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POJ 3678 Katu Puzzle

Problem Description: Given some constraints formed with two variables, and operator of OR, AND, or XOR, you are to find whether there exists a solution to satisfy all the constraints.Constraints: 1 ≤ N ≤ 1000 (number of variables) 1 ≤ M ≤ …

POJ 1286 Necklace of Beads

Problem Description: Three colors of beads are available. Count the number of different circular necklace that could be formed. Two necklaces are identical iff after some rotation or flip, each position has the same color of bead.Constrain…

POJ 2345 Central heating

Problem Description: There are N switches and N technicians. Each technician has a list of valves, and if he were hired, he would flip the switch of each of them in his list. It is known that for any technician i, it is impossible to repla…

GCJ Japan 2011 Final B. Multiplication of Bacteria

Problem Description: There are T standalone test cases in this problem. In the beginning, there are A units of bacteria. For any moment t with x units of bacteria, we know that moment t + 1 would have x**x units of bacteria. Given A, B, C,…

POJ 2720 Last Digits

Problem Description: f(x) = 1, if x = 0 B ** f(x - 1), otherwise Given B, I, and N, find the last N digits of f(I).Constraints: Solution: We want to find . For any , we can observe that in , we can always find some such that . We will recu…

POJ 2115 C Looooops

Problem Description: You have a for loop that looks like this: for (value_type i = A; i != B; i += C) ; , where value_type is K-bits unsigned integer data type. You want to know whether the loop will reach an end, and if it will, the numbe…

POJ 1150 The Last Non-zero Digit

Problem Description: Given N, M, find the last non-zero digit in N! / (N - M)!.Constraints: 0 ≤ M ≤ N ≤ 2e7Solution: We can find a and k such that in O(lg x) time, given that e is 2 or 5 (because they are prime, we can apply Wilson's theor…

POJ 3260 The Fewest Coins ( Knapsack multiple & complete DP )

3260 -- The Fewest Coins n ≤ 100 types of currency exists, each value v[i] ≤ 120, and I have c[i] ≤ 100 of them. Answer the minimum sum of coins that I have to give and take, when I am to buy a product of T ≤ 10000 dollars. This is basical…

Lowest common ancestor

I have finally started to understand the LCA algorithm for transforming to RMQ. Here are the basic steps for static LCA queries: 1. DFS from any node as the root for the tree, making timestamps as it goes ( called the Euler's tour ). 3 bas…

Introduction to deque optimizations

A deque ( double ended queue ) is a data structure that supports push/ pop from both ends with constant time complexity. It can be used to optimize algorithms that deal with monotonous properties. The first time I saw this data structure, …

Introduction to stack optimizations

Stacks can be used to maintain for monotonous properties, can optimize for many problems, but only if you can discover the monotony in the problem. Here are some problems for exercise from the ant book. 3250 -- Bad Hair Day POJ 3250 Bad Ha…