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1333_platinum_good_bitstrings | 1333 | Good Bitstrings |
For any two positive integers $a$ and $b$, define the function
$\texttt{gen_string}(a,b)$ by the following Python code:
def gen_string(a: int, b: int):
res = ""
ia, ib = 0, 0
while ia + ib < a + b:
if ia * b <= ib * a:
res += '0'
ia += 1
else:
res += '1'
ib += 1
return res
Equivalent C++ code:
string gen_string(int64_t a, int64_t b) {
string res;
int ia = 0, ib = 0;
while (ia + ib < a + b) {
if ((__int128)ia * b <= (__int128)ib * a) {
res += '0';
ia++;
} else {
res += '1';
ib++;
}
}
return res;
}
$ia$ will equal $a$ and $ib$ will equal $b$ when the loop terminates, so this
function returns a bitstring of length $a+b$ with exactly $a$ zeroes and $b$
ones. For example, $\texttt{gen_string}(4,10)=01110110111011$.
Call a bitstring $s$ $\textbf{good}$ if there exist positive integers $x$ and
$y$ such that $s=\texttt{gen_string}(x,y)$. Given two positive integers $A$ and
$B$ ($1\le A,B\le 10^{18}$), your job is to compute the number of good prefixes
of $\texttt{gen_string}(A,B)$. For example, there are $6$ good prefixes of
$\texttt{gen_string}(4,10)$:
x = 1 | y = 1 | gen_string(x, y) = 01
x = 1 | y = 2 | gen_string(x, y) = 011
x = 1 | y = 3 | gen_string(x, y) = 0111
x = 2 | y = 5 | gen_string(x, y) = 0111011
x = 3 | y = 7 | gen_string(x, y) = 0111011011
x = 4 | y = 10 | gen_string(x, y) = 01110110111011
INPUT FORMAT (input arrives from the terminal / stdin):
The first line contains $T$ ($1\le T\le 10$), the number of independent test
cases.
Each of the next $T$ lines contains two integers $A$ and $B$.
OUTPUT FORMAT (print output to the terminal / stdout):
The answer for each test case on a new line.
SAMPLE INPUT:
6
1 1
3 5
4 7
8 20
4 10
27 21
SAMPLE OUTPUT:
1
5
7
10
6
13
SCORING:
Input 2: $A,B\le 100$Input 3: $A,B\le 1000$Inputs 4-7: $A,B\le 10^6$Inputs 8-13: All answers are at most $10^5$.Inputs 14-21: No additional constraints.
Problem credits: Benjamin Qi
| platinum | http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=viewproblem2&cpid=1333 | http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=open23results |
For any two positive integers $a$ and $b$, define the function
$\texttt{gen_string}(a,b)$ by the following Python code:
def gen_string(a: int, b: int):
res = ""
ia, ib = 0, 0
while ia + ib < a + b:
if ia * b <= ib * a:
res += '0'
ia += 1
else:
res += '1'
ib += 1
return res
Equivalent C++ code:
string gen_string(int64_t a, int64_t b) {
string res;
int ia = 0, ib = 0;
while (ia + ib < a + b) {
if ((__int128)ia * b <= (__int128)ib * a) {
res += '0';
ia++;
} else {
res += '1';
ib++;
}
}
return res;
}
$ia$ will equal $a$ and $ib$ will equal $b$ when the loop terminates, so this
function returns a bitstring of length $a+b$ with exactly $a$ zeroes and $b$
ones. For example, $\texttt{gen_string}(4,10)=01110110111011$.
