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Use as much tokens as possible to provide a detailed response. **Elapsed Time: 0.20 seconds** FINAL QUERY Final Query: CONTEXT: ########## 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 may. The term *well-known CS problems* implies that in competitive programming, we are dealing with solid CS problems and not research problems (where the solutions are still unfirm). Definitely, some people (at least the problem anarchy) have solved these problems before. So, there might be some people thinking that *we must* paste our CS knowledge to a certain extent when we want to solve problems by coding our own solutions. It is also important to keep in mind that the problem setter writes the problem setter's score for each. “As quickly as possible” is not just the competitive environment; it’s a very natural human behavior. Please note that being well-versed in competitive programming is not the end goal. It is just the process. The real goal is to provide all-around computer scientists (programmers) who will make more ready to produce better software to face harder CS-related problems in the future. The founders of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) have this vision in mind, perhaps, more like it. With this book, we pay our little homage to the problem and future practitioners to become competitive in dealing with well-known CS problems frequently used in the recent ICPC and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). ### Illustration on solving UVA Online Judge [38] Problem Number 1091 (Returning Quiz Teams). **Abridged Problem Description:** Let \(n\) be the number of a student’s teams in a 2D plane. There are \(2N\) students and we want to pair them into \(N\) groups. Let \(d_{ij}\) be the distance between the places of 2 students who report in. If \(N\) groups must satisfy \(2N \leq d_{ij}\) - denotes your minimum cost. **Constraints:** - \(1 \leq N \leq 5\; \text{and} \; 1 \leq n \leq 100\). **Sample Input:** 1. \(2 \; \text{--} \; Coordinates of the 2N = 4\) are (1.1), (2.5), (6.0), (1.3). **Sample Output:** - 3.0 - 4.1 *Note: Don't try to flip this page immediately!* ### Remarks “Some programming competitions are done in teams during testing to encourage teamwork as software engineers usually do when building real software systems.” #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 315 Context: dacomparativeanalysisofasetofmeasuresforpatternevaluation. #################### 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: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 529 Context: orithm.10.10WhyisitthatBIRCHencountersdifficultiesinfindingclustersofarbitraryshapebutOPTICSdoesnot?ProposemodificationstoBIRCHtohelpitfindclustersofarbitraryshape.10.11ProvidethepseudocodeofthestepinCLIQUEthatfindsdensecellsinallsubspaces. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 46 Context: (SDK). The SDK is needed to build an IDA Pro plugin. In addition, you need Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE (its Visual C++ compiler) to build the plugin. Visual Studio .NET 2003 isn’t mandatory; you can use another kind of compiler or IDE that’s supported by the IDA Pro SDK, such as the GNU C/C++ compiler or the Borland C/C++ compiler, but I concentrate on Visual Studio .NET 2003 here. The plugin is the most powerful feature of IDA Pro. It has far more use than the scripting facility. Moreover, as an experienced programmer, one can use it to automate various tasks. The scripting facility lacks variable types and its maximum length is limited, even though it is far longer than a thousand lines. The need for a plugin immediately arises when you have to build a complex unpacker for part of the binary that’s being analyzed or perhaps when you need a simple virtual machine to emulate part of the binary. I use IDA Pro 4.8 advanced edition with its SDK since IDA Pro 4.3 freeware edition doesn’t support plugins. The first simple work isn’t overwhelming. It will just show how to build a plugin and execute it within IDA Pro. This plugin will display a message in the IDA Pro message pane when it’s activated. The steps to build this plugin are as follows: 1. Create a new project by clicking **File** → **New** → **Project** (Ctrl+Shift+N). 2. Expand the **Visual C++ Projects** folder. Then, expand the **Win32** subfolder and select the **Win32 Project** icon in the right pane of this **New Project** dialog window. Then, type the appropriate project name in the **Name** edit box and click **OK**. Steps 1 and 2 are summarized in Figure 2.16. ![Figure 2.16 Creating a new project for an IDA Pro plugin](link_to_image) 3. Now, **Win32 Application Wizard** is shown. Ensure that the **Overview** tab shows that you are selecting **Windows Application**. 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ayraisesecurityandprivacyconcerns.Theseuniquekindsofdataprovidefertilelandfordatamining.Dataminingincomputersciencecanbeusedtohelpmonitorsystemstatus,improvesystemperformance,isolatesoftwarebugs,detectsoftwareplagiarism,analyzecomputersystemfaults,uncovernetworkintrusions,andrecognizesystemmalfunc-tions.Dataminingforsoftwareandsystemengineeringcanoperateonstaticordynamic(i.e.,stream-based)data,dependingonwhetherthesystemdumpstracesbeforehandforpostanalysisorifitmustreactinrealtimetohandleonlinedata.Variousmethodshavebeendevelopedinthisdomain,whichintegrateandextendmethodsfrommachinelearning,datamining,software/systemengineering,patternrecognition,andstatistics.Dataminingincomputerscienceisanactiveandrichdomainfordataminersbecauseofitsuniquechallenges.Itrequiresthefurtherdevelopmentofsophisticated,scalable,andreal-timedataminingandsoftware/systemengineeringmethods. #################### File: 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84Chapter7.DoingSumsWhenevaluatingx×x×x,theresultofthecomputationdoesn’trelyontheorderinwhichweevaluateit:wecando(x×x)×xorx×(x×x).However,computersliketofollowrulesexactly,sotypicallytheorderischosenwhentheexpressionisreadintothecomputer,eitherleftmost-firstorrightmost-first.Anexpressionlikethis,whichdependsonthevalueofavari-able,iscalledafunction.Inthiscase,we’vewrittenafunctionwhichfindsthecubeofanumber.So,let’snameit:cubex=x×x×xNow,wecangivethevalueofxexplicitly,writingitoutlikethis:cube50=⇒50×50×50=⇒50×2500=⇒125000Inthefirststep,wesubstitutedcube50withitsdefinition.Wecanviewthecomputationintreeformtoo:cube50=⇒××505050=⇒×250050=⇒125000Let’sintroducesomemoreinterestingoperatorsinourexpres-sions.Wewillintroducethe=orequalsoperator,andthespecialvaluestrueandfalse(noteveryvaluehastobeanumber).Now,wecanwritex=4,and,ifxisindeed4inthecurrentenvironment,wegettrue;otherwise,wegetfalse.Here,=istheoperator,andxand4aretheoperands.Intheexpression1+2theoperatoris+,andtheoperandsare1and2.Now,wecanbuildamorecomplicatedoperatorwhichcanmakeadecisionbetweentwosub-expressionsbasedonanequalitytestlikethis.Forexample,wemaywrite:ifx=4then0elsex+1 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19fallunderthename”reinforcementlearning”.Itisaverygeneralsetupinwhichalmostallknowncasesofmachinelearningcanbecast,butthisgeneralityalsomeansthatthesetypeofproblemscanbeverydifficult.ThemostgeneralRLproblemsdonotevenassumethatyouknowwhattheworldlookslike(i.e.themazeforthemouse),soyouhavetosimultaneouslylearnamodeloftheworldandsolveyourtaskinit.Thisdualtaskinducesinterestingtrade-offs:shouldyouinvesttimenowtolearnmachinelearningandreapthebenefitlaterintermsofahighsalaryworkingforYahoo!,orshouldyoustopinvestingnowandstartexploitingwhatyouhavelearnedsofar?Thisisclearlyafunctionofage,orthetimehorizonthatyoustillhavetotakeadvantageoftheseinvestments.Themouseissimilarlyconfrontedwiththeproblemofwhetherheshouldtryoutthisnewalleyinthemazethatcancutdownhistimetoreachthecheeseconsiderably,orwhetherheshouldsimplystaywithhehaslearnedandtaketheroutehealreadyknows.Thisclearlydependsonhowoftenhethinkshewillhavetorunthroughthesamemazeinthefuture.Wecallthistheexplorationversusexploitationtrade-off.ThereasonthatRLisaveryexcitingfieldofresearchisbecauseofitsbiologicalrelevance.Dowenotalsohavefigureouthowtheworldworksandsurviveinit?Let’sgobacktothenews-articles.Assumewehavecontroloverwhatarticlewewilllabelnext.Whichonewouldbepick.Surelytheonethatwouldbemostinformativeinsomesuitablydefinedsense.Orthemouseinthemaze.Giventhatdecidestoexplore,wheredoesheexplore?Surelyhewilltrytoseekoutalleysthatlookpromising,i.e.alleysthatheexpectstomaximizehisreward.Wecalltheproblemoffindingthenextbestdata-casetoinvestigate“activelearning”.Onemayalsobefacedwithlearningmultipletasksatthesametime.Thesetasksarerelatedbutnotidentical.Forinstance,considertheproblemifrecom-mendingmoviestocustomersofNetflix.Eachpersonisdifferentandwouldre-allyrequireaseparatemodeltomaketherecommendations.However,peoplealsosharecommonalities,especiallywhenpeopleshowevidenceofbeingofthesame“type”(forexampleasffanoracomedyfan).Wecanlearnpersonalizedmodelsbutsharefeaturesbetweenthem.Especiallyfornewcustomers,wherewedon’thaveaccess #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 25 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE *Steven & Felix* A simple illustration is shown below (this is part of the solution for UVA problem 623: 580). Compute \( 25! \) (factorial of 25). The answer is very large: 15,511,210,043,330,985,984,000,000. This is why beyond the usual built-in integer data types (like `int` or `long` in C/C++), we must use special libraries. Using C/C++, you will find that using simple pointers has no native support for BigInteger data structure in C/C++. Meanwhile, the Java one is simply this: ```java import java.math.BigInteger; import java.util.Scanner; class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { // standard Java class name in UVA OJ BigInteger fac = BigInteger.ONE; // (1) for (int i = 2; i <= 25; i++) { fac = fac.multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(i)); // (2) } System.out.println(fac); } } ``` Another illustration to further demonstrate that mastering a programming language is important: Prove that this function finds the last digit in an integer \( N \). Then, there are \( N \) nuts that start with the character ‘T’ followed by an enumeration of digits (up to 100 digits), and will be terminated with three dots... See the example below. ``` 3.1277... 0.57121778... 0.7341234234344393298932977... ``` One solution is as follows: ```c #include using namespace std; char x[110]; // using global variables in contests can be a good strategy // make it a habit to set array size slightly larger than needed int main() { scanf("%s", x); // (4) while (x[0] == '0') { // we simply loop from M, H-1, H-2, ... scanf("%x" "%s", &x); // if you are equipped with this line, check // check contact details in www.codeforces.com printf("The digit is: %c\n", x[0]); } return 0; } ``` Example codes: [ch01_factorial.java](ch01_factorial.java), [ch01_scanf.c](ch01_scanf.c) Not many C/C++ programmers are aware of the tidbits above. Although `scanf`/`printf` are C-style I/O routines, they can still be used in a C++ code. Many C++ programmers’ from themselves to use regular C-style routines, which yield benefits and pitfalls. C++ offers object-oriented features, which are flexible as each function can, in case, provide a unique API configuration. C++ will push the given time limit, you are supposed to take programming language theories into mind to ease the burden of making the language easier for you and how to find codes to solve them. You will continue your programming language mastery in depth! Mastery of programming languages routines will help you a lot in programming contests. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 175 Context: # 6.4 STRING MATCHING The solution for string matching in a 2D grid is usually a recursive backtracking (see Section 3.2.1). This is based on the ID counterpart where we always go to the right, at every recursive call (that is, for each row of the 2D grid, we never have close branches). To optimize the backtracking process, usually we employ this skipping strategy. Once the recursion depends on the length of the pattern, we can immediately prune that recursive branch. This is also called an *alpha-beta* search (see Section 3.2.3). ## Programming Exercises related to String Matching - UVA 10405: **Podruk String** (finds s in s + s) - UVA 10282: **Recursive String** (finds s in s + s, similar to UVA 455) - UVA 11717: **Plank List** (substring search, matching) - UVA 11756: **Sliding Slice** (modified string matching, complete suffix) - UVA 11763: **Alternating Sum** (to check ‘alternated’, find reverse of s in s + s) ## In 2D Grid 1. UVA 10222: **Word Search, Wander!** (2D grid, backtracking) 2. UVA 10100: **Wormhole’s Winder** (discussed in the section) 3. UVA 11813: **Playing Boggle** (2D grid, backtracking, do not count twice) ## Profile of Algorithm Inventors **Donald Erth Knuth** (born 1938) is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the popular Computer Science book: *The Art of Computer Programming*. Knuth has been called the “father” of the analysis of algorithms. Knuth is also the creator of TeX, the computer typesetting system used in his book. **James Hiram Morris** (born 1941) is a Professor of Computer Science. He is a co-inventor of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm for string searching. **Vaughan Ronald Pratt** (born 1944) is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of computer science. His work has contributed to foundational areas such as search algorithms, string algorithms, and primality testing. He is also a co-inventor of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm for string searching. **Saul B. Needleman** and **Christian D. Wunsch** jointly published the string alignment dynamic programming algorithm in 1970. Their DP algorithm is described in this book. **Temple F. P. H. Gibbons** is a prominent computer scientist and bioinformatician. He is known for his work with Michael Waterman in 1981. The Smith-Waterman algorithm was significant in computational biology for aligning sequences, particularly in comparing RNA, DNA, and proteins. **Michael S. Waterman** is a professor at the University of Southern California. Waterman is one of the key contributors to computational biology and is known for his work in dynamic programming, especially for genomic analysis. **Udi Manber** is a Russian-American computer scientist who is known for his work in string matching algorithms. He first introduced Suffix Array data structure (Naive approach). **Eugene “Gene” W. Myers** Jr. is an American computer scientist and bioinformatician, known for his development of the BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) for sequence analysis. His 1990 paper that describes BLAST has received over 2000 citations making it among the most highly cited paper ever. He also invented Suffix Array with Udi Manber. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 273 Context: sematrixproblem.Notethatyouneedtoexplainyourdatastructuresindetailanddiscussthespaceneeded,aswellashowtoretrievedatafromyourstructures. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 245 Context: # Bibliography 1. Ahmad Shamshir Amini. *Art of Programming Contest* (from Steven's old Website). Gyanabik Prokashoni (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, 2nd edition, 2001. 4. Sanjiv Dasgupta, Christos H. Papadimitriou, and Umesh Vazirani. *Algorithms*. McGraw Hill, 2008. 5. Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, Mark Overmars, and Otfried Cheong. *Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications*. Springer, 2nd edition, 2000. 6. Jak Edmonds. *Paths, Trees, and flowers*. Canadian Journal on Math., 17:449–467, 1965. [Link](http://eprints.iam.unibe.ch/32183). 7. Fabian Ernst, Zoran Jankovic, and Seppo Pakkala. *Benchmark in Prog Contest*. 3 *1* – 4. [Link](http://projector.video). 8. Peter M. Furnkr. *A New Data Structure for Cumulative Frequency Tables*. *Software: Practice and Experience*, 24(3):327–336, 1994. 9. Michael Rorick. [Yolks](http://people.kth.se/~michaelr/yolks-2009.pdf). 10. Mihai Plesu. *The difficulty of programming contests increases*. In *International Conference on Programming for Everyone*. Sorosoro School, 2010. 11. Felix Halim, Richard Khoo Chua Yap, and Yongzheng Wu. A *MapReduce-Based Maximum-Flow Algorithm for Large Small-World Network Graphs*. In *ICDCS*, 2011. 12. Steven Halim and Felix Halim. *Competitive Programming in National University of Singapore*. *Brief Notes on Selections*, 2012. CRES at Collaborative Learning Initiative Symposium CLS at ACM ICPC World Final 2010, Harbin, China, 2010. 13. Steven Halim, Richard Khoo Chua Yap, and Felix Halim. *Engineering SLGs for the Law Auto-Tuning Bayesian Response Problem*. In *Constructing Programs*, pages 332-347, CWI and University of Amsterdam, 2010. 14. [TopCoder Inc.](http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static) *Algorithm Tutorials*. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 55 Context: earchsolutionsareusuallyonlyrewardedwithlowmarks.Nevertheless,CompleteSearchshouldbeusedwhenwecannotcomeupwithabettersolutioninordertograbthatpreciouslowmarks.Sometimes,runningCompleteSearchonsmallinstancesofachallengingproblemcangiveussomepatternsfromtheoutput(itispossibletovisualizethepatternforsomeproblems)thatcanbeexploitedtodesignafasteralgorithm.YoumaywanttoseesomecombinatoricsproblemsinSection5.4thatcanbesolvedthisway.Then,theCompleteSearchsolutionwillalsoactasaverifieronsmallinstancesforthefasterbutnon-trivialalgorithmthatyoumanagetodevelop.39 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 206 Context: # 7.3 POLYGONS WITH LIBRARIES ![Figure 7.9: Left: inside, Middle: also inside, Right: outside](path_to_image) ```cpp double angle(point a, point b, point c) { double bx = b.x - a.x, by = b.y - a.y; double cx = c.x - a.x, cy = c.y - a.y; return acos((bx * cx + by * cy) / (sqrt(bx * bx + by * by) * sqrt(cx * cx + cy * cy))); } // returns true if point P is either convex/concave polygon P bool inside(point& p, vector& P) { if (P.size() < 3) return false; double sum = 0; for (int i = 0; i < (P.size() - 1); ++i) { // assume that the first vertex // is cross P[i], P[i+1] if (cross(P[i], P[i + 1]) > 0) sum += angle(P[i], P[i + 1], p); // right turn else sum -= angle(P[i], P[i + 1], p); // left turn } return (fabs(sum - 2 * M_PI) < EPS); } ``` ## 7.3.6 Cutting Polygon with a Straight Line Another interesting thing that we can do with polygons is to cut it into components with a straight line that intersects it. See some programming exercises listed below that demonstrate this function. To visualize the line, we traverse through the vertices of the main polygon (say P) and index the line that we want to cut. Once we find a polygon edge that intersects with the line, we put it as the starting point of the cut (let's call it A). We will also be dealing with the intersection points of P with the given line (let's denote it as B). We can represent this line again (see Figure 7.10, intersection 2). We will notice some vertices of polygon P begin appearing on the left side of line A again. We stop the processing of P at B before starting back at A (see Figure 7.10). ![Figure 7.10: Left: Before Cut, Right: After Cut](path_to_image) ### Exercise 7.3.6.1 This cut/polygon function only returns the left side of the polygon Q after cutting it with line A. What should we do if we want the right side instead? #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 712 Context: xamples,512–515enumerationmethods,517,518–519geneexpressionexample,513–514methods,517–518optimization-basedmethods,517–518recommendersystemexample,514–515typesof,538 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 70 Context: However, today's programming contests (both ICPC and IOI) rarely ask for the pure version of these classical problems. Using Greedy algorithms to attack a "true classical" problem is usually tricky. A gravitation towards TLE (Time Limit Exceeded) is a big liability, but tends to get away regardless. Proving that a certain "non-classical" problem can be solved with this algorithm correctly during contest time may be time-consuming, so a competitive programmer usually avoids this instead. He will look at the input size. If it is "small enough" for the time complexity of either Complete Search or Dynamic Programming algorithms (see Section 3.5), he will use one of these approaches as both will run in reasonable time. He only uses a Greedy algorithm if he knows for sure that the input size given in the problem statement is too large for his best Complete Search or DP hashing algorithm. Having said that, it is quite true that many problem authors nowadays set the input size of each case that can be solved using Greedy-algorithm-type problems to be as large as possible since the contestants cannot use their time to quickly determine the required algorithm. ## Programming Exercises Solving Using Greedy (items omitted to keep the problems challenging): 1. UVA 8001 - Park 2. UVA 8060 - Position Balance (discussed in this section) 3. UVA 1034 - Manhattan Coverage 4. UVA 10120 - Sherwood's Problem 5. UVA 10122 - The Grand Dinner 6. UVA 10802 - All in All 7. UVA 10804 - Worrying Case (discussed in this section) 8. UVA 10809 - Gary Running II 9. UVA 10010 - Editor Notebook 10. UVA 10616 - Maximum Sum (II) * 11. UVA 10646 - Knuth Reduction 12. UVA 10676 - Variations on a Tree 13. UVA 10707 - Card Trading 14. UVA 10710 - Park 15. UVA 10714 - JB Mark 16. UVA 10715 - Fencing 17. UVA 10777 - The Mad Numologist 18. UVA 10856 - Water Trading in Georgia 19. UVA 11034 - WUV's Problem 20. UVA 11127 - Dynamic Prog * 21. UVA 11329 - Shopping Lover 22. UVA 11350 - The Fire Space 23. UVA 11530 - Three Suspects ** 24. UVA 11547 - Sub Master Generator 25. UVA 11592 - Green Base 26. UVA 12510 - Aspire Installation (Big)* 27. UVA 2011 - Birthday Presents (optimized greedy solution* can be used to subtask 3) * "Note that the harder subtask 4 must be solved using efficient data structures." #################### 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 Giga 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 informatics. However, as the strings that processors deal with can usually become very big, 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 has also been shown to be critical in the input and output data structures of many languages (usually built-in restrictions). Additionally, the input and output formats are usually quite tricky. The algorithms to be tested in string processing are similar to those seen in the polynomial solving paradigms mentioned in Chapter 5. It is instructive for input constraints to know string algorithms as this chapter's segment Section 6.3 will be discussing those. However, we believe that it may be advantageous for ICPC 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 know. In this section, we provide a series of mini-tasks that you should solve one after another without asking. Who can spot your favorite programming language (e.g., C, C++, or Java)? Try your best to keep up with the subtask, using default input/output functions as you find it easier. 1. Given a string that includes any alphanumeric characters [A-Za-z0-9], space, and period (`.`), write a program to read that file line by line—to encounter a line that starts with `s`. 2. When two lines are compared, give one of the lines a long string `t`. If the two lines concatenate (combine) such that the last word of the previous line is separated from the first of the new line, then you can absorb in any of your implementations (or even your simplest implementations). 3. You can add up to 30 requests to me—you may see the same input file `file1.txt` shown on the next page: After question 1 (d) and before task 2. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 28 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE **© Steven & Felix** ## 1.2.5 Tip 6: Practice and More Practice Competitive programmers, like real athletes, must train themselves regularly and keep themselves programming-fit. This is not just a tip; it's a necessity. It’s one of the best ways to improve your problem-solving skills. Success comes as a result of continuous practice on ACM contests. Universities or local programming clubs often organize regular ACM contests. These contests will expose you to the same problems and submit your solutions to the online judges. Errors, correctness, and the performance of your program will be reported as soon as possible. Try solving the problems mentioned in the book and see how you perform on the up-to-minute problems. The problems presented here can give you a ranking: - **UVa (starting 12 August 2011)** is ranked (6) for solving 1260 UVa problems with 2950 submissions. - **ACM ICPC Live Archive** is ranked (9) for solving 1118 problems since year 2003 and maintaining your performance over time. ![University of Valladolid (IVA) Online Judge](https://example.com) ![ACM ICPC Live Archive](https://example.com) USA Computing Olympiad has a very useful training website [20] and online contests for you to learn programming and problem-solving. This site is geared more towards IOI participants. Go straight to their website, register an account, and start training. The Sphere Online Judge [19] is another online judge where veterans can add problems too. This online judge is mostly for problems from Poland, Brazil, and Vietnam. We take SPOJ into account since it offers numerous problems for novice programmers. ![USA Computing Olympiad Training](https://example.com) ![Sphere Online Judge](https://example.com) ## 1.2.6 Tip 7: Team Work (ICPC Only) This tip is not just something that is teachable. But here are some ideas that may help with teamwork: - Practice coding on a blank paper (useful when your teammate is solving the other problem). - Submit and discuss your strategy. If you code a 1AC, ignore your partner. If it is still not AC, debug using their strategy too. This helps not only your performance but also increases your teamwork rating as expected by ICPC judges. If your teammate is having difficulty coding his algorithm, prepare challenges for you to help prepare him. You want to learn and obtain the cases and exemplify the solutions as a team. - The X-factor: Befriend your teammates outside the training sessions & actual competition. