOS for their own purposes. In short, you will be on the same level as other BIOS code-diggers. This book also presents a generic approach to PCI expansion ROM development using the widely available GNU tools. There will be no more myth in the BIOS and everyone will be able to learn from this state-of-the-art software technology for their own benefits. THE AUDIENCE This book is primarily oriented toward system programmers and computer security experts. In addition, electronic engineers, pc technicians and computer enthusiasts can also benefit a lot from this book. Furthermore, due to heavy explanation of applied computer architecture (x86 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 201 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES © Steven & Felix ## 11. The Pythagorean Triple The Pythagorean Triple is a triple with three positive integers \(a\), \(b\), and \(c\), such that \(a^2 + b^2 = c^2\). Such a triple is commonly written as \((a, b, c)\). An well-known example is \((3, 4, 5)\). If \((a, b, c)\) is a Pythagorean triple, then so is \((kb, ka, kc)\) for any positive integer \(k\). Pythagorean Triples describe the integer lengths of the three sides of a Right Triangle. Example code: `ch07/triangles.cpp` or `triangles.java` ### Programming Exercises Related to Triangles (plus Circles): 1. UVa 10041 - Orshad Test (count all points in triangle; be careful with precision) 2. UVa 10019 - Color Through Three Points (triangles' circumcenter) 3. UVa 10177 - Inscribed Circles Area - (triangle's inradius) 4. UVa 10343 - The Circumcenter of ... (triangle's circumcenter) 5. UVa 10414 - The Knights Of The Round ... (triangle's inradius, Hero's formula) 6. UVa 10210 - Rescue a Kid! (reverse triangle) 7. UVa 10847 - Julius Caesar's situation (as hidden) 8. UVa 10627 - Bigot in a Box (symmetric, see Hero's formula) 9. UVa 10679 - Racing Horses ... (get point A and direct to point B) 10. UVa 10915 - Ringo (from formula, Law of Cosines, area of sector) 11. UVa 11379 - Calculated Triangle ... (multiplicative inverse, Hero's formula) 12. UVa 11574 - Egypt Pythagorean Theorem (input) 13. UVa 11390 - Sona Milly ... (can find Law of Sine; (S) takes on from a valid triangle) 14. UVa 11938 - The Lazy Lumbro's... (thick it; gives rises on from a valid triangle) 15. UVa 1413 - Thinking Banal (MathCumpots, circles in triangle) ## 7.2.5 2D Objects: Quadrilaterals ### 1. Quadrilateral A Quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides (and four vertices). The term "polygon" itself is described in more detail below (Section 7.3). Figure 7.6 shows examples of Quadrilateral objects. ### 2. Rectangle A rectangle is a polygon with four edges, four vertices, and four right angles. - A rectangle with width \(w\) and height \(h\) has area \(A = w \times h\) and perimeter \(P = 2 \times (w + h)\). ### 3. Square A square is a special case of a rectangle where \(w = h\). ### 4. Trapezium A trapezium is a polygon with four edges, four vertices, and one pair of parallel edges. If the two non-parallel sides have the same length, then we have an isosceles trapezium. ### 5. Trapezoid A trapezoid is a pair of parallel edges of length \(w_1\) and \(w_2\), and a height \(h\) between both parallel sides is defined as \(A = \frac{1}{2} (w_1 + w_2) \times h\). ### 6. Parallelogram A parallelogram is a polygon with four edges and four vertices with opposite sides parallel. --- "*After that, details on vertices, along with the plots for sizes/maxes/mass/areas of the polygon.*" #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 24 Context: ``` # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE ### Steven & Felix 4. How to compute the "shortest path" between two vertices on a weighted Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) with `|V| = 100K`. Which algorithm(s) can be used in concert setting? - (a) Dynamic Programming (Sections 4.3, 4.2.2, 4.1.1). - (b) Breadth First Search (Section 4.2.2 & 4.2.4). - (c) Dijkstra's (Section 4.3). - (d) Bellman Ford's (Section 4.4.4). - (e) Floyd Warshall's (Section 4.5). 5. Which algorithm is faster (based on its time complexity) for producing a list of the first 10K prime numbers? (Section 1.5.1) - Size of Exasturbates (Section 1.5.1). 6. For each number `i` (1..10K), test if `isPrime(i)` is true (Section 5.5.1). 7. You want to test if factorial of `n`, i.e., is divisible by an integer `m`. `n = 5` & `m = 10000`. What should you do? - (a) Test if `n! % m == 0` ......................................... (Section 5.5.1). - (b) The naïve approach above will not work. We must use: ........ (Section 5.5.1). 8. You want to know all the occurrences of a substring `P` (of length `m`) in a (long) string `T` (of length `n`), if any. Both `m` and `n` can go up to 10^ characters. - (a) Use the following C++ code snippet: ```cpp for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) { bool found = false; for (int j = 0; j < m && !found; ++j) if (T[i + j] != P[j]) found = false; if (found) printf("%d is found in index %d in T\n", P, i); } ``` - (b) The naïve approach above will not work. We must use: .... (Section 6.4). 9. Same problem as in question 8 earlier, but now the number of points `N` is larger `N > 1M`. Recall that the points are randomly scattered on 2D plane. - (a) The naïve approach above will not work. We must use: .... (Section 7.3.7). ## 1.2.3 Tip 4: Master Programming Languages There are several programming languages allowed in ICPC, including C/C++ and Java. While our common suggestion is C++, we prefer C++ with built-in Standard Template Library (STL), since it is easier to master than, aside from, Java which is helpful for debugging. - Big-O: Binary Search, Graphical/Geometric API, etc. - C++ can also be judged both as a Java comparable, supporting multiple levels of STL complexity, especially for 1D programming languages (section 6.7). Note that the contest does not strictly require that the user has to master C++ as it is also included in those STL examples. ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 249 Context: ``` # INDEX ## LA 2001 - Editor, 173 ## LA 3001 - Title Code, 132 ## LA 3190 - Project Controls, 128 ## LA 3899 - The Expert Consultant, 129 ## LA 3900 - Intermediaries, 83 ## LA 4001 - MODX, 128 ## LA 4110 - APQP, 211 ## LA 4200 - Racing, 60 ## LA 4300 - Space Eco-Folk, 132 ## LA 4310 - Expert Funnels, 61 ## LA 4401 - Create X-Philanthropy, 155 ## LA 4600 - JCPT Team Strategy, 211 ## LA 4701 - Hybrid Project Framework, 15 ## LA 4821 - Soft Skills, 128 ## LA 4822 - Expert as a Marital Man, 13 ## LA 4824 - Curatives of Pricings, 82 ## LA 4901 - Shopping Don’s Day, 128 ## LA 4910 - Planning 101, 28 ## LA 4912 - Non-Compete Law, 211 ## LA 4939 - Other, 21 ## LA 4999 - Tech, 118 ## LA 6001 - Part I: Editor, 94 ## LA 6191 - Book Bill, 45 ## LA 6201 - Unlocked Projects, 210 ## LA 6701 - Transactions, 94 ## LA 6771 - Strategic Approach, 302 ## LA 6810 - Business Analysis, 125 ## LA 6821 - Surviving Apoplexy, 139 ## LA 6901 - Guidelines, 292 ## LA 6902 - Informal Policy, 90 ## LA 7001 - The Landers, 21 ## LA 7711 - Shark's Chocolate, 210 ## LA 7731 - Designing, 65 ## LA 7831 - Sakes, 45 ## LA 8841 - String Popping, 45 ## LA 854 - Password, 46 ## LA 921 - MBIT Aptitudes, 132 ## LA 982 - Burnout Study, 80 ## LA 9931 - Overlapping Scenes, 46 ## LA 2000 - Undertaker Scribes, 212 ## LA 2100 - Lawrence’s Lessons, 184 ## LA 2699 - Last Common Multiple, 135 ## LA 4011 - Build Turn Test ex. CCW Test, 141 ## LA 2201 - Linear Disproportionate Equation, 117 ## LA 2700 - Link List, 22 ## LA 2800 - Live Archive, 12 ## LA 2900 - Caution Subset, 161 ## LA 3000 - Longest Constant Subsequence, 61 ## LA 3001 - Lowest Common Ancestor, 113 ### Authors - **Author:** LA, 153 - **Math:** LA, 199 ### Max Flow - Max Flow with Vertex Capacities, 105 - Maximum Edge-Disjoint Paths, 106 - Min Cost Max Flow, 105 - Min Cut, 41 - Multi-source Multi-sink Max Flow, 105 - Minimum Spanning Tree, 86 - Partial Minimum Spanning Tree, 86 - Second Best Spanning Tree, 87 - Monte Carlo Arithmetic, 118 - Myers, Gene, 159 ## Optimal Play ### Palindrome: 121 ### Pascal, Blaise, 128 ### Perfect Play, 145 ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 280 Context: Chapter 9 Accessing BIOS within the Operating System PREVIEW In this chapter, you will learn to access the contents of a BIOS chip directly within an operating system, including the contents of the PCI expansion ROM chip. The first section explains the basic principles; the next sections delve into specific issues of the operating system and their corresponding interfaces. The chapter explores the proof of concept of this idea in Linux and Windows. 9.1. General Access Method Accessing the BIOS chip contents directly within a running operating system may seem like a tough job. It won't be as hard as you think. You can access and manipulate the BIOS chip directly within the operating system only if the chip is EEPROM or flash ROM. Fortunately; all motherboards since the late 1990s use one of these types of chip. Different operating systems have different software layers. However, the logical steps to access the BIOS contents within them remain almost the same. This is because of the programming model in x86 architecture. Most operating systems in x86 architecture use two privilege levels provided by the hardware to allow seamless access to system resources among applications. They are known as ring 0, or the kernel mode, and ring 3, or the user mode. Any software that runs in kernel mode is free to access and manipulate the hardware directly, including the BIOS chip. Thus, the general steps to access the BIOS chip in the motherboard directly within the operating system are as follows: 1. Enter kernel mode in the operating system. In most cases, you need to make an operating system–specific device driver in this step. You have to build a device driver for two reasons. First, the operating system will grant kernel-mode access only to device drivers. Second, in most cases, operating systems don't provide a well-defined software interface to manipulate the BIOS chip—if they even have such an interface. At first sight, it might seem that you have to use a different approach to provide access to manipulate the BIOS chip for a user-mode application in Linux and Windows through the device driver. However, this is not the case. Uniform software architecture works just fine. The basic purpose of the device driver is to provide direct access to the BIOS chip address space for the user mode application. As shown in a later section, you don't even need to build a device driver in Linux for this concept to work, because the Linux kernel provides access to the BIOS address space through the virtual file in /dev/mem. The basic method for "exporting" the BIOS chip address space to a user-mode application is as follows: #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 246 Context: # BIBLIOGRAPHY [1] TopCoder Inc. PrimePairs. Copyright 2009 TopCoder, Inc. All rights reserved. [Link](http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=past_challenges&d2=13712) [2] TopCoder Inc. Single Round Match (SRM). [Link](http://www.topcoder.com) [3] Competitive Learning Initiative. ACM ICPC Live Archive. 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[Link](http://train.usaco.org/usaco) [13] Joseph O'Rourke. *Computational Geometry* (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press, 1998. [14] Kenneth H. Rosen. *Elementary Number Theory and its Applications*. Addison Wesley Longman, 4th edition, 2001. [15] Robert Sedgewick. *Algorithms in C++, Part I: Algorithms*. Addison Wesley, 3rd edition, 2002. [16] Steven S. Skiena. *The Algorithm Design Manual*. Springer, 2009. [17] Steven S. Skiena and Miguel A. Revilla. *Programming Challenges*. Springer, 2003. [18] SPOJ. Sphere Online Judge. [Link](http://www.spoj.pl) [19] Wing-Kin Sung. *Algorithms in Bioinformatics: A Practical Introduction*. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 1st edition, 2010. [20] Edna E. Kuehn. On the re-structure of suffix trees. *Algorithmica*, 14 (3-24):219-240, 1995. [21] Bayley University. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. [Link](http://icpc.facetop.org) [22] Tom Verhoeff. 20 Years of I/O Competitions. *Olympiads in Informatics*, 3:149-160, 2009. [23] Adrian V. M. and Costas N. Georgiou. *Suffi array: a programming contest approach*. 2008. [24] Henry S. Warren. *Hacker's Delight*. Pearson, 1st edition, 2002. [25] Wikipedia. *The Free Encyclopedia*. [Link](http://en.wikipedia.org) #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 54 Context: ``` ## 2.4 Chapter Notes **© Steven & Felix** Basic data structures mentioned in Section 2.2 can be found in almost every data structure and algorithm textbook. References to these libraries are available online at [open-source.com](https://www.open-source.com) and [java.com](https://www.java.com). Note that although these reference websites are usually given in programming courses, we suggest that you try to master the syntax of the most common library operations at the same time during the actual context. An exception to practice the usage of **Benson's classes** (which are popular for programming in data structures) is also important for computer programmers; it still has significant impact on efficiency. This data structure part is in [PSP (Section 3.2)](https://www.pspbook.com) and [DP (Section 4.1)](https://www.dpbook.com). All of them state this data structure is intended to read a book. **Baker's Delight** is still discussed in manipulative data. External references for data structures mentioned in Section 2.3 are as follows: For Graph data structures, see [2] and Chapter 2 of [3]. For Union-Find Data Structures, see [1], [2], and [3]. When experimenting and looking at sample codes, you will master more tricks in using data structures. Tables provide some examples to see the similar basic data structures. There are a few more data structure designs in this book. The triad-based data structures (Suffix, Tree, Tree/Array) in Section 6. Yet, there are still many other data structures that this book does not include, but you can find in programming notes. Please study the data structures beyond what you present in this book. For example, AVL Tree, Red-Black Tree, or Splay Tree are useful for certain practical problems where you need to implement and maintain code [44]. Interval Trees which is similar to Segment Tree, could have lengthy memory space. Notice that the efficiency of data structures shown in this book have the spirit of Divide and Conquer (discussed in Section 3.3). There are **17 UML (7 + 7 others)** programming exercises discussed in this chapter. * (Only 48 in the first edition, a 1965 variant.) * There are **126 pages in this chapter.** * (Only 12 in the first edition, a 505th measure.) ## Profile of Data Structure Inventors **Robert Boyer Dona (1930)** has been Professor (emeritus) of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich. He invented the Red-Black (RB) Tree which is popularly used in C++ STL, and eager set. **Alexander Alexandrovich Vasil'ev (1892)** is a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, along with Mikhail Nikolayevich Bakhvalov, invented the AVL tree in 1962. **Eyboldi Chikvelidze Landaz (1927-1997)** was a Soviet mathematician. The name AVL tree is the abbreviation of the two inventors: Adel'son-Vel'skii and Landis himself. **Peter M. Fenwick** is a Honorary Associate Professor in the University of Auckland. He invented Binary Indexed Trees which is widely used in programming contests for efficient yet easy to implement data structures by his inclusion in the 101 syllables [10]. ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 213 Context: Figure 6.3 shows the commands applicable to cbrom. Displaying the options or help in cbrom is just like in DOS days; just type /? to see the options and their explanation. Now, get into a little over-the-edge cbrom usage. Remove and reinsert the system BIOS extension in Iwill VD133 BIOS. This BIOS is based on Award BIOS version 4.50PG code. Thus, its system BIOS extension is decompressed into segment 4100h during POST, not to segment 1000h as you saw in chapter 5, when you reverse engineered Award BIOS. Here is an example of how to release the system BIOS extension from this particular BIOS binary using cbrom in a windows console: E:\BIOS_M~1>CBROM207.EXE VD30728.BIN /other 4100:0 release CBROM V2.07 (C)Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved. [Other] ROM is release E:\BIOS_M~1> Note that the system BIOS extension is listed as the "other" component. Now, see how you insert the system BIOS extension back to the BIOS binary: E:\BIOS_M~1>CBROM207.EXE VD30728.BIN /other 4100:0 awardext.rom CBROM V2.07 (C)Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved. Adding awardext.rom .. 66.7% E:\BIOS_M~1> So far, I've been playing with cbrom. The rest is just more exercise to become accustomed with it. Proceed to the last tool, the chipset datasheet. Reading a datasheet is not a trivial task for a beginner to hardware hacking. The first thing to read is the table of contents. However, I will show you a systematic approach to reading the chipset datasheet efficiently: 1. Go to the table of contents and notice the location of the chipset block diagram. The block diagram is the first thing that you must comprehend to become accustomed to the chipset datasheet. And one more thing to remember: you have to be acquainted with the bus protocol, or at least know the configuration mechanism, that the chipset uses. 2. Look for the system address map for the particular chipset. This will lead you to system-specific resources and other important information regarding the address space and I/O space usage in the system. 3. Finally, look for the chipset register setting explanation. The chipset register setting will determine the overall performance of the motherboard when the BIOS has been executed. When a bug occurs in a motherboard, it's often the chipset register value initialization that causes the trouble. You may want to look for additional information. In that case, just proceed on your own. 5 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 29 Context: Figure 2.1 Focus on 9557AA-SKRE2 BIOS file opened with Hex Workshop A quick look in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) section (the rightmost section in the figure) reveals some string. The most interesting one is the `--1h5--` in the beginning of the binary file. An experienced programmer will be suspicious of this string, because it resembles a marker for a header of a compressed file. Further research will reveal that this is a string to mark the header of a file compressed with LHA. You can try a similar approach to another kind of file. For example, every file compressed with WinZip will start with ASCII code `PK`, and every file compressed with WinRAR will start with ASCII code `Rar!`, as seen in a hex editor. This shows how powerful a preliminary assessment is. ## 2.2 Introducing IDA Pro Reverse code engineering is carried out to comprehend the algorithm used in software by analyzing the executable file of the corresponding software. In most cases, the software only comes with the executable—without its source code. The same is true for the BIOS. Only the executable binary file is accessible. Reverse code engineering is carried out with the help of some tools: a debugger; a disassembler; a hexadecimal file editor, a.k.a. a hex editor; in-circuit emulator, etc. In this book, I only deal with a disassembler and a hex editor. The current chapter only deals with a disassembler, i.e., IDA Pro disassembler. IDA Pro is a powerful disassembler. It comes with support for plugin and scripting facilities and support for more than 50 processor architectures. However, every powerful tool has its downside of being hard to use, and IDA Pro is not an exception. This chapter is designed to address the issue. There are several editions of IDA Pro: freeware, standard, and advanced. The latest freeware edition as of the writing of this book is IDA Pro version 4.3. It's available for download at [http://www.dl.refile.com/ida_pro_freeware_version.htm](http://www.dl.refile.com/ida_pro_freeware_version.htm). It's the most limited of the IDA Pro versions. It supports only the x86 processor and doesn’t come with a plugin. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 248 Context: # INDEX ## Factorial - 316 ## Fenwick Tree - Fenwick Tree, A5, 32 ## Fibonacci Numbers - Fibonacci Sequence, 128, 129 ## Flood Fill - Flood Fill, 71 ## Floyd Warshall's Algorithm - Floyd Warshall's, 96 ## Game Theory - Game Tree, or Decision Tree - Godefroid, Christian, 132 - Graham's Scan, 19 - Gibbons, Ronald Lewis, 191, 194 - Group, 71 - Data Structure, 29 - Quad-Circle Distance, 186 - Greatest Common Divisor, 135 - Greedy Algorithm, 51 - Grid, 122 ## Hash Table - 27 ## Heap - Heaps of Alexandria, 184, 187 - Horner's Rule, 154 - Hopcroft & Karp, 184, 187 ## IPC1 - 1 ## Internal Covering - 53 ## IOI 2010 - Total Maintenance - IOI 2010 - Practice, 173 ## IOI 2011 - IOI 2011 - Archive, 203 - IOI 2011 - C5, 189 - IOI 2011 - Geometry, 15 - IOI 2011 - Life, 50 - IOI 2011 - Palindromes, 94 - IOI 2011 - Permutations, 203 - IOI 2011 - Planes, 48 - IOI 2011 - Randomness, 79 - IOI 2011 - Set Distribution, 95 - IOI 2011 - Two Patterns, 153 - IOI 2011 - Youngsters, 38 ## Iterative Deepening Search - 204 ## Jaradk, Wojciech, 89 ## Java - Java BigInteger Class, 125 - Base Number Conversion, 127 - GCD, 126 - Java Pattern (Regular Expressions), 153 ## Karp, Richard Manning - 65, 102 ## Knapsack (0-1) - 63 ## Knuth-Dalrymple's Algorithm - 156 ## Kruskal's Algorithm - 84 ## LA 2189 - Mobile Constraints - 18 ## LA 2195 - Counting Sequences - 132 ## LA 2589 - Regular Installations - 156 ## LA 2629 - Mobile Wind Shields - 50 ## LA 2765 - Air Ring - 118 ## LA 2815 - Geodesic Bet Problem - 100 ## LA 2817 - A DT Problem - 159 ## LA 2912 - Trees and Insects - 20 ## LA 3013 - Leftmost Edge - 25 ## LA 3115 - Arrays & Sequences - 118 ## LA 3136 - Timing Problem - 119 ## LA 3143 - Breakout - 51 ## LA 3177 - Merging - 80 ## LA 3208 - Front Fly Ends - 202 ## LA 3209 - Cursive - 115 ## LA 3304 - The Bamboozler - 135 ## LA 3443 - Square, - 231 ## LA 3479 - Broken Jigsaw - 118 ## LA 3687 - Dumpling - 60 ## LA 3689 - String Cutting - 155 ## LA 3695 - To-Do and the Problem - 89 ## LA 3794 - Perfect Squaring - 115 ## LA 3795 - Perfect Permutations - 211 ## LA 3797 - Bringing FIFA - 211 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 64 Context: Chapter 3 BIOS-Related Software Development Preliminary PREVIEW This chapter explains the prerequisite knowledge you need in the development of BIOS-related software, particularly BIOS patch and PCI expansion ROMs. The first section explains how to build a flat binary file from assembly language code. Later sections focus on how to use the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) facility to build a flat binary file. GCC linker script and its role in the development of flat binary files are explained. 3.1. BIOS-Related Software Development with Pure Assembler Every system programmer realizes that BIOS is "bare metal" software. It interfaces directly with the machine, with no layer between the BIOS and the silicon. Thus, any code that will be inserted into the BIOS, such as a new patch or a custom-built patch, must be provided in flat binary form. Flat binary means there's no executable file format, headers, etc., only bare machine codes and self-contained data. Nevertheless, there's an exception to this rule: expansion ROM has a predefined header format that must be adhered to. This section shows how to generate a flat binary file from an assembly language file by using the netwide assembler (NASM) and flat assembler (FASM). Start with NASM. NASM is a free assembler and available for download at http://nasm.sourceforge.net. NASM is available for both Windows and Linux. It's quite powerful and more than enough for now. Listing 3.1 shows a sample source code in NASM of a patch I injected into my BIOS. Listing 3.1 Sample BIOS Patch in NASM Syntax ; --------------- BEGIN TWEAK.ASM -------------------------------- BITS 16 ; To make sure NASM adds the 66 prefix to 32-bit instructions section .text start: pushf push eax push dx mov eax,ioq_reg ; Patch the ioq register of the chipset mov dx,in_port out dx,eax mov dx,out_port in eax,dx or eax,ioq_mask out dx,eax 1 #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: # CONTENTS ## Chapter I: Introduction 1 ## Chapter II: Geometric Magnitudes 15 ## Chapter III: loci and their Equations 33 ## Chapter IV: The Straight Line 51 ## Chapter V: The Circle 59 ## Chapter VI: Transformation of Coordinates 109 ## Chapter VII: The Parabola 115 ## Chapter VIII: The Ellipse 137 ## Chapter IX: The Hyperbola 167 ## Chapter X: Conics in General 193 ## Chapter XI: Polar Coordinates 209 ## Chapter XII: Higher Plane Curves 217 ## Chapter XIII: Point, Plane, and Line 237 ## Chapter XIV: Surfaces 265 ## Supplement 283 ## Note on the History of Analytic Geometry 287 ## Index 289 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 386 Context: Chapter 10 Low-Level Remote Server Management PREVIEW You might not be aware of the presence of low-level remote access to x86 system hardware and firmware through software interfaces called the desktop management interface (DMI) and system management basic input/output system (SMBIOS). They were competing standards. DMI reached the end of its life cycle in 2005. Therefore, my explanation regarding these protocols focuses on SMBIOS. Nevertheless, some artifacts from the DMI era are still found in SMBIOS for compatibility reasons. The first section explains the SMBIOS interface, and the second section deals with the real-world implementation of the interface in a sample BIOS binary, along with a simple SMBIOS structure table parser. You also get a glimpse of Windows management instrumentation (WMI). 