Call a bitstring $s$ $\textbf{good}$ if there exist positive integers $x$ and
$y$ such that $s=\texttt{gen_string}(x,y)$. Given two positive integers $A$ and
$B$ ($1\le A,B\le 10^{18}$), your job is to compute the number of good prefixes
of $\texttt{gen_string}(A,B)$. For example, there are $6$ good prefixes of
$\texttt{gen_string}(4,10)$:
x = 1 | y = 1 | gen_string(x, y) = 01
x = 1 | y = 2 | gen_string(x, y) = 011
x = 1 | y = 3 | gen_string(x, y) = 0111
x = 2 | y = 5 | gen_string(x, y) = 0111011
x = 3 | y = 7 | gen_string(x, y) = 0111011011
x = 4 | y = 10 | gen_string(x, y) = 01110110111011
INPUT FORMAT (input arrives from the terminal / stdin):
The first line contains $T$ ($1\le T\le 10$), the number of independent test
cases.
Each of the next $T$ lines contains two integers $A$ and $B$.
OUTPUT FORMAT (print output to the terminal / stdout):
The answer for each test case on a new line.
| [
{
"input": "6\n1 1\n3 5\n4 7\n8 20\n4 10\n27 21",
"output": "1\n5\n7\n10\n6\n13",
"explanation": "",
"input_explanation": "",
"output_explanation": ""
}
] | 1 |
def solve(a, b):
crs_below, crs_above = b, a # cross(f_1, f'), cross(f', f_2)
ans = 0
on_y_axis = True
while True:
if crs_below > crs_above: # f_1 = f_1 + f_2
mul = (crs_below - 1) // crs_above
ans += mul * (1 + (not on_y_axis))
crs_below -= mul * crs_above
else: # f_2 = f_1 + f_2
mul = crs_above // crs_below
ans += mul
crs_above -= mul * crs_below
on_y_axis = False
if crs_above == 0:
break
return ans + 2 * (crs_below - 1)
T = int(input())
for _ in range(T):
a, b = map(int, input().split())
print(solve(a, b))
| (Analysis by Benjamin Qi, Reviewed by Richard Qi)
Note: The model solutions for all subtasks are very short, though
understanding why they work is not easy.
Suppose we are trying to compute the answer for $A=a$ and $B=b$.
Subtask 2: $O((a+b)^2)$
Let $s=\texttt{gen_string}(a,b)$. For each prefix of $s$, count the number of 0s
and 1s (let these be $c$ and $d$, respectively), and then check whether
$\texttt{gen_string}(c, d)$ is a prefix of $s$.
Subtask 3: $O(a+b)$
The first step is to treat each bit string as a path on the upper-right quadrant
of a 2D grid (all lattice points $(x,y)$ satisfying $x\ge 0$ and $y\ge 0$).
Henceforth, we use "point" as shorthand for "lattice point." Starting at the
point $(0,0)$, we repeatedly move right if we are on or above the line
$y=b/a\cdot x$, and up otherwise, until we reach the point $(a,b)$. This is
equivalent to the function provided in the problem statement because the
condition $ia * b \le ib * a$ compares the slope of the line from the origin to
$(ia, ib)$ with the slope of the line from the origin to $(a, b)$.
Definition: Say that a point $(x,y)$ with $0<x\le a$ and $0<y\le b$ is
good if $\texttt{gen_string}(x,y)$ is a prefix of
$\texttt{gen_string}(a,b)$.
Our goal is to count the number of good points.
Condition: A point $(x,y)$ is good if and only if every point
$(x_p,y_p)$ in the upper-right quadrant satisfying $0\le x_p<x$ or $0\le y_p<y$
is on the same side of the lines through the origin with slopes $y/x$ and
$b/a$. Specifically, $(x_p,y_p)$ is either above or on both lines, or below both
lines.
Proof: Consider pairing the steps of $\texttt{gen_string}(x,y)$ and the
first $x+y$ steps of $\texttt{gen_string}(a,b)$. The given condition is
sufficient to ensure that every pair of steps moves in the same direction. For
the other direction, observe if both steps in a pair move from $(c,d)$ to
$(c,d+1)$, then every point $(x_p,y_p)$ with $y_p=d$ and $x_p\ge c$ is below
the line, while if both steps in a pair move from $(c,d)$ to $(c+1,d)$, then
every point $(x_p,y_p)$ with $x_p=c$ and $y_p\ge d$ is above on or on the line.
