Berlekamp-Massey is a powerful tool that can knock out almost all linear recurrence problems, but it’s often explained in the context of BCH decoding in many online tutorials, making it...
It’s been a month since my last major milestone in CP, and high time for some self reflection. There are two major CP competitions I competed in this month: Facebook...
Facebook Hacker Cup is different from many other competitive programming competitions due to its submission format: instead of automatically judging competitiors’ submissions via an online judge, competitors are given the...
SPOJ has a series of problems with problem codes GSS1, GSS2, …, GSS8. The problems are intended as educational range query problems, and while they are a bit outdated, they...
Short contests are fun, although not without its fair share of frustrating moments. Have you ever come so close to solving a problem, but ran out of time? If only...