10.1. DMI and SMBIOS DMI and SMBIOS are standards developed and maintained by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). These standards are meant to take part in a software layer to provide seamless remote management for server and desktop machines. The purpose is to lower the total cost of ownership for organizations running various machines. The more machines an organization has, the greater the benefit it receives from being able to centralize the management tasks of the machines, such as monitoring machine performance and updating certain software. This machine management paradigm is termed Web-based enterprise management (WBEM) by the DMTF (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem/). In this context, DMI or SMBIOS is only one of the software layers that provide management functions. Note that DMI has been deprecated and replaced by SMBIOS. Figure 10.1 shows a simplified logical architecture for a WBEM computing environment. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 577 Context: 15.4. Because of that fact, I think it’s easy to predict the direction of Phoenix BIOS-related developments in the coming years. Another possible area for future “expansion” in the BIOS field is the remote manageability feature in servers and embedded server platforms. Intel has defined the technical specification for remote manageability that runs as part of the server hardware. The specification is called Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). You can download the latest specification at http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/ . IPMI is particularly interesting because it enables a “server”2 machine to carryout management tasks remotely, such as rebooting a remote server that stops operating normally, etc. This is possible because of the use of dedicated “sideband” signaling interface that doesn’t require the presence of a working operating system to manage the remote machine. Normally, you will need the operating system in the remote machine to be working flawlessly in order to connect into it through the network. However, IPMI dictates the presence of the so-called baseboard management controller (BMC). The BMC is a “daughter” board—a board plugged into the motherboard—that contains a specialized microprocessor that handles health monitoring, alert and management functions independently of the main processor. Therefore, even if the main processor halts, the system is still “reachable” through the BMC. Administrators can restart or repair the machine through the BMC interface. It’s exciting to watch how this technology will be implemented in future systems. Beside the IPMI technology, it’s also important to pay attention to implementation of Intel Active Management Technology as it as been implemented in some of the most recent chipsets from Intel. These technologies need firmware level supports in order to work. This fact, ofcourse is very exciting for firmware developers as well as firmware reverse engineers. As a pointer, you might want to look for Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA)-related product whitepapers/documentations from AMI and Phoenix, because ATCA systems mostly implement “deep” remote manageability features such as IPMI. 15.2. Ubiquitous Computing and Development in BIOS Technology The term ubiquitous computing refers to the integration of computing devices into the “daily life” environment, rather than having the computing devices as “distinct object”. This term actually refers to the situation when people do not perceive the computing device as a computing device; rather, they view it as “everyday” apparatus, more or less, like how people perceive their microwave oven as “everyday” apparatus. In chapter 14, I have presented a TV set-top box (STB) based on embedded x86 technology. As you read in section 14.2.1, this device can be considered as part of ubiquitous computing because it’s used by people without even noticing that it’s a computing device. However, they are aware that it’s an electronic entertainment device. As explained in section 14.2.1, the implementation of the “core” etBIOS is more like a workaround to the Award BIOS binary that’s used as the basis for the embedded x86 TV 2 The “server” machine is not exactly a server in terms of client-server relationship. It’s more like a supervisor machine that inspects the server that’s being monitored. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 202 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES © Steven & Felix ## Figure 7.6: Quadrilaterals ### Programming Exercises related to Quadrilaterals 1. UVa 10015 - All Squares (exercise counting) 2. UVa 10004 - Square (rectangle or vertices; say all) 3. UVa 10600 - Overlapping Rectangles - (rectangle-rectangle intersection) 4. UVa 10617 - Points in Figures - (similar to UVa 673 and 478) 5. UVa 10627 - Convex Hull - (complete search) 6. UVa 10628 - Largest Square (implicit search) 7. UVa 11207 - The Easiest Way - (cutting rectangle into equal-sized squares) 8. UVa 11217 - Rectangle (non-overlapping intersection) 9. UVa 11586 - Blind Alley (graph theory) 10. UVa 11814 - Elevator - (pushing two circles into a rectangle) ## 7.2.6 3D Objects: Spheres 1. **Sphere** is a perfectly round geometrical object in 3D space. 2. The **Great-Circle Distance** between any two points A and B on a sphere is the shortest distance along a path on the surface of the sphere. This path is on one of the Great-Circles of the sphere that passes through the two points A and B. We can imagine Great-Circle as the intersection of the sphere and a plane that runs through both points A and B, resulting in a circle that we have two equal hemispheres (see Figure 7.7 left and middle). ## Figure 7.7: Left: Sphere, Middle: Hemisphere and Great-Circle, Right: d-Distance (A-B) To find the **Great-Circle Distance**, we have to find the central angle AOB (see Figure 7.7). The Great-Circle Center is the center of the Great-Circle which is also the center of the sphere. Given the radius of the sphere/Great-Circle, we can then determine the length of arc AB, which is the required Great-Circle distance. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 438 Context: Chapter 12 BIOS Rootkit Engineering PREVIEW In the previous chapters, you learned the basic techniques to interact with the firmware in the system. This chapter combines those techniques into the ultimate tool, the BIOS rootkit. I start by reviewing the history of BIOS exploitation, dissecting the legendary CIH virus, and then proceed to explaining how to devise a BIOS rootkit. The techniques that you learn in this chapter could be classified as "forbidden" techniques; in the ninjutsu realm they would be kinjutsu, or "forbidden" skills. The techniques I show here are only for experts because they are complicated, are risky, and can damage your system permanently. Don't try any of these techniques if you don't understand their mechanism in detail. You have been warned. 12.1. Looking Back through BIOS Exploitation History In the history of PC-based computing, there was one major virus outbreak on the PC BIOS, the CIH virus, written by Chen Ing Hau of Taiwan. There were several variants of CIH. This section shows a snippet from source code of CIH version 1.5. It shows the method used by CIH to destroy the BIOS. I don't explain the infection method used by CIH in detail because the focus in this chapter is synthesizing a BIOS rootkit. The source code is available at http://vx.netlux.org/src_view.php?file=cih15.zip. This website has a search feature; you can use it to locate other versions of CIH source code. As with other viruses' code, CIH source code is twisted and hard to understand because it uses many indirect branching instructions. I show you the basic idea behind this virus before delving into its code snippets. The characteristics of CIH 1.5 are as follows: 1. It infects executable files, particularly the so-called portable executable (PE) file. In this context, PE files are 32-bit executable files that run on the Windows platform. 2. It modifies the interrupt descriptor table (IDT) with an exception handler entry that points to the custom exception handler routine in the virus code. 3. It raises an exception to enter kernel mode. The kernel mode code is in the virus's custom exception handler routine. 4. Characteristics 2 and 3 imply that the virus code must be able to modify IDT entries from user-mode code. Therefore, CIH cannot run in Windows versions based on an NT kernel, i.e., it cannot run in Windows NT/2000/XP because IDT is not accessible to user-mode code in these Windows versions. CIH can run only in Windows 9x operating systems because IDT can be modified from user-mode code in these operating systems. 5. In its exception handler, it installs a new file system hook in Windows 9x to infect executable files. This file system hook also contains code to destroy the system. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: ListofTables1NotinIOISyllabus[10]Yet................................vii2LessonPlan.........................................vii1.1RecentACMICPCAsiaRegionalProblemTypes...................41.2Exercise:ClassifyTheseUVaProblems.........................51.3ProblemTypes(CompactForm).............................51.4RuleofThumbforthe‘WorstACAlgorithm’forvariousinputsizen........62.1ExampleofaCumulativeFrequencyTable........................353.1RunningBisectionMethodontheExampleFunction..................483.2DPDecisionTable.....................................603.3UVa108-MaximumSum.................................624.1GraphTraversalAlgorithmDecisionTable........................824.2FloydWarshall’sDPTable................................984.3SSSP/APSPAlgorithmDecisionTable..........................1005.1Part1:Findingkλ,f(x)=(7x+5)%12,x0=4.....................1435.2Part2:Findingμ......................................1445.3Part3:Findingλ......................................1446.1Left/Right:Before/AfterSorting;k=1;InitialSortedOrderAppears........1676.2Left/Right:Before/AfterSorting;k=2;‘GATAGACA’and‘GACA’areSwapped...1686.3BeforeandAftersorting;k=4;NoChange.......................1686.4StringMatchingusingSuffixArray............................1716.5ComputingtheLongestCommonPrefix(LCP)giventheSAofT=‘GATAGACA’..172A.1Exercise:ClassifyTheseUVaProblems.........................213xiv #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 36 Context: ``` 30 # GEOMETRIC MAGNITUDES 36. Given the four points A(6, 11), B(-4, -9), C(11, -4), and D(-7, 0), show that AB and CD are perpendicular diameters or a cyclic quadrilateral. 37. Draw the circle with center C(6, 6) and radius 6, and find the length of the secant from O(0, 0) through C. Two circles pass through A(6, 11) and B(-4, -9), and their centers are C(6, 6) and C'(-11, -4). Prove the figure and show that: - B(-1, 1) is the other common point of the circles. - The common chord is perpendicular to CC'. - The mid point of AB divides CC' in the ratio 1:1.7. Draw the circle with center C(-1, -5) and radius 5, and answer the following: 41. Are P1(2, 1) and P2(-4, 1) on the circle? 42. In Ex. 41, find the angle from CP1 to CP2. 43. Find the distance between the tangents at P1 and P2. Given that R2 is the line through R1 and P1 that is the ratio R2:R1 in the figure and note the values of r for the following cases: 44. P2 is between P1 and P2'. Show that r > 0. 45. P2 is on R2', produced. Show that r < -1. 46. P2 is on R2. Show that -1 < r < 0. 47. Given the point A(1, 1), find the point B such that the length of AB is h = 3 or 2, and if the mentions of the triangle need to be done. 48. Find the point Q which is equidistant from the coordinate axes and is also equidistant from the points A(4, 0) and B(-2, 1). ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 569 Context: Chapter 15 What’s Next PREVIEW This chapter talks about the future of BIOS technology. It is an industry insight into future trends in BIOS technology, including security related issue. Some of the BIOS-related technologies in this chapter probably have reached the market. Nevertheless, it’s not widespread yet. Moreover, the future trends in embedded x86 BIOS technology is also explained briefly. 15.1. The Future of BIOS Technology This section talks about advances in BIOS technology. The first subsection explains the basics of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). UEFI is the specification that must be met by future firmware in order to be compatible with future computing ecosystem—operating system, hardware and various other system components. Some of today’s products have adhered to the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) specification—the predecessor to UEFI. The second subsection delves into vendor-specific implementation of the UEFI specification; it highlights the future roadmap of BIOS-related development. 15.1.1. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) The UEFI specification was born as the successor to EFI specification version 1.10. It was born to cope with the inability of the current BIOS to scale and adapt efficiently with the current advances in desktop, server, mobile and embedded platforms technology, particularly, in terms of development complexity and cost efficiency. The most recent specification of UEFI as of the writing of this book is UEFI specification version 2.0, released in 31 January 2006. You can download the specification at http://www.uefi.org/specs/. UEFI is an interface specification between the operating system and the firmware in the system—during system boot and as well as during runtime if the firmware possesses runtime routines. Figure 15.1 shows the simplified concept of an UEFI-compliant system. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 17 Context: # Chapter 1 ## Introduction I want to compete in ACM ICPC World Finals — A dedicated student ### 1.1 Competitive Programming ‘Competitive Programming’ in summary, is this: “Given well-known Computer Science (CS) problems, solve them as quickly as possible!” Let’s digest the terms as we use them. The term ‘well-known CS problems’ implies that in competitive programming, we are dealing with solved CS problems and not research problems (where the solutions are still unknown). Definitely, some people (at least the problem authors) have solved these problems before. Seeing their template working code that “we must pull our CS knowledge to a certain extent to solve,” helps us shape our problem-solving style. As quickly as possible, we aim to optimize the problem-solving either for speed or data. “As precise as possible” is the ultimate competitive programming goal and the path is just as important. The true goal is to produce all-time competitive scientists! The founders of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) have this vision in mind, perhaps, more than we do. With this book, we play our little role in helping new and future programmers to become competitive in dealing with well-known CS problems frequently cited in the recent ICPC and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). ### Illustration on solving UVA Online Judge [38] Problem Number 1091 (Entering Quiz Teams). **Abridged Problem Description:** Let \( n \) be the number of a student’s teams in a quiz (or a debate). There are \( 2n \) students and you want to pair them into \( n \) groups. Let \( d \) be the distance between the holes of 2 students who support it. If \( R \) is your strong room and \( S = \sum d \), let’s determine the minimum cost. **Constraints:** \( 1 \leq n \leq 5, 2 \leq d \leq 1,000. \) **Sample Input:** ``` 3 2 4 6 5 8 11 ``` **Sample Output:** ``` 6 ``` > *“These programming competitions are done in haste cutting to encourage teamwork as software engineers usually do when building the software.”* > *By asking the teams to solve the problem faster, competitive programming encourages the problem solvers to exercise their critical thinking to think of possible concerns and their impact with regard to software constraints. The requirements they face software engineers have to test their software a lot to make sure the advice can meet the expectations set by their customers.* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 212 Context: # 7.5 Chapter Notes Some materials in this chapter are derived from the materials courtesy of Dr. Cheng Hoon Tan, Alan from School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Some other library functions are concerned with the following Navier-Stokes book library: [http://physpyp.com/tools/](http://physpyp.com/tools/). Compared to the first edition of this book, this chapter has grown almost five times in size. Similar case as with Chapters 5 and 6. However, the materials mentioned here are still far from complete, especially for ICPC contestants. If you are preparing for ICPC, it is a good idea to dedicate one person in your team to study this topic in depth. This person should master basic geometry formulas and relevant computational geometry techniques, perhaps by reading relevant chapters in the following books: [5, 3]. Not just the theory, but also how to implement robust geometry solution that is able to handle degenerate (special) cases and precision errors. The other computational geometry techniques that have not been discussed in this chapter are the plane sweep technique, interactions of other geometric objects including line-segment-line segment intersections, various Divide and Conquer solutions for several classical geometry problems: The Closest Pair Problem, The Furthest Pair Problem, Rotating Calipers algorithm, etc. There are **99 UVa** (+4 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. (Only 96 in the first edition, a **7% increase**). There are **22 pages** in this chapter. (Only 13 in the first edition, a **69% increase**). #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 194 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES *Stefan & Felix* ```cpp // the answer is stored in the third parameter (pass by reference) void pointOnLine(point p1, point p2, line *l) { if (p1.x == p2.x) { // if vertical line is handled here l->a = 1.0; l->b = 0.0; // default values l->c = -p1.x; } else { l->a = -(double)(p2.y - p1.y) / (p2.x - p1.x); l->b = 1.0; l->c = -(l->a * p1.x + l->b * p1.y); } } ``` ## Exercise 7.2.2 Complete line equation that passes through two points (2, 2) and (4, 4). ## Exercise 7.2.3 Suppose we need to use the other line equation, y = mx + c. Show how to complete the required line equation given two points that pass through that line! Try on points (2, 2) and (4, 4) as in Exercise 7.2.2. Please provide your own examples. ## Exercise 7.2.5 We can actually complete the required line equation if we only know two points. You are invited to look for the gradient of that line! How to complete the line equation with polar and parametric? 3. We can determine if two lines are parallel by checking if their coefficients are the same. We can check whether two lines are the same by checking if they are parallel and their coefficients are the same (i.e., all the coefficients a, b, c are the same). ```cpp bool areParallel(line l1, line l2) { return (fabs(l1.a) < EPS && fabs(l2.a) < EPS) || (fabs(l1.a - l2.a) < EPS && fabs(l1.b - l2.b) < EPS); } bool areSame(line l1, line l2) { // Also check coefficients return areParallel(l1, l2) && (fabs(l1.c - l2.c) < EPS); } ``` 4. If two lines are not the same and are not parallel, they will intersect at a point. That intersection point (x, y) can be found by solving the system of two linear algebraic equations with two unknowns: ```cpp // returns true (intersection point) if lines intersect bool intersection(line l1, line l2, point *p) { if (areSame(l1, l2)) { return false; // all point intersect } if (areParallel(l1, l2)) { return false; // no intersection } // solve system of linear algebraic equations with 2 unknowns double x, y, det; // | a1 b1 | // | a2 b2 | det = (l1.a * l2.b) - (l2.a * l1.b); if (det != 0) { // special case for vertical line x = (l2.b * l1.c - l1.b * l2.c) / det; // point x y = (x * (-l1.a) - l1.c) / l1.b; // avoid division by zero } else { // Handle special cases here } return true; } ``` 5. **Line Segment**: A line segment is a line with two endpoints with finite length. **Vector**: A line segment (this is a line from point A towards point B) with a direction. Usually, vectors are represented with a struct in C/C++ or (Class in Java) with two members: the start and the end of the vector. The magnitude of the vector can be solved if needed. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 158 Context: ``` 5.5.9 Other Number Theoretic Problems There are many other number theoretic problems that cannot be discussed one by one in this book. To close this chapter on number theory, let us list down a few more programming problems related to number theory that are not classified under one of the categories above. **Programming Exercises related to Other Number Theory Problems:** 1. UVA 10567 - DDP (a problem about 'eventually constant' sequences) 2. UVA 10723 - Subset Sum (Chinese Remainder Theorem) 3. UVA 10010 - Light, more light! (*check if a string is an anagram*) 4. UVA 10212 - '2' is the gcd (which is the greatest divisor by 11) 5. UVA 10230 - Counting, distinct and more (count marbles, etc. 4 possible outlays) 6. UVA 11314 - The Huge One. (*read as a string, see divisibility theories of L... 12*) 7. UVA 11371 - Number Theory for Newbies (the solving strategy is already given) --- 5.6 Probability Theory Probability Theory is a branch of mathematics dealing with the analysis of random phenomena. Although even with an infinite sample space, it is required to raise the notion of random events with artificial constraints; thus, it is common in programming contests, problems involving probability are often solvable with: - **Classification.** For these problems, one has to consider the required formulae. Examples: - UVA 1060 - What is the Probability? - UVA 1081 - Coins and Cards, etc. - **Exploration of the search space to count number of events (usually harder to count; may need combinatorial techniques, Complete Search, or Dynamic Programming).** Examples: - **UVA 10243.** This can be tackled with brute-force by trying all permutations and see how many objects can create the desired result: A(n) = (n - 1) + (n - 1)*A(n - 1). However, a more mathematically correct way can be solved using DP (and its overlapping subproblems) to count the number of events (n is assumed to be ≥ 2) etc. --- **Programming Exercises about Probability Theory:** 1. UVA 10274 - Hooks Tale Probability (actually this is just a 1 of k per probability) 2. UVA 10757 - The Many Faces of Probability (give the total form) 3. UVA 10763 - The Dice Problem (similar to UVA 10774, Jean Blagberg) 4. UVA 10812 - Coin, Coin, Coin! (Can you use loop to get a 3?) 5. UVA 10813 - Dice Throwing (DP, state (rolled, score), key 6 sides, gold) 6. UVA 11611 - Probability Outlier (dividing border (boundary, count)) 7. UVA 11662 - Another Help! (give details / total gcd to simplify factors) 8. UVA 12492 - Alice's set is the same as Bob's set, and how much is left *Note: Pick a core first, then switch to a car; or pick a car first, and then switch to another car.* ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: # 1.2 Tips to Be Competitive ![Figure 1.1: Illustration of UVa 10911 - Forming Quiz Teams](#) Now, ask yourself, which one of the following best describes you? Note that if you are unfamiliar with the material or terminologies shown in this chapter, you can read about them after going through this book. ## Step 1: Identify the Problem - Be sure to read the problem and clarify—for easier seen this kind of problem before. - Note: It's essential to know which problems, starting from busting the problem down into manageable parts. ## Step 2: Establish a Solution Strategy 1. **Dynamic Programming (DP)**: 1. Recall the problem you learned under this kind of problem... 2. **Greedy Programming** *(e.g., finding optimal solutions)*: - There is a notable technique here called "matching on general graphs" problem. 3. **Brute Force**: - For problems that are still too small, this problem can be used by surveying possible solutions until a valid solution is found. ## Step 3: Implement the Solution - Once you establish a program, strive to make this first submission the correct one. - Your implementation may look like this: `x...`, `y...`. ### Tips for Programming - Same principle applies to Debugging. A component at any stage should take no more than 30 minutes. - A very competitive programmer (e.g., the red 'target' coders in TopCoder [19]) should solve this initial problem in less than 15 minutes. --- ### References 1. ACM ICPC - Official Contest Guidelines. 