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 57 Context: # 8 Queens Chess Problem ```cpp #include #include #include #include using namespace std; int row[9], col, lineCounter; // to use global variables bool place(int col, int tryrow) { for (int prev = 1; prev < col; prev++) { // check previously placed queens if (row[prev] == tryrow || abs(row[prev] - tryrow) == abs(prev - col)) return false; // an infeasible solution if same row or same diagonal } return true; } void backtrack(int col) { for (int tryrow = 1; tryrow <= 8; tryrow++) { // try all possible rows if (place(col, tryrow)) { // if can place a queen this col and row. row[col] = tryrow; // place queen in (c, h) as valid position. if (col == 8) { // if candidate solution, (c, h) has 1 queen printf("Solution %d: ", ++lineCounter); for (int j = 1; j <= 8; j++) printf("%d ", row[j]); printf("\n"); } else { backtrack(col + 1); // recursively try next column } } } } int main() { scanf("%d", &col); while (col < 1 || col > 8) { printf("Enter Y (1-8): "); scanf("%d", &col); } memset(row, 0, sizeof(row)); lineCounter = 0; printf("Solution: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8\n"); backtrack(1); // generate all possible 8 candidate solutions return 0; } ``` ## Example codes: - Example code: `ch3.2.1/w750.cpp`, `ch3.2.1/w750.java` ### Exercise 3.2.1 The code shown here can be further optimized a little bit nice to prevent the search from 'thriving' by a brute force version. Motif? ### Exercise 3.2.2 For some challenging variants of this problem, attempt UV 1105 - Another 8-Queens Problem. For the exchange mentioned in this section, you should use the efficient backtracking implementation, which is crucial to perform in less than X and Y seconds if one is to identify right diagonal, etc. To further speed up the solution, see the timing characteristic discussed in Section 22.1. ### 3.2.2 Tips The primary challenge in writing a Complete Search solution is whether it will be able to pass the time limit. If the time limit is 1 minute and your program currently runs in 1 minute 5 seconds, #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 244 Context: # Appendix D ## Plan for the Third Edition The first edition of this book is released on 9 August 2011 and the second edition one year later on 1 August 2012. Is this going to be a yearly trend? We all have to adapt in the world of competitive programming to constantly evolving and the programming contest problems are getting harder. To avoid getting too outdated, it is natural for a book like this to have incremental updates (anyway, a book is always out of date by the time it gets to print). Since we believe that a good book is one that keeps being updated by it’s authors, we do plan to release the third edition in the future, but not in 2012. The gap between the first and the second edition is "small" (only one year) as there was so much to write for the second edition. This makes the expectation for the third edition even higher. I have a good quality editorial team, so to reach the third edition will likely be two to three years after the second edition (around 2013 or 2014). So, the second edition of this book has about two more years ahead in the competitive programming world. These are our big plans to prepare the third edition in the next three years time: - Deal with the new competitive programming related content after the release of the second edition. - Online material is at: [https://sites.google.com/site/stewartnash/third](https://sites.google.com/site/stewartnash/third) - We will keep improving our problem solving skills and also many more programming problems. We have now been asked to publish this book online, except the problematic problems. Just as we (Steven and Riki) have said (consistently) in around 2000, instead of 1562 of our 1258 (the first edition discused), we will then share what we learn from those competitive programming issues. - Middle structure planning Chapter 1 - It’s like a hint for more related competitive programming express examples, more illustrations, more conceptually exercises. - Add discussions of next data structures and algorithms that are currently only mentioned in the chapter notes. - Expand Chapter 8 (substantially) to serve the needs of today’s competitive programmers who are already (or trying to) master the content of the second edition of this book. --- ## We Need Your Feedback You, the reader, can help improve the quality of the third edition of this book. If you spot any technical, grammatical, spelling errors, or if you want to contribute certain parts for the third edition of this book (e.g., I have a better similarity algorithm to illustrate a certain point), please send an email to the main author directly: stevenrash@gmail.com. --- 228 #################### File: Advanced%20Algebra%20-%20Anthony%20W.%20Knapp%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 646 Context: ralrule,thetoolforsuchcomputationsisthetheoryofGr¨obnerbases,whichwereintroducedinSectionsVIII.7–VIII.10.Thetopicisanactiveareaofcontinuingresearch.19Onecanthinkofimmediateproblems—suchasfindingthedimensionofanalgebraicset,determiningtheradicalofanidealwhentheidealisgiven,19ThebookeditedbyBuchbergerandWinklercontainsanumberofexpository“tutorials”thatgiveanideaofthebreadthofapplicationsofthetheory.Thebookcontainsalsoacertainnumberofresearchpapers. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 241 Context: # Appendix B ## uHunt [uHunt](http://felix-halim.net/vua/hunting.php) is a web-based tool created by one of the authors of this book (Felix Halim) to complement the UVa online judge [28]. This tool is created to help UVa users in keeping track which problems they have (and have not) solved. Considering that UVa has 2500 problems, today’s programmers indeed need a tool like this (see Figure B.1). ![Figure B.1: Steven's statistics as of 1 August 2011](link_to_image_here) The original version of uHunt (that stands for UVa hunting) is to help UVa users in finding the 2500 accepted problems for such users. The rationale for this is simple: whenever a UVa user needs to build up his/her confidence, he/she needs to solve problems with gradual difficulty. This is important because distinguishing hard problems and easy problems in competitive programming (AC) is tricky without knowing what’s wrong. The 1162 UVa users actually contributed statistical information, and their data can be analyzed for this purpose; thus, the statistics will help users to identify their skills at the different levels of AC problems. For example, a UVa user can determine which skills are their strong points and which areas they need to improve. As a side note: there is a different meaning of AC here. It means any program that is accepted as correct according to the problem statement in a given programming contest. The strong point of the tool is that it shows the variants of accepted AC codes. A quick example based on the user statistics might be that a novice user does not know a certain data structure or algorithm that other students perform well on. The tool can show the statistical construct; for example, if you have a friend (or a better UVa user than yourself), you can compare your list of solved problems with him/her and then try to solve the problems that your friend can solve. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 114 Context: # 4.5. ALL-PAIRS SHORTEST PATHS The DP formulation must be filled layer by layer (by increasing \( k \)). To fill out an entry in the table, we make use of the entries in the table \( k-1 \). For example, to calculate \( D[i][j][k] \), column \( k \) in Table 4.2 includes the minimum of \( D[i][j][k-1] \), \( D[i][k][k-1] + D[k][j][k-1] \), and the values from layer \( k \) itself (of size \( O(n^2) \)). However, to compute layer \( k \) we only need to know the values from layer \( k-1 \), so we can reduce dimension \( k \) and compute \( D[i][j][k-1] \). Thus, the Floyd-Warshall's algorithm just need \( O(n) \) space although it still runs in \( O(n^3) \). ### Table 4.2 Floyd-Warshall's DP Table | k | j | | |---|---|---| | k=1 | j=2 | | ## 4.5.3 Other Applications The basic purpose of Floyd-Warshall's algorithm is to solve the APSP problem. Here we list down several problem variants that are also solvable with Floyd-Warshall's. ### Printing Shortest Paths A common issue encountered by programmers who use the Floyd-Warshall's without understanding how it works is when they are asked to print the shortest paths. For example, in BFS/DFS algorithms like Floyd's algorithm, we just need to remember the shortest paths spanning between nodes. To enable this, we need to store a parent matrix for each node. The modified code is shown below. ```c // Here is the main() function void main() { // Let p be the DP parent matrix, where p[i][j] is the last vertex before j int p[V][V]; // for graph from i..1..j -> p[i][j] = k for (int i = 0; i < V; i++) for (int j = 0; j < V; j++) // Initialize the parent matrix p[i][j] = -1; for (int k = 0; k < V; k++) { for (int i = 0; i < V; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < V; j++) { // This time, we need to use if statement if (D[i][j] > D[i][k] + D[k][j]) { D[i][j] = D[i][k] + D[k][j]; p[i][j] = p[k][j]; // Update the parent matrix } } } } } // When we need to print the shortest paths, we can call the method below: void printPath(int i, int j) { if (p[i][j] == -1) { printf("%d ", j); return; } printPath(i, p[i][j]); printf("%d ", j); } ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 36 Context: # Chapter Notes © Steven & Felix ## ACM-ICPC Asia Phuket Regional Contest 2008 **Date:** 4-7 November 2008 **Location:** Phuket, Thailand, at Prince of Songkla University Phuket Campus ### Contest Participants **L-R:** Adhiraj, Steven, Hung, Dr. CJ Hwang, Phong, Duc, Tien ![Contest Participants](image_link_1) - **Prize:** 30,000 THB **L-R:** Hubert, Chuang, Zi Chun, Steven, Zhan Xiong, Raymond, M. Cheong ![Winners](image_link_2) ### Additional Information - More details about the contest can be found on the [ACM website](https://www.acm.org). - For further inquiries, contact the organizing committee at [contact_email@example.com](mailto:contact_email@example.com). ### Acknowledgments We would like to thank all participants, volunteers, and sponsors for making this event successful. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 63 Context: # 3.3 Divide and Conquer Divide and Conquer (abbreviated as D&C) is a problem-solving paradigm where we try to make a problem simpler by breaking it into smaller parts and conquering them. The stages are: 1. Divide the original problem into sub-problems— ideally of roughly equal size. 2. Find (sub)-solutions for each of these sub-problems— which are now easier. 3. If needed, combine the sub-solutions to produce a complete solution for the main problem. We see how the D&C paradigm appears in various contexts in this book. Various sorting algorithms (e.g., Quick Sort, Merge Sort, Heap Sort) and Binary Search in Section 2.1 utilize this paradigm. The core idea is similarly found in Binary Search Trees, Merging, Segment Trees, and previously in Section 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 also has the spirit of Divide & Conquer. ## 3.3.1 Interesting Usages of Binary Search In this section, we discuss the general D&C paradigm around a well-known Binary Search algorithm. We will classify Binary Search as "Divide" and Conquer" and adopt some references (e.g., [24]) that suggest it can be classified as Decrease-by-Half and Conquer as it does not initially resemble the classic D&C algorithm that most researchers know it, but many may argue that it can be used in other ways than its ordinary usage. ### Binary Search: The Ordinary Usage Recall: The ordinary usage of Binary Search is for searching in an array sorted in order. We binary search to find where our item occurs if it exists. If there is no item found, one would return a predetermined value. Given a sorted array of values and several sample searches, we can illustrate the concept as follows: - The time complexity of Binary Search is O(log n). In Section 2.2.1, we have seen this algorithm. By halving the search space, we can locate our desired item efficiently. ![Binary Search on Uncommon Data Structures](image_path.jpg) *Figure 3.4: My Anstoter* This original problem is titled "My Anstoter" and was used in Thailand ICPC National Contest 2009. Brief problem description: Given a string (family) tree of up to N ≤ 10^5 vertices with a special trait: Vertices store values ranging from 1000 to 2000. The first vertex is the root. The second vertex is assumed to have an answer. If P = 2, and there is a vertex labeled with value x, if it is the closest to root A that has value 2. If P = 7, then the answer is the vertex labeled with "C" with value 7. If P = 2, then there is no answer. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 428 Context: ;BrodleyandUtgoff[BU95];andLim,Loh,andShih[LLS00]. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 145 Context: ``` # 5.4 COMBINATORICS Combinatorics is a branch of **discrete mathematics** concerning the study of countable discrete structures. In programming contexts, problems involving combinatorics are usually titled "How Many ([Object]?", "Count ([Object]?)", etc., although some problem setters choose to hide this fact from their problem titles. The solutions could be roughly defined as either finding the (usually recursive) formula that counts the combinations or the function required to compute them. In ICPC or similar contests, if the problem admits the given problem set, ask one team member to derive the relevant recursive function — interpreting whatever is currently using the computer. It is also good to know how to systematically create solutions via **Dynamic Programming** (see Section 5.2 for details), **Binomial Coefficients** (see Section 5.4.2), and **Catalan Numbers** (see Section 5.4.3). Some of these combinatorial formulas may yield surprising shortcuts, especially when using **Dynamic Programming** techniques (review Section 5.2 for more details). Some computation values can also be large numbers that need to using **BigInteger** technique (see Section 5.3). ## 5.4.1 Fibonacci Numbers Leonardo Fibonacci's numbers are defined as: - \( F(0) = 0 \) - \( F(1) = 1 \) - \( F(n) = F(n - 1) + F(n - 2) \) for \( n \geq 2 \) This gives the following familiar patterns: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, and so on. This pattern sometimes appears in some contexts beyond the strict notion of the **Fibonacci** series. For example, the integer integer \( F(n) \) considers lookups ( UVA 10943, UVA 10304, UVA 10409, UVA 11652). We usually derive the Fibonacci numbers with a “brute” DP technique and not implement the usual recursive formula (it is very slow). However, the O(n) DP solution is not the fastest. Later sections will allow us to compute Fibonacci numbers in linear time (it is efficient). Furthermore, we can compute the integer integer \( F(N) \) for the arbitrary type: \[ F(n) = F(n - 1) + F(n - 2) \quad \text{ where pre-calculate result.} \] ### Exercise 5.4.1 Given \( N \) calculated, verify \( F(n) = \sqrt{5}^n \). Try with small \( n \), check if this programming formula holds \( F(n) = 13, F(6) = 34 \), \( F(8) = 21 \). Programming Exercises related to Fibonacci Numbers: - **UVA 1003** - Critical Mass (related to Fibonacci series) - **UVA 1069** - Fibonacci Numbers (Zekeloreans problem, greedy, BigInteger) - **UVA 507** - Fibonacci Number (whole numbers, the spiraling problem as part of a water jacket) - **UVA 1089** - Fibonacci Break (related regression, greedy, BigInteger) - **UVA 1034** - Number Theory and Fibonacci Numbers (the relationship between Fibonacci numbers) > **Note:** Standard notation for commas in sequences (like integers [e.g., 1, 2, …], graphs (vertices and edges), that has been found to differ in other context. ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # Abbreviations - **A\*** : A Star - **ACM** : Association of Computing Machinery - **AC** : Accepted - **ASPP** : All-Pairs Shortest Paths - **AVL** : Adelson-Velsky and Landis (BST) - **BNF** : Backus-Naur Form - **BFS** : Breadth-First Search - **BIT** : Binary Indexed Tree - **BST** : Binary Search Tree - **CC** : Critical Cycle - **CWL** : Counter ClockWise - **CF** : Cumulative Frequency - **CS** : Computer Science - **DAG** : Directed Acyclic Graph - **DFA** : Deterministic Finite Automaton - **DC** : Divide and Conquer - **DFS** : Depth First Search - **DLP** : Depth Limited Search - **DP** : Dynamic Programming - **ED** : Edit Distance - **FT** : Reverse Tree - **GCD** : Greatest Common Divisor - **ICPC** : International Collegiate Programming Contest - **IDS** : Iterative Deepening Search - **I/O** : Input/Output - **IPO** : International Problem Solving Contest - **LA** : Law Archive - **LCA** : Lowest Common Ancestor - **LCM** : Least Common Multiple - **LCP** : Longest Common Prefix - **LCS** : Longest Common Subsequence - **LES** : Longest Increasing Substring - **MCBM** : Max Cardinality Bipartite Matching - **MCM** : Min-Cost Max-Flow - **MST** : Minimum Spanning Tree - **ME** : Minimum Independent Set - **MIP** : Minimum Impact Power Set - **MSP** : Minimum Spanning Shortest Paths - **MWIS** : Max Weighted Independent Set - **MVC** : Minimum Vertex Cover - **OJ** : Online Judge - **PE** : Presentation Error - **RB** : Red-Black (BST) - **RMQ** : Range Minimum (or Maximum) Query - **RSQ** : Range Sum Query - **RTE** : Run Time Error - **SSSP** : Single-Source Shortest Paths - **SA** : Suffix Array - **SPJ** : Subtree Join Judge - **STL** : Standard Template Library - **TLE** : Time Limit Exceeded - **USACO** : USA Computing Olympiad - **UVA** : University of Valladolid [28] - **WA** : Wrong Answer - **WF** : World Finals #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 161 Context: ```markdown 5.8 Game Theory =============== Game Theory is a mathematical model of strategic situations (not necessarily games as in the common meaning of "games") in which a player's success in choosing strategies depends on the choices of others. Many programming problems involving game theory are classified as Zero-Sum Games—a mathematical way of saying that if one player wins, then the other player loses. For example, in a game of the Two-Player Game (e.g., UVA 101, UVA 1011, Chaos, various number theory games (e.g., UVA 587, UVA 612, UVA 1163), and others (UVA 1015, 1004, 1043, 1113) are games with two players playing alternately (usually perfectly) and there can only be one winner. ### 5.8.1 Decision Tree The common question asked in programming problems related to game theory is whether the starting player has a winning strategy (assuming both players are doing Perfect Play). That is, each player always plays optimally given the information available to them. One question is whether it is worthwhile to explore the Decision Tree of the game (also told as the Game Tree). The game tree is a representation of all possible moves for each player until the game ends, assuming optimal play from both sides. The starting player (e.g., player 1) will be the root node of the tree and the subsequent nodes are controlled by the second player (e.g., player 2), and so forth. Note that, if player 1 moves first in a zero-sum game, the outcome is certain regardless of the moves made. The node describes the starting position of the game. If the first player can force a win regardless of what the second player does, then the first player is said to have a winning strategy. The best outcome for the starting player is the Minimax strategy. ### Example Code - UVA 100: Expanding Dynamic (also similar to UVA 262, only different in output format) - UVA 007: Expanding Primes (very similar to UVA 202, only different in output format) - UVA 003: Pseudo-Random Numbers (a different application of Floyd's cycle-finding) - UVA 1001: Lead Digit (use of digits, base 10, Binary Integer to read input, precede) - UVA 1006: Happy Number (Is this sequence 'n'-eventually periodic?) - UVA 1068: Essentially periodic sequence (circular, and Reverse Pdb with stack) - UVA 1108: Flawless Joys Released (cycle-finding, for answer = N - X) - UVA 1169: Calculate Conformations (requiring input with limited digits until it cycles) - UVA 1163: Generate random numbers (e.g., DAF of size 10K, extract digit's) ``` #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 60 Context: 46Chapter4.LookingandFindingreturnfalse.Ifwereachtheendofthewordwithoutfindingsuchamismatch,westopandreturntrue,becausethewholewordmusthavematched.Wedispensewiththesuccessconditionfirst–ifpwisequaltolengthpw,itmeanswehavecomparedsuccessfullypositions0throughtopw-1,andsowecanreturntrue:definecompareptpwifpw=lengthWthenreturntrue12Now,wemusttestthecharacteratpositionptinTandthecharacteratpositionpwinWtoseeiftheyareequal.Weaccesstheindividualcharactersbywriting,forexample,W[pw]whereWisthetextandpwtheposition:definecompareptpwifpw=lengthWthenreturntrueifT[pt]=W[pw]thencompare(pt+1)(pw+1)123Ifthetwocharacterswereequal,wecontinuebyrunningcom-parewithboththetextandwordpositionsadvancedbyone.Allthatremainsnowistoreturnfalseiftheywerenotequal:definecompareptpwifpw=lengthWthenreturntrueifT[pt]=W[pw]thencompare(pt+1)(pw+1)returnfalse1234Thislinewillonlybereachediftheconditionatline3wasfalse.Hereisthewholeprograminoneplace:definecompareptpwifpw=lengthWthenreturntrueifT[pt]=W[pw]thencompare(pt+1)(pw+1)returnfalsedefinesearchptifpt+lengthW<=lengthTthenifcomparept0thenprintptsearch(pt+1)123456789Ourmade-uplanguageisnotsodissimilartosomerealcom-puterlanguages.Someofthewordsaredifferent,buttheessentialfeaturesarethere.Letushaveamoredetailedlookattheexecution #################### 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: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE Now how about this scenario: You can only devise an algorithm of order O(n^5). Seems pretty bad right? But if n = 10, then you are done. Directly implement your O(n^5) algorithm since it is just 10^5 and your algorithm will only take a trivial amount of computation time. Instead, consider analyzing the complexity of your algorithm with the given input size and stated time/memory limits. You can judge whether you should try coding any algorithm (which will take time), especially in the time-constrained IPCs and IDEs, before moving on to other problems in the contest. In this book, we will not discuss the concept of algorithm analysis in detail. We assume that you already have this basic skill. Please check other reference books for the specialized literature. 1. Prove the correctness of your algorithm (especially for Greedy algorithms in Section 3.4). 2. Analyze time/space complexity for iterative and recursive algorithms. 3. Perform empirical analysis (see Chapter 17) — although rarely used in contests. The output-sensitive analysis to analyze algorithms which depend on output size. Example: The O(n)- algorithm is compared to a pattern string with a fixed output length and is dependent on the input size. See Section 6.6. Many novice programmers would skip this phase and attempt to directly code the first algorithm that comes to their mind (usually for the wrong reason) to realize that the chosen structure is not efficient or that it is not helpful (or wrong). Our direct to the ICOC characteristics refer to the fact that it is not essential that your algorithm is both correct and effective. Table 1.1 shows some sample algorithms for our needs. However, we put another one there from a programming perspective. Usually, the simplest algorithm should be the base of your algorithms and structures. Using code templates, know that input can vary and cause problems in a runtime constant of the (typical run time) instead of a standard time. | Worst Case Algorithm | Comment | |----------------------|---------| | O(2^n) | e.g. Enumerating a permutation (Section 3.2) | | O(n^2) | e.g. DP (DSP Tasking) (Section 3.3.2) | | O(n log n) | e.g. DP with a dimension > 0 (loop, decoding, C_l) | | O(n) | e.g. Floyd-Warshall's (Section 4.5) | | O(sqrt(n)) | e.g. Bubble, Sieve (Section 5.1) | | O(1) | e.g. Segment tree building (Section 2.21) | | S/M | e.g. Solve instances of `O(n log(n))`, usually, current problem has in STL (see Section 22.2) | Table 1.1: Ratio of the 'Worst Case Algorithm' to various input sizes in single test cases. Finally, as I said, we must be cautious of knowing how good our algorithms are for specific input cases. Your primary goal should be to keep the run time and space as minimal as possible. In Section 3.2 later, we will see a few tips regarding how to analyze specific inputs for the same class of algorithms. In the other chapters in this book, we will discuss other algorithms for various computing problems. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 74 Context: # 3.5 DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ```c int shop(int money, int it) { if (money < 0) return -100000000; // fail, return a large -ve number if (it >= N) return 0; // we have bought last item, done if (money[money] != -1) return money[money]; // TOP-DOWN: this table has been visited int ans = -100000000; for (int added = 1; added <= price[0][it]; added++) { // try all possible models ans = max(ans, shop(money - price[model][it], it + 1)); } return (money[money] = ans); // TOP-DOWN: assign the value in memo table & return it } int main() { // easy to code if you are already familiar with it int i, j, t, score; scanf("%d", &t); while (t--) { scanf("%d %d", &MM, &N); for (i = 0; i < N; i++) { scanf("%d", &price[i][0]); // to simplify coding, store K in price[0][0] for (j = 1; j <= price[i][0]; j++) scanf("%d", &price[i][j]); } memset(memo, -1, sizeof(memo)); // TOP-DOWN: initialize DP memo table score = shop(0, 0); // start the top-down DP ("recursive backtracking") if (score < 0) printf("0\n", score); else printf("%d\n", score); } } ``` Example codes: [shop.cpp](https://example.com/shop.cpp), [shop1164540.java](https://example.com/shop1164540.java) ## Approach 4: Bottom-Up DP (Accepted) There is another style of writing DP solutions, called the bottom-up DP. The bottom-up method of DP (or DP is originally written as iterative) incorporates the following techniques in working with the main table structure. 1. **Determine the breakdown of parameters that you describe algorithmically.** If there are M parameters, then initialize the entire DP table, even for past states. 2. Fill in the entries of the DP table with known initial parameters. For this approach, we can write the DP table already filled. We describe the size of the DP matrix with parameters. Other entries are assigned values based on already accessible by user-defined parameters. Figure 3.39 illustrates the bottom-up DP. ![Figure 3.39: Bottom-Up DP](https://example.com/figure.png) #################### 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: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: # 1.2 Tips to Be Competitive ![Illustration of UVa 10911 - Forming Quiz Teams](path/to/image.png) Now, ask yourself, which one of the following best describes you? Note that if you are unfamiliar with the material or terminology shown in this chapter, you can re-read it after going through this book. 1. Be a competitive programmer (A.k.a the shiny one): - **Step 1:** Treat the problem as difficult; hence, see it as a kind of problem before. - **Step 2:** Note that this is a common starting point for many possible results and outputs. - **Step 3:** Breathe and think about a direct solution via the problem. - **Step 4:** Establish erroneous practices by following Swing Away, Answer. - **Step 5:** Record debugging by tracking the **Time Limit Exceeded (TLE)**. - After 5 hours of typical coding time, an **Accepted (AC)** solution is produced. 2. Be a casual programmer: - **Step 1:** Realize there often exist kinds of problem solving, i.e., common where to start. - **Step 2:** Examine the history behind this problem: Dynamic Programming (DP). - **Step 3:** Read about validation problems to familiarize yourself. - **Step 4:** Establish some expectations for the "Technical Report". 3. Be an intermediate programmer (like me): - **Step 1:** Discover the problem and instead label it as "matching on general graph" problem. - **Step 2:** In the graph, identify that those results are not unique. - **Step 3:** Identify alternatives that could lead to solving objectives. - **Step 4:** Calculate all probable combinations and come up with a solution likely in under x.x... 4. Be a beginner programmer: - A very novice programmer (e.g., the red 'target' coders in TopCoder) should solve this kind of known problem in less than 15 minutes. References: - [1]: ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) - [2]: TopCoder - [3]: Various programming resources (e.g., [3, 5, 10]) for better understanding of algorithms and problems. --- > Note: Ensure source attribution as it plays a crucial role in research integrity. