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01 ACM - ICPC - Elementary Math - Introduction

This document provides an overview of the role of mathematics in computer science and competitive programming. It discusses how many CS components require mathematical concepts from areas like discrete mathematics, algebra, calculus, and probability. It also explains how math is important for competitive programming problems, which often involve basic high school math skills or discrete math topics like graph theory, number theory, and combinatorics. The document provides examples of common math functions in C++ and concepts like real numbers, rounding, exponents, logarithms, and big integers as they relate to programming.

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Competitive Programming
From Problem 2 Solution in O(1)

Elementary Math
Introduction

Mostafa Saad Ibrahim

PhD Student @ Simon Fraser University

Mathematics and CS

Directly

Indirectly

Many CS components need math

Discrete Mathematics is critical area (E.g. Graph Theory)
Machine Learning needs Algebra, Calculus, Probability..
3-D motion and graphics...Robot Trajectory...etc
Builds logical/critical thinking skills
Thinking abstractly and concretely
Problem solving skills

Commercial apps?

Most of them dont need math.

Mathematics and CP

In competitive programming (CP), Math is an

important topic.
Many problems needs basic high school skills
Others may focus on Discrete Mathematics

Graph theory is the most important field

Number theory & Combinatorics are nice frequent topics
Little Geometry, Probability and Game Theory

Problem Setters may avoid geometry and

probability problems, due to output precision
problems

#include<cmath> in C++

C++ offers for us some ready-made functions

Trigonometric, Hyperbolic, Exponential ,
Logarithmic, Power, Rounding, Remainder
Please, play with Majority of these functions

At least: floor, ceil, round, fabs, sqrt, exp, log, log2,

log10, pow, cos, cosh, acosh, isnan
We will explore some of them

Other languages should also have similar

functions

Machine Arithmetic
+ - * / are the usual arithmetic operations
32 bit numbers are suitable most of time

64 bit numbers can cover much wider range

9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (9 * 10^18)
This is tooo big and fit most of time for your purpose
But slower (8 bytes vs 4), so use it only if needed

Still we can face over/underflow

-2147483648 to 2147483647
Short fact: You have up to 2 billions

In intermediate computations or final results

doubles range: 1.7E +/- 308 (15 digits)

Real Numbers
Rational Numbers: can be represented as fraction: ,
7/2, 9/3, 5/1. Irrational: Pi = 3.1415926, sqrt(2)
Decimal expansion of fraction, to write it

1/16 = 0.0625, = 0.5

1/12 = 0.08333333333 .. 3 repeats for ever
5/7 = 0.714285714285714285. 714285 repeat forever
= 0.1(6), 1/12 = 0.08(3). 5/7 = 0.(71428), = 0.5(0)

How to know # of digits before cycle of n/d?

Programming? mark reminders of long division

Mathematically? See

Double Comparison
Operations can result in double value

Internal value can be shifted with +/- EPS

EPS is a very small amount (e.g. 1e-10)
e.g. x = 4.7 may be internally 4.7000001 or 4.69999999
so if(x == 4.7) fails! Although printing shows 4.7

Printing zero is tricky (-0.00 problem)

Compare x first with zero. If zero, then x = 0

Big Integers

Sometimes computations are too big

1775! is 4999 digits

Java/C# implement BigInteger library to

handle such big computations

In C++, you may implement it by yourself.

Exercise: Try to represent/add/multiply big numbers

I wrote this code when was young. Use freely (not in TC)
Main idea: Think in number as reversed array

In competitions, nowadays problem setters

avoid such problems most of time

Big Integers: Factorial

Create a big array. Initialize it to 1

Think in it as reversed array. Arr[0] first digit

From i = 2 to N

e.g. 120 represented as 021 (arr[0] = 0)

Multiply i in every cell
For every cell, if its value > 9 handle its carry
v => (v%10, v/10)
For last cell, check if it has carry (typically will have), and
put it in next cell, AS LONG AS there is a carry

See code example in previous page link

Big Integers: Factorial

Rounding Values

Rounding is replacing value with another

approximate value...many types and styles
In C++, we have 4 rounding functions

round: nearest integer to x [halfway cases away from 0]

floor: round down
ceil: round up
trunc: rounds toward zero (remove fraction)

In integers, x/y is floor of results

ceil(x, y) = (x+y-1)/y
round(x, y) = (x+y/2)/y [if x > 0] and (x-y/2)/y [x < 0]

Rounding Values: Examples

Be careful from -ve and 0.5

round(x) == x < 0 ? ceil(x-0.5) : floor(x+0.5);

To round to multiple of a specified amount

round(x, m) = round(x / m) * m
round(48.2 seconds, 15) = 45 seconds
round(2.1784 dollars, 0.01 (1 cent) ) = 2.18 dollars

Exponential function

If we have 2 jackets, 2 jeans & 2 shoes, I can

have 2x2x2 = 23 = 8 different clothing styles
Exponential function: y = bx
b (base), x (exponent): real,integer,+ve,-ve
Popular values: 2, 10, e [e is Euler's number ~= 2.7]

a 64 bit integer stores 264 numbers a very big number

2-x = ()x = 0.5x and 2x = ()-x = 0.5-x

In C++: pow(2, 3) = 23 = 8
Exponential indicates growing fast

Exponential function: Graphs

Logarithm

It is the inverse operation to exponentiation

y = bx ==> logby = x

b=[10, e, 2] => (common, natural, binary) log

log101000 = how many 10 multiplications = 1000? 3

log216 = how many 2 multiplications = 16? 4
log100.001 = how many 10 divisions = 1/1000? -3
Math notations: lg(x), ln(x), lb(x)
In c++: log10(x), log(x), log2(x)

log is strictly increasing for b > 1

log is strictly decreasing for 0 < b < 1

Logarithm: Graphs

log is strictly increasing function. Strictly [nothing equal], increasing, go up.

1 2 5 5 7 9 [Increasing]
1 2 5 6 7 9 [strictly Increasing]
9 7 5 5 2 1[decreasing]
9 7 6 5 2 1 [strictly decreasing]

Logarithm Operations

logbb = 1, logb1 = 0, logb0 = -oo, log1x = undefined

blogb(x) = x => take logb for the equation to get x
xby => blogb(x) + y

Logarithm and # of digits

base 10 can be used to know # of digits

Generally, # of digits in base b.

# digits = 1 + floor(log10(x))
log10(1000) = 3 => 4 digits
log10(1430) = 3.15 => 4 digits
log10(9999) = 3.99 => 4 digits
log10(10000) = 4 => 4 digits
So from 1000 to 10000-1, we have log10(x) = 3.xyz..
log2(16) = 4 => 5 bits. [16 in base 10 = 10000 in base 2]

Homework: # of digits of factorial n?

Math Materials

Knowledge of interest here

Mathematics part in

Other Math Books

Programming Challenge
Competitive Programming
Algorithms Books (e.g. CLR)
Concrete Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Mathematics for Computer Science (2013)