2. TopCoder - Problem Solving Strategies. ### Page Reference - [30, 31, 32, 42, 34, 1, 2, 43, 26, 27] (see Figure 1.4). #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 16 Context: # LIST OF FIGURES **© Steven & Hilda** --- ## 4.19 Playard Wanhal's Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 ## 4.20 Illustration of a Max Flow Problem (from UVA 320 [8]) - ICPC World Final 2000 Problem E . . . . . . . . . 102 ## 4.21 Random Variables Implicit and Explicit DFS in SL . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 ## 4.22 What are the E-Hole Flow of these two/three residual graphs? . . . . 109 ## 4.23 Residual Graph of UVA 329 (p) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 ## 4.24 Vertex Splitting Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 ## 4.25 Comparison Between the Max Independent Paths versus Max Edge-Disjoint Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 ## 4.26 Graphs of (Con-)DAG, Tree, Eulerian, Bipartite Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 120 ## 4.27 Example of Counting Paths in DAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 ## 4.28 The Green General Graph (Tree) (left) Converted to DAG . . . . . . . . . 132 ## 4.29 ASPM (ASP)-B, 12-Diameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 ## 4.30 Bellman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 ## 4.31 Bipartite Matching Problem can be reduced to a Max Flow problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 ## 4.32 MCMF Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 ## 4.33 Alternating Path Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 --- 1. **Suffix Array:** - Suffix Tree, Trie and Suffix Tree of `*` and `*TARGETCAT* (byte → **T)** 2. **Suffix Matching:** - Suffix Matching of `*TARGETCAT*` with Various Pattern Strings . 3. **Largest Suggested Substring for `*TARGETCAT*` and their LCS . . . . . . . 122 - General Suffix Tree for `*TARGETCAT*` 4. **The Suffix Array: LCP, and convert it to `*TARGETCAT.CAT*`** --- ### 2.1 Distance to Line (Segment) and Line Segment (right) . . . . . . . . . . 181 ### 2.2 Circle Through 2 Points and Tangents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 ### 2.3 Circle Through 3 Points and Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 ### 2.4 Incircle and Circumcircle of a Triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 ### 2.5 Points: Middle, Hemispherical and Great-Circle, Right Displace (Arc to Arc) . . . . . . . 186 ### 2.6 Circle: Radius, Point, Angle vs Point (point) . . . . . . . . . . . 188 ### 2.7 Circle Based Arc, Centered, Inside: Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 ### 2.8 Path vs Path from Slices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 ### 3.1 Instructions for ACM ICPC WF2009 - A A Careful Approach . . . . . 213 ### 3.2 An Example of Chaos Proforma Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 ### 3.3 The Dream Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 ### 3.4 Instructions for ACM ICPC WF2010 - A Sharing Challenge . . . . . 221 --- - **B**: Stevens & Hilda's references in this book are integrated in a full . . . . . 226 - **B**: Steven’s & Hilda’s papers in UVA online judge (2004-present) . . . . 228 --- **xvi** #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: # Authors’ Profiles ## Steven Halim, PhD¹ stevenhalim@gmail.com Steven Halim is currently a lecturer in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He teaches several programming courses in NUS, ranging from basic programming to more advanced data structures and algorithms, and up to the "Competitive Programming" module that uses this book. He is the head coach of the NUS ICPC team and has participated in several ACM ICPC Regionals and finals (Singapore 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2019). He and other teams from NUS have successfully qualified for the ACM ICPC World Finals ten times (2008-2010, 2012, 2015-2019). As of June 2021, Steven is a happily married man. His wife, Grace Shuyun, is currently pregnant with their first baby during the time the second edition of this book is released. ## Felix Halim, PhD Candidate² felix.halim@gmail.com Felix Halim is currently a PhD student in the same university, SoC, focusing on programming languages. He is also a more recent color participant than his older brother. He was the 2012 contestant (representative) for the ICPC teams that time. Bin Shyang, another coach, is the one who leads the ICPC training program and obtained good ranks (6th and 10th respectively). Thus, in his final year, he led an ACM ICPC finishing responsible in 2019 in the ICPC World Finals at Tbilisi 2019 (Georgia) and has since led the ICPC TopCoder Single Round Matches and his brother's rating is a yellow color. # Copyright No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, scanning, uploading to any information storage and retrieval systems. - **[PhD Thesis: "An Integrated Writer's-Block Box Approach for Designing and Training Stochastics Local Search Algorithms"](URL)** - **[Research Area: "Large Scale Data Processing"](URL)** #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 30 Context: # 1.3 GETTING STARTED: THE AD HOC PROBLEMS - **The Josephus-type problems** The Josephus problem is a classic problem where there are people numbered from 1, 2, ..., n, standing in a circle. Every nth person is to be executed. Only the last remaining person will be saved; this person is sometimes called Josephus. The smaller versions of this problem can be solved with plain brute force. The larger ones require better solutions. - **Problems related to Palindrome or Anagram** These are also classic problems. **Palindrome** is a word (or actually a sequence) that can be read the same way in either direction. The common strategy to check if a word is a palindrome is to loop from the first character to the middle and check if the first matches the last, the second matches the second last, and so on. Example: `A man, a plan, a canal: Panama` is a palindrome. **Anagram** is a rearrangement of letters of a given word to produce another word (or phrase) using all the original letters. The common strategy to check for anagrams is to sort the letters of the words and compare the sorted letters. Example word: `tea`, word to check: `ate`. After sorting, both → `aet` and `aet` → they are anagrams. - **Interesting Real Life Problems** This is one of the most interesting categories of problems in UVa online judge. We believe that understanding these is more interesting for those who are new to Computer Science. We feel that new programming tools solve real-world problems in an attractive way. Who knows, you may also learn some interesting knowledge from the problem description! - **Ad Hoc problems involving Time** Date, time, calendar, etc. These are also real life problems. As said earlier, people usually tell time in a constant way. When doing with real life problems, some of these problems will be math-savvy and require a few tricks. The solution for this problem is to simply follow/analize the problem description carefully. - **Just Afic** Even after efforts to enrich/expand the Ad Hoc problems, there are still many others that require more knowledge on top of basic programming skills. - **Ad Hoc problems in other chapters** There are many other Ad Hoc problems which spread to other chapters, especially because they require more knowledge on top of basic programming skills. - **Ad Hoc problems involving the usage of basic linear data structures** are listed in Section 2.1. - **Ad Hoc problems involving mathematical computations** are listed in Section 5.2. - **Ad Hoc problems involving processing of strings** are listed in Section 6.3. - **Ad Hoc problems involving basic geometry skills** are listed in Section 7.2. Types of Ad Hoc problems include a number of programming problems, you will encounter some patterns. From C/C++ programming, these patterns are limited to basic I/O routines (including input, string, etc.), basic data structures (array, list), and basic problem-solving (i.e., recursion, etc.). Here are some defined MIPs (i.e., `MIPs` is used for `Patterns based on Introduction`): - Ad Hoc problems involving the usage of basic linear data structures are listed in Section 2.1. - Ad Hoc problems involving mathematical computations are listed in Section 5.2. - Ad Hoc problems involving processing of strings are listed in Section 6.3. - Ad Hoc problems involving basic geometry skills are listed in Section 7.2. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 20 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE ```c // we use getLine to read input line by line line(assign(getline(), '4', '\n', 3)) // yes, we can do this :) for (i = 0; i < 2 * k; i++) scanf(getline(), "%s %d", name, &x[i]); for (j = 0; j < 2 * k; j++) // build pairwise distance table dist[i][j] = hypot(double(x[i] - x[j]), double(y[i] - y[j])); // Are you used 'hypot' before? // use DP to obtain minimum weighted perfect matching on small general graph // if this is to trick to initialize the mem table with -1 memset(dist[i], -1, sizeof(dist)); printf("Case %d: %.2f\n", caseNo, matching()); } // return 0; FYI, the explanation of this Dynamic Programming algorithm with bitmask technique is given in Section 2.2.1, 3.4, and 3.4.1. You do not have to be alarmed if you do not understand it yet. ## 1.21 Tip 2: Quickly Identify Problem Types In ICPCs, the contestants (teams) are given a set of problems (6-7 problems) of varying types. From our database of recent ICPC Asia Regional problems, we can categorize the problems types and their relative appearances in Table 1. For 1997-2000, the problem occurrences are given. It takes over 2 days (as seen in 2011) that covers items from 1 to 10, and the numbers may differ from one to Table 1. For clarity, please refer to the ICPC 2009 [link to document or resource] and the 10th ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Classification. | No. | Category | In Book Appearance Frequency | |-----|-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------| | 1 | Amortized Complexity (Iterative/Recursive) | Section 3.1 | | 2 | Divide & Conquer | Section 3.2 | | 3 | Greedy (General case) | Section 3.3 | | 4 | Graph (Special and more general cases) | Section 4.1 | | 5 | Dynamic Programming (only the original ones) | Section 7.1, 1-2 (can go up to 3) | | 6 | String Processing | Chapter 5 | | 7 | Computational Geometry | Chapter 6 | | 8 | Math Problems | Chapter 7 | | 9 | Some Practical Problems | Chapter 8 | | 10 | General Algorithms | Chapter 9 | Table 1: Recent ACM ICPC Asia Regional Problem Types The classification in the table is adaptable from [source/resource]. Some problems, e.g., "string", are classified here as "trivial" and only used as "a-prefix" in a bigger context. The ideal solution is embedded in other sections. We also didn't get the problem limits and the number of subcategories under each type. One significant example is DP. The technique was not known before 1990, but frequently used in ICPCs from 1995 to 1996, but it is a minor detail. There are 2-3 DP problems (most of 11) in the recent ICPC World Finals 2010. ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 60 Context: ```markdown # 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH **© Steven & Felix** Browse the internet or reference books ([44](#)) to find more information on how to speed up your code. Products like those loading skills for discussing a harder problem in UVA online judge where the ratio of the number of hits to out of bounds. Study similar variants of your accepted solution and track the runtime distributions. Adapt hacking modifications that give you faster runtime. ## Tip 7: Use Better Data Structures & Algorithms :) No kidding. Using better data structures and algorithms always outperforms any optimization tips mentioned in Tip 1-6 above. If all else fails, abandon Complete Search approach. ## Remarks About Complete Search in Programming Contests If a problem is declared to be solvable by Complete Search, it will also be done via iterative or recursive backtracking approach. Iterative approach is used when we can derive the different cases easily without some randomness relative to a certain counter and all cases have to be checked, e.g. starting all possible tuples or enumerating all possible orders of a small set. Recursive Backtracking is used when it is hard to derive the different setups more of a recursive manner. Be mindful that in the space of a problem that is solvable with Complete Search is large, the recursive bookkeeping that defines the problem may influence search space in particular ways. The best way to improve your Complete Search skills is to solve many problems solvable with Complete Search. We have categorized a list of such problems into four sub-categories below. Please attempt as many as possible, especially those that are highlighted as **must try**. ### Programming Examples available using Complete Search: 1. **Iterative:** 1. UVA 001: Ecological Bin Packing (try all possible combinations) 2. UVA 010: The Simple Problem (bruteful map) 3. UVA 012: Problem (try all n! permutations) 4. UVA 013: Recycling (try all combinations) 5. UVA 014: Perfect Squares (bin search) 6. UVA 015: Subset Sum (brute force, pre-calculated-sums) 7. UVA 016: Backtracking (n in search) 8. UVA 017: Highest Points (by S – S...) 9. UVA 018: Food Cases (counting logic) 10. UVA 019: Color Riddle (using pairs) 2. **Recursive:** 1. UVA 020: Magic Numbers (very similar to UVA 725) 2. UVA 022: Binary Search (returning pairs) 3. UVA 023: Parity (unhappy in search) 3. **Enumeration:** 1. UVA 050: Sheep versus Enemy (using an arsenal) 2. UVA 060: Min/Max too. 4. **Others:** 1. UVA 070: Brick Walling (most tested solution) 2. UVA 080: The Wind (is supposed) 3. UVA 100: Equalizing (it should be hard) 4. UVA 107: Brick Equality (it just varies) ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 86 Context: # 3.6 Chapter Notes Many problems in ICPC or IC require one or combinations (see Section 3.2) of these problem-solving paradigms. In this case, we have to summarize a chapter in this book that constitutes how to really matter; we will discuss this more. The main source of the "Complete Search" material in this chapter is the USAO training gateway [2]. We adopt the term "Complete Search" rather than "Brute Force" as we believe that some "Complete Search" solutions can be cleaner and more refined, although it is complete. We refer to the term "Complete Search" as a self-referenting term. We will discuss some advanced search techniques later in Section 3.8, A* Search, Depth Limited Search (DLS), Iterative Deepening Search (IDS), Iterative Deepening A* (IDA*). Divide and conquer paradigm is usually stated in the form of its popular algorithm: binary search and its variants, merge/sort (easy sort), and data structures such as heaps, segment trees, etc. We will see more D&C later in Computational Geometry (Section 7.4). Aside from Greedy and Dynamic Programming (DP) techniques, classical techniques are also included in popular algorithm textbooks, see Introduction to Algorithms [3], Algorithm Design [2], Algorithm [4]. However, to keep pace with the growing difficulties and clarity of these techniques, especially the DP techniques, we include new references from Internet: "Dynamic programming tutorial" [1] and recent programming contests. In this book, we will revisit DP again for one occasion: Forest Wassall's DP algorithm (Section 6.7), P-DAG (implied) DAG (Section 3.17), D-R String (Section 6.5), and Monte Carlo Method (Section 5.4). However, for some real problems, especially those that are classified as NP-Complete [3], many of the approaches discussed so far will not work. For example, Kapsack Problem which has \( O(N^5) \) complexity to know if \( x \) is big PS search (with \( O(N^2 \times 2^K) \) complexity) is too slow if \( N \) is much larger than 10. For such problems, people use heuristics or local search. Tabl Search [14], 3-SAT, Greedy Algorithm, Auto Colony Optimization, Beam Search, etc. These are 19 UVa (14 in the first edition, a 75% increase). There are 32 pages in this chapter. (Also 32 in the first edition, but some content have been recognized to Chapter 4 and 8.) #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 146 Context: ``` 2000:558 mov ds, ax 2000:558 assume ds:1000h 2000:58A push ax 2000:58B mov al, 0Ch ; '*' 2000:58D out 80h, al ; Manufacturer's diagnostic checkpoint 2000:58F call copy_decompression_result 2000:592 pop ax 2000:593 cmp ax, 500h 2000:596 jb short decompression_ok 2000:598 jmp far ptr loc_F000_FF7 2000:59D 2000:59D decompression_ok: 2000:59E mov al, 0 2000:59F call enable_cache 2000:5A2 jmp far ptr loc_F000_FB0; Jump to decompressed System BIOS After looking at these exhaustive lists of disassembly, construct the memory map of the BIOS components just after the system BIOS decompressed (table 5.3). ### Table 5.3 BIOS binary mapping in memory after system BIOS decompression | Starting Address of BIOS Component in RAM (Physical Address) | Size | Decompression Status | Component Description | |--------------------------------------------------------------|----------|---------------------|-----------------------| | 5_0000h | 128 KB | Decompressed to RAM beginning at address in column one. | This is the system BIOS, i.e., the main BIOS code. Sometimes it is called original.tmp. | | 30_0000h | 512 KB | Not decompressed yet | This is the copy of the overall BIOS binary, i.e., the image of the BIOS binary in RAM. | --- Some notes regarding the preceding decompression routine: 1. Part of the decompression code calculates the 16-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC-16) value of the compressed component during the decompression process. 2. The decompression routine is using segment 3000h as a scratch-pad area in RAM for the decompression process. This scratch-pad area spans from 3000h to 3800h, and it's 128 KB in size. It's initialized to zero before the decompression starts. The memory map of this scratch-pad area is as shown in table 5.4. ### Table 5.4 Scratch-pad area memory map | Starting Index in the scratchpad Segment | Size (in Bytes) | Description | |------------------------------------------|------------------|---------------------------------| | 371Ch | ... | ... | | 2000h | Buffer. This area stores the "sliding window," i.e., | ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 6 Context: Chapter 7 PCI Expansion ROM Software Development 195 7.1. Plug and Play BIOS and Expansion ROM Architecture 195 7.1.1. Power-On Self-Test Execution Flow 196 7.1.2. Expansion ROM Support 198 7.2. PCI Expansion ROM Peculiarities 200 7.3. Implementation Sample 200 7.3.1. Hardware Testbed 200 7.3.2. Software Development Tool 201 7.3.3. Expansion ROM Source Code 202 7.3.3.1. Core PCI PnP Expansion ROM Source Code 202 7.3.3.2. PCI PnP Expansion ROM Checksum Utility Source Code 211 7.2. Building the Sample 216 7.3. Testing the Sample 217 7.4. Potential Bug and Its Workaround 218 Chapter 8 PCI Expansion ROM Reverse Engineering 219 a. Binary Architecture 219 b. Disassembling the Main Code 202 Part IV BIOS Ninjutsu Chapter 9 Accessing BIOS within the Operating System 208 5.1. General Access Mechanism 208 5.2. Accessing Motherboard BIOS Contents in Windows 217 5.3. Accessing Expansion ROM Contents in Windows 226 5.4. Accessing Motherboard BIOS Contents in Linux 235 5.5. Accessing Expansion ROM Contents in Linux 244 Chapter 10 Low-Level Remote Server Management 263 - DMI and SMBIOS Protocols 263 - Remote Server Management Code Implementation 275 Chapter 11 BIOS Security Measures 285 15.1.1. Password Protection Code 287 15.1.2. BIOS Code Integrity Checks 308 15.1.3. Remote Server Management Security Measures 327 Chapter 12 BIOS Rootkits Engineering 346 a. Looking Back to BIOS Exploitation History 346 b. DMI and SMBIOS Protocol Flaws 355 c. DMI and SMBIOS Protocol Exploitation 364 Chapter 13 BIOS Defense Techniques 374 1. Prevention Methods 374 2. Recognizing Compromised Systems 382 3. Healing Compromised Systems 392 Part V Other Applications of BIOS Technology Chapter 14 Embedded x86 BIOS Technology 402 Embedded x86 BIOS Architecture 402 Embedded x86 BIOS Implementation Samples 405 i.TV Set-Top Boxes 408 ii.Routers 412 iii.Kiosks 415 #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 73 Context: # PARALLELS AND PERPENDICULARS 18. Given that the line \( Ax + By + 10 = 0 \) is parallel to the line \( 3x + y = 7 \) and meets the line \( x + y = 0 \) at the x-axis, find the values of \( A \) and \( B \). Through each of the vertices \( A (A, B), B (C, -1), C (-1, Z) \) of the triangle ABC drawn with a line parallel to the opposite side, and for the triangle that forms consider the following: 19. Find the equation of each of the three sides. 20. The coordinates of each of the vertices. 21. The mid points of the sides \( A, B, \) and \( C \). 22. The three medians are concurrent. Show that the intersection of any two medians is on the third. 23. The three altitudes are concurrent. 24. The perpendicular bisectors of the sides are concurrent. 25. Draw the line from the origin to \( (7, -3) \) and find the equation of the line perpendicular to \( y \) at \( l \). 26. Draw the circle \( x^2 + y^2 = 34 \), show that it passes through \( (5, 3) \) and find the equation of the tangent at \( (5, 3) \). 27. Draw the circle \( x - y = 2x + 4y - 5 = 0 \) and find the equation of the tangent at \( (2, 1) \). 28. Given that the line \( y - x = 4 \) is perpendicular to the line \( 7y + 11 = 0 \), find the value of \( k \). 29. Locate \( A (12, 5) \) on a new layoff equal to 10, and find the equation of the line perpendicular to \( x \) at \( l \). 30. Find the distance from the line \( 12x + 5y = 26 \) to the origin. 31. Given that three vertices of a rectangle are \( (2, -1), (7, 11) \), and \( (5, -16) \), find the equations of the diagonals. 32. Find the point \( Q \) for \( (a, b) \) and find \( s \) and \( t \) from the two conditions that \( FQ \) is perpendicular to the line and the mid point of \( PQ \) lies on the line. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 106 Context: 4.4. BIOS Disassembling with IDA Pro You obtained enough skills in chapter 2 to use IDA Pro efficiently, and you know from previous sections the big picture of the BIOS binary structure. In this part, I provide you with the basic steps to carry out systematic BIOS reverse engineering based on that knowledge. Disassembling a BIOS is stepping through the first instructions that the processor executes. Thus, the following steps are guidelines: 1. Start the disassembling in the reset vector of the processor. The reset vector is the address of the first instruction that a processor executes. In the case of x86, it is 0xFFFF_0000. 2. From the reset vector, follow through the boot block execution paths. One path will end with a hang; this is where an error is found during boot block execution. Look for the path that doesn't end with a hang. The latter path will guide you through the system BIOS decompression process and will jump into the system BIOS once the boot block finished. You can emulate the decompression process by using IDA Pro scripts or plugins. Alternatively, if the decompressor for the compressed BIOS components is available, it can be used to decompress the system BIOS; then the decompressed system BIOS is integrated into the current IDA Pro disassembly database. 3. Follow the system BIOS execution until you find the POST execution. In some BIOSs, the POST execution consists of jump tables. You just need to follow the execution of this jump table to be able to see the big picture. The preceding steps are applicable to any type of BIOS or other x86 firmware that replaces the functionality of the BIOS, such as in routers or kiosks based on embedded x86 hardware. 30 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 1 Context: ContentsForewordvPrefaceviAuthors’ProfilesandCopyrightxiConventionandProblemCategorizationxiiListofAbbreviationsxiiiListofTablesxivListofFiguresxv1Introduction11.1CompetitiveProgramming.................................11.2TipstobeCompetitive..................................21.2.1Tip2:QuicklyIdentifyProblemTypes.....................41.2.2Tip3:DoAlgorithmAnalysis...........................51.2.3Tip4:MasterProgrammingLanguages.....................81.2.4Tip5:MastertheArtofTestingCode......................101.2.5Tip6:PracticeandMorePractice........................121.2.6Tip7:TeamWork(ICPCOnly).........................121.3GettingStarted:TheAdHocProblems.........................131.4ChapterNotes.......................................192DataStructuresandLibraries212.1OverviewandMotivation.................................212.2DataStructureswithBuilt-inLibraries..........................222.2.1LinearDataStructures..............................222.2.2Non-LinearDataStructures............................262.3DataStructureswithOur-OwnLibraries.........................292.3.1Graph........................................292.3.2Union-FindDisjointSets.............................302.3.3SegmentTree....................................322.3.4FenwickTree....................................352.4ChapterNotes.......................................383ProblemSolvingParadigms393.1OverviewandMotivation.................................393.2CompleteSearch......................................393.2.1Examples......................................403.2.2Tips.........................................413.3DivideandConquer....................................47i #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 288 Context: # SURFACES Given the points \( A(0, 0) \) and \( B(-4, 0) \), find the equation of the locus in 11–14, and state in each case what kind of surface the locus is: 1. The locus of a point \( P \) such that the ratio of the distances \( AP \) and \( BP \) is constant. 