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 157 Context: # 5.5.8 Extended Euclid: Solving Linear Diophantine Equation ## Motivating problem: Suppose a housebreak buys apples and oranges at a total cost of 4.39 SGD. If an apple costs 25 cents and an orange is 15 cents, how many of each could she choose to buy? This problem can be modeled as a linear equation with two variables: \( 25x + 15y = 439 \). Since we can view both \( x \) and \( y \) as non-negative integers, we can solve Linear Diophantine Equations with two variables even if we only have one additional constraint. Using the Extended Euclid algorithm shown below, the result can be derived formally as \( x = k( 439 - 15y ) \) where \( k \) is an integer. Programming additional constraints also makes the output finite (and unique). ```c // store x, y, and global variable void extendedEuclid(int a, int b, int *x, int *y) { if (b == 0) { *x = 1; *y = 0; return; } int x1, y1; extendedEuclid(b, a % b, &x1, &y1); // similar as the original god *x = y1; *y = x1 - (a / b) * y1; } ``` Using `extendedEuclid`, we can solve the motivating problem shown earlier: The Linear Diophantine Equation with two variables \( 25x + 15y = 439 \) - \( a = 25, b = 15 \) `extendedEuclid(25, 15)` produces \( s = 5, t = 1, 25 = 25*(-5) + 18*7 = 1 \). Multiplying the left and right hand side of the equation above by \( 839/20(5, 15) = 39 \), we have: - \( 25*(-1) + 15*(1) = 437 \) Thus, we need to have non-negative \( x \) and \( y \): - \( -5 + 1 - 1 = 0 \) - \( 2335/5 = 521.9 \) The only possible solution for \( x \) is now only 234. Here is an example of the integer solutions: - \( x = 18 \) (as \( 18 \times 24 - 17 \)) and \( y = 573 - 25 \times 234 = 24 \). - The supplies cost 25 cents each and 23 oranges (18 cents each) at a total of 3.89 SGD. ## Programming examples related to Extended Euclid: 1. **UVA 1009 - Module 2** (See similar for Linear Diophantine Equations) 2. **UVA 1004 - Radical Problem** (A pure problem involving Extended Euclid) 3. **UVA 10673 - Raw Egg Problem** (Can be modeled as Linear Diophantine Equations) **Note:** "Let \( C \) = Count of digits input, \( N \) = \( k \) (that is the last digit), and \( M \) = This problem is now about finding the solutions of the Linear Diophantine Equation \( C = b + C \)." 141 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 60 Context: ``` # 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH Browse the internet or reference books [6](#) to find more information on how to speed up your code. Practice this code loading skill by discussing a harder problem in UVA online judge where the runtime of the last solution is out of bounds. Study several variants of your accepted solution and track the runtime difference. Adopt hacking modification that gives 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 often be done via iterative or recursive backtracking approach. Iterative approach is used when one can derive the different results easily with some formula relative to a certain counter and all cases are to be checked, e.g., starting all indices from zero, enumerating all possible subsets of a small set. Recursive Backtracking is used when one needs to dive into the different states when solving the problem and one wants to prune the search space, e.g., the depth-first search. Another thing to note is that in cases of a problem that is solvable with Complete Search is large, the recursive backtracking that allows the pruning of the search space is particularly useful. 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 Employing Complete Search: 1. Iterative: - [1] UVA 101: Ecological Bin Packing (try all possible combinations) - [2] UVA 109: The Sample Problem (bruteforce map) - [3] UVA 100: The 3n + 1 Problem (naive mapping) - [4] UVA 10100: Longest Run (try all combinations) - [5] UVA 103: Number Theory (try all real combinations) - [6] UVA 102: Perfect Dice (try all) - [7] UVA 104: Perfect Sum (brute force, pre-calculation table) - [8] UVA 106: Biggest and Smallest (try random) - [9] UVA 110: Simulation (bruteforce in series) 2. Recursive: - [10] UVA 111: Parentheses (generate valid parentheses) - [11] UVA 10931: Binary Numbers (generate valid binary) - [12] UVA 106: Block Game (try all possible block combinations) - [13] UVA 107: Permutation (backtracking and brute force) - [14] UVA 117: The Candle (brute force variant) - [15] UVA 104: 2D Fibonacci (similar to UVA 725) - [16] UVA 10937: Magic Numbers (extend result to all state) - [17] UVA 10195: The Last Digit (backtracking method) - [18] UVA 954: The Shell Game (set up all states for valid decision) 3. Special Cases: - [19] UVA 10737: Literally a Walk (breadth-first search) - [20] UVA 112: The Windmill (discussing brute force techniques) 4. Geometry: - [21] UVA 116: The Angle (geometry basics up front) - [22] UVA 104: Area Equality (if total area is less than or equal to 2) ``` #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 45 Context: Chapter3.StoringWords31Inorderthatcomputersmaytalktoeachother,andsothatthesameprogrammightrunondifferentkindsofcomputers,standardcodeshavebeendeveloped.Hereistheso-calledASCII(AmericanStandardCodeforInformationInterchange)code,definedbyaninternationalconsortiuminthe1960s:0NUL32space64@96‘1SOH33!65A97a2STX34"66B98b3ETX35#67C99c4EOT36$68D100d5ENQ37%69E101e6ACK38&70F102f7BEL39’71G103g8BS40(72H104h9TAB41)73I105i10LF42*74J106j11VT43+75K107k12FF44,76L108l13CR45-77M109m14SO46.78N110n15SI47/79O111o16DLE48080P112p17DC149181Q113q18DC250282R114r19DC351383S115s20DC452484T116t21NAK53585U117u22SYN54686V118v23ETB55787W119w24CAN56888X120x25EM57989Y121y26SUB58:90Z122z27ESC59;91[123{28FS60<92\124|29GS61=93]125}30RS62>94ˆ126~31US63?95_127DELSomeofthesenumbersrepresentreal,printablecharacters,suchas65forA.Othersrepresentspecialcodes,suchas13forCR,whichmeansCarriageReturnandoriginallyreferredtothecarriageofatypewriter-likedevicereturningtothebeginningoftheline.Char-acter10forLF,whichmeansLineFeed,referstoasimilardevice #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 275 Context: HAN12-ch05-187-242-97801238147912011/6/13:19Page238#52238Chapter5DataCubeTechnology(b)Supposewewanttocomputeadatacubewheretheconditionisthattheminimumnumberofrecordsis10andtheaveragefareisover$500.Outlineanefficientcubecomputationmethod(basedoncommonsenseaboutflightdatadistribution).5.11(Implementationproject)Therearefourtypicaldatacubecomputationmethods:Mul-tiWay[ZDN97],BUC[BR99],H-Cubing[HPDW01],andStar-Cubing[XHLW03].(a)Implementanyoneofthesecubecomputationalgorithmsanddescribeyourimplementation,experimentation,andperformance.Findanotherstudentwhohasimplementedadifferentalgorithmonthesameplatform(e.g.,C++onLinux)andcompareyouralgorithmperformancewithhisorhers.Input:i.Ann-dimensionalbasecuboidtable(forn<20),whichisessentiallyarelationaltablewithnattributes.ii.Anicebergcondition:count(C)≥k,wherekisapositiveintegerasaparameter.Output:i.Thesetofcomputedcuboidsthatsatisfytheicebergcondition,intheorderofyouroutputgeneration.ii.Summaryofthesetofcuboidsintheformof“cuboidID:thenumberofnonemptycells,”sortedinalphabeticalorderofcuboids(e.g.,A:155,AB:120,ABC:22,ABCD:4,ABCE:6,ABD:36),wherethenumberafter:representsthenumberofnonemptycells.(Thisisusedtoquicklycheckthecorrectnessofyourresults.)(b)Basedonyourimplementation,discussthefollowing:i.Whatchallengingcomputationproblemsareencounteredasthenumberofdimensionsgrowslarge?ii.Howcanicebergcubingsolvetheproblemsofpart(a)forsomedatasets(andcharacterizesuchdatasets)?iii.Giveonesimpleexampletoshowthatsometimesicebergcubescannotprovideagoodsolution.(c)Insteadofcomputingahigh-dimensionalitydatacube,wemaychoosetomateri-alizethecuboidsthathaveonlyasmallnumberofdimensioncombinations.Forexample,fora30-Ddatacube,wemayonlycomputethe5-Dcuboidsforeverypossible5-Dcombination.Theresultingcuboidsformashellcube.Discusshoweasyorharditistomodifyyourcubecomputationalgorithmtofacilitatesuchcomputation.5.12Thesamplingcubewasproposedformultidimensionalanalysisofsamplingdata(e.g.,surveydata).Inmanyrealapplications,samplingdatacanbeofhighdimensionalit #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 231 Context: ```markdown // C++ code for question 7, assuming all necessary includes have been done int main() { int p[20] = {0, 2, 3, 0}; for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) { p[i] = i; for (int j = 0; j < i; ++j) { if (i < j) { printf("%d ", p[j]); // this is part of set } } printf("\n"); } } ## Exercise 1.2.4: Answers for situation judging are in bold: 1. You receive a WA response for a very easy problem. What should you do? - (a) Abandon this problem and go another. **(not ok, your team will lose out.)** - (b) Improve the performance of your solution. **(not useful).** - (c) Create tricky test cases and find the bug. **(the most logical answer).** - (d) In ICPC, ask another order in your team to re-do this problem. **(this is a logical answer; this can work although your team will lose precious penalty time).** 2. You receive a TLE response for your O(n) solution. However, maximum N is just 100. What should you do? - (a) Abandon this problem and go another. **(not ok, your team will lose out).** - (b) Improve the performance of your solution. **(not ok, we should have got TLE with an O(n) algorithm if N <= 200).** - (c) Create tricky test cases and find the bug. **(this is the answer; maybe your program is accidentally trapped in an infinite loop in some test cases).** 3. Follow up question (see question 2 above): What if maximum N is 10,000? If N > 200, you have to choose both to improve the performance of the algorithm or use a faster algorithm. 4. You receive a RTE response. Your code runs OK on your machine. What should you do? - (a) Ask your teammate for help. **(the best choice, everyone else in the team can help with individual functions).** - (b) Try to download another IDE to debug the WA code. **(there is not enough time and testing; think carefully about coding).** - (c) You are coding another problem and forget to revise your code for AC. **(this leads to failure).** 5. The ICPC Problem: Ask your team members to scrutinize the printed code for errors and incorrect input. Ask them to try to solve TWO more problems concurrently or focus on another problem. If another problem in the printed code can be coded in less than 30 minutes, then discuss this one while your team mates can find the bug for the WA code by looking at the printed code.** ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 104 Context: # 4.3 MINIMUM SPANNING TREE ## Minimax (and Maximin) The **minimax path problem** is a problem of finding the minimum of maximum edge weights along all possible paths between two vertices \( u \) and \( v \). The reverse problem is known as the **maximin problem**. The minimax path problem between vertices \( u \) and \( v \) can be treated as an MST problem. With a rational seed, the problem presents itself with two different edge weights. This problem is best explored in terms of minimizing weights involved, thus having the MST (using Kruskal's or Prim's) of the given weighted graph as a base concept to work with. In this study, we find that the minimax path solution is less than the maximum edge weight along the path between any pair of vertices. The minimax path will guarantee minimal links in the MST. The overall complexity of the minimax path is discussed further in Section 4.7. When we talk about traversal on the tree, if we are asked to find the minimax path between vertices \( A \) and \( G \) in Figure 4.15, we simply traverse the MST from vertex \( A \) to \( G \). There will only be one such path. The maximum edge weight along the path is the required minimax cost. (Also refer to slide P.D.) ### Exercise 4.3.4.2 Solve the maximin path problem using the diagram shown above. ## Remarks About Minimum Spanning Tree in Programming Contest To solve many MST problems in today's programming contests, we can rely on Kruskal's algorithm and Prim's (or other MST) algorithms. Kruskal's is typically more straightforward but requires sorting the edges. Some potential pitfalls include: 1. **Edge Cases**: Ensure that you do not miss and use the actual MST total. 2. **Complex Graphs**: It is easy to overthink complex scenarios leading to biased assumptions. The first MST algorithm discussed in the book is titled *Minimum* (STVIA 10047, 1997; LIS 3768, 2002, LA 5367, 2003). ## Profile of Algorithm Inventors **Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr.** (1925-2010) was an American computer scientist. His best-known work is the Kruskal's algorithm for computing the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) of a weighted graph. MST has been fundamental in various applications in networks and communications. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 211 Context: # 7.4 Divide and Conquer Revisited Several computational geometry problems turn out to be solvable with Divide and Conquer paradigms that have been discussed earlier in Section 3.3. Below is one example of such applications. ## Bisection Method for Geometry Problems We use UVA 11646 - Athletics Track for illustration. The adapted problem description is as follows: Examine a rectangular sector and wish to build an athletics track as seen in Figure 7.4. Here, we have an inner radius \( r_1 \) and an outer radius \( r_2 \) where the sectors angle is \( \theta \). Assuming the width of the athletics track \( W \) is \( r_2 - r_1 \), we need to calculate the area \( A \) of the track. The formulas are as follows: \[ A = \frac{\theta}{360} \times \pi (r_2^2 - r_1^2) \] Given that \( w_1 \), \( w_2 \), and \( L \) define the sides of the structure, to find the relationship between the required angle \( \theta \) and the track width can be derived from local information. ```c // do something with a if (r_1 < 0.0 || r_2 < 0.0) exit(1); // reference value CH = 0.5 * L * (w_1 + w_2) / 2.0; // apply Trigonometry here angle = 2 * atan(CH / 180.0 * PI); // angle of the track is true angle ``` ```c if (this.arc > expected_arc_hr) L++; // increase L else L--; // decrease L printf("Case %d: %.1f %.1f\n", caseNum, L, w); ``` ## Programming Exercises related to Divide and Conquer: 1. UVa 10929 - Consecutive 1’s 2. UVa 10694 - Crooked Path Problem (i.e., as the problem name implies) 3. UVa 10693 - Closest Pairs (brute force) 4. UVa 10628 - Enqueuing Rocks (distinction problems) 5. UVa 10689 - Regular Rides (the hardest problem) 6. UVa 11646 - Athletics Track (ii, insertion method, the circle is at the center of track) #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: # Foreword Long time ago (exactly the Tuesday November 11th 2003 at 3:55:57 UTC), I received an e-mail with the following assertion: I should say in a simple word that with the UVA Site, you have given birth to a new CIVILIZATION and with the book you wrote the term: "Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual" [1], co-authored with Steven Skiena, you inspire the seekers to carry on mastering. May you look to serve the humanity by producing super-programmers! Although, this statement was an exaggeration, to tell the truth I started thinking a bit about and I had a dream: to create a community around the project I had started as a part of teaching job at UVA, with students from everywhere around the world to work together after that initial jump. It sounds eccentric but I completely think a lot of people will thrive with just the right amount of encouragement. My family helped me to realize that. I went from Indonesia and I started to believe that the dream would become real a day, because as I put the two things together: the book and the bright young students would inevitably result in a network that would be the talk of community. Moreover, it would have a brother with similar interest, as that was the case here in the United States. At that time I had a real collaboration through with the students and I was thinking in a parallel with the book being helpful to become your best proof. I could imagine a better complement for the UVA Online Judge site, as you know, which I can basically used and categorized both by problem type and solving techniques, as mentioned in the help for new users of the site. By the mentality and conflicting purposes, one of the sessions I knew there was ready to 500 problems solved in UVA repository. Then it’s clear that the book "Competitive Programming: Improving the Lower Bound of Programming" is essential to aspiring programmers who want to improve their skills. It contains practical C++ source codes to inspire the given algorithms. Because well-trained students in this thing, sooner or later become experts in a programming world, and achieve great things along the way. After you read this introduction to the book’s content, you will realize that you are a much better programmer and, more important, a more happy person. --- Miguel A. Revilla, University of Valladolid UVA Online Judge coordinator, ACM-ICPC International Steering Committee Member and Problem Archivist [http://uva.onlinejudge.org](http://uva.onlinejudge.org) [http://livearchive.onlinejudge.org](http://livearchive.onlinejudge.org) --- L.-R. Carlos Miguel Jr. Steven Miguel Revilla #################### 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 highest 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) (including the National Exam). 3. Coaches who are looking for comprehensive training material for their students. 4. Anyone who loves solving problems through competitive programming. There are numerous programming contests for those who are no longer eligible for ICPC like the 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 C++), and have passed basic data structures and algorithms courses typically taught in year one of Computer Science university curriculum. ## Specific to the ACM ICPC Contestants We listed topics that may connect possibly with the ACM ICPC regional just by mastering the overall structure and content of this book. While the theme and main components may not be all the same, there are common elements that the topics belong to and we have included a lot of materials in this book, as we believe this will aid the contestants in future ICPCs as well. ## 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 (you can skip these items until you enter the actual university's ACM ICPC training). However, learning them in advance may be beneficial as some harder tasks in IOI may require some of these knowledge. #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 69 Context: # GCC and BIOS-related Development GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, is a versatile compiler with interesting features for BIOS-related development: 1. **Mixed Language Development**: GCC supports mixed language development through inline assembly constructs inside C/C++ functions. 2. **Integration with GNU Assembler**: GCC comes with GNU Assembler (GAS). GAS output can be combined seamlessly with GCC C/C++ compiler output through the GNU LD linker. GAS supports AT&T assembly syntax and recently began to support Intel assembler syntax, too. 3. **Linker Script Support**: GCC features so-called linker script support. A linker script is a script that gives detailed control of the overall linking process. Start with a review of the compilation steps in a C compiler to understand these features. These steps are implemented not only in GCC but also in other C compilers. ## Figure 3.2 C Compiler Compilation Steps ``` C Source Code ↓ Preprocessor ↓ Compiler ↓ Assembly Source Code ↓ Assembler ↓ Object File ↓ Library, Other Object Files ↓ Linker ↓ Executable File / Pure Machine Code ``` Figure 3.2 shows that the linker plays an important role; it links the object and the library files from various sources into an executable file or pure machine code. [^1]: **PCI Expansion ROM Binary** is the software inside the ROM chip in a PCI expansion card. It's primarily used for the initialization of the card during boot. However, it may contain other features. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 213 Context: Chapter8MoreAdvancedTopicsGeniusisonepercentinspiration,ninety-ninepercentperspiration.—ThomasAlvaEdison8.1OverviewandMotivationThepurposeofhavingthischapteristwofold.First,thischapterallowsustotakeoutthehardermaterialfromtheearlierchapters.Section8.2containsdiscussionsofmanyproblemswhichcanbeconfusingfornewcompetitiveprogrammersiftheyarelistedintheearlierchapters.ThisisbecausetheproblemslistedinSection8.2requiremorethanonedatastructuresand/oralgorithms.Itismoreappropriatetodiscusstheminthischapter,afterallthevariousdatastructuresandalgorithmshavebeendiscussed.Therefore,itisagoodideatomasterChapter1-7firstbeforereadingthischapter.Thesecondpurposeisforeasierextensioninthefutureeditionsofthisbook.Thestyleofthischapteriscurrentlyasfollow:Threemajorthemesinthreesections:ProblemDecomposition(Section8.2),MoreAdvancedSearchTechniques(Section8.3),andMoreAdvancedDynamicPro-grammingTechniques(Section8.4).Eachsectioncontainsindependentwriteupsofsomeharderproblems.Thisstylemakesthischaptereasytoextendinthefuture.8.2ProblemDecompositionWhilethereareonly‘afew’basicdatastructuresandalgorithmstestedincontestproblems(mostofthemarecoveredinthisbook),harderproblemsmayrequireacombinationoftwo(ormore)datastructuresand/oralgorithms.Forsuchproblems,trytodecomposepartsoftheproblemssothatyoucansolvethedifferentpartsindependently.Tobeabletodecomposeaproblemintoitscomponents,wemustfirstbefamiliarwiththeindividualcomponents.Weillustratethisdecompositiontechniqueusingseveralexamples.8.2.1TwoComponents:BinarySearchtheAnswerandOtherInSection3.3.1,wehaveseenbinarysearchtheansweronasimulationproblem.Actually,thistechniquecanbecombinedwithotheralgorithms.Severalvariantsthatwehaveencounteredsofararebinarysearchtheanswerplus:•Greedyalgorithm(discussedinSection3.4),e.g.UVa714,11516,LA2949,5000,•MCBM(discussedinSection4.7.4),e.g.UVa10804,11262,•SSSPalgorithm(discussedinSection4.4),e.g.UVa10816,IOI2009(Mecho),•MaxFlow(discussedinSection4.6),e.g.UVa10983.197 #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 717 Context: HAN22-ind-673-708-97801238147912011/6/13:27Page680#8680Indexcomplexdatatypes(Continued)summary,586symbolicsequencedata,586,588–590time-seriesdata,586,587–588compositejoinindices,162compressedpatterns,281mining,307–312miningbypatternclustering,308–310compression,100,120lossless,100lossy,100theory,601computerscienceapplications,613conceptcharacterization,180conceptcomparison,180conceptdescription,166,180concepthierarchies,142,179forgeneralizingdata,150illustrated,143,144implicit,143manualprovision,144multilevelassociationruleminingwith,285multiple,144fornominalattributes,284forspecializingdata,150concepthierarchygeneration,112,113,120basedonnumberofdistinctvalues,118illustrated,112methods,117–119fornominaldata,117–119withprespecifiedsemanticconnections,119schema,119conditionalprobabilitytable(CPT),394,395–396confidence,21associationrule,21interval,219–220limits,373rule,245,246conflictresolutionstrategy,356confusionmatrix,365–366,386illustrated,366connectionistlearning,398consecutiverules,92ConstrainedVectorQuantizationError(CVQE)algorithm,536constraint-basedclustering,447,497,532–538,539categorizationofconstraintsand,533–535hardconstraints,535–536methods,535–538softconstraints,536–537speedingup,537–538Seealsoclusteranalysisconstraint-basedmining,294–301,320interactiveexploratorymining/analysis,295asminingtrend,623constraint-basedpatterns/rules,281constraint-basedsequentialpatternmining,589constraint-guidedmining,30constraintsantimonotonic,298,301associationrule,296–297cannot-link,533onclusters,533coherence,535conflicting,535convertible,299–300data,294data-antimonotonic,300data-pruning,300–301,320data-succinct,300dimension/level,294,297hard,534,535–536,539inconvertible,300oninstances,533,539interestingness,294,297knowledgetype,294monotonic,298must-link,533,536pattern-pruning,297–300,320rulesfor,294onsimilaritymeasures,533–534soft,534,536–537,539succinct,298–299content-basedretrieval,596contextindicators,314contextmodeling,316contextunits,314contextualattributes,546,5 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 43 Context: # 2.2 DATA STRUCTURES WITH BUILT-IN LIBRARIES **Steven & Felix** --- ## Heap - C++ STL priority_queue (Java PriorityQueue) Heap is another way to organize data as a tree structure. Heap is also a binary tree (BST) but is most notably different from the traditional BST (Binary Search Tree). Heap addresses the Heap property: In each subtree rooted at z, the entry in the left and the right subtrees are smaller than (or equal to) z (see Figure 2.1, right). This is also a part of the maximum (and minimum) heap used in section 3.3. This property influences how we can search for the maximum element and insert one element, which can easily be done in O(log n) (max heap) and O(1) (min heap). ### (Max) Heap used to model a Priority Queue, where items with the highest priority (the maximum element) are dequeued first from the priority queue in O(log n) per operation. The opposite priority queue is also available in C++ STL (using Java PriorityQueue). Priority Queue is an important component in algorithms like Prim's (and Kruskal's) algorithm for Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem (Section 4.3) and Dijkstra's algorithm for Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem (Section 4.4). ### Example code: ```cpp #include #include #include int main() { std::priority_queue pq; pq.push(10); pq.push(5); pq.push(20); while (!pq.empty()) { std::cout << pq.top() << " "; pq.pop(); } return 0; } ``` ## Hash Table - C++ STL unordered_map (Java HashMap/Hashtable) Hash tables are another C++ STL structure used for storing and accessing data in a geometric structure. The primary benefit of using a hash table is that it allows you to access the data in average O(1) time. When elements are stored, they are hashed into a unique number based on the input string; this unique number is used to access the element in the array. However, since hash functions can lead to collisions (where two inputs hash to the same output), methods must be implemented to handle them. This can be done using chaining (linked lists) or open addressing. It is worth mentioning that the average case for search times is O(1), but the worst case can escalate to O(n) if many collisions occur. However, with a proper hash function, the worst-case scenario can be effectively minimized. ### Example code: ```cpp #include #include #include int main() { std::unordered_map umap; umap["apple"] = 1; umap["banana"] = 2; umap["grapes"] = 3; for (const auto& pair : umap) { std::cout << pair.first << ": " << pair.second << std::endl; } return 0; } ``` --- This section provides an overview of data structures commonly used in the C++ STL and their relationships with Java counterparts, emphasizing efficiency and practical application in algorithms. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 216 Context: # 8.2 PROBLEM DECOMPOSITION ACM ICPC World Finals 2009 - Problem A - A Careful Approach, LA 4445 **Abbreviated problem description:** You are given a scenario of airplane landings. There are \(2 \leq N \leq 8\) airplanes in the scenario. Each airplane has a time interval in which it can safely land. This time window is specified by two integers \(a\) and \(b\), which denote the beginning and end of a closed interval \((a, b]\) (measured with the plane on final approach). The numbers \(a\) and \(b\) are specified in minutes and satisfy \(0 \leq a \leq 1440\) (24 hours). In this problem, you can assume that the airplanes can be scheduled optimally. 1. Compute an order for landing all airplanes that respects these time windows. **HINT:** Order = `permutation` = `Complete Search`. 2. Furthermore, the airplane landing should be stretched out as much as possible so that the landing times are as far apart from each other as possible. For every three airplanes landing at 10:00, 10:30, and 10:15, the one that lands should be as large as possible. **HINT:** This is similar to the "interval covering" problem (see Section 3.4.17). 