Editorial for Marcus Approximation
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The first subtask rewards any brute force too slow for the second subtask.
The second subtask rewards brute force solutions.
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The brute force can be optimized with a -pointer approach for the third subtask.
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For the final subtask, we can try finding an approximate answer for cases with large . Observe that this question is similar to counting the number of lattice points under a quarter circle with radius . Thus, our approximation is .
For smaller , we can run the subtask 3 algorithm so our relative error stays small, and use our approximation for large .
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