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CF 106210G - 互异排列---扩展

I can’t produce a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I only see the title “106210G - 互异排列---扩展”, but there is no description of what is given, what operations are allowed, or what needs to be computed.

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CF 106210J - 收藏宝石

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem content is missing. Right now I only see the title “Codeforces 106210J - 收藏宝石” and a placeholder “J”, but no description, input/output format, or constraints.

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CF 106210F - 【模板】Pollard-Rho

The task is to take a list of very large integers and break each one into its prime components. For every input number, the output describes how it decomposes into primes, typically by listing the prime factors with their multiplicities or presenting derived information such…

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CF 106210E - 稳定区间

The statement you provided is incomplete, so there’s no way to reconstruct the actual problem being solved. Right now we only have the title “稳定区间” (Stable Interval) without the definition of what a stable interval is, what the input array looks like, or what needs…

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CF 106210B - 我不是 AI

I’m missing the actual problem content for Codeforces 106210B - 我不是 AI. Right now the statement section only contains “B”, so there’s nothing concrete to derive the solution from.

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CF 106225I - Isaac's Queries

We are given a hidden array of length n, where each element is a 30-bit integer chosen uniformly at random. We are allowed to ask queries on any subsegment [u, v], and the system returns a compressed view of the XOR of that segment.

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CF 106225F - Factory Table

We are given an array that is claimed to come from a very structured construction. Fix a positive integer $k$. If we list all products $i cdot j$ for $1 le i le k$ and $1 le j le k$, row by row, we obtain a length $k^2$ sequence.

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CF 106225C - Chamber of Secrets 2

We are given a collection of n sequences, each of length m, and each sequence corresponds to a block that was produced by a hidden construction process.

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CF 106233D - XOR Фибоначчи

We are working with a sequence that looks like Fibonacci, except the operation used to combine previous values is bitwise XOR instead of arithmetic addition. Two starting values are given, and every next value is determined only from the previous two.

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CF 106235A - Athletes

We are given a collection of athletes, each described by two attributes: strength and endurance. From these athletes we must choose exactly k individuals.

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CF 106237E - Cheapest Beautiful Path

We are given a weighted undirected graph where each vertex carries a small integer label, and each edge has a large positive weight.

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CF 106237A - Ladder

The task is to build the tallest possible “ladder” from a collection of wooden planks, where each plank has a fixed length and cannot be cut or reused. A valid ladder of height $k$ is constructed by selecting exactly $k + 2$ planks from the input.

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CF 106238K - Bored Piglet

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem content is missing. Right now, the statement section is empty (no input/output specification, no rules, no constraints).

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CF 106238H - Probability Theory

I can’t reliably write a correct Codeforces-style editorial for this problem as given because the actual problem statement content is missing from your prompt.

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CF 106238F - XCPC Restart

The material provided for “Codeforces 106238F - XCPC Restart” does not include any actual problem statement, input/output description, or constraints. Only the title, time limit, and memory limit are visible, with the rest of the content effectively missing.

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CF 106238B - Generalized Segment Tree

We are working with a data structure that behaves like a segment tree, but not necessarily in the strict classical sense.

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CF 106239M - 敌人的敌人

We are given a collection of countries, where each country is a node in a graph and every direct enemy relationship is an edge.

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CF 106239J - 协会的实验

We are given a sequence of operations that gradually builds a string starting from empty. Each operation inserts exactly one character, but the insertion is not always at the same position.

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CF 106239F - 宇宙射线风暴

The plane contains a square region from $0$ to $N$ on both axes. Inside this region, we are given many infinite straight lines, each carrying a weight. Every line is either of slope $+1$, written as $y = x + b$, or slope $-1$, written as $y = -x + c$.

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CF 106239B - 魔法棋盘

We are given a 1000 by 1000 grid with a fixed checkerboard coloring. Cell (x, y) is white when x + y is even, and black otherwise.