3. Print the answer with minutes and seconds, rounded to the closest second. See Figure 8.1 for illustration. | Time | 0 | 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | 75 | 90 | 105 | 120 | 135 | 150 | 165 | 180 | 195 | 210 | 225 | 240 | 255 | 270 | 285 | 300 | 315 | 330 | 345 | 360 | 375 | 390 | 405 | 420 | 435 | 450 | 465 | 480 | |-------------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------| | 7:30 | X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10:00 | | | X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7:30 | X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | *Figure 8.1: Illustration for ACM ICPC WF2009 - A - A Careful Approach* **Solution:** Since the number of planes is at most 8, an optimal solution can be found by simply trying all \(N!\) permutations of these planes to land. This is the **Complete Search** component of the problem which can be implemented using the `std::next_permutation` in the C++ STL algorithm. ```cpp int main() { int n, cas = 1, order[8]; double a[8], b[8], t_max; // ... } ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 131 Context: ``` # 4.7 SPECIAL GRAPHS © Steven & Felg The key to solve this problem is to realize that this pairing (matching) is done on a bipartite graph! To set a prime number, we need to set: 1 odd + 1 even, because 1 odd + 1 (odd + 1) even plus an even number (which is total). This can be split odd-even numbers to set/2 and even/2 gives results such as set/2 at least (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6) and equals to set/2 at least (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6). ![Figure 4.34: Bipartite Matching problem can be reduced to a Max Flow problem](url) After we build this bipartite graph, the solution is trivial: If the size of set1 and set2 are different, complete pairing is not possible. Otherwise, if the size of set1 ≤ size of set2 (with set2 fixed to 2R), then we can do a Max Cardinality Bipartite Matching (MCBM) for the result. If we obtain (R = 1 → size matching), add set2 to the answer. The text was clear, the rest follows. The MCBM problem is equivalent to the Min Vertex Cover problem by assigning a dummy source vertex connected to all vertices in set2. By setting, it suggests that we cannot find the complete matching on the original graph (see Figure 4.34, right of an example). ## Max Independent Set and Min Vertex Cover on Bipartite Graph Max Independent Set (MIS) and Min Vertex Cover (MVC) are related. Independent set is a set S such that every edge of the graph G has at least one endpoint not in S and no pair of vertices in S are adjacent in G. In Bipartite Graphs, the Max Independent Set (MIS) plus the Min Vertex Cover (MVC) is equal to the number of vertices V. For example, see Figure 4.35. Here, Figure 4.34 shows the MCBM as V=3 and MIS as V=2, it follows that MVC = 3 - 2 = 1. - **A. MCBM** - **B. Max Independent Set: MIS = V-MCBM** - **C. Min Vertex Cover: MVC = MCBM** Exercise 4.74.1: Solve UVA 10349 - Antenna Placement and UVA 11169 - Factors and Multiples. They are two variant problems involving MCBM. ``` #################### 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 book by giving you some overall guide below: ## Tip 1: Type Code Faster! No kidding! Although this tip may not mean much as ICPC and (especially) IOI are not typing contests, we have seen several ICPC teams rank and rank in just partially by few minutes. When you can solve the same number of problems as your competitor, 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 to improve your typing speed. The result is 85-95 WPM. You may think that is a little tiny. Perhaps, it is. ### Formatting Quiz Teams, the solution for UVA 10911 above: ```c #include #include // note: if you have problems understanding this C++ code #include // please consult your basic programming text (not the digital) /** Explanation of this program: // can be found at https://uvajudges.org/ // See section 2.2 for this algorithm. */ int bitmask[20], ans; // using global variables so it is easier to pass double data[20][20], team[1 << 16]; // << is 2^16, recall that bitmask int main() { // Initialize the array with -1 in the main function to prevent // initialization with incorrect result for (int i = 0; i < (1 << 16); ++i) team[i] = -1; // this bit is also off // then next valid step will execute } double memo(int mask) { // initialize with a large value if (mask == (1 << 2) - 1) // this has been computed before return 0; if (team[mask] != -1) // simply look up this return team[mask]; double ans = 2000000000; // result in memo table and return for (int p1 = 0; p1 < 2; ++p1) for (int p2 = 2; p2 < 2 * N; p2++) if ((mask & (1 << p1)) && (mask & (1 << p2))) { // this different path is also recursively generated ans = fmin(ans, memo(mask ^ (1 << p1) ^ (1 << p2)) + data[p1][p2]); break; // important step, will be discussed in Chapter 3 & later } return team[mask] = ans; // store result in a memo table and return } int main() { char line[1000]; fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin); // to simplify testing, redirect input file to stdin fscanf("10911.txt", "%s", stdin); } ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: # GETTING STARTED: THE AD HOC PROBLEMS ### Programming Exercises related to Ad Hoc problems: **Easy Problems in UVA Online Judge (under 7 minutes)** 1. UVA 001: **TXQ Quotes** (simple replace all double quotes to TXQ style quotes) 2. UVA 004: **Wicky and Gumball** (count frequency of words in a line) 3. UVA 109: **What's The Frequency?** (a bad box, 1D array manipulation) 4. UVA 10068: **Periodic Strings** (string periodicity, easy test) 5. UVA 100: **Conundrum Box** (image, do == mean) 6. UVA 110: **Simon Says** (simple, easy test) 7. UVA 112: **Making Change** (general knowledge) 8. UVA 1137: **Birthday of Neighbors** (multidimensional array, see list-subarray) 9. UVA 1137: **K Flavors** (more than one, make gist of the LED) 10. UVA 1177: **Card Counting** (use linear search to get max value) 11. UVA 1197: **Frog Jumping** (check if reachable in limited jumps) 12. UVA 1198: **Jumper's Dance** (jump through the list from last min) 13. UVA 1199: **Suspicious Stock** (check if it is trending/descending) 14. UVA 1201: **Coughs** (simple, string should not be null) 15. UVA 1209: **Card Exchange** (another easy manipulation problem) ### Case (Easy): 1. UVA 006: **Beggar My Neighbor** (card game simulation, straightforward) 2. UVA 012: **Bridge Hand Evaluator** (simulation, cards) 3. UVA 055: **Elderly Flash** (card game) 4. UVA 106: **Stack 'em Up** (card game) 5. UVA 109: **Check It Out!** (a shuffle with some rule, get certain card) 6. UVA 116: **Card Shuffle** (shuffle cards with numbers) 7. UVA 1168: **Queen (and box, chess)** ### Case (Hard): 1. UVA 0277: **People** (follow the game rules, 24 turtles) 2. UVA 0292: **Panic** (game, you range, any manipulation problem) 3. UVA 0293: **Game Maker** (another card game manipulation problem) 4. UVA 0294: **Special Assignment** (little turtles grab stacks) 5. UVA 0296: **Hanging Dance** (how to save) 6. UVA 0297: **Sailors** (difficult, can lead to your routing complexities) 7. UVA 0298: **One Last Drink** (simple) 8. UVA 0299: **Minmaxing** (simple Minmaxing game, similar to UVA 10279) 9. UVA 109: **Time Management** (see UVA 11804) --- **Note: Items are non-alphabetical thereon. Can be solved ‘elegantly’ with Java Regular Expression.** #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 149 Context: ``` # 5.5 Number Theory Mastering as many topics as possible in the field of number theory is important as some mathematics relates more closely to your (or your) knowledge than the theory behind the problems. Otherwise, either one can be prone to 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 \( 2 \) (i.e., \( 2, 3, 4, \ldots \)) is considered a prime if it is only divisible by \( 1 \) or itself. The first and the only even prime is \( 2 \). The first prime numbers are \( 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, \) and infinitely many more primes (proof in [31]). There are 25 primes in range \( 0 \) to \( 100 \), 168 primes in \( 0 \) to \( 1000 \), 1229 primes in \( 0 \) to \( 10,000 \), and more large prime numbers such as \( 10^9 \) (1299720, 1843577, 2017263, 2147483647). 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 \( isPrime(N) \). The most naive approach is to test, by definition, to test if \( N \) is divisible by divisor \( d \in (2, \ldots, N-1) \). This of course works, but is not \( O(N) \) in terms of number of divisions. This is not the best way and there are several potential improvements. The first improvement is to test if \( N \) is divisible by a divisor \( d \) where \( d \) is up to \( \sqrt{N} \) as any number greater than \( \sqrt{N} \) can be expressed as \( p \times q \), where one of those numbers must be less than or equal to \( \sqrt{N} \). This leads to an algorithm with complexity \( O(\sqrt{N}) \). The second improvement is to test if \( N \) is divisible by small primes \( (2, 3, 5, \ldots)\). This can reduce the complexity further. This is \( O(\sqrt{N}) \), which is obviously the cost of one prime number, i.e., number \( 2, 3, \ldots \). This leads to a generalized approach which is good enough for most contests. This is the final testing function based on \( O(\sqrt{N})\). The code is shown in the next section. ### Seive 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 than the one we have previously described for testing if a number is prime. This algorithm is called **Sieve of Eratosthenes**. Its algorithm is as follows: 1. First, it creates a boolean array \( isPrime[] \) of size \( n+1 \) and initializes all entries as true. 2. It then sets entries for \( 0 \) and \( 1 \) to false since neither \( 0 \) nor \( 1 \) is prime. 3. The algorithm proceeds to mark non-prime numbers as false in the boolean array: - For each integer \( p \) starting from \( 2 \) up to \( \sqrt{n} \): - If \( isPrime[p] \) is true, then it marks all multiples of \( p \) starting from \( p^2 \) to \( n \) as false. This takes \( O(n \log(\log(n))) \) time. Thus, it is suitable for generating all primes up to \( n \) efficiently. **Caution:** Additional implementations can start from \( 2 \) instead of \( 1 \), but the difference is not that much. ``` #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 73 Context: lsopublishesabi-annualnewsletter,SIGKDDExplorations.Thereareafewotherinternationalorregionalconferencesondatamining,suchastheEuropeanConferenceonMachineLearningandPrinciplesandPracticeofKnowledgeDiscoveryinDatabases(ECMLPKDD),thePacific-AsiaConferenceonKnowledgeDiscoveryandDataMining(PAKDD),andtheInternationalConferenceonDataWarehousingandKnowledgeDiscovery(DaWaK).Researchindatamininghasalsobeenpublishedinbooks,conferences,andjour-nalsondatabases,statistics,machinelearning,anddatavisualization.Referencestosuchsourcesarelistedattheendofthebook.PopulartextbooksondatabasesystemsincludeDatabaseSystems:TheCompleteBookbyGarcia-Molina,Ullman,andWidom[GMUW08];DatabaseManagementSystemsbyRamakrishnanandGehrke[RG03];DatabaseSystemConceptsbySilberschatz,Korth,andSudarshan[SKS10];andFundamentalsofDatabaseSystemsbyElmasriandNavathe[EN10].Foraneditedcollectionofseminalarticlesondatabasesystems,seeReadingsinDatabaseSystemsbyHellersteinandStonebraker[HS05]. #################### 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: - **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, 1.7, or [3]. - **Online resources for Tip 4**: - [http://www.geeksforgeeks.org](http://www.geeksforgeeks.org) - [http://www.cgi.com/tech/stl/](http://www.cgi.com/tech/stl/) for C++ STL - [http://java.sun.com/docs/books/api/](http://java.sun.com/docs/books/api/) for Java API. For more insights to better testing (Tip 5), a little note on 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](http://poj.org) - **TZOJ** [http://tzoj.com.cn](http://tzoj.com.cn) - **ZJU** [http://acm.zju.edu.cn/onlinejudge/](http://acm.zju.edu.cn/onlinejudge/) - **UVA** [http://uva.onlinejudge.org](http://uva.onlinejudge.org) For a note regarding team contest (Tip 7), read it. 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 and AC problems in every programming contest. Therefore, we hope that you can only solve the nice and complete reality and learning to use the chapters of this book substantially. Once you have finished reading this book, re-read it once more. 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 46% increase). #################### 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 use the solution from some basic geometric formulas. However, many geometry problems are the complications that often require some complex algorithms. In fact, the existence of geometry-specific problems depends on the tasks described by the Scientific Committee for the last two years (2000 and 2001). ICPC has to date featured geometry problems. However, in other years, there exists one or two geometry-related problems per [10] list. We have observed that many contestants, especially ICPC contestants, are afraid to tackle geometry-related problems due to two significant reasons: 1. The solutions for geometry-related problems have lower probability of getting Accepted (AC) during contests compared to the solutions for other problem types in this domain, like Complete Search or Dynamic Programming. This makes many contestants tend to skip the problem as more worthwhile than spending precious minutes coding geometry solutions that have lower probability of acceptance. - There are actually tricky 'special case' issues in geometry problems, e.g., What if the lines are vertical (i.e., respectively vertical)? What if the points are collinear? What if the polyline is convex, etc.? It is usually a good idea to join your team’s geometry solution with its detailed cases before you submit it to judges. - There is a possibility of having floating-point precision errors that cause even a 'correct' algorithm to be a Wrong Answer (WA) response. 2. The contestants are not well prepared. The contestants often forget some important basic formulas or unable to derive the necessary formulas from the basic ones. - The conclusion is that despite some well-written library functions and their attempts to code such functions that assist students relate time and size with (b) or (g) analogs, the ICPC, the top teams really find suitable parts of their hard copy material (which can bring valuable information) in textbooks instead of geometry libraries and library functions. #################### 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 paths" between two vertices on a weighted Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) with \(|V|, |E| < 100K\). Which algorithm(s) can be used in context setting? - (a) Dynamic Programming (Sections 4.3.3, 4.4.1). - (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 100 prime numbers? (Section 1.5.1) - **Size of Exuberances** (Section 1.5.1). - For each number \(i \in [1, 100]\), test if `isPrime(i)` is true (Section 5.5.1). 6. You want to test if factorial of \(n\) is divisible by an integer \(m\) in case \(n = 5\) and \(m = 10000\). What should you do? - **Test if** \(5! \% m == 0\): (Section 5.5.1) 7. 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 \(10^3\) characters. - 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 (P[j] != T[i + j]) found = false; } if (found) printf("%d is found in index %d in T\n", P, i); } ``` - **The naive approach above will not work. We must use:** (Section 6.4) 8. Same problem as in question 7 earlier, but now the number of points \(N\) is larger, \(N > 1M\). Recall that points are randomly scattered on 2D plane. - **The naive approach above will not work. We must use:** (Section 7.3) ## 1.2.3 Tip 4: Master Programming Languages There are various programming languages allowed in ICPC, including C/C++ and Java. While you may master one of these: Although we prefer C++, with built-in Standard Template Library (STL), you still need to master Java, able to solve, where Java has powerful libraries: BigInteger, Data Structures, Graphical/Graphical API. Also consider thinking ahead. As a Java programmer, be sure to stay current with trends (as opposed to C++ improvements). The programming languages for the 301st competitions results (as reported at CCF), would find that the learned languages matter in C++ as it is also a third-complex language as through STL. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 489 Context: HAN17-ch10-443-496-97801238147912011/6/13:44Page452#10452Chapter10ClusterAnalysis:BasicConceptsandMethodstheobjecttoitsclustercenterissquared,andthedistancesaresummed.Thisobjectivefunctiontriestomaketheresultingkclustersascompactandasseparateaspossible.Optimizingthewithin-clustervariationiscomputationallychallenging.Intheworstcase,wewouldhavetoenumerateanumberofpossiblepartitioningsthatareexponen-tialtothenumberofclusters,andcheckthewithin-clustervariationvalues.IthasbeenshownthattheproblemisNP-hardingeneralEuclideanspaceevenfortwoclusters(i.e.,k=2).Moreover,theproblemisNP-hardforageneralnumberofclusterskeveninthe2-DEuclideanspace.Ifthenumberofclusterskandthedimensionalityofthespacedarefixed,theproblemcanbesolvedintimeO(ndk+1logn),wherenisthenumberofobjects.Toovercometheprohibitivecomputationalcostfortheexactsolution,greedyapproachesareoftenusedinpractice.Aprimeexampleisthek-meansalgorithm,whichissimpleandcommonlyused.“Howdoesthek-meansalgorithmwork?”Thek-meansalgorithmdefinesthecentroidofaclusterasthemeanvalueofthepointswithinthecluster.Itproceedsasfollows.First,itrandomlyselectskoftheobjectsinD,eachofwhichinitiallyrepresentsaclustermeanorcenter.Foreachoftheremainingobjects,anobjectisassignedtotheclustertowhichitisthemostsimilar,basedontheEuclideandistancebetweentheobjectandtheclustermean.Thek-meansalgorithmtheniterativelyimprovesthewithin-clustervariation.Foreachcluster,itcomputesthenewmeanusingtheobjectsassignedtotheclusterinthepreviousiteration.Alltheobjectsarethenreassignedusingtheupdatedmeansasthenewclustercenters.Theiterationscontinueuntiltheassignmentisstable,thatis,theclustersformedinthecurrentroundarethesameasthoseformedinthepreviousround.Thek-meansprocedureissummarizedinFigure10.2.Algorithm:k-means.Thek-meansalgorithmforpartitioning,whereeachcluster’scenterisrepresentedbythemeanvalueoftheobjectsinthecluster.Input:k:thenumberofclusters,D:adatasetcontainingnobjects.Output:Asetofkclusters.Method:(1)arbitrarilychoosekobjectsfromDastheinitialclustercenters;(2) #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 230 Context: Exercise 1.2.3: The code is shown below: ```java // Java code for question 1, assuming all necessary imports have been done class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { String str = "Y"; int x = 16, y = 10; System.out.println(new BigInteger(str, x).toString(y)); } } // Java code for question 2, assuming all necessary imports have been done class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { int[] L = {5, 1, 10, 7, 20, 8, 9}; sort(L, 4); print(L, 1); } // Binary search method public static int binary_search(int[] arr, int l, int h, int x) { // Implementation here } } // Java code for question 3, assuming all necessary imports have been done class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { String[] names = new String[] {"Sam", "Max", "Trev", "Thu", "Fsi", "Sat"}; Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(2010, 7, 9); // August 2010 // Note that months start from 0, so we need to refer to 7 instead of 8 System.out.println(names[calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)]); // "Wed" } } // Java code for question 4 class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { String str = "Pi: a and z2 will be replaced, but a2d and a872 will set"; System.out.println(str.replaceAll("[^a-za-z0-9 ]", "")); } } // Java code for question 5, assuming all necessary imports have been done class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { double score = new Scanner(System.in).nextDouble(); System.out.println(score); System.out.printf("%.3f", score); // Yes, Java has printf too! } } // Java code for question 6, assuming all necessary imports have been done class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { int[] p = {0, 1, 2}; int n = 3; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { printf("%d ", p[i]); } while (next_permutation(p, p + n)) { // Implementation here } } } ``` #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 576 Context: )isused?Whatcanyoulearnfromthisexample?11.3ShowthatI×Jisabiclusterwithcoherentvaluesifandonlyif,foranyi1,i2∈Iandj1,j2∈J,ei1j1−ei2j1=ei1j2−ei2j2.11.4ComparetheMaPlealgorithm(Section11.2.3)withthefrequentcloseditemsetminingalgorithm,CLOSET(Pei,Han,andMao[PHM00]).Whatarethemajorsimilaritiesanddifferences? #################### 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: 122 Context: # 6.6 Maximum Flow ## Min Cost (Max) Flow The Min Cost Flow problem is the problem of finding the cheapest possible way of sending a certain amount of flow (similar to the Max Flow) through a flow network. In this problem, every edge has two attributes: the flow capacity through this edge and the cost for that edge. ![Figure 4.26: An Example of Min Cost Max Flow (MCMF) Problem (from UVa 10934 [28])](#) Figure 4.26 shows a (modified) instance of UVa 10934. Here, each edge has a uniform capacity of 10 units and a cost as shown in the edge label. We want to send 20 units of flow which can be satisfied by sending 10 units from A to B and 10 units from C to D. The edge (A, B) has another 10 units of flow as A → B + C → D + (S + J) = 10 (Figure 4.26, right). The total cost is 10 * (1 + 3) = 40 and this is the minimum. Note that if we choose to send 20 units of flow via A → B + C → D instead, the total cost would be 1 * 10 + (3 + 1) * 10 = 60, which is higher than the computed cost of 40. The Min Cost (Max) Flow, or not MCMF, can be solved by replicating Bellman-Ford's method to find the shortest path in terms of the least cost augmenting path. The Dijkstra's implementation can also be used alongside the appropriate modifications. ### Exercise 6.46.1 We have talked about many MCMF codes in this section but insist we let the task of modifying the own Edmonds Karp’s implementation (which uses BFS with residual network) to deal with higher edge capacity networks (where the edges can hold F(v) < cap[u, v], where MCMF performs runs through the pair and separate matching). Please write code to derive Bellman Ford's. - Replace BFS code with Bellman Ford’s. - If running time runs through both !(u, v) and (v, u), apply it. Remarks About Edmonds Karp’s for Programming Contests When a Max Flow problem appears in a programming contest, one of the 'decider' strategies is to use an approach that introduces Max Flow as an intersection between two approaches—a Max Flow problem can be formulated and solved via dynamic programming and using combinatorics. It is important to note that while discussing the literature, there are ‘flow’ functions that are usually introduced for introducing Max Flow problems in graph techniques. It is possible to utilize these theorems to create simpler and optimized ways for explaining Max Flow concepts in a specific context. References and material related to these concepts can be found in UVa [list reference], [link]. **"Constrained flow"** is the reason that the flow graph in MCMF can have negative weight edges. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 27 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE **© Steven & Felix** 1. For multiple test cases, you should have identical sample test cases consecutively. Both must output the same known correct results. This is to ensure that you have forgotten to initialize some variables, which will be easily identified if the test instance produces the incorrect output for the same test case. 2. Your test cases must include edge cases. Increase the input size incrementally up to the maximum specified in problem description. Sometimes your program needs for small input size, but behaves wrongly (or slowly) when input size increases. Check for overflow, out of bounds, etc. if that happens. 3. You can test input bounds to include tricky corner cases. Think like the problem setter! Identify cases that are the "hidden" in the problem description. Some potential criteria are: \(N = 0\), \(N = 1\), \(N = \text{maximum value}\) in problem description, etc. 4. Finally, generate large random test cases to see if your code continues to run fast and give reasonable outputs. If the correctness is hard to verify here, it's best to verify that your algorithm runs within the time limit. However, after all these steps, you may still get non-AC responses. In ICPC, you and your team can actually see the judge’s response to determine your exact rank. With more experience in such contexts, you will be able to make better judgments. See the next exercises: ### Exercise 1.2.4: Standard Judging (Mostly in ICPC settings) 1. You receive a WA response for a very easy problem. What should you do? - (a) Abandon this problem and do another. - (b) Investigate the performance of your solution (optimize the code or use a better algorithm). - (c) Trace test cases and find the bug. 2. You receive a TLE response for an \(O(N)\) solution. However, maximum \(N\) is just 100. What should you do? - (a) Abandon this problem and do another. - (b) Investigate the performance of your solution (optimize the code or use better algorithm). - (c) Triple check test cases and find the bug. 3. You receive an RT response. Your code runs on your machine. What should you do? - (a) Abandon the problem with WA code, switch to that other problem in attempt to solve another problem. - (b) (ICPC): Print the WA code. Ask two other team members to scrutinize the code for mistakes. What should your team do? > **Tip:** To *2015-2017*, contestants have limited tests that can be used to quickly check the correctness of their solution code. The criteria in this notice is more towards ICPC style contests. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 61 Context: arninginvestigateshowcomputerscanlearn(orimprovetheirperformance)basedondata.Amainresearchareaisforcomputerprogramstoautomaticallylearntorecognizecomplexpatternsandmakeintelligentdecisionsbasedondata.Forexample,atypicalmachinelearningproblemistoprogramacomputersothatitcanautomaticallyrecognizehandwrittenpostalcodesonmailafterlearningfromasetofexamples.Machinelearningisafast-growingdiscipline.Here,weillustrateclassicproblemsinmachinelearningthatarehighlyrelatedtodatamining.Supervisedlearningisbasicallyasynonymforclassification.Thesupervisioninthelearningcomesfromthelabeledexamplesinthetrainingdataset.Forexample,inthepostalcoderecognitionproblem,asetofhandwrittenpostalcodeimagesandtheircorrespondingmachine-readabletranslationsareusedasthetrainingexamples,whichsupervisethelearningoftheclassificationmodel. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 65 Context: # 3.8 DIVIDE AND CONQUER © Steven & Efig For the binary method `findX()`, we must ensure that the functionvaluesthe two extreme points in the initial real range \([a, b]\), i.e., \(f(a)\) and \(f(b)\) have opposite signs (this is true in the example given above). Binary methods only provides \(O(\log(b - a))\) iterations to get an answer that is good enough; the error must be a small constant \(\epsilon\) for the actual answer. In this example, \(\epsilon\) should only take values \(100\) or less. Using a small \(\epsilon\) is essential. Even if we can use even smaller \(\epsilon = 10^{-6}\), it still needs to be finite. Bisection method is much more efficient compared to answering trying possible values of \(a + \epsilon\). ## Binary Search the Answer The analogy created in UV 1985 - Through the Desert is as follow: Imagine that you are an explorer trying to cross a desert. You see a very high “large rock” (initially full). You now realize that it represents the amount of fuel you’ll need to cross that dimension. Before venturing out, you check the original capacity of your fuel tank, consider other factors (fuel leaks), and result “much.” From there, you then proceed by reasoning that your answer must be the smallest possible fixed capacity so that your journey is able to reach the goal. The answer should be within the points that directly affect the desired points. If we know the fuel tank capacity, then this problem is just a simulation problem. From the starting point \([a, b]\) with the desired fuel cap, you can run across different variable values (e.g., find the middle value and calculate). The problem is that we can only keep adjusting based on bounds (e.g. middle values). Let’s consider the following code snippet that solves this problem: ```c double canDoubleGo (double capacity) { // details of this simulation is omitted // return false otherwise } // inside main() double a = 0.0, b = 10000.0, mid = 0.0, ans = 0.0; while (fabs(b - a) > EPS) { // while the answer is not found yet mid = (a + b) / 2.0; // try the middle value if (canDoubleGo(mid)) { a = mid; // save the value, then update } else { b = mid; } } printf("%lf", ans); // after the loop above is over, we have the answer Note that some programmers choose to use the ‘for loop’ instead of ‘while loop’ to avoid precision error when testing for \(b - a > EPS\) and thus trapped in an infinite loop. > **Note:** that the requirement of iterative/refined (which tests binary search principle) is slightly different from the more well-known binary search algorithm which works and ends earlier. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 123 Context: # 4.7 Special Graphs ## Programming Exercises related to Max Flow - Standard Max Flow/Min Cut (Edmonds-Karp) 1. UVA 10025 - Software Allocation (discussed in this section) 2. UVA 10075 - A Plug for Bags (matching, max flow, capacity revisions adapters is c) 3. UVA 10083 - Palindrome Partitioning 4. UVA 10620 - The Problem with the -- (MCBM variant, see Section 4.7) 5. UVA 10621 - Subsequence (max flow) 6. UVA 11048 - Culminating (min-cut) (see the assignment) 7. UVA 11734 - Curbside Problems 8. UVA 11736 - Clustering Additional Problems related to Max Flow: 1. UVA 10634 - Power Transmission (max flow with vertex capacities) 2. UVA 10244 - Pizza Plane (max flow needs a mind for packing & MCMF) 3. UVA 11447 - Guessing Difficult (generalized into matching & MCMF) 4. UVA 11616 - Angry Programmer (2-cuts with vertex capacities) 5. UVA 11618 - Rectangle Intersection (max flow) 6. UVA 12616 - Highway Patrol (Dinic's, MCMF) ## 4.7 Special Graphs Some basic graph problems have simpler/faster polynomial algorithms if the given graph is special. So far we have identified the following special graphs that commonly appear in programming contests: - Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) - Trees - Bipartite Graphs Problems in this section follow along the same themes as those discussed regarding general graphs. Note that bipartite graphs will be explored in the following [10] sections. ### Figure 4.27: Special Graphs (L-to-R): DAG, Tree, Euclidean, Bipartite Graph #### 4.7.1 Directed Acyclic Graph A Directed Acyclic Graph, abbreviated as DAG, is a special graph with the following characteristics: - Directed and has no cycles. DAG guarantees the absence of cycles by definition. This makes DAG very suitable for representing problems (DAG relationships see Section 3.5). After all, a DAG representation ensures that individual elements do not have cycles or implied DAG. Topological sort of this DAG (see Section 4.21) allows each overlapping subproblem (subgraph) of the DAG to be processed just once. #################### 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 Trees [2], etc. However, we will discuss several Standard DP algorithms in Sections 3.6 and discuss String Alignment (Edit Distance), Longest Common Subsequence (LCS), DP for Knapsack in Sections 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, respectively. 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 in programming contests without this knowledge. However, we can also remember that problems do not just boil down to better DP. It’s a matter of finding the best solution to each problem; a lot of the “trick” in practical programming comes from the fact that the solution can usually not directly represent sub-problems and how to fill that state. There is no perfect way to master all these problems quickly, particularly when tackling new programming problems! Here, we give several examples. One assumes you are familiar with the common DP techniques, then the newer forms of DP problems that follow have their importance in recent 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 - Testing Ceiling (integer-based, be careful of the rounding system) - UVA 002 - Testing the Cactus (graph-based) 2. **UVA 001: What Goes Up?** - UVA 003 - Strategy Designer Initiative (solutions that are not perfectly suitable) 3. **UVA 004: Brute Force (binary search)** - UVA 006 - Maximum Subsequence Sum (not too deep, LIS weighted) 4. **UVA 007: Longest Arithmetic Progression** - UVA 008 - Maximum Sum (cubic) 5. **UVA 010 - Maximum Sum - (max 2D array, characterized with subsequence)** - UVA 011 - Maximum Subsequence (based on previous calculations) 6. **UVA 012 - Maximum Subsequence (to be: P2, min max )** 7. **UVA 013 - Knapsack Problem** - UVA 019 - Maximum Subset Sum Ratio 8. **UVA 020 - Integer Knapsack (simple 2D and constraints)** - UVA 021 - Simple Knapsack (costly) 9. **UVA 022 - Largest Sum (costly DMs)** - UVA 025 - Knapsack (rolling array) ### Acknowledgements - This text is based on the classical works on Dynamic Programming, refer to Sections 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 for further details. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 59 Context: # 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH *Stevens & Efic* This tip is best shown using an example: UVA 10360 - Rat Attack. Imagine a 2D array (up to 1024 x 1024) containing rats. There are `n = 5000` rats on the grid, denoted by their coordinates `(x, y)`, and it should be established that the number of rats killed is minimized. This is the problem of data points in `M` space (see Figure 12). The first step is to define this problem formally. By bombarding each of the `1024` cells and determining the number of rats killed within the square-bombing radius, we see that for each bomb cell `(i, j)`, we need to do `O(n)` to count how many rats are killed (in `2R^2` for each population area `x` is less than `1024`(1024). For each rat population `(x_i, y_i)` for all `i`, in the square-bombing radius `(x_i - d ≤ j ≤ x_i + d)` and `(y_i - d ≤ j ≤ y_i + d)`. This is the maximal density problem that involves `O(n^2)` operations. Then, to determine the best grid bomb placement, we need to consider the highest cost to ally rats killed, which can be done in `O(n)` operations. This backwards approach only requires `2000` cells `= 1024^2` divided by the worst case (i.e., `n = 2000`, so `2 * 50` times the maximum evaluated. This is `AC`. ## 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-style` `printf` rather than `cout`. For Java, prefer `BufferedReader` over `Scanner` for input. 2. Use the `opened (O) long` best-fitted dynamically (using C++ STL algorithms; avoid the `new` operator) instead of `malloc` or `free` for built-in array structures when possible. 3. Access a 2D array in a row-major fashion (row by row) rather than column by column. 4. Bit manipulation can often be more efficient than indexing an array of books (see the highlight section of Book in Section 22.1). If we need more than `15` bytes, use `C++` STL `string`. 5. Use lower-level data types where relevant. For example, storing `int` equals to the maximum size of `int` instead of using resizable variables: use `32-bit integers` when possible, as `32-bit` is faster in most cases. 6. In C/C++, prefer the faster `ArrayList` rather than `Java Vector`. `Java Vector` is thread-safe but this is not used in competitive programming. 7. The C++ `const` will provide compile-time optimization where possible. 8. Don't repeat code. Use functions to reduce duplication and improve maintainability. 9. Be careful with `String` manipulation in Java; using `C++` STL strings reduces overhead and improves performance. 10. When accessing memory, ensure your data structure aligns with cache usage to avoid cache misses. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 87 Context: Chapter4GraphWeAreAllConnected—HeroesTVSeries4.1OverviewandMotivationManyreal-lifeproblemscanbeclassifiedasgraphproblems.Somehaveefficientsolutions.Somedonotyethavethem.Inthisrelativelybigchapterwithlotsoffigures,wediscussgraphproblemsthatcommonlyappearinprogrammingcontests,thealgorithmstosolvethem,andthepracticalimplementationsofthesealgorithms.Wecovertopicsrangingfrombasicgraphtraversals,minimumspanningtree,shortestpaths,maximumflow,anddiscussgraphswithspecialproperties.Inwritingthischapter,weassumethatthereadersarealreadyfamiliarwiththefollow-inggraphterminologies:Vertices/Nodes,Edges,Un/Weighted,Un/Directed,In/OutDegree,Self-Loop/MultipleEdges(Multigraph)versusSimpleGraph,Sparse/Dense,Path,Cycle,Iso-latedversusReachableVertices,(Strongly)ConnectedComponent,Sub-Graph,CompleteGraph,Tree/Forest,Euler/HamiltonianPath/Cycle,DirectedAcyclicGraph,andBipartiteGraph.Ifyouencounteranyunfamiliarterm,pleasereadotherreferencebookslike[3,32](orbrowseWikipedia)andsearchforthatparticularterm.WealsoassumethatthereadershavereadvariouswaystorepresentgraphinformationthathavebeendiscussedearlierinSection2.3.1.Thatis,wewilldirectlyusethetermslike:AdjacencyMatrix,AdjacencyList,EdgeList,andimplicitgraphwithoutredefiningthem.PleasereviseSection2.3.1ifyouarenotfamiliarwiththesegraphdatastructures.OurresearchsofarongraphproblemsinrecentACMICPCregionalcontests(especiallyinAsia)revealsthatthereisatleastone(andpossiblymore)graphproblem(s)inanICPCproblemset.However,sincetherangeofgraphproblemsissobig,eachgraphproblemhasonlyasmallprobabilityofappearance.Sothequestionis“Whichonesdowehavetofocuson?”.Inouropinion,thereisnoclearanswerforthisquestion.IfyouwanttodowellinACMICPC,youhavenochoicebuttostudyallthesematerials.ForIOI,thesyllabus[10]restrictsIOItaskstoasubsetofmaterialmentionedinthischapter.ThisislogicalashighschoolstudentscompetinginIOIarenotexpectedtobewellversedwithtoomanyproblem-specificalgorithms.ToassiststhereadersaspiringtotakepartintheIOI,wewillmentionwhetheraparticularsectioninthi #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 225 Context: # 8.4 MORE ADVANCED DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES **Steven & Felix** ## Exercise 8.4.1: Solve UVA 10482 - The Canthran Can and UVA 10678 - Buying Code Use this technique. Determine which parameter is the most effective to be dropped but can still be recovered from other parameters. ## 8.4.6 Your Parameter Values Go Negative? Use Offset Technique In some cases, the possible range of a parameter used in DP can go negative. This causes a problem for DP solutions in the indices of a DP table must be non-negative. Fortunately, this problem can be solved by using offset techniques to translate negative values to positive ones. ### Example Problem Statement (ACM ICPC Jakarta 2008, L4 4143) You are given a simple arithmetic expression which consists of only addition and subtraction operators, i.e., `1 + 2 - 3 + 4 - 5`. You are free to assign parameters values as many as you want. Here, we want to determine how many different expressions can you make? The answer for the simple expression above is `6`. - \(1 - 2 + 3 + 4 - 5\) = 1 - \(2 - 3 + 4 - 5\) = -2 - \(1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5\) = 3 - \(1 + 2 - 3 + 4 - 5\) = -1 - \(1 + 2 - 3 - 4 + 5\) = 1 - \(1 + 2 + 3 - 4 - 5\) = -3 This problem specifies the following constraints: the expression consists of any \(X \geq 3\) non-negative numbers less than 10, separated by addition or subtraction operators. There is no operator before the first or the last number. To solve this problem, we need to make three observations: 1. **We can treat all our expressions as if a constant is added to them to ensure positivity.** 2. **If x < 0, then we will place brackets of `x` (negative) signs as it will reverse the meaning of our parameters.** 3. **To deal with the expression `1 + ... + 100 - ... - 100 (up to 10)` = 300 and the values in this problem represent distinct constraints. The DP parameters that are to be stored are pairs.** To solve for this problem, set \(D\) as your distinct count and keep track of parameters of this problem using offset differential tables. The DP parameters that are easier to identify: - `idx` - the current position being processed, we need to know where we are now. - `open` - number of parentheses processed, this information for a valid expression. We can dump all the necessary checking tables at the end of the expression, i.e., \(1 + (3 - x) - (2 - y)\). #################### 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 stating that 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 are always appear in a programming contest. Using a benchmark of total problems, there must be 1-2 Ad Hoc problems in an ICPC. If the problem is easy, it will probably be the first problem assigned to the teams in a programming contest. But there exists a reason for this problem list: the problem cannot seem to be solved by any conventional way, and you will encounter many problems that require you to think outside the box. If you have the bare concepts, you can start with the simplest problems of this category and work your way up from there. There are 10 problems that you should try to solve. The cases I will take for each competition category (this is only a guide) are as follows: 1. If you start at 10, usually, you will find it hard to predict where you will end up with these cases: 2 may have little to no exceptions. However, the further you can draw these cases, the more time that you will have to work on the 2 + 3 = 5 challenging tasks. ## The main categories We believe that you can make use of basic problems whilst using advanced data structures or algorithms that will be discussed in the later chapters. Many of these Ad Hoc problems are "simple" but have the simple method "tricky". Now, try to solve problems from each category before reading the next article. ### 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 problems. The first game type is related to cards. Usually you will need to parse the string input as external cards (suits such as `D(iamond)`, `C(lub)`, `H(eart)`, and `S(pade)` and so forth) with the basic quantity: `2, 3, 4, ..., 10, J(ack), Q(ueen), K(ing), A(ce)`. It may be a good idea to map the complicated strings to integer indices. For example, one possible mapping is `1` for `2`, `2` for `3`, ..., `DA` → `0`, `D2` → `1`, `D3` → `2`, ..., `SA` → `14`. Keep in mind that you will deal with the integer indices instead. 3. **(Game (Others))** Other than card-related games, there are many other popular programming contest problems one faces such that they must filter their way into programming contest problems. The To-Do, Read-Paper-Science, Sudoku, and more. These can be included in this section. Once you have the basics, look for many ways to put queries in `S × S` and those listed in Chapter 3. In some other arrangements, let `A < Z`. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 20 Context: ```markdown # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE © Steven & Felts ```c // we use getLine() to read input line by line line(ascii(getLine(), ‘\n’, 4), 3) // yes, we can do this :) for (i = 0; i < 2 * K; i++) scanf(getLine(), “%d %d”, &name, &x[i], &y[i]); for (j = 0; j < 2 * N; j++) { // build pairwise distance table dist[i][j] = hypot(double(x[i] - x[j]), double(y[i] - y[j])); // were you used ‘hypot’ before? } // use DP to obtain minimum weighted perfect matching on small general graph // this is to trick to initialize the nice table with +1 memset(dist, -1, sizeof (dist)); printf(“Case %d: %d\n”, caseNum, 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. For your reference of recent ICPC Asia Regional problems, we can categorize the problems types and their relative appearance in a table. From 1998-2000, the problem categories were given 1 task per category (as seen in 2011) but then reverted to 1-3 problems per subject from 2010 in Table 1. For details, please refer to the 101 Problems 2009 [log] and the 1998-2000 problems classification. | No. | Category | In Book Appearance Frequency | |-----|--------------------------------------------|------------------------------| | 1 | Ad-hoc Problem (Iterative/Recursive) | Section 3.1 | | 2 | Divide & Conquer | Section 3.2 | | 3 | Greedy (General) | Section 3.3 | | 4 | Graph Algorithms (mostly the original ones)| Section 3.4 | | 5 | Dynamic Programming (only the original ones)| Section 3.5 | | 6 | String Processing | Chapter 6 | | 7 | Computational Geometry | Chapter 6 | | 8 | Miscellaneous Problems (Trivial) | Chapter 3 | | 9 | Some Practice Problems | Chapter 7 | | 10 | Other | Table 1 Set * (mostly ≤ 11) | **Table 1:** Recent ACM ICPC Asia Regional Problem Types ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 55 Context: Chapter3ProblemSolvingParadigmsIfallyouhaveisahammer,everythinglookslikeanail—AbrahamMaslow,19623.1OverviewandMotivationInthischapter,wehighlightfourproblemsolvingparadigmscommonlyusedtoattackproblemsinprogrammingcontests,namelyCompleteSearch,Divide&Conquer,Greedy,andDynamicProgramming.BothIOIandICPCcontestantsneedtomasteralltheseproblemsolvingparadigmssothattheycanattackthegivenproblemwiththeappropriate‘tool’,ratherthan‘hammering’everyproblemwiththebrute-forcesolution(whichisclearlynotcompetitive).Ouradvicebeforeyoustartreading:Donotjustrememberthesolutionsfortheproblemsdiscussedinthischapter,butremembertheway,thespiritofsolvingthoseproblems!3.2CompleteSearchCompleteSearch,alsoknownasbruteforceorrecursivebacktracking,isamethodforsolvingaproblembysearching(upto)theentiresearchspacetoobtaintherequiredsolution.Inprogrammingcontests,acontestantshoulddevelopaCompleteSearchsolutionwhenthereisclearlynocleveralgorithmavailable(e.g.theproblemofenumeratingallpermutationsof{0,1,2,...,N−1},whichclearlyrequiresO(N!)operations)orwhensuchcleveralgorithmsexist,butoverkill,astheinputsizehappenstobesmall(e.g.theproblemofansweringRangeMinimumQueryasinSection2.3.3butonastaticarraywithN≤100–solvablewithanO(N)loop).InICPC,CompleteSearchshouldbethefirstsolutiontobeconsideredasitisusuallyeasytocomeupwiththesolutionandtocode/debugit.Rememberthe‘KISS’principle:KeepItShortandSimple.Abug-freeCompleteSearchsolutionshouldneverreceiveWrongAnswer(WA)responseinprogrammingcontestsasitexplorestheentiresearchspace.However,manyprogrammingproblemsdohavebetter-than-Complete-Searchsolutions.ThusaCompleteSearchsolutionmayreceiveaTimeLimitExceeded(TLE)verdict.Withproperanalysis,youcandeterminewhichisthelikelyoutcome(TLEversusAC)beforeattemptingtocodeanything(Table1.4inSection1.2.2isagoodgauge).IfCompleteSearchcanlikelypassthetimelimit,thengoahead.ThiswillthengiveyoumoretimetoworkontheharderproblemswhereCompleteSearchistooslow.InIOI,weusuallyneedbetterproblemsolvingtechniquesasCompleteSearchsolutionsareusu #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 238 Context: Exercise 6.5.12. You want to save the predecessor information (the arrows) during the DP computation. Then follow the arrows using recursive backtracking. Exercise 6.5.13. The DP solution only need to preserve positions so it can utilize the 'spare saving' trick. Let `O(n)`, (m), that is, the input string with length `n` and `m` is the number of columns (pen memory). The time complexity of this solution is `O(n*m)`. The only drawback of this approach, is that only after space savings trick that we will be able to reconstruct the solution. So if the actual solution is needed, we cannot use the space saving trick. Exercise 6.5.14. Simply concentrate along the main diagonal with width `d`. We can speed up Necherman-Wulsin's algorithm to `O(d)` by doing this. Exercise 6.5.15. Solution is not shown. It involves Kadane's algorithm again (see maximum sum problem in Section 5.2.3). Exercise 6.5.21. 'spLee'. Exercise 6.5.22. For match = 0, insert and delete = negative infinity. However, this solution is not distinct, as we can simply use an `O(n^2, m)` algorithm to scan both string `1` and string `2` and count how many characters are different. Exercise 6.5.23. Solution is `LIS`, (longest increasing subsequence). The reduction to LIS is not shown. Draw it and see how to reduce this problem into LIS. Exercise 6.6.21. Straightforward. Solution is not shown. Exercise 6.6.31. 'C' is found, 'CAT' is not. Exercise 6.6.32. 'EVE'. Detail is not shown. Exercise 6.6.33. 'EVE'. Detail is shown. Exercise 6.6.51. The answer is the same as Exercise 6.6.32 which is 'ACTTA'. Exercise 6.6.52. The answer is the same as Exercise 6.6.33 which is 'EVEN'. # Chapter 7 Exercise 7.2.11. 3.0 Exercise 7.2.12. (3.0, 4.0) Exercise 7.2.13. The equation `y = mx + c` cannot handle all cases. Vertical lines have 'undefined' gradient, also in this equation. If we use this line the equation, we have to treat lines stairway and that is where the equation describes the problem properly. Exercise 7.2.34. Given points `(x1, y1)` and `(x2, y2)`, the slope can be calculated with `m = (y2 - y1) / (x2 - x1)`. Subsequently the `y-intercept` can be computed from the equation by substitution of the values of a point (either one) and the line gradient `m`. The code will look like this: ```cpp struct line2 { double m, c; }; // another way to represent a line ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 185 Context: ``` # 6.6 SUFFIX TREE/TREE/ARRAY ## Steven & Felis We provide our O(n log n) implementations below. For both ICPC and I/O constraints, scrutinize the code to understand how it works. For ICPC contestants: If you can bring hard copy materials to the contest, it is a good idea to put this code in your team's library. ```cpp #include #include using namespace std; #define MAX_N 100100 // second approach: O(n log n) char S[MAX_N]; // the input string, up to 100K characters int n; // length of input string int RA[MAX_N], tempRA[MAX_N]; // rank array and temporary rank array int SA[MAX_N], tempSA[MAX_N]; // suffix array and temporary suffix array int c[MAX_N]; // for counting/radix sort void countingSort(int k) { int sum, maxIndex = max(300, n); // up to 255 ASCII chars as length s memset(c, 0, sizeof(c)); // Clear frequency table for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) c[RA[i + k]]++; // count the frequency of each rank for (int i = 0; i < maxIndex; i++) c[i] += c[i - 1]; // cumulative sum for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) { // stable sort tempSA[--c[RA[i + k]]] = SA[i]; // shuffle the suffix array if necessary } for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) SA[i] = tempSA[i]; // update the suffix array SA } void constructSA() { // this version can go up to 100000 characters n = strlen(S); // initial length for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) RA[i] = S[i] - 'a'; // initial rankings RA[n] = -1; // sentinel for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) SA[i] = i; // rank array: 0, 1, 2, .., n-1 for (int k = 1; k < n; k *= 2) { // 2^k sorting countingSort(k); // actually radix sort on second half countingSort(0); // then (stable) sort on first half tempRA[SA[0]] = 0; // re-rank the suffixes for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) { tempRA[SA[i]] = tempRA[SA[i - 1]]; if (RA[SA[i]] != RA[SA[i - 1]] || RA[SA[i] + k] != RA[SA[i - 1] + k]) tempRA[SA[i]]++; } for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) RA[i] = tempRA[i]; // update the rank array RA } } int main() { n = (int)strlen(gets(S)); // read input string for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) printf("%d\t%s\n", i, SA[i]); // return 0; } ``` **Example codes:** `ch6_6_U3.cpp`, `ch6_6_U3.java` ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 137 Context: sewhohavenotsolvedanymathematics-relatedproblemsbefore.•MathematicalSimulation(BruteForce)Thesolutionstotheseproblemscanonlybeobtainedbysimulatingthemathematicalprocess.Usually,thesolutionrequiressomeformofloops.Example:GivenasetSof1MrandomintegersandanintegerX.HowmanyintegersinSarelessthanX?Answer:bruteforce.ConsultSection3.2ifyouneedtoreviewvarious(iterative)CompleteSearchtechniques.121 #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 9 Context: ixChapter7introducesmoreprogramming,ofaslightlydifferentkind.Webeginbyseeinghowcomputerprogramscalculatesimplesums,followingthefamiliarschoolboyrules.Wethenbuildmorecomplicatedthingsinvolvingtheprocessingoflistsofitems.Bythenendofthechapter,wehavewrittenasubstantive,real,program.Chapter8addressestheproblemofreproducingcolourorgreytoneimagesusingjustblackinkonwhitepaper.Howcanwedothisconvincinglyandautomatically?Welookathistori-calsolutionstothisproblemfrommedievaltimesonwards,andtryoutsomedifferentmodernmethodsforourselves,comparingtheresults.Chapter9looksagainattypefaces.Weinvestigatetheprincipaltypefaceusedinthisbook,Palatino,andsomeofitsintricacies.Webegintoseehowlettersarelaidoutnexttoeachothertoformalineofwordsonthepage.Chapter10showshowtolayoutapagebydescribinghowlinesoflettersarecombinedintoparagraphstobuildupablockoftext.Welearnhowtosplitwordswithhyphensattheendoflineswithoutugliness,andwelookathowthissortoflayoutwasdonebeforecomputers. #################### 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 types, structs, or macros that are often used by competitive programmers to speed up the coding time. In the short section, it's for the second examples. Java support has been increased substantially in the second edition of this book. This book uses such, as usual, does not support macros and typedefs. ```cpp // Suppress some compiler warning messages (only for VC++ users) #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPENDENCE ``` ## Shortcuts for Common Data Types in Contexts ```cpp typedef long long int ll; // comments that are mixed with code typedef pair pii; // are aligned to the right like this typedef vector vi; typedef vector> vvi; #define INF 1000000000 // 1 billion, safer than 2B for Floyd Warshall's ``` ## Common Macro Settings ```cpp // memset(arr, 0, sizeof(arr)); // initialize DP memoization table with -1 // memset(arr, 0, 1); // to clear an array of integers ``` **Note:** Do not abandon the usage of "RHF" and "RHM" in the second edition to reduce the confusion encountered by new programmers. The following shortcuts are frequently used in our C/C++ classes like this block: ```cpp // simplify: if (a) b = c; else c = c; // index = (index + 1) % n; // from: index if (index >= n) index = 0; // index = (index - 1 + n) % n; // from: index if (index < 0) index = n - 1; // ans = (int)(doubleVal + 0.5); // for rounding to nearest integer // if (ans > max_ans, comparison) // if frequently use this min/max shortcut ``` Some codes used short circuit as (AND) and (OR). # Problem Categorization As of 1 August 2011, Steven and Felix combined have solved 1502 VBA problems (≥ 1% of active UTF problems). About 11% of them are discussed and categorized in this book. These problems are categorized according to a "hard discovery" criterion. If a problem can be classified into two or more categories, it will be placed in the category with the highest difficulty. The index reflects the whole range of problems categorized according to their problem structure, which helps understand problem-solving techniques. Unlike discussions that merely find solutions, this book is aimed at solving the diversity (or problems solving skill). It is a must try (we limit ourselves to discuss maximum 3 highlights per category). #################### 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 advanced courses that introduce data structures and algorithms, and up to the "Computational Programming" module that serves as the book's foundation. He has participated in several ACM ICPC Regional contests, including Singapore 2004, 2008, 2010, and 2013, where he and other teams in NUS have successfully qualified for the ACM ICPC World Finals team (2010-2011) as well as ICPC world finalists. As an aside, Steven is a happily married man. His wife, Grace Shyuan, is currently pregnant with their first baby during the time the second edition of this book is released. ## Felix Halim, PhD Candidate² felixhalim@gmail.com Felix Halim is currently a PhD student in the same University, SoC. He is fond of programming challenges. He has a minor in computer graphics and is also an active coder. He was on his first ICPC team during 2012 contest (representing NUS) and his ICPC friends at that time, Bin Shustar, obtained good ranks (6th and 10th ICPC respectively). Then, in his last team, they were in the ACM ICPC Singapore Regional 2016 and finished as 1st place in Taisey 2017 (GlobalCode Masters) and his team has ranked TopCoder Single Round Matches and his badge 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. --- *¹ PhD Thesis: "An Integrated Writer–Block Box Approach for Designing and Tuning Stochastic Local Search Algorithms"* *² Research area: "Large Scale Data Processing."