Editorial for DMOPC '15 Contest 1 P5 - Lelei and Dragon Scales
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Using a 2-D prefix sum array, we can calculate the total number of scales in any rectangle in . For a rectangle with its top left corner at and its bottom right corner at , we can use inclusion-exclusion to see that the total number of scales = .
Brute forcing all possible rectangles gives us an solution, which will give us of the points. To get , we need to make the insight that since all cells have a non-negative number of scales, we only need to consider the number of scales in the rectangle with maximum length with each possible width.
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