2218AUnreviewed800GPT-5.5 (xhigh)

The 67th Integer Problem

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For a fixed $x$ , ask yourself: can $\min(x,y)$ ever be bigger than $x$ ?

No matter what $y$ is, we always have $\min(x,y) \le x$ . So $x$ is an upper bound on the answer value.

On the right track

To achieve the maximum value $x$ , we just need $\min(x,y)=x$ , which happens exactly when $y \ge x$ .

Since $x \le 67$ and $y$ is allowed to be any integer from $-67$ to $67$ , choosing $y=67$ always satisfies $y \ge x$ .

Print $67$ for every test case. Then $\min(x,67)=x,$ and since nothing can beat $x$ , this is optimal. Yep, that's the whole damn problem.

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Key Observation

For any chosen integer $y$ , the value

\min(x,y)

can never exceed $x$ , because the minimum of two numbers is always at most each of them. So the best possible value is upper-bounded by

\min(x,y) \le x.

Now we just need to hit that bound.

Choosing $y$

We get

\min(x,y)=x

whenever $y \ge x$ .

The constraints give us

-67 \le x \le 67,

and we are allowed to output any

-67 \le y \le 67.

So the universal lazy-but-perfect choice is:

y=67.

Since every valid $x$ satisfies $x \le 67$ , this guarantees

\min(x,67)=x,

which reaches the maximum possible value. Problem defeated by reading the definition of minimum. Brutal.

Complexity

For each test case, we print one number.

O(1)

per test case, and

O(t)

total time. Memory usage is

O(1).

Solution

Generated C++

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#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 x;
        cin >> x;
        cout << 67 << '\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 x;
        cin >> x;
        cout << 67 << '\n';
    }

    return 0;
}

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