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back to boardProblems I have encountered before getting accepted Posted by  Catsae 29 Feb 2020 09:25 1. If time limit exceeded, use a better sorting algorithm. In my case, insertion sort spent barely over a second, while merge sort spent only 0.6 of a second.   2. used long long. Also, before multiplying a long long and an int together, convert the int first. Re: Problems I have encountered before getting accepted Sorting the input is a waste of time, quite frankly. Try some of your own inputs, the solution can be very simple & fast.  |  
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