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CF 106241N - Ma3rofa 2lsra7a

We are given a single integer $x$, and we want to know whether it can be split into three perfect squares of positive integers.

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CF 106241J - 7aseb El Triangle

We are given a geometric configuration built on a straight baseline. Three points lie on one line in the order B, C, D, with the segment from B to C having the same length as the segment from C to D.

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CF 106241F - GCD <-> LCM

We are given an array of integers and we need to count how many ordered quadruples of indices $(i, j, k, l)$ satisfy a very specific equality between two number-theoretic expressions.

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CF 106241A - Ya Sabah El GCD

We are given two arrays of equal length. At every position, we are allowed to optionally “upgrade” the value in the first array by replacing it with the gcd of that value and the corresponding value in the second array.

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CF 106242G - DVDlogo (dvdlogo)

We are dealing with a classic geometric simulation that behaves like a “DVD logo” bouncing inside a rectangular screen. A point moves in straight lines at a fixed diagonal direction.

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CF 106250I - RMQ

We are working with a procedure over an array where the core operation is repeatedly locating range minima and splitting the array around them, similar in spirit to building a Cartesian tree.

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CF 106250F - Collatz Conjecture

We are given an array, and each element generates a deterministic sequence derived from the Collatz process. Instead of working with the raw numbers, we care about the parity pattern along each generated sequence. Every term is encoded as either +1 for even or −1 for odd.

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CF 106250C - Busy Beaver's Faulty Machine

We are given several independent test cases. In each test case there is a multiset of positive integers placed on a board.

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CF 106251I - Mahjong Connect

The task is to determine whether a set of tiles on an $N times N$ grid can be completely paired under a specific connectivity rule, and if so, produce such a pairing.

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CF 106251F - Avoid Copyright Infringement

We are asked to construct a string under strict composition constraints. The string is formed from three characters, which we can think of as three types of symbols, say M, T, and I.

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CF 106251A - M

The task describes constructing a visual pattern inside an $N times N$ grid. Every cell initially contains a dot character, and then specific cells are overwritten with hash characters to form a symmetric drawing. The drawing consists of four independent components.

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CF 106252K - Relay Jump

We are given a system of frogs placed on integer points in the plane. One frog is activated first, and then activation propagates along a sequence.

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CF 106252F - The Bond Beyond Time

We are given an undirected connected graph where two tokens start at distinct vertices. Before the process begins, we must assign a direction to every edge, turning the graph into a directed one. After orientation, both players move simultaneously in rounds.

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CF 106252A - Square Kingdom

We are given a kingdom where each resident sits at a unique height. The height of resident $i$ is defined by a simple arithmetic expression that depends on $i$, $a$, and $b$.

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CF 106337A - Итоги олимпиады

We are given an array of integers representing scores of participants in an olympiad. For every ordered pair of participants $(i, j)$, we compute how much “extra” score $j$ has compared to $i$, but only if $j$ is better.

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CF 106338C - Скользящие окна

We are given an array and a set of queries. Each query describes a window size and asks about sliding that window across the array. For every position of the window, we take the minimum value inside it, and then we aggregate these minima over a range of window positions.

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CF 106339I - Snow Clearing

We are given a line of road split into segments, each segment having an initial snow height. The process repeatedly modifies these heights.

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CF 106339F - Frosted Highway (Hard)

We are given an array indexed from 1 to n, where each position i contains a value h[i]. Alongside this array, there are multiple queries.

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CF 106339C - Frosted Highway

We are given a highway represented as a sequence of markers. Each marker has a fixed height value and an index in the array.

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CF 106352C - Погоня за патентом

We are given a sequence of numbers placed on a line of safes. Each safe carries an integer label, and that label is only important through its prime divisors.

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CF 106353H - Hasty Haul

We are given a very small grid, at most 8 by 8, where some cells contain furniture pieces and the rest are empty. Each test case describes one such arrangement with exactly k occupied cells. Two teams agree on a deterministic strategy that looks only at the current arrangement.

