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fractal's Qualifier

Player:
Status:
Approved
Score 1:
2,795,620
Score 2:
1,249,800
Total score:
2,022,710
Details:
Farmer John has lined up his N (1 <= N <= 100,000) cows in a row to measure their heights; cow i has height H_i (1 <= H_i <= 1,000,000,000) nanometers--FJ believes in precise measurements! He wants to take a picture of some contiguous subsequence of the cows to submit to a bovine photography contest at the county fair. The fair has a very strange rule about all submitted photos: a photograph is only valid to submit if it depicts a group of cows whose median height is at least a certain threshold X (1 <= X <= 1,000,000,000). For purposes of this problem, we define the median of an array A[0...K] to be A[ceiling(K/2)] after A is sorted, where ceiling(K/2) gives K/2 rounded up to the nearest integer (or K/2 itself, it K/2 is an integer to begin with). For example the median of {7, 3, 2, 6} is 6, and the median of {5, 4, 8} is 5. Please help FJ count the number of different contiguous subsequences of his cows that he could potentially submit to the photography contest.