It seems the constraints of the problem doesn’t really force us to find a subquadratic solution.
I found a few solutions that run in O(Q2) in the worst case, and to hide their identities, I tried to replicate their solution. I got AC with this code (this submission) ! I simply kept track of all updates so far in a list, and during queries I simply determined which of those updates are relevant, using a linear scan!
This is a bit saddening, because some solvers who did this didn’t get the chance to learn Fenwick/Binary-indexed/segment tree.
It might have been better to have Q ≤ 200000 instead of just Q ≤ 50000 .
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I tried to solve the problem using fenwick tree but I’m getting a runtime error(SIGSEGV). I checked to see if I was doing some invalid array accesses but found none. Please check: dGHVz9 - Online C++ Compiler & Debugging Tool - Ideone.com
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My solution is working correctly for all the test cases but giving NZEC error on submission…Somebody plz help…the following is the link to my solution… http://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/5468036
@kevinsogo here is link to my code http://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/6804322.when I am using same logic as yours why am i getting TLE.Is it regarding my input method? Can u also explain at which steps BIT is beating my approach.(why is it fast?).
Faced some issues with input. Maybe this has some ’ ’ before ‘\n’ . Again not sure about this, character-wise input got me AC while token-wise input resulted in NZEC. So a friendly heads-up to others.
Well, I’m really sorry to hear this,as my initial idea when setting this problem was to teach the concept of Fenwick Trees to some people (I learnt it myself while setting the problem), but, with this hack some people might have missed it Will try to be more careful next time
Yes, the constraints on the problem were really weak. I looked at the constraints and tried the brute force solution described above and got AC so i didn’t bother spending more time on it. As it was an easy question, i did not realize it was meant to be solved using BIT. Would have been interesting with tougher test cases.
Tree construction could be done in o(n) time. you could check the process() method from my solution here CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone. The trick is to create a prefix tree and use that for fenwick tree creation
You can initialize the tree with zeroes (straight in the constructor), count the differences in number of marbles that the queries cause, and sum those up with array A, which also gives O(N+Q\log{N}) complexity.
I read the whole BIT during contest time cuz i didnt know about it before. So, i understood how to create a tree and perform operations on that further. I may be wrong somewhere, the same can be done by some other way like using update you are saying.
But even if i am doing this way, why i am getting wa. Also, i saw many solutions doing exactly same but i am not able to differentiate the error in my code.
Could this problem be solved using a segment tree ? From what i have read up a segment tree requires ( 2*2^(log n base 2) -1 ) memory for array of size n .Now i tried submitting a solution using segment tree . Here is the link . However i get sigsegv error. Any way you’ll could assist me on this .