NEWCC - Editorial

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Author, Tester, and Editorialist: iceknight1093

DIFFICULTY:

TBD

PREREQUISITES:

None

PROBLEM:

Given X and Y, the runtimes of a submission on Codechef’s old and new judging systems, report which one is faster.

EXPLANATION:

As per the statement, the answer is:

  • Old, if X \lt Y
  • New, if X \gt Y
  • Same, if X = Y

Check which of these three conditions is true, using if statements; then print the appropriate output.

TIME COMPLEXITY

\mathcal{O}(1) per testcase.

CODE:

Editorialist's code (Python)
x, y = map(int, input().split())
print('New' if x > y else ('Old' if x < y else 'Same'))