USACO Platinum 2018 February - At Large

Author: Benjamin Qi

Although the intended solution is extremely difficult, this is not too hard to fakesolve! First write some O(N2)\mathcal{O}(N^2) DP that is somehow fast enough to pass test cases 1-6.

Code

This won't work for test cases 7-11, but these test cases are quite special!

How So?

For a legit (?) DP solution, see Eric Zhang's comment.

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