1669F - Eating Candies - CodeForces Solution


binary search data structures greedy two pointers *1100

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Python Code:

import sys,os,math,cmath,timeit,functools,operator,bisect
from sys import stdin,stdout,setrecursionlimit
from io import BytesIO, IOBase
from collections import defaultdict as dd , Counter
from math import factorial , gcd
from queue import PriorityQueue
from heapq import merge, heapify, heappop, heappush
try :
    from functools import cache , lru_cache
    from sortedcontainers import *
except :
    pass 

ONLINE_JUDGE = __debug__

class FastIO(IOBase):
    newlines = 0

    def __init__(self, file):
        import os
        self.os = os
        self._fd = file.fileno()
        self.buffer = BytesIO()
        self.writable = "x" in file.mode or "r" not in file.mode
        self.write = self.buffer.write if self.writable else None
        self.BUFSIZE = 8192

    def read(self):
        while True:
            a = self.os.read(self._fd, max(self.os.fstat(self._fd).st_size, self.BUFSIZE))
            if not a:
                break
            ptr = self.buffer.tell()
            self.buffer.seek(0, 2), self.buffer.write(a), self.buffer.seek(ptr)
        self.newlines = 0
        return self.buffer.read()

    def readline(self):
        while self.newlines == 0:
            a = self.os.read(self._fd, max(self.os.fstat(self._fd).st_size, self.BUFSIZE))
            self.newlines = a.count(b"\n") + (not a)
            ptr = self.buffer.tell()
            self.buffer.seek(0, 2), self.buffer.write(a), self.buffer.seek(ptr)
        self.newlines -= 1
        return self.buffer.readline()

    def flush(self):
        if self.writable:
            self.os.write(self._fd, self.buffer.getvalue())
            self.buffer.truncate(0), self.buffer.seek(0)


class IOWrapper(IOBase):
    def __init__(self, file):
        self.buffer = FastIO(file)
        self.flush = self.buffer.flush
        self.writable = self.buffer.writable
        self.write = lambda s: self.buffer.write(s.encode("ascii"))
        self.read = lambda: self.buffer.read().decode("ascii")
        self.readline = lambda: self.buffer.readline().decode("ascii")


stdin, stdout = IOWrapper(stdin), IOWrapper(stdout)

input = lambda: stdin.readline().rstrip("\r\n")

start = timeit.default_timer()

primes = []
mod=10**9+7
MOD=998244353


def seive(n):
    a = []
    prime = [True for i in range(n+1)] 
    p = 2
    while (p * p <= n): 
        if (prime[p] == True): 
            for i in range(p ** 2,n + 1, p): 
                prime[i] = False
        p = p + 1
    for p in range(2,n + 1): 
        if prime[p]: 
            primes.append(p)

def lower_bound(arr, n, k):
    start = 0
    end = n-1
    while start <= end:
        mid = (start+end)//2
        if arr[mid] == k:
            return mid
        elif arr[mid] > k:
            if mid > 0:
                if arr[mid-1] < k:
                    return (mid-1)
            else:
                return -1
        else:
            if mid < (n-1):
                if arr[mid+1] > k:
                    return mid
            else:
                return mid

def upper_bound(arr, n, k):
    start = 0
    end = n-1
    while start <= end:
        mid = (start+end)//2
        if arr[mid] == k:
            return mid
        elif arr[mid] > k:
            if mid > 0:
                if arr[mid-1] < k:
                    return (mid)
            else:
                return mid
        else:
            if mid < (n-1):
                if arr[mid+1] > k:
                    return (mid+1)
            else:
                return -1

def is_sorted(arr):
    return all(arr[i]<=arr[i+1] for i in range(len(arr)-1))

def invmod(n):
    return pow(n,mod-2,mod)

def binary_search(a,x,lo=0,hi=None):
    if hi is None:
        hi = len(a)
    while lo < hi:
        mid = (lo+hi)//2
        midval = a[mid]
        if midval < x:
            lo = mid+1
        elif midval > x: 
            hi = mid
        else:
            return mid
    return -1

def ceil(a:int,b:int)->int :
    return (a+b-1)//b

def yn(x):
    if x :
        print("YES")
    else :
        print("NO")

def nCr(n,r):
    return factorial(n)//(factorial(r)*factorial(n-r))


def solve():
    n,a=sint(),lst()
    l,r=0,n-1
    sl,sr=a[0],a[n-1]
    ans = 0
    while l<r :
        if sl==sr :
            ans = max(ans,n+1-r+l)
        if sl <= sr :
            l+=1
            sl+=a[l]
        elif sl > sr :
            r-=1
            sr+=a[r]
    print(ans)

def main():
    tc=1
    tc=int(input())
    for _ in range(tc):
        solve()
    stop = timeit.default_timer()
    if not ONLINE_JUDGE :
        print("Time Elapsed :" , str(stop-start) , "seconds")


def lst()->list :
    return list(map(int,input().split()))

def rowinp() :
    return map(int,input().split())

def strin()->str :
    return input()

def chlst()->list :
    return [x for x in input()]

def sint()->int :
    return int(input())


main()

C++ Code:

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#define ll long long
using namespace std;
void solve(){

    ll n; cin>>n;
    ll a[n],c=0;
    for(int i=0;i<n;++i){
        cin>>a[i];
    }
    ll x=0,y=n-1;
    ll sa=0,sb=0,ans=0;
    while(x<=y){
        if(sa>=sb){
            sb+=a[y];
            y--;
            c++;
        }
        else
        {
            sa+=a[x];
            x++;
            c++;
        }
        if(sa==sb){
            ans=c;
        }
    }
    cout<<ans;

    cout<<endl;   
}
int main(){
    int t;cin>>t;
    //int t=1;
    while(t--){
        solve();
    }
}


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