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Cutting Paper Squares

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  • singh1army
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    return(n*m-1)

  • daisuke332003
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    For C++, be careful about the funciton input types. If they are the int types, you may need to change them to the long types in order to avoid any overflows.

  • shivamm_19_becs
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    Python easiest solution: def solve(n, m): return m*n-1 For understanding try comparing the values as bigger and smaller and multiply them.

  • mehtabafsar_ai
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    n,m = map(int, input().split())
x= n*m
if x ==1:
    print(0)
else:
    print(x-1)

  • CS_2201640100336
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    This is an interesting problem !

    Got stuck at 3/8 test cases ?

    • Think of it as single paper which need to be divided into N*M parts.
    • As per question one cut produces 1 extra part (1 page + 1 cut = 2 part of page now )
    • We need total of N*M parts since we already have 1 paper so just need N*M -1 more cuts to get our work done.