ohh my god... i've made it...
i've always been fond of geometrical problems... but this one is undoubtedly the best one i ever came across... it took me almost 3 hours to get accepted but at the end i was about to give up & it was my last attempt that reflected green...
after putting up so much effort when i got W/A i was really frustrated & for a moment i even thought the problemsetter must be some stupid person & he might have written a wrong solution cause i was really confident that my solution was correct... but you know we shouldn't think this way, its really unfair of us (or may be just me) to think this way... we should understand that this people (the genius problemsetters) really work hard to make it error-free & there is very little chance that their solution is incorrect... anyway, i could point out my mistake & now the corrected submission has been happiliy accepted my the judge...
i must admit shahriar manzoor is a real genius... plz DONT think therez anything wrong in this problem... it was a really nice problem.. & also i liked his problem, Flowers of a beautiful mind prob # 10540... it took me approx 36 mins to solve that in the last online contest... i was the one to solve it 1st but may be thats because i attempted it 1st...
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anyway, this kind of geometrical problems are really nice... i'm a newbie programmer & i'm yet to know all of those 1000 types of algoz properly
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so this kind of algo-free probs are really helpful... i don't mean algoz are bad cause those are also nice & i really find it interesting to learn new algoz every now n then but i need some more time to complete digesting all of the most commonly used algoz...
a friend of mine once told me the stuffs that are to be learned keeps on growing exponentially but we can only learn linearly...
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but still we don't give up & i guess thats where our real strength lies...
anyways... its really nice to solve a problem that stayed unsolved for quite some time... thanks to everyone for waiting for me to solve it first...
Sabur Zaheed (AIUB)