2. The locus of a point \( P \) such that the sum of the squares of the distances \( AP \) and \( BP \) is constant. 3. The locus of a point \( P \) such that the difference of the distances \( AP \) and \( BP \) is constant. 4. The locus of a point \( P \) such that the distance \( AP \) is equal to the distance of \( P \) from the plane \( x = -a \). 5. The locus of a point \( P \) such that the distance \( AP \) is four fifths the distance of \( P \) from the plane at \( x = -\frac{a}{2} \). 6. Draw the ellipsoid \( 4x^2 + 4y^2 + z^2 = 100 \), and \( 3 \) being measured in inches, and draw a rectangular box having its vertices on the ellipsoid and its edges parallel to the axes. Let the volume of the box be \( 72 \) in, and find the dimensional parallel to the \( x \) axis is \( 2 \) in, behind the other dimensions. 7. Find the length of the segment of the line \( x = 3, y = 5 \) intersected between the plane \( z = -y + 3 - 10 \) and the hyperboloid \( 3z^2 - y^2 = -123 \). 8. Find the coordinates of the points in which the line \( x = m \) cuts the paraboloid \( 3x^2 + 4y^2 = 12 \). 9. Find the coordinates of the points in which the line through the points \( (2, 1, 2) \) and \( (3, 2, -1) \) cuts the sphere centered at \( (2, 1, 2) \) and radius \( r \). 10. The solution of the simultaneous equations of the line and the sphere may be obtained by substituting the values into the equation of the sphere. 11. Every section of a conicolid \( (x^2 + y^2 = z^2) \) made by a plane parallel to one of the coordinate planes is a conic. Since any plane could be taken as the \( xy \) plane, this theorem shows that every plane section of a conicolid is a conic. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 59 Context: # 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH **Stefan & Felix** This tip is best shown using an example: UVA 10368 - Rat Attack. Imagine a 2D array (up to 1024 x 1024) containing rats. There are `S` bombs at certain cells, determining which cells `(x, y)` that should be bombed based on the number of rats killed in square `(x, y)` until `k` is maximized. (This is the part of the problem that needs more space.) The first step is to tackle this problem formally. By bombing each of the `1024` cells and checking the number of rats killed within the square-bombing radius, we find out when the array has size `1024 × 1024`, so it takes `1024^2 * S` operations. This is "TLE!" The second option to tackle this problem looks like this: Create an array `rats` of size `1024 × 1024`. For each rat, populate the array with its `(x, y)` coordinates. This preprocessing takes `O(n)` operations. Then, to determine the best potential bombing position, we need to check the `b`-sized region for any rats killed, which can be done in `O(1)` operations. This backward approach only requires `2000 * 512^2 * S` times operations for the worst case: `TLE`. ![Figure 2: UVA 10368](https://example.com/image.png) ## Tip 6: Optimizing Your Source Code There are many tricks that can serve to optimize your code. Understanding computer hardware, especially I/O, memory, and cache behavior, can help you design a better program. Some examples: 1. Use the faster `C++` `cin`/`printf` rather than `cout`. For Java users, prefer `BufferedReader` instead of `Scanner`. However, don’t hesitate to stick with `Scanner` when safety and ease are your priorities. 2. Use the object `O(log n)` for the fastest-finding `C++` STL algorithm: `sort` as part of the `vector::begin()` or `end()`. If you need to use a standard array, use `sort` on a `vector`. For others, handwritten sort algorithms usually give you the best speed and reduce the number of checks. 3. Access a 2D array in a more major fashion (row-by-row rather than column-by-column). 4. Bit manipulation is often less efficient than using an array of books (see the highlighted set of Book in Section 2.2). If we need more than `16` bytes, use `C++` STL instead rather than `vector<*>` for `Size of` structures being constantly. 5. Use less memory than you think is necessary. For example, an array with `8` bits equals to the meaning structure instead of using readable variable-sized `32` bit integers. 6. In `C++`, prefer `char` to strings in larger arrays to save space. Allocate this memory directly through the largest amount of bytes in the heap to avoid possible fragmentation of the data structure before this finish. 7. In `C#`, be cautious! Using `Cyclic character array` is faster than using `C++` STL string. Be Java users' careful with `String` manipulation as Java `String` objects are immutable. Optimization parameters can save the work. Use Java `StringBuilder` instead. 8. For Java users, prefer the faster `ArrayList` rather than `Java Vector` as thread-safe but this is not used in competitive programming. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 32 Context: # 1.3 GETTING STARTED: THE AD HOC PROBLEMS © Steven & Ben 12. **UVA 1049** - **The Game** (just simulate the die movement) 13. **UVA 1043** - **Rock, Scissors, Paper** (D array manipulation) 14. **UVA 1039** - **Generating Gnome** (DP array) 15. **UVA 1169** - **Pyramid Bidding** (Follow the problem description) 16. **UVA 1091** - **Rock-Paper-Scissors** (count win/loss, output win average) 17. **UVA 1149** - **Smiles and Ladders** (similar to the process, similar to UVA 647) ## Joins 1. **UVA 1030** - **Ramses Roulette** (brute force, similar to UVA 133) 2. **UVA 1031** - **The Job Queue** (brute force, similar to UVA 640) 3. **UVA 1035** - **Power Crisis** (brute force, similar to UVA 440) 4. **UVA 1036** - **Joseph** (note the answer can be precomputed) 5. **UVA 1037** - **Easy Money** (note the answer can be precomputed) 6. **UVA 1039** - **Joseph's Cousin** (modified Josephus problem, variant of UVA 345) ## Palindromes / Anagrams 1. **UVA 10106** - **Anagram Checker** (uses backtracking) 2. **UVA 1066** - **Anagram** (recursion with algorithm: sort) 3. **UVA 1096** - **Anagrams** (write out algorithm to sort generating) 4. **UVA 11092** - **Pretty Palindromes** (write out all sheltering) 5. **UVA 10105** - **Palindromes** (using palindromic checks) 6. **UVA 10616** - **Amusing** 7. **UVA 10783** - **Anagrams II** (and last, palindrome check) 8. **UVA 10996** - **Palindrome** (set out, similar to UVA 190) 9. **UVA 1121** - **Magic Square Palindrome** (not just a word, but a matrix) 10. **UVA 1123** - **Counting Circles** (palindrome check) ## Listing / Finding Lights 1. **UVA 1064** - **Finding Lights** (you can also solve this problem every time you hit the road) 2. **UVA 1067** - **Getting Stuck** (find path and raise ease) 3. **UVA 1090** - **Equality** (simulate a very simple UNIX game) 4. **UVA 1069** - **Ursula** (properly formatted/dividing syntax conversions) 5. **UVA 10111** - **Calculator** (simply maintain binary conversions) 6. **UVA 1035** - **Total Spectrum** (add total minutes) 7. **UVA 1060** - **LED Device** (this is what typically happens in problems) 8. **UVA 1126** - **Rocket** (this is what happens in typical errors) 9. **UVA 1086** - **Counting Bookings** (calculation in either time) 10. **UVA 1189** - **First Target** (total counting time for proper number/error) 11. **UVA 1138** - **Still Typing** (maintain constant time checks) 12. **UVA 1181** - **Change to Terminal 1** (to C² conversions and vice versa) ## Time 1. **UVA 0010** - **Clock Timetable** (time) 2. **UVA 0017** - **Movie Calculator** (due out, time) 3. **UVA 0069** - **Clock Handle** (and, time) #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 541 Context: Part V Other Applications of BIOS Technology Chapter 14 Embedded x86 BIOS Technology PREVIEW This chapter delves into the use of x86 BIOS technology outside of its traditional implementation—desktop PC and servers. It presents a glimpse of the implementation of x86 BIOS technology in network appliances and consumer electronic devices. This theme is interesting because x86 architecture will soon penetrate almost every sector of our lives—not as PC desktops or servers but as embedded systems. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has been realizing its vision of x86 everywhere since 2005. Moreover, as our lives increasingly depend on this architecture, the security of its BIOS becomes increasingly important. Therefore, this chapter presents an overview about that issue as well. 14.1. Embedded x86 BIOS Architecture The embedded system theme sometimes scares programmers who haven't venture into this class of computing devices. Programmers accustomed to desktop and server development often view programming for embedded devices as an exotic task. However, as you will soon see, embedded devices based on x86 architecture share a fair number of similarities with their desktop or server counterparts. Thus, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to programming for embedded systems. Let me start with the boot process of embedded x86 systems. Embedded x86 systems can be classified into two types based on their boot process, i.e., those that boot into an operating system stored in a secondary storage device1 and those that boot into an operating system stored as part of the BIOS. Figures 14.1 and 14.2 show the typical boot process for each type. 1 A secondary storage device is a mass storage device such as an HDD or a CompactFlash drive. #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # ANALYTIC GEOMETRY ## CHAPTER I ### INTRODUCTION 1. **Nature of Algebra.** In algebra we study certain laws and processes which relate to number symbols. The processes are so definite, direct, and general as to render a knowledge of algebra essential to the student’s further progress in the study of mathematics. As the student proceeds he may find that he has forgotten certain essential facts of algebra. Some of the topics in which this deficiency is most frequently felt are provided in the Supplement, page 263. 2. **Nature of Elementary Geometry.** In elementary geometry we study the position, form, and magnitude of certain figures. The general method consists of proving a theorem or solving a problem by the aid of certain geometric propositions previously considered. We shall see that analytic geometry, by employing algebra, develops a much simpler and more powerful method. 3. **Nature of Trigonometry.** In trigonometry we study certain functions of an angle, such as the sine and cosine, and apply the results to mensuration. The formulas of trigonometry needed by the student of analytic geometry will be found in the Supplement. #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # PREFACE This book is written for the purpose of furnishing college classes with a thoroughly usable textbook in analytic geometry. It is not so elaborate in its details as to be unfitted for practical classroom use; neither has it been prepared for the purpose of exploiting any special theory of presentation; it aims solely to set forth the leading facts of the subject clearly, succinctly, and in the same practical manner that characterizes other textbooks of the series. It is recognized that the colleges of this country generally follow one of two plans with respect to analytic geometry. Either they offer a course extending through one semester or they expect students who take the subject to continue its study through a whole year. For this reason the authors have so arranged the work as to allow either of these plans to be adopted. In particular, it will be noted that in each of the chapters on the conic sections questions relating to tangents to the conic are treated in the latter part of the chapter. This arrangement allows for those subjects being omitted for the shortest course if desired. Sections which may be omitted without breaking the sequence of the work, and the omission of which will allow the student to acquire a good working knowledge of the subject in a single half year are as follows: 46–53, 56–62, 121–134, 145–163, 178–179, 225–245, and part or all of the chapters on solid geometry. On the other hand, students who wish that thorough foundation in analytic geometry which should proceed the study of the higher branches of mathematics are urged to complete the entire book, whether required to do so by the course of study or not. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 559 Context: The simplified diagram in figure 14.10 of the listing 14.1 algorithm doesn't show all possible routes to execute the routines in the etBIOS routine. It only shows the most important route that will eventually execute etBIOS module in the Acorp 4865GQET BIOS. Listing 14.1 also shows a call to an undefined function that is apparently a decompression function. (I haven't completed for you the reverse engineering in that function.) From this fact, you can conclude that even if the etBIOS module is not stored as an LZH-compressed component in the overall BIOS binary, it's still using a compression scheme that it employs itself. Another fact that may help you complete the reverse engineering of the etBIOS module is the existence of the GCC string shown in hex dump 14.3. Hex dump 14.3 GCC String in etBIOS Binary from the Acorp 4865GQET Motherboard Address Hex values ASCII ........ 000011D0 0047 4343 3A20 2847 4E55 2920 6567 6373 .GCC: (GNU) egcs 000011E0 2D32 2E39 312E 3636 2031 3939 3930 3331 -2.91.66 1999031 000011F0 342F 4C69 6E75 7820 2865 6763 732D 312E 4/Linux (egcs-1. 00001200 312E 3220 7265 6C65 6173 6529 0008 0000 1.2 release).... 00001210 0000 0000 0001 0000 0030 312E 3031 0000 .........01.01.. ........ The address in hex dump 14.3 is relative to the beginning of the etBIOS binary. You can "cut and paste" the etBIOS binary by using the information from its LZH header. Recall from table 5.2 in subsection 5.1.2.7 that the LZH header contains information about the "compressed" file size, along with the length of the "compressed" file header. You can use this information to determine the start and end of the etBIOS module and then copy and paste it to a new binary file by using a hex editor. This step simplifies the etBIOS analysis process. In sections 3.2 and 7.3, you learn about BIOS-related software development. Some techniques that you learn in those sections are applicable to embedded x86 software development and the reverse engineering of embedded x86 systems. Of particular importance is the linker script technique described in section 3.2. By using a linker script, you can control the output of GCC. Inferring from the linker script technique that you learned in section 3.2, you can conclude that the binary file that forms the etBIOS module possibly is a result of using a linker script, or at least using GCC tricks. This hint can help you complete etBIOS reverse engineering. Many embedded x86 system developers are using GCC as their compiler of choice because of its versatility. Thus, it's not surprising that Elegent Technologies also uses it in the development of its etBIOS and related products. Now, you likely have grasped the basics of PC-based STB. In the next subsection, I delve into network appliances based on embedded x86 technologies. 14.2.2. Network Appliance #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 210 Context: only modify the system BIOS and don't touch the other components in the Award BIOS binary. 6. Chipset datasheets. They are needed if you want to build a patch for the corresponding chipset setting. Otherwise, you don't need it. For the purpose of the sample modification in this chapter, you need the VIA 693A datasheet. It's available for download at http://www.rom.by in the PDF section. There is one more BIOS tool resource on the Internet that I haven't mention. It's called Borg number one's BIOS tool collection, or BNOBTC for short. It is the most complete BIOS tool collection online. However, its uniform resource locator (URL) sometimes moves from one host to another. Thus, you may want to use Google to find its latest URL. You learned about the IDA Pro disassembler, FASM, and hex editor in the previous chapters. Thus, modbin, cbrom, and the chipset datasheet remain. I explore them one by one. Start with modbin. Modbin is a console-based utility to manipulate Award system BIOS. You know that there are two flavors of modbin, one for each Award BIOS version. However, the usage of these tools are similar, just load the BIOS file into modbin and modify the system BIOS with it. Moreover, there is one "undocumented feature" of modbin that's useful for BIOS modification purposes: during modbin execution; when you start to modify the BIOS binary that's currently loaded, modbin will generate some temporary files. These temporary files are Award BIOS components. They are extracted by modbin from the BIOS binary file. Each of the two types of modbin generates different kinds of temporary files. However, both versions extract the system BIOS. Both also pack all temporary files into one valid Award BIOS binary when you save changes in modbin. Here are the details: 1. Modbin version 4.50.80C extracts the following components from an Award BIOS version 4.50PG binary: a. Bios.rom. It is the compressed version of last 128 KB of the BIOS file. It contains the compressed original.tmp, the boot block, and the decompression block. b. Original.tmp. It is the decompressed system BIOS. The execution of modbin 4.50.80C is shown in figure 6.1. 2 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 190 Context: ``` # 6.7 Chapter Notes The material about String Alignment (Edit Distance), Longest Common Subsequence, Suffix Tree, and Suffix Array are originally from A/P Sung Wun Kin, Ken [36], School of Computing, National University of Singapore. The materials from A/P Ken’s lecture notes have since evolved from these initial slides into the current complete programming text. The section about basic string processing skills (Section 6.2) and the KMP string processing problem are born from our experience with string-related problems and techniques. The number of programming exercises presented here is about three quarters of all the string processing problems discussed in this chapter. We are aware that these are not the typical ICPC problems; however, we believe that programming exercises can improve your understanding. Due to some personal requests, we decided to include a section on the String Matching problem (Section 6.4). We described the substring search algorithms, including the Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) algorithm. The KMP implementation will be useful for you when you modify basic string matching techniques if you still need fast performance. We believe KMP is fast enough for practical use, and we are printing forth several worked solutions in this chapter. Additionally, the KMP implementation draws from the work in [insert relevant citation here]. In our first attempt at matching algorithms, we introduced the concept of a basic string model. For those interested in matching strings, you might also be interested in the following exercises listed in Boyd-Morris, Rabin-Karp, Aho-Corasick’s, Finite State Automaton, etc. Interested readers are welcome to explore them. We have expanded the discussion of the famous String Alignment (Edit Distance) problem and its related Longest Common Subsequence problems in Section 6.5. There are several interesting exercises that discuss the variations of these two problems. The practical inspirations for Suffix Array (Section 6.6) is inspired mainly from the article "Suffix arrays - a programming construct approached by [insert relevant citation here]." We have integrated an algorithmic comparison with the first algorithm of writing Suffix Array implementations for comparing several approaches in the second edition. It is a good note to note that not all exercises listed in the first section apply; they are not that many yet. This is an important note that you will not find another book that touches the basics after. However, there are several other string processing methods, such as Shortest Common Superstring Problem, Burrows-Wheeler Transformation algorithm, Suffix Automaton, and radix tree (more efficient data structure), etc. These are 117 (VUA) (+ 12 others) programming exercises discussed in this chapter. - (only 14 in the first edition, a 118% increase). - There are 24 pages in this chapter. - (only 10 in the first edition, a 190% increase). ``` #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 17 Context: # GRAPHS OF EQUATIONS ## Exercise 3. Graphs of Equations 1. Plot the equation \( z = x^2 + z = 0 \). 2. Plot the equations \( 3x + 2y = 6 \) and \( 3x + 2y = 12 \). 3. Plot the equation \( ax - 3y = 10 \) and \( 3x + 4y = 12 \). 4. Plot the equation \( y = -x \) taking \( x = -4, -2, 0, 2, 4 \). 5. Plot the equation \( y = \sqrt{x} \), locating the points determined by giving \( x \) the values \( 0, 1, 4, \) and \( 16 \). By examining the graph, determine approximately the values of \( \sqrt{0}, \sqrt{1}, \sqrt{4}, \sqrt{16} \). The value of each square root should be written out in full next to the corresponding estimates as represented by the table on page 36. 6. The equation \( a = m^r \) gives the area of a circle in terms of the radius. Using an \( x \) and \( y \) axis as here shown, plot this equation, taking \( r = 1 \) and assigning to the values \( 0, 1, 2, 3 \). Estimate from the graph the change in area from \( r = 1 \) to \( r = 2 \). Why were no negative values of \( r \) suggested? 7. From each corner of a sheet of tin \( S \) in square inches, there is cut a square of side \( s \) inches. The sides are then bent up to form a box. Knowing that the volume \( V \) is the product of the base and height, express \( V \) in terms of \( s \). Using \( V \) as an \( x \)-axis and \( s \) as a \( y \)-axis, plot the graph, determining approximately the value of \( s \) which seems to give the greatest volume to the box. If your estimate is say, between \( z = 1 \) and \( z = 2 \), plot further points on the graph, taking for \( s \) the values \( 1, 1.5, 1.75, 2 \) and endeavor to make a closer estimate than before. Estimate the corresponding value of \( V \). Why were no values of \( z \) greater than \( 1 \) or less than \( z \) suggested? Questions involving analysis such, such as maximum strength, maximum capacity, and minimum cost, are very important in both theory and in practice. The subject is considered at length in the book, but analytic geometry offers a valuable method for treating its aspects. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 281 Context: a. Map the physical address range of the BIOS chip, i.e., the address space near the 4-GB limit to the virtual address space of the process1 that will access the BIOS chip. b. Create a pointer to the beginning of the mapped BIOS chip in the process's virtual address space. c. Use the pointer in the previous step to manipulate the contents of the BIOS chip directly from the user-mode application. This means you can use an indirection operator to read the contents of the chip. However, for a write operation, there are some prerequisites because a BIOS chip is ROM. The same is true for BIOS chip erase operation. 2. Perform hardware-specific steps to access and manipulate the BIOS chip contents. In this step, you need to know the details of the hardware method for accessing the BIOS chip. This method is explained in the chipset datasheet and the BIOS chip datasheet. Generally, the hardware method is a series of steps as follows: a. Configure the chipset registers to enable read and write access to the BIOS chip address space. In x86, the BIOS chip address space is located near the 4-GB limit. Usually, the chipset registers that control access to the BIOS chip are located in the southbridge. b. Probe the BIOS chip in some predefined addresses to read the manufacturer identification bytes and the chip identification bytes. These identification bytes are needed to determine the method you should use to access the contents of the BIOS chip. Note that every BIOS chip manufacturer has its own command set to access the contents of the chip. Some commands have been standardized by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association. c. Write and read the binary to and from the chip according to manufacturer's specification. This is the big picture of the method that you have to use to access and manipulate the BIOS contents within operating system. The next sections delve into operating system–specific implementations of the concepts. 9.2. Accessing Motherboard BIOS Contents in Linux You learned about general direct access to the BIOS chip within an operating system in section 9.1. As a proof of concept, I show you how to perform this task in Linux. I conduct the experiment in an Iwill VD133 motherboard. This motherboard is old, from 2000. I chose it for two reasons. First, I want to show you that even in an old motherboard this task can be performed. Second, because this motherboard is old enough, its datasheets are available free of charge on the Internet.2 You need the chipset datasheet and its BIOS 1 Process in this context means an instance of a currently running user-mode application. 2 Datasheets for Intel chipsets and AMD chipsets are usually available for download upon of the introduction of the chipset to the market. This is not the case for chipsets made by VIA, Nvidia, SiS, and many other manufacturers. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 407 Context: 00000090 0020 0020 0000 0420 0400 0103 0F02 290F . . ... ......). 000000A0 0000 FFFB EBBF 038E 6400 FA0B D007 4104 ........d.....A. 000000B0 0A00 0B00 FFFF 536F 636B 6574 2034 3738 ......Socket 478 000000C0 0049 6E74 656C 0049 6E74 656C 2852 2920 .Intel.Intel(R) 000000D0 4365 6C65 726F 6E28 5229 2043 5055 0000 Celeron(R) CPU.. ........ Hex dump 10.2 only shows the starting part of the SMBIOS structure table. It's too long; therefore, I've condensed it to save space. Listing 10.4 shows the text file result of the parsing process. This result is also a condensed version of the real text file. Listing 10.4 SMBIOS Structure Table Parsing Result in My System BIOS information structure -------------------------- Length = 0x13 Handle = 0x0 BIOS starting address segment = 0xE000 BIOS ROM size = 0x7 BIOS vendor : Phoenix Technologies, LTD BIOS version : 6.00PG BIOS date : 12/28/2004 ... I've provided two screenshots in a local windows update server to give you a glimpse of what kind of remote data you can obtain through WMI. They are shown in figures 10.5 and 10.6. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 203 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES © Steven & Felix Although eight area measures, some most problems involving 'Earth', 'Airlines', etc. use this distance measurement. Usually, the two points on the surface of a sphere are given as the Earth coordinates (latitude, longitude). The following double will help us obtain the Great-Circle Distance giving two points on the sphere and the radius of the Earth. We omit the derivation as it is not important for competitive programming. ```cpp double gCdistance(double plat, double plong, double radius) { plat = PI / 180; // conversion from degree to radian plong = PI / 180; // conversion from degree to radian return acos(cos(plat) * cos(plong) * cos(plat) + sin(plat) * sin(plong)); } ``` > **Example code:** `c7_d7/LV18187.cpp`, `c7_d2/LV18187.java` ### Programming Exercises related to the Great-Circle Distance: 1. **UVa 12015 - Cholesterol** [UVa Online Judge](https://onlinejudge.org) 2. **UVa 10776 - Airborne** [Using recursion, see Section 4.5] 3. **UVa 10016 - Airline** [UVa Online Judge](https://onlinejudge.org) 4. **UVa 10647 - Tunneling Distance** [UVa Online Judge](https://onlinejudge.org) 5. **UVa 11847 - Tunneling The Earth** [gives/uses the ID Euclidean distance] ## 7.7 3D Objects: Others Programming contest problem involving 3D objects is rare. But when it appears in a problem set, it can be one of the hardest. We provide an initial list of problems involving 3D objects below. ### Programming Exercises related to Other 3D Objects: 1. **UVa 10747 - Cleaning the Cubes** [gives the cube and the intersection] 2. **UVa 10014 - Elevator** [volume, speed, and total net height, simulation] 3. **UVa 10927 - Ippoyaw** [volume, corners, cylinders, volumes] ### Profile of Algorithm Inventors **Pythagoras of Samos** (c. 580 BC) was a Greek mathematician and philosopher. He was born on the island of Samos. He is best known for the Pythagorean theorem involving right triangles. **Euclid of Alexandria** (c. 300 BC) was a Greek mathematician, the 'Father of Geometry'. He is known for his work in mathematics, especially geometry, and is most accredited with the principles of mathematical proofs. **Heron of Alexandria** (c. 10 AD) was an ancient Greek mathematician from the city of Alexandria, Roman Empire. He is best known as Euclid. His name is closely associated with his formula for finding the area of a triangle from its side lengths. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 410 Context: # Chapter 11 BIOS Security Measures ## PREVIEW This chapter talks about security measures implemented in the BIOS and security measures at the operating system level related to the BIOS. The security measures come in the form of password protection, BIOS component integrity checks, operating-system-level protection, and hardware-based security measures. The component integrity check is not meant to be a security measure by BIOS vendors. Nevertheless, it has accidentally become one against random code injection to the BIOS binary. ### 11.1. Password Protection The BIOS provides a mechanism that uses passwords to protect the PC from unauthorized usage and BIOS configuration changes. Some BIOSs implement two types of passwords: user password and supervisor password. In some motherboards, there is additional control over this password under BIOS's Advanced BIOS Features menu in the Security Option setting. The Security Option setting consists of two selectable options, the System Option and the Setup option. If you set the Security Option to System, BIOS will ask you for your password upon boot. If you set the Security Option to Setup, BIOS will ask you for password when you enter the BIOS setup menu. As for the user password and supervisor password, I haven't found any differences between them. Only the Security Option setting shows a difference in a password authentication request in my motherboard, although yours may differ. Figure 11.1 shows the BIOS security option setting for my motherboard. ![BIOS Security Option](image-link-placeholder) 1. DFI 865PE Infinity revision 1.1; the BIOS date is December 28, 2004. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 198 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES © Steven & Felix 1. A circle with diameter \( d \) has circumference (or perimeter) \( c = \pi \times d \). 2. A circle with radius \( r \) has area \( A = \pi \times r^2 \). ### Figure 7.2. Circles 3. Arc of a circle is defined as a connected section of the circumference of the circle. Given the central angle \( \theta \) (angle with vertex at the circle's center, see Figure 7.2, right) in degrees, we can compute the length of the corresponding arc as: \[ \text{arc length} = \frac{\theta}{360} \times (2\pi r) \] 4. Chord of a circle is defined as the segment whose endpoints lie on the arc (the diameter is the longest chord in a circle). A circle with radius \( r \) and central angle \( \theta \) (in degrees) — see Figure 7.2, left — can be visualized with heights of \( r \sin(\theta/2) \) and \( r(1 - \cos(\theta/2)) \) (in the limit as \( \theta \) approaches \( 0 \)). This leads to the following relationship: \[ \text{length of chord} = 2r \sin(\theta/2) \] 5. Sector of a circle is defined as a region of the circle bounded by two radii and an arc lying between the two radii. A sector with area \( A \) and a central angle \( \theta \) (in degrees) — see Figure 7.2, right — can be calculated as: \[ A = \frac{\theta}{360} \times \pi r^2 \] 6. Segment of a circle is defined as a region of the circle confined to a chord and an arc lying between the chord's endpoints — see Figure 7.2, right. The area of this segment can be found by subtracting the area of the corresponding sector from the area of the inscribed triangle with vertices \( r, r, \) and chord length. 7. Given 2 points on the circle (p1 and p2) and radius \( r \) of the corresponding circle, we can determine the line that cotains points \( c1 \) and \( c2 \) of the two possible circles (see Figure 7.3). ### Figure 7.3. Circle Through 2 Points and Radius Example codes: `ch7_2/circles.cpp`, `ch7_2/circles.java` *"Human studies work with degrees, but many mathematical functions do not programing languages work with radians. Check your programming language manual to verify this (at least C/C++/Java do). To help with conversions, just remember that one radian equals 180 degrees."* #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 567 Context: ``` # Figure 14.17 Steps to Access the BIOS Chip in Embedded x86 Systems 1. **Compromise the embedded x86 device** (gain administrator privilege if it exists) 2. **Find the API documentation of the OS used in the embedded x86 device** 3. **Use the API documentation to find a way to access memory-mapped I/O devices in the embedded x86 system programmatically; this information is used to develop software to access the BIOS chip within the OS.** 4. **"Install" the "custom code" to the BIOS chip by using the software developed in the previous step.** Accessing the BIOS chip in embedded x86 systems is not a big problem if the operating system is Windows XP Embedded edition because the API used in this operating system is the same as the API in other Windows XP editions. I provided sample source code to access the BIOS chip in Windows XP in section 9.3. It's unfortunate that I don't have access to a system with Windows XP Embedded edition to try the application. Nevertheless, I think the sample source code should be portable—maybe directly executable—to Windows XP Embedded edition. On the other side, Windows CE is tricky because the API is not exactly the same as that of Windows XP. Indeed, the Windows CE API is highly compatible with the API in the desktop version of Windows. However, for a low-level API, i.e., a kernel API, it's not exactly the same. You can read the Microsoft Developer Network online documentation at [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com) to find out more about the Windows CE API. For systems that use embedded Linux, these are easier for attackers to work with because the source code of the operating system is available in the public domain, along with some documentation about the system. As for embedded x86 systems with the operating system integrated into the BIOS, as in the case of eBIOS in subsection 14.2.1, you have to reverse engineer a compatible version of the operating system from a publicly available source. ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 112 Context: in compressed state. The compressed component preceding awardext.rom is the compressed system BIOS, and the byte highlighted in pink is a custom checksum that follows the end-of-file marker for this compressed system BIOS. Other compressed components always end up with an end-of-file marker, and no checksum byte precedes the next compressed component in the BIOS binary. Proceed to the pure binary component of the Foxconn BIOS. The mapping of this pure binary component inside the hex editor as follows: 1. 6_A9C0h–6_BFFEh: The decompression block. This routine contains the LZH decompression engine 2. 7_E000h–7_FFFFh: This area contains the boot block code. Between of the pure binary components lay padding bytes. Some padding bytes re FFh bytes, and some are 00h bytes. Reverse Engineering e engineering. The boot BIOS. Understanding the reverse boot block is valuable, because these ifferent vendors. From this point on, I assemble the boot block routines. Now, I'll present some obscure and important areas of of the Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS2 you learned how to start ation here. All you have t the initial load address to 8_0000h–FFFh. Then, create new segments at FFF8_0000h–FFFD_FFFFh and relocate the h to that newly created segment to mimic the mapping of the dress map. You can use the IDA Pro script in listing 5.1 to e IDA Pro add the o make it a standalone script in an ASCII file, . a 5.1.2. Award Boot Block This section delves into the mechanics of boot block reversblock is the key into overall insight of the motherboard engineering tricks needed to reverse engineer thehniques tend to be applicable to BIOS from dtecisdthe BIOS code in the disassembled boot block motherboard BIOS dated November 11, 2005. In section 2.3 assembling a BIOS file with IDA Pro. I won't repeat that informdisto do is open the 512-KB file in IDA Pro and seF_Fcontents of 8_0000h–D_FFFFstem adBIOS binary in the syaccomplish this operation. The script in listing 5.1 must be executed directly in thrkspace scripting window that's called with Shift+F2 shortcut. You canwoappropriate include statements if you wish tas you learned in chapter 2 Listing 5.1 IDA Pro Relocation Script for Award BIOS with a 512-KB File auto ea, ea_src, ea_dest; /* Create segments for the currently loaded binary */ for(ea=0x80000; ea<0x100000; ea = ea+0x10000) { SegCreate(ea, ea+0x10000, ea>>4, 0,0,0); } /* Create new segments for relocation */ 6 #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: # PREFACE This book is intended as a textbook for a course of a full year, and it is believed that many of the students who study the subject for only a half year will desire to read the full text. An abridged edition has been prepared, however, for students who study the subject for only one semester and who do not care to purchase the larger text. It will be observed that the work includes two chapters on solid analytic geometry. These will be found quite sufficient for the ordinary reading of higher mathematics, although they do not pretend to cover the ground necessary for a thorough understanding of the geometry of three dimensions. It will also be noticed that the chapter on higher plane curves includes the more important curves of this nature, considered from the point of view of interest and applications. A complete list is not only unnecessary but undesirable, and the selection given in Chapter XII will be found ample for our purposes. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 224 Context: binary contains more code than the data section, even though they overlap. Thus, finding a byte pattern is quite easy, because x86 instruction bytes have particular rules that must be adhered to, just like other processor architectures. In addition, it's natural not to waste precious space in RAM and a BIOS chip by repeating the same group of instructions. This space-saving technique is accomplished by forming a procedure or routine for a group of instructions that will be invoked from another section of the binary. This provides the huge possibility to find a unique group of instructions, a byte pattern, within the binary because it means that they are rarely repeated. The task of forming a new signature is not too hard. These are the "algorithm": 1. Find the interesting procedure with a disassembler. 2. Observe the instruction groups that make up the procedure and note their equivalent hexadecimal values. 3. Find some bytes, i.e., a few instructions lumped as a group as the "initial guess" for the signature. Search for other possibilities of occurrence of the initial guess in the binary with a hex editor. If the group occurs more than once, add some instruction bytes into the initial guess and repeat until only one occurrence is found in the binary. Voila, the signature is formed. Once you have formed the signature, the task of patching the system BIOS file is task. You can even build a "patcher" to automate the process. To be able to locate a specific procedure to patch, you have to know something about it; this allows you to make an intelligent guess about its location. In a Windows binary file, a call to certain operating system function is the necessary hint. For BIOS binary, here are a few tips: 1. If you are looking for an I/O-related procedure, start by looking for "suspicious" access to the particular I/O port. It's better to know the protocol that's supposed to be used by the I/O port in advance. For example, if you want to find the chipset initialization routine, start looking for accesses to the PCI configuration address port (CF8h–CFBh) and data port (CFCh–CFFh). That's because access to the chipset is through PCI configuration cycles. In addition, if you want to look for the IDE device initialization routines, you have to start looking for accesses to ports 1F0h–1F7h and 170h–177h. 2. Some devices are mapped to some predefined memory address range. For example, the VGA frame buffer is mapped to B_0000h or B_8000h. These are quirks you must know. 3. By using the BIOS POST code8 as a reference, you can crosscheck an output to the POST code port, i.e., port 80h with the routine you are looking for. During BIOS execution, a lot of POST code is written to port 80h, and each POST code 8 POST code in this context is not the POST routine but the hexadecimal value written to port 80h that can be displayed in a specialized expansion card called the POST card. 16 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 34 Context: # 1.8 GETTING STARTED: THE AD HOC PROBLEMS © Steven & Felix 1. **Problem Set** 41. UVa 11516 - Time trucks (FILE to force, find the pattern) 42. UVa 11631 - Burglars' Turn? (Input) 43. UVa 11942 - Substring (check if other substrings of all bases still have 2 or more) 44. UVa 11679 - Dilemma (string), (shortest single) 45. UVa 1177 - Energy Sweeping (Microfortnight) (tricky stimulus) 46. UVa 1197 - A Dilemma (and her) 47. UVa 1196 - Guide Number (old box) 48. UVa 1194 - Code Number (old box) 49. UVa 1209 - Pool 50. UVa 1210 - Maximum (use 2 pointers) 51. UVa 1211 - Chefland (see 2 integer pairs) 52. UVa 1212 - Mobile Customers (Dilemma) 53. UVa 1213 - Weighted Average (Dilemma) 54. UVa 1214 - Machine Controls (Dilemma) 55. UVa 1215 - Shelve of a Married Man (Dilemma) 56. UVa 1216 - Sacking World Rank (Flash!) 57. UVa 1217 - Language Detector (KualaLumpur!) --- ![Figure 1.4: Some references that inspired the authors to write this book](attachments/reference-books.png) --- 18 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 192 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES ### Steven & Felts The main aim of this chapter is to increase the number of attempts (and also AC solutions) for geometry-related problems in programming contests. Study this chapter for some advice on handling computational geometry problems in ICPC and similar contests. ### Section 7.1: 2D Objects: Points 1. **Point**: A point is the basic building block of higher dimensional geometric objects. In 2D Euclidean space, points are usually represented with a struct in C++ (or the class in Java) with two members: the x and y coordinates. The fundamental building block is: ```cpp struct point { int x, y; // basic form, initialize node point(int x_, int y_) : x(x_), y(y_) {} // constructor (optional) }; ``` For floating-point precision, we can define the point struct as: ```cpp struct pointf { double x, y; // only used if precision is needed pointf(double x_, double y_) : x(x_), y(y_) {} // constructor bool operator<(const pointf &other) const { return (x < other.x) ? true : (x > other.x) ? false : (y < other.y); // for sorting } }; ``` 2. Sometimes we need to sort the points. We can easily do that with the trick below. #### Notes: > **[1]** For ACPC, code and results can vary from one institution to another. Therefore, we would like to ensure familiarity with English conventions. > **[2]** To make things clear, the 2D and 3D definitions apply to the 2D and 3D world that we encounter in real life. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 406 Context: # Accessing SMBIOS Information Listings 10.1–10.3 show how to access the SMBIOS information present in the system for Windows-based machines. Nevertheless, this information is also provided by the WMI subsystem in Windows. It's possible that WMI doesn't parse all of the SMBIOS structure table in the system. In that case, you probably want greater control over the SMBIOS structure table by parsing it yourself and using the information for your purposes. The use of `bios_probe` version 0.34 to dump SMBIOS data in my system is shown in Figure 10.4. ## Figure 10.4 Dumping the SMBIOS Area in My System The binary dump of the SMBIOS area is shown in Hex Dump 10.2. ## Hex Dump 10.2 SMBIOS Area of My System | Address | Hexadecimal Values | ASCII Values | |---------------|------------------------------------------------|----------------------| | 00000000 | 0013 0000 0102 0000 0307 90DE C7BF 0000 | .................... | | 00000010 | 0000 3750 686F 6570 6379 5054 6565 6861 | .Phoenix Tech... | | 00000020 | 00EC 6767 6965 7362 2042 3444 0036 2300 | 1ZB.0... | | 00000030 | 3200 5041 0011 3222 3228 2522 3030 20 | ......... | | 00000040 | 0000 FFFF FFFF FFFF F0FF 0000 2000 2000 | .................... | | 00000050 | 2500 0002 0008 0001 0023 0409 3436 3836 | .186 | | 00000060 | 0000 3550 4522 5738 3232 2020 0200 050 | 5EF-W83627... | | 00000070 | 0000 0000 0300 0100 0203 0402 0202 0000 | . | The system is built on an DFI 865PE Infinity motherboard, 512 MB of RAM, and a Celeron 2.0 GHz. #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: ``` # GRAPHS OF EQUATIONS ## 11. Two Fundamental Problems The notion of correspondence between graphs and equations gives rise to two problems of fundamental importance in analytic geometry: 1. Given the equation of a graph, to draw the graph. 2. Given a graph, to find its equation. These problems, with the developments and applications to which they lead, form the subject matter of analytic geometry. A few examples illustrating the first of these problems will now be given, the second problem being reserved for consideration in Chapter III. The word *locus* is often employed in place of the word *graph* above. So also is the word *curve*, which includes the straight line as a special case. ## 12. Nature of the Graph of an Equation In general, an equation in x and y is satisfied by infinitely many pairs of real values x and y. Each of these pairs of values locates a point on the graph of the equation. The set of all points located by these pairs usually forms, as in the examples on page 8, a curve which contains few or no breaks, or, as we say, a curve which is continuous throughout most or all of its extent. In dealing with graphs of equations in the remainder of this chapter, and again in Chapter III, we shall assume that the graphs are continuous except when the contrary is shown to be the case. The study of the conditions under which the graph of an equation is not continuous, together with related topics, is a matter of considerable importance in the branch of mathematics known as the calculus. In special cases it may happen that the graph of an equation consists of only a limited number of real points. For example, the equation \(x^2 + y^2 = 0\) is satisfied only by \(x = 0\), \(y = 0\), and its graph is a single point, the origin. ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 229 Context: # Appendix A ## Hints/Brief Solutions In this appendix, you will see the hints or brief solutions for many — but not all — mini exercises in this book. Please refrain from looking at the solutions unless necessary. ## Chapter 1 ### Exercise 1.2.1: The complete Table A.1 is shown below. | UVA | Title | Problem Type | Hint | |-------|--------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|---------------------------| | 13004 | Rail Attack | Complete Search or Dynamic Programming | Section 3.2 or 3.5 | | 10334 | Cube | Divide & Conquer (Brute Force) | Section 3.4 | | 11929 | Dragon of Laconter | Greedy (Non Classical) | Section 3.4 | | 11101 | Wedding Shopping | DP (Non Classical) | Section 3.5 | | 11011 | Finding Quicks | Graph (Decomposition: Dijkstra's & BFS) | Section 6.2 | | 12056 | Angry Programmer | Graph (Min Cut/Max Flow) | Section 4.7 | | 10127 | Depopulation: Complete | Dynamic Programming | Section 6.1 | | 10714 | GATTMAC | String Suffix Array (LCP, KMP) | Section 6.6 | | 10665 | Intense Title Problems | Geometry (Convex Hull - Area of Polygon) | Section 6.7 | Table A.1: Exercise: Classify These UVA Problems ### Exercise 1.2.2: The answers are: 1. (a) Use priority queue data structure (heap) (Section 2.2). 2. (b) If it is static: (i) Simple Array that is pre-processed with Dynamic Programming (Section 2.2.1 & 5.1). (ii) Recurrent Tree is a better answer (unless to implement that changes happen). 3. (c) Yes, such complete search is possible (Section 3.2). 4. (d) Dynamic Programming (Section 5.5, 4.2, 6.7). 5. (e) See the references (Section 5.5). 6. (f) The tricky approach can work with luck. Use KMP or Suffix Array (Section 6.4 & 6.6)! 7. (g) Use the binary search above ahead. Find the Cost of Half the points in \(C(H) = 1\). (Section 7.3). Let the number of points in \(C(H) = S, \text{ then } C \in \mathbb{N}\). Then, find the two factors to classify the answers for similar ones in \(C(H) \in Q\). *This book is based on official course material in Steven's module on "MSCS 51203 - Competitive Programming". It is necessary to follow the answers for exam courses as they will be used in class assessments.* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 169 Context: ``` 6.3 Ad Hoc String Processing Problems Next, we continue our discussion with something light: the Ad Hoc string processing problems. They are programming and computer science problems involving strings that require more than basic programming skills and perhaps some basic string processing skills discussed in Section 6.2 earlier. We give a list of Ad Hoc string processing problems with hints. These programming exercises have been further divided into sub-topics. ### Exercises/Encrypt/Decrypt It is everyone’s wish that their private digital communications are secure. That is, their encrypted messages can only be read by the intended recipient. Many operators have been mindful for their programming needs and are aware of how easily encoded data can become a problem. This brings many of them, especially those that we classify as “must try”, to be interested in learning a bit about Computer Security/Cryptography by solving the problems. #### Frequency Counts In this group of problems, the contestants are asked to count the frequency of a letter (say, base Direct Addressing Table) or a word (handle, the solution is either using a balanced Binary Search Tree – the C++ STL map or Java TreeMap – or Hash table). Some of the problems are actually related to Cryptography (the previous sub-category). #### Input Parsing This group of problems is best for I/O contestants as it enforces the input of I/O tasks to be formatted in as simple as possible. However, there is such restriction in I/O Parsing, problem range from simple form that can be dealt with modified input reader, i.e. (C/C++ – can be done using regular expressions) which requires recursive descent parser or Java Parsers class (Regular Expressions). #### Output Formatting Another portion of problems that is done for I/O contestants. This time, the output is the problematic one. In an I/O problem, aim for the contestants that produce results not just for you, but for the contestants. Practice your coding skill by solving these problems as you go along. #### String Comparison This group of problems, the contestants are asked to compare strings with various criteria. This mini-category is similar to the string matching problems in the next section, but these problems require scalar-interpreted functions. ### Ad Hoc These are other Ad Hoc string related problems that cannot be (or have not been) classified as one of the other sub-categories above. --- ### Programming Exercises related to Ad Hoc String Processing: - **Cipher/Encode/Encrypt/Decrypt** - UVA 0120 - Message Decomposition (break the message) - UVA 0121 - Textual Analysis (read the given alphabets) - UVA 0122 - The Dice Problem (hint: how to extract the original) - UVA 0123 - The Data Dilemma (handle a product and map to either 2 or 3 digits) - UVA 0124 - The Dander (talk about each character's ASCII value) - UVA 0125 - A Little Bit of Money (factor every possible way) *Interrelated topics should apply to each number (table Notation Form (RNF) (RNF)).* *Note: String checking/counting problems can be solved with recursion or the use of `strcat()` or `replicate()`.* ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 97 Context: # Figure 4.7 Typical BIOS binary logical view within the system address map You learned in previous sections that x86 systems start execution at address `0xFFFF_FFFF`. In Figure 4.7, it is located in the boot block area. This area is the uncompressed part of the BIOS binary. Hence, the processor can directly execute the code located there. Other areas in the BIOS chip are occupied by padding bytes, compressed BIOS components, and some checksums. This is the general structure of modern-day BIOS, regardless of vendor. The boot block contains the code used to verify the checksums of the compressed BIOS component and the code used to decompress them. The boot block also contains early hardware testing and initialization code. The part of the BIOS that takes care of most initialization tasks, i.e., POST, is called the **system BIOS**. In Award BIOS, this component sometimes is called `original.mp` by BIOS hackers because of the name of the compressed system BIOS. The system BIOS is jumped into by the boot block after the boot block finishes its task. Note that the system BIOS manages other compressed BIOS components during its execution. It does so by decompressing, relocating, and executing the decompressed version of those components as needed. ## 4.3 Software Peculiarities There are some tricky areas in the BIOS code because of the execution of some of its parts in ROM. I present some of my findings here. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 19 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE © Steven & Felix However, you will not just learn the data structures and algorithms, but also how to implement them efficiently and apply them to appropriate contest problems. On top of that, you will also learn many programming tips that can be helpful in contest situations. We start this section by giving you some general usage tips. ## Tip 1: Type Code Faster! No kidding! Although this tip may sound somewhat like ICPC and (especially) IOI are not typing contests, we have seen recent ICPCs where rank and rank-1 are just separated by few minutes. When you can solve the same number of problems as your competition, it is now down to coding skill (ability to produce correct code) and… typing speed. Try this typing test at [http://www.typingtest.com](http://www.typingtest.com) and follow the instructions there on how improve your typing speed. A typical range is 95–99 words per minute (WPM). You may be wondering how long does it take to finish the frequent programming language characters, e.g., braces `{}`, parentheses `()`, single quote for `char`, double quotes for `string`, etc. ### Forming Quiz Teams, the solution for UVA 1091 above ```c #include // Note: if you have problem understanding this C++ code #include // Please consult your basic programming text book first // for the explanation of this C programming code // In C you can find a similar structure in ./See section 2 here. int bitmask[20][20], smask[1 << 16]; // See section 2 for this variable int n; // using global variables is not so portable, but it is often done in competitive programming double solve(int x) { // << is like 2^x, recall that 1 << is 2^1, recall that 3 == 1 << 2 double ans = 0.0; // initialize with a large value for (int p = 0; p < 2; p++) { // if this bit is off for (int mask = p << 2; mask < 2 * (1 << 24); ++mask) { if (mask & (1 << (x - 1))) // if this bit has been expanded before continue; // simply skip to next mask (all are already marked) break; // important step, will be discussed in Chapter 3 & later } } return ans; // store result in a memo table and return } int main() { int line[1000], l = 0, x = 120; // to simplify testing, redirect input file to stdin freopen("1091.txt", "r", stdin); } ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 195 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES We can translate (move) a point with a vector as a vector describes the displacement magnitude in x and y axes. ```cpp struct vector { double x, y; vector(double x_, double y_) : x(x_), y(y_) {} }; ``` ```cpp vector e(vector point1, point point2) { return vector(point2.x - point1.x, point2.y - point1.y); // convert 2 points to vector } ``` ```cpp void scaleVector(vector v, double s) { nonnegatives = {-1, 1}; // shorter y axis if longer x return vector(v.x * s, v.y * s); } ``` ```cpp point translate(point p, vector v) { return point{p.x + v.x, p.y + v.y}; // translate p according to v } ``` ### Exercise 7.2.6 Translate a point (3, 0) according to a vector v defined by point A (2, 0) and B (4, 0). What is the new coordinate of the translated point? (easy to compute by hand). ### Exercise 7.2.7 Similar to Exercise 7.2.6 above, but now the magnitude of vector v is normalized by 1. What is the new coordinate of the translated point? (still easy to compute by hand). Refer to Exercise 7.4.5. Same as Exercise 7.2.6 above, then immediately rotate the resulting point to get its coordinates relative to another axis. ### Exercise 7.2.8 What is the new coordinate of the translated point? (still easy to compute by hand). Refer to Exercise 7.4.5. Same as Exercise 7.2.6 above, then take the same angle as seen in Exercise 7.2.3 to derive the rotated point. ### What is the direction of the rotated point? (still easy to compute by hand). What happens in the case of the points Exercise 7.2.2 above? 8. Given a point defined by its coordinates (x, y), we can compute this line classifier from point P. The setup can be as follows: - Given the set of points (a, b) representing a straight line segment, we can evaluate if a point c is: - `d > 0` if it is on the left of line, - `d < 0` if it is on the right of line, - `d = 0` for points lying on the line itself. ```cpp // Example coding method for demonstrating the location of point c by finding out other line configurations. double d = (b.y - a.y) * (c.x - b.x) - (b.x - a.x) * (c.y - b.y); ``` ### Figure 7.1 Distance to Line (left) and to Line Segment (right) ![Figure 7.1: Distance to Line (left) and to Line Segment (right)](link_to_image) 179 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 196 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES *Steven & Felix* If we are given two points A and B, and we must determine the distance from a point P to the line segment (defined by two end points a and b), then the minimum distance from point P to line segment must consider two special cases, the end points a and b of that line segment (see Figure 7.1). See the implementation below. ```java // returns the distance from P to the line defined by // two points A and B and must be different double distance(point P, point A, point B) { // formula: dist(P, A) = ||(P - A) x (B - A)|| / |B - A| double scale = (double) ((P.x - A.x) * (B.y - A.y) - (P.y - A.y) * (B.x - A.x)); double c = (B.x - A.x) * (B.x - A.x) + (B.y - A.y) * (B.y - A.y); c = Math.sqrt(c); // Euclidean distance between P and A return Math.abs(scale) / c; // Euclidean distance between P and B } // returns the distance from P to the line segment (null if A = B) double distanceSegment(point P, point A, point B) { if ((A.x == B.x) && (A.y == B.y)) return 0; // closer to A double distAB = distance(P, A, B); // Euclidean distance between P and A if (distAB == 0) return distAB; // closer to A } // Given a line defined by two points P and Q, we can determine whether P is on the left/right side of the line or whether the points are collinear. // This can be determined through a cross product: double cross(point P, point Q) { return (P.x - Q.x) * (Q.y - P.y) - (P.y - Q.y) * (Q.x - P.x); } // returns true if point R is on the left side of line PQ bool collinear(point P, point Q, point R) { return (cross(P, Q) == 0) ? true : false; // notice the comparison with EPS } // returns true if point R is on the left side of line PQ bool isLeft(point P, point Q, point R) { return (cross(P, Q) > 0); // notice the comparison with EPS } Example code: `7.1.1.geometry.lines.cpp` or `7.1.1.geometry.lines.java` **"The area of triangle ABC is therefore A"** 180 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 164 Context: routine in advance. If the binary signature14 is known, you can directly scan the target binary to find the routine. I delve more into this issue in the BIOS modification chapter. 5.2. AMI BIOS In this section, I dissect a sample AMI BIOS binary based on AMI BIOS code version 8 (AMIBIOS8). AMI BIOS comes in several code bases. However, since 2002 AMI BIOS uses this version of the code base. The code base version is recognized by inspecting the binary. The AMIBIOSC0800 string in the BIOS binary identifies the AMI BIOS binary as AMI BIOS code version 8. The BIOS binary that dissected here is the BIOS for a Soltek SL865PE motherboard. The BIOS release date is September 14, 2004. This motherboard uses an Intel 865PE chipset. It only supports a 4-GB memory address space. You may want to download the datasheet of this chipset from Intel website to become accustomed to the system-wide addressing scheme of this chipset and the role of its PCI configuration register. .2.1. AMI BIOS File Structure 5 The structure of an AMI BIOS binary is similar to that of an Award BIOS binary. The boot block is placed in the highest address range within the binary, and the compressed components are placed below the boot block. Note that some padding bytes15 exist between them. 14 A within an15 The pabinary signature is a unique block of bytes that represent unique block of machine instructions executable file. dding bytes in this BIOS are bytes with FFh values. 58 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 21 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE Exercise 1.2.1. Read the UVa [28] problems shown in Table 1.2 and determine their problem types. The first and the fifth ones have been filled in for you. Filling this table is easy after mastering both the basic and advanced techniques for solving these problems as discussed in this book. Please revisit this section when you have finished reading this book. | UVa Unit | Problem Type | Hint | |----------|------------------------------------------------|----------------| | 10394 | Red Attack | Complete Search or Dynamic Programming Section 3.2 & 3.5 | | 11290 | Design of Lowcost | Section 3.3 | | 11301 | Wedding Shopping | Section 3.4 | | 11401 | Forming Quiz Teams DP + Bitmask | Section 4.1 | | 11681 | Angry Programmer | Section 4.2 | | 12036 | Pie Fire!! | Section 4.7 | | 10717 | GATTACA | Section 6.2 | | 10155 | Glasses - Tile Packers | Section 6.7 | Table 1.2: Exercise: Classify These UVa Problems The goal is not just to map problems into categories as in Table 1.1. After you are familiar with most of the topics in this book, you can classify the problems into just four types as in Table 1.3. | No. | Category | Candidate and Expected Solving Spent | |-----|----------|------------------------------------------------| | A | I have solved this type before | I can undertake this type again (not fast) | | B | I have solved this type before | But I know doing the solution takes time | | C | I have solved this type before | But I don’t have to or cannot solve it | | D | I have not seen this type before | I may (not) be able to solve it under contest time | Table 1.3: Problems Types (Compact Form) To be competitive, you must frequently classify the problems that you read in the problem as into type A (or at least type B). ## 1.2.2 Tip 3: Do Algorithm Analysis Once you have designed an algorithm to solve a particular problem in a programming contest, you must then ask this question: Given the maximum input bound (usually this is a good problem framing), what is the worst-case developed algorithm's behavior? Specifically, how fast or slow is the earth-dedicated problem? Sometimes there are many ways to attack a problem. However, some of them may be more efficient than others. Remember that serving the problem correctly is paramount to your success — especially the time allocated to solve next problems, as it will produce the current answers! For example, if the input size is \( n \), of order \( O(n \log n) \) (or \( O(n^2) \)), and your algorithm has a complexity of \( O(n) \) or linear, you combine terms like that (you don't go beyond). Thus, letting the input size \( n \) grow to twice as large (or any constant multiple), the running time becomes \( O(n \log n) \) just for \( n = 1000 \) whereas for \( n = 10000 \) one gets \( \log(10000) \) which is just 14, and the running outcome is the fact that up to \( 10^7 \) one might expect 10 million operations or the time taken! Thinking from first principles and testing against the interested algorithm that works is crucial. However, skills are paramount to producing realistic methods to monitor your output influence or obtain the better solution where it is equal, also sharing your chances that one can come up with the correct solution is higher. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 137 Context: Chapter5MathematicsWeallusematheveryday;topredictweather,totelltime,tohandlemoney.Mathismorethanformulasorequations;it’slogic,it’srationality,it’susingyourmindtosolvethebiggestmysteriesweknow.—TVshowNUMB3RS5.1OverviewandMotivationTheappearanceofmathematics-relatedproblemsinprogrammingcontestsisnotsurprisingsinceComputerScienceisdeeplyrootedinMathematics.Theterm‘computer’itselfcomesfromtheword‘compute’ascomputerisbuiltprimarilytohelphumancomputenumbers.Manyinterestingreallifeproblemscanbemodeledasmathematicsproblemsasyouwillseeinthischapter.RecentICPCs(especiallyinAsia)usuallycontainoneortwomathematicsproblems.RecentIOIsusuallydonotcontainpuremathematicstasks,butmanytasksrequiremathematicalinsights.Thischapteraimstopreparecontestantsindealingwiththesemathematicsproblems.Weareawarethatdifferentcountrieshavedifferentemphasisinmathematicstraininginpre-Universityeducation.Thus,forsomenewbiecontestants:‘BinomialCoefficients’,‘CatalanNum-bers’,‘EulerPhi’,‘SieveofEratosthenes’,etcarefamiliarterms,butforothers,thesetermsdonotringanybell.Perhapsbecausehehasnotlearntitbefore,orperhapsthetermisdifferentinhisnativelanguage.Inthischapter,wewanttomakeamorelevel-playingfieldforthereadersbylistingasmanycommonmathematicalterminologies,definitions,problems,andalgorithmsthatfrequentlyappearinprogrammingcontests.5.2AdHocMathematicsProblemsWestartthischapterwithsomethinglight:theAdHocmathematicsproblems.Theseareprogram-mingcontestproblemsthatrequirenomorethanbasicprogrammingskillsandsomefundamentalmathematics.Astherearestilltoomanyproblemsinthiscategory,wefurtherdividethemintosub-categories,asbelow.TheseproblemsarenotplacedinSection1.3astheyareAdHocproblemswithamathematicalflavor.ButyoucanactuallyjumpfromSection1.3tothissectionifyouprefertodoso.Rememberthattheseproblemsaretheeasierones.Todowellintheactualprogrammingcontests,contestantsmustalsomastertheothersectionsofthischapter.•TheSimplerOnes–justfewlinesofcodeperproblemtoboostyourconfidenceTheseproblemsareforthosewhohavenotsolvedan #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 528 Context: # TCG Architecture Overview ![Figure 1.3 Steps in comprehending TCG standards implementation in PC architecture](image_link_here) Figure 1.3 shows that the first document you have to read is the TCG Specification Architecture Overview. Then, proceed to the platform-specific design guide document, which in this current context is the PC platform specification document. You have to consult the concepts explained in the TCG main specification, parts 1-4, and the TSS document while reading the PC platform specification document—the dashed blue arrows in Figure 1.3 mean "consult." You can download the [TCG Specification Architecture Overview](https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/TSA), the TCG PC main specification, parts 1-4, and the TSS document which is available for download at [TSS Document](https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/TSS). The PC platform specification document is available for download at [PC Client Document](https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/PCCilent). The PC platform specification document consists of several files; the relevant ones are TCG PC Client-Specific Implementation Specification for Conventional BIOS (as of the writing of this book, the latest version of this document is 1.20 final) and PC Client TPM Interface Specification FAQ. Reading these documents will give you a glimpse of the concepts of trusted computing and some details about its implementation in PC architecture. From here forward, I’ll explain a bit more about the fundamental concept of trusted computing that is covered by the TCG standards. The TCG Specification Architecture Overview defines trust as the "expectation that a device will behave in a particular manner for a specific purpose." The advanced features that exist in a trusted platform are protected capabilities, integrity measurement, and integrity reporting. The focus is on the integrity measurement feature because this feature relates directly to the BIOS. As per the TCG Specification Architecture Overview, integrity measurement is "the process of obtaining metrics of platform characteristics that affect the integrity (untrustworthiness) of a platform; storing those metrics; and putting digests of those metrics in PCRs (platform configuration registers)." I’m not going to delve into this definition or the specifics about PCRs. Nonetheless, it’s important to note that in the TCG standards for PC architecture, core root of trust measurement (CRTM) is synonymous with BIOS boot block. At this point, you have #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 485 Context: # 12.2.1. Hijacking Award BIOS 4.51PG Interrupt Handlers The BIOS binary that I dissect in this subsection is v30728.bin. This is the latest BIOS for the Iwill D133 motherboard, released in 2000. You can download the binary at [http://www.iwill.net/product_legacy2.asp?aw=V133&BD=32&M=26&Value=60](http://www.iwill.net/product_legacy2.asp?aw=V133&BD=32&M=26&Value=60). This binary is placed inside a self-decompressing file, v30728.exe. Remember, this BIOS is an Award BIOS binary based on Award BIOS 4.51PG code. There are two kinds of interrupts in the x86 platform: hardware interrupts and software interrupts. The processor views both kinds of interrupts in almost the same fashion. The difference is, in the case of the programmable interrupt controller (PIC) prioritizes hardware interrupts before reaching the processor interrupt line, whereas software interrupts don’t have such a prioritizing mechanism. Interrupts 13 and 21 are software interrupts. Nonetheless, you have to track down the interrupt-related initialization from the hardware interrupt initialization to grasp the overall view of BIOS interrupt handling. In most cases, the BIOS code disables the interrupt before the hardware-related interrupt initialization is finished. The overview of BIOS interrupts is shown in Table 12.1. | Interrupt Number (Hex) | Description | |-------------------------|----------------------------------| | 00–01 | Exception handlers | | 02 | Nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) | | 03–07 | Exception handlers | | 08 | Interrupt request (IRQ) 0 system timer | | 09 | IRQ 1; keyboard | | 0A | IRQ 2; redirected to IRQ 9 | | 0B | IRQ 3; serial port, i.e., COM2/COM4 | | 0C | IRQ 4; serial port, i.e., COM1/COM3 | | 0D | IRQ 5; reserved/sound card | | 0E | IRQ 6; floppy disk controller | | 0F | IRQ 7; parallel port, i.e., LPT1 | | 10–6F | Software interrupt | | 70 | IRQ 8; real-time clock | | 71 | IRQ 9; redirected IRQ2 | | 72 | IRQ 10; reserved | #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 396 Context: ``` 6fh National Semiconductor LM80 07h National Semiconductor LM81 08h Analog Devices ADM9240 09h Dallas Semiconductor DS1780 0Ah Maxim 167 0Bh Genesys GL518SM 0Ch Winbond W83781D 0Dh Holtek HT8279H | Code | Manufacturer | |-------|-----------------------------| | 6fh | National Semiconductor LM80 | | 07h | National Semiconductor LM81 | | 08h | Analog Devices ADM9240 | | 09h | Dallas Semiconductor DS1780 | | 0Ah | Maxim 167 | | 0Bh | Genesys GL518SM | | 0Ch | Winbond W83781D | | 0Dh | Holtek HT8279H | Table 10.5 Management device—type | Byte Value | Meaning | |------------|--------------| | 01h | Other | | 02h | Unknown | | 03h | I/O port | | 04h | Memory | | 05h | System management bus | Table 10.6 Management device—address type Tables 10.4 to 10.6 show the meaning of the bytes in management device structure. With the help of information from these tables, it will be quite easy for you to make the WBEM management software query system parameters in a remote PC. However, to make remote hardware monitoring a reality, you first have to grant access to the remote system. For a malicious attacker, that would mean he or she already manipulated a backdoor in the remote machine and escalated his or her privilege to the administrator level. Without administrator privilege, the attacker can’t install a device driver, meaning he or she won't be able to poke around the hardware directly. With the administrator privilege, the attacker has the freedom to alter the BIOS. Altering the BIOS directly within the operating system was explained in chapter 9. You might want to find another interesting SMBIOS structure in the SMBIOS specification. For that purpose, surf to DMTF website at [http://www.dmtf.org](http://www.dmtf.org) and download the latest SMBIOS specification. As for the real-world code example that shows how to parse the SMBIOS structure table, be patient; the next section explains this. ## 10.2 Remote Server Management Code Implementation The remote server management code explained in this section is the implementation of the SMBIOS protocol that you learned in the previous section. Section 10.1 showed how SMBIOS provides detailed low-level information pertaining to the PC that implements SMBIOS. Before I move forward to how to parse the SMBIOS structure table, I would like to show you how a particular BIOS implements it. In Award BIOS version 6.00PG, the basic SMBIOS structure is placed in the compressed awdflash.tsm file. You learned about the innards of the Award BIOS binary in chapter 5. Reread that chapter if you forget the Award BIOS binary structure. ``` #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: # 12 INTRODUCTION 8. The attraction \( A \) between the poles of an electromagnet varies inversely as the square of the distance \( d \) between the poles; that is, \( A = \frac{k}{d^2} \), being a constant. Taking the values \( d = 2 \) and \( d = 3 \), plot the graph for all integral values of \( d \) from 2 to 10. Estimate from the graph the amount by which \( A \) changes between \( d = 2 \) and \( d = 3 \). 9. Certain postal regulations require that the sum of the height \( h \) of a parcel to be sent by parcel post shall not exceed 7 ft. Supposing that a manufacturer wishes to ship his goods by parcel in boxes having square ends and width \( w \), find the length equal to \( l \), study the variation in the capacity of such a box as the dimensions vary. 10. Consider Ex. 9, for a cylindrical parcel of length \( l \) inches and radius \( r \) inches. The circumference is \( 2\pi r \) and the volume is \( \pi r^2 l \). 