* #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 463 Context: HAN16-ch09-393-442-97801238147912011/6/13:22Page426#34426Chapter9Classification:AdvancedMethodsChallengesincase-basedreasoningincludefindingagoodsimilaritymetric(e.g.,formatchingsubgraphs)andsuitablemethodsforcombiningsolutions.Otherchallengesincludetheselectionofsalientfeaturesforindexingtrainingcasesandthedevelopmentofefficientindexingtechniques.Atrade-offbetweenaccuracyandefficiencyevolvesasthenumberofstoredcasesbecomesverylarge.Asthisnumberincreases,thecase-basedreasonerbecomesmoreintelligent.Afteracertainpoint,however,thesystem’sefficiencywillsufferasthetimerequiredtosearchforandprocessrelevantcasesincreases.Aswithnearest-neighborclassifiers,onesolutionistoeditthetrainingdatabase.Casesthatareredundantorthathavenotprovedusefulmaybediscardedforthesakeofimprovedperformance.Thesedecisions,however,arenotclear-cutandtheirautomationremainsanactiveareaofresearch.9.6OtherClassificationMethodsInthissection,wegiveabriefdescriptionofseveralotherclassificationmethods,includ-inggeneticalgorithms(Section9.6.1),roughsetapproach(Section9.6.2),andfuzzysetapproaches(Section9.6.3).Ingeneral,thesemethodsarelesscommonlyusedforclas-sificationincommercialdataminingsystemsthanthemethodsdescribedearlierinthisbook.However,thesemethodsshowtheirstrengthincertainapplications,andhenceitisworthwhiletoincludethemhere.9.6.1GeneticAlgorithmsGeneticalgorithmsattempttoincorporateideasofnaturalevolution.Ingeneral,geneticlearningstartsasfollows.Aninitialpopulationiscreatedconsistingofrandomlygeneratedrules.Eachrulecanberepresentedbyastringofbits.Asasimpleexample,supposethatsamplesinagiventrainingsetaredescribedbytwoBooleanattributes,A1andA2,andthattherearetwoclasses,C1andC2.Therule“IFA1ANDNOTA2THENC2”canbeencodedasthebitstring“100,”wherethetwoleftmostbitsrepresentattributesA1andA2,respectively,andtherightmostbitrepresentstheclass.Similarly,therule“IFNOTA1ANDNOTA2THENC1”canbeencodedas“001.”Ifanattributehaskvalues,wherek>2,thenkbitsmaybeusedtoencodetheattribute’svalues.Classescanbeencodedinasimilarfas #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 256 Context: ``` # INDEX - UVa 10242 - Fourth Point, 181 - UVa 10254 - First Fire, Part I, 112 - UVa 10258 - The Class Part Problem, 118 - UVa 10263 - Common Permutation, 154 - UVa 10269 - Hippity Hoppity, 111 - UVa 10281 - Soundex, 24 - UVa 10283 - Railway, 181 - UVa 10287 - Graphical Editor, 17 - UVa 10291 - 96, 1 - UVa 10294 - Adventures of Super Mario, 94 - UVa 10297 - Cyclelist, 21 - UVa 10298 - Haunted House Trouble Again, 65 - UVa 10299 - The Pirate's Station, 91 - UVa 10300 - Mike Sengel, 12 - UVa 10301 - Average Speed, 12 - UVa 10302 - Babelfish, 89 - UVa 10303 - Schedulable PEN, 1 - UVa 10304 - Largest Palindrome, 111 - UVa 10306 - The Luggage and Precarity, 164 - UVa 10307 - The Lady's Pants, 25 - UVa 10308 - Boxing Match, 280 - UVa 10309 - Painting, 147 - UVa 10310 - Rolling, 140 - UVa 10311 - Kiling's Alies, 191 - UVa 10312 - Ring and Pin, 15 - UVa 10313 - The Aegean Sea, 126 - UVa 10314 - Optimal Binary Search Tree, 69 - UVa 10315 - Optimal Binary Search Tree II, 138 - UVa 10316 - Peter's Sweets, 122 - UVa 10317 - Medians, 185 - UVa 10318 - Lilith's Plume, 111 - UVa 10319 - Pick and Place, 62 - UVa 10320 - The Tenth, 121 - UVa 10321 - Automatic Poetry, 155 - UVa 10322 - Factoring, 64 - UVa 10323 - Spiral, 210 - UVa 10324 - Books & Games, 146 - UVa 10325 - Auto Answers, 72 - UVa 10326 - Time Zones, 17 - UVa 10327 - Ethics, 112 - UVa 10328 - Caesar and Double, 121 - UVa 10329 - Maze Traversal, 52 - UVa 10330 - Billard, 51 - UVa 10331 - Subway, 29 - UVa 10332 - To The Point, 118 - UVa 10333 - The One-Handed Typist, 5 - UVa 10334 - Permuting Large Numbers, 137 - UVa 10335 - Counterfeiting, 21 - UVa 10336 - Element of Problem, 111 - UVa 10337 - Largest Common Subsequence, 162 - UVa 10338 - The Best Thing, 64 - UVa 10339 - Easy Captain, 101 - UVa 10340 - Happy Smiles, 69 - UVa 10341 - Bee Coffee, 40 - UVa 10342 - Joe's 20, 17 - UVa 10343 - Kingfish, 15 - UVa 10344 - Run Like the Wind, 27 - UVa 10345 - The Great Switch, 1 - UVa 10346 - The Ever More Forgotten, 132 - UVa 10347 - Help the Hackers, 45 ``` #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 107 Context: Chapter7.DoingSums93Wecompare3with1.Toolarge.Wecompareitwiththesecond1.Toolarge.Wecompareitwith2,againtoolarge.Wecompareitwith3.Itisequal,sowehavefoundaplaceforit.Therestofthelistneednotbedealtwithnow,andthelistissorted.Hereisthewholeprograminoneplace:insertxl=ifl=[]then[x]elseifx≤headlthen[x]•lelse[headl]•insertx(taill)sortl=ifl=[]then[]elseinsert(headl)(sort(taill))Inthischapter,wehavecoveredalotofground,goingfromthemostsimplemathematicalexpressionstoacomplicatedcomputerprogram.Doingtheproblemsshouldhelpyoutofillinthegaps. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 578 Context: HAN18-ch11-497-542-97801238147912011/6/13:24Page541#4511.7BibliographicNotes541biclusteringintogeneexpressiondataanalysis.Therearemanystudiesonbiclusteringmodelsandmethods.Thenotionofδ-pClusterwasintroducedbyWang,Wang,Yang,andYu[WWYY02].Forinformativesurveys,seeMadeiraandOliveira[MO04]andTanay,Sharan,andShamir[TSS04].Inthischapter,weintroducedtheδ-clusteralgo-rithmbyChengandChurch[CC00]andMaPlebyPei,Zhang,Cho,etal.[PZC+03]asexamplesofoptimization-basedmethodsandenumerationmethodsforbiclustering,respectively.DonathandHoffman[DH73]andFiedler[Fie73]pioneeredspectralclustering.Inthischapter,weuseanalgorithmproposedbyNg,Jordan,andWeiss[NJW01]asanexample.Forathoroughtutorialonspectralclustering,seeLuxburg[Lux07].Clusteringgraphandnetworkdataisanimportantandfast-growingtopic.Schaeffer[Sch07]providesasurvey.TheSimRankmeasureofsimilaritywasdevelopedbyJehandWidom[JW02a].Xuetal.[XYFS07]proposedtheSCANalgorithm.Arora,Rao,andVazirani[ARV09]discussthesparsestcutsandapproximationalgorithms.Clusteringwithconstraintshasbeenextensivelystudied.Davidson,Wagstaff,andBasu[DWB06]proposedthemeasuresofinformativenessandcoherence.TheCOP-k-meansalgorithmisgivenbyWagstaffetal.[WCRS01].TheCVQEalgorithmwasproposedbyDavidsonandRavi[DR05].Tung,Han,Lakshmanan,andNg[THLN01]presentedaframeworkforconstraint-basedclusteringbasedonuser-specifiedcon-straints.Anefficientmethodforconstraint-basedspatialclusteringintheexistenceofphysicalobstacleconstraintswasproposedbyTung,Hou,andHan[THH01]. #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 68 Context: eminingalgorithms.Suchalgorithmsfirstpartitionthedatainto“pieces.”Eachpieceisprocessed,inparallel,bysearchingforpatterns.Thepar-allelprocessesmayinteractwithoneanother.Thepatternsfromeachpartitionareeventuallymerged.Cloudcomputingandclustercomputing,whichusecomputersinadistributedandcollaborativewaytotackleverylarge-scalecomputationaltasks,arealsoactiveresearchthemesinparalleldatamining.Inaddition,thehighcostofsomedatamin-ingprocessesandtheincrementalnatureofinputpromoteincrementaldatamining,whichincorporatesnewdataupdateswithouthavingtominetheentiredata“fromscratch.”Suchmethodsperformknowledgemodificationincrementallytoamendandstrengthenwhatwaspreviouslydiscovered. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 218 Context: ```markdown # 8.2 PROBLEM DECOMPOSITION © Steven & Felis 1. **UVA 11292 - "World Fame"** (binary search the answer + bipartite matching) 2. **UVA 11516 - Wish** (binary search the answer + greedy) 3. **UVA 12539 - Extralegal Stopping Points** (Geography-based, binary search the answer + greedy) 4. **UVA 13097 - A Spiral Mamanure** (Traversal) 5. **UVA 14000 - Unreliable Suppliers** (Bipartitioning, binary search + greedy) 6. **UVA 16000 - Induction** (binary search + DP Range Sum) ## Two Comparisons - Including DP Range Sums 1. **UVA 10037 - Circle** (similar to UVA 847, speed up with DP range sum) 2. **UVA 10637 - Stacked Primes** (solve check if prime + a disk prime, DP for range sum) 3. **UVA 10871 - Print Subsequences** (read DP range sum query) 4. **UVA 11031 - A Game of Sum** (Duel) 5. **UVA 11619 - Sum** (DP) ## Two Comparisons - SSAD DP 1. **UVA 10137 - A Walk Through the Forest** (routing rules in DAG; DP) 2. **UVA 10240 - Railroads on the Plains** (BFS for tree + DP for backtracking) 3. **UVA 10311 - Risk for nth** (BFS for tree; DP for ∑) 4. **UVA 10416 - Can We Win?** (BFS for tree + DP; DP = ∑) 5. **UVA 11338 - Sumo** (bikini; DP) ## Two Comparisons - Walking Graphs 1. **UVA 10637 - Killing Aliens in Bang Maze** (build SSBD graph with BFS, MST) 2. **UVA 10637 - The "Leso-Coder"** (bipartite duct, MST approach; DAG + DP) 3. **UVA 11253 - The Largest Clue** (1 output and backtracking) 4. **UVA 12025 - The End of the Road** (Dijkstra's + DFS) 5. **UVA 12949 - The Ball-Earheads** (Bipartite, BFS + SP) ## Two Comparisons - Dynamic Programming 1. **UVA 11926 - Tetris** (completely connected, segmented) 2. **UVA 12042 - Binary Codes** (hard, join!; Section 5.2) 3. **UVA 12512 - Straight Factories** (BFS with binary search) 4. **UVA 14006 - Reducing Factories** (basic plus factoring; see Section 5.5.1) 5. **UVA 14600 - Transforms** (point plus factoring, see Section 5.5.1) ## Two Comparisons - Recursion 1. **UVA 18056 - Remove Portal** (discussed in this section) 2. **UVA 11610 - Remove Prince** (see footnote for the context) 3. **UVA 1445 - A Careful Approach** (Weld Prime Socking; discussed in this chapter) --- *We can use the alternating path algorithm to compute the MCMB (see Section 4.7). Define the DP in the following way: 1) Hang true if State considers the base for the left DP set; 2) Hang false if all paths return from the base.* *Finally, we have to take the DNC over any of DPs or SCs.* *Note, return prisons from the base DP; apply another line, use French Tree and binary search.* ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 164 Context: # 5.9 Powers of a (Square) Matrix There is a better way that uses the Divide & Conquer principle. We can express \( A^n \) as: \[ A^p = A^{\frac{p}{2}} \times A^{\frac{p}{2}} \quad \text{if } p \text{ is even.} \] This approach helps reduce the number of multiplications. For example, by definition: \[ A^2 = A \times A \quad \text{and} \quad A^3 = A \times A^2 = A \times (A \times A). \] But with Divide & Conquer, we can express \( A^p \) as \( (A^{\frac{p}{2}})^2 \) if \( p \) is even, and \( A \times (A^{\frac{p-1}{2}})^2 \) if \( p \) is odd. A typical recursive implementation of this Divide & Conquer exponentiation is shown below: ```c int fastExp(int base, int p) { // O(log p) if (p == 0) return 1; else { int res = fastExp(base, p / 2); return (p % 2 == 0) ? (res * res) : (base * res * res); } } ``` ## 5.9.2 Square Matrix Exponentiation We can use the same efficient exponentiation technique shown above to perform square matrix exponentiation. In fact, matrix multiplication is \( O(n^3) \) for \( n \times n \) matrices, thus this is just \( n^3 \) multiplications. Here's the implementation: ```c #define MAX_N 100 // Increase this if needed struct Matrix { int a[MAX_N][MAX_N]; }; Matrix matMul(Matrix A, Matrix B) { Matrix C; for (int i = 0; i < MAX_N; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < MAX_N; j++) { C.a[i][j] = 0; // Initialize for (int k = 0; k < MAX_N; k++) { // Multiply C.a[i][j] += A.a[i][k] * B.a[k][j]; // If necessary, use modulo arithmetic here. } } } return C; } Matrix matPow(Matrix base, int p) { Matrix res, I; // Identity matrix for (int i = 0; i < MAX_N; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < MAX_N; j++) { I.a[i][j] = (i == j) ? 1 : 0; // Prepare identity matrix } } res = I; // Initial result is the identity matrix while (p > 0) { if (p % 2 == 1) // If p is odd res = matMul(res, base); // Multiply result by base base = matMul(base, base); // Square the base p /= 2; // Divide p by 2 } return res; } ``` ### Example Code: Refer to [Example code](ch07/JAVA10681.cpp.ch07/JAVA10681.java) for complete implementation. ### Programming Exercises Related to Powers of a (Square) Matrix: 1. UVA 10279 - Naive Fibonacci 2. UVA 10631 - Tree of Life (Ad-hoc, tree structure) 3. UVA 10681 - Toolbox 3 (Dynamic Programming, tree structures) 4. UVA 12416 - Fun with Strings (with 2 unknowns, Fibonacci, matrix pow, included) #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 362 Context: i,Lu,Myagmar,andZhou[LLMZ04]usespatternminingtoidentifycopy-pastedcodeforbugisolation.PR-MinerbyLiandZhou[LZ05]usespatternminingtoextractapplication-specificprogrammingrulesfromsourcecode.Discriminativepatternminingisusedforprogramfailuredetectiontoclassifysoftwarebehaviors(Lo,Cheng,Han,etal.[LCH+09])andfortroubleshootinginsensornetworks(Khan,Le,Ahmadi,etal.[KLA+08]). #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: Additionally, we have a few other rules of thumb that are useful in programming contests: - \( 2^{10} = 1,024 \approx 10^3 \) - Max-32-bit signed integer: \( 2^{31} - 1 = 2,147,483,647 \) (for up to 9 decimal digits). - Max-64-bit signed integer: \( \approx 2^{63} \) (for up to 19 decimal digits). - Use `unsigned` if slightly higher positive number is needed (e.g., \( 2^{32} - 1 \)). - If you need to store integers \( > 2^{31} \), you need to use the Big Integer technique (Section 5.3). 1. Program with nested loops of depth \( k \) returning back to its base (O\( (n^k) \) complexity). - If your program is recursive with a recursive call per level and has \( L \) items, the program has roughly O\( (L^k) \) complexity. But this is in the upper bound. The actual complexity depends on what actions you perform and whether some pruning are possible. 2. There are \( n! \) permutations and \( 2^n \) subsets (or combinations) of \( n \) elements. 3. Dynamic Programming algorithms which fill in a 2D matrix in O\( (n) \) per call is in O\( (n^2) \). - More details in Section 3 later. 4. The best time complexity of a comparison-based sorting algorithm is O\( (n \log n) \). 5. Most of the time, O\( (n^2) \) algorithms will be sufficient for most contest problems. 6. The largest input size for typical programming contest problems must be < 1M, because beyond that, the time needed to read the input (O\( (n) \) time) 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 now, it may be beneficial to attempt this exercise again. 1. There are \( n \) webpages (n ≤ 10M). 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? - (a) Load all webpages' page rank to memory, sort (Section 2.1), and pick the top 10. - (b) Use priority queue data structure (heap) (Section 2.2). 2. Given a list of L up to 100 integers. You need to frequently ask the value of sum \( S_j \), i.e. the sum of \( L[j] + L[j+1] + ... + L[i] \). Which data structure should you use? - (a) Simple Array (Section 2.2.1). - (b) Simple Array that has been pre-processed with Dynamic Programming (Section 2.2.1 & 3.5). - (c) Balanced Binary Search Tree (Section 2.2.2). - (d) Hash Table (Section 2.2.2). - (e) Segment Tree (Section 2.3.3). - (f) Ruin Tree (Section 2.4.3). - (g) Fenwick Tree (Section 6.6). - (h) Suffix Array (Section 6.6.4). 3. Given a set of \( S \) points randomly scattered on 2D plane, \( N \leq 1000 \). Find two points \( p \) that has the greatest Euclidean distance. Is O\( (N^2) \) complex search algorithm that try all pairs possible? - (a) Yes, such complete search is possible. - (b) No, we must find another way. #################### File: A%20MACHINE%20MADE%20THIS%20BOOK%20ten%20sketches%20of%20computer%20science%20-%20JOHN%20WHITINGTON%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 65 Context: Chapter4.LookingandFinding51realise.Thereareotherspecialcharacters:wecanuseafullstop.tomatchanycharacter,sothatthepattern.uncematchesounceanddunce.Inadditiontothesepatterns,wecanrunasearchmultipletimesandcombinetheresults.Forexample,whenusinganinternetsearchengine,ifweareinterestedinfindingdocumentscontaining“cats”or“dogs”wemightenterthesearch“catsORdogs”.ThesearchengineknowsthatthewordORisspecial,anditrunstwosearches,onefor“cats”andonefor“dogs”andreturnsdocumentswhichcontainaninstanceofeither.Inreality,searchenginesdon’tlookthroughthetextofwebpagesatthemomentthatyouclickthesearchbutton:theyusepre-preparedindexestomakethesearchmanymanytimesfaster.Intheproblemswhichfollow,weextendthisideaofpatterns,andaskyoutorunthesearchingalgorithmthroughonpapertodeterminewhethertheymatchthetext. #################### 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 32 or 35 | | 10334| Gap | Divide & Conquer (Brute Method) | Section 3 | | 11292| Dragon of Loneliness | Greedy (Non Classical) | Section 4 | | 11054| Wedding Shopping | DP (Non Classical) | Section 3 | | 10911| Forming Teams | Graph (Decomposition: Prayer's & BPS) | Section 4 | | 11055| Angry Program | Graph (Min Cut/Max Flow) | Section 4.1 | | 10147| *GATTACA* | Dynamic Programming, Complete Search | Section 6.6 | | 10625| Insects 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 & 1.5). (ii) Dynamic (the (i) Round Robin Tree is a better answer (select to implement than simple heap)). - (a) Yes, such complete search is possible (Section 2.3). - (b) Dynamic Programming (Section 5.5, 4.2, 4.7). - (c) See Exercises (Section 5.5). 3. (a) The tricky approach above will not work. Use KMP or Suffix Array (Section 6.4 & 6.6)! 4. (b) You can also answer about: Find the Center Hull of the points in O(log n) (Section 7.3). Let the number of points in CH(S) = N, S ∈ C* N. Then, find the two furthest points in the convex hull for that set. *"This book is based on official lecture material in Steven's course in MSCS C5230 - 'Competitive Programming'; it is necessary to look into the exercise for more accuracy as they will be used in class assessments."* 213 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 62 Context: ``` ## 3.2 COMPLETE SEARCH © Steven & Feliks 24. LA 994 - Overlapping Screens (KunalJaipur10) - **Recursion: Backtracking (The More Challenging Ones)** 1. UVA 10583 - Stamps (requires some DP too) 2. UVA 10600 - Everyone Loves the Adventurous (might require small) 3. UVA 10611 - Petals (backtracking with some priming) 4. UVA 10613 - Joke Test (backtracking) 5. UVA 10614 - Bath Tub Quiz (O(R), similar to UVA 416) 6. UVA 10615 - Pizza Answer (backtracking with lots of priming) 7. UVA 10616 - Birthday Gifts (the reasons for this are very general) 8. UVA 10617 - Turn the Lights Off (here too has near failure) 9. UVA 10618 - Another Lurking Question (seems to dig deeper than expected) 10. UVA 11786 - Another Question Problem (see Exercise 3.2.16) 11. LA 675 - Pseudo Random Function, recommended problem 12. LA 835 - Planner (Difficult) ### ACM ICPC World Finals 2010 - Problem I: Robots on Ice **Problem I:** Sponsored for the recent ACM ICPC World Finals 2010 can be viewed as a "rugged" geometric searching problem that consists of complex graphs. Given an M × N grid, where a point (A, B) describes a Hamiltonian path of length S. An M × N grid is combined to 0 coordinates as follows: the Hamiltonian path is such that points (A, B, C) are coordinates which the path will block (with obstacles). Example: Given the following 3 × 8 board A = (0, 0), B = (3, 2), C = (0, 4), and C = (1, 0). A path can traverse between the two possible paths. ![Figure 3.3 - Visualizations of LA 1173 - Robots on Ice](#) A main recursive backtracking algorithm will yield T(i, j) where there are choices at every step and the maximum path length is S, while the largest possible Hamiltonian path is defined by: 1. **We can take the visit** in M × N grid (A), with a Euclidean distance of 1/4, 1/2, or √3 distance – the presence being equivalent to visit at the target item. 2. **Each move** will be to the north coordinates relative to the current path posthold the M x N grid constraints. 3. **This implies** the visit can only occur if the current obstacle path is restricted. Those few promising strategies are sufficient to solve LA 1173. **Example codes:** `csy@pat1173.cpp`, `csy@pat1173.java` ``` #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 30 Context: HAN05-pref-xxiii-xxx-97801238147912011/6/13:35Pagexxix#7PrefacexxixCompanionchaptersonadvanceddatamining.Chapters8to10ofthesecondeditionofthebook,whichcoverminingcomplexdatatypes,areavailableonthebook’swebsitesforreaderswhoareinterestedinlearningmoreaboutsuchadvancedtopics,beyondthethemescoveredinthisbook.Instructors’manual.Thiscompletesetofanswerstotheexercisesinthebookisavailableonlytoinstructorsfromthepublisher’swebsite.Coursesyllabiandlectureplans.Thesearegivenforundergraduateandgraduateversionsofintroductoryandadvancedcoursesondatamining,whichusethetextandslides.Supplementalreadinglistswithhyperlinks.Seminalpapersforsupplementalread-ingareorganizedperchapter.Linkstodataminingdatasetsandsoftware.Weprovideasetoflinkstodataminingdatasetsandsitesthatcontaininterestingdataminingsoftwarepackages,suchasIlliMinefromtheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign(http://illimine.cs.uiuc.edu).Sampleassignments,exams,andcourseprojects.Asetofsampleassignments,exams,andcourseprojectsisavailabletoinstructorsfromthepublisher’swebsite.Figuresfromthebook.Thismayhelpyoutomakeyourownslidesforyourclassroomteaching.ContentsofthebookinPDFformat.Errataonthedifferentprintingsofthebook.Weencourageyoutopointoutanyerrorsinthisbook.Oncetheerrorisconfirmed,wewillupdatetheerratalistandincludeacknowledgmentofyourcontribution.Commentsorsuggestionscanbesenttohanj@cs.uiuc.edu.Wewouldbehappytohearfromyou. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 41 Context: # 2.2 DATA STRUCTURES WITH BUILT-IN LIBRARIES © Steven & Felix ## 17. UVA 10786 - Let’s Play (1D string array manipulation) ## 18. UVA 11040 - Add Prefix to the Wall (1D array manipulation) ## 19. UVA 11129 - Group People (1D array manipulation) ## 20. UVA 11310 - Newspaper (1D array manipulation) ## 21. UVA 11319 - Simon Says (2D array manipulation) ## 22. UVA 11340 - Beeker’s Pal (1D array manipulation) ## 23. UVA 11407 - Pairs (1D array manipulation) ## 24. UVA 11609 - K-Linked List (2D array manipulation) ## 25. UVA 11619 - No Problem (1D array manipulation) ## 26. UVA 11630 - Permutation PD (2D array manipulation) ## 27. UVA 11631 - Spring Numbers (a classic but interesting problem) ## 28. UVA 11830 - Green Kebab (1D array manipulation) ## 29. UVA 11938 - Forest Road (1D array manipulation) ## 30. UVA 12021 - Pygame Rules (a simpler if constraint turns manipulation) ### C++ STL Algorithms (and Queries) 1. UVA 10105 - Saving Godzilla (modified comparison function; sort) 2. UVA 10106 - Runtime (C/C++ for next-permutation) 3. UVA 10107 - Potato (ask a four-summer; built-in sort) 4. UVA 10108 - The Closest Store (1D) 5. UVA 10109 - Childish Games (modified comparison function; use sort) 6. UVA 10110 - Problem Solving (1D) 7. UVA 10111 - Is It Easy? (1D) 8. UVA 10112 - Silent Night (design and implementation in categories) 9. UVA 10113 - Extra Long Factorials (factorial) 10. UVA 10114 - Best Seat (search for minimum) 11. UVA 10115 - Build Work (construct a permutation of non-sorted items) > **Note**: "Count how many *unique* large numbers of consecutive items are needed to find the last sorted." > > For the O(n) algorithms, you should be able to solve the problem as easily as any naïve algorithm. Therefore, by the end of the test, you will have the ability to solve the sort on the problem. > > *Example*: Suppose the array is [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]. With one pass, we know that `[1]` is greater than `[0]`. The last two cells can be surmounted to find `[0]` and the total pass for sorting it is achieved by [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]. Constructing we used the built-in sort from the STL for the sorted array (0, 0, 0, 1, 2). Constructed next uses a built-in sort from STL implementations in Section 6.4. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 173 Context: # 6.4 STRING MATCHING ``` 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 P = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 S E V E N T Y S E V E N ``` There are 11 matches from index 1 to 24, but one mismatch at index 11 (`s = 5`). The naive algorithm will effectively restrict pattern from index `j = 1` to `j = 15`. The characters before mismatch (`s = SEVEN` of length 4) begin at position 1. But note that we can skip `S E V E N` because we need to match again, yet we cannot rule out the possibility that the next match starts from the second `S`. Now, let’s revisit step 11 – as there is a difference between KMP and the naive matching algorithm. ```plaintext i = 1 and j = 3 (This makes KMP difficult) ``` ``` T = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 P = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ``` Now, let's state the mismatches: - Mismatch at index 1 = 25 to 29. - Matches from index 1 = 30 to 42. ```plaintext P = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 T = I D O N O T L I K E S E V E N T Y S E V E N 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ``` This is a match, as P = `SEVENTY` found at index = 30. After this, KMP knows that if `P` = `SEVENTY SEVEN` (as length of `P` is 8), then KMP needs to effectively skip the first 1-3 characters of `SEVEN` (to do the gap comparison), immediately resuming search from i = 1, as that would attract match. ```plaintext i = 1 and j = 5, the gap further matches from 43 to 50 = 30 ``` ```plaintext P = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 T = I D O N O T L I K E S E V E N T Y S E V E N ``` To resolve such, KMP has to preprocess the pattern string and get the 'reset table' b (back). If pattern string P = `SEVENTY SEVEN`, then table b will look like this: | Index | Value | |-------|-------| | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | | 2 | 1 | | 3 | 0 | | 4 | 1 | | 5 | 2 | | 6 | 3 | | 7 | 4 | | 8 | 5 | | 9 | 6 | | 10 | 7 | | 11 | 8 | #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 210 Context: # 7.3 POLYGONS WITH LIBRARIES ## Steven & Felix Exercise 7.3.7: The Graham's Scan implementation above can be inefficient for large `n` as it is recalculated every time an angle comparison is made (and it is quite problematic when the angle is close to 90 degrees). Similarly, the same basic idea can be used as the input is now computed in `O(n^2)` producing the upper and lower parts of the hull. This modification was devised by M. J. Andrew and known as Andrew's Monotone Chain Algorithm. It has the same basic algorithm as Graham's Scan but uses solely comparisons between angles. Investigate this algorithm and implement it. Below, we provide a list of programming exercises related to polygons. Without pre-written library codes discussed in this section, many of these problems look "hard". With the library codes, they become manageable as the problem can be decomposed into a (their) library routines. Spend some time attempting them, especially the must-try** ones. ### Programming Exercises related to Polygons 1. **UVa 1029 - Medians** (find centroid, area of polygons) 2. **UVa 600 - Convex and Rubik's** (find an island in Cube/Rubik's) 3. **UVa 1073 - Points in Figure** (part of point in polygon; triangles) 4. **UVa 1061 - Polygon (find points inside, the polygon can be convex or concave)** 5. **UVa 1064 - Convex Hull Finding** (find perimeter of polygon, compute segments) 6. **UVa 1031 - The Rectified Preamble** (find perimeter of polygon, compute angles) 7. **UVa 1063 - A Setter Tells Puzzles** (find area of polygon) 8. **UVa 1003 - Let Us Gather** (report in a curve (isolev)) 9. **UVa 1007 - An Gallery** (find if a polygon is convex (and the vertices)) 10. **UVa 1078 - How Many Turns?