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CF 106353C - Canal Crossing

We are given a network of places connected by two different kinds of connections. The first kind is a set of normal streets. These streets connect all places, form a tree, and each has a positive travel cost.

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CF 106356K - Lottery

There are many people, and each person owns a small number of lottery tickets, at most five per person. A draw repeatedly picks a single ticket uniformly from all remaining tickets.

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CF 106356F - Mandatory XOR Problem

We are asked to consider all ways of distributing a fixed total sum across an array of length $N$, where each element is a non-negative integer and the total sum of all elements is exactly $S$. Every such array is a composition of $S$ into $N$ parts.

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CF 106356C - Path of Crows

We are given a tree with $n$ vertices, meaning $n$ nests connected by $n-1$ undirected branches, with exactly one simple path between any two nests.

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CF 106363F - Four in a Row

We are given a permutation of numbers from 1 to n. From this permutation we consider every contiguous segment and compute its MEX, meaning the smallest positive integer that does not appear inside that segment.

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CF 106363B - Edward is Sigma

We are given a single integer $n$, and we must construct a permutation of the numbers $1$ through $n$. After building this permutation, we evaluate its “beauty”, which is defined as the sum of absolute differences between every pair of adjacent elements in the permutation.

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CF 106367F - Magicology

We are given a rooted tree where each vertex stores an initial value. A transformation is applied to this tree-valued array: every vertex replaces its value with the sum of values in its subtree.

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CF 106367A - The World Is Full of Colors

We are given a sequence of RGB colors written in the standard hexadecimal web format, where each color starts with followed by six lowercase hexadecimal characters.

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CF 106262F - Map and Fold

Thinking

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CF 106259B - K Floors Down

We are asked to consider all ways of building a sequence of length k, where each element is independently chosen from the given array a.

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CF 106259C - Pattern Purifier

We are given a string made of lowercase letters, and we are allowed to repeatedly delete substrings as long as each deleted piece is both a palindrome and has even length.

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CF 106258A - The Easy One

The task is extremely small and direct: we are given a sequence of responses from multiple people, where each response is either “this is easy” or “this is hard”. The goal is to decide whether the problem can still be considered easy overall. The rule is simple.

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CF 106254C - Dirichlet's Theorem

We are given a collection of integers and we need to analyze relationships between pairs of them based on their greatest common divisor. The task is to count how many unordered pairs have no common factor other than 1, meaning their gcd is exactly 1.

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CF 1062531 - Коллекция фотографий

I cannot produce a correct editorial for “Codeforces 1062531 - Коллекция фотографий” yet because the actual problem statement (input/output specification and rules) is missing from the prompt.

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CF 1268A - Long Beautiful Integer

We are given a decimal string representing a positive integer with $n$ digits. Along with it, there is a fixed step size $k$.

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CF 1062535 - Подпись Николая

I can't reliably write an editorial for this problem because the actual statement for Codeforces 1062535 "Подпись Николая" is not included in your message, and the problem does not appear to be publicly accessible from the information I can retrieve.

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CF 1062533 - Беспорядок в библиотеке

We start with a shelf of books where each position initially contains a distinct book. Each book has a fixed “target position” it should eventually end up in, given by an array where the value at position i tells us where the book currently sitting there belongs in the…

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CF 1062534 - Время волшебства

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 1062534 - “Время волшебства”, so I can’t reconstruct the intended solution or write a correct editorial yet.

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CF 1062532 - Саша и разнообразные числа

I don’t have the actual statement for Codeforces 1062532 - “Саша и разнообразные числа” in your prompt, and I can’t reliably reconstruct it from the title alone without risking inventing details.

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CF 106254B - Theme Park Tickets

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for this yet because the problem statement, input format, and output specification are missing.