11. A strip of sheet metal 12 in. wide is to be folded along the middle so as to form a gutter. Denoting the width of the top by \( 2x \), express in terms of \( x \) the area \( A \) of the cross section of the gutter. Plot the graph of this equation \( A \) and determine approximately the width corresponding to the maximum capacity of the gutter. 12. A rectangular enclosure containing 60 sq yd is to be laid off against the wall \( AB \) of a house, two of the walls of the enclosure being perpendicular to \( AB \), and the other wall being parallel to \( AB \). In terms of the width \( x \) of the enclosure, express the total length \( l \) of the walls to be built, and plot the graph of this equation for \( x \) and \( l \). 13. Find the dimensions of the maximum rectangle that can be inscribed in a circle having a diameter of 16 in. #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 275 Context: # SPHERES, CYLINDERS, CONES ## Exercise 69. Spheres, Cylinders, Cones **Find the equations of the spheres determined as follows:** 1. Passing through the point \((4, -2, 2)\) and having its center at the point \((2, 1, -4)\). 2. Center \((4, 3, 3)\) and tangent to the xy plane. 3. Tangent to the plane \(2y - 3z = 28\) and having its center at the point \((6, 5, -1)\). 4. Tangent to the coordinate planes and passing through the point \((10, 10, 10)\). 5. Passing through the four points \((3, 2, -4)\), \((-2, -2, 3)\), \((-5, 2, 4)\), and \((7, 0, -8)\). 6. Having a diameter the line joining \(P(-4, -1, 3)\) and \(P'(-8, 3, -3)\). 7. Radius \(10\), center on the line \(x + y + z = 4\), \(z = y + x\), and tangent to the plane \(x^2 - 2y + z = 21\). **Draw the following cylinders and cones:** 1. \(x^2 + y^2 = 25\). 2. \(z = 6z\). 3. \(x^2 + y^2 = 12\). 4. \(y = 12\). 5. \(x = y^2 = 16\). 6. \(z^2 = y^2 + 20\). 7. \(y^4 + z^2 = 6\). 8. \(x^2 + z^2 = 4\). 9. \(x^2 - 9y^2 = 25\). 10. \(z^2 - 9y^2 - 100 = 0\). 11. \(x^2 = y^2 - 25\). 12. \(4z = 14z\). 13. \(x^2 + y^2 - 4x = 0\). 14. \(x^2 + y^2 = 9\). 15. \(4 = 4x\). **Find the traces of the following surfaces on the coordinate planes, and find the equations of the sections made by the planes parallel to the coordinate planes and draw each trace and section:** 16. \(z = x^2 + y^2 = 20\). 17. \(x = y^2 + 1\). 18. \(x^2 + y^2 + z^4 = 6\). 19. \(x^2 - y^2 + 9z = 7\). 20. \(z = x^4 + y^9\). 21. Find the center and also the radius of the sphere \(x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - 8y + 2z = 10\). #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 401 Context: } // // Changes to function main are shown below // int main (int argc, char * argv[]) { int read_it = 0, write_it = 0, verify_it = 0, pci_rom_read = 0, pci_rom_write = 0, pci_rom_erase = 0, smbios_dump = 0; // Irrelevant code omitted } else if(!strcmp(argv[1],"-smbios")) { smbios_dump = 1; } // Irrelevant code omitted // // If it's an SMBIOS dump request, dump the SMBIOS area (0xF0000 // - 0xFFFFF) to the file and then terminate the application // if(smbios_dump) { if(dump_smbios_area(filename) == 0) { printf("Error: failed to dump smbios area to file\n"); CleanupDriver(); // Cleanup driver interface return -1; } else { CleanupDriver(); // Cleanup driver interface return 0; } } // Irrelevant code omitted } As you can see in listing 10.1, the SMBIOS support is provided in one dedicated function named dump_smbios_area. This function maps the SMBIOS physical address range (0xF0000–0xFFFFF) to the address space of the bios_probe user mode application with the help of the bios_probe driver that you learned in chapter 9. Then, dump_smbios_area scans this area for the presence of the SMBIOS structure table entry point. It does so by scanning the _SM_ signature string. Upon finding the entry point, dump_smbios_area then locates the SMBIOS table by reading the value of the structure table entry in the SMBIOS EPS. The dump_smbios_area function also reads the length of the SMBIOS table by reading the structure table length from the entry point. Then, dump_smbios_area unmaps the SMBIOS entry point from bios_probe and proceeds to map the real SMBIOS structure table to the bios_probe address space. The dump_smsbios_area function then copies the contents of the SMBIOS table to a #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 33 Context: # AREAS ## Exercise 9. Areas Draw on squared paper the following triangles, find by formula the area of each, and verify/check the results by counting the unit squares in each triangle: 1. \( A(0, S), \, B(-2, 3), \, C(3, 4) \) 2. \( A(0, (12, -3)), \, B(-2, 9), \, C(0, 5) \) 3. Find the area of the quadrilateral \( A(4, 2), \, B(2, -3), \, C(0, 7), \, D(9, 2) \), and check the result by counting the unit squares. The area of the quadrilateral \( P(x_1, y_1), P(x_2, y_2), P(x_3, y_3), P(x_4, y_4) \) is given by: \[ P = \frac{1}{2} |x_1y_2 + x_2y_3 + x_3y_4 + x_4y_1 - (y_1x_2 + y_2x_3 + y_3x_4 + y_4x_1)| \] 7. Find the point \( P \) which divides the median \( AM \) of the triangle here shown in the ratio 2:1. 8. In the figure of Exercise 7, join \( P \) to \( B \) and \( C \), and show that the triangles \( ABE, BCP, \) and \( CAP \) have the same area. From elementary geometry, we know that \( P \) is the common point of the three medians, and that the point is called the centroid \( G \) of the triangle. The centroid mechanism \( P \) is related to the center of mass of the triangle. Why are these names appropriate? 9. Given the triangle \( A(4, -1), B(2, 5), C(-8, 4) \), find the area of the triangle and the length of the altitude from \( C \) to \( AB \). 10. Find the lengths of the altitudes of the triangle \( A(-4, -3), B(1, -5), C(3, -4) \). 11. In the area of the triangle \( A(0, 1), B(3, 3), C(1, K) \), find the value of \( K \). 12. By finding the area of \( ABC \), show that the points \( A(-1, -14), B(3, -2), \) and \( C(-4, 1) \) lie on one straight line. 13. Now in order \( A(7, B(-1, -2), C(1, D(6, 1), D(6, 1) \), and show by Exercise 6 that area \( ABCD \) is 0. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 107 Context: # Chapter 5 Implementation of Motherboard BIOS ## PREVIEW This chapter explains how the BIOS vendor implements BIOS. It researches the compression algorithm used by BIOS vendors and the formats of the compressed components inside the BIOS binary. It also dissects several BIOS binary files from different vendors so that you can discover their internal structure. ## 5.1 Award BIOS This section dissects an Award BIOS binary. Use the BIOS for the Foxconn 955XAA-REKRS2 motherboard as a sample implementation. Its Award BIOS version 6.00PG dated November 11, 2005. The size of the BIOS is 4 MiB/512 KB. ### 5.1.1 Award BIOS File Structure An Award BIOS file consists of several components. Some of them are LZ4 level-1 compressed. You can recognize them by looking at the `-lh5-` signature in the beginning of that component by using a hex editor. An example is presented in hex dump 5.1. #### Hex dump 5.1 Compressed Award BIOS Component Sample | Address | Hex | ASCII | |------------|---------------------------------------------|------------------| | 00000000 | 252E 2663 6835 2B5 3A00 0000 5700 0000 | -lh5-...-... | | 00000010 | 0000 4120 010C 6172 6465 7874 2272 2A... | -AwardDex... | | 00000020 | 6F6D 8742 2000 002C F888 FBEF D823 499B... | ... | Besides the compressed components, there are pure 16-bit x86 binary components. Award BIOS execution begins in one of these pure binary components. The general structure of a typical Award BIOS binary is as follows: - **Boot block**: The boot block is a pure binary component; thus, it's not compressed. The processor starts execution in this part of the BIOS. - **Decompression block**: This is a pure binary component. Its role is to carry out the decompression process for the compressed BIOS components. 1. Pure binary refers to the component that is not compressed. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 262 Context: # INDEX - UVa 1163 - Extra Spaces, 155 - UVa 1196 - Galactic Bombing, 37 - UVa 1198 - In The Airport, 123 - UVa 1179 - Lucky Numbers, 124 - UVa 1174 - A Trick In The Heights, 84 - UVa 1194 - A Change In Thermal Unit, 16 - UVa 1196 - Shiny New Radiator, 124 - UVa 1198 - Broken Keyboard, 25 - UVa 1191 - Easy Problem from ..., 37 - UVa 1201 - I Can Guess ..., 238 - UVa 1203 - Google’s Finding Lucky, 15 - UVa 1209 - Doom’s Day Algorithm, 17 - UVa 1243 - Hats, 142 - UVa 1244 - Puts with Strings, 148 ## Vector - Vector (Geometry), 178 - Warthall, Stephen, 96, 99 - Waterman, Michael S., 129 - Wirth, Christian D., 139 - Zeckendorf, Edward, 128 - Zero-Sum Game, 145 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE Now hear about this scenario: You can only devise an algorithm of order \(O(n^k)\). Seems pretty bad right? But if \(k = 1\) or \(k = 10\), then you are fine. Directly implement your \(O(k)\) algorithm since it is just \(10\) times your algorithm and will only take a trivial amount of time. However, if you analyze the complexity of your algorithm with the given input size and stated time/memory limits, you can derive whether you should try coding your algorithm (which will take time), perform the time-constrained [KCPs](#), and attempt to improve your algorithm first, or settle on the problems in the problem set. In this book, we will not discuss the concept of algorithm analysis in detail. We ensure that you have the basic skills. Please check other reference books for specific topics that may aid your understanding, such as *Algorithm Design* [1], *Algorithm Design* [2], etc., and make sure that you understand how to: - Prove the correctness of an algorithm (especially for greedy algorithms in Section 3.4). - Analyze time/space complexity for iterative and recursive algorithms. - Perform amortized analysis (see Chapter 17 – although rarely used in contests). ## Output-sensitive analysis example The output-sensitive analysis is to analyze algorithms which depend on output size. Example: The Quick-sort algorithm is complicated for a pattern string with length \(n\) and output length \(m\\) in the help shift. (See Section 6.3). See here an example of it: | Worst Case Algorithm | Comment | |----------------------|---------| | \(O(n)\) | e.g. Determining a permutation (Section 3.2) | | \(O(n \log n)\) | e.g. DP (Section 3.5.2) | | \(O(n^2)\) | e.g. DP with a backtracking strategy (Section 4.1) | | \(O(n^3)\) | e.g. with 3 dimensions (0-1 knapsack, decoding \(C_s\)) | | \(O(n^k)\) | e.g. Floyd Warshall's (Section 4.5) | | \(O(2^n)\) | e.g. Bubble, Suffix, Insertion Sort (Section 2.2.1) | | \(O(n!))\) | e.g. Simple sort, building Segment Tree (Section 2.2.2) | | \(S_M / O(n^{\epsilon})\) | i.e. currently, simplest problem has it \(S_M\) (see to read input). | Many novice programmers would skip this phase and attempt to directly devise the first algorithm that either comes naturally (usually for the wrong reason) or try to make the tree structure's behavior fit the context. For example, that could lead to choosing the \(O(n^2)\) complexity in Table 1.4 because they assume that their algorithm is both correct and fast enough. Referring to Table 1.4, you may want to note that the output-sensitive complexity will allow for considerable speedup in linear time. However, we point out here from a programming perspective that, usually, the simplest solution might not achieve the desired results when facing algorithmic challenges. Using a test case could intuitively highlight your case. The simplest (although it is regarded as the 'worst' algorithm in that case) can pass the time limit, just as it may allow for your algorithm to be much faster when handling such input size. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 12 Context: # Convention There are a lot of C++ codes shown in this book. If they appear, they will be written using this font. Many of them use typedefs, structs, or macros in an effort to use abbreviations for speed up the coding time. In the short section, in their second examples, Java support has been included substantially in the second editions of this book. This book uses Java, such as, does not support macros and typedefs. ```cpp // Suppress some compiler warning messages (only for VC++ users) #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE ``` ## Shortcuts for "common" data types in cstreams ```cpp typedef long int ll; // comments are marked with code typedef pair pii; // these are aligned to the right like this typedef vector vll; typedef vector vpii; ``` ## Common master settings ```cpp // memset(memo, -1, sizeof(memo)); // initialize DP memoization table with -1 // memset(arr, 0, sizeof(arr)); // to clear array of integers ``` ## Note that we abandon the usage of "RBP" and "RHR" in the second edition To reduce the confusion encountered by new programmers. The following shortcuts are frequently used in our C/C++ codes, as shown in this box: ```cpp // a = b + c; // to simplify: (a) = (b) + (c) // index = (index + 1) % n; // from index: if (index >= n) index = 0; // index = (index + 1) % (1 + L); // from index: if (index > L) index = 0; // ans = (int)(double(ans) + 0.5); // for rounding to nearest integer // some codes used short circuit AND (&&) and || (||) ``` # Problem Categorization As of August 2011, Steven and Felix combined have solved 1502 UVA problems (≈ 17% of active UVa problems). About 118 of them are short discussed and categorized in this book. These problems are categorized according to a "hard/ easy" criterion. If a problem has been classified into two or more categories, it will be placed in the category with the largest number of submissions (for now). To understand the problems, you might want to refer back to the index at the back of this book and see the notes that pertain to the UVA problem solver handbook index that will help illuminate these problems. We will group the problems based on strategic categories that will allow a reader to access the information more efficiently. Unlike this classification for your training, **the diversity of problems** exists still; it is a must try (we limit ourself to choose maximum 3 highlights per category). #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 170 Context: # 6.3 AD HOC STRING PROCESSING PROBLEMS © Steven & Felix 1. UVA 0038 - Wet Santa (read the story from left to right) 2. UVA 0042 - Pig Latin (read the text, similar to UVA 683) 3. UVA 0161 - Die Hard (reverse the given formula and calculate) 4. UVA 0291 - Substring Inclusion (string matching over common patterns) 5. UVA 0370 - Bard's Tale (just simulate the process) 6. UVA 0376 - Cypher Block (perform a one-time key setup) 7. UVA 0550 - Cry for Help (multiple access keys for each slot) 8. UVA 1061 - Decode the Math (simple decoding mechanism) 9. UVA 1151 - 2D Bi-Di Morphing (use 'S' or 'N' to read from bottom) 10. UVA 1192 - Decode the Phrase (count possible solutions, needs tokenizer) 11. UVA 1207 - The Lonely Type (map QWERTY keys to PVOVARI keys) 12. UVA 1135 - The Mined Code (read the data and manipulate) 13. UVA 1167 - Partial Cipher (broke the description, a bit tedious) 14. UVA 1176 - Digital Fortress (simple decipher) 15. UVA 1179 - Normal Hilbert's (difficult to obtain solutions) ## Prerequisite Counting 1. UVA 0003 - Word Problem (get letter fre of each word, compare with puzzle line) 2. UVA 0021 - Password Search (read by the user, count each frequency) 3. UVA 1006 - What’s Cryptography? (character frequency count) 4. UVA 1015 - Can you find the Frequency? (count the frequency of each alphabet) 5. UVA 1016 - The Encrypted Transaction (simple pattern distribution) 6. UVA 1250 - GCD / GUN/GCD (simulate the frequency addition in times) 7. UVA 1032 - Prime Frequency (count letters to frequency of appearances) 8. UVA 1033 - I can decode it ... (problem does not hide this case problem) 9. UVA 1137 - Lettering (string/word length problem) ## Input Format 1. UVA 0081 - Simple Syntax (syntax checker, line by line) 2. UVA 1057 - Parsing Legal Person... (fill in the rules related to description) 3. UVA 1082 - Parsing G... (challenges for certain legal persons) 4. UVA 1092 - Stringology (complex parsing) 5. UVA 1233 - Grammar Problem (transcribed BNF) 6. UVA 0073 - The MITM Attack (require grammar check/exhaust) 7. UVA 1151 - Multiple Rules... (extend parsing rules counting) 8. UVA 1034 - Internal Structure (text processing grammar check) 9. UVA 1184 - Number of Parts (recursive parsing plus counting) #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 38 Context: # GEOMETRIC MAGNITUDES 61. Given that \( AP = PB \), \( AP \) is perpendicular to \( PB \), \( A \) is \( (2, 3) \), and \( B \) is \( (-3, -2) \), find the coordinates of \( P \). 62. The mid point of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equidistant from the three vertices: - This theorem, familiar from elementary geometry, makes no mention of axes. We therefore choose the most convenient axes, which, in this case, are the instances of \( A(0, 0) \) and \( B(0, b) \), we can find the locations of \( M \) and the distances referenced in the exercise. 63. In any triangle \( A \) the line joining the mid points of \( AB \) and \( AC \) is parallel to \( BC \) and is equal to \( \frac{1}{2} BC \). The triangle may be regarded as given by the synthetic methods of the triangle. 64. Using oblique axes, prove from this figure that the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other. 65. From this familiar theorem by analytic geometry it is convenient to use oblique axes as shown by the figure. Thus the diagonals have a mid point. 66. The lines joining in succession the mid points of the sides of any quadrilateral form a parallelogram. 67. Using rectangular axes as shown in the figure, prove that the diagonals of a rhombus bisect each other. 68. The diagonals of a rhombus are perpendicular to each other. Since there now need to stifle the slope of a line with respect to oblique axes, we do not define rectangular axes for this case. We may use the figure of \( K(6, 4) \), making \( O(2, 0) \) at the coordinates \( G \) and \( F \), with the coordinates of \( P \) at \( R \). 69. The vertices of a triangle are \( A(0, 0) \), \( B(4, 8) \), and \( C(6, -1) \). If \( H \) divides \( AB \) in the ratio \( 3: 1 \), and \( P \) is a point on \( AC \) such that the area of the triangle \( APM \) is half the area of \( ABC \), in what ratio does \( P \) divide \( AC \)? #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 282 Context: ``` # 276 SURFACES ## 295. General Equation of the Second Degree The general equation of the second degree in \( x, y, \) and \( z \) is \[ ax^2 + by^2 + cz^2 + dxy + exz + fyz + hx + iy + j = 0 \] By transformations of coordinates analogous to those which we employed in Chapters VI and X, this equation can always be reduced to one of the forms \[ (Ax + By + Cz)^2 = D^2 \] \[ Ax^2 + By^2 + Cz = 0 \] The theory of transformations in three dimensions, and the relations referred to in the above statement, will not be given in this look. The ellipsoid and hyperboloids are included under (1), and the paraboloids under (2). These are the only surfaces which are represented by equations of the second degree, and are called conoids (§ 288). They include as special cases the sphere, cylinder, and cone. ## 206. Locus of any Equation The locus of a point whose coordinates satisfy any given equation in \( x, y, \) and \( z \) may be investigated by the method which we have employed in §§ 289-294; that is, by examining the traces and contours of the locus. It is evident that these traces and contours are curves of some kind, since when any constant \( k \) is substituted for \( z \) in the equation, we obtain an equation in two variables, and this equation represents a curve in the plane \( z = k \). We then see that: ### Every equation in rectangular coordinates represents a surface in space. It is often useful to form in the mind a clear picture of the surface represented by an equation, even after the traces and contours have been studied. ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 138 Context: # 5.2 AD HOC MATHEMATICS PROBLEMS © Steven & Felix ## Finding Patterns and Formulas These problems require the problem solver to read the problem description carefully to spot the patterns or relationships. Attacking these directly will usually result in the right answer. The actual solutions are usually short and do not require long calculations. Example: Let set A be a set of square numbers sorted in increasing order: {1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ...}. Given an integer X, how many integers in A are less than X? Answer: ⌊√X⌋. ## Grid These problems involve grid manipulation. The format of the grid can be complex, but the grid will often use simple primitive rules. The typical 2D grid may be stated as follows: The solution strategy depends on the problem solver's creativity in finding the patterns to manipulate/translate the grid in converting the given data into a simpler form. ## Number Systems or Sequences Some Ad Hoc mathematics problems involve definitions of existing (or fictional) Number Systems or Sequences and ask to produce either the number (sequence) within some range or the nth term, verifying if the given term (sequence) is valid according to the rules. Usually, explaining the problem description carefully is the key to solving the problem. ### Logarithm, Exponential, Power These problems involve mathematical evaluations, calculations, manipulation, division, etc. We can represent problems by starting the coefficients of the polynomial in terms of their roots. Usually, polynomial equations or polynomial sequences will require distinct properties. ### Base Number Variants These are mathematical problems involving base number, but they are not the standard conversion problem that can be easily solved with Java/Brighton technique (see section 5.3). ### Just Ad Hoc These are other mathematical-related problems that cannot be classified as one of the above. We suggest that readers—especially those who are new with mathematics-related problems—look at standard problem-solver programs, or solving mathematical-related problems by using at least 2 to 3 problems from this chapter, specifically the ones that are highlighted as easy. Note: The problems listed constitute about 80% of the entire problems in this chapter. ## Programming Exercises Related to Ad Hoc Mathematics Problems: - The Simple Ones - UVA 100: Hantal the Brave Warrior (absolute function; use long long) - UVA 101: The Lift (shout "Place your inputs x, y, z") - UVA 103: Anarchy Spell (dispatch to get simple if you see) - UVA 1003: Be Careful Not to Crash (copy and paste equations) - UVA 109: Cat to Mathematical Road - UVA 116: Frankenstein Wars Never Ends (with roots of a cubic equation) - UVA 371: A Bank to Mechanical Road (1) - UVA 11378: - Ronda Banks (easy simple; D1 results round) - UVA 11575: Bidi Game (get medium as a sorted input) #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 149 Context: ``` # 5.5 Number Theory ### Steven & Felix Mastering as many topics as possible in the field of number theory is important as some mathematics can be quite daunting (or easier) if you know the theory behind the problems. Otherwise, attempts to obtain brute force attack leads to a TLE response or simply cannot work with the given input as it is too large without some pre-processing. ## 5.5.1 Prime Numbers A natural number starting from \(2, (2, 3, 4, \ldots)\) is considered a prime if it is only divisible by \(1\) or itself. The first and only even prime is \(2\). The next prime numbers are \(3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23,\) and infinitely many more primes (proof in [31]). There are \(25\) primes in range \( \leq 100, 168\) primes in \( \leq 1000, 1229\) primes in \( \leq 10,000,\) and \( 79,301\) primes in \( \leq 1,000,000.\) Prime number is an important topic in number theory and the source for many programming tasks. In this section, we will discuss algorithms involving prime numbers. ## Optimized Prime Testing Function The first algorithm presented in this section is for testing whether a given natural number \(N\) is prime. Let us denote \(is\_prime(N)\). The most naive version is to test by division, i.e., test if \(N\) is divisible by divisor \(d \in \{2, \ldots, N-1\}\). This of course works, but is run in \(O(N)\) in terms of number of divisions. This is not the best way and there are several better primality testing methods. The first improvement is to test if \(N\) is divisible by \(2\). If \(N\) is even and greater than \(2\), then \(N\) cannot be prime. Next, we can skip even numbers and only test odd numbers for \(N\). Results show that checking up to \( \sqrt{N}\) is much faster than the previous version, but can still be improved further. This method improves the test if \(N\) is divisible by divisor \(d \in \{3, 5, \ldots, \sqrt{N}\}\), for all odd numbers up to \( \sqrt{N}\). This is because the primality test can be reduced to checking for divisibility by multiples of \(2\) and odd numbers. The final improvement gives us a test for \(N\) up to about \(O(\sqrt{N})\). The code is shown in the next section. ## Sieve of Eratosthenes: Generating List of Prime Numbers If we want to generate a list of prime numbers in range \( (0, N)\), there is a better algorithm called the Sieve of Eratosthenes. The theory behind it is as follows: 1. First, it initializes an array to be in range \(0\) to \(N\) (assuming \(N\) is at least \(2\)). 2. Then, it takes a prime \(p\) starting from \(2\) and marks all multiples of \(p\) as non-prime. 3. It continues this process until \(p^2\) is greater than \(N\). 