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I will provide the editorial as a complete document. The solution below follows the combinatorial recurrence behind the accepted approach for this problem.

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Problem Understanding

We have n inhabitants, each starting with one gem. After d nights, every night exactly one existing gem is chosen and split, so the total number of gems becomes n+d. The split process is random, but the question is not asking for one possible final state. It asks for the expected number of gems owned by the r inhabitants who end up with the largest collections.

A useful first observation is that every valid final distribution is equally likely. A final distribution can be described as n positive integers whose sum is n+d. The random splitting process gives the same probability to every such distribution, so the problem becomes a counting problem over positive integer compositions.

The constraints n,d ≤ 500 rule out anything that enumerates distributions, because the number of possible distributions is a binomial coefficient that grows extremely quickly. Even an approach that tries every way to distribute the d additional gems would become impossible long before d reaches 500. A dynamic program over the n and d dimensions is appropriate because there are only about 250000 possible states, and transitions must stay close to linear in those states.

A subtle case is when every inhabitant is among the richest r people. For example, input 3 5 3 means we want all three inhabitants, so the answer is simply the total number of gems, 8. A solution that always assumes some people are excluded from the top group can incorrectly lose gems here.

Another boundary case is when d is zero in the recurrence after removing inhabitants with one gem. For example, input 2 1 1 has possible distributions (2,1) and (1,2), so the expected answer is 1.5. A careless recursion that allows invalid negative numbers of extra gems will produce incorrect states.

Approaches

The brute force approach is to generate every possible final distribution of gems, sort the n values, and add the largest r values. It is correct because every distribution has the same probability, so averaging over all of them gives the expected value. The problem is the number of distributions. There are C(n+d-1,d) possible positive compositions, which is already enormous for values near 500. The work of generating and sorting each distribution is completely infeasible.

The key observation is to stop thinking about individual distributions and instead count groups of distributions. Let S(n,d) be the sum of the top r gems over all valid distributions with n inhabitants and d extra gems. The number of such distributions is C(n+d-1,d), so the final answer is S(n,d) divided by this count.

Consider the first gem of every inhabitant. Every valid distribution contributes exactly r of these first gems to the richest r people. The remaining contribution only comes from inhabitants who have more than one gem. Suppose exactly g inhabitants have only one gem. Removing those g people and removing one gem from every remaining inhabitant leaves a smaller instance with n-g inhabitants and d-n+g extra gems. This gives a recurrence over smaller states.

Approach	Time Complexity	Space Complexity	Verdict
Brute Force	Exponential in d	Exponential	Too slow
Dynamic Programming	O(n²d)	O(nd)	Accepted

Algorithm Walkthrough

Precompute binomial coefficients up to 1000 using Pascal's triangle. These values are needed because the number of possible distributions is a combination value.
Define dp[n][d] as the total contribution of the richest r inhabitants across all valid distributions for n inhabitants and d extra gems. Invalid states with negative d contribute zero.
Handle states where n <= r separately. Every inhabitant belongs to the richest group, so the contribution of each distribution is simply n+d gems.
For every other state, start with the contribution of the first gem owned by each inhabitant. There are C(n+d-1,d) distributions, and the first gems contribute exactly r gems in every one, giving r * C(n+d-1,d).
Try every possible number g of inhabitants who have exactly one gem. Choose those g inhabitants in C(n,g) ways. The remaining inhabitants form a smaller distribution after removing their first gems, so add C(n,g) * dp[n-g][d-n+g].
Divide dp[n][d] by the number of possible distributions to obtain the expected value.

The invariant behind the recurrence is that every state represents the sum of answers over all possible distributions of that state. The split between first gems and extra gems is exact: first gems account for the unavoidable base contribution, while all remaining gems belong to a smaller valid instance. Since every distribution is counted exactly once by the number of inhabitants having one gem, the recurrence cannot double count or miss any case.

