WA for Interactive Problem

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Why i’m getting wrong answer for the problem “Guess The Number(Interactive problem)” if i use ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0);

Link for the problem: CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone

My solution for the problem :

NOTE: This code is giving WA;

using namespace std;
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using ll=long long int;
#define endl “\n”
#define pb push_back

int main()
{
ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);cin.tie(0);cout.tie(0);

vector<ll>v;

for(ll i=1;i<1001;i++)
v.push_back(i*i);

ll t,ans;
cin>>t;

while(t--)
{
  
           for(ll i=0;i<1000;i++)
           {
             cout<<v[i]<<endl;
             cin>>ans;
             if(ans==1)break;
           }
 }

}

But the following gives AC

using namespace std;
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using ll=long long int;
#define endl “\n”
#define pb push_back

int main()
{
// ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);cin.tie(0);cout.tie(0);

vector<ll>v;

for(ll i=1;i<1001;i++)
v.push_back(i*i);

ll t,ans;
cin>>t;

while(t--)
{
  
           for(ll i=0;i<1000;i++)
           {
             cout<<v[i]<<endl;
             cin>>ans;
             if(ans==1)break;
           }
 }

} Only difference in both code is the use of fast I/O.
so ,why cant we use fast I/O for interactive problems?

2

My Solution works fine even with fastio.

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3

Can you try removing this?

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4

Then,what’s wrong in my solution?

5

either try what ssjgz said or you can also change tocout << v[i] << endl << flush;.

6

If my suggestion worked, then it’s because you weren’t flushing the output when fastio was being used.

I’m fairly surprised it worked without fastio.

Edit:

Oh, of course it worked without fastio - tie'ing the streams means that a call to cin flushes the output. Silly me :slight_smile:

7

Yeah, it works fine.

But what’s the problem with that if I define endl as \n.
Can you please explain it?

8

endl means “new line, then flush output”.

\n just means “new line”.

Edit:

See e.g. c++ - "std::endl" vs "\n" - Stack Overflow.

9

Maybe this will make some sense… I don’t know much though.

10

Thanks for your response.
It also works fine.

11

Thanks,i get it now.

12

Then how did this got accepted, if \n doesn’t flush the output?

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13

See my edit.

14

May be there was no buffer to flush but its good to use endl instead of “\n” in interactive problems.

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