## Editorial for An Animal Contest 4 P3 - Snowy Slopes

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Author: sjay05

Consider all steepnesses (with taking into account duplicate steepnesses) separately. If some arbitrary point and point form a line with gradient :

By manipulating the equation:

Let of a point with coordinate be . In other words, for two points and to form a line with gradient , must be equal to .

Implementation details are left to the reader as an exercise.

Time Complexity:

• commented on Dec. 29, 2021, 2:12 p.m.

How would you count the amount of same values inside the id array?

• commented on Dec. 29, 2021, 5:54 p.m. edit 2

When solving for a particular slope , we can maintain the id's in a map <id value, frequency (# of points with that id value)>. For a id value with frequency you can form distinct pairs of points with slope .

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• commented on Dec. 29, 2021, 7:06 p.m.

ah, ok, thanks a lot, for some reason I was thinking f frequency would form f! pairs, thanks a lot