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CF 106254E - Snowfall Statistics

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 106254E - Snowfall Statistics, so I don’t have enough information to correctly derive the solution or write a meaningful editorial.

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CF 106254D - Boggling Word

The problem statement is missing from your prompt, so I don’t have the actual task (rules, input format, or what needs to be computed).

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CF 106254A - Crypto Catastrophe

I can write the full editorial in the exact format you want, but I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 106254A - Crypto Catastrophe.

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CF 106258C - The Unnecessary One

You’re right to flag this immediately, the earlier problem ID is misleading. Codeforces 106258C is not a standard public problem statement in the usual archive format, and without the actual statement there is nothing reliable to derive an editorial from.

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CF 106258D - The Hard One

I don’t have the actual problem statement for Codeforces 106258D - The Hard One, and without it I can’t responsibly reconstruct the solution or write a correct editorial.

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CF 106258B - The Vanilla One

I can’t reliably reconstruct Codeforces 106258B - The Vanilla One from the information available in the current sources, and the problem statement is not present in the data I can access here.

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CF 106259I - Peak Reduction

We are given a permutation, meaning a sequence containing every integer from 1 to n exactly once. The allowed operation is very specific: we may remove an element only if it is strictly inside the array and strictly greater than both of its current neighbors.

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CF 106259G - Pascal's Tree

We are given a rooted tree on n nodes, and a permutation p that places every node exactly once in a sequence. Starting from this sequence, we repeatedly compress it. Each compression step takes every adjacent pair and replaces it with their Lowest Common Ancestor in the tree.

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CF 106259K - The Great Withering

We are working with a tree where each edge is assigned an integer weight between 1 and $m$, independently for every edge. After fixing these weights, we perform a process that repeatedly removes nodes one by one. At each step, we pick any remaining node $u$.

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CF 106259J - The Power of the Sun

We are given an array of integers representing energy levels in a line of fusion cores. Over time, we perform two kinds of range operations. One operation transforms every value in a segment into its factorial, replacing each element independently.

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CF 106259H - Prime Triangles

We are asked to build a geometric construction for each test case: we must output a set of lattice points, and then specify $n$ triangles formed from those points.

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CF 106259F - Survival of the Fated

We are given several independent test cases. In each one, a group of gladiators starts in a pool, each labeled with a strength value.

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CF 106259E - A Slice of Pi

We are given points inside a circle centered at the origin. Each point represents a topping and has a numeric value that can be positive or negative.

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CF 106259D - The AND, The OR, and The XOR

We are given an array of integers, and we need to pick a subsequence of length at least two. For any chosen subsequence, we compute two bitwise aggregates: the bitwise AND of all selected numbers and the bitwise OR of all selected numbers.

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CF 106259A - Kill Two Birds with One Stone

We are given a grid where every cell starts with value 1, except for exactly two special cells that start at 0. The only allowed operation always picks two neighboring cells that share an edge, and subtracts 1 from both of them.

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CF 106260L - 货架货物

There are n storage locations, each connected by directed roads with travel costs, and there are m product types. Every product type is distributed across all warehouses in different quantities.

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CF 106260I - K-4

We are given a tree whose vertices carry nonnegative weights. The operation we are allowed to perform is to remove edges, which splits the tree into several connected components.

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CF 106262K - Toxic Culinarity

We are maintaining a dynamic friendship graph over $n$ students. The graph starts empty and evolves through $q$ operations. Each operation toggles an undirected edge between two given vertices: if the edge does not exist, it is added, otherwise it is removed.

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CF 106262A - Alphabet Chocolate

We are given a string representing a row of chocolate pieces laid out from left to right, where each position contains a single uppercase letter. Two people, Alice and Bob, repeatedly consume this row until it disappears or until they collide.

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CF 106262H - Prime Topology

We are working with the set of integers from 1 to n, and we want to count how many subsets of size k have a very rigid structure: every pair of chosen numbers must be separated by a prime distance.