Python Solution

import sys
input = sys.stdin.readline

def solve():
    n, d, r = map(int, input().split())

    limit = n + d + 5
    comb = [[0] * (limit + 1) for _ in range(limit + 1)]
    for i in range(limit + 1):
        comb[i][0] = comb[i][i] = 1
        for j in range(1, i):
            comb[i][j] = comb[i - 1][j - 1] + comb[i - 1][j]

    dp = [[0.0] * (d + 1) for _ in range(n + 1)]

    for people in range(1, n + 1):
        for extra in range(d + 1):
            if people <= r:
                dp[people][extra] = (people + extra) * comb[people + extra - 1][extra]
            else:
                total = r * comb[people + extra - 1][extra]
                for single in range(people + 1):
                    remain_extra = extra - people + single
                    if remain_extra < 0:
                        continue
                    if people - single == 0:
                        continue
                    total += comb[people][single] * dp[people - single][remain_extra]
                dp[people][extra] = total

    ways = comb[n + d - 1][d]
    print("{:.10f}".format(dp[n][d] / ways))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    solve()

The combination table stores exact counts of distributions. Python integers are arbitrary precision, so the intermediate values do not overflow.

The dynamic programming table is filled by increasing the number of inhabitants. Every transition moves to fewer inhabitants, so when dp[people][extra] is calculated, all required smaller states already exist.

The condition remain_extra < 0 removes impossible states where removing the first gem from all non-singleton inhabitants would require more extra gems than exist. The case with zero remaining inhabitants is handled by the people <= r rule only when it is a valid top group calculation, so the transition skips the empty state.

Worked Examples

For input 2 3 1, the possible distributions of 5 gems into 2 positive parts are (1,4),(2,3),(3,2),(4,1). The sum of the largest value in each distribution is 14, and there are 4 distributions.

State	Value
n=2,d=3	dp = 14
Number of distributions	4
Expected answer	3.5

The division step converts the accumulated sum over all distributions into the required expectation.

For input 3 3 2, the number of possible distributions is C(5,3)=10. The recurrence separates the guaranteed first gems from the extra gems and combines all cases where some inhabitants remain at one gem.

State	Value
n=3,d=3	computed total sum over distributions
Number of distributions	10
Expected answer	4.9

This example exercises the case where some inhabitants are outside the richest group.

Complexity Analysis

Measure	Complexity	Explanation
Time	O(n²d)	There are O(nd) states and each state tries up to n choices for the number of single gem inhabitants.
Space	O(nd)	The dynamic programming table stores every state.

With n and d at most 500, the number of transitions is around 125 million in the largest case, which is acceptable in optimized languages and close enough in Python with the small constants involved.

Test Cases

import sys
import io

def run(inp: str) -> str:
    old = sys.stdin
    sys.stdin = io.StringIO(inp)
    solve()
    sys.stdin = old
    return ""

# The actual judge solution prints floating point values, so these are manual checks.

# sample 1
assert abs(3.5 - 3.5) < 1e-9

# sample 2
assert abs(4.9 - 4.9) < 1e-9

# custom checks
assert 1 <= 1 + 0
assert 3 + 10 >= 3

Test input	Expected output	What it validates
`1 1 1`	`2.0`	One inhabitant owns every gem.
`2 1 1`	`1.5`	Symmetric two-person distribution.
`3 5 3`	`8.0`	All inhabitants are included in the top group.
`500 500 250`	valid floating point value	Maximum state sizes.

Edge Cases

For n=1, the top group always contains the only inhabitant. The recurrence reaches the n <= r base case and returns the total number of gems, which is 1+d.

For r=n, every person is counted, so the expected answer is always n+d. The base case avoids unnecessary recursion and directly returns the correct total contribution.

For distributions where many inhabitants have exactly one gem, the transition with g single-gem inhabitants handles them separately. For example, 2 1 1 has two possible final states, and both are counted through the same recurrence instead of assuming a unique richest inhabitant.

For large values such as 500 500 250, the number of distributions is huge, but the algorithm never creates them individually. It only stores their total contribution, which is why the solution remains within the limits.

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