In the article from 1984, Fredman and Komlos (1) mention the perfect hash function, that actually can store a sparse table with 0(1) worst case access time. And as they mention that both the data structure and the query algorithm …
Codeforces has introduced a third division in their competitions. Initially I though this is the place to go for “easy” stuff, as far as some of the 2nd division problems require some advanced algorithms, like combinations of graphs and months …
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