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B. Luxurious Houses time limit per test 1 second memory limit per test 256 megabytes input standard input output standard output The capital of Berland has n multifloor buildings. The architect who built up the capital was very creative, so all the houses were built in one row.

As I work with students I often face the situation when if a problem doesn’t seem clear to a student at the first sight, it makes them unable to solve it. Indeed, you always hear about specific methods and techniques. But you don’t hear about how to think in order to apply them. In this note I’ll try to sum up my experience of solving programming contest problems. However, some pieces of advice will also be applicable for olympiads in mathematics and your first steps in academic research.