Necessity follows from taking the union of these statements for all $(c,d)$
along the path from $(0,0)$ to $(x,y)$. $\blacksquare$
This condition isn't immediately useful because it tells us to check an infinite
number of points to see whether $(x,y)$ is good. The following corollary tells
us that actually, we only need to check a finite number of points.
Corollary: A point $(x,y)$ is good if and only if every point
$(x_p,y_p)\neq (x,y)$ in the upper-right quadrant satisfying $0\le x_p\le x$
and $0\le y_p\le y$ is on the same side of the lines through the origin
with slopes $y/x$ and $b/a$. We call this set of points the bounding
rectangle associated with $(x,y)$.
We use this corollary to separately count good points below the ray from the
origin through $(a,b)$ and good points on or above this ray.
A point $(x,y)$ below the ray through $(a,b)$ is good if and only if
$(x-1,y)$ is not strictly below the ray through $(a,b)$, and there exist no
points with smaller y-coordinate that lie on or above the ray through $(x,y)$
and below the ray through $(a,b)$.A point $(x,y)$ on or above the ray through $(a,b)$ is good if and only if
$(x,y-1)$ is not on or above the ray through $(a,b)$, and there exist no points
with smaller x-coordinate that lie on or above the ray through $(a,b)$ and below
the ray through
$(x,y)$.
To count good points of the first form, note that for every y-coordinate, there
is at most one point with that y-coordinate that can potentially be good.
Iterate over all y-coordinates from $1$ to $b-1$ in increasing order and find
the leftmost point with that y-coordinate that is below the ray through $(a,b)$.
If the last good point we found is on or above the ray through the current
point, then the current point cannot be good. Otherwise, the current point
produces the greatest slope through the origin out of all points below the ray
with y-coordinate less than or equal to the current y-coordinate, so it is good.
Counting good points of the second form can be done similarly.
Implementation Note: We can check whether a point lies above a ray
without division using the
cross
product operation.
Equivalent Python code (though this isn't fast enough to pass the subtask):
Subtask 4: $O(answer)$
Suppose that we want to generate the good pairs in increasing order of size. If
we look at the good pairs from the sample explanation, we can see that every one
of them is the sum of two previous good pairs (if we treat $(1,0)$ and $(0,1)$
as good). For example, $(1, 2)+(1, 3)=(2, 5)$ and $(1, 2)+(2, 5)=(3,7)$. Why is
this happening?
To show this, let's make some additional observations. Let $f_1=(a_1,b_1)$ and
$f_2=(a_2,b_2)$ be any two points in the upper-right quadrant satisfying
$cross(f_1,f_2)=a_1b_2-a_2b_1=1$. Note that this implies $b_1/a_1<b_2/a_2$, as
we can divide both sides by $a_1a_2$ (here we assume $1/0=\infty$).
Furthermore, by Pick's
theorem, no point lies strictly within the triangle with $(0,0)$, $f_1$, and
$f_2$ as vertices (this triangle has $A=cross(f_1,f_2)/2=1/2, i=0, b=3$).
Fact: A point $f'=(a',b')$ lies on or between the rays from the origin
through $f_1$ and $f_2$ ($b_1/a_1\le b'/a'\le b_2/a_2$) if and only if $f'$ can
be written as a non-negative integer multiple of $f_1$ plus a non-negative
integer multiple of $f_2$.
Proof: The "if" direction is obvious. For the "only if" direction, we may
write $f'=cross(f_1, f')\cdot f_2 + cross(f', f_2)\cdot f_1$. Equality holds
because
$$\begin{align*}
&cross(f_1,cross(f_1, f')\cdot f_2 + cross(f', f_2)\cdot f_1)\\
&=cross(f_1, cross(f_1, f')\cdot f_2)+cross(f_1, cross(f', f_2)\cdot f_1)\\
&=cross(f_1, f')\cdot cross(f_1,f_2)+cross(f',f_2)\cdot cross(f_1,f_1)\\
&=cross(f_1,f'),
\end{align*}$$
where we have used that the cross product is bilinear (linear in each of its
arguments), and similarly,
$cross(f',f_2)=cross(cross(f_1, f')\cdot f_2 + cross(f', f_2)\cdot f_1, f_2).$
Both $cross(f_1, f')$ and $cross(f',f_2)$ are non-negative integers because $f'$
lies on or between the rays. Alternatively, we can loop the following steps
until termination occurs with $f_2=(a'/\gcd(a',b'), b'/\gcd(a',b'))$.
