Codeforces Beta Round 26 (Codeforces format)

5 problems from Codeforces Beta Round 26 (Codeforces format) (contest 26), difficulty 900-2400. 4/5 solutions verified against sample I/O.

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Codeforces Beta Round 26 (Codeforces format)

Beta | 5 problems | 4/5 verified | Difficulty 900-2400 | 7m 38s

# Problem Rating Tags Accepted Time ✓
A Almost Prime 900 number-theory 42,696 1m 18s ✓
B Regular Bracket Sequence 1400 greedy 25,838 1m 20s ✓
C Parquet 2000 combinatorics, constructive-algorithms, greedy 1,013 2m 9s
D Tickets 2400 combinatorics, math, probabilities 932 1m 14s ✓
E Multithreading 2400 constructive-algorithms 413 1m 37s ✓
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CF 26A - Almost Prime

We are asked to count numbers between 1 and that have exactly two distinct prime factors. For instance, 6 is almost prime because it can be factored as , and both 2 and 3 are prime. Numbers like 4 or 8 are not almost prime because they are powers of a single prime.
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CF 26B - Regular Bracket Sequence

We are given a string consisting solely of opening and closing parentheses. The task is to determine the maximum length of a subsequence that forms a valid, or regular, bracket sequence.
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CF 26C - Parquet

We are asked to tile a rectangular floor of size n × m using three types of parquet planks. The first type is a 1×2 horizontal plank, the second is a 2×1 vertical plank, and the third is a 2×2 square plank.
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CF 26D - Tickets

We have a ticket seller, Charlie, who sells race tickets costing 10 euros each. Customers arrive in some random order: some have only 10 euro banknotes, some have only 20 euro banknotes. Charlie initially has k 10 euro banknotes.
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CF 26E - Multithreading

Each process repeatedly executes two atomic instructions:
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