Okay, welcome back. In this video, I'm going to go through the Bronze group contest of the U-Cycle, the first contest in 2026. I didn't perform well during the actual contest, so I'm going to review the problems and see if I can solve them all now.
For this video, I’m trying out speech-to-text and might use some AI to summarize it for my blog later. I want to keep the recording short, just to remember the experience. If a video is two hours long, who would watch it, right? It’s more convenient for me to just record my thoughts and let the software handle the transcription. I don't care too much about the post-processing.
I may post separate videos for the three contest questions. This is the first one: "Chip Exchange."
I glanced at the solution earlier and it seemed like there were no loops—just pure math. I thought it wouldn't be too difficult. During the actual contest, I didn't perform well. It was late, I had just finished school, and my brain wasn't working properly. Also, using Java was a problem; it