Codeforces Global Round 31 (Div. 1 + Div. 2)

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2180 Codeforces Global Round 31 (Div. 1 + Div. 2) FINISHED False 9000 10250722 Dec. 19, 2025, 2:35 p.m.

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( 24451 ) B Ashmal PROGRAMMING greedy strings

You have an array (a) of (n) strings (a_{1}, a_{2}, \ldots, a_{n}), each consisting of lowercase English letters, and an empty string (s). In the (i)-th ((1 \le i \le n)) step, you should do one of the following: add (a_{i}) to the beginning of (s), or add (a_{i}) to the end of (s). For example, if before the (i)-th step (s = \mathtt{aba}) and (a_{i} = \mathtt{bba}), after the (i)-th step, (s) will be equal to (\mathtt{ababba}) or (\mathtt{bbaaba}). What's the lexicographically smallest string (s) you can reach after (n) steps? A string (a) is lexicographically smaller than a string (b) of the same length, if and only if the following holds: in the first position where (a) and (b) differ, the string (a) has a letter that appears earlier in the alphabet than the corresponding letter in (b). Each test contains multiple test cases. The first line contains the number of test cases (t) ((1 \le t \le 500)). The description of the test cases follows. The first line of each test case contains a single integer (n) ((1 \le n \le 1000)) — size of array (a). The next line contains (n) strings (a_{1}, a_{2}, \ldots, a_{n}) ((1 \le |a_i| \le 4000)), each consisting of lowercase English letters. It is guaranteed that the sum of (n) over all test cases does not exceed (1000), and the total length of all strings in the input (over all test cases) does not exceed (4000). For each test case, print the lexicographically minimum string (s) you can reach after (n) steps. In the first test case, one possible way to construct the lexicographically minimum string (s) is as follows: After the first step, (s = \mathtt{amir}) regardless of whether we add it to the beginning or the end, since (s) was initially empty. In the second step, we add (a_2 = \mathtt{rima}) to the end of (s). Now (s = \mathtt{amirrima}).

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Codeforces Global Round 31

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354256680 sam_15295 B Dec. 20, 2025, 4:08 a.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 0
354250903 dargonburn B Dec. 20, 2025, 2:18 a.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 0
354247370 JR-OIer B Dec. 20, 2025, 12:44 a.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 0
354235023 SpideyOp04 B Dec. 19, 2025, 7:51 p.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 0
354212708 limiewin B Dec. 19, 2025, 4:55 p.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 0
354265763 pokalwartejas30102005 B Dec. 20, 2025, 5:57 a.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 102400
354251586 bounce__back B Dec. 20, 2025, 2:35 a.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 102400
354247975 Akash09 B Dec. 20, 2025, 1:03 a.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 4198400
354242379 INTOTHEWOODS B Dec. 19, 2025, 9:54 p.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 4198400
354232635 NiGhT-h-MaRe B Dec. 19, 2025, 7:22 p.m. OK C++17 (GCC 7-32) TESTS 9 15 4198400
354248325 ProbeRealms B Dec. 20, 2025, 1:13 a.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 15 0
354244525 Zeyad_3BcarenO B Dec. 19, 2025, 10:54 p.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 15 0
354262996 Vanshi_2006 B Dec. 20, 2025, 5:29 a.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 15 102400
354257096 Miron_Samarin B Dec. 20, 2025, 4:14 a.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 15 102400
354254157 shomend__woooooH B Dec. 20, 2025, 3:26 a.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 15 102400
354243285 drogbaaaa B Dec. 19, 2025, 10:17 p.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 15 102400
354232484 udongein B Dec. 19, 2025, 7:21 p.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 15 3993600
354230180 Alielsalek96 B Dec. 19, 2025, 6:54 p.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 15 3993600
354266901 Saitama404 B Dec. 20, 2025, 6:08 a.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 31 0
354264218 20243660756shanta B Dec. 20, 2025, 5:41 a.m. OK C++20 (GCC 13-64) TESTS 9 31 0

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