Codeforces Beta Round 54 (Div. 2)

5 problems from Codeforces Beta Round 54 (Div. 2) (contest 58), difficulty 1000-2400. 3/5 solutions verified against sample I/O.

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Codeforces Beta Round 54 (Div. 2)

Div. 2 | 5 problems | 3/5 verified | Difficulty 1000-2400 | 7m 51s

# Problem Rating Tags Accepted Time ✓
A Chat room 1000 greedy, strings 155,930 1m 20s ✓
B Coins 1300 greedy 13,225 1m 51s
C Trees 1800 brute-force 2,263 1m 13s ✓
D Calendar 2000 greedy, strings 835 1m 23s ✓
E Expression 2400 dp 462 2m 4s
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CF 58A - Chat room

The problem asks whether Vasya, who typed a string of lowercase letters, effectively managed to say "hello". The goal is not to check if the typed string is exactly "hello", but whether we can remove some letters (possibly zero) to produce the sequence h, e, l, l, o in order.
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CF 58B - Coins

We are given the value of the largest coin denomination, n. We must build a sequence of distinct coin values such that every larger coin is divisible by every smaller coin. Among all valid sequences, we want the one containing the maximum possible number of coins.
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CF 58C - Trees

We are given a row of n trees, each with a certain height, and our task is to adjust some of their heights so that the row forms a “beautiful” sequence.
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CF 58D - Calendar

We are asked to construct a calendar from a list of city names. Each line of the calendar must contain exactly two city names separated by a given symbol, and all lines must have identical length. The calendar must use each city name exactly once.
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CF 58E - Expression

We are given a string representing a simple arithmetic expression of the form a+b=c, where a, b, and c are integers.
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