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CF 106262E - Long Distance Examination

There are two grids of the same size. One grid represents the real world where Hero A moves, and the other represents a parallel world where a clone is trying to reach a destination cell.

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CF 106262B - DJ Nicholas

We are maintaining a very large playlist indexed from 1 to $n$, initially empty. The playlist supports two kinds of operations: overwriting a segment with a substring of an infinite reference track, and querying character frequencies in a segment.

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CF 106262C - The Drift King

We are given a robot moving in the plane. At every integer time step it performs a smooth 90-degree circular turn of radius 1, either to the left or to the right depending on a repeating instruction string.

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CF 106263C - 图片压缩

We are given an image as a grid of pixels, where each pixel has an RGB color. Each color is a point in a 3D integer space with coordinates ranging from 0 to 255.

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CF 106263J - 扫雪

We are given a geometric road network made of straight line segments in the plane. Each segment represents a bidirectional road between two endpoints, but the act of “cleaning” is directional: when the snowplow drives along a segment from one endpoint to the other, it only…

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CF 106263G - 小橘的糖果游戏

We are given a turn-based game played on a single pile of candies. Two players alternate moves, with the first player always moving first. On each move, the current player must remove exactly 1, 3, or 4 candies from the pile.

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CF 106263E - construction is 2 hard 4 me

We are given a strictly increasing sequence of integers. From this sequence, we are allowed to remove at most k elements, leaving a remaining subsequence in the original order.

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CF 106263D - Nuit Sans La Soleil

We are given an infinite grid where we can place tiles shaped like an L. Each tile occupies three unit cells in a 2×2 square minus one corner, so it has four possible orientations depending on how it is rotated.

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CF 106263A - gugugaga

We are given many independent queries. Each query provides two integers $a$ and $b$, and we must compute a value defined through their prime factorizations. The task is to look at all primes that appear in either number.

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CF 106263B - 小橘的魔法宝石

We are given several independent test cases. In each one, we receive a list of integers representing the “magic power” of a collection of stones. For every unordered pair of distinct stones, we compute the bitwise AND of their values and then sum these results over all pairs.

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CF 106267J - Nine Circles

We are given several circles in the plane. Each circle has a fixed center and radius, and we are allowed to scale all radii by a single nonnegative factor $k$. After scaling, every circle becomes a disk with the same center but radius $k cdot ri$.

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CF 106267H - Purple Haze

I can’t produce a correct editorial from this as-is because the actual problem content is missing. What you provided only includes the title, time/memory limits, and empty input/output sections.

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CF 106267G - 很短的题面

The statement as provided contains no actual input description and no output specification. In other words, there are no variables, no constraints, and no transformation rule that maps an input to an output.

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CF 106267D - 平衡矩阵

I’m missing the actual problem content for 106267D - 平衡矩阵 (the statement section in your prompt is empty). Without the rules of what the “matrix” is and what “balanced” means, any editorial would be guesswork and very likely incorrect.

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CF 106267E - MAX --- MIN

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now, “Codeforces 106267E - MAX --- MIN” is just the title and formatting header, but there is no description of: - what the input is - what transformation or query is…

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CF 106267C - Music In My Mind

I’m missing the actual problem statement for “Music In My Mind” (Codeforces Gym 106267C). Without the statement, any attempt to write a correct editorial would be guesswork, and that would almost certainly produce a wrong solution.

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CF 106267A - 签到

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for “Codeforces 106267A - 签到” because the actual problem statement content is missing here.

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CF 106268K - Membership Structure of a Secret Society

We are given a set of statements that describe relationships between people in a secret society. Each person has a hidden “recommender set”, meaning the set of members who directly recommended them when they joined.

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CF 106268J - ICPC Board

We are given a grid where each cell originally contained one of three letters: C, I, or P. Over time, some cells remain readable, while others are replaced by a wildcard character.

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