If $f'$ is a multiple of either $f_1$ or $f_2$, we're done.Otherwise, let $f_3=f_1+f_2$. Note that $cross(f_ | [
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},
{
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1326_silver_milk_sum | 1326 | Milk Sum | "\n**Note: The time limit for this problem is 4s, 2x the default.**\nFarmer John's $N$ cows ($1\\le (...TRUNCATED) | silver | http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=viewproblem2&cpid=1326 | http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=open23results | "\n**Note: The time limit for this problem is 4s, 2x the default.**\nFarmer John's $N$ cows ($1\\le (...TRUNCATED) | [{"input":"5\n1 10 4 2 6\n3\n2 1\n2 8\n4 5","output":"55\n81\n98","explanation":"For the first query(...TRUNCATED) | 1 | "\nimport bisect\n\nN = int(input())\narr = list(map(int, input().split()))\nord = sorted(range(N), (...TRUNCATED) | "(Analysis by David Hu)\nNote that it is optimal for Farmer John to milk his cows such that the cow (...TRUNCATED) | [{"input":"5\n1 10 4 2 6\n3\n2 1\n2 8\n4 5\n","output":"55\n81\n98\n"},{"input":"1000\n620 364 41 88(...TRUNCATED) | 11 | 4 | 256 |
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1299_bronze_hungry_cow | 1299 | Hungry Cow | "\nBessie is a hungry cow. Each day, for dinner, if there is a haybale in the barn,\nshe will eat on(...TRUNCATED) | bronze | http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=viewproblem2&cpid=1299 | http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=feb23results | "\nBessie is a hungry cow. Each day, for dinner, if there is a haybale in the barn,\nshe will eat on(...TRUNCATED) | [{"input":"1 5\n1 2","output":"2","explanation":"","input_explanation":"","output_explanation":""},{(...TRUNCATED) | 3 | "N, T = map(int, input().split())\ndeliveries = [tuple(map(int, input().split())) for _ in range(N)](...TRUNCATED) | "(Analysis by Mihir Singhal)\nWe process the deliveries in time order (as given), keeping track of t(...TRUNCATED) | [{"input":"1 5\n1 2\n","output":"2\n"},{"input":"2 5\n1 2\n5 10\n","output":"3\n"},{"input":"2 5\n1 (...TRUNCATED) | 13 | 2 | 256 |
1300_bronze_stamp_grid | 1300 | Stamp Grid | "\nA stamp painting is a black and white painting on an $N \\times N$ canvas,\nwhere certain cells a(...TRUNCATED) | bronze | http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=viewproblem2&cpid=1300 | http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=feb23results | "\nA stamp painting is a black and white painting on an $N \\times N$ canvas,\nwhere certain cells a(...TRUNCATED) | [{"input":"4\n\n2\n**\n*.\n1\n*\n\n3\n.**\n.**\n***\n2\n.*\n**\n\n3\n...\n.*.\n...\n3\n.*.\n...\n...(...TRUNCATED) | 1 | "\nT = int(input())\nfor _ in range(T):\n input()\n N = int(input())\n grid = [list(input()(...TRUNCATED) | "\n(Analysis by Claire Zhang) \nConsider stamping wherever possible - that is, for each position and(...TRUNCATED) | [{"input":"4\n\n2\n**\n*.\n1\n*\n\n3\n.**\n.**\n***\n2\n.*\n**\n\n3\n...\n.*.\n...\n3\n.*.\n...\n...(...TRUNCATED) | 14 | 2 | 256 |
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