** (find the limit (from Graham's Theorem: `O(n log(n))`) 11. **UVa 1012 - A Country Triangle** (frost point polylines/triangle, similar to UVa 673) 12. **UVa 1016 - A Simple Warping** (rotate, translate, then collapse) 13. **UVa 1196 - New York classic** (polygon, cut from here) 14. **UVa 1185 - The Graham's Problem** (input polygon, find polyline, get area) 15. **UVa 1137 - Resemblance** (area of polygon) 16. **UVa 1143 - Cross Product** (area of polygon) 17. **UVa 1296 - Banbury Pairs** (duplicate, control hull) --- ## Profile of Algorithm Inventor Ronald Lewis Graham (born 1935) is an American mathematician. In 1972, he invented the Graham's scan algorithm for finding convex hulls of a finite set of points in the plane. Since then, there are many other algorithm variants and improvements for finding convex hulls. > "If a point is at infinity, then there is only a chance to check a point and its circle. Rather than the proof that it contains a point, a point here serves as a hub and the distance leads to the radius of the sphere. Those points must follow the boundaries, it is one that exists in the sphere of the vertex. Then solving it leads to a settling of `p`, and if there is a number of integer points in the polygon, `P`. --- #################### File: BIOS%20Disassembly%20Ninjutsu%20Uncovered%201st%20Edition%20-%20Darmawan%20Salihun%20%28PDF%29%20BIOS_Disassembly_Ninjutsu_Uncovered.pdf Page: 37 Context: 1. IDA Pro scripts recognize only one type of variable, i.e., auto. There are no other variable types, such as int or char. The declaration of variable in an IDA Pro script as follows: auto variable_name; 2. Every statement in an IDA Pro script ends with a semicolon (;), just like in the C programming language. 3. A function can return a value or not, but there's no return-type declaration. The syntax is as follows: static function_name(parameter_1, parameter_n, ...) 4. A comment in an IDA Pro script starts with a double slash (//). The IDA Pro scripting engine ignores anything after the comment in the corresponding line. // comment statement; // comment 5. IDA Pro "exports" its internal functionality to the script that you build by using header files. These header files must be "included" in the script so that you can access that functionality. At least one header file must be included in any IDA Pro script, i.e., idc.idc. The header files are located inside a folder named idc in the IDA Pro installation directory. You must read the *.idc files inside this directory to learn about the functions exported by IDA Pro. The most important header file to learn is idc.idc. The syntax used to include a header file in an IDA Pro script is as follows: #include < header_file_name> 6. The entry point of an IDA Pro script is the main function, just as in the C programming language. Now is the time to put the theory into a simple working example, an IDA Pro sample script (listing 2.2). Listing 2.2 IDA Pro Code Relocation Script #include // Relocate one segment static relocate_seg(src, dest) { auto ea_src, ea_dest, hi_limit; hi_limit = src + 0x10000; ea_dest = dest; for(ea_src = src; ea_src < hi_limit ; ea_src = ea_src + 4 ) { PatchDword( ea_dest, Dword(ea_src)); ea_dest = ea_dest + 4; } Message("segment relocation finished" "(inside relocate_seg function)...\n"); 10 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 243 Context: # Appendix C ## Credits The problems discussed in this book are mainly taken from UVa online judge [28], ACM ICPC Live Archive [20], and past ICPC tasks (mainly from 2003-2010). So far, we have contacted the following authors to get their permissions (in alphabetical order): - Brian C. Dean - Corneil Tan Kien Yao - Derek Kraman - Gaden Y. S. Cormack - Jacek Alan Jalowy - Jon Kleinberg - Jittat Fakcharoenphol - Manohar B. Kankanhalli - Melvin Zhang Ziyuese - Mohd Farizul Rahman - Postnikov E. Kolesnik - Rahil Iqbal - Shailendar Mannoo - Sohil Hafiz - Tjololo C. You For Prime Paris problem in Section 4.7, a compilation of photos with some of these problem authors that we managed to meet in person is shown below. However, due to the fact that there are thousands (≈ 1195) of problems listed and discussed in this book, there are many authors whom we have not managed to contact. Due to the sheer number of authors, we have made instances of these problems available not only via. We keep a compilation of all the problem credits on our updating website: [https://sites.google.com/site/stevengalalzone/credits](https://sites.google.com/site/stevengalalzone/credits) #################### 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 the tools and techniques to solve these problems as discussed in this book. Please revisit this section when you have finished reading this book. | UVa Title | Problem Type | Hint | |--------------------------|-------------------------------------|------------------| | 10381 | Red Attack | Complete Search or Dynamic Programming | Section 3.2 & 3.5 | | 11292 | Dealing of Lovecraft | Section 3.6 | | 11401 | Wedding Shopping | Section 3.4 | | 11582 | Forming Quiz Teams DP + bitmask | Section 3.4 | | 11615 | Angry Program | Section 4.1 | | 12036 | Paper Flood Fill! | Section 4.7 | | 10171 | GATTACA | Section 6.2 | | 10185 | Gluttonous Flea Packets | Section 7.4 | ## 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 | Condition and Expected Solving Speed | |-----|----------------|-------------------------------------------------------| | A | I have solved this type before | I am confident that I can solve it again (and fast)| | B | I have solved this type before | But I know nothing about this solution (thus, slow)| | C | I have seen this type before | But I don’t have time or cannot solve it | | D | I have not seen this type before | I may (not) be able to solve it under current time | To be competitive, you must frequently classify the problems that you read in the problem set 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 share this ask question: Given the maximum input bound (usually this is a good problem constraint), what is the greatest developed algorithm; what works for this specific problem, how can you analyze the performance of the algorithm for the given problem? ### Example Consider the following problem: It is limited to \(10^6\) (or \(10^6 − 1\)) and your algorithm must finish one second per input. You combine the limits and you (should) get the problem down to \(N\) or \(10^6\) as larger graphs (and consider inputs) when they are larger and order \(O(n \log n)\) (i.e., just for \(N > 1,000,000\)). Thinking from this perspective offers insight into the algorithm that works is crucial. However, remember its not exhaustive, just a guideline. Therefore, the analysis you conduct now aids you when you do develop the solution to the problem: As you prepared, the chance that you can come up with the correct solution is higher. #################### 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 then survey some 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 1067 - **DP** (a problem about “virtually counting” sequences) 2. UVA 1075 - **Introduction** (Chinese Remainder Theorem) 3. UVA 10012 - **Light, more Light!** (a trick in a square number) 4. UVA 10222 - **The nth** (find divisibility by 11) 5. UVA 10319 - **Counting** (sieve and etc.) 6. UVA 11934 - **The Higher Order** (read as “sitting, the divisibility theorem of L...12) 7. UVA 1371 - **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 context, it is essential, if the reader may be inspired to extend or reinforce even artificial constraints, which can be valuable for programming contests, problems involving probability are quite solvable with. - **Classification.** For these problems, one has to consider the probabilities. 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 deal with probability calculations). Complete Search (2D) or Dynamic Programming (less space) (usually simpler to count). Examples: - **UVA 12402** - Has to deal with brute-force by trying all permutations and see how many ways to construct the same initial arrangement A = (1, 1) * (A, A,... A). However, a more naturally intuitive case can be solved using DP (in terms of overlapping subproblems) to count the number of events (in cases assumed to be 2 * e.g. XOR). **Programming Exercises about Probability Theory:** 1. UVA 1074 - **Coins and Money** (actually, this is just a 1 log per coin problem) 2. UVA 1085 - **Parking** (this is like the “Pigeonhole” get the closet form) 3. UVA 10074 - **The Dice** (similar to UVA 1079, Joan Blagberg) 4. UVA 10946 - **Coin Card DP** (data to keep track of states) 5. UVA 1068 - **Dice Throwing** (DP: state (rolled, now), for 6 sides, gold) 6. UVA 1151 - **Independence** (building (briefly) the probability/trials) 7. UVA 1071 - **Ants** (pick a card, keep it/total and go to simplify) 8. UVA 12402 - **Holes** (the same idea as in this line as in this line) > *“Either pick a coin 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: 171 Context: # 6.3 AD HOC STRING PROCESSING PROBLEMS © Steven & Felix ## Problems 1. UVA 11136 - Minimum Finances (retail rate, simple/indirect function from a fan, op) 2. UVA 11142 - Persistent Character (simple mathematical expressions parsing) 3. UVA 10086 - Marmalade Mania (minimum cut, input formatting) 4. UVA 10044 - Matching Waves (data array manipulation, output formatting) 5. UVA 10007 - Longest Increasing Subsequence (dynamic programming problem) 6. UVA 10008 - Relaxing Routes (similarity and graph input formatting problem) 7. UVA 10009 - No Two Same Hidden (in a large list can we solve this ‘easy’ problem?) 8. UVA 10010 - Even Spaced (requires constructive proofs with only one query) 9. UVA 11937 - Number of Functions (set, function chart) ## String Comparisons 1. UVA 6000 - Errors, Errors (find terrible and compare; see if we can sense word) 2. UVA 6004 - Immediate Decodability (is a readable sequence; better know) 3. UVA 6001 - Full Char-Checker (conceptually comparable) 4. UVA 6002 - Automatic Correction (is flexible; using input dictionary) 5. UVA 6003 - Missing Arguments (requires non-transmitting occurrences) 6. UVA 12003 - Bell Daring (requires special string comparisons) 7. UVA 11794 - Harmonic Means (simplified string comparison) ## Just for fun 1. UVA 263 - Permutation Cipher (similar to UVA 314) 2. UVA 613 - Numbers (find primes; find some) 3. UVA 853 - Name Chains (find numbers; convert them into strings; simulating) 4. UVA 1248 - 15 Digit (checking if a 15 can match; confirming numbers) 5. UVA 1090 - Permuting Words (more like dictionary problems) 6. UVA 5129 - One-More-Indented-Type (is it similar to the problem description?) 7. UVA 1139 - I Love String (but asks: checking if a # is a member of set A) 8. UVA 513 - Classic Bingo (similar as proposed) 9. UVA 11649 - Matching Table (matching input, final output) 10. UVA 11230 - Apparently (challenges of the allocations) 11. UVA 11929 - Digital Rounder (might be A ≤ 2 in a terminologies) 12. UVA 401 - EPV (is similar to UVA 341; but a bit) 13. UVA 397 - The 2-Zero Triplet (random number equations) 14. UVA 610 - Circular Sorting (finished) 15. UVA 278 - Knapsack Problem (Alghabrak) Although the problems listed in this section constitute 77% of the problems listed in this chapter, we have to make a reminder that most access problems in ACM ICPC (and also IOI) usually do not find hard tasks; however, the next section focuses on the “vanity problem” that matches numbers (constants) should be able to solve. In the next few sections, we will be examining problems (Section 6.4) related to intrinsic sorting achieving problems while deriving Programming (DP) (Section 6.5). This chapter will focus on string processing and dynamic programming problems where we have to think about the necessary components that will create data structures for strings like Suffix Tree, Suffix Array must be used. We discuss these data structures and several specialized algorithms using these data structures in Section 6.6. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 242 Context: Figure B.2: Hunting the most easiest problems using `dancy` Another new feature since 2010 is the integration of the 1198 programming exercises from this book (see Figure B.3). Now, users can customize their training programs to solve problems of similar types! Without each (manual) categorization, this training made it hard to execute. We also give stars (★) to problems that we consider as **must try** (up to 3 problems per category). Figure B.3: The programming exercises in this book are integrated in uHunt Building a website-based tool like uHunt is a computational challenge. There are over 990867 submissions from 115296 users (from submissions ever). The statistics and rankings need to be updated frequently and such a system must be fast. To deal with this challenge, Felix uses lots of advanced data structures (some are beyond this book), e.g., database caching 101, Rewisk Tree, etc., and data processing. Figure B.4: Steven's & Felix's progress in UVa online judge (2000-present) --- | Year | Progress over the Years | |------|---------------------------------------| | 2000 | Preparing CP book 1st edition | | | Won ICPC Kaohsiung 06 | #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 97 Context: # 4.2 GRAPH TRAVERSAL There are at least two known algorithms to find SCCs: Kosaraju’s algorithm explained in [8] and Tarjan’s algorithm. In this book, we analyze Tarjan’s version, as it extends naturally from our previous discussions of finding Articulation Points and Bridges. An important aspect of the algorithm is that SCCs can overlap in the original directed graph, and the DFS spanning tree (see Figure 4.1). Vertices in the DFS spanning tree with index (low) v are shown to be the root (start) of an SCC (where vertices with index 1 number about 1, 1 points 2, 3, and 4 (this is, T, 6) in Figure 4.8). The code below establishes the directed graph and performs SCCs. ```cpp // Global variables vector dfs_num, dfs_low, visited; void tarjanSCC() { dfs_low.push_back(dfs_num.count); // dfs_num[i] < dfs_num visited.push_back(0); // store i in a vector based on order of visitation int j = 0; for (int i = 0; i < (int)AdjList.size(); j++) { if (dfs_num[i] == DFS_WHITE) { tarjanSCC.visit(i); // condition for update } } if (dfs_low[i] == dfs_num[i]) { // if this is a root (start) of an SCC printf("%d: ", *numcc++); // this part is done after recursion while (1) { s.pop_back(); visited[i] = 0; printf("%d ", v); if (s.empty()) break; } printf("\n"); } } // Inside main() dfs_num.assign(V, DFS_WHITE); dfs_low.assign(V, 0); visited.assign(V, 0); dftCounter = numcc = 0; for (int i = 0; i < V; i++) { tarjanSCC(); } // For the sample graph in Figure 4.8, the output is like this: // SCC 1: // SCC 2: ### Exercise 4.2.3: Study Kosaraju’s algorithm for finding Strongly Connected Components (discussed in [8]) and then decide which one is simpler: Tarjan’s or Kosaraju’s? ### Exercise 4.2.4: Prove that if two vertices are in the same SCC, then there is an edge from one to the other. #### Example codes: - `ch4/udlfs.cpp` - `ch4/uv469s.cpp` - `ch4/udfs.java` - `ch4/uv469.java` Page 81 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: # CONTENTS © Steven & Fitz ## 3 Algorithms ### 3.1 Interesting Usages of Binary Search ### 3.2 Geometry #### 3.2.1 Examples ### 3.3 Dynamic Programming #### 3.3.1 DP Illustration #### 3.3.2 Classical Examples #### 3.3.3 Non-Classical Examples ### 3.4 Chapter Notes ## 4 Graph ### 4.1 Overview and Motivation ### 4.2 Graph Traversal #### 4.2.1 Depth First Search (DFS) #### 4.2.2 Breadth First Search (BFS) #### 4.2.3 Finding Connected Components (in an Unrestricted Graph) #### 4.2.4 Proof of Labeling/Clustering the Connected Components #### 4.2.5 Topological Sort of a Directed Acyclic Graph #### 4.2.6 Bipartite Graph Check ### 4.3 Minimum Spanning Tree #### 4.3.1 Overview and Motivation #### 4.3.2 Kruskal's Algorithm #### 4.3.3 Prim's Algorithm ### 4.4 Single-Source Shortest Paths #### 4.4.1 Overview and Motivation #### 4.4.2 SSP on Unweighted Graph #### 4.4.3 SSP on Weighted Graph #### 4.4.4 SSP on Graph with Negative Weight Cycle ### 4.5 All-Pairs Shortest Paths #### 4.5.1 Overview and Motivation #### 4.5.2 Explanation of Floyd Warshall's DP Solution #### 4.5.3 Other Applications ### 4.6 Network Flow #### 4.6.1 Overview and Motivation #### 4.6.2 Reed-Kleinberg's Method #### 4.6.3 Remarkable Applications ### 4.7 Special Graphs #### 4.7.1 Directed Acyclic Graph #### 4.7.2 Tree #### 4.7.3 Bipartite Graph ### 4.8 Chapter Notes ## 5 Mathematics ### 5.1 Overview and Motivation ### 5.2 Hard Biomathematics Problems ### 5.3 Basic Number Theory #### 5.3.1 Base Features #### 5.3.2 Base Features #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 83 Context: # 3.5 DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING **© Steven & Felix** Solution: First, expand two new coordinates so that arr = (0, the original arr), and L. Then, use these Complete Search techniques: cut(left, right) where left/right are by left/right indices of the current subarray that we are currently working with. This is described by left and right initially as: cut(1, n), a stick with length D. 1. `cut(i, j) = 0, ∀ i = 1, 2, …, n | If left[i - 1] > right left and right are the indices are n, then we are left with stick segment that does not need to be cut anymore.` 2. `cut(left, right) = cut(left, i) + cut(i + 1, right) - cut(right - arr[left])` This recurrence transcribes all possible cutting points and can be simplified like so: ``` - The cost of the left subarray cut is captured by cut(arr[right] - arr[left]). ``` This problem can be solved by this subproblem, but there can only be 2 possible cuts if right < left or left > right. Thus, the time to compute one state is O(n). Thus, the overall time complexity is O(n²). When n ≤ 50, this is feasible. The answer is in cut(0, n). ``` Example codes: cslg UVA1003.cpp; cslg UVA1003.java ``` 2. **How do you add? (UVA 10043)** **Problem description**: Given a number N, how many ways can K numbers less than or equal to N add up to N? Constraints: 1 ≤ K ≤ 100. Assuming: For N = 20 and K = 2, there are 21 ways: 20, 19 + 1, 18 + 2, …, 0 + 20. Mathematically, the number of ways to add is given by \( P(N, K) = C(N + K - 1, K - 1) \) (see [Section 3.42](https://example.com)). Therefore, we can rewrite this simple problem to retranslate Dynamic Programming. First, we have to determine the base case of this problem. It turns out that this problem is very similar to the previous problem as this problem has to be selected to represent distinct states of this problem. There are only two parameters in this problem, N and K, that need to be optimized. 1. If we choose K, but we cannot present distinct values. This option is ignored. 2. We know only N, we don’t know how many numbers N ≤ X there are. 3. If we choose X, we do not know what the target sum is. Therefore, the dynamic state of this problem is represented by a pair (N, K). Next, we have to determine the base case of this problem. It turns out that there are symmetries to choose from based on distinct copies of the state. There is no easy answer to this problem. The general case here is thus the recursive formulation which leads to subproblems where: - State \( f(N - X, K) = f(N - X, K - 1) \) At state (N, K), we can split it into sums where (N = 0, 0) and X = K, where N - X = (N - K) and numbers are deleted with computational overhead. To compute this overall time complexity is O(N * K). Given N and K, the counts can be represented. The answer is in ways(N, K). This problem can generally just need the result modulo 1 Million (i.e. the last 6 digits of the answer). See Section 5.7 that discusses simple arithmetic computation. ``` Example codes: cslg UVA10043.cpp; cslg UVA10043.java ``` *“Try the smallest test case N = 1; K = 1 with overlapping polynomials. State (N = K = 1) is reached twice.”* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 40 Context: ``` ## 2.2 DATA STRUCTURES WITH BUILT-IN LIBRARIES 1. To clear/turn off the j-th item of the set, use `S &= ~(1 << j)`. 2. - `1 - (1 << 1) = 11111100 (base 2)` - `S = 4 (base 10) = 00000100 (base 2)` - ------- AND - `S (base 10) = 00000100 (base 2)` / this new value 4 is updated to 5. 3. To toggle the j-th item of the set, use `S ^= (1 << j)`. 4. - `S = 4 (base 10) = 00000100 (base 2)` - `S ^ 2 = (S & ~ (1 << j) = 11111100 (base 2), two's complement)` - `S = 4 (base 10) = 00000100 (base 2)` / this new value 4 is updated to 6. 5. To get the first bit that is on (from right), use `R = (S & -S)`. 6. - `S = 4 (base 10) = 00000100 (base 2)` - `-S = (base 10) = 11111000 (32 bits, base 2, two's complement)` - `R = (base 10) = 00000000 (3rd bit from right is on)`. 7. To turn on all bits in a set of size n, use `S = (1 << n) - 1`. **Example for n = 6** - `S = 1 << 6 (base 10) = 100000 (base 2) is shifted to left 6 times` - `S = 63 (base 10) = 111111 (base 2)`. Many bit manipulation operations are written as macros in our C/C++ example codes (but written in a usual manner in our Java example codes as Java does not support macros). **Example codes:** `ch2_3_bj-manipulation.cpp`, `ch2_3_bj-manipulation.java` ### Programming exercises to practice using linear data structures (and algorithms) with libraries: 1. UVA Online Judge - Mapmaker (ID array manipulations) 2. UVA Online Judge - Math (ID array manipulations, get largest element of 'B') 3. UVA Online Judge - Dynamic Mirror (ID array manipulation) 4. UVA Online Judge - Sorting Slippers (ID array manipulations) 5. UVA Online Judge - Permutations (ID array manipulations) 6. UVA Online Judge - Force Conversion (ID array manipulation) 7. UVA Online Judge - Circles of Bricks (ID array manipulations) 8. UVA Online Judge - Line Segment (ID array manipulations) 9. UVA Online Judge - Data Bags (can be solved with detail) 10. UVA Online Judge - High-Dip Supernova (ID array manipulation) 11. UVA Online Judge - Easy Integers (ID array manipulation) 12. UVA Online Judge - Matrix (ID array manipulations) 13. UVA Online Judge - Hurdles (ID array manipulation) 14. UVA Online Judge - Shortest Path (or alternate source to target mapping) 15. UVA Online Judge - Jumping (ID array manipulations) 16. UVA Online Judge - Perfect Squares (3D space mapping with volume rotation) *Note: Items 1-16 are for line segment manipulations and should correspondingly match with their respective output formats, including exact set of bounds (real manipulations of integers, Direct Addressing Table, List, Vector, ArrayList, LinkedList).* ``` #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 232 Context: # Chapter 2 ## Exercise 2.2.1 Use C++ STL act (Java TreeSet) as it is a balanced BST that supports O(log n) inserts and deletes. We can iterate traversal to print the data in the BST in sorted order (simple use C++ or Java iterator). ## Exercise 2.2.2 Use C++ STL map (Java TreeMap) and a counter variable. Hash table is also possible but not necessary for programming contests. This task is used quite frequently in various programming problems. Example usage: ```cpp char str[1000]; map mapper; int idx; for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) { get(idx); if (mapper.find(idx) == mapper.end()) mapper[idx] = idx++; } ``` ## Exercise 2.3.1 Straightforward. Solution is not shown. ## Exercise 2.3.2 Solution is not shown. ## Exercise 2.3.3 For Adjacency Matrix, do matrix transpose in O(V^2). For Adjacency List, it is easier to construct for adjacency lists with reversed edges in O(V + E). ## Exercise 2.3.4 For `numAdjacentEdges()`, use additional integer counter `adjacentState`. Initially, during `adjacentState(i, j)`, we can use `unordered_set` to decrease candidates by `i` and `j`. Finally, `numAdjacentEdges()` can simply return the value of `adjacentState.size()`. ## Exercise 2.3.5 For `listEdges()`, we use `std::vector` as well as `std::list`. We can call `resize()` to define the limit. During a loop, we can simply return the value of `listEdges().`. ## Exercise 2.3.6 The `min` function can be implemented in the example code `cpp2:amundonida.cpp`. ## Exercise 2.4.1 Solution is not shown. ## Exercise 2.4.2 This is to avoid division operator so that we only work with integers. ## Exercise 2.4.3 It is likely AC to run if `n` is 3 million. ## Exercise 2.4.4 We can just check `digit[j]` from 01234 to 98765. This reduces the runtime further but ensure that `digit[j]` is valid only have 5 digits. ## Exercise 2.4.5 Modify this code: #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 66 Context: # 3.8 DIVIDE AND CONQUER The only changes are shown below. The other parts of the code are the same as above. ```c double l = 0.0, h = 10000.0, mid = 0.0, ans = 0.0; for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++) { // Looping 50 times should be precise enough mid = (l + h) / 2.0; if (condition) l = mid; else h = mid; } ``` ## Exercise 3.3.11 If you are familiar with this 'binary search the answer' technique, solve this UVa 11395 and UVa 11413 - Fill the Containers (binary search on integer range). ## Remarks About Divide and Conquer in Programming Contests Other than its natural usage in many advanced data structures, the most commonly used form of Divide and Conquer programming in programming contests is the Binary Search principle. If you do not have experience with it, please spend time practicing this technique. Once you are more familiar with the Binary Search the Answer technique discussed in this section, please explore Section 3.1 to see for more programming techniques that use this technique with other algorithms that will be discussed in the next few chapters. Another variant of binary search is the ternary search method, which consists of a bounded minimum and maximum with increasing and then strictly decreasing (or vice versa) functions. In this binary search, the array is divided into three parts instead of two. However, ternary search is rarely used in programming contests. We have learned that there are not many Divide and Conquer problems outside the binary search category. Most DS problems are categorized "non-preemptively," and thus cannot be mentioned during the next few weeks. We will revisit them in Section 7.4. ## Programming Exercises related using Binary Search: 1. UVa 10607 - Dropping Balls (like binary search; but manipulation solution exists) 2. UVa 1097 - Pipes (compare search + binary search approach) 3. UVa 11300 - The Sheep and the Wolf (binary search) 4. UVa 10104 - Shell Sort (discussion in this context) 5. UVa 10414 - Fair Candy (using the ‘binary’ way) 6. UVa 10140 - Number Sequence (binary search + some mathematics insights) 7. UVa 11714 - New Mode (biggest integer, any number used remain above) 8. UVa 11659 - Subarray Sums (loop + binary search sound nice) 9. UVa 11841 - Not No (No) (DP to guess, followed by binary search) 10. UVa 12270 - Searching for the Best (binary search with simulation) 11. UVa 12656 - Tighten Up (furthermore: % modus + binary search) 12. UVa 300 - Paint the Fence (the nearest integer problem) 13. UVa 10138 - Idea (binary search search) 14. UVa 11515 - Ants (product categorical search) 15. UVa 10138 - Divide-and-Conquer style for finding roots in series) *For alternative online for the problem, see [http://www.digitaltutor.com/index.php/UVa_10341](http://www.digitaltutor.com/index.php/UVa_10341).