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Hints
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Only look at neighboring pairs. The original array had , so any place where must have been damaged by Bob in a very specific way.
For an adjacent pair, compare the four possibilities: neither multiplied, only left multiplied, only right multiplied, or both multiplied. In three of those cases, divisibility still holds automatically.
So if , the left element must be one of the multiplied ones and the right element must not be. Then after dividing the left side by , we need .
For a bad pair , let . The part of that is not already covered by is , and must be divisible by that value.
Take the least common multiple of over all bad pairs where . That number itself is a valid answer; the guarantee that a solution exists saves us from nasty corner-case hell.
The key is to stop trying to recover the whole hidden array. That is a trap. We only need some valid , and the adjacent pairs tell us exactly which prime factors is forced to contain.
Suppose Bob either leaves position alone or multiplies it by . Write
where is either or .
The original array is beautiful, so
for every adjacent pair.
Now inspect what happens to divisibility in .
For a pair , there are four cases:
So a broken pair, meaning
can only come from the last case: the left element was multiplied by , and the right one was not.
That means the original left value was
and we need
So what must contain?
Let
The common part is already shared between the two numbers. The leftover part of that does not contain is
For to divide , has to remove at least that leftover part from . Therefore every bad pair forces
So the smallest number satisfying all forced requirements is
over all indices where .
If there are no bad pairs, then is already beautiful, so works. Bob could have multiplied nothing. Very dramatic sabotage, truly.
Why this LCM is actually valid
Let the answer we compute be .
For every bad pair, is divisible by
Now construct an array like this:
This corresponds to saying Bob multiplied exactly the positions divisible by .
We need to check for every adjacent pair.
If , then this pair is already fine. Dividing either both values by , or just the right value by , cannot break the divisibility. The only suspicious subcase would be dividing the left but not the right, but if and , then too, so both get divided.
If , then . Also, for any valid hidden solution, the real must divide on such a bad pair, and , so the computed , being an LCM of such forced divisors, divides some valid . Since that valid divides , divides too. Thus the left side gets divided by .
Now we need
Because divides , dividing by removes at least all the prime-power excess that prevented from dividing . So the repaired left value divides . If the right side also gets divided by , that would only happen when ; then the divisibility still holds after dividing both by the same number.
So works.
Algorithm
For each test case:
ans = 1.ans = lcm(ans, d).ans.Use 64-bit integers while computing the LCM. The final answer is guaranteed to fit the required constraints because the statement guarantees that a valid answer exists.
Complexity:
per test case from the gcd calls, where . Across all tests, this is easily fine for .
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
using ll = long long;
void setIO() {
ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
cin.tie(nullptr);
}
int main() {
setIO();
int T;
cin >> T;
while (T--) {
int n;
cin >> n;
vector<ll> b(n);
for (ll &v : b) cin >> v;
ll ans = 1;
for (int i = 0; i + 1 < n; i++) {
if (b[i + 1] % b[i] != 0) {
ll need = b[i] / gcd(b[i], b[i + 1]);
ans = ans / gcd(ans, need) * need;
}
}
cout << ans << '\n';
}
return 0;
}#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
using ll = long long;
void setIO() {
ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
cin.tie(nullptr);
}
int main() {
setIO();
int T;
cin >> T;
while (T--) {
int n;
cin >> n;
vector<ll> b(n);
for (ll &v : b) cin >> v;
ll ans = 1;
for (int i = 0; i + 1 < n; i++) {
if (b[i + 1] % b[i] != 0) {
ll need = b[i] / gcd(b[i], b[i + 1]);
ans = ans / gcd(ans, need) * need;
}
}
cout << ans << '\n';
}
return 0;
}