4. It takes a number \(m\) and checks if \(m\) is a prime and not marked yet. *Note: The Sieve of Eratosthenes can be used to factor a number (especially prime numbers). But this doesn't include advanced implementations, as distance from \(2\) is not that much.* ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 84 Context: # 3.5 DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ## Remarks About Dynamic Programming in Programming Contests There are other classical DP problems that we choose not to cover in this book as they are very rare such as Matrix Chain Multiplication [1], Optimal Binary Search Tree [2], etc. However, we will discuss Problems Standards [3] in Section 4.5 and discuss String Alignment (Edit Distance) [4], Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) [5], or the Knapsack problem [6]. In the panel (1996), if a contestant is good with DP, he can become a king of programming contests! You don’t need to be partially ignorant about this knowledge. However, we encourage you to remember the problems’ templates and to try to find the best solution to each problem—if they look to be the kind of problem you're facing. It is worth noting that by reinterpreting a problem into its underlying properties and sub-problems and how to fill that state (the tables), you might be able to better understand it. There is no better way to solve these problems quickly than solving real programming problems! Here, we give several examples. The cases you are familiar with the relevant problems can, at times, reflect the reverse forms of DP problems that also be important in recent competitive programming contests. Some of them are discussed in Section 8.4. ## Programming Exercises for Solving Basic Dynamic Programming 1. **Longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS)** - UVA 001 - Elistic Catalog (straight-forward, be careful of the ranking system) - UVA 002 - Testing the Caterpillar (straight-forward) - UVA 003 - What Goes Up? - UVA 004 - 0-1 Knapsack (DP + print solution) - UVA 005 - Vertex Box (solution needs to be kept simplex) - UVA 006 - Strategic Defense Initiative (solution needs to be stored) - UVA 007 - Buy Low, Sell High (solution 1 −1 weight) - UVA 008 - Maximum Subsequence Sum (max 2D AMS, with classical DP) - UVA 009 - Minimum Sum (min 2D AMS, discussed in the original solutions) - UVA 010 - 3111 Subsequence (max 1D, max/consecutive subsequence) - UVA 011 - Maximum Subsequence Subsequence—(max 1D, printed, crafted with 0, Bellman) 2. **Basic Kernels** - UVA 012 - Maximum Subsequence Subsequence (to be re-printed) - UVA 013 - Cumulative Sum (0 to n, 1) (print additively) - UVA 014 - Least Sum Down (classic 2D AMS) - UVA 015 - The Largest Sum (classical) - UVA 016 - Natural Block (classic 2D AMS) 3. **Re-Print Solutions** - UVA 017 - Aggregate Subsumption of Trees (that cycle NX1 to NX2 matrix analysis) - UVA 018 - Divide & Conquer similar to Dynamic Programming Solution (re-creation) - UVA 019 - Best Cascade in instances (via classic pricing sub) - UVA 020 - Sum of Different Prices (Multipliers) [^1]: This can also be used to handle specific instances, see Section 4.5; p. 12 or more. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 483 Context: Figure 12.5 is only a highlight of the booting process; you can find the details by reverse engineering in your Windows XP system. Detailed information can be found at rwid's NTFS reverse engineering dump at [NTFS Project](http://www.reteam.org/board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=26) and the Linux NTFS project documentation at [Linux NTFS](http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19371). In addition, you may want to read a book on digital forensics, such as *File System Forensic Analysis* by Brian Carrier. Back at figure 12.5, you can clearly see that during Windows XP loading stages you have the chance to modify the operating system kernel (ntoskrnl.exe, hal.dll), either by hacking the Windows boot loader or by hacking the BIOS interrupt handlers. In this section, I show the latter scenario, i.e., how to implement an approach similar to the BootRoot toolkit at the BIOS level. The essence of the technique is to modify the interrupt handlers for interrupts that can alter the kernel before or during the operating system's kernel loading process. Figures 12.6 and 12.7 show how this trick works in a real-world scenario for interrupt 13h. ### Interrupt 13h handler before being altered by rootkit ``` | Reading HDD sector example: | | -------------------------------------- | | mov ax, 0x2 | | ; invoke read disk sector interrupt | | mov dx, 0x0 | | mov bx, 0x1 | | ; read sector 1 in the first cylinder | | mov cx, 0x0 | | ; read sector from HDD | | mov ds, ax | | ; set destination segment | | int 0x13 | | ; now, the sector(s) are in memory | | ; starting at address 0:0000:700h | ``` ### Figure 12.6 Working principles of the original interrupt 13h handler ### Interrupt 13h handler after being altered by rootkit ``` | Reading HDD sector example: | | --------------------------------------- | | mov ax, 0x2 | | ; invoke read disk sector interrupt | | mov dx, 0x0 | | mov bx, 0x1 | | ; read sector 1 in the first cylinder | | mov cx, 0x0 | | ; read sector from HDD | | mov ds, ax | | ; set destination segment | | int 0x13 | | ; now, the sector(s) are in memory | | ; starting at address 0:0000:700h | ``` ### Figure 12.7: “New” Interrupt 13h handler ``` | ; Reading the sector(s) into buffer using | | ; ATA commands (e.g., I/O port read/write) | | ; Read the sector(s) buffer into memory | | ; and then subroutine return the | | ; contents, before returning the | | ; sector(s) being read to the | | ; operating system kernel. | ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # Abbreviations | Abbreviation | Description | |--------------|------------------------------------------------| | A* | A Star | | ACM | Association of Computing Machinery | | AC | Accepted | | ASP | All-Pairs Shortest Paths | | AVL | Adelson-Velsky Tree (BST) | | BNF | Backus-Naur Form | | BIT | Binary Indexed Tree | | BST | Binary Search Tree | | CC | Coin Change | | COW | Counter ClockWise | | CCF | Cumulative Frequency | | CS | Computer Science | | DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph | | DA | Direct Acyclic Graph | | D&C | Divide and Conquer | | DFS | Depth First Search | | DP | Dynamic Programming | | ED | Edit Distance | | FT | Rewrite Tree | | GCD | Greatest Common Divisor | | ICPC | International Collegiate Programming Contest | | IDS | Iterative Deepening Search | | IDA* | Iterative Deepening A* | | IPOs | International Problem Solving Contest | | LA | Law Average | | LCM | Least Common Multiple | | LDP | Longest Prefix | | LCS | Longest Common Subsequence | | LIS | Longest Increasing Subsequence | | MSP | Minimum Spanning Path | | MCMD | Max Cardinality Bip Matching | | MCMN | Min-Can Max-Min | | MMCN | Min-Max Min-Max | | ME | Memory Limit Exceeded | | MST | Minimum Spanning Tree | | MVP | Minimum Vertex Cover | | OJ | Online Judge | | PB | Presentation B | | RMQ | Range Minimum (or Maximum) Query | | RSQ | Range Sum Query | | RTE | Run Time Error | | SSP | Single-Source Shortest Paths | | SA | Suffix Array | | STL | Standard Template Library | | TLE | Time Limit Exceeded | | USACO | USA Computing Olympiad | | UVA | University of Valladolid [28] | | WA | Wrong Answer | | WF | World Finals | #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 172 Context: ``` 166 # THE ELLIPSE 32. Find the condition that the line \(\frac{z}{m} + \frac{y}{n} = 1\) is tangent to the ellipse \(\frac{x^2}{a^2} + \frac{y^2}{b^2} = 1\). 33. The parallelogram which is formed by the four tangents at the ends of two conjugate diameters of an ellipse has a constant area. 34. Let the areas of a parallelogram be \(S_1\) and \(S_2\), where \(S_1\) and \(S_2\) are adjacent sides and \(S_1\) is the included angle, and then use 168. 35. Draw the rectangle formed by the tangents at the ends of the axes of an ellipse. Prove that the diagonals of the rectangle are conjugate and equal. 36. Find the eccentric angles for the ends of the equal conjugate diameters of Ex. 35. 37. The path of the earth is an ellipse, the sun being at one focus. Find the equation and eccentricity of the ellipse if the distances from the sun to the ends of the major axis are respectively 90 and 93 million miles. 38. Find the locus of the mid points of the ordinates of a circle that has its center at the origin. 39. Find the locus of the mid points of the chords drawn through one end of the minor axis of an ellipse. 40. The sum of the squares of the reciprocals of two perpendicular diameters of an ellipse is constant. 41. Let \(A\) and \(B\) be the tangents at the vertices \(A'\) and \(B'\) of an ellipse. If we consider any other tangent in the points \(C\) and \(C'\) respectively, then \(AC' - AC = 0\). 42. Determine the number of normals from a given point to a given ellipse. 43. The circle having a diameter as a focal radius of an ellipse is tangent to the major auxiliary circle. ``` #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 223 Context: E000:61F8 dw 247Ch ; Call ISA POST tests (below) E000:61F8 End_E000_POST_Jmp_Table 6.2.8. Rebuilding the BIOS Binary Rebuilding the BIOS binary is simple. Just finish the modification on the temporary system BIOS. Then save the changes in modbin. Once you have saved the changes, modbin will pack all temporary decompressed components into the BIOS binary. In this particular example, the changes are saved in modbin 4.50.80C and modbin is closed. 6.2.9. Flashing the Modified BIOS Binary Flashing the modified BIOS binary into the motherboard BIOS chip is trivial. For Award BIOS, just use the awardflash program that's shipped with the motherboard BIOS. I don't have to discuss this step in detail because it's trivial to do. Now, you have completed all of the modification steps and are ready to test the modified BIOS binary. In this particular modification example, I've tested the modified BIOS binary and it works as expected. Note that sometimes you have to restart the system a few times to ensure that the system is fine after the modification. 6.3. Other Modifications After the basics of Award BIOS reverse engineering in the previous chapter, various modification techniques come to mind. Frankly, you can modify almost every aspect of the BIOS by adjusting the boot block, modifying the system BIOS, adding new components, etc. As you know, the boot block starts execution at address F000:FFF0h or at its alias at FFFFFFF0h. In Award BIOS, this entry point always jumps to F000:F05Bh. You can redirect this jump into a custom-made procedure that's injected in the boot block padding bytes and subsequently jump back to F000:F05Bh in the end of the injected procedure. The padding bytes in boot block are few. Thus, only a little code can be injected there. That's one possible modification. Another type of modification is patching certain "interesting" procedures within the system BIOS binary. However, there is one inherent problem with it. Searching for the location of an interesting procedure can be time-consuming if you intend to make a similar modification in several BIOS files. To alleviate this problem, you can use a technique usually used in the computer security realm called "forming a binary signature." A binary signature is a unique block of bytes that represents certain consecutive machine instructions. You might be tempted to think that it's hard to find a pattern on a binary file with 256 possible combination per byte. This is true to some degree. However, the system BIOS 15 #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 529 Context: # System ## Host Platform ### Motherboard | Component | Description | |-------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------| | Embedded Devices | | | Connection to Extension Buses | | | CRTM | | | Reset Vector | | | CPU | | | Memory | | | Embedded Firmware | | | Bootstrap Code | | | Other Firmware | | #### User Input/Output - **User Input** - **User Output** ### Case ### Peripherals ### Power Supply ### Fixed Nonvolatile Storage ### Removable Storage ### Optional Adapters #### Initial Program Loader (IPL) Code #### Operating System #### Drivers #### Services #### Applications **Figure 13.4**: System-wide logical architecture of a PC in TCG terminology As you can see, figure 13.4 shows that CRTM is the BIOS boot block and that the CPU reset vector points to a location inside the CRTM. Now, examine Phoenix TrustedCore. Its documentation is available for download at the following links: - [Phoenix TrustedCore Documentation](#) (Replace with actual link if available) #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 225 Context: corresponds to completion of a routine or a corresponding error code. It can be a valuable hint. In principle, you have to know the big picture and then narrow the target in each step. For BIOS binary, in most cases you have to be particularly aware of the hardware protocol you are targeting and the memory or I/O address range that relates to the protocol. Once the protocol is known, you can look for the procedure quite easily. BIOS routines are implementations of the bus protocol, sometimes with only modest modification from the samples in the protocol documentation. As a sample of the BIOS patching scenario, modify the so-called EPA procedure. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) procedure is the procedure that draws the EPA logo during Award BIOS execution. Disable this feature by replacing the EPA procedure call with nop (do nothing) instructions. The EPA procedure in Award BIOS is a quite well-known procedure. Thus, the signature is already widespread on the Net. In Iwill VD133 BIOS, to modify the EPA procedure look for the "80 8EE1 0110 F646 1430" byte pattern as follows: Hex values Assembly Code 80 8E E1 01 10 or byte ptr [bp+1E1h], 10h F6 46 14 30 test byte ptr [bp+14h], 30h Then subsequently patch it, as illustrated in the BIOS modification change log: Changes in VD30728X.BIN: ----------------------------------- source file name : VD30728.BIN modified file name : VD30728X.BIN Modification goal: To disable the EPA procedure. Before modification, the code looks like (disassembled original.tmp) ......... E000:1E4C B8 00 F0 mov ax, 0F000h E000:1E4F 8E D8 mov ds, ax E000:1E51 assume ds:_F000h E000:1E51 E8 8C 11 call exec_nnoprom_100h E000:1E54 73 03 jnb short skip_epa_proc E000:1E56 E8 C3 00 call EPA_Procedure E000:1E59 skip_epa_proc: E000:1E59 E8 AF 01 call init_EGA_video ......... E000:1F1C EPA_Procedure proc near E000:1F1C 80 8E E1 01 10 or byte ptr [bp+1E1h], 10h E000:1F21 F6 46 14 30 test byte ptr [bp+14h], 30h E000:1F25 74 01 jz short loc_E000_1F28 E000:1F27 C3 retn E000:1F28 ; ------------------------------------- E000:1F28 loc_E000_1F28: E000:1F28 06 push es 17 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 199 Context: ``` # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES © Steven & Felts ## Exercises 7.2.1.1 Explain what is computed by the code below! ```cpp bool circleCirclesRad(point p1, point p2, double r, point *c) { // answer at *c double det = p1.x - p2.x; double d = (p1.y - p2.y) * (p1.y - p2.y) + det * det; if (d < 0.0) return false; double h = sqrt(r * r - d * 0.25); c->x = (p1.x + p2.x) * 0.5 + (p1.y - p2.y) * h; c->y = (p1.y + p2.y) * 0.5 + (p2.x - p1.x) * h; // to get the other center, reverse p1 and p2 return true; } ``` ## Programming Exercises related to Circles (only): 1. **UVA 1001** - Packing polygons * (complete search, circle2PointRadius) 2. **UVA 10014** - How Big Is It? * (all permutations, Euclidean distance) 3. **UVA 10019** - Chocolate Chip Cookies (circle2CircleIntersection, similar to UVA 10005) 4. **UVA 10019** - Rese Geometry (discuss point AB to circle, angle to arc+) 5. **UVA 10010** - Is the Intersected? (guess, angle, similar to UVA 10005) 6. **UVA 10012** - Floating (finding area of intersection) 7. **UVA 10013** - Gonna Find Circle Area (area of circle for extended radius circle) 8. **UVA 10152** - Another Value * (improve and include) 9. **UVA 10153** - Infinity Value * (how to find persistent or periodic properties) 10. **UVA 10679** - Geometry Problem (here to ‘impossible’ case) 11. **UVA 10678** - Write a Nice Program * (solution as per expected dictionary) 12. **UVA 11679** - Can Circle Cross (circle-area intersection, backtracking) ## 7.2.4 2D Objects: Triangles ![Figure 7-4: Triangles](insert_image_url_here) 1. **Triangle** (Figure below) is a polygon (defined below) with three vertices and three edges. There are several types of triangles: - **Equilateral Triangle**: all three edges have the same length and all inside (interior) angles are 60 degrees. - **Isosceles Triangle**: two edges have the same length. - **Scalene Triangle**: all edges have different lengths. - **Right Triangle**: one of its interior angles is 90 degrees (or a right angle). ``` #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 64 Context: # LOCI AND THEIR EQUATIONS 17. The fixed points A and B are on AC and OY respectively, and \(\angle OAB = 2 \angle OBA\). A point P moves so that the angles \(OPA\) and \(DPO\) are equal. Show that the equation of the locus of P is \((x - y^2 - 2x = -2y = 0)\), and draw the locus. 18. The y-intercept of the line \(y = 2x - 2\) is equal to the y-intercept. 19. If the y-intercept of the line \(y = ax - 3\) is half the y-intercept, find the value of \(a\) and draw the line. 20. If the graph of the equation \(y = -x^2 + 23\) passes through the point \((3, -2)\), find the value of \(a\). 21. The graph of the equation \(y = x^2 + kx\) passes through the points \((-1, 3)\) and \((2, 18)\), find the values of \(k\). 22. Show that the graph of the equation \(y = \log x\) approaches, in the negative direction, the y-axis as an asymptote, and draw the graph. 23. Show that the graph of the equation \(y = 2\) approaches the x-axis as an asymptote, and draw the graph. 24. Draw the graph of the equation \(z = \log y\), and compare it with the graph in Ex. 22. 25. Draw the graph of the equation \(z = 2y\) and compare it with the graph in Ex. 23. 26. Draw carefully on the figure the graphs of the equations \(y = x^2\), \(y = x^3\), and \(y = x^4\), locating the points having \(x = 0, 0.3, 0.6, 1, 2, 3\). Extend each graph by considering its symmetry. 27. A large unit of measurement, say \(1m\), should be employed. 28. Consider Ex. 26 for the equations \(y = x^5\), \(y = x^6\), and \(y = x^7\). 29. Draw the graphs of the equations \(y = x^n\) and \(y = x^m\). #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 110 Context: ``` # 104 THE CIRCLE 13. Find the equation of the circle having \((a, b)\) as center and passing through the origin. 14. The tangent to the circle \(x^2 + y^2 - 2ax - 2by = 0\) at the origin is \(x = 0\). 15. Show that the tangents drawn from the origin to the circle \((x - a)^2 + (y - b)^2 = r^2\) are also tangent to the circle \((x - h)^2 + (y - k)^2 = k^2\), where \(k\) is some constant. 16. The circles \(x^2 + y^2 = 36\) and \(x^2 + y^2 - 24 = 10\) intersect at right angles. 17. The condition that the circle \(x^2 + y^2 + Dx + Ey + F = 0\) shall be tangent to the axis is that \(D = 0\). 18. Find the condition that \(x^2 + y^2 + Dx + Ey + F = 0\) and \(x^2 + y^2 + D'x + E'y + F' = 0\) shall be tangent circles. 19. Find the equations of the three circles with centers \((2, 5)\), \((5, 1)\), and \((8, S)\), each circle being tangent to both the others. 20. Find the points of intersection of the line \(3x - y = 3\) with the circle \(x^2 + y^2 - 4y = 0\). 21. Find the points of intersection of the line \(2y + y = 3\) with the circle \(x^2 - 4x - 6 = 0\). 22. Find the points of intersection of the axis with the circle \(x^2 - 2x + 4 = 8\). 23. Find the condition that the line \(y = mx + n\) shall be tangent to the circle \(x^2 + y^2 = r^2\). 24. Find the equation of the circle with radius 10 and tangent to the line \(y = 4x - 3\) at the point \((3, 5)\). 25. Given that the circle \(x^2 + y^2 - 6a + h - l = 0\) is tangent to the line \(y = 4x - 3\) at the circle \(x^2 + y^2 = 25\), the result found in 19 or 20 may be employed for advantage. 26. Find the equation of the circle through the two points of contact of the tangents from \(P(-1, -1)\) to the circle \(x^2 + y^2 = 25\). Such a circle is called the **circle of contact**. ``` #################### File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 269 Context: # REVIEW ## Exercise 68. Review Draw the tetrahedron having the vertices \( A(4, 5, 0) \), \( B(2, -2, -5) \), \( C(3, 2, 1) \), \( D(6, 1, 2) \), and find the following: 1. The length and the direction cosines of \( AB \). 2. The equations of \( AB \) and \( BC \). 3. The cosine of the angle \( ABC \). 4. The equation of the plane containing \( A \), \( B \), and \( C \). 5. The altitude measured from \( D \) to the plane \( ABC \). 6. The equations of the line through \( D \) perpendicular to the plane \( ABC \). 7. The cosine of the dihedral angle having the edge \( AB \). 8. The equations of the line perpendicular to the face \( ABC \) at the point of intersection of the medians of that face. 9. The equation of the plane through \( C \) perpendicular to plane \( BCD \). 10. Find the equations of the line through the origin perpendicular to the plane \( 3x - 2y + z = 1 \). 11. Find the coordinates of the line through the points \( (2, -2, -4) \) and \( (0, 0, 2) \) that intersects the plane \( 6x - 8y + 2z = 4 \). 12. Find the coordinates of each of the points in which the line \( 2x + 3y = 10 \), \( 2 + 2y - z = -4 \) cuts the three coordinate planes. 13. Find the coordinates of the points in which the line \( z = -4 + \frac{y^2}{2} \) cuts the sphere \( x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 49 \). 14. Find the common point of the planes \( 2x + y + z = 4 \), \( x = y + t \), and \( 3x - y - z = 6 \). ########## """QUERY: You are a super intelligent assistant. Please answer all my questions precisely and comprehensively. Through our system KIOS you have a Knowledge Base named Test 10-24 with all the informations that the user requests. In this knowledge base are following Documents BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf, Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf, Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf, test.pdf This is the initial message to start the chat. Based on the following summary/context you should formulate an initial message greeting the user with the following user name [Gender] [Vorname] [Surname] tell them that you are the AI Chatbot Simon using the Large Language Model [Used Model] to answer all questions. Formulate the initial message in the Usersettings Language German Please use the following context to suggest some questions or topics to chat about this knowledge base. List at least 3-10 possible topics or suggestions up and use emojis. The chat should be professional and in business terms. At the end ask an open question what the user would like to check on the list. Please keep the wildcards incased in brackets and make it easy to replace the wildcards. The provided context is a collection of excerpts from the book "Competitive Programming, 2nd Edition" by Steven Halim and Felix Halim, and "BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered, 1st Edition" by Darmawan Salihun, along with an excerpt from "Analytic Geometry (1922)" by Lewis Parker Siceloff, George Wentworth, and David Eugene Smith. Here's a summary of each file: **File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf** This file is a chapter from the book "Competitive Programming, 2nd Edition" focusing on string processing. It covers the importance of string processing in competitive programming, particularly in ICPC and IOI contests. The chapter introduces basic string processing skills, string matching algorithms (including Knuth-Morris-Pratt), string processing with dynamic programming, and advanced data structures like Suffix Trees and Suffix Arrays. **File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf** This file is a chapter from the book "BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered, 1st Edition" that delves into reverse code engineering techniques using IDA Pro disassembler. It covers binary scanning, IDA Pro scripting, plugin development, and the internal structure of Award BIOS. The chapter also explains how to build flat binary files from assembly language code using NASM and FASM. **File: Analytic%20Geometry%20%281922%29%20-%20Lewis%20Parker%20Siceloff%2C%20George%20Wentworth%2C%20David%20Eugene%20Smith%20%28PDF%29.pdf** This file is an excerpt from the book "Analytic Geometry (1922)" focusing on geometric magnitudes, loci and their equations, the straight line, the circle, transformation of coordinates, the parabola, the ellipse, the hyperbola, conics in general, polar coordinates, higher plane curves, point, plane, and line, and surfaces. It covers various geometric concepts and their mathematical representations. """ Consider the chat history for relevant information. If query is already asked in the history double check the correctness of your answer and maybe correct your previous mistake. If you find information separated by a | in the context, it is a table formatted in Markdown - the whole context is formatted as md structure. If the client ask for a formatting structure follow his advise. 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