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| back to board | Cool problem! My method. Wow. This problem is really cool. Try using the naive method and you're sure to get TLE#26.Well, my solution(AC 0.234) goes this way:
 
 if the first term is not 1 then the ans is 1.
 if the first i terms are 1<<0, 1<<1, 1<<2, ... 1<<(i-1) then all numbers from 1 to (1<<i) - 1 can be expressed as a sum of some of the above terms. Thus if a number k is present all numbers from k to k+((1<<i) - 1) can be skipped. Proceed using this approach.
 
 By the way 1<<i represents pow(2, i).
Re: Cool problem! My method. And how do you plan to proceed with this approach? :)Re: Cool problem! My method. Posted by Juve45  11 Mar 2017 02:19how is your algorithm working on this test:6
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Re: Cool problem! My method. My brain burned in notebook on that algorithm!Re: Cool problem! My method. Posted by Darina  9 Nov 2023 13:5340 | 
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