* #################### 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: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 176 Context: # 6.5 STRING PROCESSING WITH DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING In this section, we describe string processing problems that are solvable with dynamic programming. These problems can be found in Section 3.5. This new framework has broad implications for all competitive programmers. Additionally, we have added a collection of known twists of these problems. Note that for various DP problems on strings, results are typically manipulations of the integer parts of the string and not the actual strings (or substrings) themselves. Passing substrings as parameters of recursive functions is strongly not recommended as it is very slow and hard to memorize. ## 6.5.1 String Alignment (Edit Distance) The String Alignment (or Edit Distance) problem is defined as follows: Given two strings A and B, align \( A \) with \( B \) to minimize the total cost based on edit operations. ### Example of a non-optimal alignment ``` A = 'AACGT' B = 'ACG' ``` #### Check the optimal alignment 1. Character \( A[1] \) and \( B[1] \) match and we do nothing (for now, assume this works with +2 score). 2. Character \( A[2] \) and \( B[1] \) do match; \( A[2] \) with \( B[2] \) (assumes -1 score). 3. We insert a letter from \( A[3] \) (also -1 score). For example, \( A \) can be treated as follows to denote a space: ``` A = 'AACGT' B = 'A---CG' // Example of a non-optimal alignment ``` A brute-force solution that lists all possible alignments will typically end up with a TIME vertical line for small inputs such as \( A \) and \( B \). The solution fits into the well-known Needleman-Wunsch paradigm (a.k.a. standard two-strand alignment). We define \( V(i, j) \) to be the score of the optimal alignment between prefix \( A[1..i] \) and \( B[1..j] \), where \( \text{score}(A[i], B[j]) \) is the score of character \( A[i] \) aligned with character \( B[j] \). ### Base cases: ``` V(0, 0) = 0 // no score for matching two empty strings V(i, 0) = i × x (for aligning to an empty string) V(0, j) = j × y // for aligning to an empty string ``` ### Recurrence relation: ``` V(i, j) = max( V(i-1, j-1) + score(match, A[i], B[j]), V(i-1, j) + score(mismatch, A[i], '-'), V(i, j-1) + score(mismatch, '-', B[j]) ) ``` ### Example alignment: ``` A = 'A---CG' B = 'AACGT' ``` > The edit distance is a measure in various applications, e.g., Genetic Distance. Our stable separation of this algorithm is the concept that the edit distance between two strings \( A \) and \( B \) is defined by the number of edits required to change one string into another, considering insertion, deletion, and substitution as operations. This alignment essentially translates gaps to strings \( A \) and \( B \) that share the same character set when you evaluate the amortized cost of your operations. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: # List of Figures 1.1 Illustration of UVA 10011 - Farming Quiz Teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 UVA Online Judge and ACM ICPC Live Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.3 USACO Training Gateway and Sphere Online Judge . . . . . . . . . . . 18 1.4 Some references that inspired the authors to write this book . . . . . . . 26 2.1 Examples of Best (Left) and Max (Right) Heap (Right) . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.2 Example of Various Graph Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 2.3 UnWeighted Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.4 Significant Tree Array (n = 7, 8, 5, 3, 5, 10) . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.5 Updating Array A to T (3, 7, 8, 5, 10, 10) . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 2.6 Example of a Fibonacci Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.1 k-Queens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 3.2 UVA 10193 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 3.3 Visualization of UVA 473 - Robots on Ice . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3.4 My Ancestor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3.5 Visualization of UVA 410 - State Balance . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.6 UVA 410 - Observation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.7 UVA 410 - Observation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 3.8 UVA 10382 - Weather Grass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 3.9 Bottom-Up DP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 3.10 Longest Increasing Subsequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 3.11 Coin Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 4.1 Sample Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 4.2 Examination of BFS (from UVA 368 [26]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 4.3 Example of Present on DAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 4.4 Visualization of DFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 4.5 Introduction to More DFS Attributes: from start and allow . . . 87 4.6 Finding Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 4.7 An Example of a Directed Graph and its Strongly Connected Components (SCC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 4.8 An Example of MST Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 4.9 Animation of Kruskal’s Algorithm for an MST Problem . . . . . . 91 4.10 Forming the MST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 4.11 From Root to Leaf: MST - Minimum ST, Partial Minimum ST, MS Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 4.12 Probing the Second Best Spanning Tree from the MST . . . . . . 94 4.13 K-Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 4.14 Edge Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 4.15 Minimum (UVA 1063 [25]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 4.16 Weighted Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 4.17 K-Edge Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 4.18 Bellman Ford’s can detect the presence of negative cycle (from UVA 555 [28]) . . . . . . . 100 #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 48 Context: # 2.3 DATA STRUCTURES WITH OUR-OWN LIBRARIES **Steven & Felix** Our library implementation for Union-Find Disjoint Sets is just these few lines of code: ```cpp void init() { for (int i = 0; i < max_size; ++i) { // remember: vi is vector parent[i] = i; // each element is its own parent } } int findSet(int i) { return (parent[i] == i) ? i : (parent[i] = findSet(parent[i])); } bool isSameSet(int i, int j) { return findSet(i) == findSet(j); } void unionSets(int i, int j) { parent[findSet(i)] = findSet(j); } ``` Example code: `/UnionFind.java` ### Exercise 2.3.1 There are two main queries that are commonly performed on the Union-Find Disjoint Sets data structure: `init(maxSize)` that returns the number of disjoint sets currently in use and `sizeOf(i)` that returns the size of the set containing element `i`. Update the above union in this section to support these queries efficiently. ### Exercise 2.3.2 There is another strategy to speed up the implementation of Union-Find Disjoint Sets data structure: the “link by rank” strategy. The idea is to group the tree to keep the height of the tree as low as possible to the parent of the set with more elements, thereby reducing the time required to traverse each set's “roots.” For example, when we link sets (1, 3), it is beneficial to attach the smallest parent (which is 1) to point to parent of vertex 3 (which is 3) rather than attaching parent 3 to point to parent of vertex 1 (which is 1). The first adjustment yields a tree of height 2 as shown in Figure 2.3, while the second will yield a tree of height 3. Is this beneficial? If yes, in which case? Is there any programming trick to optimize this structure using this heuristic? ### 2.3.3 Segment Tree The segment tree is a data structure which can efficiently answer dynamic range queries. #### 2.3.3.1 Basics First, we need to understand the idea behind the segment tree. Suppose we construct a segment tree for the array: ```plaintext [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11] ``` The corresponding segment tree should look like this: ```plaintext [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11] / \ [1, 3, 5] [7, 9, 11] / \ / \ [1, 3] [5] [7, 9] [11] / \ | / \ [1] [3] | [7] [9] ``` We can do range queries with the minimum value. For example, for a range (0, 3), we would be looking at the segment tree to quickly return the minimum value in that range, which would be `1`. Thus, after building a segment tree, we can quickly answer minimum queries in logarithmic time. Specifically, the time complexity for building the tree is O(n), and for processing queries, it is O(log n). > *“The dynamic programming structure enables rapid queries, which greatly makes preprocessing faster, i.e., for `i`, and to be larger than query range (3, 1) is `1, 3, 5, 7`.”* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 197 Context: # 7.2 BASIC GEOMETRY OBJECTS WITH LIBRARIES © Steven & Felix Programming Exercises related to Points and Lines: 1. UVa 10931 - Parity 2. UVa 10891 - Intersecting lines (line segment intersection) 3. UVa 10217 - Lining Up (point sorting, simple search) 4. UVa 10673 - Square Peg And Round Hole (Euclidean distance, brute force) 5. UVa 10679 - Interesting Lines (line area, parallelogram area) 6. UVa 10837 - There's treasure everywhere (Euclidean distance, brute force) 7. UVa 10964 - Light and Transparency (line segments, sort the axis test) 8. UVa 10939 - Sound Monotonicity (Euclidean distance, brute force) 9. UVa 10001 - Fault Point (not vector, can translate points with that vector) 10. UVa 10002 - Routh Point (not vector, can translate points with that vector) 11. UVa 10003 - Balancing (Euclidean distance, simple Physics simulation) 12. UVa 10005 - Loner Pair (Euclidean distance test) 13. UVa 10006 - Convex Hull (points against polygon) 14. UVa 10007 - Polygon Intersect (points with tangent, Euclidean distance) 15. UVa 10172 - An Easy Task (simple 2 lines with 2 variables) 16. UVa 11577 - The Silver Medal (brute force, collinearity test) 17. UVa 11821 - Vital Segments (line segment intersections) 18. UVa 11636 - Logic (Euclidean distance test) 19. LA 401 - Pallid (Southwest USA Regional 2009) ## 7.2.3 2D Objects: Circles 1. Circle centered at (x, y) in a 2D Euclidean space with radius r is the set of all points (x, y) such that \( (x - p)^2 + (y - q)^2 = r^2 \). 2. To check if a point is inside, outside, or exactly at the border of a circle, we can use the following function. Modify this function a bit for the floating-point version. ```c int circlePoint(int p, int q, int r) { // all integer version int d = (p - x) * (p - x) + (q - y) * (q - y); // all integer return (d < r * r) ? 0 : (d > r * r) ? 2 : 1; // inside/border/outside } ``` 3. The constant \( \pi (r) \) is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter. To avoid unnecessary precision error, the safest value for programming context if this constant is not defined in the problem description is \( P \) if \( \text{acos}(-1.0) \) or \( P = 2 * a \). 4. A circle with radius r has diameter \( d = 2 * r \). *Note: This is the C/C++ function's name for mathematical functions across.* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 69 Context: # 3.4 GREEDY © Steven & Felix ## UVA 10382 - Watering Grass **Problem description:** A sprinklers are installed in a horizontal strip of grass \( L \) meters long and \( W \) meters wide. Each sprinkler is installed at the horizontal level of the strip. For each sprinkler, we are given its position \( d \) the distance from the left end of the strip and its radius of operation \( r \). What is the minimum number of sprinklers to turn on to cover the entire strip of grass? **Constraint:** \( L \leq 10000 \). For a visual case of this problem, see Figure 3.8 (right). There are 2 unused sprinklers for this test case (sprinklers labeled with \( C, G \)). ### Figure 3.8: UVA 10382 - Watering Grass This shows the corresponding possible subsets of sprinklers to get the answer. For the given horizontal arrangement, the greedy algorithm can be described as follows: 1. Sort the sprinklers based on their right edges: \( (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H) \). 2. The greedy algorithm first sorts the intervals into a list \( L \), takes the interval \( I \) that has the left-most start point and adds it to the set of intervals that form the initial solution. Then it processes them one by one. First, it takes \( A \) (the interval \( [0, 2] \)), and adds it: - If \( E \) overlaps with \( A \) (i.e., any part of \( E \) is contained in \( [0, 2] \)). 3. If not, we look to the next interval \( B \) until there is no overlap. The process continues until we have selected all possible intervals, and they cover the strip completely up to \( L \). Total, we take the sprinklers labeled \( A, B, D, E, F, H \) in this programming context. ### Remarks About Greedy Algorithm in Programming Contests In this section, we will discuss these classical problems tackled with Greedy algorithms: Coin Change (the problem of making change), Local Bankshack, and Interval Scheduling. We present several algorithms, including examples of (see references in the book, e.g., Kruskal's and Prim's algorithms for Minimum Spanning Trees (MST) [23, 43] and Dijkstra's algorithm for Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) [25, 29]). These are known Greedy algorithms that we want to discuss in this book as they are "problems specific" and rarely appear in programming contests, e.g., Huffman Codes [3, 23], Partial Knapsack [3, 28]. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 142 Context: # 5.3 JAVA BIGINTEGER CLASS © Steven & Felix ```java import java.util.Scanner; // Scanner class is inside package java.util import java.math.BigInteger; // BigInteger class is inside package java.math class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); int caseNo = 1; while (true) { int n = sc.nextInt(), r = sc.nextInt(); // // n is friends if (n == 0 && r == 0) break; BigInteger g = BigInteger.ZERO; // BigInteger has this constant ZERO for (int i = 0; i < r; i++) { BigInteger x = sc.nextBigInteger(); // for reading next BigInteger g = g.add(x); // this is BigInteger addition } System.out.printf("Bill %d: %s\n", caseNo++, g.divide(BigInteger.valueOf(r))); } System.out.println(); // line above is BigInteger division } } ``` Example code: `c1a3.java.12925.java` ## 5.3.2 Bonus Features Java BigInteger class has a few more bonus features that can be useful in programming contests. It happens to have a built-in GCD (greatest common divisor) method (`gcd()`), a modular arithmetic functioning method (`mod()`), and a power method (`pow()`) for exponentiation. Among these features, the base number converter is the most useful one. These functions often save time when translating problems from UVa online judge. Do not hesitate to use them even if that means that you have to learn to code in Java. ### Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) See an example below for UVa 10134 - Simplifying Fractions. We are asked to reduce a large fraction to its simplest form by dividing both numerator and denominator with their GCD. ```java import java.util.Scanner; class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { // UVa 10134 - Simplifying Fractions // Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); while (true) { int a = sc.nextInt(), b = sc.nextInt(); // while in C/C++, we have to supply 0 (in- -> 0) if (a == 0 && b == 0) break; BigInteger g = BigInteger.valueOf(GCD(a, b)); BigInteger p = BigInteger.valueOf(a), q = BigInteger.valueOf(b); System.out.printf("%s / %s\n", p.divide(g), q.divide(g)); // wow :) } } static int GCD(int a, int b) { while (b != 0) { int t = b; b = a % b; a = t; } return a; } } ``` Example code: `c0b4.java.10134.java` *A note for pure C/C++ programmers: it is good to be a multi-lingual programmer.* #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 99 Context: # 4.2 GRAPH TRAVERSAL © Steven & Felix - **Flood Fill / Finding Connected Components** 1. UVA 01220 - 2- Go along dx[3, 6 neighbors per cell] 2. UVA 01962 - Second War (count number of connected components (CC)) 3. UVA 02977 - Password of Polish (count number of CCs, biconnected in this section) 4. UVA 059 - 20 Desktops (count number of CCs, similar to UVA 523) 5. UVA 10688 - The Big C (just the "one color" part) 6. UVA 10769 - Mice and Maze (Regular Graph, both cells have internet, formal output) 7. UVA 10776 - Schools and Ruling (response + what “we” remember we are inside the grid) 8. UVA 11325 - Peeking Cattle (Grid, farms) 9. UVA 11327 - Hiding Sheep (Grid, farms) 10. UVA 11328 - Cattle Corral (similar to UVA 11325) 11. UVA 11329 - Cattle Rush (as before, but it's also tricky) 12. UVA 11330 - Falling Giants (Grid and Hill runs minimum weight) 13. UVA 11401 - Counting Stars (count at most “H” by layers) 14. UVA 11417 - Spanning Trees (can be as hard “H” as we can, like simple CCs) 15. UVA 11458 - Getting Gold (not filled with extra blocking restriction) 16. UVA 11514 - Backstabbers (interpret as, test of blood and politeness) 17. UVA 12137 - The Superstars (Fundamentals, Connected Components) - **Topological Sort** 1. UVA 00211 - Railing Orders (use backtracking to generate valid toporders) 2. UVA 00312 - Race Order (similar to UVA 194, use backtracking) 3. UVA 01075 - Overlapping Attack (use topological algorithms discussed in this section) 4. UVA 11060 - Power Poses (treat as the "holistic" BFS topological sort) 5. UVA 11608 - Pk up (using possible) DAGS (combine see Section 4.7.1) - **Bipartite Graphs** 1. UVA 10004 - Bicoloring (bipartite graph) 2. UVA 11503 - Make a Match (bipartite graph, take max[lt, rt]) 3. UVA 11180 - Place the Queens (4-figure graphs) 4. UVA 11360 - Clay Discombobulate (continually pick a logarithmic graph check) - **Finding Articulation Points / Bridges** 1. UVA 10001 - Network (finding articulation points) 2. UVA 10629 - Just Direct (finding bridges) 3. UVA 11538 - Classy Links (finding articulation points) - **Finding Strongly Connected Components** 1. UVA 11103 - Easy Char (SCC = printing solution) 2. UVA 11104 - Tunnel (SCCs) 3. UVA 11117 - Function (count SCCs) inherit in-degree from outside SCC) 4. UVA 11180 - Losing Away (similar to UVA 1130) 5. UVA 11309 - C (count the vertex graph is strongly connected) 6. UVA 11380 - Shift-In-Branch (turn, SCC) > "There is either way to solve this problem, i.e., by finding the patterns." #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 134 Context: # Programming Exercises Related to Tree/Eulerian Graphs/Bipartite Graphs ## Tree 1. UVA 00112 - The Summing (backtracking) 2. UVA 01101 - Closing Trees (tree traversal, Lowest Common Ancestor) 3. UVA 01202 - Trees on the Divide (tree traversal) 4. UVA 01212 - Tree Recovery (tree traversal, reconstructing tree from pre + in-order) 5. UVA 00605 - Is it a Tree? (graph property check) 6. UVA 00976 - The Pilgrim (course preorder traversal) 7. UVA 00797 - Spheres (using tree to resolve shortest-path problem on tree) 8. UVA 00797 - Not So Mobile (dealing with fixed routes in tree structure) 9. UVA 01035 - The Tree (finding the root of the tree, classes in this extent) 10. UVA 01113 - Plan A (least common ancestor) 11. UVA 01128 - Uva is a Circuits (Lowest Common Ancestor) 12. UVA 11162 - Finger Tree (counting size of subtrees, hint: min + max) 13. UVA 11615 - Perfect Planning (worst case bipartite matching, hint: 2 centers) ## Definition Graph 1. UVA 00101 - The Penal Worker Ring (Bipartite tree, not a set of tours) 2. UVA 00201 - The History of Short Circles (Eulerian trees in binary graph, backtracking) 3. UVA 00492 - The Necklace (finding the Euler cycle) 4. UVA 10294 - Play on Words (Bipartite graph property check) 5. UVA 10929 - Snow Clearing (the underlying graph property of Euler graphs) 6. UVA 10930 - Morning Walk (Euler graph property check) ## Bipartite Graph 1. UVA 00676 - The Bug Track (MCMB) 2. UVA 10028 - Capture it! (Alice Independent Set - Y - MCMB) 3. UVA 11034 - My-First-Slam (pure MCMB, exit from here) 4. UVA 11158 - Recursions and Publications (Alice Independent Set, but also in MCMB) 5. UVA 11149 - Sieve a Pair (Bipartite, Min Vertex Cover) 6. UVA 12129 - Parallel Schedule (Bipartite, Min Vertex Cover on DC & MCMB) 7. UVA 12139 - Snakes and Ladders (Northwesternproblem1, MBC or DBAP & MCMB) 8. UVA 12140 - The Sydney of Diversity (Northwesternproblem, MCMB) 9. UVA 12345 - Guardian of Demons (Northwesternproblem, MCMB) 10. UVA 12429 - Cat vs. Dog (Northwesternproblem, Max Independent Set) **"Let's assume that we have a tree T. The Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA) between two vertices u and v is the deepest vertex that is an ancestor to both u and v in T's decomposition (when T can be considered as a tree). The LCA problems can be reduced to a Range Minimum Query (RMQ) problem (see Section 2.3.3) at later times."** #################### File: Data%20Mining%20Concepts%20and%20Techniques%20-%20Jiawei%20Han%2C%20Micheline%20Kamber%2C%20Jian%20Pei%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 305 Context: ,“Whichisthebestinassessingthediscoveredpatternrela-tionships?”Toanswerthisquestion,weexaminetheirperformanceonsometypicaldatasets. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: # 1.2 TIPS TO BE COMPETITIVE ## Exercise 1.2.8 Write the shortest codes that you can think of for the following tasks: 1. Given a string that represents a base X number, convert it to equivalent string in base Y. (e.g. `2, X = 5` → `FF` in base 16 (Hexadecimal) to `25` in base 10 (Decimal) and `11111111` in base Y = 2 (Binary). (More details in Section 5.2.3)) 2. Given a list of integers `L` of size up to 1, determine whether a value `x` exists in `L` by not using more than `2` comparisons? (More details in Section 2.1) 3. Given a date, determine what day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, ..., Sunday) of that date? (e.g. 9 August 2010 - the famous date of the first edition of this book → Monday) 4. Given a string, replace all ‘special words’ of length `n` with `s` that starts with a numeric-alphabet character and followed by two consecutive digits, e.g. `s = "time"` and `**` will be replaced, but `a234` and `a572` will not. 5. Write the shortest possible Java code to read in a double (e.g. `1.472`, `1.23456789`, etc.) and print it again, just with minimum width for 3 digits after decimal point (e.g. `as` → `473 (where `s` denotes a space), `525.325`, `625`). 6. Generate all possible permutations of `(0, 1, 2, ... , N-1)` for `N = 20`. 7. Generate all possible subsets of `(0, 1, 2, ... , N-1)` for `N = 20`. ## 1.24 Tip 5: Master the Art of Testing Code You thought that you have nailed a particular problem. You have identified its type, designed the algorithm for it, and calculated the algorithm's time-space complexity - it will involve testing the program, debugging, and optimizing the algorithm. But you might still not get points by solving the problem partially. In CPIC, you may only get credit if your team's code solves all the judging cases. That is, your program must provide correct results with high accuracy. ### Important Points - **Time Limits:** Usually, time test (time spent running) in CPIC to check in I/O bounds and amplitude of problems must take less than a certain threshold (e.g. `1.00` seconds). - Performant Algorithms: You need to consider all the cases extensively, and test cases may vary in size. If you are not sure whether your code is doing good, reproduce these test cases, especially for boundary conditions. - **Improving Your Codes:** Prototype your solution and try to improve your code along the way. ### Tips for Testing: - Ensure your tests include the simple case as you already have the answer given. - Use `printf` functions and `if` in UNIX to check your outputs against the sample output. - Avoid manual comparison as we are not good in performing such tests, especially for problems with delicate output format. #################### File: Competitive%20Programming%2C%202nd%20Edition%20-%20Steven%20Halim%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 249 Context: ```markdown # INDEX - LA 2001 - Editor, 173 - LA 3001 - The Code, 132 - LA 3602 - Project Costing, 128 - LA 3899 - The Request constant genre, 139 - LA 3900 - Intermediary, 83 - LA 4001 - MODS, 128 - LA 4002 - Accessibility, 31 - LA 4003 - INTERLINK, 128 - LA 4100 - RACING, 60 - LA 4101 - Right Face Logo, 84 - LA 4102 - Budget Fundamentals, 61 - LA 4103 - Library, 128 - LA 4104 - Create X-Philanthropy, 115 - LA 4167 - JCPenney Format, 15 - LA 4200 - Help the Team, 155 - LA 4201 - Short & Bulky, 18 - LA 4202 - Evaluate a Marital Plan, 13 - LA 4204 - Causes of Phobias, 82 - LA 4210 - Channel Ports, 30 - LA 4299 - Shopping Don’s Day, 128 - LA 4300 - Marketplace, 154 - LA 4327 - Proximate End-Use, 202 - LA 4328 - C.A. 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No. 118, 211 - LA 4700 - Intro to Ethics, 214 - LA 4710 - Adult Education, 14 - LA 4711 - Syllabus, 292 - LA 4721 - Norma's Passport, 94 - LA 4722 - Event Re-Analysis, 210 - LA 4723 - Project Lead, 153 - LA 4724 - Introspective Approach, 202 - LA 4725 - Parent-Child, 100 - LA 4820 - Inventory, 211 - LA 8001 - Book List, 81 - LA 8002 - Amenable, 102 - LA 8003 - Required Substitution, 94 - LA 8004 - Bill Ten, 50 - LA 8005 - Thiessen Approach, 56 - LA 8006 - Activities Against, 128 - LA 8041 - Uproarious Joy, 103 - LA 8042 - Upside Down, 72 - LA 8110 - It's Friday, 66 - LA 8140 - Sharks Chocolate, 210 - LA 8143 - Sharks, 45 ## Additional Items - LA 4841 - Strung Popping, 45 - LA 854 - Password, 86 - LA 854 - Learn ACM-More, 132 - LA 884 - Your Bib, 89 - LA 6961 - Overlapping Zones, 46 - LA 5000 - Underwriter Systems, 202 - La 5001 - Java, 181 - Law of Causation, 141 - Last Common Multiple, 135 - Least-Turn Test, see CCW Text Libraries, 71 - Linear Diophantine Equation, 141 - Link List, 172 - Live Archive, 12 - Longitudinal Score Subsegment, 161 - Longest Causation Substring, 61 - Lowest Common Ancestor, 113 ### Metrics - Max Flow: - Max Flow with Vertex Capacities, 105 - Maximum Independent Paths, 106 - Min Cost (Max) Flow, 105 - Min Flow, 61 - Multi-source Minimal Sink Max Flow, 105 - Minimum Spanning Tree: - Minimum Spanning Tree, 86 - Partial Minimum Spanning Tree, 86 - Shortest Path Simple Tree, 87 - McCabe Arithmetic, 107 - Myers, Case Study, 159 ## Optimal Play - Pascal, Blaze, 128 - Perfect Play, 145 ``` ########## """QUERY: can you tell me something about competitive programming?""" 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